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Summary: She's alone. She doesn't know where she is, or who she is. People run away from her in fear, and she does not know why. She just knows she is blonde, has azure eyes… and then she has wings and horns.

Disclaimer: I don't own Chrno Crusade or the characters. They all belong to Daisuke Moriyama

Claimer: Nothing so far

Pairings: …

Warning: Possible OOC'ness, nudity

Chapter 2: So That's What He Did…

Rosette lay in the bed she was given and stared straight ahead of her. She was tired but she could not find the will to sleep. The last few hours many things had happened and she was repeating all those things over and over in her head.

Aion was a kind soul who helped her. On top of that, he was a demon like her. She hadn't considered a just a single time she could be a demon; she thought they looked monstrous with no human features at all. She had also believed demons were violent, evil, gruesome, predatory and murderous. According to Aion it was not the case at all. Some demons were like that but far from all of them.

Aion was civilized, calm and kind. He helped her even if he looked like a person whom preferred to be alone. Obviously he knew her name as he had told her. She wondered what their relationship had been in the past. Perhaps he had an answer to most things, including why she had no memory.

She had wanted to ask him a lot of things but he had easily avoided her many questions before she even had begun asking. He said it had been a long day for him and probably for her too; which it had. Both of them needed sleep.

Nevertheless, one question kept nagging her mind; why had he said "So that's what he did…" the very first time he saw her? Why had he looked so filled with pain?

Tanned fingers were softly placed against the glass of the window. A red eye looked sadly through the glass and out at the pouring rain.

Soon… Soon the rain would be snow. Winter was moving closer in rapidly speed; he could feel it in his bones. Within few days people would be falling everywhere because the rain covered ground would be a polished surface. Soon after the frost had come, the snow would fall.

He shuddered at the thought. Back in time he had loved the snow and winter; now it only brought painful memories and cold.

He sighed and moved away from the window. His head turned towards the door there lead into the room where Rosette was. She had not remembered anything from getting his or her own name told. She would slowly remember her past, eventually. He knew the day she would remember everything was the day he was going to die.

He ran his fingers through his hair and sucked in a deep breath. Chrno… he thought What exactly had you thought would happen to her after your action..?

Aion was well aware what happened; Chrno had gone to wherever Rosette had been and given her all his powers to save her life. Chrno had cared so much for Rosette as he had cared for Magdalene. Chrno hadn't wanted to see another beloved woman die in his arms.

Rosette's now true form looked very much like Chrno's from when he and Chrno had fought their final battle. She had his horns, his wings, his tail, his ears and even the outfit reminded. The rubies in her forehead had just stayed round and small, however. They did not stretch from her eyebrows to her hairline.

A single tear rolled down his cheek. It was his fault Chrno was gone. It was his stupid plan and feelings there had split the two of them apart. He had lost his brother. The only remains of Chrno were Rosette. Now he had a responsibility for Rosette.

Aion had to teach Rosette everything. He had to teach her how to take care of the normal every day, and how to be a demon. She was a female demon and she had to be taught how to take care of herself. There would still pass some years before males would become interested but one day she would get into heat and then she would have problems if she couldn't take care of herself.

And they had to start as soon as possible.

"Good evening," said Rosette as she stepped carefully into the kitchen and saw Aion finish breakfast.

Aion sighed and shook his head "No Rosette,"

She blinked and became unsure. She wondered if he had a bad day "Uhm…"

He glanced at her and shook his head again "its morning, Rosette, not evening. Evening is the latter part of the day and early part of the night. Morning is the first part or period of the day, extending from dawn, or from midnight, to noon."

Rosette's mouth formed to an 'o' "Oh."

Aion just nodded in response and sat down while motioning for her to sit down as well.

Rosette sat down on the chair opposite Aion like the day before. Also like the day before she watched what he did while eating. She had remembered the words 'fork' and 'knife' but she had had no idea of what they were or how they were used. She had listened as Aion had told her what a fork and a knife were and she had studied closely on how he used those tools. Then there had been the 'plate' where the food had been laid on, and the 'glass' which was filled with clean water for her to drink. In the end there had been the meal to eat; potatoes and meat.

Today it was 'spoon', 'bowl', 'milk' and 'cereal'.

She took the package with cereal and carefully tilted it so the content filled the bowl; just like she had seen Aion do. When the cereal was in the bowl she placed the package back onto the table and picked up the milk which she tilted so the white fluid exited the carton and flowed into the bowl.

As she placed the carton back onto the table she smiled to herself and thought This is not so hard.

Aion smiled weakly while he was watching her. It was like watching a child achieving a difficult task and being proud.

Rosette picked up the spoon and dipped it into her cereal. As the cereal came onto the spoon she lifted it and closed her mouth around the cereal to thereafter pull the spoon out of her mouth and chew her cereal.

She hummed to herself while she was chewing and looking around in the kitchen. There had been very dark in the whole house the day before and it hadn't been easy to see everything around her. Now when it was lighter and it was no longer raining outside she could see everything. It was fascinating and relaxing to be able to watch everything around her calmly without she needed to worry about people being afraid of her.

"Wuts gons haps tdy?" she asked after filling her mouth with another spoonful cereal.

Aion cocked an eyebrow "What about you chew and swallow before talking? It is no good manners to talk while your mouth it filled with food."

"…" Rosette chewed her cereal for a few more seconds and then swallowed "What is going to happen today?"

Aion sighed softly and answered shortly "Buy clothes for you and groceries."

"…" Rosette nodded slowly and thought about the words then she sighed "What's groceries?"

Aion stood and picked up their empty bowls. Rosette spoke fine and knew most words; there were just some of the words she did not remember what meant "Mainly means food. Food and other commodities sold by a grocer."

"Oh," she watched as he moved the milk into the refrigerator and the package of cereal into the cupboard "How do we buy those things?"

"We go to the store, collect the things we want and pay money. Which means you doesn't just take something and walk out of the store with it; it will be considered theft. You will follow me and you will go nowhere and do nothing I haven't told you to do until we're sure you can take care of yourself. There's no need of getting you into trouble just because you don't understand what to do yet," explained Aion and walked out of the kitchen.

Rosette nodded in understanding and followed Aion.

Rosette looked curiously around her as she walked right behind Aion in the store. The store was big and filled with fruits, vegetables, bread, meat, cakes and what else there was to think of there was eatable. She stayed close to Aion though. As said, the store was big and she feared to be parted from him. She wouldn't know what to do if he suddenly disappeared. It might be the humans weren't afraid of her any longer but she still didn't feel like she could be alone between all those humans she did not know.

Aion made her feel strangely safe.

On the way to the store she had thought about the different feelings she had felt towards Aion; fear was the first feeling. Then it was familiarity. Then it had been a feeling she could not point out. Now she could.

It had been anger.

She didn't know why she had felt anger. She couldn't understand it. He was so kind and gentle towards her. Why would she feel angry towards him? She sighed and shrugged it off.

Aion had felt her uneasiness. He had felt the anger within her but knew she didn't understand it. In the back of her mind, she remembered it all; that's why she had those feelings towards him.

He ignored all the staring humans. Ignored all the strange looks he received; the people in the city still weren't used to see him walk around with the bandage around his left eye and he did not care.

Aion collected the groceries they needed and every few minutes he looked towards Rosette to make sure she still was there; he couldn't let her walk off alone, not yet. He probably first could when the winter, perhaps first when spring was over. The possibility of he had to keep an eye at her the whole summer even was there. It all depended on how fast she was at learning.

Depended on how fast she was remembering.

"What are you thinking of?" Rosette tilted her head to the side as she studied Aion's face.

"…" Aion blinked and looked at Rosette; he hadn't noticed he had drifted off into his own thoughts and just stood "… It doesn't matter."

"…" Rosette opened her mouth again but decided against it. She hadn't been with him for twenty-four hours yet and did not know exactly how close a bond she had had with him in the past. She couldn't press him to tell about his problems before she knew him better.

Aion sighed and watched as Rosette looked away to look at all the food.

He suddenly became very busy as the female seemed to find more and more interest in all the food and he had to tell her that more than half of what she pointed out they were in no need for. It seemed like she was very glad for food all of a sudden.

But well, her manners hadn't been the best this morning either, had they?

When all the groceries where placed at their rightful places Aion dropped himself on a chair in the living room. Rosette had become more and more hyperactive around all the food in the grocery store so she had ripped him for all energy. He was happy she had been very calm when they had been looking for clothes to her or else he had feared he was going to faint from exhaustion.

Rosette peered out of the door to her room and slowly walked into the living room and sat down in the couch; she had placed all her new clothes in the closet in her room while Aion had taken care of the groceries.

The minutes passed by. Rosette sat calmly and watched Aion's exhausted form. A bead of sweat rolled down his temple as he leant back in the chair with closed eye. His chest heaved as he took in deep breaths. A somewhat sad and slight fearful expression crossed her features "What's wrong?"

Aion opened his eye, looked at her and sighed lowly "I don't have my horns."

"…" Rosette thought about this information but came up with no connection between his horns and the reason to why he looked so exhausted.

"Our horns are the reason why we live as long as we do," Aion sighed again and leant slight forwards "they're like antennas, collecting what is called Astral Energy. A demon is not built of cells but of something a thousand times smaller; legion. We heal like this" he snapped his fingers "if we're hurt. But for us to be capable of healing so fast we need our horns to collect the Astral Energy."

Rosette listened careful to every word he said.

"You have your horns and are capable of collecting Astral Energy. If you're wounded you will heal fast. I do not have my horns and by that is unable of collecting Astral Energy. As you have seen I'm wearing bandages and will probably do so the rest of my life, or in many many years before I heal completely. If I'm wounded now then I'll die," he leant back in the chair again and watched her reaction.

Rosette nodded slowly and thought about the information she had received. This lead to a very obvious question; "Why don't you have your horns?"

"…" Aion's lips pressed together I a thin line and he sighed deeply "They were ripped off and destroyed."

Rosette's eyes widened "That's horrible!"

He just shrugged "Depends. In the end I deserved it;" he turned his gaze towards the window "I'm not sure why I'm even alive today. I should be dead."

Rosette shook her head. No one could deserve such a fate, could they? "Why should you deserve to lose your horns? Why should you be dead?"

Aion sucked in a deep breath and looked at her sadly "Don't worry your head about those facts now. You'll get to know someday." You'll get to remember someday he added mentally.

She sighed deeply. She didn't like secrets being kept for her. She felt she far from liked the fact of having to wait. A feeling deep inside her told her she hated waiting. However, a feeling also told her she couldn't push him to tell her what had happened. She decided to change topic.

"Yesterday… The very first sentence you said was "So that's what he did…" What did you mean by that? Who did what?" she tilted her head to the side and became surprised by his reaction.

Aion's jaws clamped shut like an oyster. He did not sit in the chair just a single second more and disappeared into his bedroom.

"A-Aion!" Rosette rose to her feet and reached her hand after him as he disappeared from the living room. She let her hand fall to her side as the door slammed shut. She turned her gaze towards the floor and slowly made her way into her own room and closed the door carefully behind her before she sat on her bed and curled into a ball.

A low knock on the door made Rosette look up from her position on the bed. She slowly walked to the door and opened it. She feared Aion had decided to throw her out of the house. He had seemed very upset about her question.

Aion's expression was different than she had expected.

He looked at her sadly and sighed "I'm sorry about my reaction before but please… Don't ask about those things again. One day I'll tell you what you'll need to know but it won't be before you know how to control your powers and you know how to take care of yourself."

Rosette smiled weakly and nodded "That's a promise."

MT: Sooo, how was this? Meh, too lazy to read it through for mistakes and such. Sorry -.-;

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