The reason i took sooooo long to update was becasue i thought no one was reading it, becasue no one was reviewing...you hurt soul readers. i u want faster updates review damn it. after my rant this chapter isn't as best it could be but this chapter needed to happen now.

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When Melfina woke up Harry was tending to her foot. She didn't realize the glass had pierced her foot. Melfina's breaths were short and heavy her chest became tighter. Harry was kneeling beside her. After he had finished with her foot he crawled to her side and held her hand and sung her song into her ear. That was the only way he knew how to relax someone. By now Melfina was clutching on to him for dear life. She gripped his shirt as if she was gripping onto life. How could have this happened? She thought she was safe.

"Melfina."

"Melfina, listen to me you need to relax so I can explain." Harry picked Melfina up from the floor and carried her onto the sofa. Melfina was in a panicked state. Her mind and heart were racing. Could this be really happing to her? Melfina was trying to desperately to escape reality. What Harry was saying could not be true her watched them all die by Gene's hand. This didn't make any sense.

"Ha…rry" Melfina whispered through raspy gasp of air.

Harry was clutching on to Melfina like she was a child. He was becoming agitated, he needed to stay calm. However he was finding it hard as she was hardly breathing and it was all his fault.

"I'm sorry Melfina." Harry whispered softly. Harry got up and rooted through the cupboards to find a brown bag. Melfina was panicking even more as Harry had left her and what more did he need to be sorry about.

When Harry returned with a brown bag he gave it to Melfina to ease her breathing slowly it seemed to calm down. When Melfina was fully settled Harry started.

"Sorry Melfina. I'm truly sorry-but understand I would have told you- just not now-maybe earlier but-"

"But what Harry? Why didn't you tell me yesterday?" Melfina replied hurt.

"I don't know-I would have I swear- I didn't want to hurt you-I'm really sorry," Harry was stumbling over his words. "because I was finally…"

Melfina spoke with a vicious sarcasm,

"Finally what? Got the courage to crush my worl-"

"Finally with you." Harry said exasperated.

"What are you talking about Harry? That is no excuse not to tell me the Kei pirates were back." Melfina responded angrily.

"I...I…after searching for you I found you at Gene's funeral. I thought this time I'm gonna make you mine. But that approach didn't work I ended in hospital." Harry shrugged with a smile but Melfina's face was straight and unchanging. Harry continued, unchanging tone.

"Then you visited me at the hospital, you gave me hope. I thought there was a chance and then last night when I held you in my arms…I didn't want to let go. If the world had burst into flames or it stars started to vanish from the skies at that moment…I…I wouldn't have left your side. I was afraid that if I told you would hate me again Melfina. You've got to understand that moment meant more to me than anything else in the world and I crave for that moment and I yearn for another one and if I told you I wouldn't be able to have it."

"So what? You didn't tell me so you could get into my bed?! You thought that was more important." Melfina retorted with such hurt and anger her body was burning with all her emotions.

"No. I knew if you knew you wouldn't come anywhere near me. I just wanted one more chance"

"At what? Making me love you? Harry that can never happen." Melfina answered bluntly with a coldness to her tone.

"Wh-wh-what?" Harry's eyes were small with shock and anguish.

"Yes you heard me Harry MacDougal." Melfina said through gritted teeth

"Bu-bu-but last night."

"It was nothing." Melfina cast her eyes downwards and away from his face fearing he would see how much her lie had hurt her too.

"You cared for me Melfina. How can that be nothing?" Harry was screaming despondently at her like a child.

"Get out Harry and don't ever come back." Melfina raised her eyes to meet Harry's tearful gaze and looked straight into them.

"No, wait, there's more." Harry burbled through tears

"Get out Harry."

"I…I…I… knew because…"

"Get out Harry!" Melfina screamed at him whilst throwing cushions and whatever else she could pick up and throw. Although he was being attacked by the person he loved through muffled cries he managed to tell her everything.

"Because we were hired by them."

"What?" Melfina stopped instantly

"Ron told me. We were told to find you and give them your location. Only it is not the Kei pirates. There were more pirates than the Kei." Melfina put the glass cup down and sat still. Harry got up from his crouching in fear position. He sat upright with his legs crossed looking sincerely at Melfina.

"These new pirates are more organized and smarter and more powerful. They are acting under the name of Kei pirates as their reputation is one to be feared. Melfina believe me when I say I will not tell Ron where you live."

Melfina was silent her efforts with Jim and Fred went up in smoke. She would have to move yet again. The person who was hired to send her to the slaughter house was sitting in her front room. Melfina's mind became clouded with doubts and fears. What if Harry had intentionally got hurt knowing that Melfina would take pity on him and take him home. What if this was all some elaborated plot to get Melfina's whereabouts?

"You liar!" Melfina screamed and threw the glass at him it barely missed him and shattered behind him.

"You only came here to find out where I lived."

"No, never…."

"You got hurt knowing I would take pity on you."

"I swear getting hurt just happened…"

"You tricked me. You made me trust you and to think I felt safe in your arms. Leave now. And do not argue with me."


Harry was stunned by her harsh words. He had said and done enough and if he never got another chance to hold her like that he would die peacefully because he had. Harry got up and not once when leaving Did he look in her eyes. He hung his head low and traipsed out the door. Melfina slammed the door behind him and punched the wall in frustration. How could it end like this? He stormed off home, he was coming back for her whether she wanted to or not. He couldn't believe he had lost everything, You made me trust you and to think I felt safe in your arms was the line he kept playing over and over as he going back to his house. All he ever wanted was to protect her and for moment she felt that way too but he lost it all with a few silly words.

He lost her again.


Melfina was sat behind the front door. Harry

may be something else but she doubted that he'd lie about something so serious. Melfina thought that he probably knew how she was going to react and after getting so close why would he jeopardize that? All Harry wanted and Melfina knew this was to be close to her and there would be no way he'd purposefully ruin it. Could it have all been a big messy coincidence that Harry got hurt and ended up lying next to her?

However Melfina couldn't think straight. Her whole life had been turned upside down and everything she and Jim and the rest had fought for was pointless now if Kei pirates had come back. Especially now since someone other than Jim and Fred knew where she was. She had to tell Jim but that would mean telling him about Harry. Could she really break him like that all in one go.

No, Melfina had to handle this on her own.

They best way to do this was to leave heifong somehow without Jim or Fred knowing. Even thought they had both been so good to her the less they knew the better it would be for all of them. Melfina had enough money from her wages to get her off heifong. She would leave on Monday but for now she had a dinner date with Jim.


Harry had streams of tears rolling down his face, it never seemed to end. He was going to loose her to the Kei pirates and his brother, he wasn't going to let that happen. Harry decided he was going to what was right Melfina and not for his selfish needs. Being a MacDougal on of the few perks was that you needed a safe house on the important planets, Earth, Sentinal III, Blue heaven and of course Heifong. He thought to himself her could hide her there, when you're looking for someone who would think to look in their own territory, something he learnt form his brother. Harry was going to do all he could to keep Melfina near him. She had learnt to trust him yesterday so what is to say it won't happen again. He loved her more than life itself and loosing her was the last thing on his mind when he got to the apartment block.


***

It was early evening on Sunday. Melfina had packed all she need into a small bag and to think she arrived here in a metal suitcase. Melfina on that morning would have to withdraw all the money she had or at least put it somewhere where Fred couldn't trace it. Melfina had got dressed up for the dinner date she had with Jim. This would be the last time they would speak for a long time she had to make it count. She wrote a letter addressed to Jim and left it on the front room table at least there he would get an explanation even if it wasn't directly from her. Melfina closed the front door and took a cab towards Fred's place.

Meanwhile Jim was getting really excited at the prospect of eating Melfina's cooking. He gave the chef's at fred's place a day off. Fred was out on business so Jim was alone in the house expect for the maids and security. So Jim was looking forwards to seeing Melfina in what felt like ages. Finally everything they had dreamed for had come true minus Gene of course but they made it with no Kei pirates to hold them back he thought.


Harry was walking thought the lobby of their ridiculously expensive penthouse or their home as Ron preferred to call it. Harry couldn't call it home because he wasn't he didn't feel at ease there he discovered that last night. Last night home, he found was with Melfina. His job made him a wonderer never settling in one place for too long with Melfina he could have stayed for a lifetime.

Harry walked straight into the elevator without so much as a word to the attendants near by. As the doors behind him closed and the elevator began to move Harry began to day dream.

"Harry!" Harry stumbled forward to the spot where Melfina was supposed to be standing in his dream looking kind of foolish he trudged out of the elevator with his head hung low.

"You sir."Was all that Ron said in his grizzly voice pulling Harry back into the apartment.


"Mel!" Jim exclaimed as he rushed to hug her.

"I missed you to Jim" Melfina replied. Jim grabbed her by the hand and led her into the kitchen. There neatly prepared were all the stuff she would need; peel potatoes, a selection of the vegetables Jim would eat, trimmed and skinned chicken pieces and utensils. The chefs had thought of everything. Melfina put on a nearby cooking apron and started to work her magic meanwhile Jim talked about all the ups and downs with living with Fred and the business apprenticeship. Jim was so blissfully unaware for what tomorrow would hold and what Melfina was hiding from him.

"Melfina are you okay? You seem a little distant today. And yesterday too, you were distant as well it may have been you were tired but I don't think you're sleepy now."

"Don't worry I'm fine." What bare faced lie.


"Where were you last night?" Ron asked without leaving so much as pause for Harry to breath.


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