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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon. Digimon is a product of the mind of Akiyoshi Hongo.
Tai's POV
"Are you going to want something to eat?" The beautiful naked creature laying next me asked as we kissed.
"Huh?" I mumbled. Then felt a slow tapping on my shoulder.
A soft voice lifted me from the fog of my dreams. "Would you rather sleep?"
I raised my head and looked around. "Wha... where am I?" Then I remembered being at the cabin. "Oh, Sora. Sorry, I must've fallen asleep." I leaned forward and rubbed my face with the palms of my hands.
"I'll go away and let you sleep," she spoke softly, almost a whisper.
"No, that's ok. If I sleep now, I won't be able to when it's bed time." I slowly rose to my feet and faced her. "How long was I sleeping?"
She glanced at the thing golden watch on her wrist. "About 50 minutes, maybe less."
She picked up my cold coffee while we walked to the kitchen and sat at the heavy table. "Are sub sandwiches ok?" She asked, pouring the cold coffee in the sink. "Well... sub sandwiches without the sub bread. All we have is sandwich style slices."
"They'll be fine." I yawned, trying to fight the sleep from my system.
She placed a sandwich for each of us on the table, alsong with another cup of steaming coffee. I picked it up and took a bite. "You forgetting something?" She asked smiling.
"To wash my hands?" I mused while chewing, then noticed that she hadn't even picked up her sandwich. "Oh, right. Thanks for the sandwich, you're the best."
"Don't you forget it!" She said smiling.
"Do you think your parents will be able to make it in tomorrow?" Sora asked as she picked up her cup. "This snow will make traveling very difficult."
"If not impossible," I added. I stood up and walked to my coat. "I have my cell phone, if they need to let us know anything. Hopefully they can reach us through the storm." I laid it on the table next to my plate and sat back down. "I have the charger packed away, we'll probably need to keep it charged just in case we lose power."
"Do you think that will happen?" She asked with a note of concern in her voice.
"It might, but we have plenty of wood in here, plus more outside if we need it," I tried to reassure her.
"Plus all the food you picked when you went out in this mess." She smiled, then added, "My hero!" Trying to sound like a souther girl, while batting her eyes lashes.
I laughed, then did my best cowboy impersonation. "Twernt nuthin, Ma'am." She was drinking her coffee when I did my imitation. I thought she was going to spit out her coffee. Instead, she held her free hand to her mouth until her eyes started to tear up with suppressed laughter. I reached back and grabbed a towel for her.
While we ate I thought about Yagami and the problems he was having with his girlfriend. I took another sip of coffee and smiled at Sora. She was watching me intently. "You look deep in thought, what's on your mind?" She asked.
"I was just thinking about Yagami." I picked up what was left of my sandwich.
"Oh?" She said as she started to take a sip of coffee. "What about Yagami?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "He like a girl and doesn't know how to approach her." I chewed my bite and swallowed, chasing it down with the hot liquid. "Didn't he ever talk to you about her?"
She smiled and pushed the half sandwich away from her. "Yagami and I don't really talk that much." She took another drink. "I guess that I just don't understand him anymore." She smiled and played with her hair.
I also pushed my plate away and took another drink of coffee. "He did tell me to give you something." I felt the my heart start to beat faster.
"What?" She asked smiling. I wasn't sure if I caught her by surprise when I leaned across the table and tried to kiss her cheek. "Tai..." She turned her head towards me ever so slowly and our lips met.
I can never remember doing anything that ever made me feel so wonderful or terrified before in my whole life. All taking place during that one fleeting moment. Her lips were gently parted with my name gracefully perched on them, mine were as eager as a young teen but controlled by age.
The feeling of her soft, lush lips, warm and sensuous, gently touching mine was both exhilarating and frightening in the same breath. Slowly I pulled away when she touched my face lightly with her soft hands. Our lips parted, this time my hand snaked behind her head and pulled her close, her perfume stroking the gentle recesses of my mind.
Slowly we parted, I became fearful of what she was going to say. She smiled and flushed with a bit of embarrassment. "I... I..." I stammered.
She smiled at me. "Are you sure this is what Yagami wanted you to give me?"
'Ok,' I thought. 'At least she doesn't seem mad.' I sat on confused silence before I could make my voice speak. "Sora... I... I know you didn't want to become involved with me..." I felt like when I tried to confess that I had eaten all of my moms chocolate turtles. "I can't..." I stammered.
"Tai..."She smiled then took a deep breath. "This is what I was afraid would happen."
I looked away sadly thinking, 'well, here it comes.' I turned back to her and softly spoke. "What are you afraid of Sora?"
I could see the tears welling in the corner of her eyes. My heart dropped, how could I ever hurt her. "I'm so stupid!" I sighed.
"No... no you aren't." She placed her small hand on my arm. "At least... you know what's in your heart." A single tear rolled down her right cheek.
I dropped my head and clenched my jaw for a moment. "So that's it, after all these years you still don't love me." In utter sadness, I walked to the big window, only my reflection was visible to me with the darkness outside. Slowly Sora appeared behind me.
"It's not that Tai... I..." She looked up toward the ceiling. "Oh God, why did you make life so complicated?" I slowly turned to see her bury her head in her hands.
"Lets sleep on it, we can talk in the morning," I replied. She nodded slowly as I continued, "it's getting late anyway... and we're both tired."
As we stood there facing each other our digivices started to ring. We immediately went to get them so we could find out why they were beeping.
"Looks like Biyomon is in trouble." I said as I entered the living room where Sora was. "Looks like Agumon is in trouble too."
I started up my computer so that we could go and help our digimon partners. As soon as the gate appeared we readied our digivices. "Wait, I need to make some sandwiches before we leave, we don't know how long we will be gone," she said as she went to the kitchen.
"That sounds like a good idea," I said. "I think I am going to go on ahead though and see what I can do."
"Oh..." Sora said, surprised. "O...okay, just be careful. I will find you through your digivice energy signature I guess."
"Okay, well see ya," I said as I went to the digital world. I felt sort of guilty because I ditched her but I needed some time to think and clear my head.
As I took stock of my surroundings I noticed I was in a castle. As I wandered through the factory looking for Biyomon and Agumon, I couldn't help but wonder what they were doing at a place like this.
I was awoken from my thoughts by somebody calling my name. I looked around until I noticed Biyomon calling me from inside a cell. "Biyomon what's going on?" I asked as I opened the cell for Biyomon using a console on the right of the cell.
"Me and Agumon got captured while investigating an energy spike in this castle."
"Captured by who?" I asked, as she got out of her cell.
"By Me!" A gruff voice behind me said.
Sora's POV
I had just finished packing the sandwiches and some bottles of water into a backpack when the lights flickered, then the kitchen was bathed in darkness. The only lights was from the soft glow of the fireplace.
The instant the lights went out I started to panic. All I could think about was how I was going to get to the digital world now.
