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Warnings- yah, it's angsty...again. sap..again. Eiko and Shinihave been running the show. be afraid, be SO afraid.
Sakura woke up in an empty bed. It was still warm. She yawned and got out of bed. Hurt and pain echoes through her even as she was still waking up but she locked it away. Locked away as she had done every day of her life since she had been about eight. Ever since her adopted father had started selling her to men for money.
She had been almost eight years old when she had been adopted. Her mother had been kind. A wonderful lady with dark mahogany brown hair and kind blue eyes. She had died only 4 months after Sakura had been adopted. The cancer had been eating away at her for a long time before she had succumbed to the pain.
That's when it had begun. Her father Rick was a good-looking man. Kind black eyes and brown hair. He too had died. Suicide after her mother. That's when she was given to Jonathan. He was a greasy man. Black hair slicked back with oil and pale watery blue eyes.
He had always been rather poor. They had never lived in great area but soon they were forced into slums. He drank too much and didn't work. He needed money for his alcohol. That was the first time he had looked at her with lust.
Jonathan was a sex offender. He was a Pedophile. He had never been brought to court. Had not been brought to court for the little girls he had raped. Two of them. They hadn't gotten through the interrogation sequence. That was the first time he had looked at Sakura wit Lust in his eyes. It wasn't by any account the last.
She shook her head disrupting that train of thoughts. She got out of the bed and peeked out the door. Where was the shower? Walking down the hall she walked for nearly a half hour. Soon wood paneling and nothing else surrounded her. It was closing in. Choking her with its grasp.
Her eyes grew wide. She as alone. So. So. Alone. A scream she wasn't aware of letting out burst from her mouth in a long stream. Soon he was screaming the words as well. Though to her they sounded like no more than bare whispers. "Help me!! Please!! I'm alone!! Please!! Somebody!! Duo! Quatre! Trowa! W-w-Wufei!! Heero!! Please!! Somebody anybody!!" She collapsed tremors surrounding her. The walls were closing in. why didn't any one answer her? Why? Why? Why?
Wufei sat at the breakfast table talking to duo. Or rather Duo was talking in that endless stream of inane chatter and Wufei was listening and smiling and adding a comment here and there. That was a scream rushed into the kitchen. . "Help me!! Please!! I'm alone!! Please!! Somebody!! Duo! Quatre! Trowa! W-w-Wufei!! Heero!! Please!! Somebody anybody!!" The fear and desperation in it were not wasted upon Wufei. As soon he heard it begin he vaulted from the chair and ran towards the noise.
It was mere moments after the scream when Wufei found Sakura. She was on the floor trembling and sobbing. He wrapped his arms around her and effortlessly picked her up as the other pilots came running up behind him. She had started to calm down by this time and was trying to get her breath back when Duo asked quietly, almost timidly. "Sakura what was wrong?" "T-the walls, it was like they were closing in on me. I was looking for you guys…" Quatre smiled that smile that always seems to make everybody feel better and answered reassuringly "It's okay I know how you feel." Everybody looked at the blond asking for an answer.
He answered easily and simply. "The first few weeks I was here I got lost really easily. When I was a child my tutors would shut me into closets or dark rooms as a punishment." He took a deep breath. "When I got lost it seemed like the walls w-were closing in on me. It's not a pleasant experience…I did almost exactly the same thing as you Sakura. Except I didn't have time to scream…I just passed out." He took a shuddering breath and Trowa sensing his Lover's discomfort stood behind him long elegant arms wrapped around the slightly smaller boy. A wicked gleam entered Sakura's eyes.
"You two aren't…Lovers are you?" While her face looked innocent everybody knew that look it was the same one Duo wore when he was up to no good. Quatre blushed profusely. "Well…erm...I mean…." Trowa answered for him. "Yes, we are...why?" His eyebrow quirked in inquiry. "Just wondering, I mean I know that Duo and Heero are." Heero's mouth dropped open in a totally not-Heero way. Sakura grinned. Before she had a chance to explain Heero began to sputter. "How…I mean…but…and the…with…" The whole while his arms were making vague gestures, which caused everybody to sweat drop.
Sakura smiled. "It was easy to see…and I could almost…feel it." Her voice and eyes grew vague as she tried to explain. Quatre looked at her amazed. "Sakura you could…feel it you say?" "Well sort of…it happens a lot. I mean I can always tell how people are feeling but I don't know how…" If possible Quatre looked more amazed than Heero did gaping. "Sakura…you say you can feel what other people do, correct?" "Yah, why?" By his point the other pilots were looking at the blonde strangely. Heero who had by this point recovered spoke.
"Quatre you don't think she has empathic abilities do you?" The blonde responded honestly. "I really don't know. I mean it sounds as though she does but so does everyone. She just has a higher capability for it. I really don't know." This is where Sakura piped back into the conversation. "Guys I would love to listen to you jabber about my capability to interpret other people's emotions but I am starved! We couldn't talk about this while we eat?" She smiled broadly and conned the boys into heading back to the kitchen.
2:00 P.M
Living Room
"Sakura" Wufei spoke softly. They had been sitting in the library reading for an hour or two. However maybe twenty minutes ago Sakura had stopped reading, she was simply gazing off into space. "Sakura what's wrong?" Her eyes focused. "Nothing, why would you think something was wrong Wufei?" Concern filled her voice. "You've been staring off into space for the last twenty minutes." He spoke softly. "I was concerned about you Sakura." Sakura's cheeks flushed and her eyes got wide. "I-I didn't think you cared" 'I do though Sakura I care for you so much it seems as though my heart should burst' "What?" Wufei flushed. Had he just said that out loud?
"W-Wufei did you just say…I'm sorry I'll see you later. Quatre wanted to see me anyway." She smiled though it did not reach her eyes before sprinting out of the room. Wufei got up slowly and walked over to where Sakura's book had dropped on the floor. He looked at the cover. "The Heir to Shadows, Anne Bishop" Turning to the back tot read what it was about it gave him some insight.
'Only time and the love of her guardians have healed her physical wounds. But her mind is still fragile, barely able to protect her from the terrible memories of her childhood. Nothing, however can keep her from her destiny'
He would have continued had he not heard Quatre's voice yelling from down the hall. "Wufei! Wufei it's Sakura! Quick we need your help!!" The blonde had barely stopped yelling when Wufei burst into the room. Quatre and Trowa were holding down Sakura on the floor. Duo and Heero had gone out to lunch. Sakura's was thrashing wildly and had just begun to scream. It wasn't a wordless scream however. "Daddy get off me!! No daddy please not again please! Ahh!" "Quatre, Trowa get off of her quickly." The Chinese man's voice was filled with an urgency not usually seen.
As soon as the couple had removed themselves the girl calmed, the screaming stopped. A quiet murmur escaped her lips that were in no way lost on Wufei. "Wufei…you saved me. Wo a ni…" The Chinese pilots onyx eyes softened at the first statement and then widened at the second. As Quatre and Trowa turned to look shocked at Wufei all they saw was his retreating figure.
"Quatre do you know what wrong with" "He's frightened." The words were spoken softly to Quatre's lover. "He's scared like you were Trowa…would you?" "Aa. Yes, he does need to speak with somebody before he does anything rash. Are you worried about him Quatre?" "Very. He's like Heero, the things he's feeling right now have been locked away for so long. They frighten him you see, and I'm worried he might try to deny them push Sakura away. She's already been hurt and now, now well another rejection might break the fragile hold she has. You saw her today; she had seizure when we found her in the hall. Fainting…that scream, Trowa…I wanted" "Wanted to know what?" "Would…would you" "Would I speak to Sakura?" "Would you?"
Bright blue eyes a color that reflected the sky looked up at Trowa in askance. Even though they were pleading a look of concern and hesitance filled them. "You don't have to be afraid to ask Koi. I would do anything for you." A smile lit Quatre's face as he looked up at Trowa; it was immediately foreshadowed by a look of concern. "We should really get her upstairs." "Yes" Trowa lightly picked up the small girl and both the men started upstairs.
So didja like this chapter? Sorry for the wait, I hate writer's block…what about you guys did you like it?
Eiko- it was cute…I love sap…
Shini- but-but there wasn't any angst?
Sakura- O.O; that's almost all there was Shini
Shini- grumbles:: I suppose…
^.^ Please review? (cause ya love me?) Oh yes…I almost forgot ::sweatdrop::
Thank-you EVERYBODY who reviewed. I think I looked and reviewed everybody who left a signed review…hm welll see-you next chapter.
Warnings- yah, it's angsty...again. sap..again. Eiko and Shinihave been running the show. be afraid, be SO afraid.
Sakura woke up in an empty bed. It was still warm. She yawned and got out of bed. Hurt and pain echoes through her even as she was still waking up but she locked it away. Locked away as she had done every day of her life since she had been about eight. Ever since her adopted father had started selling her to men for money.
She had been almost eight years old when she had been adopted. Her mother had been kind. A wonderful lady with dark mahogany brown hair and kind blue eyes. She had died only 4 months after Sakura had been adopted. The cancer had been eating away at her for a long time before she had succumbed to the pain.
That's when it had begun. Her father Rick was a good-looking man. Kind black eyes and brown hair. He too had died. Suicide after her mother. That's when she was given to Jonathan. He was a greasy man. Black hair slicked back with oil and pale watery blue eyes.
He had always been rather poor. They had never lived in great area but soon they were forced into slums. He drank too much and didn't work. He needed money for his alcohol. That was the first time he had looked at her with lust.
Jonathan was a sex offender. He was a Pedophile. He had never been brought to court. Had not been brought to court for the little girls he had raped. Two of them. They hadn't gotten through the interrogation sequence. That was the first time he had looked at Sakura wit Lust in his eyes. It wasn't by any account the last.
She shook her head disrupting that train of thoughts. She got out of the bed and peeked out the door. Where was the shower? Walking down the hall she walked for nearly a half hour. Soon wood paneling and nothing else surrounded her. It was closing in. Choking her with its grasp.
Her eyes grew wide. She as alone. So. So. Alone. A scream she wasn't aware of letting out burst from her mouth in a long stream. Soon he was screaming the words as well. Though to her they sounded like no more than bare whispers. "Help me!! Please!! I'm alone!! Please!! Somebody!! Duo! Quatre! Trowa! W-w-Wufei!! Heero!! Please!! Somebody anybody!!" She collapsed tremors surrounding her. The walls were closing in. why didn't any one answer her? Why? Why? Why?
Wufei sat at the breakfast table talking to duo. Or rather Duo was talking in that endless stream of inane chatter and Wufei was listening and smiling and adding a comment here and there. That was a scream rushed into the kitchen. . "Help me!! Please!! I'm alone!! Please!! Somebody!! Duo! Quatre! Trowa! W-w-Wufei!! Heero!! Please!! Somebody anybody!!" The fear and desperation in it were not wasted upon Wufei. As soon he heard it begin he vaulted from the chair and ran towards the noise.
It was mere moments after the scream when Wufei found Sakura. She was on the floor trembling and sobbing. He wrapped his arms around her and effortlessly picked her up as the other pilots came running up behind him. She had started to calm down by this time and was trying to get her breath back when Duo asked quietly, almost timidly. "Sakura what was wrong?" "T-the walls, it was like they were closing in on me. I was looking for you guys…" Quatre smiled that smile that always seems to make everybody feel better and answered reassuringly "It's okay I know how you feel." Everybody looked at the blond asking for an answer.
He answered easily and simply. "The first few weeks I was here I got lost really easily. When I was a child my tutors would shut me into closets or dark rooms as a punishment." He took a deep breath. "When I got lost it seemed like the walls w-were closing in on me. It's not a pleasant experience…I did almost exactly the same thing as you Sakura. Except I didn't have time to scream…I just passed out." He took a shuddering breath and Trowa sensing his Lover's discomfort stood behind him long elegant arms wrapped around the slightly smaller boy. A wicked gleam entered Sakura's eyes.
"You two aren't…Lovers are you?" While her face looked innocent everybody knew that look it was the same one Duo wore when he was up to no good. Quatre blushed profusely. "Well…erm...I mean…." Trowa answered for him. "Yes, we are...why?" His eyebrow quirked in inquiry. "Just wondering, I mean I know that Duo and Heero are." Heero's mouth dropped open in a totally not-Heero way. Sakura grinned. Before she had a chance to explain Heero began to sputter. "How…I mean…but…and the…with…" The whole while his arms were making vague gestures, which caused everybody to sweat drop.
Sakura smiled. "It was easy to see…and I could almost…feel it." Her voice and eyes grew vague as she tried to explain. Quatre looked at her amazed. "Sakura you could…feel it you say?" "Well sort of…it happens a lot. I mean I can always tell how people are feeling but I don't know how…" If possible Quatre looked more amazed than Heero did gaping. "Sakura…you say you can feel what other people do, correct?" "Yah, why?" By his point the other pilots were looking at the blonde strangely. Heero who had by this point recovered spoke.
"Quatre you don't think she has empathic abilities do you?" The blonde responded honestly. "I really don't know. I mean it sounds as though she does but so does everyone. She just has a higher capability for it. I really don't know." This is where Sakura piped back into the conversation. "Guys I would love to listen to you jabber about my capability to interpret other people's emotions but I am starved! We couldn't talk about this while we eat?" She smiled broadly and conned the boys into heading back to the kitchen.
2:00 P.M
Living Room
"Sakura" Wufei spoke softly. They had been sitting in the library reading for an hour or two. However maybe twenty minutes ago Sakura had stopped reading, she was simply gazing off into space. "Sakura what's wrong?" Her eyes focused. "Nothing, why would you think something was wrong Wufei?" Concern filled her voice. "You've been staring off into space for the last twenty minutes." He spoke softly. "I was concerned about you Sakura." Sakura's cheeks flushed and her eyes got wide. "I-I didn't think you cared" 'I do though Sakura I care for you so much it seems as though my heart should burst' "What?" Wufei flushed. Had he just said that out loud?
"W-Wufei did you just say…I'm sorry I'll see you later. Quatre wanted to see me anyway." She smiled though it did not reach her eyes before sprinting out of the room. Wufei got up slowly and walked over to where Sakura's book had dropped on the floor. He looked at the cover. "The Heir to Shadows, Anne Bishop" Turning to the back tot read what it was about it gave him some insight.
'Only time and the love of her guardians have healed her physical wounds. But her mind is still fragile, barely able to protect her from the terrible memories of her childhood. Nothing, however can keep her from her destiny'
He would have continued had he not heard Quatre's voice yelling from down the hall. "Wufei! Wufei it's Sakura! Quick we need your help!!" The blonde had barely stopped yelling when Wufei burst into the room. Quatre and Trowa were holding down Sakura on the floor. Duo and Heero had gone out to lunch. Sakura's was thrashing wildly and had just begun to scream. It wasn't a wordless scream however. "Daddy get off me!! No daddy please not again please! Ahh!" "Quatre, Trowa get off of her quickly." The Chinese man's voice was filled with an urgency not usually seen.
As soon as the couple had removed themselves the girl calmed, the screaming stopped. A quiet murmur escaped her lips that were in no way lost on Wufei. "Wufei…you saved me. Wo a ni…" The Chinese pilots onyx eyes softened at the first statement and then widened at the second. As Quatre and Trowa turned to look shocked at Wufei all they saw was his retreating figure.
"Quatre do you know what wrong with" "He's frightened." The words were spoken softly to Quatre's lover. "He's scared like you were Trowa…would you?" "Aa. Yes, he does need to speak with somebody before he does anything rash. Are you worried about him Quatre?" "Very. He's like Heero, the things he's feeling right now have been locked away for so long. They frighten him you see, and I'm worried he might try to deny them push Sakura away. She's already been hurt and now, now well another rejection might break the fragile hold she has. You saw her today; she had seizure when we found her in the hall. Fainting…that scream, Trowa…I wanted" "Wanted to know what?" "Would…would you" "Would I speak to Sakura?" "Would you?"
Bright blue eyes a color that reflected the sky looked up at Trowa in askance. Even though they were pleading a look of concern and hesitance filled them. "You don't have to be afraid to ask Koi. I would do anything for you." A smile lit Quatre's face as he looked up at Trowa; it was immediately foreshadowed by a look of concern. "We should really get her upstairs." "Yes" Trowa lightly picked up the small girl and both the men started upstairs.
So didja like this chapter? Sorry for the wait, I hate writer's block…what about you guys did you like it?
Eiko- it was cute…I love sap…
Shini- but-but there wasn't any angst?
Sakura- O.O; that's almost all there was Shini
Shini- grumbles:: I suppose…
^.^ Please review? (cause ya love me?) Oh yes…I almost forgot ::sweatdrop::
Thank-you EVERYBODY who reviewed. I think I looked and reviewed everybody who left a signed review…hm welll see-you next chapter.