A/N: Umm...hi? (sheepish grin) Yes... this is Nakiato/Animerle, and I have finally come up with a story worth putting poor Aspin and Kane into. I know this was promised a long time ago, and I made poor Zadien put up in her story that I was coming back with another Aspin/Kane fic... like a year ago. So please do forgive and continue on, I am sincerely sorry. (Hands out Kane shaped cookies) Shh! Don't let Aspin know!

Disclaimer: Umm... I don't own Kane, though I desperately want to because he's just so yummy. Oh... and I guess Zadien owns Amber doesn't she?

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It was official, Aspin was officially terrified. It hadn't been that hard to tell in all actuality, Kane had learned to pick up on some signs over the years. Her eyes weren't focused, flicking about the grainy screen as the dim lighting from one of the classroom windows lit them up, causing them to glow an almost eerie shade of emerald green.

"Spin..." he drawled as his hand searched out hers.

She flinched, causing him to cringe as he laced his fingers with her own slender ones, giving a gentle squeeze of reassurance.

"I...I..." her voice trailed off, barely moments before the sweet sound had ever left her lips.

"I know..."

He cursed himself inwardly for sounding so pathetic when he knew that right now she desperately needed his strength. It didn't matter to her if he was busy ranting, insulting, or just being plain obnoxious, but this tender and quiet boy that sat beside her, periwinkle eyes staring transfixed at the screen, made the situation that much more terrifying.

Suddenly she felt as if the whole world around her was collapsing. She barely registered the anguished cry that was released as she suddenly lurched forward in her chair, face coming to rest in two cupped hands as the magnitude of the situation seemed to break her.

Kane became instantly alert, tearing his gaze from the television screen, to rest on the trembling girl beside him. Hesitantly he reached out a hand, wanting so desperately to do anything to comfort her, but to afraid to touch her, for fear that he might break her more than he already had.

"Oh god... oh god..." she moaned.

Casting all previous apprehension aside, he did the only thing he knew, he reached out timidly and pulled her into the most gentle, yet possessive hug he could muster.

And thats just how Amber found them, rocking gently in such an intimate embrace. She would have had mind to turn around and march back out, grumbling about how the two teens were hogging up what had been the only available television, with DVD and VCR attached, that was available for students to sign out on weekends.

Yes, she would have had mind, had she not walked in on the heartbreaking scene of Aspin's low crying on a terrified Kane's shoulder. Looking up briefly at the television screen, she flicked back to the view of her friend sobbing, before instantly tearing her focus back to the television screen, as her overwhelmed mind noticed something a tad strange about the program that they were watching.

"Aspin... oh my god."

Aspin looked like she was going to faint, Amber felt like fainting for her, and Kane just looked more terrified than ever.

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A/N: Alright, strange start? Totally intentional. As you will see as this fic progresses, I do have a plot in mind, and future chapters will most defintely be much longer than this one.