Happiness Will Come

Happiness Will Come
Chapter 9
More Happiness and Troubles
By: Tara-Chan

Disclaimers: Slayers belong to the original creators. This fanfic is based of a Korean drama called: Taeyang Un Gadugi: Happiness Will Come. It belongs to the producers of KBS 2. Do not sue me!

Notes: Please ignore the grammatical and spelling errors. Character may be OOC because it's AU. I apologize for all this! Well enjoy and feedbacks are welcomed!

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The next morning, Zel called Xelloss.

"Hello?" Xelloss' groggy voice answered.

"Hey Xel. What's up? Too early for you?"

"No…" Xelloss stifled a yawn. "Anything wrong?"

"Nah. Just wanted to call and ask how things went with your mother…"

"Don't even mention that bitch's name," Xelloss said harshly. "I don't want to hear about her and I don't want to even think about her!"

Zel fell silent for the next few minutes. "You can't hold that grudge against her forever you know. She's your mother. She's the one that brought you to this world. If it weren't for her, then you wouldn't be alive man. And without you, life is boring!"

"Well screw her okay! I don't want to think about her. I just wished she'd didn't try to contact us yesterday. I don't want to deal with her at all."

Zel sighed sadly. "You really are going to be stubborn about this aren't you?"

Xelloss exploded. "Well at least your mom didn't abandoned you when you were young!!"

Zel bit his tongue from saying anything rash. "Did she tell you any reasons on why she left you and Xillia?"

"She just said it complicated." He sneered out the last word.

Zel again fell silent. This is so not like him at all. I never saw Xelloss like this. He's always the jokester. The prankster of the two of us. Normally I was the stoic one. Now it's like the other way around, but he's like ten times worse! "Why don't you try to find out the reason though? It could be a totally different reasons than what you have thought…"

"That's the point Zelgadiss! I don't want to know!!"

"I see…" Zel decided to change subject. "By the way. Lina and I … well we are an item now…."

Xelloss perked up at that. "You're kidding! You two finally got together? FINALLY!! Geez you guys took forever!"

Zel blushed bright red. "Shut up!"

Xelloss laughed, starting to sound more like himself. "Whatever. I'll see you on campus man."

"Yeah. Meet you at the purgatory university man. Two more years of being stuck there…"

"Yeah. Bye."

Zel hanged up. He felt troubled about his best friend, but he just brushed it away. Aw man. I'm sure he'll be forgiving soon. In the meantime, I better go wake up Lina and that's not going to be an easy task. Then again, fixing her breakfast is a even harder than that! I better get to work…

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2 years later…

Zel sighed with happiness. The past two years was a like Pax Koreana for all of us. Well Xelloss does run into his mom every once in a while, but he thankfully just go the other direction. I do hope Xelloss give in sooner or later. Lina…now every day I grow to love her more in many different kind of ways. She's totally the yang side of me. Or was it the ying. Ah who cares? Whichever one works. Seems like the only one that isn't happy is Valgaav. He always has this rueful look whenever he stares at Filia. Seems like he has a thing for her too, but unfortunately she loves Xelloss, so he can't do anything about it.

Zel smirked. Now I know that my sister found her true happiness. She finally got married to the man she loves just last year. The wedding ceremony was so…I guess you could say romantic. Valgaav was Gourry's best man. Filia was Sylphiel's maid of honor, while Lina was one of the bridesmaids. I had the honor of giving my sister away…now Xelloss…he was the jokester I guess. The wedding was perfect, except for the parts where Gourry fell asleep at the vows part, and the part where he totally forgot the ring, so he had to leave for a minute to go get it from his mother. Zelgadiss had a mega sweatdrop just thinking about it. So typical of Gourry, but my sister has a lot of patience for him. How she gets that patience, I don't know at all.

Xelloss, Filia and I are all done with our university studies. We all graduated with honors. Now that we have our degrees and everything, we are all probably going to get different jobs. Well I am most likely still going to work for Beo, but I think Xelloss wants something different, something from a bigger company. I hope some good company hires him. Filia, I know wants to work someplace other than the café now. Not to mention those two are thinking about marrying in a couple of years or so. Lina and I will probably do that too. Zel smiled softly to himself. Maybe all four of us could have a double wedding. That'd be awesome. Speaking of awesome. I better hurry up and go to the park and meet up with Lina or, there will be some awesome firework from her.

Zel quickly changed out of the construction uniform and got into his regular street clothes. He quickly made sure that he looked decent enough and left. He made a haste goodbye to Beo and ran.

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"What did you want me to come here for Xelloss?" Filia asked.

Xelloss smiled his infuriating smile that tells her that he had a secret. "Oh nothing really. I just wanted to see you because I love you so much."

Filia blushed. "Tell me! I know when you are lying."

"Ya (1) you know I am not the lying type!"

"Yeah," she snorted, "Whatever."

Xelloss pretended to get hurt. "You don't believe me. I see how you feel about me now!"

She rolled her eyes. "Enough stalling. What do you want?"

Xelloss stood up and digged through his pockets. Soon he pulled out a box. "Here." He handed it to her. "For our 5th anniversary together."

Filia drew in a breath and accepted the box. Could it be? Filia stared at the velvet-covered box for a minute. Then she opened it. Inside, she found a silver locket on a silver chain. She felt slightly disappointed, but still happy altogether. She gently lifted the jewelry out of the box and opened the locket. There she saw a picture of her and Xelloss on each side. "Oh Xelloss…" She felt her eyes water. "It's beautiful."

Xelloss smiled. I'll get her the wedding ring later. When I saved up enough money. "May I have the honor?" He held out his hands and Filia handed him the necklace. He unhooked the delicate hook, and put it around Filia's neck. He stepped backward and studied her for a minute. "Lovely. It fits you perfectly." With that he lean over and kissed her with passion. Filia kissed him back with equal number of passion.

"I love you Xelloss, you namagomi." Filia whispered after parting away.

"I love you too."

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Zel ran to the spot Lina was waiting. He reached her and apologized to her for being late. Lina smiled and told him that it was okay.

"Have you been waiting long?" Zel asked, still feeling guilty.

Lina shooked her head. "Nah. I only got here myself like 5 minutes ago anyways."

"I see. So what do you want to do?"

She smiled evilly. "PICNIC!!" Lina pulled out a HUGE picnic basket and showed it to him.

Zel stared at it and sweatdropped. "Geez everywhere you go you have to have food huh?"

"YEP!" Lina shouted. "Let's eat!"

They arranged the blanket and the food and sat down to eat. They were too busy eating to notice that a red-haired man and a short man with navy blue hair was looking at them not faraway.

"So dad? Shall we interuppt them?" The small man asked.

The red-haired man nodded. "Why not Phibrizo. That will be interesting…"

Both men got out of their hiding place and walked up to them. Zel noticed them first. He nodded to Lina. She turned around and saw them. "Who are you?"

"Lina. Lina, my darling daughter. It is so good to see that you are alive."

Both Lina and Zel stared at him with their mouth wide opened. "Excuse me?" Lina spluttered. "DAUGHTER? I am not your daughter!"

"Biologically speaking you are my daughter."

"This is bullshit!!" Lina exclaimed.

"Yeah I agree. I happened to know that she is the daughter Beo Bak." Zel added, jumping in.

"Sit back down boy. Beo you said? Isn't he the head of his construction company?"

Lina and Zel both nodded.

"Well well, looks like we got some competition then now?" Phibrizo smirked. "Right father?"

"You are right son. Oh by the way Lina. I am Gaav. Your father."

"This is crazy!! Beo is and always been my father! You two are just crazy!"

"No we are sane." Gaav smirked. "Lina I suggest you come with me now, before your boyfriend here gets hurt."

"What do you mean?" Lina asked with confusion written all over her face.

"I mean that I am loaded Lina. I have enough money to get bunch of men to beat him to death and still have money left over. Now you come now or your boyfriend's life is going to be very short." Gaav smiled evilly.

Lina looked trouble. I better go. I don't want anything to happen to Zelgadiss. "Okay. If you say so, I will come." She said that stiffly and went to Gaav and Phibrizo. She turned around and faced Zel. "I'll call you later. Don't worry about me."

"No! Don't go Lina!" Zel cried desperately.

"I'll be fine." Lina forced a smile and left with the two men.

Zel stared after them. What is going on? What the fuck is going on!! Zel let out a cry of anguish and it echoed all over the park.

(1) Korean for sort of like "You"
Special AN: Okay. Phibrizo and Gaav may not sound right, but those two fits into the role of Lina's biological family so well that I decided to use them. Hope it's okay!