A/N- This is the 2nd installment to my 'DEADLY WOMEN' series. NAMCO owns the characters. I own everything else.
Note: All words in italics are conversations on the phone and certain conversations at the cabin.
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I Couldn't Hurt You If I Tried: A Asuka K Story
Nichole
Ch. 2- Newfound Respect
5 more hours and we'll be there. The radio isn't on, so there are conversations in the back going on.
"How much longer, Suky?" I hear Xiaoyu call from the back, next to Jin. I promise you she's like a kid.
"5 more hours." I hear a sigh.
"Why'd you wanna know, Xiao?" Hwoarang asks from next to me.
"Well… I kinda have to…" I look at her through my mirror.
"Spit it out, Xiaoyu." I tell her.
"Have to pee. I kinda have to pee." She seems relieved that she finally said it.
"Didn't you go before we left?" I'm not trying to be mean, this time. I just want to make it there before it gets dark.
"Yeah, but I drank a Icee on my way to Hwo's." An Icee while it's cold outside; a little strange. But they are good. Cherry and blue raspberry. Hmmm.
"You drank a Icee while it's cold out?" Steve finds it a little strange too. "And, how do you 'kinda' have to pee? You either have to or not." He asks her. That's exactly what I was wondering. Hwoarang doesn't say anything to Steve. Must be because he wasn't being smart to Xiaoyu. Just curious.
Xiaoyu turns to Steve. "They had them at Ameristop for a 89 cents. I was like 'that's a deal', and I bought one." Then she turns to answer me. "Well, I think I can hold it for another hour." I shake my head okay. Another hour it'll be then; except, someone changes that.
"Well, Xiao may be able to hold it for another hour, but I can't." I look in the mirror. Christie's giving me a 'I ruined your plans, ha' look. Her smug attitude's gonna get her hurt.
She smiles; that's it! I swerve the black jeep to the right side of I 66, in some grass. Everyone is thrown to the left. Good thing they have seat belts on.
I unbuckle my seat belt and turn, leaning between the driver and passenger seats.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Suky!" Rang hollers next to me.
I ignore him. My attention on Christie. "Listen, Christie, you'd be wise to not make me mad. Cause I'm the one driving. Ya hear?" She looks at me shocked.
Then angrily says, "Maybe you won't be driving. Gimme the keys!" She unbuckles her seat belt and reaches past Jin.
Xiaoyu turns to Jin. "Stop her, Jin-Jin!" She touches his arm to get him to stop Christie. He makes no such move, just continues to face ahead looking at me.
Hwoarang grabs my arm and pulls me back down. "Maybe Christie should drive, Suky. You 'seem' mad and you shouldn't drive mad."
I whip my head to face him. How dare he want Christie to drive! I'll be damned if she does. I snatch the keys from the ignition, putting them down my shirt just before Christie reaches them.
"How you like that, Christie? Gonna grab them from me now?" I dare her to. She looks at me, narrowed eyes to slits and opens her door to get out. I don't hesitate. I open mine and get out too. We both know where this is going and we're both ready. She takes her coat off and I follow, putting the keys in my pocket. Coats on the ground… It's about to get uglier than in the car. Way uglier.
I hear Xiaoyu hollering. I can't make out what she's saying. Then I do. She's saying that this is gonna have to wait. She's gotta pee. What the fuck? And Christie punches me in the stomach.
Folding over, I look up. No one's gotten out of the jeep besides me and Christie. It's like we're in slow motion. Christie made a big mistake, cause I don't go for body shots. I go straight for the face and head. And I do. I grab her right shoulder and punch her dead in her right eye. She falls back, but catches herself before hitting the ground. She runs at me and I grab her arms, but not before she slams me into the drivers side of the jeep. My back against the jeep and her head in my stomach, I punch at her neck and shoulders. She lifts up, hittingme in chin with the front of her head. Blood shoots out onto her cheek and on her white shirt. She doesn't care. I can taste an excess amount of blood. I feel it coming out of my mouth and down my chin in a river. I don't care. I push forward and hit her with the base of my right hand in her mouth. She staggers, but still doesn't fall. She double punches me in my right cheek. I ram forward, bringing both of us to the ground; me on top. She gets a good grip on my hair with her left hand and pulls back hard making my mouth open. I aim with my right fist straight at her nose. That makes her let go. I aim to punch her again in the face, but she flips us; her on top this time. She punches me in the nose. with her right fist.I grab her face with my left hand and squeeze. She hollers and punches my cheek again. I somehow get my legs up under her stomach and give a great push, tossing her to the left side of me. I immediately jump on top of her again, but just before I get to punch…. I'm pulled off of her. Then I see Jin pulling Christie back.
Leaning against the jeep with Xiaoyu, is Rang. So I know it's Steve holding me back. I try to pull forward and Christie kicks out. But neither of us get a hit in.
"Get off, Steve!" I try to jerk away. Christie does the same, but fails too.
"I'm gonna fuck her up! Jin, let go!" She tries to slide between his arms, but can't.
"I think you already did, Chris. And it looks like she did the same to you." Is Jin's response to her.
I try to head butt Steve, but he pulls me to his right, so I miss. I look forward and see Rang's disappointed look and Xiaoyu's tear filled eyes.
I look to the ground, my head bent down. I see Christie's feet have stopped trying to kick Jin. I look up and see Jin's turned her to face Rang and Xiaoyu. He turns her back around, her head dropped and eyes facing the ground too.
"Ya'll gonna fucking act like ya'll got some fucking sense?" Steve yells from holding me. He's never cussed that much before.
I look up and my eyes meet Christie's. And in that brief second, we have an understanding. We'll always hate each other. There's a certain understanding people who hate each other have. And we finally have that. Our hate had finally reach its boiling point, and had no choice but to blow. Now that it did, we can cool off.
We shake our heads yes, but Steve and Jin hold us for a little longer. May be scared that letting go would entail us to jump at each other again, but we won't.
"They're not going to fight again, Steve." I look up and Jin looks at me.
"How do you know that, Jin?" Steve smartly asks him.
"I just do. The same thing happened between me and Hwoarang a few months ago. We say smart ass things to each other, but we don't fight anymore." That's all the explanation Steve needed, so he lets me go, as does Jin of Christie. I grab my black coat off the ground and hear the keys rattle inside. Steve goes to say something about them, but Jin cuts him off; telling him, to let the key thing go. He does and I see Christie holding her white coat in her arms. One last look at each other, and I climb in the drivers seat.
I see Christie pull Xiaoyu aside and they talk for a second. Xiaoyu nods and she goes to Steve. A few seconds later, after an angry look to Xiaoyu, Steve gets up to sit beside Jin in the two seats in font of Christie and Xiaoyu. Christie leans her head back against her seat, with a slight wince. It must be painful to sit back. Xiaoyu rubs Christie's hair.
I can feel Hwoarang looking at me along with his disappointment radiating from him. So what if he's pissed. I'm pissed too. Pissed that he wanted Christie to drive and pissed that my body hurts. He doesn't say anything to me. In fact, no one says anything to each other. This trip for the cabin has gotten worse since when we first started out 4 ½ hours ago. I turn away and put the keys in the ignition starting the jeep. We pull back onto I 66, none of us paying attention that that whole fight between Christie and me took an hour and a half.
From next to her, I hear Xiaoyu again. "Ya'll do know that I still gotta pee? And that now I have to pee bad!"
And we hear Christie say that she still has to pee too. Damn, I really don't want to stop, but I have to. Anyway, we're not going to make it before dark now. There's a BP gas station 2 miles ahead on exit 17.
2 miles later, we pull into the BP. What the hell, I might as well go pee too. Everyone thinks the same thing. Somehow me and Christie are walking side by side. Our bodies sore as hell, we nod to each other with our newfound respect.
----- Hope you liked. In the next chapter,...well, you'll just have to see won't you? Lol. Chapter 3 is entitled 'Reminiscence Interrupted'. Bye.---
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