The Death of an Outlaw and a Beginning to a Love.

Chapter One: Hilda's death

By:

The Bride Of Vegeta

Disclaimer: I do not own Outlaw Star or any of it characters. I'm just borrowing them for a while to make this fic. Don't sue!!! I'm just a teenager and we all know that they don't have any money at all.

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The quietness surrounded Melfina as she sat and pondered what had happen in the last couple of days. Hilda had saved her from the pirates and was in her debt, but Hilda was dead. She had been killed when the Kei Pirates had attacked them. Melfina felt sad at the memory of her savior, yet also questioning why she was there to begin with and who she was. She wasn't like any other human; she didn't know a thing about her past at all or any memories. The first thing she could recall seeing in her new life was Gene standing in front of her as she cried for the first time. Of course he would be ingrained into her memory for that brief second that they had made eye contact, she had seen into his soul and could feel his pain. It was like she could tell what things still haunted him and plagued him. She had discovered this new and yet strange feeling when she was around him. It worried her a lot, she had wanted to ask Hilda about this feeling but she was now dead. There were no other girls in the house to ask any of the personal questions to, so she kept it to herself. She heard a noise down the hall, she silently wondered who it was. No one had seemed to be up earlier, other then her thinking. 'Who else could be up besides me?' Melfina thought.

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Gene had been thinking about what had happen to Hilda. He had fallen for her within a short amount of time, yet he had started liking Melfina too. He couldn't love Melfina, cause he still loved Hilda. But it was hard to let someone go when you had someone that was alive and maybe willing to love him. 'Melfina can't love, she doesn't even know who she is, if she doesn't know that then how can she know how to love?' Gene questioned himself. He stared at the ceiling a long time in thought as to what to do about his current situation. There was so many things that he could do that he didn't even know which one to do first. Sure, he had liked the way Melfina and Hilda looked when naked, but only one of them had he ever slept with. Melfina was naked when she was first activated, that had been the only time he had seen her that way and when he did she had started crying. It had pained Gene to see her cry, he wanted to comfort her, but he couldn't do to the fact that they had been fighting off the Kei pirates at that time just to escape. So he did what any other man wouldn't do in that case, he put his cloak around her to keep her warm. Of course he didn't like the idea at first, but then he decided it was better since Jim was only a little kid and didn't need to see any of that stuff yet. Who the hell was he kidding, Jim was just about as big a pervert as he was. But it made it easier to ease his consonance since he didn't want Jim to be talking to him later about how good Melfina looked. Of course she had the appearance of a goddess to Gene, but he had nothing but Hilda on his mind. Hilda had tricked them into their help, just by hiring them as bodyguards. Gene had wondered what he had gotten himself into when he found out that he was protecting her and a briefcase from the Kei pirates. He wondered then what was in the briefcase. Later he was to find out that it was Melfina. Ah, how beautiful she was when she first woke up, but he still had a thing for Hilda even though she had lied just to gain their help. He was confused by the way his emotions were going. 'Maybe a glass of water will help me out on this.' Gene thought solemnly. He got up out of his bed and walked down the hall. He went to the kitchen to get his glass of water; on the way back he happened to hit his toe on the doorframe of the living room. He cursed silently at himself, while noticing that someone else was in the room. He decided to go and check to see if Jim had fallen asleep on the couch.

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Melfina sat silently hoping that whoever it was would go away if she were quiet enough. The footsteps kept getting closer and closer to her. "Melfina?" someone asked quietly. She was to scared to respond, but she was too scared not to respond. "Yes" she said in a very shaky voice. The voice came closer to her until she realized that it was just Gene with a glass of water. Relief spread throughout her, it wasn't any one of those bad guys that were after her earlier. She sighed in relief. Gene sat next to her without a word being said. "Melfina, what are you doing up this late? Shouldn't you be in bed or could you not sleep?" She thought out a response to his question to his question. She decided on a response and then a thought popped into her head to lean onto his shoulder. " I couldn't sleep, Gene', she laid her head on his shoulder. She noticed how Gene had shuddered when she did this. She decided to say something else before he got up and left her by herself. "Gene, stay like this so I can fall asleep please. I feel comfortable when I'm leaning against you, like nothing could happen to me. Like you'll protect me from any harm." She said quickly.

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Gene thought about what Melfina had said. Maybe he should let her lean of him. He did feel a certain amount of peace while she was doing it. "Melfina, I will protect you. I'll try to help you find out who you are too." Gene said without thinking. 'What's wrong with me? I can't possibly mean that, or can I?' He tried fighting off the urge to put his arm around Melfina as she fell asleep. He ended up giving in to it. He heard Melfina sigh contently as he did it. He sat there and watched her sleep until he himself started to fall asleep. He got up sadly about the thought of leaving his tranquil state with Melfina. He laid her down on the couch and took a blanket that was lying around the couch and covered her. He went back down the hall to his bed, contently got into it to sleep. Sleep over took him, like he had never slept before. He dreamt peacefully about what had taken place between him and Melfina. Maybe he would protect her like he said he would. Maybe he wouldn't and just let life take its course. He knew that he couldn't just let her be taken by the pirates, so he made his decision on what to do. And went on dreaming about what type of breakfast he would have the next day.

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AN: Okay, that was the first chapter of this fic. Don't flame me for the Gene and Hilda thing, but I had to use someone to keep Gene from just wanting Melfina, cause I did suspect that in the beginning that he and her did have a thing going on after the discovery of whom she really was. Oh well, that's just my opinion. But this will be a Gene and Melfina get together. It may last longer than my other one and may be longer. It just depends on how many reviews I get on it. I might be over my writer's block.