Whew! So, I know my Trgun ficcys aren't getting much love...but I so do love making them! So I'm going to! I will get around to the others. I will! But right now it's time to talk about Knives. :D

This started as a one shot...but I thought, 'what the heck'! I'm having fun, so I think I'll continue it. :D

PS-Yes, I know. It's pretty tiny. :)

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The Plant's screams were beginning to over-power my head. I was painfully regretting my murderous overloading of her systems.

I clapped my hands over my ears and sank to the floor of the catwalk in front of her bulb. With every fiber of my being I could feel her reaching out to my mind, trying so desperately to find contact within me. Trying to keep her from invading my mind soon became to much. I couldn't fight it anymore.

Grabbing the railing, I was able to pull myself up to my feet. Leaning over, I pressed my palms to the glass of her bulb, sending the flow of healing energy she needed. I felt like a fool.

Immediately, her screams subsided, leaving us in total silence. She was the first to speak, letting her words seep deep into my head as I opened the pathways between our minds.

"Brother. Why."

I didn't know how to respond; How to put how I felt into any sort of language. So I didn't. Closing my eyes, I began to let every one of my raw emotions sweep over onto her, into her own mind.

As I let her feel my pain, my sorrow, my loneliness, I saved my strongest emotion for last.

My Hate.

My tightly shut eyes opened, burning fiercely at the freshly awakened emotion. I had almost resumed my attack on her, but as my face turned upwards, something in her face stopped me. I had anticipated the horrified look of the humans that I knew so well by heart. The abrupt awareness that I wasn't one of them, and the sudden realization that I was going to kill them.

But when I looked up at her face, I saw only the look of pity.

She gently floated down to the part of the bulb where I was standing, and placed her palms against mine. Her black, empty eyes gazed into my own, and I felt my soul being bared before her.

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I have always been an independent plant, unlike the majority of my unfortunate species. Though I was born inside a bulb, I cannot begin to imagine a life of enslavement and servitude, encompassed inside of one of those horrible glass cases. It pains me to see my sisters trapped within, their very life energy being drained and harvested merely for the sake of the survival of spiders. Despite this, I had never truly considered what a living hell it must be.

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Our fingertips joined through the glass, her delicate silver wings gently flapping. I felt every ounce of her own pain flow through to me. She was showing me that I wasn't the only one who hurt.

I jerked my head back abruptly, but left my hands on the glass. What had been the point? My attention was brought back to her, as she began to speak again.

"We have all been scarred and damaged and used by the humans. They cannot comprehend what we are. They have been de-evolving since the day that they crashed on this barren planet. Primitive creatures, they have become dependent on us like children for their mothers. We are their mothers. It is our duty to sacrifice our entire being and lives to further their survival."

"NO!", I screamed, both telepathically and aloud, my hands smashing against her prison. A spiderweb of hairline cracks spread from the point of impact, making her shrink back in terror. I could feel the connection sever as I seethed. Looking at me with scared eyes, I realized that all along she had been tainted by her captors. There was no reason for the prolonging of her life, while she continued to help the spiders.

I drew my gun and cocked it, aiming it at the glass.

BAM BAM BAM!

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To be continued...

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I'm really, really proud. This was my first attempt at writing a fic on paper, then transferring it onto my computer.... I've read it a few times, and I think everything is in order. If something doesn't make sense, or you think I'm SUPER OOC, or you see a GAPING grammar issue that is driving you bonkers, please, please, please, let me know! I will fix it! Thanks so much for reading. :D