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Soulmates
A woman of twenty-five sat on a park bench overlooking a bay. She was paying no mind to her surroundings, however she was engrossed in the white bucket hat she held in her hands as they lay on her lap.
'It's been ten years to the day.'
She thought as she remembered what had transpired not ten feet away. She remembered every word he said and every word she had said, of course all her words had been lies she knew that now but there was nothing to be done. She remembered his face he was so scared, so afraid, so brave.
~*~
Flashback
"Kari," he said hesitantly, "there's something I've been meaning to tell you for a while. At first I wasn't sure whether or not it was just my hormones or just some stupid childish fantasy. Lately I've been milling this over in my mind and right now I'm sure I know what it is. Kari, what I'm trying to say is that I think I'm in love with you," he paused for a moment letting what he said sink in a little, "I realize this could change everything for us, but I had to say it I couldn't bottle it up anymore the bottle was just to small. Just think before you answer ok?"
'That was that he put it out in the open and it's in my court, now he's waiting for the ball to drop.' He waited, uncertainty covering every inch of his face, 'think hard girl, your answer is going to change your world along with his.'
Her heart and mind argued with each other.
'Come on he's waiting say those four little words and kiss him like there's no tomorrow.' Her heart yelled.
'No think this through, you're only fifteen you can't even be sure you love this guy back think about it.' Her mind argued.
'Hey you and I both know that's a load of bull, you love him he just said he loved you so say it before he gets scared.' Her heart replied.
'The only thing that's right about that statement is that you have a time limit here. Just say no because it's true, just say it.' Argued her mind.
She felt her mouth move and she heard words form.
"T.K. I'm sorry but we're just too young I don't think I'm in love with you. I'm sorry."
'No that's not true, its not true, T.K. please don't listen argue with me.' She screamed at herself and T.K. to no avail.
He looked broken, as if his entire world just crumbled around him. He stood there in shock for what seemed like an eternity, but it was only a minute.
"Oh," his voice didn't sound like the T.K. she knew. "Okay Kari I understand. Goodbye." He turned and left without another word.
She yelled at herself to move to speak to do anything to make him stop, but she stood there like a statue and let him walk out of her life. A gust of wind blew through and his hat came tumbling towards her, he wasn't coming after it. The next day she learned that he had disappeared after he got home. She knew he had went to the digiworld, they tried to find him but when they came across his discarded digivise they knew they wouldn't ever find him in this vast world. Patamon kept searching after the others had given up after six months, but the small digimon could only look for so long before even it gave up. She learned that day that he was never coming back unless he wanted to.
~*~
End flashback
Kari's repose was interrupted by an unknown voice.
"Ah I know that look, yes I've seen it on too many faces but not many have been as bad as yours."
"What?" Kari replied a little rattled by the stranger.
"Oh I'm sorry miss I didn't mean to startle you just can't help myself sometimes. Well it's none of my business so I'll be going along now."
She only now saw the person speaking to her. He was about six feet tall even, he had fiery red hair, he looked to be in his mid-thirties, and he wore all white.
"Wait!" She said a little more quickly than she wanted to.
"Yes?" He answered in an expectant manor.
"What do you mean?"
"Well. May I?' He motioned to sit down.
"Sure, of course."
"What I mean is that you have the worst look of regret I've ever seen. He was probably the first one."
"He?" She questioned.
"Oh you know what I mean, the first boy you ever loved."
Kari was shocked; how did this stranger know that kind of thing by looking at her?
"Is it that obvious?"
"Well yes and no. You see any normal person would just see your armor with a kink in it from that experience. I on the other hand have a knack for reading a person's 'soul' if you will."
"You mean I have a soul, and you can tell what it experiences?" Says Kari dumbfounded.
"If you don't mind me asking why don't you go to him and fix things?"
"It's not that easy. Ten years ago today he disappeared after I said no and no one has seen him since, he might as well be dead where he went. All I have left is his stupid hat."
"Tell me miss do you believe in destiny?"
Kari couldn't help but grin at this.
'Buddy if you only knew.' She thought. "I used to, but not anymore."
"Well maybe you should start to believe in it again, you never know what life has planed. Maybe you'll find him yet, sorry to bother you I'd better get going."
"Wait I want to talk more." Kari pleaded.
"Don't you have something better to do?" The man said expectantly.
"Not really, no." She replied halfheartedly.
"Fine then we'll talk on the way to your home when we get there our discussion will be done agreed?"
"Sounds fair to me." She started to walk and he followed.
"So where did he go that warrants him dead?"
"I thought I was going to ask the questions?"
"Well you may have some answers inside your self that you don't know about and if you wish my help my questions will flush them out."
His answer was slightly cryptic but she let it pass.
"All right, he went into a wilderness that could barely support a person, but allowed the creatures that lived there to survive. That's why we gave up looking after six months."
"We?"
"All his friends looked high and low for him but when we found the one possible element that would keep him alive and take us to him discarded, all except one started to give up, and even that last one gave up after a year, and when a person like that gives up all is lost."
"I see your predicament now. You think that just because the boy's best friend gives up all is lost; you couldn't be more wrong everyone has their hope limit when alone in something."
Kari had involuntarily winced at the word 'hope' that was burned into her heart forever.
'Why would she react like that to a simple word? Unless!' The man thought as he scanned Kari more deeply. 'Yes! She is! She is one of the guardians!'
"Well miss judging from that reaction I've hit a very sensitive button."
"You could say that."
"Forgive me for being rude but you must still believe in destiny if you are one of the guardians."
Kari stopped in her tracks and the man questioned if everything was all right. She asked what he meant; he simply smiled knowingly and said.
"Well when you reacted to that word I was hit with a realization, so I delved into your soul and found that my suspicions were right."
"And what are those suspicions?" Kari asked warily beginning to walk more slowly.
"That you are one of the guardians of all that is good. You're probably more in tune with the universe than anyone alive, except for me."
"How many guardians are there?"
"Just two. Why should there be more?"
"No, just curious that's all."
"I'd be willing to bet that one of the people closest to your heart is the other guardian."
"Why do you say that?"
"Well each guardian is naturally attracted to the other, so they can't help but know each other. It always works better that way."
"Would they be female or male?"
"There's a fifty/fifty chance, but ninety percent of the time they're opposites."
"Can't I just bow out?"
"No I'm afraid not; you see the mantle you hold is generational, and each generation eventually goes through several world ending good versus evil battles."
"What if I already have?"
"No the status is only active from twenty to forty. This means that you must find the other guardian quickly."
"Where should I start looking?"
"Start with anyone around your age, and I mean born inside your birth year; guardians are usually very close in age. Try feeling them out with your mind, if you find yourself thinking about one person in particular over all the others then they is most likely the other guardian."
"How do you know all this?"
"The mantle I hold is generational as well and the knowledge of the previous is passed on to the next in line at the previous' death; unknowingly, I might add."
"What if I can't find the other guardian bye the time we are called upon?"
"Oh don't think that kind of thing would be left to chance. When you are needed you will both be brought together to use your power. It's just better you know each other so you can work together more easily."
"So knowing one another isn't necessary, but is smiled upon?" To which the man replies, bull's-eye.
He stops suddenly and Kari follows suit gazing up, curiously at him, wondering why he stopped. She then notices he's staring straight ahead; she turns her head to see what has transfixed the man and is met with her apartment building.
"Well it appears your time is up, good luck to you miss Kamiya."
Kari watched slightly surprised as he walked away.
'Well he did scan my soul, and my name would probably be one of the first things to pop out.' She theorized as she regained herself and went up to her apartment for some much needed rest.
~*~
Earlier that same day a blond haired man awakes an hour after sunrise. He is six feet even, and is built like a football player. He stands and stretches slowly waking from his deep sleep, he regards a watch face now hung around his neck since the bracelet stopped fitting five years ago. 'So it's that day again already is it? It's a good thing I'm close to the portal, or I'd miss an opportunity to see them again. Who should I look into first? Why not Mimi?'
He slowly picks up a leather pack and begins to walk into the dense forest leaving the campground looking untouched. He visits every destined secretly checking in on them with Kari at the bottom of his list. He arrives to see the former events take place, but does not know what is said. He confronts the stranger about his interaction with Kari.
"What were you talking about with that woman?"
"What business." He pauses considering him and starts over.
"You're awfully protective for a dead man."
"I don't know what you're talking about." He says, his voice stonily even.
"She's the last one you know that? She's the last one hanging onto the fact that you might still be alive. Once she gives up you might as well stop visiting all together."
"I still don't know what you're talking about."
"You've had time to hone the gifts you found you had, but she hasn't. You could scare an attack away easily, but she wouldn't stand a chance."
"You didn't answer my question."
"What do you think we were talking about?"
"What I think is irrelevant. What were you talking about?"
"Come walk with me and I'll tell you what you want to know." He begins to walk away. "Well are you coming or do you want to be spotted by her? Come now. You want to know if she was talking about you, yes? Well we talked about you to a degree, we also spoke of other things."
"Elaborate."
"Give me your hand."
"Why?"
"You want to know what we talked about? Touch my hand, it's the easiest way."
"Why would I touch your hand to find out what you talked about?"
"Trust me, just touch my hand." The man said exasperated.
T.K. touched the other man's hand lightly only for a second and pulled away. That second was all the other man needed too transfer the conversation he had, had with Kari.
"Kari." T.K. said sadly.
"Can you guess who the second guardian is?"
"Why us?"
"Why is anyone chosen for a specific reason? That other place you fought for all those years ago is just a happy coincidence."
"What if I don't want to go back?"
"No one said you had to but you two have to resolve your dispute before you are summoned so you can beat whatever evil you are faced with. No matter what you may think you can not beat any evil unless you are as one."
"Let me ask you a question how far back does your memory go?"
"Not that it's any of your business but it goes back to the first human city."
"What is the extent of your powers?"
"That is none of your concern. You have a very hard decision to make so I'll leave you to your devices, good luck."
~*~
Kari went about her daily grind the next day but found herself drifting back to the idea of restarting the search for him. Each time she did she thought about the reasons she couldn't; work, friends, family she couldn't disappear off the face of the planet for any extended period of time.
After her lunch she returned to her desk to find a small note on her keyboard. It read, 'Kari, we have to talk meet me at the tree.' She carefully considered the note and figured that whoever wanted to talk to her could probably wait for her. After work she went to the park that she hadn't gone to since that day. She made her way to the old meeting place of the now retired digidestined. She sat waited for fifteen minutes before she got up to leave.
"You haven't changed a bit you know that Kari." Said a mysteriously familiar voice that seemed to come from nowhere.
"Who's there? Show your self." Kari said trying to hide her fear as best she could.
"I suppose I've changed after ten years."
"TK is that really you? Where are you I can't see you?"
There is a loud thump of a body landing on the ground to her left.
"TK?" She asks warily not sure what she's going to see.
"What is it?"
He still hides partially in the shadows, but Kari can make out his form.
"How did you get like this?"
"Living in the wild makes you grow strong. I bet I could lift you over my head." He says first coldly, then arrogantly.
"How long have you been sitting in that tree?"
"You're the same as always worrying about others before yourself."
"You didn't answer my question."
"Still the same I guess some things never change. I didn't bring you here to play twenty questions; I'm here to resolve our problem and train you so you will be ready when evil attacks."
"So he talked to you too, huh. Tell me how did he get in contact with you in the digital world?"
"He didn't. Every year on yesterday's date a gate opens between the two worlds and anything can pass through it if you know where it is. I've been keeping tabs on you all so I don't go insane and so I know what's going on in the real world. But all of that is just a cover you're always the last on my list but you are the reason I keep coming back."
"Why?"
"I made a promise I intend to keep until I die."
"You're kidding right?"
"I don't kid Kari, not any more. So lets get started, how do we fix our situation?"
'So this I the chance I've hoped for since the day he left. To make things right again, for the both of us.'
"TK, god knows we've had a long time to think about that day me especially. I lied that day to you and to myself, what I said wasn't what my heart felt. What I said was what my stupid rational side felt, I don't know how but it won and I said things I've regretted from the second I said them. I know that you may not forgive me since you've changed, but that's what I'm asking for, forgiveness."
Kari felt TK shift himself slightly, she felt him make that award-winning smile that she loved so much. She didn't see him do these things it was more an intuitive awareness than anything else.
"Do you know what it is about you that makes you such a good friend to people Kari?" He pauses while she considers his words, and starts again when she inhales to speak. "It's your soul Kari, your soul. It's a good kind caring soul; your soul makes up everything you are from your smile to your anger, from your heart to your rationality. Do you see what I'm saying Kari a part of you didn't want what I could give another, so despite your best efforts what you said that day had truth to it. I know that now but you don't, you don't have the clarity that I have, I can read you like a sheet of paper."
'Why does he always have to make so much sense? Now that he's denied my request for forgiveness how will we fix things between us so we can fight greater evils than we've faced in the past?'
"I know this is hard for you Kari but we need to put this off until we can move past senseless emotions. Your training must begin right here and now, for as our mysterious friend pointed out we have little time so I'm putting you on a crash course to learn what I have."
"What do you mean TK? What have you learned?"
"I have learned to harness the power that resides within both of us and now you must hone your own power so that it can be used to your will. Now take my hand we are going to a place where we will not be disturbed."
He extends his hand and she takes it without hesitation and they disappear into the ether of the night.
To Be Continued.
Well that's it for now please R&R. Thanx Max Caine.
Soulmates
A woman of twenty-five sat on a park bench overlooking a bay. She was paying no mind to her surroundings, however she was engrossed in the white bucket hat she held in her hands as they lay on her lap.
'It's been ten years to the day.'
She thought as she remembered what had transpired not ten feet away. She remembered every word he said and every word she had said, of course all her words had been lies she knew that now but there was nothing to be done. She remembered his face he was so scared, so afraid, so brave.
~*~
Flashback
"Kari," he said hesitantly, "there's something I've been meaning to tell you for a while. At first I wasn't sure whether or not it was just my hormones or just some stupid childish fantasy. Lately I've been milling this over in my mind and right now I'm sure I know what it is. Kari, what I'm trying to say is that I think I'm in love with you," he paused for a moment letting what he said sink in a little, "I realize this could change everything for us, but I had to say it I couldn't bottle it up anymore the bottle was just to small. Just think before you answer ok?"
'That was that he put it out in the open and it's in my court, now he's waiting for the ball to drop.' He waited, uncertainty covering every inch of his face, 'think hard girl, your answer is going to change your world along with his.'
Her heart and mind argued with each other.
'Come on he's waiting say those four little words and kiss him like there's no tomorrow.' Her heart yelled.
'No think this through, you're only fifteen you can't even be sure you love this guy back think about it.' Her mind argued.
'Hey you and I both know that's a load of bull, you love him he just said he loved you so say it before he gets scared.' Her heart replied.
'The only thing that's right about that statement is that you have a time limit here. Just say no because it's true, just say it.' Argued her mind.
She felt her mouth move and she heard words form.
"T.K. I'm sorry but we're just too young I don't think I'm in love with you. I'm sorry."
'No that's not true, its not true, T.K. please don't listen argue with me.' She screamed at herself and T.K. to no avail.
He looked broken, as if his entire world just crumbled around him. He stood there in shock for what seemed like an eternity, but it was only a minute.
"Oh," his voice didn't sound like the T.K. she knew. "Okay Kari I understand. Goodbye." He turned and left without another word.
She yelled at herself to move to speak to do anything to make him stop, but she stood there like a statue and let him walk out of her life. A gust of wind blew through and his hat came tumbling towards her, he wasn't coming after it. The next day she learned that he had disappeared after he got home. She knew he had went to the digiworld, they tried to find him but when they came across his discarded digivise they knew they wouldn't ever find him in this vast world. Patamon kept searching after the others had given up after six months, but the small digimon could only look for so long before even it gave up. She learned that day that he was never coming back unless he wanted to.
~*~
End flashback
Kari's repose was interrupted by an unknown voice.
"Ah I know that look, yes I've seen it on too many faces but not many have been as bad as yours."
"What?" Kari replied a little rattled by the stranger.
"Oh I'm sorry miss I didn't mean to startle you just can't help myself sometimes. Well it's none of my business so I'll be going along now."
She only now saw the person speaking to her. He was about six feet tall even, he had fiery red hair, he looked to be in his mid-thirties, and he wore all white.
"Wait!" She said a little more quickly than she wanted to.
"Yes?" He answered in an expectant manor.
"What do you mean?"
"Well. May I?' He motioned to sit down.
"Sure, of course."
"What I mean is that you have the worst look of regret I've ever seen. He was probably the first one."
"He?" She questioned.
"Oh you know what I mean, the first boy you ever loved."
Kari was shocked; how did this stranger know that kind of thing by looking at her?
"Is it that obvious?"
"Well yes and no. You see any normal person would just see your armor with a kink in it from that experience. I on the other hand have a knack for reading a person's 'soul' if you will."
"You mean I have a soul, and you can tell what it experiences?" Says Kari dumbfounded.
"If you don't mind me asking why don't you go to him and fix things?"
"It's not that easy. Ten years ago today he disappeared after I said no and no one has seen him since, he might as well be dead where he went. All I have left is his stupid hat."
"Tell me miss do you believe in destiny?"
Kari couldn't help but grin at this.
'Buddy if you only knew.' She thought. "I used to, but not anymore."
"Well maybe you should start to believe in it again, you never know what life has planed. Maybe you'll find him yet, sorry to bother you I'd better get going."
"Wait I want to talk more." Kari pleaded.
"Don't you have something better to do?" The man said expectantly.
"Not really, no." She replied halfheartedly.
"Fine then we'll talk on the way to your home when we get there our discussion will be done agreed?"
"Sounds fair to me." She started to walk and he followed.
"So where did he go that warrants him dead?"
"I thought I was going to ask the questions?"
"Well you may have some answers inside your self that you don't know about and if you wish my help my questions will flush them out."
His answer was slightly cryptic but she let it pass.
"All right, he went into a wilderness that could barely support a person, but allowed the creatures that lived there to survive. That's why we gave up looking after six months."
"We?"
"All his friends looked high and low for him but when we found the one possible element that would keep him alive and take us to him discarded, all except one started to give up, and even that last one gave up after a year, and when a person like that gives up all is lost."
"I see your predicament now. You think that just because the boy's best friend gives up all is lost; you couldn't be more wrong everyone has their hope limit when alone in something."
Kari had involuntarily winced at the word 'hope' that was burned into her heart forever.
'Why would she react like that to a simple word? Unless!' The man thought as he scanned Kari more deeply. 'Yes! She is! She is one of the guardians!'
"Well miss judging from that reaction I've hit a very sensitive button."
"You could say that."
"Forgive me for being rude but you must still believe in destiny if you are one of the guardians."
Kari stopped in her tracks and the man questioned if everything was all right. She asked what he meant; he simply smiled knowingly and said.
"Well when you reacted to that word I was hit with a realization, so I delved into your soul and found that my suspicions were right."
"And what are those suspicions?" Kari asked warily beginning to walk more slowly.
"That you are one of the guardians of all that is good. You're probably more in tune with the universe than anyone alive, except for me."
"How many guardians are there?"
"Just two. Why should there be more?"
"No, just curious that's all."
"I'd be willing to bet that one of the people closest to your heart is the other guardian."
"Why do you say that?"
"Well each guardian is naturally attracted to the other, so they can't help but know each other. It always works better that way."
"Would they be female or male?"
"There's a fifty/fifty chance, but ninety percent of the time they're opposites."
"Can't I just bow out?"
"No I'm afraid not; you see the mantle you hold is generational, and each generation eventually goes through several world ending good versus evil battles."
"What if I already have?"
"No the status is only active from twenty to forty. This means that you must find the other guardian quickly."
"Where should I start looking?"
"Start with anyone around your age, and I mean born inside your birth year; guardians are usually very close in age. Try feeling them out with your mind, if you find yourself thinking about one person in particular over all the others then they is most likely the other guardian."
"How do you know all this?"
"The mantle I hold is generational as well and the knowledge of the previous is passed on to the next in line at the previous' death; unknowingly, I might add."
"What if I can't find the other guardian bye the time we are called upon?"
"Oh don't think that kind of thing would be left to chance. When you are needed you will both be brought together to use your power. It's just better you know each other so you can work together more easily."
"So knowing one another isn't necessary, but is smiled upon?" To which the man replies, bull's-eye.
He stops suddenly and Kari follows suit gazing up, curiously at him, wondering why he stopped. She then notices he's staring straight ahead; she turns her head to see what has transfixed the man and is met with her apartment building.
"Well it appears your time is up, good luck to you miss Kamiya."
Kari watched slightly surprised as he walked away.
'Well he did scan my soul, and my name would probably be one of the first things to pop out.' She theorized as she regained herself and went up to her apartment for some much needed rest.
~*~
Earlier that same day a blond haired man awakes an hour after sunrise. He is six feet even, and is built like a football player. He stands and stretches slowly waking from his deep sleep, he regards a watch face now hung around his neck since the bracelet stopped fitting five years ago. 'So it's that day again already is it? It's a good thing I'm close to the portal, or I'd miss an opportunity to see them again. Who should I look into first? Why not Mimi?'
He slowly picks up a leather pack and begins to walk into the dense forest leaving the campground looking untouched. He visits every destined secretly checking in on them with Kari at the bottom of his list. He arrives to see the former events take place, but does not know what is said. He confronts the stranger about his interaction with Kari.
"What were you talking about with that woman?"
"What business." He pauses considering him and starts over.
"You're awfully protective for a dead man."
"I don't know what you're talking about." He says, his voice stonily even.
"She's the last one you know that? She's the last one hanging onto the fact that you might still be alive. Once she gives up you might as well stop visiting all together."
"I still don't know what you're talking about."
"You've had time to hone the gifts you found you had, but she hasn't. You could scare an attack away easily, but she wouldn't stand a chance."
"You didn't answer my question."
"What do you think we were talking about?"
"What I think is irrelevant. What were you talking about?"
"Come walk with me and I'll tell you what you want to know." He begins to walk away. "Well are you coming or do you want to be spotted by her? Come now. You want to know if she was talking about you, yes? Well we talked about you to a degree, we also spoke of other things."
"Elaborate."
"Give me your hand."
"Why?"
"You want to know what we talked about? Touch my hand, it's the easiest way."
"Why would I touch your hand to find out what you talked about?"
"Trust me, just touch my hand." The man said exasperated.
T.K. touched the other man's hand lightly only for a second and pulled away. That second was all the other man needed too transfer the conversation he had, had with Kari.
"Kari." T.K. said sadly.
"Can you guess who the second guardian is?"
"Why us?"
"Why is anyone chosen for a specific reason? That other place you fought for all those years ago is just a happy coincidence."
"What if I don't want to go back?"
"No one said you had to but you two have to resolve your dispute before you are summoned so you can beat whatever evil you are faced with. No matter what you may think you can not beat any evil unless you are as one."
"Let me ask you a question how far back does your memory go?"
"Not that it's any of your business but it goes back to the first human city."
"What is the extent of your powers?"
"That is none of your concern. You have a very hard decision to make so I'll leave you to your devices, good luck."
~*~
Kari went about her daily grind the next day but found herself drifting back to the idea of restarting the search for him. Each time she did she thought about the reasons she couldn't; work, friends, family she couldn't disappear off the face of the planet for any extended period of time.
After her lunch she returned to her desk to find a small note on her keyboard. It read, 'Kari, we have to talk meet me at the tree.' She carefully considered the note and figured that whoever wanted to talk to her could probably wait for her. After work she went to the park that she hadn't gone to since that day. She made her way to the old meeting place of the now retired digidestined. She sat waited for fifteen minutes before she got up to leave.
"You haven't changed a bit you know that Kari." Said a mysteriously familiar voice that seemed to come from nowhere.
"Who's there? Show your self." Kari said trying to hide her fear as best she could.
"I suppose I've changed after ten years."
"TK is that really you? Where are you I can't see you?"
There is a loud thump of a body landing on the ground to her left.
"TK?" She asks warily not sure what she's going to see.
"What is it?"
He still hides partially in the shadows, but Kari can make out his form.
"How did you get like this?"
"Living in the wild makes you grow strong. I bet I could lift you over my head." He says first coldly, then arrogantly.
"How long have you been sitting in that tree?"
"You're the same as always worrying about others before yourself."
"You didn't answer my question."
"Still the same I guess some things never change. I didn't bring you here to play twenty questions; I'm here to resolve our problem and train you so you will be ready when evil attacks."
"So he talked to you too, huh. Tell me how did he get in contact with you in the digital world?"
"He didn't. Every year on yesterday's date a gate opens between the two worlds and anything can pass through it if you know where it is. I've been keeping tabs on you all so I don't go insane and so I know what's going on in the real world. But all of that is just a cover you're always the last on my list but you are the reason I keep coming back."
"Why?"
"I made a promise I intend to keep until I die."
"You're kidding right?"
"I don't kid Kari, not any more. So lets get started, how do we fix our situation?"
'So this I the chance I've hoped for since the day he left. To make things right again, for the both of us.'
"TK, god knows we've had a long time to think about that day me especially. I lied that day to you and to myself, what I said wasn't what my heart felt. What I said was what my stupid rational side felt, I don't know how but it won and I said things I've regretted from the second I said them. I know that you may not forgive me since you've changed, but that's what I'm asking for, forgiveness."
Kari felt TK shift himself slightly, she felt him make that award-winning smile that she loved so much. She didn't see him do these things it was more an intuitive awareness than anything else.
"Do you know what it is about you that makes you such a good friend to people Kari?" He pauses while she considers his words, and starts again when she inhales to speak. "It's your soul Kari, your soul. It's a good kind caring soul; your soul makes up everything you are from your smile to your anger, from your heart to your rationality. Do you see what I'm saying Kari a part of you didn't want what I could give another, so despite your best efforts what you said that day had truth to it. I know that now but you don't, you don't have the clarity that I have, I can read you like a sheet of paper."
'Why does he always have to make so much sense? Now that he's denied my request for forgiveness how will we fix things between us so we can fight greater evils than we've faced in the past?'
"I know this is hard for you Kari but we need to put this off until we can move past senseless emotions. Your training must begin right here and now, for as our mysterious friend pointed out we have little time so I'm putting you on a crash course to learn what I have."
"What do you mean TK? What have you learned?"
"I have learned to harness the power that resides within both of us and now you must hone your own power so that it can be used to your will. Now take my hand we are going to a place where we will not be disturbed."
He extends his hand and she takes it without hesitation and they disappear into the ether of the night.
To Be Continued.
Well that's it for now please R&R. Thanx Max Caine.