Chapter the last: Here's to the Night

Note: "Here's to the Night" belongs to Eve 6.

"You can't be, you can't be, my father is dead," Kagome said, confused and frightened at the thought that Gideon was her father. "I wouldn't be so sure," Gideon said, "I am your father, Kagome. I understand why you don't believe me, but you can't escape the facts." "My mother could never love a sick, twisted, psychotic bastard like you!" Kagome yelled at him. "I suppose I deserved that," Gideon said, "I'll tell you everything if you'll just calm down an-" "Calm down?!" Kagome screamed, "You want me to calm down?! I just found out that my father is a deranged psychopath bent on ruling the world, and you want me to calm down?! I…I…" Kagome couldn't stand it anymore; tears streamed down her cheeks. She started to fall, but Gideon caught her. He held her close to him, "It's okay, Kagome," he said to her, "Everything will be okay." "Tell me, tell me what happened," Kagome said resting her head on his shoulder.

"I met your mother twenty years ago. I was fleeing the Cabal, the prophecies told that I was the one ment lead them, but I wanted no part of it. I hoped to hide in Tokyo, figuring that they'd never find me there, and that's were I met her. We fell in love and married, but I never told her about my past. Even if you can't believe me, I loved your mother and she loved me. I was worried that the Cabal would try to use you as a ransom when you were born, but they never did. I was able to almost totally shut out the Cabal from my memories, until Sota was born. They had found me and they were going to kill us all if I didn't come and be their leader as the prophecies commanded. I didn't want to leave, but I had no choice. I had to go for the sake of you, your mother, and Sota, so I told your mother everything, and left. Over the years of being the leader of the Cabal I became used to it. I wanted to take the world, not because I had to, because I wanted to. I became what I am now. Take the jewel, it's useless to me now. I don't want to see you hurt, but I must take the world, it is my desire and my job. I must find the Black Dragon and you must try to stop me, that is the sad truth. I don't like it but that's the way it has to be, now go while you can."

"I won't go," Kagome said, "Let me be on your side." "No," Gideon said "Your not thinking clearly, that's not what you really want, and I will not have my only daughter join this band of fanatics hell-bent on world domination." "I won't go," Kagome said again, "I want to be with you." "I didn't want to have to do this," Gideon said, reaching into his suit, "But you leave me no choice. Goodbye, my daughter." Gideon pulled a pistol out and fired at Kagome. She looked down at where it hit; it was a tranquilizer dart. She felt herself quickly slipping in to unconsciousness.

Kagome's eyes opened, she was back at the army base, Inu-Yasha was sitting by her side. "Good, your awake," a general came into the room she was in, "The armies all turned to dust when, we suppose, the jewel was recovered." "Where is Gideon?" Kagome asked, "He's not dead, is he?" "We don't know where he is, but we know that none of us killed him," Kagome breathed a sigh of relief, "Why did you want to know?" "I…It's…It's nothing, forget that I asked." "I am here for business purposes though," the general said, "I regret to inform you that special task force team Apocalypse Blue is being disbanded." "What do you mean?" Kagome asked. "We cannot risk a continuation of this crossing of time," the general answered, "It could cause a catastrophic disturbance in the fabric of time and space. You will stay in your time, and the others will stay in theirs. I'm sorry Miss Higurashu, that's the way it has to be, you have twenty-four hours." "No!" Inu-Yasha yelled, jumping up, "You can't do that!" "Oh but I'm afraid we can, we must, and we will. I'm sorry, I don't make policy, I carry it out." "Carry this out!" Inu-Yasha yelled and punched the general fiercely. The general grabbed his fist and pushed it away then said, "Don't make this harder than it has to be, I know its hard but nothing you say will change it," and with that the general left.

"He's lying, tell me he's lying," Inu-Yasha begged Kagome. Kagome sat down; "I wanted to be with you forever, now we only have one day." Inu-Yasha couldn't take it, he let his emotions take over and cried for the first time in over fifty years. Kagome didn't know what to do; he had always been the strong one when she wanted to cry. "We…we still have tonight," she said, surprised that she wasn't uneasy about what she was suggesting. Inu-Yasha looked up and started to ask, "You mean-" "That's exactly what I mean, let's just enjoy what little time we have left," Kagome said. "But what if you get-" "I don't care about the consequences," Kagome said, putting her finger on his lips for silence, "We have tonight, and we'll take it."

So denied, so I lied, are you the now or never kind
In a day, and a day love, I'm gonna be gone for good again
Are you willing, to be had, are you cool with just tonight
Here's a toast, to all those who hear me all too well

Here's to the nights we felt alive
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon

Put your name, on the line, along with place and time
Wanna stay, not to go, I wanna ditch the logical
Here's a toast, to all those who hear me all too well

Here's to the nights we felt alive
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon

All my time is froze in motion
Can't I stay an hour or two or more
Don't let me let you go
Here's a toast, to all those who hear me all too well

Here's to the nights we felt alive
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon