14AmyChan: I want to thank trainsgirl13 for her continuous and kind reviews. *^_^*
Train: Just so you know, this story might not have gone on if it wasn't for this-HEY WAIT A MINUTE!
Saya: I'm Train's girl!
14AmyChan: DON'T BE DISRESPECTFUL!
Sven: As the lady was saying before she was rudely interrupted, many "thank you"s to trainsgirl13.
14AmyChan: AND THE PART YOU'VE WAITED FOR: THE ENTRANCE OF EVE! *^_^*
Sven took a drag on his newly-bought cigarette and looked at his surroundings. Fairly normal for the town he was in. Kids were playing, adults were walking, teens were walking, talking, and maybe playing on their cell-phones. One thing did catch his eye: a little blonde-haired girl. What caught his eye was the man yelling at her.
"Watch where you're going!" the man yelled at the little girl. Sven was already on his way when the girl tried to walk away and the older man stopped her. "Not so fast! Say yer sorry!"
Sven was almost there when he heard the girl ask "Do you want to play tag with me?" To Sven, she sounded sad and lonely.
"Tag?" the old man yelled at the little girl, cracking his knuckles. "Are you stupid or something?" Sven heard that and wanted to hit that man on his sorry ass. "I should call your parent and make them pay-"
"Compensation?" Sven asked in a tone he knew would come across as dangerous. "That's a good idea" Sven said as he pulled out his gun. "I only have one bullet with me, though…" Sven saw the man pop out in a sweat. His bluff was working! The man stuttered and stammered. "Well?" Sven followed up. "Do you want it or not?"
"N-no thank you…" the man stuttered before running off to who-knows-where. Screaming like the little filth that he is.
"Sheesh… Who treats a kid like that?" Sven sighed as he went to check if the little girl was all right. "You okay?"
"I'm" the girl seemed to struggle with her words. "the demon…"
Sven knew that she was playing tag because she had asked that rude monster to play with her. "You playing tag?" he asked to be polite.
"Uh-huh" she said with a little voice that Sven just couldn't ignore. Train was already going to be in trouble when he got to the apartment, so he had time to kill. "But I lost him."
"That's a problem" Sven said, making small talk. "You lost your friend?" In the back of his mind, he wondered what kind of parents would leave their kid unattended like this, but the girl seemed as calm as a cucumber.
"No…" she said, as if the word 'friend' were completely unfamiliar to her. "I didn't know him."
Her entire tone threw Sven off a little bit. Girls her age usually knew the people they played with. "How's that?" he asked, trying to keep his composure. He thought that he should probably talk to this girl's parents. "Where do you live?"
Sven watched as the girl's eyes widened and she showed emotion for the first time. She looked side to side so fast it was comical. "I don't know…" she seemed very bewildered. Sven felt a little better that she had some emotion, but panicked a little bit when she asked "Where am I?"
"Er?" Sven asked, a little taken aback. "Hey, you're not lost, are you?" She didn't answer for awhile. Sven put out his cigarette.
Sven didn't ask the girl for her name, and she didn't ask for his. They were two strangers. And she completely went along with him as he led her to the park. She didn't look worried, or scared, or even intrigued. She just looked so…empty.
"You stay here" Sven pointed to a bench. The girl nodded and walked over to the bench to sit down. Sven walked over to an ice cream parlor and ordered a mint-flavored ice-cream for himself, and a strawberry-flavored ice cream for his little companion.
Sven walked out of the parlor and walked to the bench to see that the girl hadn't moved. Not one inch. She was staring at the fountain. It was a slow day for the park that day, so there were only a few people there. Sven walked up and asked "What is it, something interesting over there?" The girl turned to him and her eyes widened for the second time. Sven felt he should explain the ice creams. "Here" he said, handing her the strawberry-flavored ice cream. "We'll eat these and figure out what to do next."
It was then that he realized that he was a dangerous sweeper eating ice cream with a little girl whose name he didn't even know. It kind of irked him how he hadn't thought of that the entire time he was with her.
"This…" the little girl's voice broke through Sven's thoughts. "You can eat this stuff?" Sven saw that her face was a combination of curiosity and suspicion.
Once again, the little girl had shocked Sven with her words. "You've never eaten ice cream before?" he asked, a hint of laughter under his tone. "You're a weird kid." He saw her take a first tentive lick at the ice cream. A sound of shock.
"It's cold!" she said in complete and total wonder. Sven settled into his seat. "Yeah" he agreed with her. "That's ice cream for you" Sven said as he took a first lick of his mint ice cream.
"But, it's good…" she finished her sentence and Sven could have sworn he saw a smile in her eyes. Sven sighed in relief. He had been a little worried that maybe she didn't like strawberry, but that didn't seem to be an issue.
"So" he said, looking at the fountain. "What are you looking at over there?" he wondered what this girl could possibly find interesting about this everyday scene.
"People" she said. An answer that surprised Sven. "I've never seen so many people before. I mostly stay inside of my house" Sven looked over and noticed that she was looking at all the people again. "I didn't know there were so many…"
"This?" Sven asked, feeling the desperate need to enlighten her. "This is nothing. Most towns have even more." There may have been about ten people at the fountain that day.
"Really?" Sven could hear the wonder in the little girl's voice. It made him feel like he was doing something right.
"Yep" he said, continuing. "Go to a big city sometime" Sven took another lick of his ice cream.
"How many are there?" she asked. Sven knew that she was genuinely curious.
"People?" Sven pretended to guess. It was nice talking like this. "Well, let's see…" Sven looked at the park that she had been looking at for the past few minutes. "A park like this one would be totally packed."
"Really?" Sven could tell she was trying to search his face for any lies. She's pretty cautious… good Sven observed silently. For a little bit, he had worried that she would go with anyone and get in trouble.
"Yep!" Sven said, continuing the conversation. "The potato tossing festival in Vista City? There are so many people that you can't even move" for some reason. Sven felt really happy when she seemed so bewildered. It seemed like he was teaching her something she didn't know, and that made him happy. "You should go sometime, but be careful of the flying spuds" Sven warned. He looked at her hand and noticed that she hadn't even touched her ice cream since the conversation started. "Your ice cream is melting" he told her, seeing that the pink would probably slip onto her black dress if she didn't catch it. She did.
"It's not as cold" she observed. Sven nearly laughed.
"Yeah" he told her. "The sun's gonna melt it if you don't eat it up." He watched as she started licking the ice cream really fast. Then she stopped and the hand that wasn't holding the ice cream flew to her head.
"My head feels cold" once again, she looked suspiciously at the ice cream cone. "It feels weird" she said, looking at Sven. He got the feeling that she didn't know what was going on. She doesn't know what a brain freeze is? Sven wondered.
"If you eat it too fast, your head is going to hurt" Sven explained. The girl looked at the ice cream again, and took a tentive lick. Then another. Sven decided to eat his ice cream, too. The green would stain on his white suit if it dripped, which, it was really close to doing. Within a matter of minutes, they both reached the cones of their ice creams.
Sven noticed that while they had been eating their ice cream, a flock of doves had come up real close. Sven patted the girl's shoulder and pointed to the doves, then signaled for her to be quiet. Sven took his cone and crushed it in his hands. He saw that the girl flinched when he crushed the cone. He whispered "look" and scattered the cone for the birds to eat. Instantly, all of the doves came around to eat the cone. Sven looked at the girl, who was staring at the bottom of her cone. She tentively took the end of the cone and tossed it to the ground. A single dove came and ate it off the ground. It looked at her and cocked its head. She looked at Sven for help. Sven pretended to break a piece of cone and hold out his hand. The girl copied him, and a bird came onto her hand and ate the cone from her hand. Sven watched a small smile appear on the girl's face. A little girl in black and a dove. It was a nice scene.
Then, the girl crushed the cone and then tossed it to the rest of the birds. The bird on her hand jumped off her hand and to the ground to join the others. Sven decided that now would be the time to help her look for home. He tapped her shoulder. "You ready to find your house now?"
Sven could have sworn that he saw her slump a little bit, and her smile defiantly went away, but she nodded nevertheless.
Sven and the girl were walking down the main street. They were actually two blocks away from the police station. "Okay," Sven said, getting things going. "Now that we've finished our ice cream, we better get started."
"What are we going to do?" the girl asked. She was withdrawn, as if she didn't want to go home, but it wasn't like Sven could take her with him. If worst came to worst, they would go to the police.
"How about we walk around for a little bit" Sven offered. "And if we don't see anything you recognize after a while, we'll go to the police." Sven decided to take out a cigarette.
"The police?" the little girl asked. Sven could tell that the police station was the last place on earth that she wanted to go.
"Yeah" Sven said. "Not my favorite idea, either, but-"
The little girl interrupted with "My uncle said that the police are our enemies." That put Sven up on guard just a little. What kind of life had this little girl led? She'd never been outside the house, never eaten ice cream, and is being taught that the police are bad people. Sven decided he would defiantly talk to the girl's guardians.
"You're uncle, huh?" Sven asked, making a mental note to talk to the uncle specifically. Just then, a large black limo came screeching to a halt. A man came out and muttered something as he opened the door for… Torneo?
So many thoughts came in Sven's mind. What happened to Train? Why is he here, two blocks away from the police station? What's going on? Then, Torneo faced Sven and his little friend. One thought prevailed. Torneo was wide open two blocks away from the police station.
"Hold it Torneo!" Sven said, pointing his gun at Torneo. "Sweeper! Taking you in!" Sven was so sure that he had Torneo. So sure.
"Eve!" Torneo shouted. To Sven, it sounded more like a command. Just as he saw the girl in the black dress dart around him and plunge a large knife into his stomach. He felt a small trembling hand grasp his side as the other was pulled out of him. Before Sven fell on his injured stomach, he saw the girl's-Eve's-eyes glistening with the tell-tale tears. Suddenly everything clicked for Sven. This girl was the 'research' that Rinslet was after. This girl wasn't given a chance.
Sven watched as Eve wiped her tears, but still sniffle as Torneo pulled her into the car and they drove off. Sven got up, after much effort, and started walking to the hotel. The police would just take her into custody. Sven started saying his thoughts out loud in order to keep consciousness.
"I'm going to give that kid…" Sven said. "A piece of my…" Sven's world turned black.
14AmyChan: Okay, so I added stuff, but this happens to be one of my favorite scenes in the series~! *^_^*
Sven: You blended the manga and anime, didn't you?
14AmyChan: yep~! *^_^*
Train: you did it with good taste, though…
14AmyChan: THANK YOU~! *^_^*
Eve: I am finally in the story. I can't find the words to express my gratitude. *hugs 14AmyChan*
14AmyChan: *hugs back* yay~! *^_^*
Eve: *looks at audience* I will give you a hug if you review.
