Chapter 2 – Rage

In retrospect, Yukiko supposed, it was better that the Shadows the group had encountered whilst moving through the dungeon had been weak to physical strikes, making their choice of casting Rage on Chie something of a suicide attack, since they had all fallen to her wrath soon after. But that still didn't mean that Yukiko enjoyed seeing her girlfriend try to attack anyone who got close to her. It didn't make giving her a sedative much easier either.

"Umm, Sempai?" Rise asked from where she and the others had moved to a safe distance away from the furious girl. "You sure you know what you're doing?"

Yukiko was slowly advancing across to Chie, who was hunched over and breathing hard as she attempted to keep the rage at bay.

"I'm quite sure." Yukiko responded, before starting to sing softly under her breath, hoping her voice would calm Chie enough for her to cure her.

"Hush, my baby, don't say a word…"

She sung as she inched closer. It seemed to be having an effect as Chie's breathing became less heavy and she looked up to meet Yukiko's eye.

"I'm gonna buy you a mockingbird…"

She was almost there; close enough so that she could quickly snap Chie out of her rage before she got too violent.

"And if that mockingbird don't sing…"

"I should kill you."

Yukiko had to stop for a second and blink back sudden tears as she heard the venom in her lover's voice. She knew it was just the spell talking, not her Chie, but it still hurt just the same.

Moving quickly before she had a chance to attack, Yukiko pulled Chie into a hug and jabbed the syringe containing the sedative into her arm, feeling hands that had tightly gripped her shoulders at the sudden contact relax as Chie calmed down and returned the hold.

"God…Yukiko, I'm sorry…" Chie gasped out after a moment, the sedative taking effect and dispelling the rage.

"I'm so sorry, you know I could never mean that don't you? I could never hate you like that."

"I know you couldn't Chie." Yukiko replied, burying her head into Chie's shoulder and letting the tears fall.

She knew her girlfriend never meant it, but that never stopped the pain that followed.

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AN. Ugh, this chapter looks really depresing when compared to chapter 1, but I couldn't see any way to make Rage a funny situation. Oh well. In any case I hope whoever's reading enjoyed this chapter enough to leave a helpful review *hint hint*, thanks to those who've already reviewed.
Also, for anyone who's following this story, since I'm pretty tied down with prep for my college exams starting next month, I don't have a lot of time to work on this so I can't pull out chapters once every few days. Hopefully I can update at least once a week, so expect new chapters on either saturday or sunday.

Eh, enough of my rants, hope you liked it~