The Meaning of Beautiful

By: Gypsy Tollamer

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Gypsy: This is gonna be a little V-Day pressie for you all! It's the 13th of Febuary and I'm writing part 13 of this fic! *giggles* how funny! But it's only under extreme circumstances that you're even getting this because I've been really sick lately! I had to go to hpsital and everything. Please pity me now... *sad face* I hate needles and I gots lots in me so be nice and review! Because I love reviews so much! consider each review as some fuel to get me to write more because me needs fuel... So sleepy... *snore* MUST WRITE!

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Over the next 4 or 5 days Quatre seemed to feel a little better. He wrote in his journal everyday. Most of the times it was even 2 oe 3 times a day. Visiting day was approaching again and he couldn't wait. It wasn't just because he missed his family. It was Catherine's brother he was really excited to see. It was raining gently outside. Zechs' funeral had been the day before but Quatre didn't spend much time thinking about it. Duo was draped over the chair in their room snacking on a box of whitmans and reading a trashy novel. And not just any trashy novel we're talking about your major X rated gay romance novel with elaborate details.

Duo moaned and bit into a choclate the spit it out

"Gross! Nut cluster!" he said dropping it in teh trash can.

"Maybe if you actually looked at the diagram instead of reading which body part Tyrone was going to touch next-" Quatre said. When Duo slammed the book shut.

"It's Antonio you freak!" he said. 'get it right before insulting my reading material."

"Sorry Duo." Quatre said picking up his pen again and looking at what he wrote.

"Whatcha doing anyway?" he asked. 'You've had your nose in that book for like 5 days."

"It's the journal my doctor gave me. he thought it might help me." he said.

"Dr. Treize's journal thing." Duo said. "I know about it. I've read the one he gave Iris."

"She let you read it?" Quatre asked.

'No. she left it on the couch when she went to piss one day." Duo said. "I jsut peaked a little."

"I can't believe you'd do that!" he said. "It's her private thoughts."

"yeah. She wishes she had ended up killing her parents like she wanted to. Real private Even I could tell she wanted em dead." he said. "Hey Quat. Why do you look so pissed?"

"I can't believe you. " Quatre said standing up and screaming at the top of his lungs.

Nurse Une and Sally came running in and looked at Quatre.

"honey what's teh matter?" Sally asked.

Quatre couldn't make out teh words so he just screamed again.

"It wasn't me." Duo said holding up his hands.

That's when Quatre jumped over Duo's bed and smacked Duo upside his watermelon head.

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"Gray walls." Quatre whispered. "Gray chair, Gray day."

The tank. One of the many fine places to be locked away at the clinic. It's where all the patients go who can't control their emotions. Quatre sat their looking at the walls watching a tiny spider crawl up it. Quatre then flicked it off before squishing it with the toe of his sneaker.

"Lucky son of a bitch." Quatre said before sighing and leaning back in his chair. It was geting a little cold in the small area.

Suddenly a light came from the ceiling.

"God?" Quatre asked.

"Hardly." a voice said. It was Dr. Kushrenada.

"Go away. I'm not in the mood." he said. "Can't you see I'm just fine reflecting on my actions by myself without you analyzing every move I make."

"Why'd you attack your room mate? You were doing so well." he said.

"Duo pissed me off." Quatre said. 'He's so inconsiderate some times."

"You haven't even been here a month yet and you're already calling your room mate names?" he asked.

Quatre sat in silence staring at the wall again.

"Duo said it was about him confessing to reading another patient's journal. Is that why you hit him?" he said.

"Yes, that's exactly why I did it! I can't trust him!" he yelled. "I hate people I can't trust."

"Can you trust yourself?" Treize asked.

"Maybe not." Quatre said. 'Maybe that's why I've been starving myself."

"Keep thinking about that. I'll give you another hour in here before you can go to dinner." he said. "And please refrain to hitting Duo."

"No problem." Quatre said sitting down again. The light went away and Quatre was alone again.

It was very dismal in that little room. It was only lit by one small lightbulb. Quatre thought he heard a fizzle in the wall when suddenly the bulb went out and the room was cast into darkness.

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"take that!" Iris yelled moving her candy land peice to make it to the Lolli-pop princess on the board.

"Take a hike Iris." Duo said pulling out his Queen Frosting card. "I'm still ahead of you."

"Guys." Catherine said softly.

'yeah?" Iris asked.

"I have a funny feeling. That's something's wrong." she said. "Duo are you sure Quatre was okay?"

"He jsut hit me because I said something stupid." he said. 'Nothing major."

"Are you okay?" Iris asked Catherine after a minute or so. "Do you need me to go get Nurse Sally? She always helps you when you get all paranoid."

"I'm not paranoid!" Catherine said. 'Something's wrong. Something's not right. I want to go home! I don't like it here!"

"Calm down Cathy!" Iris said. "Duo, go get Sally."

"Iris I'm scared!" she said sitting down next to her bestfriend. Iris held Catherine in her arms and rocked her until Sally came.

"She just started acting funny." Iris told the nurse. "She's never been this scared so quickly."

"Something's wrong." Catherine whispered over and over.

Suddenly all the lights flickered out and pitched the whole clinic into darkness.

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"Nothing can get you." Quatre whispered almost in tears. it was cold, dark and he couldn't breathe.

"It's okay Quatre!" he said to himself over and over. 'nothing can get you here. You're safe!"

'Are you so sure?" an evil voice asked into Quatre's ear.

A small match lit up and Quatre saw Dorothy's face.

"I'm back." she whispered "and you can't get away."

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In the bathroom of a room in the clinic you could hear the faucet dropping. In a tub full of water Meiren lay. It was dark but some of teh light filtered into the room. Meiren's chest was still. her eyes closed. The water sloshed up against her chin but she didn't move.

You could even hear soft singing. The face of a demon with red hair and black eyes played with the cord of the hair dryer that she had just dropped in the tub.

"You'll never escape me." she sang softly. "Night-Night Meiren."

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