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The Truth, part 2:

After countless hours of roaming the streets and coming no closer to the truth Nova tore down the street looking for a sign of the one thing that could comfort her, a Bar. Alcohol always seemed to calm her nerves. She new that was a bad thing but she was desperate. There in the distance stood a sign that read "O'Reliy's Pub". The pub's dark and rustic exterior did not cause Nova to falter. Making her way to the door she pushed through the numerous drunken men that loitered around the door looking for a good and cheep prostitute.

While on her way to the door a quite unruly man reached out a grasped firmly on to Nova's arm. Nova turned and glared at the male. He's old and wrinkled face looked as though he had run headlong into a brick wall. The clear and evident hair's sprouting up around his mouth made people contemplate when the last time was that a razor came in contact with his skin. His gray hair was tousled about and looked as though it had bugs inhabiting it. From a few feet away Nova could smell the unpleasant aroma of alcohol mixed with a bad case of body odor. But his eyes, his eyes made her stopped for a second. They were a lovely shade of blue, the shade of blue that the sky is during a beautiful summer day. His eyes showed that maybe, just maybe he had been a normal decent human being.

In one swift movement Nova sent an upper cut directly into his nose. A satisfying crunch signaled the breaking of bones. Now any normal person would have found this sound absolutely appalling but to Nova it signaled victory.

"Didn't your mama ever teach you how to treat a lady?" Nova growled at the poor excuse of a man and walked into the pub. But he did not strike back instead he watched Nova closely. His eyes never left her; they followed her as she made her ridged movements towards the bar.

"Give me a shot of the strongest stuff that you got" Nova grumbled at the bar tender.

The bar tender came back with a small shot glass full of an extremely potent alcoholic beverage.

With out a second glance Nova took the glass roughly from his hand and poured it down her throat. It burned the inside of her throat, but she didn't care, in fact she actually liked the feeling. Slamming the empty glass down on the bar in front of her she ordered another.

It went on like this for another hour. Nova would down a glass and that very rudely ask for another. But then the bar tender cut her off.

"No more for you, go on, get, go home", He yelled at the clearly drunk girl that sat in front of him.

"Bastard! GIVE ME MORE DAMN IT!" Nova shouted making an attempt to stand up and charge at him. But things did not work out as she planned. Immediately when she stood up she fell back down to the ground. Stumbling around for a few moments she finally managed to remain on her feet, but she was tottering back and forth like a small boat in the middle of a storm.

The bar tender signaled for his cronies to throw the girl out. Nova began to yelled at the men that grabbed her arms but her words were so slurred together it was impossible to understand.

Nova felt her head hit the cold pavement and that was the last thing she remembered before she pasted out.

The man from earlier stood in the shadows and watched. As soon as the men walked back inside he approached the once feisty but now unconscious girl that lay in the middle of the road. He reached out his frail arms and picked up the girl and pulled her into his arms.

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Nova let out a groan as she rolled onto her side. Her head felt like it was going to explode.

"Remind me not to drink like that again" Nova said to no one in particular.

But then a wave on panic came over her; she had no idea where she was. Stumbling to her feet she took in her surroundings. To her left was what appeared to be a kitchen. There were only a few cabinets along with a sink and a stove. But a layer of dust covered these few things signaling that they had not been used in a while. To her right was an old worn out brown couch. The once fluffy cushions were matted down and were full of holes. But what confused Nova more than the room's appearance of disuse was the fact that there was not a person in sight.

Just then Nova saw something scamper across the room. Nova followed it until it paused.

"A rat" Nova sighed and walked in the opposite direction just then the door flew open.

There stood the man from the night before. A look of uneasiness replaced the one of confusion.

"Your up" The man said.

"Um. who are you?" Nova asked backing away from the man.

"I just ran out to grab some food" The man made his way over to the kitchen and placed the loaf of bread down on the counter.

"I see, but who are you?" Nova backed away further.

"You don't remember me, my dear Nova?" The man looked up from what he was doing.

"No, and how do you know my name?"

"I know your name because we use to know each other, remember I was."

TBC

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A/N: Cliff hanger, muhahahahahha. Sorry about the lack of updates, yea it's been a few weeks. I'm really busy so the updates might becoming slower, but don't worry I'll add the next chapter in a few days, because I'm not totally evil. AND I'll make the next chapter really long cause there will be a lot of explaining to do.

Thanks to my reviewers:

Glitz: I give you full permission to beat him senseless with a shoe box, in fact I'll even give you the shoe box.

Lildreamer99: yea it pretty much sucks that spot thinks that it was hawk that did it.

Laze: yea well it wasn't a long chapter but it's a chapter! And I even updated before I told you I would, come on ya gotta give me something for that!

Klover: ha, yep there is a budding romance between jack and nova, but that's all I'm saying.

Scoop: ha I can't keep you in suspense? Then I bet you didn't like that way this chapter ended.

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