Happiness Will Come

Happiness Will Come
Chapter 15
Talk…
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. PROFANITY! Character may be OOC because it's AU. I apologize for all this! Well enjoy and feedbacks are welcomed!

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Lina rang her dad's apartment doorbell and waited for Zelgadiss to open the door. While waiting she thought back to the conversation she overheard just earlier today. She nervously clasped her hands and looked up when she heard the familiar 'click' of the door opening. When she saw Zel, she flung her arms around him.

"Whoah. That was a nice greeting." Zel gently hugged her back and smiled to himself. God I missed her…I wished she would just come back and live with us again, just like the old times.

"Zel…" Lina hugged him tighter, as Zel walked out of the doorway. The door slammed shut behind him and they stayed like that, in the small hallway, for quite a while. "Zel…I'm worried."

He let go of her and looked at her. She does look nervous today. I hope nothing bad happened… "What's wrong?"

She let out a huge sigh. "I was in the kitchen earlier today, getting me some food."

"…What? Did the boogeyman of the food department came and stole all your food or something?" Zel made this comment, hoping to get her a bit relaxed

It worked, since she playfully slapped him on the shoulder. "Oh whatever! There are not such things as bogeymen! But you can say some of them came today."

Zel rolled his eyes, "Let me guess, 'Bogey Gaav' and 'Bogey Phibrizo'."

Lina shoved away from him and started to convulse in laughter. "Zel!!! That was just so…so…"

"Wonderful?" Zel filled in.

Lina continue to laugh harder. "Heck no!! That was just utterly corny!!"

"Oh?" Zel raised an eyebrow. "Like as if you can make better jokes."

"…" Lina glared at him. She stalked up to closer with an evil look in her eyes. Zel smirked more. He reached behind him and opened the door. Nimbly, he stepped inside and Lina continued to follow him. Pretty soon they were in his room. He bumped into the foot of bed and was trapped. Lina took this opportunity to pounce onto him. Zel let out a shout of surprise and both of them crashed onto his bed.

Lina made a "V" sign with her fingers and smiled. "Never insult a woman!!"

"You should have been more accurate you know…"

She raised an eyebrow, "Oh? What have I forgotten?"

Zel grinned playfully and gently stroked her cheeks with the back of his thumb. "You forgot to say 'Never insult a woman that belongs to Zelgadiss'!"

Lina giggled and hugged him. "You are so silly."

"Must be you." Zel smiled. "Now what's up with the bogeymen?"

She sighed. "I…I overheard talking about something…"

"Something? Is it bad?"

"Zel…" Lina exasperatedly let out, "You know by now that anything that deals with them is bad."

"Oh yeah…considering that this isn't 'Nightmare Before Christmas'."

"…" Lina got up and walked around his room. "I'm serious. This sounds bad."

He turned on his side and leaned on his elbow. "Okay…what's up?"

"I don't know what their plan is really, but…it has to do with Xelloss. They are going to manipulate him or something."

"Don't worry. No one can manipulate him." Zel brushed it off easily.

"…From what I've seen so far…I think he's already manipulated."

"Lina…what did they say?"

"Well for one thing they are going to make him get Lano out of business. They'll going to use Xelloss as bait to get Lano and his company go out of business."

"I don't think Xelloss is gonna fall for that. He got more common sense than to do something crazy like that."

"…" Lina didn't say anything. She sighed and hugged herself as she walked back to his bed. "You haven't heard have you…?"

Zel frowned and sat up. "Heard what?"

"Yesterday…Xillia got in an accident while she was shopping with Zelas…"

"…How badly did they get hurt?"

"Zelas just got cuts here and there. Xillia…is paraplegic…"

Zel groaned. "Oh damn…lemme guess. Xelloss is furious."

"Make it beyond furious," she said, while nodding.

"Great…" Zel sighed.

"Yeah. They are gonna somehow use that reason to manipulate him…"

"This is not good…"

"He might listen to you though…"

Zel sighed again. "I'll try…I'll try…"

AN: Do NOT ASK about the 'boogeyman' part!!!! ^^;;