Olya / cardcaptor girl's notes: Well guess what? This is a nice chapter, you'll like it, I promise you. I need your reviews people, please don't stop writing them. I'm thinking about…umm…now, I need to know if it's dark and angsty enough and if the characters are still *in character*. If the *will* be a slight change in character's personality, or by the way they speak, then I'll try my best to explain why, what, or how come, okay?

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     "Why are we here Allecto?" Hiead kept frowning to himself, as he walked to the middle of the observatory. The silver haired boy stopped several meters from his partner. She just leaned on railing and watched the star full space above them on the ceiling, behind the glass. For a moment or so Ikhny was silent, searching for the right words to say…somehow she couldn't find them yet…

     Hiead started feeling slightly annoyed at the quietness, so he spoke up again.

    "We have to go to the training session now."

    "We just came here." A surprised voice of Ikhny Allecto echoed through the room.

    "Allecto, don't make me say it, or worse – do it."

    "Do what?" Somehow, a silly-clueless-girl chit-chat seemed pretty fun for Ikhny at the moment, despite the awareness of Hiead coming over and shaking the hell out of her at any given second. In addition to it, the brown haired girl tried to imagine that this boy liked her…that he tried to tell her *the* precious words, and that he was so cold toward her, simply because he was scared of rejection…and that by the words *do it* he meant not hurting her, but kis-…Ikhny snapped out of her trance...why was she suddenly imagining those things?...She blushed slightly…he saw it…

    "We have to go now." He repeated firmly once more in a blank voice.

    "No, we don't." Hiead looked somewhat astonished at her response. He had a sudden urge to just come over and make her go with him to the gym…however; the boy restrained himself from doing so. The desire to know what his ridiculous little partner had to say…

    "What are you saying?" The voice kept on coming in icy, detached waves from the boy's mouth.

    "T-there is…s-someone else waiting for you in there…"

    "Where?" There was a definite misunderstanding between the teens. Maybe it's because Hiead suddenly forgot where he was, what he was doing there and most of all: why.

    "In the training gym, Hiead."

    "Yes," the ruby eyed boy remembered. "Who is it?" The following words came uneasily from Ikhny's mouth, afraid of reaction the boy might give her.

    "Your new partner." She said, while biting lightly on her lip. Hiead turned away to look into the space. He mentally smirked to himself. Now he knew what was going on: a bad case of a 'girl who's mad at the boy'. This would be easy.

   "I see." He said understandably. "I was told to come and apologize to my repairer for something I wasn't even guilty of, and you know I won't ever ask for forgiveness if I'm not feeling blameworthy." Ikhny nodded unsurely of where this was going. "It's ten minutes until the training begins; we have to go, if we want to make it in time."

   "You go; I have another business to take care of." The boy looked at her a little stressed, but his face wouldn't show any signs of it. She was now taunting with him. She *knew* he couldn't possibly complete the training without her. Wench.

  "Alright Allecto, my way – or a high way." He said darkly as he turned to face the girl, studying her every move.

   "Any way you want, Hiead; I'm not your partner anymore." Ikhny's voice somehow was equated to Hiead's. The girl didn't know herself how come the last sentence came out the way it did.

   "Very well." Was all he said, before giving Ikhny the death glare and walking toward the exit. For a moment there, the chocolate haired girl thought her former partner would come over and just kill her on the spot…he didn't, he just kept on walking until he reached the door as it slid sideways. Then Hiead stopped, not turning around, as if waiting for her to do something…maybe to hold him back and say that she was just joking, or that she changed her mind. Nothing, however, came from the girl, except for a quiet and almost muffled: "I'm sorry."

   And then he left.

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   As the silver haired boy kept walking down the halls of GOA, he kept cursing himself along with the damned Allecto. In this situation – she made him look *bad*. Hiead frowned, as he pictured Zero rolling and laughing on the floor, while saying things like: 'Oh, no one can even stand him! Even his own partner left him!'; which would be true after all…no one truly could stand him. Idiots; they were all weak. He would be the one piloting a Goddess in the end, he would come to the top, he would greatly surpass the hopeless Zero Enna…and after he would do that…after he would reach the top of it all…Hiead stopped as his cold, emotionless glare softened: What would he do then? What would he do after he became a Goddess Pilot?...The boy had no answer whatsoever.

   But now he had to concentrate on what was in front of him: that is the new training session and then a couple of years of training, after which he *would* become a pilot.

   TO BE CONTINUED…

    Olya / cardcaptor girl's notes: So? How was it? I think it was the best chapter so far. You need to know that I am growing the ideas in characters' heads, the new ideas, and as we observed – Hiead doesn't yet go through his emotional metamorphosis.

   Hiead's character is very complex to write about in a correct way, so I don't want to do the sudden    alternations in his character's development. It takes time to change, right?

   And I am also not very fond of the idea that Hiead is really the warm and caring person inside, because he isn't…we can see it in the series…but the character development is different…it's when you are going through a change, but not as quick as hell – the way the most Ikhny/ Hiead writers make him go. It takes time, remember that; but it also doesn't mean that I will continue this fic for years. Hiead does go through the tiny changes already, but those changes are so small, they are barely noticeable…Ikhny, on the other hand is better at having little changes, for she has no complex personality…but still – little by little, people. Until tomorrow,

                                                  Yours Sincerely, Olya / cardcaptor girl.