The Storm of Fury
Zee looked across the military cemetery. She looked down with tears in her eyes. She bent down beside James Evan Bennet's grave placing a single rose beside it. He stepped up beside her. "Ro I'm sorry."
"He's finally at peace. He's meeting up probably with his family and my father."
"Ro I've been meaning to talk to you."
"Go on Zee."
"Ro I love you."
"Zee how can you say that?"
"Because I do."
"Zee damn you. Don't you see I don't love you? I love Warren. That's why I'm with him. If I didn't then I wouldn't be with him."
"Ro you don't have to keep running."
"I'm not running out on anyone. I might have considered it earlier. But you just came around when you felt like it. I can't live on that. I need someone who will be there."
"Ro you don't understand."
"No you don't understand. I'm not in love with you." She sits on the ground holding her knees to her chest resting her head on her knees. "Why…" She says softly. "Why do you even care about me?"
She looks up sadly. "I never wanted it. I didn't think it really existed. I never encouraged you to care about me now it seems like your killing me."
"Ro…" He reached to touch her shoulder. She jerked away standing up. She pushed him away.
"Damn you Zeta!" For someone so small she had great strength. She was trying to push him away forever. She didn't want to be disappointed anymore when he left. "Who do you think you are?" She demands. "Where do you get off loving me?" She shoved him again further back. "I don't need this. I don't need you…" Her voice growing hoarse. Her body shook with the anger and fury she felt.
She walked away not ever looking back. She ran as fast as she could. She looked at her bruised wrists. Warren had gotten angry at her earlier speaking about Zee. He didn't want to hear a word about him. She knew he was terribly jealous of Zee. She couldn't see Zee while Warren was around. Him being around just got her in more and more trouble.
Zee just looked down tears in his eyes. He never felt more pain in his life. He knew this Warren was trouble. Why couldn't Ro just see that? He left for his home to think it over for a while. He was hoping to bring her home with him. But he supposed he had missed his chance when she wanted to go the first time.
He shook his head. What was he thinking? That if he told Ro he loved her she would just turn around forget about Warren, her family, her life? That she would jump in his arms and forgive everything he's done to her?
He left a rose for the former NSA agent. He hadn't picked the best time. He had been cold hearted towards the agent. He died from a drug overdose and alcohol poisoning. He had given everything he had in his will to Ro. He had no family. He considered her as something. He never got to find out what from him. He only had to believe the rumors he heard.
He felt a tug at his pants. He looked down to see one of Ro's younger brother's Jake. "Hey everything will be alright in the end."
"I should have never became human. I should have just left everything alone. I must have been crazy to believe Ro would of even cared enough to like me."
"It's no one's fault. She's had a rough year. Finding out you were actually alive, school's not getting any easier, boys, and her friends aren't much of a help since they're as blind as everyone else is about Warren. There's no one who can help her except herself."
"You don't like Warren?" He asked surprised. Everyone in her family seemed to take a liking to the boy.
"Ro's gone back into hiding in her little own shell. She has built defense walls that rival the strongest walls in the world. She's hiding a secret."
"I can stop him."
"You'll have to wait and find proof." Zee nodded in understanding. He wondered if Ro or Jake were the ones telling the truth. He hoped it was Jake. He didn't want to think about the other possibility. Jake left turning away.
Zee watched in the distance. Jake stepped up to Ro who was hiding around in the back. She picked him up and kissed him softly on the head. He could see her whisper something before walking off with her family. Jack and Jake held each of her hands probably for her comfort. He wished he could comfort her like that but he only seemed to make it worse.
