Chapter three: what we know, what we see
I sat on the very tip of my mountain looking out across a barren wilderness. It's mainly grass and the occasional tree. But in the rays of dusk it's utterly enchanting. There was a thud and the sound of panting. I turned to smile at Seventeen
"Hard climb?" he sometimes followed me up here. I didn't really mind.
He had been my companion for nearly a year now. I still liked him, a lot, but he never showed any sign of liking me back.
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I sat down heavily beside her
"Why do you always watch the sun?" she turned to smile at me
"Where do you disappear to during the day?" this was her way of telling me it was none of my business. I left it at that
I wondered, like I did every day, why I had not killed her.
She was pretty, in a rough sort of way. She was not delicate looking like my sister had once been. Her skin was rough and chapped and she was mostly muscle, not lots of it, but you would be lucky to find a soft spot on her. She didn't have much in the way of shape, though I had never seen her outside of those heavy furs she wore, essentially she had a straight up and down frame with subtle curves that betrayed her maturity. Otherwise I would have thought her no older than twelve, maybe younger.
But she was also thin and her face was pretty, you just had to look beneath the browned skin and the fall of raggedly shorn black hair. She cut it with a sharpened knife every now and again when it started to get in her way
"Mei?" this was my nickname for her
"Hn?" she was staring at the last rays of the dying sun
Now or never. If it bothered her now it would always bother her.
"I'm an android" she turned to stare at him
"You're joking right?"
*
He shook his head
"How?" he shrugged
"I don't know, some guy took me as a human and turned me into a machine" I could almost see a pleading look in his eye. But Ven never pleaded, he was arrogant, and downright insufferable a lot of the time, but I always patched him up when he came back looking as if a bus had hit him.
Ven was my name for him, Seventeen was too long to be bothered with really, much like my name.
I took a deep steadying breath
"It's not as if it makes you any less human Ven, you're still the same arrogant bastard to me"
He grinned that arrogant and highly annoying smile of his and with a sudden movement his arm had slipped around me and pulled me so close I could feel his breath
"You're beautiful, you know that" I blinked, then he kissed me, quickly and roughly, it hurt a little, but it was more the shock, I was starting to realize just how strong he really was. After all I am pretty powerful myself. I am strong enough to bend a steel bar in my hands.
But he must have been ten times that.
I kissed him back.
A whole lot harder.
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Author's note: *insert sarcasm here* WOW!! DID YOU SEE THAT COMING!!!! Meh. Reviews, reviews, reviews! :D
I sat on the very tip of my mountain looking out across a barren wilderness. It's mainly grass and the occasional tree. But in the rays of dusk it's utterly enchanting. There was a thud and the sound of panting. I turned to smile at Seventeen
"Hard climb?" he sometimes followed me up here. I didn't really mind.
He had been my companion for nearly a year now. I still liked him, a lot, but he never showed any sign of liking me back.
*
I sat down heavily beside her
"Why do you always watch the sun?" she turned to smile at me
"Where do you disappear to during the day?" this was her way of telling me it was none of my business. I left it at that
I wondered, like I did every day, why I had not killed her.
She was pretty, in a rough sort of way. She was not delicate looking like my sister had once been. Her skin was rough and chapped and she was mostly muscle, not lots of it, but you would be lucky to find a soft spot on her. She didn't have much in the way of shape, though I had never seen her outside of those heavy furs she wore, essentially she had a straight up and down frame with subtle curves that betrayed her maturity. Otherwise I would have thought her no older than twelve, maybe younger.
But she was also thin and her face was pretty, you just had to look beneath the browned skin and the fall of raggedly shorn black hair. She cut it with a sharpened knife every now and again when it started to get in her way
"Mei?" this was my nickname for her
"Hn?" she was staring at the last rays of the dying sun
Now or never. If it bothered her now it would always bother her.
"I'm an android" she turned to stare at him
"You're joking right?"
*
He shook his head
"How?" he shrugged
"I don't know, some guy took me as a human and turned me into a machine" I could almost see a pleading look in his eye. But Ven never pleaded, he was arrogant, and downright insufferable a lot of the time, but I always patched him up when he came back looking as if a bus had hit him.
Ven was my name for him, Seventeen was too long to be bothered with really, much like my name.
I took a deep steadying breath
"It's not as if it makes you any less human Ven, you're still the same arrogant bastard to me"
He grinned that arrogant and highly annoying smile of his and with a sudden movement his arm had slipped around me and pulled me so close I could feel his breath
"You're beautiful, you know that" I blinked, then he kissed me, quickly and roughly, it hurt a little, but it was more the shock, I was starting to realize just how strong he really was. After all I am pretty powerful myself. I am strong enough to bend a steel bar in my hands.
But he must have been ten times that.
I kissed him back.
A whole lot harder.
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Author's note: *insert sarcasm here* WOW!! DID YOU SEE THAT COMING!!!! Meh. Reviews, reviews, reviews! :D