Broken For You
By Bef Kage Aka-chi
Authors note!: Yes children its time for an authors note! Now sit around and be good little girls and boys and I'll tell you something not so important but what the hay! Hee hee I'm a bit hyper (… as always …) I have had no sleep because I stayed up to watch cowboy bebop, I have spent an entire day locked in a touchier refrigerator trying to pass itself off as art classes and now I will write for the muses have sung to me and told me I should get my sorry little butt to the lap top and come up with a new chapter. HA! Now you know I'm hyper when I start warping Homeric quotas… OH! And a note of wisdom: do not read the bloody part of a fan fic while listening to Weird Al songs… the two don't mix, you end up laughing and then you feel bad about smiling as you read a sad part where the guy gets chopped in half… anyway its an interesting experience… I know. You don't have to tell me. I'm insane.
Chapter Six
The black swirls were clearing. Each time her heart beat she felt a hammer pound at the base of her skull. Where was she? What had happened to her? She wanted to open her eyes, she really did, but they felt as if they had weights on them. But she didn't want to heare the voices again. So she slowly found that she had the will needed to relive her of the remaining swirls.
"Where am I?" to her horror no sound came out when she yelled. She tried again but her lips felt too slow and she had no will to move them again. She let her eyes close and tried again. "let me out." A weak, barely audible, sound came forth. She cracked open her eyes again and tried to adjust to the lighting, for there was lighting, a steady dim blue glow.
Even moving her eyes was tiring, but she had to know what was going on – GODS!!!! – her mind was racing at the speed of light now, and maybe her body had decided to catch up. There was something wrong with this – something terribly wrong – what was with her wrist??? What was going on? Why was she strapped to the table – what was in her wrist!? Who did this? She would kill them! Kill every last one of who ever it was!
When Refina looked down at her bound wrist she saw a horrifying mess of plastic tubes and needles. Colorless liquids were being fed into her veins and she was thrashing against the restraints. First off this struck her as terrifying, after she stopped thrashing she found it plain sick. Who would do this!? Bound to a metal table by thick leather straps with needles - needles! –in her wrists! She really would kill them.
"WHATS GOING ON!?" Refina's voice rang through the silence. "LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE!!! WHERE THE HELL AM I?!" she rode on the force from the first break out scream and began focusing her thrashing for her wrist. Pin pricks of pain shot through her but they didn't hurt her as much as they gave her satisfaction. The pain would stop, when all the needles were gone, and that would be soon.
"Fuck…" she was getting cold. Probably an imbalance of the shit they were pumping into her… maybe she had moved too much too fast… she was getting drowsy and she could keep her thoughts together. Like trying to reach for the light above you even though you can't get to it – it seems like you should be able to touch it but its further than you think. Or like trying to catch a butterfly just before it flies out of you reach. She couldn't hold on to a single thought for long, and slowly, she drifted back into sleep before she even knew it.
"Get her to her bed."
"Yes Sir, Lord Folken." The soldier was nervous as Folken passed Refinas unconscious body over to him.
"When you do, tell one of the Dragonslayers to inform Dilandau of her return. She should awaken within the hour." Folken must not have taken note of the soldiers obvious discomfort with that order.
"Ye-yes, Lord Folken." He had only been on the Vione for a short time and was doing his best not to be noticed. He didn't know how he had been singled out for this job… Lord Folken turned and headed the opposite direction and the boy was left with Refina's limp form in his arms. Looking down at her he realized just why they thought she was beautiful. But no, she was way out of his league, how could he possibly even think that? He would just…
"She's back?"
"Yah."
"Dur!"
"… so… where has she been?"
"Do you think she's ever going to wake up?" the Dragonslayers were staring down at the sleeping form of Refina. She had been taken to the dorm a few seconds before .
"Glad she's back. Life with Dilandau hasn't been all peaches and cream since she was taken."
"Shud up!" Gatti slapped the pissant on the head for insubordination. " It's '–Sama' besides, you know he'll walk in just as you say something else." The rest of the Slayers laughed before stifling themselves when they heard Refinas moan, and though it didn't make a difference they all took a cautious step back.
"Should we wake her?"
"No!" Dalet covered his mouth. "Oops…"
"No, don't wake her up. She should sleep."
"Yah, and you don't want her to wake up and slice your head in half do you?"
Everyone was smiling as Refina woke from her peaceful sleep, encircled by a blue black wall. "Hu…?"
"Good morning Refina!" Chesta started yelling in his excitement.
"It not morning, Chesta…" Guimel tried to tell him.
"So, its what you say when people wake up."
"Yah, if you want to confuse them." Refina laid back and smiled. Same Ryuu.
"So, where were you? – What happened? – Did they hurt you? – Why weren't you in the infirmary? – Dilandau went crazy when he heard the sorcerers took you! – YAH!" The Slayers decided to pummel her with questions as a unit.
Refina's had shot to her head as the noisy calmer made her head ache "What? Slow down I didn't get any of that."
"What happened?" Chesta asked softly.
"I don't know what happened. They didn't tell me anything."
"So where were you?"
"Hu? I was in the infirmary… wasn't I?"
"At first, then they moved you somewhere else –" Chesta was moving too slowly for others.
"Uh hu, and Dilandau-sama –"
"The sorverers!"
"Never mind that! What happened to you!?"
"Give me a word in!" Refina smirked "I have no idea what happened in- between. I got sick, sorcerers came, sorcerers left, the doctor came, took me to the infirmary with Dilandau about to kill him if he bumped my foot against a wall, I got there and he told Dilandau to leave." At that Refina laughed remembering the I Will Kill You look Dilandau gave him before continuing. "After that I was told I needed rest and the doctor gave me something and that knocked me out."
"So… you don't know what happened?"
"You don't remember them taking you and putting you somewhere else?"
"What? No. what are you talking about?" Refina was staring at them in confusion.
"Someone moved you from the infirmary –"
"And Dilandau-sama thinks it was the sorcerers!" the someone's in the back provided that information before Refina's eyebrows flew upward.
"So, what happened to me? Where was I?"
"That's what we asked you…"
"Never mind…" Refina silently laughed at her own forgetfulness. "So no one knows, no one knows what happened to me." Refina thought this was a hopeless conversation. "Wait, you don't even know for sure that the sorcerers were the ones who took me?"
"No, but they wanted to take you and couldn't..."
"So Dilandau-sama was guessing it was them."
"Yah! He went insane!" some of them were tempted to say 'more than usual' but no one would.
"He ripped the infirmary room apart!"
"I think the bed was sliced in half –"
"Are you sure about that?"
"Not really." Refina laughed at him with the others.
"Well whatever was going on in there it looks like a tornado went though –"
Miguel looked up sharply and snapped his fingers. "That must be why they took you here instead of keeping you… but still – "
"What was going on in-between" someone from the right made a spooky background sound which sparked a chorus of wolfish howling and hoot owls culminating in a semi-ear splitting death shriek. By the end Miguel and Refina were clutching their sides like the rest of them. Refina laid down after the laughing had died out and closed her eyes. She was trying to remember the in-between… but it was like nothing was there – like that time never happened for her – or as if she were somewhere else? When she opened her eyes again her blue-black Dragonslayer wall were gone, replaced by a sole pale figure covered in black and red armor.
"Dilandau?" Dilandau didn't answer, so she reached out a hand and shook his knee.
"What!" Dilandau jumped up with his sword out looking around like he was paranoid.
"Calm down and don't yell."
"Refina!" he almost sounds like a little kid. "Whatever." He's acting like a little kid…
"Uh-hump. So, how much time has passed?" Refina knew she had missed something or other. She had forgotten to ask the Ryuu how long she had been gone.
"Around a day and four hours. You slept through dinner."
Refina was dieing to ask the other question… "So you were worried about –"
" Did I say –"
"They told me you were looking for – "
"So?"
"FINE!" Refina slammed herself back into the pillow and closed her eyes.
"Of course I was worried." The words sounded like they didn't want to come out, but the did so on there own.
"Good. You should be." Refina sat up and crossed her arms over her chest, she didn't notice Dilandau's shift in gaze because of this. When she did she blushed and pulled the covers over her light, Fucking badly made damned see though, blue pajama shirt. "Get over me." Was the response she settled on.
"Get over yourself." Dilandau turned away.
"Uh." That wasn't what Refina wanted. Before he had been ready to grab her without a second thought and all she wanted was for him to fight for her or something like that… now he had and he didn't want her! Damn you Dilandau! Why wont you do what I want!? "HUMPH!'
Dilandau was laughing at her "Or maybe you should get over me… Hm?"
"I'm going back to bed. Don't know where you got that idea but you spend to much time in front of the mirror for a normal guy." She turned over so she didn't have to look at him while she pouted.
"Maybe you should have kept the covers down."
"Perv."
"Dose it count when that's what you want?" An actual question, no mockery.
Her reply was muffled by the pillow she stuffed her face in. "Would it matter to you?"
"Excuse me? I didn't hear that." He leaned in closer. To hear her give a heavy sigh, she was asleep. "Damn you."
Refina couldn't hold it in and she accidentally giggled "sorry. But I wasn't winning…" Dilandau only frowned at her "what's on you mind?" still a frown. "fine, I really will go to sleep."
"Don't go to sleep when you don't need to."
"Good night."
"Uh-hu."
Then the last murmured sentence, said when she was half asleep and didn't know he was still listening. "Love you."
Refina slept peacefully though the night, on the other hand Dilandau had almost no sleep as he turned her last words over around in his head. What did they mean? No one had ever said those words to him before, not like they meant them. He never had parents; to say they loved him- not that he wanted them. He had no known family so he had grown up in the military with Refina. They told him they were found unconscious and must have gotten amnesia, he didn't care, and that was done with, why should he care? Maybe it was sad that he didn't care. Maybe it was sad that he didn't know what the words ment… but where had Refina picked it up? Why would Refina say that when it had never been said… to her…?
Dilandau had made the Ryuu sleep in the training room on the wrestling mats so they didn't disturb Refina. Some time near the middle of the night Dilandau had a strange dream – something weird like black oceans or black skies and fire… and then great yellow dopey looking birds and pink elephants… very strange with absolutely no meaning to him, but he couldn't force himself back to sleep. He got up and followed the way to the Dragonslayers dorm to sit by Refina, maybe he would get answers when she woke.
In the back rooms of the Mess hall servants were still cleaning up after the many soldiers posted on the Floating fortress.
"So Mie… what do you think about that Dilandau boy… hu?" A plain looking girl in a blue smock and hair net asked her friend as they stood together washed dishes.
"Oh, him…" the girl, Mie, blushed furiously.
"Yah, I saw you look at him…" when the girl received no answerers from Mie she decided to go on anyway "Well, I think he is sooooo Hot!"
"You're a ditz Gaz." Mie laughed at her friend as she dried another dish and placed it with the others. "You would never have a chance with him in a million years… and besides! He's like –" she lowered her voice a bit "a total psychopath."
Gaz sighed and grabbed her bazillionth plate for the night "Yah, an it only makes him more – dangerous."
Mia snorted at her friends insane fantasizing "You don't have a chance, I bet he's already fucked Refina."
"Ooooh! That bitch! She has every guy on this ship wetting themselves when she walks by and she already had Dilandau! I hate her!"
"That only means you envy her. And hating her wont get you anywhere with Dilandau."
"I wonder what he's like in bed… or maybe Chesta."
"No way! Chesy is mine." Mie threw suds at Gaz "And Chesy would have to be a soft and stuff and embarrassed."
"Yah.. I bet Dilandau would be hard."
"You like it rough?"
"Like you have any experience?!"
"YOU GIRLS!" the voice of there boss came for the back front of the kitchens. "LESS CHATTER! MORE WASHING!" this sent the rest of the girls into fits of giggling "I swear whenever there is any space in between battles the topics on this ship revert to sex and fighting!" more giggling from Mie and Gaz "GET TO WORK!"
FIN!!!
NOTSIE!: SO?! What did you think? I'm like writing this in the middle of the night as I watch the adult swim so I don't know how good it is. And sorry for taking a wile. Hum… I think I'm going to move the Rating on this up just in case…
By Bef Kage Aka-chi
Authors note!: Yes children its time for an authors note! Now sit around and be good little girls and boys and I'll tell you something not so important but what the hay! Hee hee I'm a bit hyper (… as always …) I have had no sleep because I stayed up to watch cowboy bebop, I have spent an entire day locked in a touchier refrigerator trying to pass itself off as art classes and now I will write for the muses have sung to me and told me I should get my sorry little butt to the lap top and come up with a new chapter. HA! Now you know I'm hyper when I start warping Homeric quotas… OH! And a note of wisdom: do not read the bloody part of a fan fic while listening to Weird Al songs… the two don't mix, you end up laughing and then you feel bad about smiling as you read a sad part where the guy gets chopped in half… anyway its an interesting experience… I know. You don't have to tell me. I'm insane.
Chapter Six
The black swirls were clearing. Each time her heart beat she felt a hammer pound at the base of her skull. Where was she? What had happened to her? She wanted to open her eyes, she really did, but they felt as if they had weights on them. But she didn't want to heare the voices again. So she slowly found that she had the will needed to relive her of the remaining swirls.
"Where am I?" to her horror no sound came out when she yelled. She tried again but her lips felt too slow and she had no will to move them again. She let her eyes close and tried again. "let me out." A weak, barely audible, sound came forth. She cracked open her eyes again and tried to adjust to the lighting, for there was lighting, a steady dim blue glow.
Even moving her eyes was tiring, but she had to know what was going on – GODS!!!! – her mind was racing at the speed of light now, and maybe her body had decided to catch up. There was something wrong with this – something terribly wrong – what was with her wrist??? What was going on? Why was she strapped to the table – what was in her wrist!? Who did this? She would kill them! Kill every last one of who ever it was!
When Refina looked down at her bound wrist she saw a horrifying mess of plastic tubes and needles. Colorless liquids were being fed into her veins and she was thrashing against the restraints. First off this struck her as terrifying, after she stopped thrashing she found it plain sick. Who would do this!? Bound to a metal table by thick leather straps with needles - needles! –in her wrists! She really would kill them.
"WHATS GOING ON!?" Refina's voice rang through the silence. "LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE!!! WHERE THE HELL AM I?!" she rode on the force from the first break out scream and began focusing her thrashing for her wrist. Pin pricks of pain shot through her but they didn't hurt her as much as they gave her satisfaction. The pain would stop, when all the needles were gone, and that would be soon.
"Fuck…" she was getting cold. Probably an imbalance of the shit they were pumping into her… maybe she had moved too much too fast… she was getting drowsy and she could keep her thoughts together. Like trying to reach for the light above you even though you can't get to it – it seems like you should be able to touch it but its further than you think. Or like trying to catch a butterfly just before it flies out of you reach. She couldn't hold on to a single thought for long, and slowly, she drifted back into sleep before she even knew it.
"Get her to her bed."
"Yes Sir, Lord Folken." The soldier was nervous as Folken passed Refinas unconscious body over to him.
"When you do, tell one of the Dragonslayers to inform Dilandau of her return. She should awaken within the hour." Folken must not have taken note of the soldiers obvious discomfort with that order.
"Ye-yes, Lord Folken." He had only been on the Vione for a short time and was doing his best not to be noticed. He didn't know how he had been singled out for this job… Lord Folken turned and headed the opposite direction and the boy was left with Refina's limp form in his arms. Looking down at her he realized just why they thought she was beautiful. But no, she was way out of his league, how could he possibly even think that? He would just…
"She's back?"
"Yah."
"Dur!"
"… so… where has she been?"
"Do you think she's ever going to wake up?" the Dragonslayers were staring down at the sleeping form of Refina. She had been taken to the dorm a few seconds before .
"Glad she's back. Life with Dilandau hasn't been all peaches and cream since she was taken."
"Shud up!" Gatti slapped the pissant on the head for insubordination. " It's '–Sama' besides, you know he'll walk in just as you say something else." The rest of the Slayers laughed before stifling themselves when they heard Refinas moan, and though it didn't make a difference they all took a cautious step back.
"Should we wake her?"
"No!" Dalet covered his mouth. "Oops…"
"No, don't wake her up. She should sleep."
"Yah, and you don't want her to wake up and slice your head in half do you?"
Everyone was smiling as Refina woke from her peaceful sleep, encircled by a blue black wall. "Hu…?"
"Good morning Refina!" Chesta started yelling in his excitement.
"It not morning, Chesta…" Guimel tried to tell him.
"So, its what you say when people wake up."
"Yah, if you want to confuse them." Refina laid back and smiled. Same Ryuu.
"So, where were you? – What happened? – Did they hurt you? – Why weren't you in the infirmary? – Dilandau went crazy when he heard the sorcerers took you! – YAH!" The Slayers decided to pummel her with questions as a unit.
Refina's had shot to her head as the noisy calmer made her head ache "What? Slow down I didn't get any of that."
"What happened?" Chesta asked softly.
"I don't know what happened. They didn't tell me anything."
"So where were you?"
"Hu? I was in the infirmary… wasn't I?"
"At first, then they moved you somewhere else –" Chesta was moving too slowly for others.
"Uh hu, and Dilandau-sama –"
"The sorverers!"
"Never mind that! What happened to you!?"
"Give me a word in!" Refina smirked "I have no idea what happened in- between. I got sick, sorcerers came, sorcerers left, the doctor came, took me to the infirmary with Dilandau about to kill him if he bumped my foot against a wall, I got there and he told Dilandau to leave." At that Refina laughed remembering the I Will Kill You look Dilandau gave him before continuing. "After that I was told I needed rest and the doctor gave me something and that knocked me out."
"So… you don't know what happened?"
"You don't remember them taking you and putting you somewhere else?"
"What? No. what are you talking about?" Refina was staring at them in confusion.
"Someone moved you from the infirmary –"
"And Dilandau-sama thinks it was the sorcerers!" the someone's in the back provided that information before Refina's eyebrows flew upward.
"So, what happened to me? Where was I?"
"That's what we asked you…"
"Never mind…" Refina silently laughed at her own forgetfulness. "So no one knows, no one knows what happened to me." Refina thought this was a hopeless conversation. "Wait, you don't even know for sure that the sorcerers were the ones who took me?"
"No, but they wanted to take you and couldn't..."
"So Dilandau-sama was guessing it was them."
"Yah! He went insane!" some of them were tempted to say 'more than usual' but no one would.
"He ripped the infirmary room apart!"
"I think the bed was sliced in half –"
"Are you sure about that?"
"Not really." Refina laughed at him with the others.
"Well whatever was going on in there it looks like a tornado went though –"
Miguel looked up sharply and snapped his fingers. "That must be why they took you here instead of keeping you… but still – "
"What was going on in-between" someone from the right made a spooky background sound which sparked a chorus of wolfish howling and hoot owls culminating in a semi-ear splitting death shriek. By the end Miguel and Refina were clutching their sides like the rest of them. Refina laid down after the laughing had died out and closed her eyes. She was trying to remember the in-between… but it was like nothing was there – like that time never happened for her – or as if she were somewhere else? When she opened her eyes again her blue-black Dragonslayer wall were gone, replaced by a sole pale figure covered in black and red armor.
"Dilandau?" Dilandau didn't answer, so she reached out a hand and shook his knee.
"What!" Dilandau jumped up with his sword out looking around like he was paranoid.
"Calm down and don't yell."
"Refina!" he almost sounds like a little kid. "Whatever." He's acting like a little kid…
"Uh-hump. So, how much time has passed?" Refina knew she had missed something or other. She had forgotten to ask the Ryuu how long she had been gone.
"Around a day and four hours. You slept through dinner."
Refina was dieing to ask the other question… "So you were worried about –"
" Did I say –"
"They told me you were looking for – "
"So?"
"FINE!" Refina slammed herself back into the pillow and closed her eyes.
"Of course I was worried." The words sounded like they didn't want to come out, but the did so on there own.
"Good. You should be." Refina sat up and crossed her arms over her chest, she didn't notice Dilandau's shift in gaze because of this. When she did she blushed and pulled the covers over her light, Fucking badly made damned see though, blue pajama shirt. "Get over me." Was the response she settled on.
"Get over yourself." Dilandau turned away.
"Uh." That wasn't what Refina wanted. Before he had been ready to grab her without a second thought and all she wanted was for him to fight for her or something like that… now he had and he didn't want her! Damn you Dilandau! Why wont you do what I want!? "HUMPH!'
Dilandau was laughing at her "Or maybe you should get over me… Hm?"
"I'm going back to bed. Don't know where you got that idea but you spend to much time in front of the mirror for a normal guy." She turned over so she didn't have to look at him while she pouted.
"Maybe you should have kept the covers down."
"Perv."
"Dose it count when that's what you want?" An actual question, no mockery.
Her reply was muffled by the pillow she stuffed her face in. "Would it matter to you?"
"Excuse me? I didn't hear that." He leaned in closer. To hear her give a heavy sigh, she was asleep. "Damn you."
Refina couldn't hold it in and she accidentally giggled "sorry. But I wasn't winning…" Dilandau only frowned at her "what's on you mind?" still a frown. "fine, I really will go to sleep."
"Don't go to sleep when you don't need to."
"Good night."
"Uh-hu."
Then the last murmured sentence, said when she was half asleep and didn't know he was still listening. "Love you."
Refina slept peacefully though the night, on the other hand Dilandau had almost no sleep as he turned her last words over around in his head. What did they mean? No one had ever said those words to him before, not like they meant them. He never had parents; to say they loved him- not that he wanted them. He had no known family so he had grown up in the military with Refina. They told him they were found unconscious and must have gotten amnesia, he didn't care, and that was done with, why should he care? Maybe it was sad that he didn't care. Maybe it was sad that he didn't know what the words ment… but where had Refina picked it up? Why would Refina say that when it had never been said… to her…?
Dilandau had made the Ryuu sleep in the training room on the wrestling mats so they didn't disturb Refina. Some time near the middle of the night Dilandau had a strange dream – something weird like black oceans or black skies and fire… and then great yellow dopey looking birds and pink elephants… very strange with absolutely no meaning to him, but he couldn't force himself back to sleep. He got up and followed the way to the Dragonslayers dorm to sit by Refina, maybe he would get answers when she woke.
In the back rooms of the Mess hall servants were still cleaning up after the many soldiers posted on the Floating fortress.
"So Mie… what do you think about that Dilandau boy… hu?" A plain looking girl in a blue smock and hair net asked her friend as they stood together washed dishes.
"Oh, him…" the girl, Mie, blushed furiously.
"Yah, I saw you look at him…" when the girl received no answerers from Mie she decided to go on anyway "Well, I think he is sooooo Hot!"
"You're a ditz Gaz." Mie laughed at her friend as she dried another dish and placed it with the others. "You would never have a chance with him in a million years… and besides! He's like –" she lowered her voice a bit "a total psychopath."
Gaz sighed and grabbed her bazillionth plate for the night "Yah, an it only makes him more – dangerous."
Mia snorted at her friends insane fantasizing "You don't have a chance, I bet he's already fucked Refina."
"Ooooh! That bitch! She has every guy on this ship wetting themselves when she walks by and she already had Dilandau! I hate her!"
"That only means you envy her. And hating her wont get you anywhere with Dilandau."
"I wonder what he's like in bed… or maybe Chesta."
"No way! Chesy is mine." Mie threw suds at Gaz "And Chesy would have to be a soft and stuff and embarrassed."
"Yah.. I bet Dilandau would be hard."
"You like it rough?"
"Like you have any experience?!"
"YOU GIRLS!" the voice of there boss came for the back front of the kitchens. "LESS CHATTER! MORE WASHING!" this sent the rest of the girls into fits of giggling "I swear whenever there is any space in between battles the topics on this ship revert to sex and fighting!" more giggling from Mie and Gaz "GET TO WORK!"
FIN!!!
NOTSIE!: SO?! What did you think? I'm like writing this in the middle of the night as I watch the adult swim so I don't know how good it is. And sorry for taking a wile. Hum… I think I'm going to move the Rating on this up just in case…
