So yeah, about me leaving...after hearing everyone's wanting me back. I decided that you all suck and need to die! JK! XD So...I guess I'll stay and continue Lilium and FFAG on here as well. (They weren't working on LJ anyway. .)

F.F.A.G. 11th chapter! Now that finally the fun has really begun, it's time to say thank you to all the people who have supported me throughout this magical adventure know as F.F.A.G. (lol) I swear you won't regret it!

Anyhoo. ENJOY~!

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Chapter Eleven

Rose

"I need your love!"

I woke up with Hayate by my side, placing a wet hand towel on my forehead. My eyes fluttered, wondering if things would be better if I was asleep. If I didn't have to deal with what was going on in the real world, if I could just dream.

"You alright?" Hayate said to me. Shit. Guess I better answer.

"Mm-hmn." I mumbled, still feeling a great throbbing in my head. It's not like I haven't lied about my well-being before.

"That's good." he said with a noninflected voice and expressionless face. I guess you could say I knew what was coming by his actions and reactions. "Kasumi's been kidnapped."

"Kasumi..." I adverted my eyes away from him, this was all my fault. I had to do something though, something to make things right.

"I'm guessing you want to go and save her, huh?"

"Uh, yeah." I answered without thinking, what a dumb of thing of me. Was it? Wouldn't anyone else answer that the way I did? But Hayate just stared at me expressionless. Not happy, not sad, so...why do I feel like I answered wrong?

"Ayane sent some scouter ninjas out, she should be back shortly and find the kidnappers' whereabouts. That's where we'll come in." Hayate replied, he then stood up and walked towards the door of the guest room.

"Huh?" I asked aloud, sometimes now I'm still confused about it now.

"When Ayane comes back, we're going to go get Kasumi back."

"How?"

"What do you think?"

WHAT?

"You can't be serious! We couldn't get them here! How can we-"

"We were caught unguarded here, this time we'll be the offense."

I was sitting up now, holding the wet towel in my hands, it was fairly damp now, but I was squeezing on it so tight that water was damping my hands. "I still don't like this."

"Why?"

"'C-c-c-cause! I..." I'm scared.

I clenched my head, the voice from what felt like long ago had came back with a vengeance. Causing me great pain.

You're scared...?

"You okay?"

About what...?

"...Eliot?"

Say it...

"Eliot?"

Say what you're afraid of...and face it.

"Eliot!"

"I'm afraid that we'll be killed, okay?"

"So? That's what a fighter faces every day!"

That's not it...

My head was pounding, like a jack hammer was just hitting the left lobe of my brain. It hurt, bad. I didn't know where the voice was coming from, or who it was, or what it wanted. I just wanted the pain to stop.

Are you afraid of dying yourself...?

"Wouldn't you rather have yourself die saving your beloved Kasumi?"

Or maybe seeing others die before you...?

"I told you I don't like Kasumi like that!"

"Don't you still want to save her?"

Maybe those dreams do mean something to you...yes?

"I do, but what if one of us gets hurt? Then what do we do?"

Yes...maybe that's the answer...

"As long as I save my sister, I don't care what happens to me."

You do...

"And you shouldn't care either."

My body was at war with itself, when Hayate left the room, my mind was going crazy. I started to get dizzy, I wanted to sleep, but I didn't want to take a chance with another sex dream. God knows I need to get all hot and bothered during a situation like this.

This is bad. That's all I could think of the entire time until Ayane and Hayate entered the room. This is bad.

"There not too far from here, just in the forest of the left of here, they're at a huge clearing, you can see the smoke from the fireplace from here." Ayane reported to me. She looked as stoic as Hayate.

Hayate...just stared at me, looking at me...as if I was naked! So I did my best to look away, and listen to Ayane tactical plan for us.

After she left the room for me to prepare and get dressed, Hayate talked to me softly: "I know this isn't how you wanted to spend your Winter Break."

"That's alright," I replied, "at this point, I forgot that we were here because of Winter Break."

He smiled wryly, a little amused at my comment. "I can go by my own. You can stay here if you want."

But you want to...

"No. It's alright."

...be by his side...


"You've been messing with that little kid's head this entire time, haven't you?"

Miss stepped out of the tent, looking at the scouter sitting on logs by the fire.

"I'm just doing my work. And I guess you could also say that this atmosphere doesn't suit me too well."

"What? You rather be cooped up in a lab than out here, Miss?"

The woman smiled at the young 20 year old men, how silly they were. "Where's my porcelain doll?"

"Porcelain..."

"...doll?"

"The girl. Kasumi Rin."

They pointed her over to Kasumi that was over beside them, who was sitting quietly the entire time. "We gave her the 'medicine' you told us for her to take."

"Good. Looks like it's taken effect."

Miss was in front of Kasumi, she lifted up her delicate chin in her soft hands. While Miss gazed into her eyes, she saw nothing. Just what she wanted in a experiment.

"How are we doing, my doll?"

"Very good, Helena-san."