Damage

Chapter 4: Torment

Lalita: Thank you so much for the reviews!!! You don't know how much they mean to me! Playful punch? I wrote that? Hmm, I guess it was kind of a I-got-up-before-you kind of punch. I really don't know what I'm writing these days. Anyways, Hiead is growing way out of character, but the cause is unknown for now, it's not by his actual doing. (I wonder if that made any sense.) Thanks again!!

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By the way, this fic doesn't have any real pairings. It's just that Hiead, Zero, Ikhny, and Kizna, are the main characters. Though the attention is mostly focused always on Hiead or Ikhny.

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*sniff* It's so sad, well to me at least. I can't write anything sad, I just mentally think it that way! *grabs a tissue*

You will find out what happened to Ikhny, and Hiead is well, becoming a mental mess. But he'll be inline sometime in the next chapters. ; Sorry about that!

Please will you read and give me ideas?

Disclaimer: All I own is, computer!!

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"Victim."

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"No!" Kizna choked out. Her tears flowing slowly but surely down her red puffy cheeks.

Hiead left soundlessly.

Zero couldn't bring himself to say anything. 'Victim? On GOA?' He thought, standing in a deserted hall, save Kizna. 'This is serious. We can't defend the inside of GOA.' He paused his thoughts. 'Can we?'

"G-Go talk to him." Kizna said straitening up. 'If Victim could enter GOA, then I shouldn't sulk over the loss of Ikhny.' At the thought, Kizna was forcing back more tears, thinking about her best friend. 'I, uh, we, should figure a way to defend ourselves, so that Victim doesn't have a chance!' She was making mental confidence statements to herself. 'Ikhny missing could be a warning to us all!' She felt a new 'Kizna' awake in herself.

"Wha!?" Zero asked, rather loudly. "Talk to who?" Zero gave her the I'm-serious-but-not-bright look.

Kizna slapped him in the arm and practically exploded. "TALK TO, HIEAD, YOU MORON!" Her ears were standing on end.

Zero, rubbing his upper arm, simply stated: "Why?"

Kizna sighed, and started to calm down. "I'm sorry, but *Hiead* has lost the only thing that he needs to stay a candidate; *HIS REPAIRER*." She stated the last two words to indicate a point.

Zero nodded. "Yea, you're right. But why me?" He stupidly pointed to himself.

"Because I," She paused thinking up something that was true about him, but not herself. "Am not a guy." Okay that was stupid. "But that's not the point. He comes closer talking to you than anyone else!" It was her turn to point fingers.

Zero nodded his head in agreement. "Fine. I guess that I will see you later?" Kizna nodded. Zero jogged down the hall that they came there from.

Kizna watch his figure slowly fade away into nothingness. She hesitantly reached down to the blood-covered white floor to at least do the courtesy of taking Ikhny's ID tag with her, instead of it lying there for the whole ship to see. She put her hands around it, feeling warm blood sink into her gloved-fingers. For it was sitting in a puddle. 'Too warm.' She thought, and examined the blood closer. It was, 'MAROON!' Her mind screamed. It was not Ikhny's blood, it was, she gulped at the word, "Victim." She winced, her eyes becoming unfocused. She brought herself strait when she made a mental note that she was going to save Ikhny, and this brought her one step closer.

"That Victim was hurt." She stated the facts aloud to let them seep into her at-the-moment crammed brain.

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Hiead entered his room without thinking anything about his repairer or Victim. 'I'm not like them.' He cleared his surging mind. 'So much happened today, but I won't let anything distract me.' Hiead laid down on his bed, looking blankly at the ceiling. He didn't know what time it was, since the clock was unplugged, and he didn't feel like getting up to look at the bathroom one.

Probably in Hiead's mind, a few minutes later, the last person on GOA, that he'd like to see was, Zero. The door slid open. Hiead rolled on his side, not wanting to look at Zero, or to see Zero looking at him. Why was he feeling like this? He cursed his, *emotions*.

"Are you going to be okay, Hiead?" Zero asked. His voice was low, calm, and sympathetic? Hiead wanted to say, "NO! NOW LEAVE ENNA!" But he couldn't say anything, for he would probably have a mental meltdown. 'Why's everything happening so fast?' He thought.

Zero edged closer. Hoping that Hiead wouldn't spring on him and attempt to choking him to death. He walked over to Hiead's side, hoping to see what expression he had on, if he ever had any. As soon as Zero got a glimpse of Hiead's red eyes, Hiead turned on his right side, opposite of Zero.

"No, Hiead. I mean it!" Sympathy mixed with a little bit of impatience this time. Hiead flung a pillow over his head, not wanting to hear anymore.

"Leave." Hiead said simply muffled underneath the pressure of the pillow.

"Hiead, I just wanted to." Zero stopped, as a pillow flung hard into his face, making him fall backwards. "I AM JUST TRYING TO" He couldn't bring himself to saying anymore, looking at the expression on Hiead's face. Zero felt a pang in his stomach telling him that he should go, anywhere, but stay in here. "I'm sorry." He said, softly so that Hiead could've barely heard it, if he was listening at all. Zero walked over to his bed and laid down also. 'Could Hiead've really been that upset?' He thought, while trying to picture Hiead ever being upset. Though, there where times when Hiead got upset that he wanted to kill or hurt someone really bad, but this was different. Hiead is really upset, and to who, his own partner, Ikhny?

Hiead's mind was racing. The memories of his past, his repairer, his failures, the family he never had and himself altogether, were driving him insane. What was going on? Why was he feeling so much pain over nothing? Zero's echoing voice told him that he was still alive. "Hiead, I just wanted to." Hiead didn't want him around, no one around. Why couldn't Zero or himself, or both, just drop over dead? He was in rage, and threw the pillow that was suffocating him, strait at Zero's face.

Hiead then mentally broke down. Why did he feel so strange? Why couldn't Victim have found him first? He was ready to leave this life. As soon as the pillow left his hands, he sat up, digging his hands into his face, and put his head between his knees, as to make himself invisible from everything, even himself. Hiead heard Zero fall to the floor, and then he started yelling, but stopped. That was when Hiead realized that his face was burning along with every part of his body.

Hiead rose up his head a little to look at his hands, that where shaking slightly, and moist with warm liquid. In fact, all of his physical self was shaking without his permission. He felt colder than usual. Frozen was more like it. Hiead dug his face into his hands again, feeling himself tear apart from his body. His very little soul, was before his eyes, ripping to shreds.

Zero was lying flat on his back. Thinking about nothing, as he always did, before today. He closed his eyes and sighed. 'Everything that I know, is turning into more things that I don't know.' That was the first thought that he had in minutes. He sighed again, and took deep breaths. "Ikhny. Hope that you aren't gone, like we all think." Hiead didn't hear. Zero rolled onto his side, his back facing Hiead, his left arm underneath his head. He closed his eyes, when it hit him that it wasn't even past dinner!

He was getting hungry. Zero pushed the thought out of his head. Maybe he would try sleeping? No, that would be silly to sleep during these hours. No, he'd just take a nap. Yea, just for a few minutes to pass time.

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Azuma opened the door moments later, to find Zero snoring, and Hiead sitting on his bed with his face covered, and head between his knees. He didn't look conscious.

He'd just have to tell them later. He shut the door, and left them to their peace.

Azuma walked into the Medical Room, and sat down on a couch. Rill came out, sighing. "How's repairer 87 doing?" He asked, lighting a cigarette.

"Not good I suppose." She sighed deeply rubbing her forehead. "I did manage to bandage all of her wounds and burns, but she slipped into a coma in the doing from the blood loss." She looked stressed. "Though I did give her more blood of her type, but she isn't making much progress."

Azuma changed the conversation slightly. "So, where'd you find her?"

"The other end of GOA." She said plainly. "She was crumpled against the wall." She paused. "How'd she get there, since her friend told us that she found her ID tag in some of her blood, next to the recreation room? Which is clearly about a 15 minutes run from there." She sighed again. "I'm confused. I'll just let you figure out this kind of stuff." She paused thinking for a second. "This is quite serious. How about you talk to Repairer 88? She's next to 87's bed at the moment."

Dr. Crawford walked off mumbling something about coffee.

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Ikhny laid deadly still as Kizna watched her through tear-stained eyes, her best friend's life was fading slowly away.

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*Grabs another tissue* I'm so cruel! Oh well, I like this chapter! Please will you tell me what you think?

NOTES: As you are witnessing, Hiead is clearly, well, suffering. I know it isn't like him, and there's going to be a surprise in the future chapters about why he is so different, though he will be himself next chappy! ^^