Make me feel again
Slide across my skin again
Let me uncover you to rediscover you
And I will open up
If you promise to give in
On this perfect night
Let the two of us be one
We will be again another time
No matter what all the others say
Cause I would leave it all so far behind
Just to be with you today
So make me feel again
Feel your every breath again
Never mind everyone
There's only me and you
We will be again another time
No matter what all the others say
Cause I would leave it all so far behind
Just to be with you today
Just to be with you today
Just to be with you today
Just to be with you
We will be again another time
No matter what all the others say
Cause I would leave it all so far behind
Just to be with you today
So we will be again another time
And I will do all I need to do
To leave the others all so far behind
Just so I can be
Just so I can be....
....With you, with you, with you, with you....
Hoobastank "To Be With You"
Guile quietly shut the door to Cammy's room after laying her down to go to sleep. She needed to sleep after what had just happened. Those memories had to be so devastating to her. He continued down the hall and into his room. Jane was lying in the bed. When she heard him enter she quickly snuffed up her nose and turned from him. She didn't want him to see that she had been crying. Guile looked down to the floor, ashamed. He had so much pressure on him lately that him and Jane's relationship hadn't been doing well. He took off his shirt shoes and pants and lay down next to Jane in his boxers. He gently touched her shoulder.
"Jane?"
Without moving she replied.
"What?"
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I have had a lot of pressure on me lately. It was wrong of me to say that to you earlier tonight. And all the weeks before. I was wrong there too. You're doing your best just like I am. But I'm the only one throwing stones, and I'm so sorry for that."
A moment of silence followed Guile confession. He held his breath, knowing he didn't deserve an immediate answer. She rolled over and looked into his eyes.
"Do you promise to make me a part of every decision from this moment forth?"
"You know it."
She smiled and placed a kiss on his lips. He brought his hand to her face as he continued the kiss. Guile made love to his wife for the first time since all this bad stuff had begun to happen. Things were finally falling back together. They were finally going to be able to put their lives back in order. With Cammy in it now of course.
Cammy looked into her father's eyes as he gave her instructions.
"Okay. If someone reaches behind you like this, put you right hand here, and your left here."
She did as he told her and he continued.
"Then press down hard here, it's a pressure point."
"But I don't want to hurt you."
"I know babygirl. But I have to make sure you're hitting the right spot so do it."
"Alright then."
Cammy pressed down as hard as she could and her father had to suck in his breath. She released him then started laughing. He rolled his eyes in the back of his head a toppled over before he began shaking.
"I…think you…broke a nerve."
She fell on top of him and playfully poked at his sides knowing she would make him laugh. She didn't know why he was going to all this trouble trying to teach her defense moves. She was twelve. But she didn't mind the time they spent together while she learned them. Guile had come the other day to help and challenged her dad. Guile won the fight, but that could have been because her dad was too busy trying to make her laugh while he was fighting. Her dad picked her up and held her upside down above his head.
"Okay, let's go inside now. We'll finish teaching you the move another time."
"Dad?"
"Yeah babygirl?"
"I love you."
He pulled her upright. Suddenly he looked as if he were lying in a bed.
"Do all you can to get away from him. Remember what I said. I love y—"
Cammy sat up in bed and wiped tears from her eyes. Something knocking had woken her from the dream. She was glad though. She remembered the last words her father had said to her, and those were them. She was so happy to have had the dream/memory. It only hurt now because she knew he was gone forever. Cammy stood and walked to the window. Ken was there waiting for her. She opened the window and helped him inside.
"Now I at least can remember what happened last time you came into my window. Guile wasn't too happy."
"Well I won't stay. I just really wanted to see you."
"That's okay. I actually needed to talk to you."
"About?"
The two walked over and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Well, earlier tonight I…I remembered my mother and my father. I remembered that they are both dead."
"Oh my God. Are you okay? Why didn't you call me?"
"I think I'm okay. I'm more numb than anything else. I am just feeling alone right now."
"But we're all here for you. You don't need to feel like that. You should have called me. I would have come right over."
"Well Guile was here. He took it kind of hard too. But I didn't mean alone how you took it. I'm totally orphaned. No mother or father, or grandparents, even aunts, uncles or cousins. It's just me. I'm the last of my family."
"It depends on what you consider family. If you mean blood relatives, yes, but that's not family. Family is the people you love and who love you. Guile, Jane and Melissa, they're your family."
Ken reached up and touched Cammy's cheek.
"Me. I'm your family."
"Oh Ken. I just want to have a life!"
She threw herself into his arms and squeezed him tight. Which Ken noted was pretty tight. She must still have the strength.
"Promise never to leave me. I don't know what I would do."
"I won't leave you Cammy. Just don't you leave me when you find someone better."
"Ha ha, very funny Ken Masters."
Ken pulled away from her and pouted his lower lip in an overly dramatic fashion.
"I'm not joking."
Cammy smiled before she reached up and started playing with his hair.
"Your hair is getting pretty long."
"Is it?"
"Yeah, it's just about long enough to braid."
"What are you suggesting?"
"Let me braid it."
"Like you do yours? In pigtails? Hell no!"
"Come on! Just for a little bit. Please."
Cammy batted her eyelashes and now it was her turn to pout her lower lip.
"I guess, but just for like one second then you have to take it out."
"Okay!"
Cammy kneeled on the bed behind Ken and set to work. Ken's arms were crossed over his chest as she worked. It only took her a few moments before it was done due to the fact she had done it so many times to her own hair.
"Okay, I'm done! It looks…"
"Retarded?"
"No! It looks sweet."
"Yeah right. Okay now take it out."
Cammy stood in front of Ken and placed her hands on the sides of his face. She leaned over and kissed his lips. He reached his hands around her back and returned her kiss. She pulled away and smiled at him.
"How does that feel?"
"The kiss felt great. But my hair still looks retarded. I know what you were doing."
"And what would that be?"
"You were trying to get me to forget that you had my hair done up like this."
"Didn't work?"
"Nope."
Ken reached up and began to pull his fingers through the braids to loosen them.
"You can't tell anyone about this."
"Don't worry it's between me and you."
Ken kissed her again. The kiss was longer this time but he knew he had to leave. The last thing he needed was for Guile to walk in. He had a habit of doing that. Between small peck kisses Ken managed to speak.
"I…have…to go…now…but…you come…to my…house tomorrow…and I'll cook…you dinner."
"Alright. I'll see you tomorrow then."
Ken was halfway out the window before he looked into Cammy's eyes and spoke softly and seriously.
"I'm so glad to have you back. I'm going to be here for you always. I love you."
"I love you too Ken."
Glass shattered in large crashes against the wall as Vega screamed out in frustration.
"SHE BELONGS TO ME!"
He had lost his favorite possession. For real this time. Before he she was just out of his reach, but now. By now she had remembered her past life. He may never get her back. Not totally. Vega wiped the small amount of sweat from his brow and smoothed his hair down. It had been flying wildly around during his slight 'fit'. He sat down calmly in a chair, collected his composure and surveyed the damage. The room was torn apart. Aside from the chair he was sitting in everything was in pieces. He could see the scenario now. Camilla back in her pigtails hanging on every word that imbecile Ken Masters said about how he came to her rescue.
"Idiot! I will rip him in two!"
Vega stood, picked up the chair he had been sitting on and slammed it hard onto the floor. Just then Bison walked in the room.
"Vega! Stop this right now. It is foolish that you get so worked up over a ghost."
"What are you saying Lord Bison?"
"I can't have a splinter cell like that young girl remembering things and telling all my secrets."
Vega looked intently at Bison's blank face.
"Is she dead?"
"Not yet. But she will be shortly. Then you won't have to worry your pretty little head anymore."
Bison gave a short laugh and walked from the room. Vega couldn't move. Bison was going to kill his Camilla. She would really be gone then. He was silent and unmoving for a few moments before he stood and yelled for the world to hear.
"Let her die then. If I can't have her, nobody will. Especially Ken Masters."
He fell into a fit of uncontrollable laughter then as an evil smile spread on his lips.