Me: Hey how's it all going. I now have a new writing thingy. It's not Microsoft Word sadly but it's close enough. So far OpenOffice has done what I've needed it to do. In case any of you are wandering and I know now of you are yes I did upload a new story called Don't Die. No it is not a multi-chapter story and yes I am done with it. Why am I bringing this up because as the author I am allowed to publicize my own stories. Anyways here is chapter 10 of Forever I hope you all enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fragile Dreams or any of Fragile Dreams' characters. The usual...and no I don't own the Trauma Center Series...I'm not that cruel.
Enjoy ;P
Flashback:
"Crow..." I started before his lips touched mine. It was a sweet, gentle kiss but it was a short one too. "Crow..."
"That was called a goodnight kiss." he replied with a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "You're right you should probably do to sleep. We have a lot to do tomorrow. Night Seto." he said before closing the door.
"Night Crow." I said after a short pause before going to my room. I leaned against the door and sank down to the floor burying my head in my knees. "He's wrong. Even dolls have emotions. They can feel pain too."
End of Flashback.
Seto's P.O.V.
This was probably turning out to be the worst ice storm ever. Everything was quickly freezing and Crow and Emilio had to keep going around a couple sticks that were on fire to unfreeze the doors. Everyone had gathered downstairs and cuddled around the fire. Our breaths hung in the air longer than we thought was possible.
"Looks like we got here just in time." Bruiser said awkwardly from where we was sitting by Rin. Crow and Bruiser refused to look at each other or even acknowledge each others existence. "I don't think I've ever seen an ice storm this bad."
"That's because it's not a normal." I replied without even thinking.
"How do you know that?" Bruiser asked looking up at me.
"Oh...well..." I said trying to think of something to say quickly he didn't know about Sakura and to be honest I didn't want to tell him yet till his friend woke up. "Nothing has been normal since the Glass Cage experiment."
"That's true." Bruiser said shaking his head. "Do we even know why that had to happen?"
"He thought mankind was selfish and full of nothing but hatred." I whispered poking the fire. "It was just a horrible experiment gone terribly wrong."
"How you do you know that?" Bruiser asked again.
"We met him." Rin said looking up at him then to me. "And Seto stopped him."
"You did!?" Bruiser asked leaning forward. "How did you do that?"
"I kept my distance and ran around." I smiled. "But he wasn't easy. But he wasn't really a bad guy. He was just a person who did bad things."
"That usually makes that person a bad guy." Crow spoke up with a laugh. "Usually."
"Crow!" I said punching him. "You know what I meant!"
"Haha!" Crow laughed leaping and doing a back flip. "Tally Ho! Come catch me if you can Seto!"
"Crow!" I laughed jumping and chasing after him. "Stop and sit down before you fall on the ice!"
"Shouldn't you be more worried about you slipping?" Crow asked doing another flip to get out of my reach. "After all you don't have my amazing acrobatic skills."
"Haha Crow that's cheating." I said stopping to catch my breath before sitting back down. "Fine be that way." I smirked.
"Huh?" he said pausing. "What now did you fall?"
"No I sat down." I said winking at Rin. She smiled and covered her mouth.
"Why?" Crow asked leaning over me. "Aww come on now you're being boring."
"Well there is no way I could catch you with...your amazing acrobatic skills." I replied with a sarcastic sigh and shrugged. "Besides you're right I would just slip and fall."
"Awwwwwww!" Crow said plopping down beside me and leaned against me. "That's just mean."
"You sound like a girl." Rin laughed.
"Oh haha I'm not a girl." Crow said sticking his tongue out at Rin.
"Then quite complaining like one." I laughed laying my head on his shoulder. "Anyways what were we talking about again?"
"About how people who do bad things don't make them bad." Emilio said shrugging. "I still don't quite get that but whatever."
"Well he did do a lot of bad stuff like hurt Rin." I said pausing to think.
"Destroy the world." Crow said in a mocking tone acting like he was counting on his fingers. "But that's not bad at all."
"Shut up." I said scolding him. "But he thought there wasn't any love in the world and because of that he didn't think the world had any right to live."
"But why did he think there wasn't any love in the world?" Bruiser asked.
"He created this thing that allowed him to hear people's thoughts." Rin explained quietly. "But all he could hear was negativity and it made him very angry so he destroyed the world."
"Ok..." Emilio said slowly. "And what makes him a good guy. So what if he did it because he couldn't hear love. Was he blind too? And besides that didn't give him a right to play god and destroy the world."
"But that's just it." I said shaking my head. "I don't think that was his idea."
"Huh?" Bruiser said looking at me.
"You mean the Skin Demon." P.F. wheezed.
"The Skin Demon!" Bruiser said standing up. "You know about the Skin Demon?!"
"Yes of course." Crow said rolling his eyes. "It only tried to kill us a couple times nothing major there or anything."
"Then do you know where it went?" he asked desperately. "I've been trying to find it but there isn't a trace left to tell me where it disappeared too.
"Uh Bruiser..." I said pausing slightly. "The Skin Demon is dead."
"What?" he asked looking down at me. "What do you mean dead? How did it die?"
"Well dead usually means no longer living." Crow said sarcastically standing up as well and crossing his arms. "You know like no heartbeat, no breathing, no more trying to kill us. And Seto killed the Skin Demon too. Since you know she's awesome and does this kind of stuff."
"How did you manage to kill the Skin Demon?" Bruiser asked. "I can't believe it. Sure killing a madman is one thing but to kill a demon? That's impossible."
"Well it's not impossible." I laughed shakily. "But I'm not going to explain how because to be honest I'm still not sure how I did it. But I promise once I figure out more on what's going on then I'll tell you guys everything but till then you need to trust me and wait until then."
"You saved me so I owe you I won't ask any questions till you're ready to talk." Emilio said lying down on his back. "And it's not like I have anywhere else to go."
"I'll wait till you're ready." Bruiser said glaring at Crow. "But I ask that I hear it from you and not the machine."
"You'll hear it from both of us." I said looking out the window. "Crow was there as well. He helped me."
"It seems like Crow is everywhere with you." Bruiser commented. Great he couldn't drop it could he? Well I probably shouldn't have mentioned it.
"Yeah you got a problem with that?" he snapped. "Up until recently I was the only man around. Plus Seto is my best friend I'll do what it takes to protect her and the others."
"I'm not sure about the man part but at last you knew enough to protect the others." Bruiser said glaring at Crow.
"What was that?" Crow said stepping forward.
"You are nothing more than a doll." Bruiser snapped. "You have no gender. You are just a thing nothing else."
"Shut up!" Crow yelled. "How would you know? Are you a doll? Are you a robot? Did you create any? I don't really think you did. You know nothing so don't go saying things you no nothing about!"
"I'm a mechanic I work on machines." Bruiser said his face going red. His eyes started changing colors shimmering between brown and what looked like red.
Something was wrong. An evil presence started to fill the room and the air dropped even lower in temperature which was dangerous. Emilio jumped up and looked around his face paling. Rin held the kids closer to her looking around in a panic. Crow moved in front of me forcing me to stay behind his back. Whatever was happening, Bruiser was causing it and he had to stop.
"Bruiser ENOUGH!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Bruiser jumped back some snapping out of trance and collapsed onto the floor shaking.
"What was that?" Crow demanded.
"N-nothing." Bruiser said, his voice unsteady. He had gone extremely pale. But the temperature had gone back to the way it was before. Not that it made much of a difference in that. "It was...it was nothing."
"Bull." Crow said. "You were summoning something evil. Don't tell me that's nothing! You were calling something that could have killed us!"
"No!" Bruiser said panicking. "I wasn't. You made me angry and I lost control. I didn't mean anything."
"What do you mean you lost control." Crow said his voice rising.
"Enough!" I shouted again getting angry. "Just stop it both of you. I don't care what is going on between you two but I'm done hearing about it. I don't want either of you talking to each other anymore until you both feel like not arguing. I can't stand it you both are driving me nuts! Bruiser you don't know Crow so stop insulting him. Crow you don't know what Bruiser was doing. He said he didn't mean to and you don't know him enough not to trust him. So stop."
"Seto..." Rin said looking shocked. I usually never raise my voice let alone go on a rampage like this.
"Seto calm down." Emilio said. "Surprisingly the kids are still asleep. They don't need to hear arguing so let's all take a breath and calm down."
"I agree." Anita said from where she was sitting down by the frozen man. "Arguing won't help us. But Crow, Bruiser. Seto is right to be angry. You two are living together in a world where most are dead. We have to get along with each other. Arguing will only get us killed."
"I say let them keep fighting." Julia said sarcastically.
"Enough Julia." I said turning to her with a frown. "Everyone needs to get along. I can't force you two to get along. But until I see you two getting along then I won't be talking to you two. Got it? Good." I said sitting back down by Rin.
I knew the silent treatment may not do a whole lot for Bruiser but I knew Crow wouldn't be able to stand it. We had another demon to deal with plus this unusual cold. I refuse to have to worry about those two getting along as well. I fell back on the floor staring up at the ceiling. Sakura where are you when I need you.
too be continued...
Me: Ok sorry for the late update some stuff has been going on and I haven't had the heart to work on this.
Me: School starts back up on the 22nd so that week I may not really work on anything cause I'll be adjusting to school life again. Plus I have band camp the rest of this week and next week so that also takes about 4 hours out of my life everyday. Haha anyways this is my senior year and I plan on enjoying it. I'll update again when I finish chapter 8 to A New Disaster.
Later ;P