No Such Thing As Miracles (Chapter 2: The Trap)
{Knock, Knock, Knock}
"I'm coming." said Kari as she headed towards the door of the Kamiya apartment.
{Knock, Knock, Knock}
"I said I'm coming!" Kari reiterated as she opened the door took a look at who was standing outside.
"D..Davis" she uttered obviously taken back by the boy standing in front of her.
"What are you doing here?" Kari asked, too surprised to phrase the question any other way.
"Well..." Davis started.
"I really felt that, after the way I acted yesterday, I really had to apologize to you and TK." Davis said, as if he was reading off of a well
rehearsed script.
"You don't hav..." Kari started to reply.
"But I do, I had no right to behave the way I did." interrupted Davis.
"Come inside." Kari begged as she beckoned him inside.
"D...Davis?" another voice stuttered as Davis entered the room.
"Hi TK, I'm glad your here. Like I was telling Kari, after the way I acted yesterday I felt that I owed both of you an apology. By the way how's your jaw?" Davis said, smirking quickly, then putting on his sincere face before anyone noticed.
"A.., It's Ok." TK responded, not sure which surprised him more, Davis' apology or the fact that Davis got his name right.
"Anyway it should be me that's apologizing to you."
"We both should." Kari added.
"We never wanted for you to find out about us like that, we were trying to find a way of letting you know without hurting you. I guess that that's a moot point now, but you have to understand that we didn't do this to hurt you. In a way it's thanks to you that we got together." TK said.
"What do mean, thanks to me?" Davis responded seeming irritated, by TK's comments.
"Well you see, Kari and I have had feelings for each other for a long time, but until I saw the way that you acted towards her it made me realize how deep my feelings really went. Every time I saw you try to impress her I felt
jealous that you were getting closer to her and I was getting pushed further away. That's what
finally gave me the courage to tell Kari how I felt about her." TK continued, knowing that Davis had a right to know the truth, but still expecting that his words would anger Davis. To his
surprise Davis didn't get angry, in fact Davis didn't seem to show any change in emotion at all.
"I'll admit that, I wish that I didn't find out the way that I did, but I guess that I always knew that Kari and I would never work out. After all, I look at the way that you two act around each other and I guess that I always knew. From the way that Kari's eyes lit up when you walked into the class that first day of school I on some level recognized Kari's feelings for you. That's part of why I always tried to compete with you, and part of the reason that I messed up your name so often." Davis calmly said, still showing little emotion, which for Davis was strange. After all Davis was rarely able to speak of what he had for lunch without running off on some sort of emotional tangent.
Kari had been so surprised by Davis' statement, however lacking in emotion that she kissed him on the cheek and said "thank you". That little peck on the cheek which would normally cause him to turn a bright shade of red, provoked
absolutely no reaction from Davis', only a blank stare from his distant eyes.
"I have to go, I need to take care of something?" Davis finally said after a short pause, and with that proceeded to head out the door of the apartment.
Almost as soon as he closed the door behind him that dark fog began to again settle in. Davis saw in the fog the dark
silhouette once more and spoke to it. "Well I talked to them and convinced them that I'm ok." Davis said.
"Good, it is important that they think that you are still their friend." the silhouette
said to Davis in a voice that somehow seemed strangely familiar to the boy, as if he had heard it before. In fact even the outline of the figure was starting to look familiar.
"Well they do." Davis replied.
"Well they do, what?" a voice behind Davis said. Davis turned quickly to see who had said that and saw Kari standing behind him.
"Oh, it's nothing, I'm just talking to myself I guess." Davis said to the girl, wondering how she hadn't seen who he was talking to or the dark fog around him.
"Well try not to do that to often, people will think you're crazy." Kari said with a giggle. "Oh yeah, I just wanted to say thank you, one more time for understanding." she continued.
Without even turning around Davis said "it's ok" before continuing to head towards the
elevator of the apartment building.
When Davis exited the apartment building the dark outline, which had never really left even when Kari was present again spoke to him.
"Ignore her, she's not your friend, she is trying to destroy you, they both are." the dark figure bellowed to Davis.
"I'm just not sure if this is right. They seemed to be truly upset that they had hurt me and I can't help but wonder if I would be that concerned for TK if our roles were reversed." Davis said to the outline confused as to what he should do, not knowing what he should do. He felt like he was being pulled apart not knowing what was right or even what the truth was.
"It is right, it's the only way. You have to destroy them before they destroy you." the figure once again demanded of Davis.
Davis did not respond he just stood there and as if some great force outside of his control was being exerted upon him he nodded in agreement, that they would go forward with the plan. As he nodded he reflected on his conversation with TK and Kari a few minutes ago thinking how it all seemed as if during the conversation he was watching from the back of his mind. He could remember every word that he had said, but for some reason he couldn't remember saying them...
"Hey TK, did you notice something strange about Davis before." Kari asked the young boy who was sitting next to her on the couch.
"Yea, I guess so. I was kind'a weird that he had seemed so calm, it was if it wasn't Davis at all. What was even stranger was that he got my name right." TK commented, the last part causing Kari to crack a small smile.
"Yep, sure was strange, TA." Kari joked as she poked him in the stomach and giggled a little bit, still thinking about how distant Davis had seemed. Quickly shaking off thoughts of Davis she turned to TK and without saying a word kissed him gently on the
forehead.
After the kiss TK, placed his arms around Kari's waist and gently lifted her so that he could see into her eyes and said softly to her. "As much as we may have hurt Davis and as much as Davis may have hurt my jaw, I want you to know something... I want you to know that I don't regret it for a second, being here with you that is. For so long I was afraid...no I was scared, scared of you. I know it sounds strange, you had been my best friend for so long that I was afraid that if you didn't feel the same way about me I would lose you. I meant every word of what I said to Davis before. He was part of the reason that I told you how I felt. As much as I was afraid of losing you as a friend, I was even more scared that Davis would succeed in taking you away from me." TK said to Kari, before lowering his head, ashamed by the fact that he had confessed his feeling for her in part because of
jealousy.
"TK, look at me. It doesn't matter to me how long it took or what Davis did, the point is that we're together now and there is nothing in this world that could make me happier than being here with you." Kari said as she started to move in for one more kiss, but before she could.
{Ring, Ring, Ring}
"Ah, do you have to get the phone?" TK asked hoping that Kari wouldn't get up and leave him sitting on the couch alone again.
"Yes, silly. I could be my mom, or worse yet my brother, he knows that we're both here, so what would he think if the phone just rang and rang?" Kari asked.
"He, would probably think that we were doing... well, doing what we were about to do. Oh, yea I guess you brother wouldn't like that too much huh." TK responded, quite content to face Tai's wrath in exchange for kissing Kari a little bit more.
"Oh, sure that's all we need right now, for you to get punched by another guy with goggles." Kari said as she once more poked TK in the ribs, before getting up to answer the phone.
"Hello Kamiya residence, how may I help you?" she answered, much like the way a receptionist at a large corporation would.
"Kari is that you." the voice on the other end asked.
"Maybe, it depends on who is asking." Kari responded in jest.
"It's Davis I need you and TK to come meet me right away, it's really important." Davis said
emphatically with almost a rehearsed sense of urgency in his voice.
"Well if it's that important, we're on our way." Kari replied and with that she got the rest of the details and hung up the phone.
"Who was that on the phone?" TK questioned when Kari came back into the living room.
"I was Davis, he wants us to meet him down by the caves down behind the old campsite on the outskirts of
Odiba and he says it's very important." Kari explained to TK, who had already began to stand up and to put his jacket on.
"Ok, then let's go." TK quickly replied.
"TK, wait, I'm not so sure about this. Something about Davis seems kinda strange, doesn't it, I mean beyond the normal Davis strangeness." Kari commented.
"I'll admit that he did seem a little strange perhaps, maybe even a little distant, but after what we did to him who can blame him for acting a little distant around us?" TK responded.
"I suppose that you're probably right. Well anyway we should get going then." Kari said still not quite convinced that Davis was just acting strange because he was uncomfortable around them.
"Hey where are you going, TK?" A voice called out from the bedroom.
"I hope you don't think that you're leaving us here, Kari." said another voice.
"We wouldn't dream of it." both TK and Kari replied in unison to Patamon and Gatomon, who they had until that moment completely forgotten about.
With that the four of them left the Kamiya apartment and headed towards the caves to meet Davis still wondering what could be so important. In the back of their minds both TK & Kari felt as if going was not such a good idea, but continuing onward anyway, because of their feelings of guilt. The guilt that they held inside of them for the way they had hurt Davis by not having the courage to tell him the truth.
They both walked hand in hand for what seemed like hours, neither focusing too much on their destination, but rather content in the knowledge that they both shared a common path.
"Kari..." TK started.
"Yes, TK?" Kari responded.
"Why do you suppose it is that things turned out like this? Do you think that it's chance or do you think that there is some grand plan that has been put in place, which we can't see or change." TK asked with a look of curiosity, which Kari knew could only be found in TK's deep blue eyes.
"I have to say that after all the things that I've seen with you over the last five years, that I think that it seems that chance (or luck) does play a part. As for 'a plan', I really find it hard to believe that we're just actors playing parts that were written for us before the dawn of time. I can't just accept that all that we do has already been determined and that our actions now don't really count. I remember all the times when I felt like all was lost, it was your hope that pulled me through. You were there and that was all that I needed, and of course like I said a little luck doesn't hurt." Kari responded, not really understanding what brought on TK's sudden questions about fate.
TK just continued to look into Kari's eyes as they walked allowing himself to absorb
what she had just said. After walking for a few minutes TK spoke again. "Well it looks like we're here." he said as he looked around to see if Davis was around, but he was nowhere in sight.
"TK... Kari..." a voice called from within the opening of a nearby cave.
"Hey Davis, is that you?" TK called out knowing full well that it was Davis' voice that he had heard.
Unfortunately Davis gave no reply, not so much as a squeak that he was still there. An ominous feeling of impending doom started to settle in around TK and Kari, but they none the less proceeded into the cave.
Once they passed the narrow entrance to the cave the two saw that the cave opened up into quite a large area. It was a great cavern, which felt cold and damp to the two, who could feel the sense of impending doom increasing with each step further into the darkness. TK in an attempt to protect Kari from whatever might be lurking motioned for her to stand behind him as they proceeded. The last little but of lighting had faded and they fond themselves engulfed by the darkness.
"AH...." TK heard Kari's muffled scream behind him and instantly turned around, just in time to meet with a blunt object, which sent his body to the ground, limp and motionless...
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A/N: Wow for some reason the last part of this chapter seemed to take forever, but anyway it's done and the next chapter is going to get some more action/drama going, all leading up to the ending which will be a total shocker (*Hint: the dark outline isn't the thing from "the crest of friendship" episode).
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