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Chapter 10: Don't you know?

Booking the flight from Hong Kong to Osaka ,Japan was easy. It was the tiny detail of catching the flight that Gabriella and Troy had to work at. The flight was waiting for them and waiting is limited especially with an impatient captain that is just waiting to get home to his wife. Finally at 7:12 the two teenagers stepped onto the plane , seated and buckled themselves to the soft cushioned seats.

Instantly, both wandered off in to slumber land. The tension was killing them and it seemed traveling to the depths of your mind wasn't going to help. They needed the sleep.

A couple hours later the flight had landed in Osaka. The streets were wet. It had been raining. Puddles of murky water littered the road in random places. Troy and Gabriella were headed to the nearest and best restaurant to get a some food before flying off to who knows where.

The two teenagers entered a Japanese restaurant of which they knew that spoke English. It was lighted in a deep red color light. The cushioned seats were black with red polka-a-dots and here in there were rips in the smooth leather showing a little but of yellow inside. Tall green plants stood in aimless positions all around the restaurant.

"Two please" Troy stated showing two fingers to the waiter. The man nodded and smiled , gesturing them towards a certain table. As Troy and Gabriella walked through the building they passed the bar. Drunkards hung from the stools trying to keep themselves pure but failing miserably. A grim man sat alone at one of the tables right in front of the bar. He chugged down a bottle of beer , focusing his intoxicated eyes at Gabriella. Fear washed through Gabriella settling at the bottom of her stomach. It churned rapidly. Gabriella gasped at the horrendous images that unknowingly settled in her mind. She latched arm around Troy's and held hard. The waiter had finally showed them their table , seated them and gave the two their menus. Gabriella began growing cautious of her surroundings. Two holes were being dug at the back of Gabriella's head representing the drunk man's eyes on her. Sweat oozed out of her hands which she easily wiped off on her jeans.

Okay , Gabriella just breathe. She directed herself. You'll be fine. Inhale...Exhale Gabriella assured herself by chanting and breathing along with this. It didn't help. The waiter came back to the table to take the order.

"You ready?" Troy asked Gabriella. She hadn't even taken one look at the menu.

Gabriella shook her head , "Order for me , please" Troy nodded and placed the order. Meanwhile , Gabriella's feelings intensified. Terrifying images of settings and happenings played in her mind that took her to the most remote places of hell. Nervous sweat covered her body as the unperceived scenes displayed over and over again. Where they were coming from, when they happened, what they are; were all unknown. She sinked into another vision.

She screamed as the belt whipped her skin. Blood oozed from the long cut that had been left as a mark. An evil laugh sounded through the dark bedroom. The belt came back at her again like a snake pouncing on a unsuspecting mouse. Gabriella screamed once again. The six year old tried to get through the man's grasp and out the balcony but it wouldn't do. This time the belt snaked around her back and slapped harshly onto her bare stomach. Gabriella yelped in agony and fell to the floor. Her only undergarment covered body was red and sore from the many lashings she had gotten from her father.

"please" she pleaded helplessly. Blackness surrounded Gabriella as a metal hit her head hard. She drowned in the darkness.

Gabriella gasped at the unreal memory. But then how could be a memory? Gabriella had to admit it was a memory , maybe a dream that she had forgotten about. Her face grew red, her heart swelled, her body trembled, and tears formed in her eyes.

An arm hung casually around her shoulder and Gabriella broke. She heaved herself into Troy's arms and wept silently and carelessly. This wasn't normal, this wasn't Gabriella. The strong, tomboy Gabriella. This was that abused six year old that had nobody.

"Brie?" Troy tried to have her look at him and tell him what was going but she refused.

"Please" she begged. "hold me". Troy couldn't reject this. He immediately flung his arms around Gabriella and kept them there. By planting lingering and lovable kisses on her and stroking her hair , Troy attempted on comforting Gabriella and yet he didn't know if it was helping.

Gabriella's voiceless sobs soon turned into sniffles. Troy tugged on her until she faced him. Her body gave out and rested her weightless body on Troy's shoulder. Her arms slithered up and curled around his neck. Tears were endless,now. The phase of sniffles and been long gone. The waiter arrived with a plate full of luscious edibles. He approached with a broad smile but when his eyes rippled over Gabriella it turned into a worried expression. Troy gave a smile one hand still on Gabriella's head and gestured so the waiter would know where to put the food. The man nodded, placed the food in front of him and naturally walked back to the kitchen. Troy looked back at Gabriella and his frown disappeared.

"Ella, what's wrong?" he asked expecting no reply. He got what he anticipated for: no answer just a tighter embrace. Troy returned.

"Ells" he said adding another pet name. "come one ,hon, you gotta eat". He insisted. Finally , he had her sit up but still supported by his arm. Troy took a silver fork and twirled the tasty noodles around it. Then he stabbed a piece of chicken. Troy was not going to let her get out of Osaka without a full stomach. He insisted on her eating until she gave in. Troy slid the fork in and waited until she took the noodles. Gabriella chewed on the food and swallowed. She stared in Troy's eyes and gave him a thankful smile. She wiped her face. The restaurant was quiet and empty. The bar was only tabbed with a couple people who seemed to come here often. For Gabriella, the man who she saw earlier was forgotten but that man could not forget her.

Gabriella cupped his face and impelled forward pressurizing her lips on hers.

It ended too soon for Troy to get a chance to deepen the kiss. Gabriella pulled back gave Troy a mouthful to eat from his plate.

Troy looked at Gabriella while chewing the last bite of his meal. He took one sip of water not caring of how dirty it was. It was her who made him do these things

A low, hiccuped chuckle came from behind them. Gabriella turned around to face those drunken dark brown eyes that came frightened her. Gabriella gasped and clasped Troy's hand.

"You're verry seexxxy" the man slurred. He moved dangerously close to Gabriella and touched her hand. "I have a hotel room" he hiccuped. Gabriella's confidence grew now. She realized that this man was drunk and incapable of harming a strong girl like Gabriella. She stood up.

"Gabriella" Troy scolded sharply. He was deathly afraid of loosing her right now and it would be easier if this could be done with out any violence included. She ignored him. Gabriella brought her hand up and smashed his nose with her forceful fist. He fell to the flour unconsciousness immediately over taking him because of his inebriated state. Gabriella pulled Troy up and headed over to the counter where they could pay the bill. They did so and headed out of the restaurant. It was raining. Scratch that- it was pouring. People were crowding around the sidewalk trying to get under cover. Gabriella shivered and her hand throbbed. Troy enveloped Gabriella in his arms and held her close. They stood in a corner still blocked to the road sharing their warmth.

"Who was he?" Troy asked softly into her ear tickling it. Gabriella shrugged.

"I don't know"

He grew paranoid as the face kept popping in his intellect. Troy hated it but a foreign reverie sinked into eyes and played.

Six year old Troy ran as fast as he could. He was following him , Troy knew it. He wasn't going to leave Troy alone unless he got what he wanted and what he wanted was an temper release. Troy didn't know though who the hell this man was. This man showed up in at his apartment when Gilbert, Troy' s temporary guardian from the FBI, wasn't there. He was drunk and wet. Immediately Troy fled from the apartment when the man attempted to enter the building. Troy's heart pounded his chest as he ran past the empty, wet streets of downtown Albuquerque trying to go somewhere to be safe. He turned the corner into a dark alley. Big Mistake. Before he knew it Troy was cornered against a green trash can and the red brick wall. The drunk man had red eyes. Red poisoned eyes. His belt was held like a snake and the snake lashed out.

Gabriella felt Troy's grasp on her grow tighter. She scrunched her eye brow in confusion and slowly pulled out of his embrace. Troy looked at her with pain soaked eyes calling for her to come back to him. She obeyed willingly. Her embrace was complemented with rocking back and forth comforting both teenagers in their own ways. Gabriella felt a drops on her hair. She looked up and around and noticed that the two had parted from the group and now in the middle of the alley road. Their shed of warmth continued as rain poured down showing no trace of stop. Gabriella looked at Troy. His red edged eyes were wet. Gabriella put her hand on his wet cheek softly caressing his skin. She looked back at him and the same fear that filled Gabriella a half an hour ago fell into her now. Troy and Gabriella clutched each other for life shedding the pain that they had kept to themselves all seventeen years. They were alone until each other.

"Are you crying?" Gabriella said the weeping tone set in her voice. Troy shook his head; no. Troy stared at her and gave up. This was too much to keep in. When the chance came he wasn't going to let go. Not this time...there is too much of a expense if I don't do this...

He nodded and soon after Gabriella nodded along because she too was crying. So, the couple stood there in Osaka, Japan on the alley road in the pouring rain, and in their pouring emotions.

Gabriella's phone vibrated and started it's ring tone four hours later as Gabriella and Troy laid down together on a sofa in the FBI private jet.

"Hello?" a sleepy Gabriella muffled. Silence.

"Heelllooo?" she slurred on a sleepy tone. Gabriella was annoyed. Tear strains still were evident on their cheeks and they had dried off.

"It was pretty mean to do that to your elders, Gabriella." Carlos' voice corrupted the whole phone line. Gabriella shot up ,faltering Troy's lazy arm that encircled her. She waited for an answer.

"I can just tell you where we are off to next but that wouldn't be much of a surprise would it?"

"What?"

"The captain's room is empty, Gabs. It's you guys who are running the plane"

"What is that supposed mean? Troy and I have to search the ends of the Earth for you guys?" she spat.

"Well you can do that or wait for another text message" the phone beeped. He had hung up. It vibrated again and sang. Troy had waken by now and he sat up. He watched Gabriella's frustrated figure ransack her phone for the new text message. Troy propelled forward and caught her ear in between his lips. Gabriella froze and at this Troy took the power to rid the phone out of her hand and measure directly on top of her.

"Troy" she moaned. "please" she begged but her hands thought otherwise and traveled into his hair. Troy had moved on to her lips, enveloping them in loving kisses. Gabriella smiled into the smooches. One more...just one. And the kisses doubled and tripled. Hell, who is counting?

"Troy" she finally pleaded. "Come one we have to go" She faltered a bit at the end as he let her go. Suddenly, the plane began to move. It lurched forward on it's wheels. Troy looked at her as if she knew something. Gabriella pulled the sheets off of her and walked cautiously towards the control room. She opened the door and gave out a breath of relief. The former captain of the jet smiled at Gabriella widely.

"Where are we going, Captain?"

" Los Angeles , California"Gabriella glared at him. " What? I thought I could help...you guys looked busy" he said.

"Speaking of which," Troy led Gabriella back where they were on the sofa. On her way, Gabriella picked up her laptop and set it on her lap once she sat down. Troy groaned.

"Troy we've been through this before...what's more important Leah or-"

"Yeah , yeah I get it" he confessed. Gabriella smiled and pecked him on the lips assuring him that what he started could be continued.

"For the time being, it's Leah that matters." she brushed his tangled hair to a satisfying look. Troy pulled her into his arms so both of them were cuddling with no air spaces in between. Troy bent his head down brushing his lips across his shoulder back and forth. Now and then , he placed open mouth kisses on a spot then continued his pattern.

Inside of Troy and without awareness; a new, unfamiliar emotion settled in his blood circulating throughout his body as his heart pounded the blood, treasuring the new emotion. He didn't know that was happening. Heck, most of the world has no clue what is going on in their body this very second.

For Troy, he didn't know that he was slowly and freely sinking into the unpredictable depths of love. Love for Gabriella

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Hope you all have a chance to see it. It's worth your time...

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