Twins and One Half
Chapter 6
By Gatomonomega e-mail: gatomonomega@hotmail.com
For the first time in his life, Ranma was happy. He was back with his mother, had a beautiful woman who cared for him as much as he cared for her and the adopted twins Michael and Michele. What wasn't there to be happy about?
It had been three months since returning to this house and Brianna and Ranma's relationship grew quickly and they were soon to be engaged, hopefully. There was still some problems with Brianna inferiority complex, the girl sometimes became depressed saying that she was worthless, just a copy of Brittany and Gina. When she got depressed like today, Brianna would spend the day in the attic in her makeshift workshop playing with her Peebos.
Ranma sighed as he climbed the stairs, Nodoka had taken the twins clothes shopping so he could be alone with Brianna as a he without worrying about the children. He was going up to the attic in hopes of cheering his beloved up, getting her out of this depression.
Opening the door, he found Brianna sitting at a table working on some kind of computer that had wires leading to a metal ring that must of had a diameter of seven feet and was secured upright on a platform. He snuck up behind her, wrapped his arm around her and kissed her ear.
"Ranma!" Brianna eepped, almost jumping from his embrace.
"Hey beautiful." Ranma whispered into her ear, "Why don't you dry those tears and come downstairs?"
Brianna shook her head, twisting out of Ranma's arms as she stood up to face him. "Why do you love me? Are you in love with Gina or Brittany?"
"Neither," Ranma said, they been through this numerous times but he wasn't about to give up, "I love you Brianna Diggers."
"Even my name is THEIRS!" Brianna wailed.
"Would you take my name?" Ranma asked.
"Wh-What are you talking about?" Brianna asked, startled by the question.
"What I'm talking about," Ranma said, taking a blue velvet box out of his pants, opened it up and dropped to one knee. He held the box up to Brianna and said, "Would you become Brianna Saotome? Brianna, would you marry me?"
Brianna backed against the table, knocking a can of soda over and spilling it onto the computer. After a moment she launched herself at Ranma throwing her arm around his neck. "Yes!" was all she could say before her lips met his in a passionate kiss.
They where both startled when a sound crackling sound started coming from the computer and ring. A sphere of energy started to form in the middle of the ring, the light to bright to look at, Ranma held Brianna to his chest protectively until the lightshow faded. Smoke wafted up from the ring and where an older red haired woman was lying. She was wearing something like a green gi, the top lined with gold. The top was way too revealing and showed a good amount of the woman's ample cleavage. What the heck just happened?
Ranma could fell Brianna's nervousness as she drew away from him and looked at the woman, who lies there unconscious and obviously beaten. A gasp escaped Brianna's lips as she said, "Mom."
So this must have been Julia Diggers, but wasn't she trapped in someplace called Jade? This was getting weirder and weirder. "Brianna, are you all right?" Ranma asked.
Brianna nodded as she went and checked the woman's pulse. "Computer." Brianna said.
"Yes." A disembodied feminine voice, almost sounding like Ranma-chan's, seemed to come from everywhere.
"Can you run vitals on her?" Brianna asked, indicating the woman. The voice went through a bunch of medical things that Ranma couldn't quite understand. When the voice finished, Brianna nodded in satisfaction as she picked the woman up. "She's alright, just mostly bruises."
"Is that Julia?" Ranma asked, not even shocked at how easily Brianna carried the woman. After all, Ranma already seen how much stronger and faster Brianna was than him. She said it was because of Brittany's DNA so he never brought it up again seeing how much it upset her. Brianna nodded at his question, a sad look in her eyes. "I thought your mother was trapped in Jade."
No!" Brianna almost cried, walking down the steps in front of Ranma, "I don't have a mother."
Ranma followed as Brianna took Julia to the guest room, which officially belonged to the blonde though she hardly used it. Brianna put the woman down on the bed and sat next to her. "Brianna," Ranma said, "Do you still want to marry me?"
"Yes." Brianna said, looking hurt at the question, "I suppose you changed your mind now."
"Nope. I just never got a chance to do this." Ranma said, taking the ring from the box and took Brianna's left hand, sliding the gold band with a heart shaped diamond onto her ring finger. "Brianna, you have a mother now. Nodoka already told me she was happy about this and wanted to be able to call you daughter if you'll accept her. She loves you almost as much as I do, Brianna-chan." Brianna smiled at that and Ranma was glad, he loved to see her smile. It was much better than her depression, and a lot better for her as well.
"Wh-Where am I?" Julia asked in English, groggily sitting up. The color drained from her face when she saw Brianna, a snarl crossed her face. "Who are you?"
"I-I'm Brianna, an accident." Brianna said, a sad look crossing her face again as tears started flowing down her face.
"Stop that!" Ranma demanded from behind Brianna, wrapping his arms around her. "You are not an accident."
"Yes I am! I s-shouldn't be here, I'm just a f-freak!" Brianna cried.
"No your not." Ranma said, "If anybody's going to be calling themselves a freak, it's going to be me!"
"Y-Your not a freak." Brianna said.
"And neither are you, and your not an accident either. You are my fiancé and I won't let you put yourself down like that." Ranma said.
"Excuse me," Julia said, now in Japanese as she watched the whole thing in confusion, "But will you please explain to me about what's going on."
"Your daughters got a curse and Gina tried to cure it in her lab, I was born from that." Brianna said, "I'm just a clone from the two of them."
Ranma watched Julia's eyes as first confusion flashed through them, then understanding and finally love. "It looks like I have another daughter then." Julia smiled, embracing Brianna along with Ranma since he never let go. "And from what I heard, a son-in-law to boot, quite a handsome one at that."
"Brianna," Julia said, pulling away from the Brianna, "Where's Brittany and Gina?"
"They're probably back in Atlanta partying now that I'm gone." Brianna said.
"I take it that since we're talking in Japanese," Julia said, "Then we must be in Japan."
"Yeah." Brianna said.
"How did I get here?" Julia asked.
"I was working on a dimensional gateway when I had a little accident with it." Brianna explained, pulling away from Ranma's embrace and drying her tears on the back of her hand. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry," Julia said, brushing a strand of hair from Brianna's face and behind the girl's ear, "Whatever you did, I think you nullified the magic that trapped me in Jade. Thank you, I can go home now."
"When you talk with them, could you leave me out of it?" Brianna asked.
"Actually I was hoping you could call them and see if they would come visit and not tell them about me until they got here." Julia said, giving a quick look to Ranma whose respect for the woman rose every minute. "I'm not sure the spell is completely broken and I don't want to get the girl's hopes up. I'll know by the time they get here."
"But..." Brianna said.
"Brianna," Ranma said, "You need to settle things with them anyways. Please, Brianna."
"All right." Brianna whispered, getting up from the bed and heading out the door, "I better do it now or I'll chicken out."
"All right, kid," Julia said, "Talk. It sounded like Brittany and Gina all but threw Brianna out and I know they wouldn't do something like that. If they made Brianna, I know that they would take responsibility for her."
"I don't think they did anything like that," Ranma said, shaking his head, "Brianna is just insecure about all of this, she feels they don't care about her."
"That's what I thought," Julia said, "I wanted her to talk to them. Brianna ran away, didn't she?"
"Yeah," Ranma said, "She felt that she didn't have a life of her own."
"Tell me, Ranma." Julia said, "Why would you call yourself a freak?"
"You wouldn't believe me." Ranma said.
"After living in a magical world, there's not much someone wouldn't believe." Julia replied.
"I turn into a girl when splashed with cold water," Ranma said, he grew a little nervous noticing the amused look in Julia's eyes. "And back with hot water."
"I bet that makes your love life interesting." Julia smirked, Ranma's face felt like it was on fire at that comment, "But, tell me Ranma, do you love Gina or Brittany, or do you love Brianna?"
"I love Brianna," Ranma sighed, "I'd do anything for her."
"Good." Julia said.
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Brianna stood outside of the door listening to Ranma and Julia, her heart jumping at Ranma's declaration of love. Of course he told her all the time, but this was the first time she heard him tell somebody else. He loved her and not Brittany or Gina. But was there a her? Did Brianna have her own identity? She smiled, Ranma thought she did and that was good enough for Brianna.
She walked down the steps to the ground floor and into the living room and picked up the phone, dialing the operator. "I'd like to make a collect call to the United States."
"What's the number?" the operator asked. Brianna told the operator and listened as she heard Gina pick up and the operator said, "There is a collect call from Jubaan ward in Tokyo, Japan from a..."
"Brianna, Brianna Saotome." Brianna said, using her soon to be last name with a smile.
"Will you accept the charges?" the operator asked.
"YES!" Gina cried into the receiver.
"Thank you." The operator said.
"Oh god, Brianna," Gina said, "Where are you? Are you okay?"
"Brianna?" Brittany asked, apparently picking up an extension. "Damn it, girl. Do you know how worried we were about you?"
"Y-You was worried?" Brianna asked, not wanting to believe it. "Really?"
"Why wouldn't we?" Gina asked, "You're our sister and we love you."
"I'm not your sister!" Brianna said, her eyes burning with the tears trying to escape. "I'm nothing but a copy."
"What are you talking about?" Gina said, "You are our sister."
"Damn it, kid, don't talk like that." Brittany said, her voice hoarse, "We love you and want you home."
"And what's with the name." Gina said.
"I can't come home, at least not yet." Brianna said, "I'm getting married."
"WHAT!?" both Brittany and Gina cried at the same time.
"I'm getting married." Brianna said.
"You can't!" Gina said.
"Do you love him?" Brittany asked.
"Yes," Brianna said, "And he loves me."
"Then congratulation, sis." Brittany said, "I hope we're invited to the wedding."
"Brittany, she's to young." Gina said.
"Gina, she has your smarts and my tastes and her own personality." Brittany said, "I think she's smart enough to pick a good man."
"I-I guess." Gina said.
"Good." Both Brittany and Brianna said at the same time and the three started laughing. Maybe it didn't matter where she came from, it seemed she really did have sisters and a mother that cared and a life of her own. She told Gina and Brittany where she was and they promised to be there within a few days. For once, Brianna was actually looking forward to seeing them instead of being scared of what they thought. This might not turn out so bad after all.
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Disclaimers
Gold Digger and affiliated characters are the property of Fred Perry.
Ranma and affiliated characters are property of Rumiko Takahashi, I am not making money from this fanfic or do I plan to. Also, if for some strange reason wants to repost this or any of my stories feel free to do so. If by the same reason anyone wants to rewrite any of these stories or write new ones based around them, then please do. I only ask that either a copy of the story or the web address where I can find them be e-mailed to me. My e-mail will be listed at the bottom. I gladly accept all comments, good or bad, flames, critiques and advice.
I came up with the idea for this story after reading Ranma and the Gemini by
fantasy_raan. The first chapter or two may resemble his story some, but after that, it'll be going off in a completely different direction.
Thank you,
Gatomonomega
e-mail address: gatomonomega@hotmail.com
Or you can leave a message as a review, if it is about the story, at http://www.fanfiction.net
Make sure to leave it under the story it's meant for.
Chapter 6
By Gatomonomega e-mail: gatomonomega@hotmail.com
For the first time in his life, Ranma was happy. He was back with his mother, had a beautiful woman who cared for him as much as he cared for her and the adopted twins Michael and Michele. What wasn't there to be happy about?
It had been three months since returning to this house and Brianna and Ranma's relationship grew quickly and they were soon to be engaged, hopefully. There was still some problems with Brianna inferiority complex, the girl sometimes became depressed saying that she was worthless, just a copy of Brittany and Gina. When she got depressed like today, Brianna would spend the day in the attic in her makeshift workshop playing with her Peebos.
Ranma sighed as he climbed the stairs, Nodoka had taken the twins clothes shopping so he could be alone with Brianna as a he without worrying about the children. He was going up to the attic in hopes of cheering his beloved up, getting her out of this depression.
Opening the door, he found Brianna sitting at a table working on some kind of computer that had wires leading to a metal ring that must of had a diameter of seven feet and was secured upright on a platform. He snuck up behind her, wrapped his arm around her and kissed her ear.
"Ranma!" Brianna eepped, almost jumping from his embrace.
"Hey beautiful." Ranma whispered into her ear, "Why don't you dry those tears and come downstairs?"
Brianna shook her head, twisting out of Ranma's arms as she stood up to face him. "Why do you love me? Are you in love with Gina or Brittany?"
"Neither," Ranma said, they been through this numerous times but he wasn't about to give up, "I love you Brianna Diggers."
"Even my name is THEIRS!" Brianna wailed.
"Would you take my name?" Ranma asked.
"Wh-What are you talking about?" Brianna asked, startled by the question.
"What I'm talking about," Ranma said, taking a blue velvet box out of his pants, opened it up and dropped to one knee. He held the box up to Brianna and said, "Would you become Brianna Saotome? Brianna, would you marry me?"
Brianna backed against the table, knocking a can of soda over and spilling it onto the computer. After a moment she launched herself at Ranma throwing her arm around his neck. "Yes!" was all she could say before her lips met his in a passionate kiss.
They where both startled when a sound crackling sound started coming from the computer and ring. A sphere of energy started to form in the middle of the ring, the light to bright to look at, Ranma held Brianna to his chest protectively until the lightshow faded. Smoke wafted up from the ring and where an older red haired woman was lying. She was wearing something like a green gi, the top lined with gold. The top was way too revealing and showed a good amount of the woman's ample cleavage. What the heck just happened?
Ranma could fell Brianna's nervousness as she drew away from him and looked at the woman, who lies there unconscious and obviously beaten. A gasp escaped Brianna's lips as she said, "Mom."
So this must have been Julia Diggers, but wasn't she trapped in someplace called Jade? This was getting weirder and weirder. "Brianna, are you all right?" Ranma asked.
Brianna nodded as she went and checked the woman's pulse. "Computer." Brianna said.
"Yes." A disembodied feminine voice, almost sounding like Ranma-chan's, seemed to come from everywhere.
"Can you run vitals on her?" Brianna asked, indicating the woman. The voice went through a bunch of medical things that Ranma couldn't quite understand. When the voice finished, Brianna nodded in satisfaction as she picked the woman up. "She's alright, just mostly bruises."
"Is that Julia?" Ranma asked, not even shocked at how easily Brianna carried the woman. After all, Ranma already seen how much stronger and faster Brianna was than him. She said it was because of Brittany's DNA so he never brought it up again seeing how much it upset her. Brianna nodded at his question, a sad look in her eyes. "I thought your mother was trapped in Jade."
No!" Brianna almost cried, walking down the steps in front of Ranma, "I don't have a mother."
Ranma followed as Brianna took Julia to the guest room, which officially belonged to the blonde though she hardly used it. Brianna put the woman down on the bed and sat next to her. "Brianna," Ranma said, "Do you still want to marry me?"
"Yes." Brianna said, looking hurt at the question, "I suppose you changed your mind now."
"Nope. I just never got a chance to do this." Ranma said, taking the ring from the box and took Brianna's left hand, sliding the gold band with a heart shaped diamond onto her ring finger. "Brianna, you have a mother now. Nodoka already told me she was happy about this and wanted to be able to call you daughter if you'll accept her. She loves you almost as much as I do, Brianna-chan." Brianna smiled at that and Ranma was glad, he loved to see her smile. It was much better than her depression, and a lot better for her as well.
"Wh-Where am I?" Julia asked in English, groggily sitting up. The color drained from her face when she saw Brianna, a snarl crossed her face. "Who are you?"
"I-I'm Brianna, an accident." Brianna said, a sad look crossing her face again as tears started flowing down her face.
"Stop that!" Ranma demanded from behind Brianna, wrapping his arms around her. "You are not an accident."
"Yes I am! I s-shouldn't be here, I'm just a f-freak!" Brianna cried.
"No your not." Ranma said, "If anybody's going to be calling themselves a freak, it's going to be me!"
"Y-Your not a freak." Brianna said.
"And neither are you, and your not an accident either. You are my fiancé and I won't let you put yourself down like that." Ranma said.
"Excuse me," Julia said, now in Japanese as she watched the whole thing in confusion, "But will you please explain to me about what's going on."
"Your daughters got a curse and Gina tried to cure it in her lab, I was born from that." Brianna said, "I'm just a clone from the two of them."
Ranma watched Julia's eyes as first confusion flashed through them, then understanding and finally love. "It looks like I have another daughter then." Julia smiled, embracing Brianna along with Ranma since he never let go. "And from what I heard, a son-in-law to boot, quite a handsome one at that."
"Brianna," Julia said, pulling away from the Brianna, "Where's Brittany and Gina?"
"They're probably back in Atlanta partying now that I'm gone." Brianna said.
"I take it that since we're talking in Japanese," Julia said, "Then we must be in Japan."
"Yeah." Brianna said.
"How did I get here?" Julia asked.
"I was working on a dimensional gateway when I had a little accident with it." Brianna explained, pulling away from Ranma's embrace and drying her tears on the back of her hand. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry," Julia said, brushing a strand of hair from Brianna's face and behind the girl's ear, "Whatever you did, I think you nullified the magic that trapped me in Jade. Thank you, I can go home now."
"When you talk with them, could you leave me out of it?" Brianna asked.
"Actually I was hoping you could call them and see if they would come visit and not tell them about me until they got here." Julia said, giving a quick look to Ranma whose respect for the woman rose every minute. "I'm not sure the spell is completely broken and I don't want to get the girl's hopes up. I'll know by the time they get here."
"But..." Brianna said.
"Brianna," Ranma said, "You need to settle things with them anyways. Please, Brianna."
"All right." Brianna whispered, getting up from the bed and heading out the door, "I better do it now or I'll chicken out."
"All right, kid," Julia said, "Talk. It sounded like Brittany and Gina all but threw Brianna out and I know they wouldn't do something like that. If they made Brianna, I know that they would take responsibility for her."
"I don't think they did anything like that," Ranma said, shaking his head, "Brianna is just insecure about all of this, she feels they don't care about her."
"That's what I thought," Julia said, "I wanted her to talk to them. Brianna ran away, didn't she?"
"Yeah," Ranma said, "She felt that she didn't have a life of her own."
"Tell me, Ranma." Julia said, "Why would you call yourself a freak?"
"You wouldn't believe me." Ranma said.
"After living in a magical world, there's not much someone wouldn't believe." Julia replied.
"I turn into a girl when splashed with cold water," Ranma said, he grew a little nervous noticing the amused look in Julia's eyes. "And back with hot water."
"I bet that makes your love life interesting." Julia smirked, Ranma's face felt like it was on fire at that comment, "But, tell me Ranma, do you love Gina or Brittany, or do you love Brianna?"
"I love Brianna," Ranma sighed, "I'd do anything for her."
"Good." Julia said.
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Brianna stood outside of the door listening to Ranma and Julia, her heart jumping at Ranma's declaration of love. Of course he told her all the time, but this was the first time she heard him tell somebody else. He loved her and not Brittany or Gina. But was there a her? Did Brianna have her own identity? She smiled, Ranma thought she did and that was good enough for Brianna.
She walked down the steps to the ground floor and into the living room and picked up the phone, dialing the operator. "I'd like to make a collect call to the United States."
"What's the number?" the operator asked. Brianna told the operator and listened as she heard Gina pick up and the operator said, "There is a collect call from Jubaan ward in Tokyo, Japan from a..."
"Brianna, Brianna Saotome." Brianna said, using her soon to be last name with a smile.
"Will you accept the charges?" the operator asked.
"YES!" Gina cried into the receiver.
"Thank you." The operator said.
"Oh god, Brianna," Gina said, "Where are you? Are you okay?"
"Brianna?" Brittany asked, apparently picking up an extension. "Damn it, girl. Do you know how worried we were about you?"
"Y-You was worried?" Brianna asked, not wanting to believe it. "Really?"
"Why wouldn't we?" Gina asked, "You're our sister and we love you."
"I'm not your sister!" Brianna said, her eyes burning with the tears trying to escape. "I'm nothing but a copy."
"What are you talking about?" Gina said, "You are our sister."
"Damn it, kid, don't talk like that." Brittany said, her voice hoarse, "We love you and want you home."
"And what's with the name." Gina said.
"I can't come home, at least not yet." Brianna said, "I'm getting married."
"WHAT!?" both Brittany and Gina cried at the same time.
"I'm getting married." Brianna said.
"You can't!" Gina said.
"Do you love him?" Brittany asked.
"Yes," Brianna said, "And he loves me."
"Then congratulation, sis." Brittany said, "I hope we're invited to the wedding."
"Brittany, she's to young." Gina said.
"Gina, she has your smarts and my tastes and her own personality." Brittany said, "I think she's smart enough to pick a good man."
"I-I guess." Gina said.
"Good." Both Brittany and Brianna said at the same time and the three started laughing. Maybe it didn't matter where she came from, it seemed she really did have sisters and a mother that cared and a life of her own. She told Gina and Brittany where she was and they promised to be there within a few days. For once, Brianna was actually looking forward to seeing them instead of being scared of what they thought. This might not turn out so bad after all.
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Disclaimers
Gold Digger and affiliated characters are the property of Fred Perry.
Ranma and affiliated characters are property of Rumiko Takahashi, I am not making money from this fanfic or do I plan to. Also, if for some strange reason wants to repost this or any of my stories feel free to do so. If by the same reason anyone wants to rewrite any of these stories or write new ones based around them, then please do. I only ask that either a copy of the story or the web address where I can find them be e-mailed to me. My e-mail will be listed at the bottom. I gladly accept all comments, good or bad, flames, critiques and advice.
I came up with the idea for this story after reading Ranma and the Gemini by
fantasy_raan. The first chapter or two may resemble his story some, but after that, it'll be going off in a completely different direction.
Thank you,
Gatomonomega
e-mail address: gatomonomega@hotmail.com
Or you can leave a message as a review, if it is about the story, at http://www.fanfiction.net
Make sure to leave it under the story it's meant for.