Jinx! Robo Kiss

-Erase and Rewind-

Nothing moved. It seemed as though time stood still. I wasn't unconcious any longer, but I feared what I would see once I opened my eyes. Pain exploded throughout my legs, chest, arms and head, and I tried my best to ignore it. Nothing would work. Weakly, I finally decided to be aware of my surroundings.

The first thing I saw was Kai. His head smashed through the windshield, and I fret he was dead. He wasn't though, his chest rose slowly, he was breathing. I sighed of relief, and then remembered the others. Frantically looking over to my right, I saw Boris. His face was covered with blood, along with his chest, where a glass shard pierced through. His eyes were open, but they were cold and lifeless. He was dead.

Tears streamed down my face, and I cupped his cheek in my hand. He was ice cold. I sat like that for awhile, whispering to the lifeless shell. After taking my hand away, I crawled to the back, where I noticed my seatbelt had been cut. As I moved, my left leg screamed with protest, and I tried my best to ignore it. My first objective was to get my friends out of the wreck, or to find if they were alive. Then I would check on the person who crashed into us.

"C...C..rys...tal...?" I looked over and saw Sergei struggling to move, his arms bruised and swelling."K...K...aren...A...Aman...da...J...ewel...h...how...are they...?" he was breathing deeply, his eyes flickering with weariness. It didn't seem like he would hang on much longer. Tears continued to fall as I lightly brushed his arm, he winced a tiny bit. I quickly recoiled, and took a shaky breath.

"K...K-Karen...w-won't b-b-be c-coming back...to u-us..." I whispered, looking down. I could feel he was about to also cry."Jewel...she...she's still alive...and I-I'm not sure about Amanda...y...yet."

I waited, tears continued to stream down my face. I waited some more, and I got no response. Shakily, I lifted my head. Sergei was still breathing, but he seemed unconcious, tears still fell from his eyes. I silently prayed for him to continue breathing, and I turned to Yuriy. He wasn't there. I panicked. "A-Amanda?" I called out, but winced when my throat despised my action. "W...Where are you? Amanda?"

I crawled over to where he had been sitting and checked his seatbelt, like mine, it, too, had been cut. I checked the window and door to see if it had opened or was smashed. There were only a few cracks in the window, and the door had a few dents, but that was all. More tears flew down my face as I grew frantic. "Y-Yuriy?!" I called again, my voice runnning dry. I got a moan for response, and l looked down. He was staring at me from under the seat, "I-I'm up already! J-Just don't make m-me go to school, Mommy." he stuttered, about to close his eyes.

"I won't make you g-go to school," I replied, a small smile cornered my lips,"but you have to pr-promise me th-that you won't go back to sleep! P-please!"

He didn't seem to hear me, as his eyes fully shut. His breathing stopped. "A-Amanda? Amanda! YURIY!" I screamed and desperately tried to get him out from underneath the seat. "W-Wake up! Please! I-I know you're stronger than this!" he wouldn't budge from his spot on the floor, I guessed his leg was stuck,"P-please! You're stronger than this! You can't leave us here like this! We can't lose two members of the team!"

I looked over at Sergei, his breathing had slowed. I took a peek at Kai, his breathing had nearly come to a stop. "Yuriy! Y-You can't leave me all alone! Please! Sergei, you too! Same for you, Kai! You can't! You're all stronger! Quit being such babies!" my tears wouldn't stop, and I didn't care I was refering to their regular names, I just didn't want them to leave me.

"Boris! If you can hear me too, wake up! You guys are the strongest people I know! Snap out of it! Please!" I got no response, and I slowly placed Yuriy back down. I looked at Sergei and Kai again, they showed no signs of life. I placed my head in my hands and continued to cry, my headache growing worse as I did so. "Th-this isn't happening," I murmured,"This isn't freaking happening." but I knew it was, I knew it had.

"How come I lived and you guys didn't?!" I bawled, punching out the window beside me. I didn't grimace at the contact, I was in too much pain already to notice. Slowly, I crawled out of the car, regretting doing so as I continued limping. I went over to the car that had crashed into us, and once I did, I stopped dead in my tracks. Staring at me was the woman who had knocked on our window moments before, her smile sending shivers down my spine. "I see you've survived, Crystal," she said, her eyes flashing darkly,"or should I say,'Rei Kon'?"

I didn't respond. I just stood there, unable to believe what I heard. She meant to do this? And how did she know who I really was? She smirked,"What's the matter?" I saw her reach for something in the passengers seat,"Feeling down about your friends? Do you want to join them?" her smirk grew deeper as I just stood there, my legs wouldn't move.

"Come now, Rei, why don't you answer me? Do you want to join your friends that badly, you're speechless?" she slowly got out of her car and pointed something at me. My eyes widened in fear. She held a gun. She was planning on shooting me. She started to pull on the trigger, and I desperately tried to get back in 'my' car in time. I heard her mutter something under her breath before a sharp pain struck my neck.

' "It wasn't a coincidence that this will and has happened." was the last thing that ran through my mind.

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I felt nothing, absolutely nothing. I couldn't tell if I was breathing, I couldn't tell if my heart was still pumping in my chest. I couldn't tell if I was dead or alive. Suddenly, something warm touched my lips. Was it a kiss?...No...it seemed more urgent...CPR. Slowly, I opened my eyes once more and found Yuriy standing over me, worry filled every corner of his face. "Y...Yu...riy?" I managed to choke out, my throat burning.

"Yuriy? I do not know anyone by that name." he winked at me, then turned serious. "Crystal, promise you won't fall alseep on me?" I smiled weakly, I had said nearly the same thing to him. He had heard me.

"I...I don't know if...If I can keep that promise..." I admitted, my eyelids being weighed down like lead. Yuriy picked me up, 'bridal style'.

"Just try your hardest to stay awake, k?" I nodded in response, then quickly opened my mouth to ask something, but as if Yuriy could read my mind, he spoke."Don't worry, Crystal, Jewel and Rachael are fine...I can't say the same for Karen though...that piece of glass pierced her heart."

My face felt wet again as tears ran down my face, Yuriy said nothing as I cried into his shoulder. After a few minutes, I let my tears stop and I looked back up at Yuriy,"W...when..h-how did you...come back...to...to..." I searched for the proper words, but I was so tired I couldn't remember them.

"Come back to life?" he asked, I nodded. "I'm not sure about the other two, but I could hear your words. I wasn't sure if I was sleeping or not, and after you stopped talking, and when the glass shattered, I started to worry. When I heard the gun shot, I was even more scared and my eyes shot open. I tried to move, but my leg was stuck, soon Rachael woke up and helped me out. She then went to check on Jewel, and I went to check on you...You've died on us two times today, Crystal."

I nodded again, my mouth unwilling to work anymore. Yuriy looked at me straight in the eyes, and he looked worried again,"D-Don't you dare close your eyes, Crystal!" he whispered harshly at me, I felt a lone tear streek down my face.

"S...sor...ry..." I struggled to squeak out, and everything went black again...

That's happening too much.

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"Three...today..." a voice, but it's so...so distant.

'Beep.'

'Beep.'

Ugh, not the ping pong again!...Wait...does that mean I'm in the hospital again? Wasting no time, I sprang up and looked around. Yep, I'm in the same hospital, in the same room, in the same bed. I regretted getting up so fast after pain strung through my neck like a torpedo, I carefully went to lie back down when I noticed two out of three of my friends staring at me. "H-hey...guys..." I smiled dimly, as they smiled back, tears glistening in their eyes.

I looked over, Yuriy was hanging his head low, his hair blocking his face. I noticed he was clenching his fists. "Y---you..." he snarled,"You p-promised that you wouldn't f-fall asleep!" he looked at me straight in the eye again, tears visible on his cheeks. "What was it you said in the car, Crystal? 'Please! You're stronger than this! You can't leave us here like this! We can't lose two members of the team!' Well we couldn't lose you, we can't lose you! We've already lost you three times! Who knows, maybe the next time you'll be permanently dead!"

Permanently dead...I quickly looked away from him, I couldn't bear to look at him after he said that,"Well," I replied bitterly through gritted teeth,"I thought I said I didn't know if I could keep that promise"

"Yeah? Well--"

"Guys, stop it!" Sergei nearly screamed, which caused me to jump and look over at him,"This isn't the time to be like this!"

"Isn't the time?!" I yelled back,"Rachael, I told Jewel to stop the car! If I hadn't told her too, that lady wouldn't have seen us and crash into us! I wouldn't have been shot in the neck and Karen would still be here with us! It's all my fault!" I sighed,"Amanda's right, maybe I am better off permanently dead."

"Woah, woah, woah now! I didn't say anything like that!" Yuriy cried defensively, waving his hands infront of his face.

"Well, it seemed that way to me." I murmured, bringing my legs up to my chin.

I heard Kai sigh next to me,"Rachael, Amanda, would it be okay if you two left for awhile? I think it would be best if Crystal and I had a little talk." I didn't look at them, instead just buried my head inbetween my legs. I knew the nodded, and Sergei was most likely the one who rubbed my back. I listened to their feet shuffling and the door closing.

"Crystal, look at me." Kai said next to me, squeezing my quivering shoulder, I didn't do anything. "Crystal, c'mon, look at me. I don't want to start yelling at you like I used to do to Kinomiya." his voice sounded so soft, so...so caring. Unrelentingly, I lifted my head and turned to look at him, the fire in his eyes soft.

"Listen, Yuriy thinks of you as a brother, Rei," he didn't seem to care he was using our real names," Sergei, Boris and I thought of you as a brother too, we still do infact. Yuriy's just trying to protect you, it's what he was born to do, he thinks it's his job to protect his family."

"I know that, you've told me before." I replied, turning my gaze out the window. "It was when I was thrown in the dungeon for the first time. It was when you, Ivan, Boris, Sergei and Yuriy met me. You helped treat my wounds, you comforted me, you made me smile, made me laugh, even though we were under Balcov's and Voltaire's every command. I felt safe whenever I was near you guys, I knew at that moment we would become brothers, but when...when they took me away from you...for at least a week with no food, no water, no...no nothing...I-I felt like commiting suicide..."

"Rei..."

"I-I didn't know what else I was supposed to do! I tried to stop breathing every night when they took me away from you again, I was desperate to get rid of the pain, desperate to get rid of the hurt!..B-but knowing I would see you guys again, I told myself how ridiculous I was being. I wasn't the only one going through that pain...but the second I told myself that...I was starting to...to...disbelieve it. I'd never seen anyone else get dragged away but me for weeks on end...I was the only one!"

Kai remained silent and he squeezed my shoulder even harder. I knew he didn't know what to say.

"A-and then...after a few more weeks of lying in the dungeon seperated f-from the others...B-Balcov took me to...to...to the experimenting room...and h-he sucked me dry...of everything...I had absolutely no food in my stomach at all, I didn't even have stomach acid...T-the only thing he kept in me...was...was my blood. H-he took out my eyes and I...I was blind...B-but he made it so no blood would come out...y-yet I would still feel the p-pain...he yanked out my teeth and d-did the same procedure...I-I wasn't able to cry...I wasn't able to move...I wasn't able to do anything...I-it hurt so much! A-and then h-he gave me new eyes...and n-ew teeth...the ones I have now...er...well...A-and before he did put them in...he made it so the blood would come out...It...I still feel the pain every night!" I leaned over and cried into his shoulder, he rubbed my back and I noticed he was crying too. "I-it hurts whenever I c-cry, K-Kai! I-it hurts to just blink, it hurts to do anything!"

"I-I didn't realise...I-...I should have...I should have d-done something to help, Rei!" he whispered into my ear, his hair tickling the side of my face.

We stayed like that for awhile, crying on each others shoulders, comforted in each others embrace. Suddenly, he back away from me, but he continued to hold onto my arms. Hiccuping, I stared at him, waiting for him to say something. "The lady," Kai started, looking at me intensley, even though his eyes had become red from the crying,"who checked on us after we stopped by the deer. She...she crashed into us...on purpose?" I nodded. "Did she say anything to you?"

I nodded again,"Tell me what she said, every single word." he tightened his grip on my arms, I winced. Quickly, he recoiled,"Sorry." he muttered.

"S'okay." I responded,"Every single word?" it was his time to nod.

I sighed,"'Kay...Just let me think...She..she said,'I see you've survived, Crystal, or should I say Rei Kon?' I didn't respond to her, I just stood there, dumbfounded, then she continued,'What's the matter? Feeling down about your friends? Do you want to join them?' Again, I didn't answer her. By this time she had gotten out of her car,'Come now, Rei, why don't you answer me? Do you want to join your friends that badly, you're speechless?' Then she whipped out her gun and shot me..."

I opened my eyes again, since I had closed them while I was trying to remember what she had said. Kai just stared at me, shocked,"S-she knows?!" he stammered, and I nodded for what seemed like the millionth time. "Yes, and she was perfectly unharmed by the crash too."

"B-but this can't be...it..." he stuttered, looking for the right words, but gave up. Suddenly, something flickered in Kai's head and he looked straight at me,"She shot you?!"

"...Yes."

A silence filled around us, our breathing and the moniter beside me the only things we could hear. I looked out the window, the sun was just starting to come up. I smiled, the sunrise was always beautiful. "Kai..?"

"Hm?"

"Have I ever told you that you're the most awesomest friend anyone could ever have?" I looked over at him, he had a huge smile on his face.

"You've told me now."

Another silence swept over us, again, I was the first to break it.

"...Jewel?"

"Yes?"

"A-about the phone call." he suddenly turned serious,"It wasn't Mr.D, I-I don't actually know who it was...but they said there was a girl actually called Crystal House, and she and her best friend were great singers. He said that...at two-sixteen I would have to go to the bathroom, which I did have to at exactly that time. He said I would walk into the only bathroom in the house, and he would lock it from the outside. He said my hands and feet would be handcuffed, and I would be blindfolded...th-they said I would scream, they said I would be drenched in blood, th-they said the next thing you guys knew was that I was permanently dead!

"He said I would die in the same house, in the same way, on the same day that the real Crystal House had been murdered. He said that you wouldn't be able to figure it out unless you saw the newspapers locked in the attic! He said he knows of our condition and that he's the only one who knows how to fix it! H-he said it wasn't a coincidence that this has and will happened!" I was shaking violently, and tears wound their way onto my face again for the hundredth time today. I wasn't able to breath or see straight.

Even though everything was a bit shaky, I saw Kai get up and head for the door. He was going to tell Yuriy and Sergei about the call. "NO!" I screamed, grabbing ahold of his arm,"Don't! Please, don't tell them! J-just not yet, I don't want them to worry!"

"Crystal," I flinched at the tone of his voice,"they're already filled with enough worry about you as it is. And they need to know about the phone call! I don't think they would find it amusing if they found you dead in the bathroom. It's better if we tell them, we'll protect you. We won't let anything hurt you, I promise."

"Yeah right." I scoffed,"If you didn't want me hurt, you wouldn't have let me die three times on you! You wouldn't have left me alone in the abbey!...You don't care about me, that's it, isn't it?!"

"What?! Crystal, I care about you more then anybody else in the world! You're my bro--sister! I'm just trying to help you!" he yelled back, an immense fire blazing in his eyes.

I didn't respond, instead I just ripped out my IV and ran out of the room. "Crystal, wait!" I heard him call, but I didn't care...no...he didn't care, they didn't care! They thought of me as nothing more then a bug! Nothing more then the colour of their eyes! Nothing more then a corpse.

I rushed out of the hospital, pushing any doctors or nurses away from me. The cold struck me hard, but I ignored it and kept running. My neck and leg screamed in protest. I ignored them too. All I cared about was getting away.

All I cared about was getting away from my 'family'...

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