Rain, Ice,
Mist and Sun
By: seastar
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"Can I come in, FILIA?" asked for the tenth
time an annoyed Xellos already in pyjamas while knocking stronger. What was
going on? Was she already asleep?
Finally, angry, he seized the door handle. It
was his room after all! From inside it came the sound of running water and,
taking another step inside, he noticed it came from the bathroom. 'She's taking
bath!'
Xellos could now hear clearly that the girl was
grumbling while bathing herself and a smirk spread across his face at the
moment he understood it's content.
RnhsgrallofthislhngrnisFilia'sfaultgshnjdnrishouldhavekhngrnbeatedher…"
Suddenly the bathroom's door flew open, showing
Filia with a towel rolled up around her body and drying her hair with another
one.
"mor… Xellos? XELLOS!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? DON'T YOU
SEE I'M NOT DECENTLY DRESSED?! OUT OF THIS ROOM, NOW!!!!
The boy left his roommate as fast as he could,
closing the door behind him for better protection against the sudden avalanche of
pointed and cutting objects that were being threw to his person.
"I knocked at the door, Filia! It was you who
didn't answer me. Besides, the room is MINE!" cried him from the corridor.
"Although I don't mind to share my b…herr, room with a somewhat bad-tempered
blonde" finished the young man as a little devilish smile formed in his lips.
"…why… YOU!!…"
Xellos quickly hided behind a small palm tree
at the hall as the room's door opened this time, showing an angry Filia with
her towels.
"YOU PREVERT!!!! I don't care if the damn room
is YOURS, but I am here tonight and YOU will respect my modesty, as well as the
BASIC rules of well-behaviour!" shouted the furious girl "I SHOULD make you
meet the harsh side of mace-sama…"
'That thing has an *harsh* side?!' though the
boy in disbelief
"…but I DO have honour and I shall DO what that
******* dare ordered me to"
He grinned again.
"So I'm going to let you sleep under something
more comfortable than a tree… after you get my teddy bear from my room!" and with
a smirk she loudly shut door after her.
His smile faded away.
"But I…" tried Xellos, but the blond girl
didn't listened to him and he ended doing what she had said while muttering
incomprehensible things about how girls shouldn't exist all the way to the
other room.
When he entered the division he noticed it
wasn't like he had expected it to be.
Because they were spending the entire vacations
in the mountains, they were installed in the hostel for the same period of time
and, because of that, they had decorated their rooms in order to feel like in
home. Filia's room was not the pink and fussy one he had imagined.
'Not that I had imagined it much times' said
the boy quickly to himself, before some stupid thought reached him. Like the
lately ones…
The room was elegant, but not in an excessively
feminine form. On the whole, there was a flowerpot with some type of flowers in
it and a novel at the desk that could reveal the occupant's sex.
'Even I could sleep here' thought him, smiling
'Filia raised one point on my consideration'
After a short inspection, Xellos located the
bear at the top of the wardrobe and went to get it. However, when he started to
climb the piece of furniture to get near the teddy thing ('How could she ever
put it here?'), it started becoming loose and, precisely when he grabbed the
toy, the boy also saw himself at the floor in the middle of…
"UNDERGARMENTS??!!"
THAT was too much even for Xellos and the
purple-haired boy turned seventy-three interesting shades of red before he quickly
got out of the room with the teddy bear.
He came to his room gasping for breath only to
find two annoyed blue eyes staring at him "Not even knocking at the door you
know now?", but Filia was already completely dressed in her pyjamas and she
didn't prolonged very much her grumbles the moment she put her hands on the
bear.
Xellos stayed there watching her, like a
scientist watching some sort of weird creature doing even more weird things,
while the blonde girl hugged and rocked her little friend.
That granted him a blow with a mace.
"FOR WHERE WERE YOU LOOKING TO, YOU NAMAGOMI?"
The boy looked astonished at the girl. What had
she called him? He had finished bringing her her teddy bear and she was already
beating him?… wait a minute… 'Did she call me namagomi?'
"NAMAGOMI?! Who do you think you are to go
around beating and insulting people? Your Majesty, the Queen Filia?" shouted
Xellos in anger ' It's over! I'm not going to let her go forwards with this.
Not this time!', and in that moment his consideration for her reached a record
– 1024 negative points! "Look, it's not thanks to me that you're
here in my room. If it was up to me, you would be on the way to Timbuktu right
now!"
What the hell was with her, anyway? He was sick of her explosions of irritation toward him! From now on, she would have to express herself far away from him!
"Only now I understand why we never got along.
It isn't my sign or my fate that is incompatible with yours, it's ME who's
incompatible with conceited and arrogant people who also don't have any respect
for the others! You're so selfish, Filia" and the boy started directing himself
to the bed "I don't know how do you still have friends that stand you! But
those are probably disappearing also"
Filia stood there, for the first time in her
life, without retaliating, without a word or a protest. Lying on the bed,
Xellos didn't saw one single and delicate tear describe the outline of the
girl's face that, at the end of the room, was tightening her teddy bear against
her silent shaking body.
In another room, Lina was grumbling while
nursing her own scratches and bruises.
"Even if I'm doing this for her own good, Filia
will never have to worry about Xellos bothering her again if she ever, EVER, do
this to me again… because she'll no longer be on this plane of existence!" then
she looked to the other girl at the open window "What is it, Amelia? It already
stopped raining"
"Yes, but now everything will freeze" said the
younger girl with her gaze lost in the darkness.
"That's why I want you to return to bed before
you turn the two of us in ice statues!"
Amelia closed the window and slowly turned her
back at the nocturnal scenery, not noticing one little raindrop that had frozen
one moment before falling down of the eaves and now was glittering under the
moonlight like a solitary tear.
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A.N: *sniff* So? Were you on the
brink of breaking in tears as was I? (If you think the way this ended was soppy
wait until next chapter…) Well, gotta recover. Did you like this chapter? If
yes, write a good critic, if not, write a good critic as well… I'm joking. If
you didn't like it, tell me so I can do better next time! Anyway, REVIEW!!!
Oh, namagomi means something like 'raw
garbage' and… hum… I don't own anything besides the poor plot, so don't bother
to sue me, sue the right owners for not making real X/F scenes in the series!
^_^
Oohhhhh! And thanks to all the kind reviewers
that sent me a critic about my last chapter (glares at all the other ones that
didn't bothered doing that). Thanks to BattleJoyW (nice phrase he gave me to
put here), Emmi-chan (read her stories!), Personification of Fluff (everyone
needs a mace), shampoo ul copt (I wrote it, I wrote it!) and DarkRavenLord
(thank you very much ^^)