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Open My Heart: Truth Be Heard
Heart broken sobs shook the young girl's body as she held her sister's limp body. After a minute Isabella looked up at Kyo.
"Kyo, help me bring her to the bath room. Her body must be soaked, she'll have cuts i'm sure. We'll need to make sure that they are taken care of." Kyo nodded his head before taking Annika into his arms and took her to the bath room. When they arrived, Isabella turned on the water, making sure that it was warm before letting the tub fill. Once the bath was filled, Isabella put a down a towel on the floor and motioned for Kyo to lay her there. When Annika lay on the towel began to undress her sister.
"I'm sure she wouldn't mind you being here, she told me of the night you two shared together when you went to the hot springs. She could never keep anything from me" Isabella smiled in spite of her tears. Quickly glancing over at Kyo, she smiled at his bright red face at the mentioning of the night Annika and him made love for the first time. None the less he stayed by her side, as the ruined Yukata was taken off her body.
Kyo's body became numb when dark, mind blowing bruises, came into view. Especially when he realized that he was not able to see a trace of her golden creamy tanned skin through the bruises. Isabella had been right, cuts did litter her body, but not as many as the bruises. He was finally able to see why she had been slightly cold towards everyone other then her siblings. Isabella finished stripping Annika of her clothes, she faced Kyo with a grim look, "He's done a number on her. He's never gone this far before. But i guess that doesn't surprise me. Annika has never stood up to him like she had to have before. Kyo please, put her in the tub"
Doing what he was told, he slowly placed Annika into the tub, suddenly he turned to Isabella.
"Isabella, you must tell me everything!" He sat by the tub while Isabella began cleaning her sister's battered skin.
She sighed deeply before saying in almost a whisper, "You see, I don't know when it all started, I was never told. All that i know is that father blames her for something that happened years ago. When I have asked about it, Anna always just said that she had done something wrong when she was young, she told me I was only two at the time, and ever since papa would never forgive her, after that she said that it was something that must never be mentioned again. That's all I know Kyo. I wouldn't lie you"
"Really?" Kyo couldn't hide the anger in his voice, "Then why didn't you tell me?"
"Because Kyo," Isabella looked at him, grief in her eyes, "She made me promise not to. I did try to warn to this morning, remember?" Isabella took up the soft sponge on the floor and washed her sister.
It wasn't long before the two of them finished, drying Annika off, bandaging her open wounds and dressing her in her most comfortable clothes. After that, Kyo walked back into his room and placed Annika on his bed, promising to not leave her side while she was out cold. Yuki came into the room in a rush.
"What happened? Mr. Conte is laying unconcsious in the back." Yuki looked pissed but then he saw Annika, he knelt next to Kyo and looked at him.
"That so called man, he did this to her. Take care of that damned fool" And for once, Yuki did what he was told without a sound. Taking her hand Kyo looked into her face and wondered why she had never said anything to him about the way her father treated her. 'Is this what she lived with at home? She never let on that she had such a terrible life at home. She always made it seem like her life there was perfect' His thoughts ran so far from right there that he never saw Annika looking at him, tears of misery flowing down her cheeks.
"You weren't suppose to find out" Annika's voice was but a whisper, it was all she could do to do that. Kyo's head flew up to look at her, "You were suppose to never have known all this, I tried so hard to make sure you did know" Annika closed her eyes and turned away from Kyo. Deep down in Kyo's heart, he felt it break. He couldn't help but wonder where she had started keeping things from him. Gently, Kyo laid down beside her and loosly placed his arms around her so as not to hurt her more. He kissed her forehead as if she hadn't said anything.
"Hitori is on his way now, he'll make you better" Kyo's voice clogged with emotion, making it very difficult to breath. They lay in silence until a knock sounded at the door. Hitori walked inside and asked Kyo to wait downsairs with the others. Isabella, held Tyson who was ghostly pail, Yuki and Shigure were sitting drinking tea as they looked at the ground.
They waited for a long time before Hitori came downstairs, as he entered the room Kyo bolted to his feet. "SO?!"
Hitori gestured him to sit back down, when he had Hitori sat as well. "She's got extensive bruising, i'm surprised she didn't have any internal bleeding. But she does have a broken rib or two. So she'll have to be in bed for a while. But other then that... the rest is all phsycological."
Annika lay on the bed, wondering what Kyo was thinking.
'Well... what's done is done, nothing you can do about it now.' She looked at the door when she heard it open. Kyo walked in with a sad smile on his face. He came towards the bed, leaned down and kissed her lips. When he pulled away he sad down next to her, gently carressing her face.
Suddenly he started laughing, "You always had spunk!" his smile was warm but it turned more serious, "But I can never forgive that man. He had no right to do such things to you"
Annika looked up at him, "He wasn't always like this"
"That's what your sister said" Kyo commented.
Annika couldn't hold his gaze, she turned away from him knowing that she had to tell him, "He use to be nice and loving. He always looked after us. You must understand Kyo, I wasn't the first born" She looked at him to find him quzically looking at her, "It's true. I had a twin and he was older then I. His name was Soren. We were playing along the cliffs near the ocean. I had begged papa to let us go even papa did want to let us go, Soren was even reluctant to go. But I was so persistent that Papa finally gave in and I dragged Soren to the cliffs. After he was over being mad at me, we started wrestling..." Annika stopped, her throat suddenly dry, but she forced herself to go on, owning it to Kyo the truth, "He tackled me we were already close to the edge but this made us even closer, when i got up i stepped back causing the ground below to give way. Soren, as little as we were, was always protective of me. He pulled me back but... he... he fell into the rocks concealed just below the ocean surface" Annika looked at Kyo, eyes filled with grief, "When papa found out... he was broken. Papa blamed me, even though I tried to caught him before he fell. That's when it all started, that was right before we moved to America. Papa couldn't stand being in his hometown anymore" White hot pain spread through her body as she cried. Reliving the horrid event once again over in her mind. Kyo took her head in his hand and looked at her.
"Annika, please... I can't imagine how painful those memories are... but you have got to calm down... You've got a broken rib or two... You'll hurt yourself even more if you don't settle down." Fear consumed him, suddenly he remember hearing Hitori say that there was a seditive just in case her emotional being began to get the hold of her, considering that her situation he thought it would be best to leave it. Quickly, not knowing what else to do, Kyo got the liquid and surprisingly got Annika to swallow it. Immidiately Annika calmed down, and finally fell into a deep sleep.
Kyo lay down next to her, and fell asleep next to her, knowing full well that now what his turn to save her.
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Kinda cheezy... i know... but... i was having a hard time with this chapter.
I'll probably make it better later on.
I'll keep you posted.
Thanks for reading!
