A Sight and A Sigh
Sorry if you guys are tired of all the ClairexGray fanfics, but they were all so awsome. special thanks to SunshineGirlx3, Jean Cooper, and HmGirly12 for getting me interested in writing fanfics with there totaly WICKID awsome fanfics. X3
Sory if this kinda sucks, but it's my first fanfic...ever... tell me how it is, constructive criticisom is welcome, but pleas don't flair me TT
Disclamer: I do not own Harvest Moon or any of the characters. That honor belongs to Natsume.
Claire's POV
"ALL ABORD! ALL ABORD!" called a voice from the New York Island Fever Port
"WAIT FOR ME!!" a shrill voice replied as a blond haired girl ran up the dock.
"This is the ferry to Mineral Town, right?" she huffed as she put down her bag on the floor and pulled a boarding ticket out of her purse
"That's right little lady, you a tourist? They don't get many of those in that little town."
"Oh, No, I'm the new farmer moving onto star fall farm." I informed the man.
"Oh, well good for you." With out another word I stepped onto the boat as they set sail for Mineral Town.
"Wow, who would've thought that sitting on a boat would be so tiring." I grumbled to myself as I dragged myself off the pier on the small beach and through the streets of the small town to a piece of land marked on the map the boat conductor gave her.
I didn't even look at the farm or the house before falling onto her bed with a thud and instantly fell asleep.
"Hello, you must be Claire, the new farmer." Said a small pudgy man dressed in red as the door to a small house opened to a tired me.
"My name's Theodore. I'm the mayor of Mineral Town"
"Good for you." I said yawning obviously not interested.
"This is your new farm." Theodore said pointing to a ratty old farm, riddled with weeds and trash.
"You really got tricked with that add! It was rather stupid of you to say the least." The little man laughed. I snapped in a half asleep rage beating the mayor to a bloody pulp.
"NOW, GO AWAY AND NEVER WAKE ME UP AGAIN!!" I yelled throwing the little man on the brick rode in town just off her property, What can I say? I don't like getting woken up. I walked back to my little house and got dressed grudgingly into a pair of clean purple overalls to get to work.
I trudged up the rode from the church stopping abruptly at a small trail of blood that looked like some one dragged a body don the road entering the clinic.
Elli's POV.
"Um, is every thing ok?" I heard a girl ask innocently popping her head in the door of the clinic to see Theodore quickly scurry over to a corner to hide at the ring of her voice.
"Hello. I'm Elli, the nurse." I smiled folding my short brown hair behind my ear as I walked over to the shivering mayor in the corner.
"Don't hurt me Claire. Pleas." He muttered only audible to the nurse
"Claire? Who's Claire?" I wondered aloud placing a finger on my chin.
"Um… my name's Claire… but why w-" the blond cut short and gasped "Shit! Not again…" she swore loudly causing Doctor to come running out.
"Elli, is every thing alright?" a dark haired man asked in a startled but surprisingly calm when he noticed the mayor huddling in the corner.
"Um, Doctor, this is Clare apparently." I said slowly glancing from the doctor to Claire. Doctor was already staring at Claire with that gleam in his eye that I'd always wished he'd give me
"The Claire the mayor's been muttering about?" the Doctor said Turning to Claire examining her face.
"I'm Doctor." He said holding out his hand for Claire to shake. Clare gulped nervously as she took his hand.
"Now, I just have one question for you." Doctor said coolly making Claire get goose bumps.
"Why did you severely injure our mayor?" Doctor's cool collected voice that always made even me shiver.
"I'm not a morning person and he woke me up." Claire said pouting as Doctor chuckled.
"Well, other than the mental trauma he'll be ok…" Doctor paused "Did you have to use your sludge hammer?" Claire paused for a moment to think
"Yes." She said simply in a 'matter of fact' way.
"OK, well it was…" doctor paused to think of an appropriate word "Interesting meeting you. Just don't try to kill anyone else."
"What ever you say Doctor!" Claire laughed sliding out the door.
"You OK, Doctor?" I asked concerned after the door had closed.
"Yah, but I think we'll be seeing a lot of her." Doctor sighed sliding his hand through his jet-black hair.
Claire's POV
I stepped happily into the super market, which Theodore had said sold crop seeds before I beat him to a bloody pulp.
"Hi!" I smiled walking up to a brown haired girl that was taking stalk on some rice balls.
"Oh! Hi! You a tourist?" she asked turning on heal to face me
"No, actually. I'm Claire, the new farmer."
"Welcome to Mineral Town. I'm Karen."
"Thanks. I just need some seeds to get started." I sighed picking up some turnip and cucumber seeds.
"OK, let me ring these up for you." Karen offered taking the bags of seeds from my hands and walking over to the cash register.
"Thanks." Clare said taking the bags of seeds in my hands after paying
"Bye!" she smiled walking out the door, bags held tightly against my chest as I walked absent-mindedly down the street to my farm. I didn't even notice until I hit the ground that I'd bumped into someone.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention." Said a gruff manly voice as a hand reached down to help her up.
"It's OK." I said gripping the man's hand and pulling herself up.
"I don't know you, are you new?" he asked me as I looked up at him.
"Um, yah. I'm Claire, the new farmer. You?" Claire said looking up at the man's red hair and sapphire blue eyes.
"Oh, yah I'm Gray." He said flatly looking away and adjusting his hat, which read 'UMA'
"I'm the apprentice at my grandfather's blacksmith shop, so if you need your tools upgraded stop on by." He said glancing back at the blond out of the corner of his eye.
"OK! Will do!" I smiled brightly. I think Gray to blushed when he looked away again
"Well, I got to go." Gray said flatly turning towards the library
"Ok, well I should get some books on farming while I'm out so I'll come with you." I called defiantly running up behind Gray to walk with him.
The two walked up to a small building and Gray pushed open the door reviling mountains of books and at a desk a small, cute, black haired librarian.
"Your not here for the books are you."
Mary's POV
"Hi, Mary." Gray smiled walking up to me, flushed by the other girl's comment.
"Hi, Grey. Who's this?" I asked glancing up at Claire.
"Oh, I'm Claire, the new farmer." Claire smiled walking up to my desk.
"Well, it's nice to meet you. I'm Mary." I said flatly pulling my hair behind my ear, and out of my face.
"Well, if you to want to talk I'm not one to stop you!" Claire smiled slinking up stairs and out of sight causing the two to blush.
"She's certainly odd." I sighed glancing at the stairway to be sure she was gone.
"Yah, but she doesn't seem to bad." Grey shrugged putting his hands in his pockets leaning on my desk.
"I didn't say she was bad…" I said before a sharp scream came from the room up stairs followed by the blonds' voice
"I'm OK!!" she called but before she could even finish talking Grey was bolting up the stairs to help.
"I take back what I said." I said softly to Grey glaring at the girl buried by a shelf's worth of books.
"Sorry, Mary." Clare said pulling herself out from under the books and grabbing them by the arm full.
"So, these are ordered alphabetically by last name, right?" Claire continued sorting through the luckily small books.
"Y-yah…" I stammered glancing at Gray who was just watching Claire admiringly whip through the books at an alarming rate staking them back on the shelf.
"I used to volunteer at the library in high school." Claire said calmly to me and Gray after putting the last book perfectly on the shelf.
"Well, I found the books I want!" Claire smiled hugging a small pile of books.
"OK. I'll take care of those then." I sighed taking the books and calmly carried them down stairs to her desk to check them out.
"Thanks Mary." Claire smiled brightly taking the books.
"Bye, Gray! Bye, Mary!" Claire said with a final farewell.
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