Chapter 9

Patton

I hated not being able to do anything… and for some reason, I wanted her to know how I felt- how I truly felt about her… oddly enough, I got that insane notion while I was holding her. At the moment, all I wanted to do was hold her tight and steal her pain. Zero knew that she didn't deserve it..

And finally, after what seemed like years, she opened her emerald eyes.

"Patton, what are you doing?"

"What were you dreaming, Fanny?" I asked her, using her first name instead of her codename- for once, she had done the same.

"N-nothing… why?"

"Then why were you crying? You really think that I'm that stupid? What were you dreaming, Francesca?" I growled at her.

She shuddered –still in my arms. She seemed to have noticed, yet she didn't tell me to back off… instead, she clutched onto the fabric of my shirt, her head buried in the shirt, as well. A second later, I felt the warm but wet feeling of tears seeping through my shirt.

"I-it was horrible… I- I was back at the delightful mansion… back in that room… a- and… and why didn't you save me? You promised that you would save me, Patton!" she was sobbing at this point… and God, I felt crappy, now. What was I supposed to tell her?

"Fanny, I was on my way to you as soon as I heard that first scream… I- oh, zero, I tried to get there as fast as I could… and I was almost there, too. I would have gotten there before that last blow… but… a girl… I think it was Colleen, stopped me before I could get to the room. I really did try, Fanny. I swear it." I whispered, rocking her awkwardly back and forth, as if she was a small child ( which, in a manner of speaking, she was…)

She looked up at me, her eyes filled with tears…

I hated when she cried.

I really did.

"Really?" she whispered I nodded.

"really." I nodded.

Fanny

I looked up at him, expecting to get one of his trademark smirks. And I never got one… and let me tell you, I really needed to see it. But the worst was yet to come…

… because as I slept, I realized something that just made me even more scaired of him than I was already.

The pain on his face… it was scairy.

I wanted to steal his pain and suffering,

I just didn't feel right when he wasn't even there

I still had feelings for him. Sad, right? Well, I thought so…

So when he had told me that… it had made something click in my mind. Colleen was evil. My own cousin had tried to kill me…

… Of course she had tried t do it quite a few times in the past… like trying to drown me in the river at grand ma and grandpa's place when we were 8 years old… or just two weeks ago, when she tried to push me in one of the many traps in the house… or when she 'accidentally' pulled a knife on me two weeks ago…

Suddenly, a line of a song popped into my head, and I started singing.

"Cause I'm broken, when I'm open and I don't feel like I've gone away. Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away…" I whispered in his ear

He shuddered… "Fanny" he gasped

"Do you care about me, Patton?" I asked.

Longer than most chapters…. Well, anyway, here's the next chapter. R&R, A.O.P is out!