Love your Enemy
Chapter 4: An ignited spark
A/N: I only came around now to say it, but the original working title for the Eclipse Dragon was Eclipse Bird, but then I thought about it a little and I figured the only dragon was the F-Zero racer of James McCloud, and I didn't want to get any confusion with the Dragon Bird. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this FanFiction so far.
After waking up, Luna had a massive headache. That didn't stop her to look around the room though. It was obviously the room of someone very tidy and she wondered how she got in the bed of this person until her head started throbbing again. Luna looked at the bedside, finding the note, the pills and the glass of water. She took the medicine and decided to take a look around the house. It was nice and clean, almost as if someone cleans it 3 times a day or more. She stumbled upon the entrance to a small, but nice looking cafe so she decided to enter it. Once Luna had sat a foot in the cafe, she immediately froze in place as she laid eyes on the most beautiful man she has ever seen (To be fair, she hasn't seen many man, but the once she has seen weren't really her taste). She just stood there, staring at his profile, wondering how someone like him could be working at this small cafe and not as a movie star.
"Hello there, Miss. Would you like a cup of coffee?", the man asked with the warmest smile she could imagine. Luna just nodded and sat down at the bar.
"How do you know I'm not married and have a child?", she asked, mentally slapping herself for such a stupid question.
"Well for one,", he started, "You don't wear a wedding ring and you look way too young to have children. You look like 15 years old at most."
The man put a cup of coffee as well as milk and sugar in front of her. Luna was a bit annoyed about the fact this man thought of her as this young, but she had to admit, he is rather charming, so she decided to correct him and said: "I'm actually 23 years old, but I understand the confusion. I admit, I look rather young for my age."
The man looked surprised for a moment but than apologized for thinking she is so young.
"No problem, Sir,", Luna smiled. "I'm Luna Shadow, by the way."
"Bart Lemming, nice to make your acquaintance.", Bart, as the man introduced himself, smiled back and Luna's heart skipped a beat. She was almost certain that one day, she will start a family with this man, if he would one day feel the same about her. Luna hadn't even touched her coffee yet, so it was kind of cold when she realized that. Her face got red and she mumbled a "sorry" causing Bart to laugh a little and saying "no worries" in return. He gave her a new cup of coffee which she gladly accepted and took a sip of the coffee.
"This is actually pretty nice. It's not too bitter but not too watery either.", Luna complimented. Bart smiled again.
"Thank you. I thought you'd like a mild coffee more than the usually strong one I brew up for Rick Wheeler and Jack Levin.", Bart stated.
"So, they come here often?", Luna wanted to know.
"Yeah. The actually live here as well."
"Okay. I would ask to stay here as well, but I doubt you have a spare room and Jack and Rick wouldn't really be happy to see my face everyday.", Luna explained a bit sad. Bart put down the glass he was cleaning and looked Luna into her piercing white eyes.
"Who says I don't have a spare room, and Jack and Rick would eventually come to terms with you living here. Besides, I wouldn't want you to spend your nights alone outside in the cold and dangerous areas of Mute City. It would be a shame for a beautiful woman like you to be left alone at night in the city.", Bart said and proceeded cleaning the glasses. Luna's face was burning, it actually felt like she is going to start a fire just because of the hotness of her cheeks. No one ever called her beautiful before, except for Zoda who wanted to get her to get engaged to him, so he could sit on Black Shadow's throne once he died, which won't be so easy.
"Do….do you really think I'm beautiful?", Luna stuttered, not quite believing what she just heard him say to her.
"Of course I do. Ever since I saw you at the race yesterday, I knew that you should be protected. Your father seemed pretty awful as a father.", Bart replied.
"You have no idea. He locked me away for 20 years, I just managed to run away last night.", she stated.
"Yeah I know. Captain Falcon told me that he found you in the most dangerous district of Mute City in a bar.", Bart said. Luna just looked at him and than huffed. Clearly she wasn't the biggest fan of the Captain and that showed on her face. Even so, the two clearly had a connection that was evident in the way they spoke and acted in their presence.
So she clearly started to have a crush on a guy she just met, and yet, she felt like it was the only thing that she ever wanted. She only ever wanted to prove to her father that she could do something to help him, but that changed once she met this guy, this Bart Lemming. She wanted him to see her as more than just a beautiful woman, she wanted him to see her as who she was.
