Love is Psychotic
Disclaimer: I do not own Fire Emblem.
A/N: So, as usual, this chapter was unbetaed, so, I apologize for all of the mistakes in this. Just a little note; Seth is Titania's and Nolan's child, thus why Seth's last name is Tarvos of all things. This was one of my faster updates, I must say.
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Sunday-Week Two
After last night's phone call, Micaiah couldn't get another word out of Ike on the matter; he would always reply, wait until we're all together.
Who, Ike, Sothe, and herself?
Of course Sothe had to be here, he was the person with more authority than Micaiah. The silveret frowned at that thought. Did things just fall back into how they normally went? Just because Sothe was coming home? Was Ike now going to treat her the same as every one else? Excluding her friends of course. She didn't like that thought, not at all, she wanted to be treated like an adult by Ike!
But by his silence, it seemed that that might not be happening anymore.
Golden-brown eyes watched as Ike paced back and forth from the living room to the kitchen, and back again. He had a worried frown on his face, and occasionally would make an irritated sound in the back of his throat.
It was around 12:00 p.m. that the phone rang, Ike stopped immediately and rushed over to the device, picking it up and uttering a quick, "Hello?"
He listened for a moment, "Yes." a pause, "Yeah?" a longer pause, "What do you mean?" a frustrated growl, "What do you mean he refuses to go to the hospital?!" Ike was seething and about to yell something when Micaiah rushed in.
"I-Ike?"
The man immediately stopped, still fuming but listening to Micaiah, "Hold on a moment, Ephriam."
"Sothe doesn't get along with his parents, and if a hospital bill was sent home, he would be in major trouble."
"Then what do you normally do?" Ike as incredulously.
"My father usually helps out . . ."
"Alright." Ike sighed, then into the phone, "Just bring Sothe here, and we'll discuss the situation further, I don't think Tonas is going to be happy with how things have been going this past week." then he hung up.
Micaiah thought over what Ike had just stated, and realized, with a sinking feeling, that Tonas indeed would not be happy. It would have been bad enough once her father had found about the whole trip to Carcino, it would be worsened by at least ten times. Bordering on the possibility that he might not even help Sothe, or talk to him again; being one who always says to tell the truth or you do not deserve any trust.
The silveret was unsure at how any of this could be cleared up without Tonas completely casting Sothe away from his and Micaiah's lives. And as much as Micaiah was unhappy with Sothe, she wasn't ready to give up his friendship.
Micaiah began to shake slightly and drew Ike attention, who was still standing by the living room's phone. "Micaiah . . .?" he stepped forward, "Are you okay?"
"I-Ike," the silveret whispered, her boy-friend rushed to her side and sat on the couch in the seat right next to her, "What if Sothe . . . What if my father says I can never see him again? I don't think I could bear it." due to her turned head, she missed the agonized, but fleeting look on Ike's face.
"Micaiah . . ." he said softly, there was an iciness to his voice, and Micaiah looked up to his face. But the expression was unreadable, "Micaiah, everything will be alright, I promise." he said firmly.
"You can't say that . . . It's just foolish to promise something like that." Micaiah said sadly. She remembered what Ike had said just last Tuesday, 'He'll be alright, I promise'. Look what had happened yesterday! It was lucky Ephriam and Innes had been around, otherwise Sothe would have . . . Not survived.
Ike sighed, "I always keep my promises."
The golden-eyed beauty groaned in exasperation, "Not true, Ike, I mean, look at the recent events. When I first got here, you promised that Sothe would be alright, and now he's hospital material!" the silveret said angrily.
The blunette blinked, and frowned, "I see." then he stood up and was walking away, into his room with the door shutting behind him.
For a minute, Micaiah stared at the now unoccupied space where Ike had been sitting. Then one thought came to her mind, why was he so upset? But right now, she wasn't in the mood to go talk to him; it was the truth that he didn't keep his last promise, and if he was going to be a baby about it, that was his own problem!
The woman stood up and walked towards the exit, stepping outside and towards the elevator. Once it arrived, she stepped in and watched dully as the electricity powered doors shut behind her. Leaning against the back of the small, moving room, she sighed, bringing up a small hand to massage her temple.
A few hours later and Micaiah was still walking around the apartment building, not really enjoying the scenery, but trapped in the depths of her mind. She was only shaken from it when she looked up to see semi-familiar female walking towards her. It was only a split-second before Micaiah called, "Eirika!"
Said woman smiled and strode towards the silveret, "Hello, Micaiah."
"I didn't expect you to get here so soon!" the golden-eyed woman exclaimed.
"We made one stop the entire trip, and that was for a restroom break. Speaking of which . . ." Eirika trailed off, looking a bit sheepish.
Micaiah started, "I'm sorry, go right ahead!"
The taller woman smiled, "Thank you, sorry for the abrupt greeting." then she was off, heading towards the entrance to the apartment building.
Micaiah turned her gaze towards the car that Eirika had just left, she saw Sothe being picked up, who looked very displeased, by an even more irritated silver-haired man. Ephriam walked ahead of them and soon came up to Micaiah.
"Long time, no see." he smiled reassuringly, "Don't worry, he's not in critical condition. Eirika thought he had broken some ribs, but it turns out they're only bruised." he put a comforting hand to her shoulder.
"Thank you, Ephriam." Micaiah's smile was small but she was truly touched by his kind words.
"Alright, I think it's best we go inside and talk; I don't think Ike would appreciate being left out of the conversation." Ephriam said frankly, then he was stepping around Micaiah giving one last glance backwards towards where Sothe and the man carrying him was.
"Ephriam, you bastard, this isn't fair, you're larger than me!"
"I can't believe you just admitted that, In." Ephriam called over his shoulder, then he was inside the building.
"Neither can, I, and it didn't even help my situation." 'In' growled.
"Innes, I'll take him." A tall, strong-looking red head said.
"Thank you, Seth." Innes mumbled and handed Sothe over, who was looking rather pissed at being handed around like a doll.
Micaiah gave a curious glance at these two new men, and got a reply from the apparently perceptive red-head, "Seth Tarvos. I take it you're Micaiah?"
"Yes." he nodded in greeting before walking away with an irritated Sothe in his arms.
Innes spoke up, "Innes Nidhogg." he paused, "Your friend, I must say, is a complete fool."
"You don't have to tell me that." Micaiah sighed, not even mad at the man for the insult towards her childhood friend. It was just too true.
"Well, seeing as I just got back from a normally two day long trip, I'm going inside." Innes said shortly, already heading towards where his friends had just gone.
After a moments hesitation, Micaiah followed.
When she reentered the apartment, she saw that Ike, Eirika, Ephriam, Seth, and Sothe were all sitting around the living area. From the light that was shining underneath the bathroom door, Innes was currently in there.
Micaiah took a few steps towards the group, sitting on the free space next to Sothe on the couch, Ike on the floor where her feet would be. Ephriam was sitting on the floor next to Sothe's side of the couch. Seth and Eirika were seated on the chair that Ike had apparently brought back out for the occasion.
There was silence for a little while until the sound of the toilet flushing came and Innes entered the room a minute later. Once the male silveret was seated next to Ephriam, said male spoke up, "So . . . Sothe was recently beaten up." Innes rolled his eyes and Eirika sighed.
"Yes, brother, that is definitely known by now." she didn't sound mad, just exasperated. Ephriam remained silent, looking unsure at how to continue.
"So, who attacked him?" Micaiah asked, Sothe shot her a surprised look.
"Some brutes under the command of a man named Makalov." Innes spoke up.
"Why were they attacking you?" Micaiah turned to her green-haired friend.
"I suppose it was because of . . . My girlfriend, Astrid, Makalov was probably trying to get her back to be his girlfriend again." Sothe shrugged, glancing at her warily when he mentioned 'my girlfriend'.
"Oh." Micaiah said nonchalantly. She didn't notice either Ike's or Sothe's wary glances, or the relieved sigh from her childhood friend nor the calculating glance from her boyfriend. She paused, "So, where do you all come into the story?" Micaiah questioned the four people across from her.
"Us?" Ephriam asked, "We were simply trailing Sothe and his 'friends' while they were in Carcino. Ike originally asked me to, but I got some help." he indicated to his sister, her boyfriend, and his boyfriend.
Micaiah's eyes widened and she whipped her head around to Ike before going back to Ephriam, "Ike asked you to do that?"
"Yup, he didn't want his idiotic friend to go off there without supervision." Ephriam shrugged. At this, Innes sent a scowl towards Sothe who just sighed. "Anyways, that's our story, so . . . Not much else to say, and I'm sorry, but we need to be going soon."
Micaiah just stayed silent staring at her hands, Ike spoke up, "Thank you, Ephriam, Innes, Eirika, Seth."
"I owed you." Ephriam replied.
"It was a good thing we did do what we did, someone apparently has to watch over those morons." Innes said irritably, once again glaring at Sothe.
"It was no problem, Ike, really." Eirika reassured.
"Anything for an old friend." Seth murmured.
Ephriam stood, offering a hand to his boyfriend, Seth doing the same for Eirika. When the four where at the door, the blue-haired female called over her shoulder, "You still need to go to the hospital, Sothe." then they were gone.
Sothe sighed, "I don't think that's going to happen." Ike stood up and walked towards the now-empty chair and plopped down.
"Tonas isn't going to trust you anymore because of the stupid decision you made, right?" Ike asked.
Sothe winced, "Yeah."
"Well, there's nothing for it, you have to go to the hospital; and being honest to my father is your best possibility, Sothe." Micaiah said softly. "Though, I'm not sure even that's going to help you since your wounds aren't critical." the silveret added as an afterthought.
"I can't ask my parents . . . I just can't." Sothe sighed, looking distressed.
"Sothe . . ." Micaiah said softly, "As much as I'm angry at you, I don't want to never see you again." her childhood friend sighed.
"I'll think of something, I promise." Micaiah couldn't help but be slightly dubious, but this was her childhood friend talking. Never mind that he usually didn't fulfill his promises, this was serious and she was almost certain he would come through this time.
"Alright, Sothe." she was looking so intently at him that she didn't notice the second flash of agony that spread through Ike's face that day.
Sothe leaned back slightly, "I was planning on driving you and I back home with my friends . . . But since they went home separately . . ." he trailed off.
"I'll drive you both." Sothe looked up, and smiled slightly.
"Thanks, Ike." the blunette didn't return his smile, in fact, a scowl set across his face. Sothe blinked in confusion.
"I'm going to cook lunch." Ike said stiffly.
Micaiah just shrugged off this new tone and way of acting from Ike as he was still irritated at Sothe for his stupid actions. She turned to her childhood friend, "Hey, Ike, do you mind if Sothe and I sit here and talk while you do that?" The blunette's back, which was turned away from them, stiffened.
But he replied coolly, "Not at all, go right ahead."
And once again, Micaiah didn't notice the icy tones for what they really were . . .
A/N: A short chapter . . . Sorry. The end was probably weird too . . .What did you guys think?