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Chapter 10: The Coat
"You need to know the things that I am telling you, so stop being a petulant child and listen to what I have to tell you. Law, tie her to that rock over there." Law guided the woman over to the rock where he tied her up. "These stories aren't fictional, and I have barely told you anything." She struggled a little.
"You will never be my mother. I don't care what you have to say." The memory of a little girl running up to me smiling and laughing entered my head. I got up and walked over to the woman and knelt down.
"No matter what they told you. I didn't just simply abandon you there on that island. A battlefield is no place for a child. When I went back for you, you were gone." I stood up and walked over to the mouth of the cave we were sheltering in. I walked right outside into the storm that was raging. I heard someone calling for me from the mouth of the cave, but I walked further away. I wondered around for a while before I returned.
"Jay, are you alright?" I looked over at Law as I walked back into the cave. I was soaked. My hair and clothes clung to me.
"I'm about as ok as I will ever be." I walked over to the rock where the woman had been tied up and sat next to the woman. She looked over at me.
"You're soaking wet. Shouldn't you put on some dry clothes or something." I just sat there.
"Why should I, and why do you care?" The woman looked away. My tone of voice had been cold, and I could see that it had stung the woman. "I'm going to continue on with the story."
I woke in the morning to find the fire had almost died out and the spot where Law had been empty. I heard noise coming from the kitchen, so I got up and went to check it out. Law was in the kitchen making breakfast from the little food that I had. I looked over at the two plates on the counter.
"Law vampires don't eat much if at all." He looked over at me. Smoke rose up from the pan. "Also, the food is on fire." He quickly covered the food to put out the fire. I let out a sigh. "We can go into town for breakfast. I was supposed to be meeting someone anyway." Law looked over at me with a frown. I went down the hallway that started at the kitchen entry way. I walked into the only bedroom and over to the closet. I opened the closet door and looked through my few articles of clothing. I pulled out a rather warm coat and a change of clothes. I left the bedroom in my new clothes and walked into the living room. I handed the coat off to Law. "You need this more than I do." He looked at the coat with a frown. "What's wrong with it?" He glared at me.
"This is clearly a girl's coat." I looked at him with a what's your point look. "You can't seriously want me to wear this." I looked at him with a serious look.
"You will wear the coat." Thirty minutes later and we were walking out of the house. Law glared at my back as he walked down the street in a tan coat with pink flowers around the bottom trim. He mumbled something. "What was that?" I looked back over my shoulder.
"I hate you." I smiled and laughed at his comment. He looked away from me. His cheeks were dusted pink. He didn't say anything else.
We walked into a small restaurant in town that was serving breakfast. A hostess greeted us and showed us to our table. She left two menus and two sets of silverware. A waitress walked up to the table a moment later.
"Hi! My name is Cindy. I'll be your server this morning. What can I get the two of you to drink?" She looked from me to Law.
"I'll have a water." She was pulled from the long stare at the coat that was hanging from the back of Law's chair.
"I'll have the same." Law was glaring at me from across the table. I smiled at him.
"Someone will be joining us later. Try not to make them angry." I fiddled with the silverware and spoke to Law as the waitress walked away.
"I can't believe that you got dad to wear a girl's coat." She started laughing. I have to admit that looking back on the memory now it was pretty funny.
"You know I can't believe I got him to wear it either. He was so mad at me, but he eventually got over it later on. Only after I got a picture of him in that coat. After I met with the person that joined us later we went shopping for a bed and law some clothes. A coat was a number one priority for him." The laughter died down.
"Who was the person that joined you that morning?" The woman looked over at me.
"He was basically my agent. He found work for me." She looked at me kind of funny. "Other than the marines that I killed for revenge, I killed many people for money. The people in the town didn't like that about me, but they played nice out of fear. They were probably glad to see me go when I left." She looked at me rather strange.
"What do you mean when you left. Why would you leave?" I looked over at her.
"I no longer had a reason to stay. You'll find out soon. I'm going to pick up the story eight years down the road. I was twenty, and I had just gotten through telling this same exact story about the coat to some people." There were some coughs from some people further back in the cave.