Author's Note: This is my first Wild Arms 3 fic. If it sucks I am sorry! Please to not flame me too hard! This story is rated T for mild language, violence, and crude humor. The main couple and characters of this story are Jet and Virginia. The first chapter will be a little short, but I promise the others will be longer and better! Please enjoy!
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Passions Unveiled Chapter I: Celebration
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Finally after a couple years their names were cleared. Four Drifters, Virginia Maxwell, Jet Enduro, Clive Winslet, and Gallows Carradine. They had been outlaws for a couple years now. They stuck together and made sure not to bring too much attention to themselves whenever they were out in public. But their days of being careful was now over. Their names had been officially cleared and they were going to celebrate.
Humphrey's Peak. Clive's home,
Catharine Winslet was in the kitchen preparing a feast for her husband and his friends. Kaitlyn, Clive's daughter also decided to help. She had told them that she was a big girl now and could help her mommy cook. Jet, the silver haired Drifter was a little afraid of Kaitlyn's cooking. She had grown a crush on the moody Drifter and was desperate to make "good" food for him.
"You're gonna have one helluva stomach ache when the day is over!" Gallows the Baskar laughed.
Jet glared at him and muttered, "Whatever."
"Please don't start fighting," Virginia pleaded. Her emerald eyes showed worried. Whenever Jet and Gallows fought, it got pretty ugly.
"Yes, this is a special day for all of us," Clive added cleaning the lenses of his glasses.
"Whatever," Jet mumbled closing his lavender colored eyes. "When this 'party' is over I'm outta here."
"What!" Virginia gasped standing up from her seat. "Why! I thought we were all friends!"
"Androids don't have friends," Jet replied sourly. "I don't even have feelings."
"You know that's not true!" she said desperately. "I thought," she looked down at her feet not wanting to show him her tear filled eyes. "That we would be a team forever. We're all still Drifters aren't we?"
"Food's ready!" Catharine announced walking into the living room. She saw Gallows and Clive with odd looks on their face, Virginia looking down, and Jet giving his typical sulky look. "Did I…….interrupt?"
"No!" Clive shook his head snapping back into reality. "Perfect timing, dear!"
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"Man! This food sure was great!" Gallows boomed already drunk.
"Mister Gallows, you're funny," Kaitlyn giggled.
"No honey," Clive corrected not wanting Gallows to set a bad example. "What Gallows is doing is not funny. Because in the morning he is going to feel very sick."
"Eww!" Kaitlyn stuck out her tongue in distaste.
Virginia did not say much. After Jet's sudden outburst, she felt very depressed. She thought that Jet finally like them. Even though he was an android, he still had feelings. He felt pain, comfort, and love, but he did not acknowledge it. She was sure he had a real heart inside his artificial body. She would find it someday. She was not going to let Jet wiggle out of her life so easily. 'He likes protecting me,' she thought blushing slightly. 'Whenever I got in danger, he was there to protect me. When Leehalt made me sick, he was the one who did not want me to venture off while I was recovering.' She smiled wickedly to herself.
"Oh God! I feel sick!" she whimpered.
Jet looked at her. 'Aha! Got your attention!' she thought.
"I-I dunno if I'm going to be able to travel back to Boot Hill tomorrow," she said clutching her stomach.
"Then you should stay here until you're better," Jet said.
Gallows and Clive looked at each other and realized what Virginia was doing.
"Well, I'd take you home," Clive said. "But I got some things to take care of immediately since our names are cleared."
"Y-Yeah me too!" Gallows said shrugging his shoulders.
Jet glared at the other two men. 'Who the hell is going to take care of her then!' he thought. 'Damn! I guess it's gotta be me!'
"Fine," Jet said. "I'll take her home."
"C-Can we rest here tonight first?" she asked innocently.
"Whatever," Jet replied not looking at her.
'I got you right where I want you, Jet Enduro!' she thought. 'I'll make you see what a selfish person you've been and make you change!'
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That night,
Clive told his wife in secret what he was doing and she agreed it was a good idea. She also thought Jet needed an attitude adjustment and hoped Virginia's plan would work. Clive explained that he was going to go to the Gemstone Cave to do some more research while Gallows left for the Baskar Colony. He wanted to visit his brother Shane. Jet did not realize why they were leaving Virginia with him. He thought that they should realize that Jet was not good at taking care of people. 'I guess they don't care,' he thought. 'Not very good friends.' He sighed and kicked the wall. 'I guess I better go check on her.'
Virginia heard footsteps approaching her door. She quickly got back under the covers and rubbed her cheeks so that they would look red.
"Hey, you decant?" she heard Jet say through the door.
Her eyes widened and her face turned even redder. "Y-Yeah," she stammered.
The door swung open and Jet walked in. "You doing okay?" he asked.
"Ooooohhhh!" she moaned. "I just feel really sick! C-can you stay here for a little while until I fall asleep?"
"W-Why?" he asked taken aback by her question.
"I-I get nightmares when I'm sick," she lied. "My mother," she made herself get teary eyed, "used to stay with me until I fell asleep. That way I won't have nightmares if the last person I see right before I fall asleep is someone I care about."
"Why the hell do you care about me?" he asked sitting on a stool next to her bed. "I'm selfish, mean, and not to mention not human!"
"All I see is a nice, handsome man," she replied.
Her face turned red. "H-Handsome?" he stammered. "D-Did Kaitlyn's food get to your head that much! Or is it your stomach ache that's making you hallucinate."
"Stop being so hard on yourself," she said sadly. "I hate it when people say mean things about themselves."
"Whatever," he said looking away from her. 'Dammit! Why does she frickin' care about me? It would be so much easier to dump this crew if she would not say nice things about me.' He looked over at her and sighed when he saw her sad face. "Sorry."
"It's okay," she smiled closing her eyes. "Good night, Jet."
Almost immediately she fell asleep. He had never seen someone fall asleep that fast. He got up and started making his way to the door. He put his finger on the night switch and looked at her. "Good night, Virginia."
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Author's Note: How am I doing so far? I hope you all liked the first chapter! I'll try to get the next one up as soon as possible. I'm working on two other stories right now, but I promise it won't take forever for chapter two. Okay, next chapter: Jet is feeling something strange whenever he's around Virginia. Virginia has the whole train ride back to Boot Hill to change his mind about leaving, but what will happen when a mysterious band of thugs attack?