KT: Nother chapter…enjoy! OH! Make sure you review and let me know what you think! I'm trying to write more descriptively!!!!!
Lina stared at him.
"Hi Lina."
Lina blinked
"Huh? Didn't quite catch that."
Lina blinked a little slower.
"OH!!! Well to tell you the truth…I don't know how you got here either!" Gourry smiled at her. One of those 'You can trust me no matter what' smiles.
"I'm sorry I left."
"Is a smile all I have to do to get you to talk to me?"
"If it's you, Gourry…pretty much."
"Lina…where did you go?"
"I can't tell you that Gourry. I can't tell you where I'm going to go back to, and I can't tell you why I'm there and I can't tell you why I can't tell you. Some really bad things are happening to me. And you'll just have to come looking for me."
"Daijobu desu wa?"
"No, Gourry. I'm not OK, but that's ok for now. I'll be ok for now. It'll be OK, for sure, right?"
"Yeah. It will. Do you have to leave now?"
"Yeah, I do. Tell Amelia it's not her fault. Tell her I'm sorry…really sorry. I had this problem long before I went on the road with all of you."
"Lina…"
"No. Don't talk. It's just too painful. Without you, Gourry…I'm very sad. Find me soon. Before it's too late. I'm afraid that I'm not going to tell you where I am, so…goodbye." Lina grabbed Gourry's hand as she floated upward back to where she was before."
"Aishiteru…Lina-chan" Gourry whispered before Lina let go of his hand and disappeared.
A faint 'Come find me…' was heard as Gourry woke up. His first thought was:
:: Lina… :: Gourry got changed, went out of his room, and went to wake Amelia and Zel up.
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"So…did you have a good time last night, Kaji?" Kaji walked in the door and stared at Shimo. Didn't she hear what happened from Lina?
"Oh yeah…talking to a life less Lina was great fun."
"What happened?" Shimo had no idea what Kaji was talking about. She hadn't checked on Lina since a half hour ago, and she was still asleep. She couldn't ask her about last night, because she was asleep.
"I don't know…why don't you ask her?" Kaji walked off to do his rounds. He expected to have a long talk with Lina, but that Xellos guy…he brought her to the table saying she passed out. Her eyes were all blank. She wasn't really there, but she was sitting up. She had muttered the word Douzo every once in a while, and while he was carrying her back to the center, she had said, "Ittekimasu. Chotto Mattekudasai." She only said it once. Only once to reassure Kaji she was fine. But he wanted to know what happened. But Shimo didn't know either, so he decided to get to work.
:: What's wrong with Kaji? :: Shimo thought as she got up to go check on Lina. :: He's seems kind of sad, yet…frustrated at the same time. :: Shimo opened the door to Lina's room. The window was open, and the curtains were waving in the breeze (Everyone remember the first eps. on the 8th tape? Good!). The sun was streaming in. The water basin was full of new water, the clock was chiming 10:00, and Lina had clothes set out for the day resting on the chair. Various things were strewn on the vanity, and yet…something was wrong. Shimo looked at the bed Lina was on. She was sitting up her bed, head resting on her legs, and her arms crossed over her stomach. She was crying. Horrible wracking sobs that sounded like they hurt. It looked like she had been sitting like that for a while, because when she turned her head up at Shimo her all were all red (all you Fushigi Yugi fans…the pic of Tamahome when he looked at Miaka after he saw his dead family will do). She had multiple rivers of tears going down her face. She looked beyond help. She had never seen anyone cry so hard. And that was saying something. Shimo had been around lots of people in pain, working where she worked it was only natural. But never before had she seen a display like this. It was terrible to look at her. Her whole face was wet. Looking at her eyes, you could see lots of red eyes. They were a little puffy, and rivers of tears were spilling out of them. Her lashes would shake drops of tears off of themselves every couple of seconds. Her mouth (though covered with wetness) looked unusually red, like they were chapped and still being chewed on. Her cheeks were amazingly red. Like she had a fever, or was just plain over heating. Lina was shaking like a leaf. Like she couldn't help but shudder every couple of minutes. Like she was cold and couldn't get warm. She was half covered with the blanket, and her other half was hunched over. Let's just say she was a wreck.
"Doushite?" A simple word was uttered from those chapped lips in a hoarse whisper. Shimo almost didn't hear her. Lina said again, "Doushite?" A little louder this time. "Why do all my loved ones leave me? And when I find them…why do I have to leave them?"
"Lina-chan…
"DOUSHITE?!" Lina started over with the wracking sobs, and by this time, Kaji had walked through the door. Kaji walked over to Lina's bed and bent down. Lina turned to him, grabbed the collar of his jacket, looking menacingly into his eyes. A couple seconds later she started to cry on his shoulder, still holding the collar of his jacket (you get what I'm saying?). "I left the only person I love!" Lina cried. She couldn't calm herself down, and she needed someone to talk to. "Gourry's gone, and I didn't tell him where I was. I was afraid that when he found me, he'd be mad at me. I was so afraid!" The wracking sobs got the better of Lina. She started crying harder.
"Doushite? Is Gourry so kowai that you couldn't tell him the truth?" Kaji spoke soft and soothingly. He thought of Lina as a daughter, and seeing her like this was tearing him apart. He smiled understandingly at Lina.
"Nani?"
"Is Gourry really that scary?"
"Iie!!!!! NO! Gourry wouldn't hurt a fly unless he had to. He's…he's sweet…" Lina's hands flew to her mouth. A look of shock covered her face. She seemed to calm down a bit. Enough to stop crying a bit. Tears kept on flowing, but she wasn't making that much noise.
"Then what was wrong? You had him in your grasp, Lina-chan…you just have to get up and go! You can't think about it…just do. Fearless. That's what it's like. Just doing things without thinking it through. That's all you have to do when you're in love."
"It's not right. Not right that I should love him when I'm going to die soon," Lina started crying again. Today wasn't her day.
"Lina-chan. Everyone deserves to be loved. There's nothing to it. No matter who it is. Everyone deserves to be loved. Everyone. Even if they're about to die."
"No. I'd just be causing Gourry more pain," Lina's eyes welled up with tears again, and she started crying hard again. "I'm sorry…this…this isn't me. I don't cry. I'm tough. No need to cry. Stop this Lina. Just stop," She lectured herself.
"Lina-chan. Cry a river if you have to. Gourry will find you. I'm sure. Cry as long as you want. No one's stopping you. Setai Daijobu dai yo. So we'll leave you alone for now."
Shimo walked over to Lina, "Like Kaji said Lina-chan…Everything will be OK, for sure." Lina started her round of racking sobs as they left the room.
"Shimo…keep a record of Lina's mood swings. Make sure she's ok. This is a very unique situation. I want you to find this Gourry Gabrieve. Find him soon and tell him where to go."
"Hai. I promise." :: Be strong, Lina-chan. We're here to help. ::
***A couple hours later***
Shimo crinkled the paper she had in her hand. "Stupid…technology…can't find anyone!" Shimo was steaming. (Looks a lot like me when I can't find information for something for school, except I yell at my computer and hit it a couple times where as Shimo just crumpled the paper…ooooooo.) "Why is it so hard to find someone?!" Shimo stomped into Lina's room. She opened the door and screamed, "OK! Now you're going to help me find this guy and you're going to help me NOW! Now GET OVER HERE!" Shimo was breathing deeply and resembled Sakura (from CCS people) when her brother called her a monster.
Lina stared at her.
"COME ON! LET'S GO!"
"Who are you looking for?"
"You traveling partner Gourry, and it's impossible to find him and this stupid card catalog has no idea and no one else has seen him for years…and you traveled with his for pete sakes! WHERE IS HE?!" Lina had never seen Shimo this mad. Technology (Or lack there of) must have finally gotten to her. But she remembered where Gourry was, so maybe she could calm her down and repay her and Kaji for this morning.
"Shimo-chan ^_^; …I know where Gourry is!" Shimo glared at her.
"Where?" She continued to take long deep breaths.
"Well…he's at that inn I stayed at with all my other friends in that town that I left!" Shimo's expression changed.
"OK…now what town were you in?"
"I have absolutely no idea! ^_^" Shimo got monster like again as she stomped off to find Kaji. A couple minutes later Shimo was screaming down a different hallway. Bossing people around when she was angry was one of her specialties. It was funny to look at her when she was mad. It'd make a great painting. Lina lied down on the pillow and stared at the ceiling. Suddenly she was staring at Luna-Xellos.
"ANE-CHAN!!!!!" Lina backed into the corner of the bed.
Xellos lifted up the long bangs, "Wrong again, Lina-chan!"
"XELLOS?!"
"Hai?"
"You're still in that disguise?!" Lina didn't think he liked the disguise that much, but I guess you never really can tell with Xellos.
"Well yes. I mean I wouldn't be…but I sort of can't get it off."
"Can't get it off?" Lina stared at him.
"Well yes! It's magically stuck on me."
"Oh…"
"Yes."
"Wait…Xellos you're strong in magic…why can't you dispel the spell?"
"Well…it seems that someone with strong white magic has cast the spell, and I can't work against high white magic spells. It makes me gag."
"Whatever…so…what are you doing here?"
"Well I've decided to be useful for once, and help that deranged nurse of yours."
"She not deranged."
"Well she something…definitely got issues!"
"Say one more word about her, and I'll release my ultimate weapon upon you, Xellos." Xellos went all wide eyed with an expression like 'You wouldn't' pasted on his face.
"You betcha I would. Would you like me to demonstrate?" Xellos paled.
"NO! No…that's quite alright Lina-chan." Lina smiled smugly at Xellos.
"Almost lost all your cool the, didn't you?" Xellos glared at her.
"I hate you."
"OK, so now go make yourself useful Xellos! Go on! Be a good boy! Go and help Shimo!"
Xellos stalked off glaring daggers at Lina.
***A couple hours later***
One kaijuu, and one kaijuu looking person stomped into Lina's room.
"I CAN'T STAND HIM (HER)!!!!!" The kaijuu said.
"OK!! OK!!!!! Don't get all stressed about it!!!"
***Ten minutes later***
Xellos and Shimo swayed back and forth with one of their arms on the other's shoulder. Both had sake bottles in their free hand, and the song 'That's Amore' played in the background.
"Wow…it worked!" Lina stared at the Duo very surprised. Kaji walked in, and stared at them.
"Lina-chan…uhm…what…happened here?"
"OH!! Kaji-san! I just got these two to get along!"
"And exactly HOW did you do that?"
Shimo and Xellos sway even harder.
"Well, Kaji-san…you'd be surprised how much better life seems when you have a little alcohol on hand! ^_^" (Not really…it just fit in for this situation, ne?)
Kaji sweatdropped. A good staff member was now drunk. How was he going to fix this?
*I'm a Believer starts to play* BYE ALL!!!!! TILL THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!! *dances with some of her characters* WHOOOOOOOO!
Lina stared at him.
"Hi Lina."
Lina blinked
"Huh? Didn't quite catch that."
Lina blinked a little slower.
"OH!!! Well to tell you the truth…I don't know how you got here either!" Gourry smiled at her. One of those 'You can trust me no matter what' smiles.
"I'm sorry I left."
"Is a smile all I have to do to get you to talk to me?"
"If it's you, Gourry…pretty much."
"Lina…where did you go?"
"I can't tell you that Gourry. I can't tell you where I'm going to go back to, and I can't tell you why I'm there and I can't tell you why I can't tell you. Some really bad things are happening to me. And you'll just have to come looking for me."
"Daijobu desu wa?"
"No, Gourry. I'm not OK, but that's ok for now. I'll be ok for now. It'll be OK, for sure, right?"
"Yeah. It will. Do you have to leave now?"
"Yeah, I do. Tell Amelia it's not her fault. Tell her I'm sorry…really sorry. I had this problem long before I went on the road with all of you."
"Lina…"
"No. Don't talk. It's just too painful. Without you, Gourry…I'm very sad. Find me soon. Before it's too late. I'm afraid that I'm not going to tell you where I am, so…goodbye." Lina grabbed Gourry's hand as she floated upward back to where she was before."
"Aishiteru…Lina-chan" Gourry whispered before Lina let go of his hand and disappeared.
A faint 'Come find me…' was heard as Gourry woke up. His first thought was:
:: Lina… :: Gourry got changed, went out of his room, and went to wake Amelia and Zel up.
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"So…did you have a good time last night, Kaji?" Kaji walked in the door and stared at Shimo. Didn't she hear what happened from Lina?
"Oh yeah…talking to a life less Lina was great fun."
"What happened?" Shimo had no idea what Kaji was talking about. She hadn't checked on Lina since a half hour ago, and she was still asleep. She couldn't ask her about last night, because she was asleep.
"I don't know…why don't you ask her?" Kaji walked off to do his rounds. He expected to have a long talk with Lina, but that Xellos guy…he brought her to the table saying she passed out. Her eyes were all blank. She wasn't really there, but she was sitting up. She had muttered the word Douzo every once in a while, and while he was carrying her back to the center, she had said, "Ittekimasu. Chotto Mattekudasai." She only said it once. Only once to reassure Kaji she was fine. But he wanted to know what happened. But Shimo didn't know either, so he decided to get to work.
:: What's wrong with Kaji? :: Shimo thought as she got up to go check on Lina. :: He's seems kind of sad, yet…frustrated at the same time. :: Shimo opened the door to Lina's room. The window was open, and the curtains were waving in the breeze (Everyone remember the first eps. on the 8th tape? Good!). The sun was streaming in. The water basin was full of new water, the clock was chiming 10:00, and Lina had clothes set out for the day resting on the chair. Various things were strewn on the vanity, and yet…something was wrong. Shimo looked at the bed Lina was on. She was sitting up her bed, head resting on her legs, and her arms crossed over her stomach. She was crying. Horrible wracking sobs that sounded like they hurt. It looked like she had been sitting like that for a while, because when she turned her head up at Shimo her all were all red (all you Fushigi Yugi fans…the pic of Tamahome when he looked at Miaka after he saw his dead family will do). She had multiple rivers of tears going down her face. She looked beyond help. She had never seen anyone cry so hard. And that was saying something. Shimo had been around lots of people in pain, working where she worked it was only natural. But never before had she seen a display like this. It was terrible to look at her. Her whole face was wet. Looking at her eyes, you could see lots of red eyes. They were a little puffy, and rivers of tears were spilling out of them. Her lashes would shake drops of tears off of themselves every couple of seconds. Her mouth (though covered with wetness) looked unusually red, like they were chapped and still being chewed on. Her cheeks were amazingly red. Like she had a fever, or was just plain over heating. Lina was shaking like a leaf. Like she couldn't help but shudder every couple of minutes. Like she was cold and couldn't get warm. She was half covered with the blanket, and her other half was hunched over. Let's just say she was a wreck.
"Doushite?" A simple word was uttered from those chapped lips in a hoarse whisper. Shimo almost didn't hear her. Lina said again, "Doushite?" A little louder this time. "Why do all my loved ones leave me? And when I find them…why do I have to leave them?"
"Lina-chan…
"DOUSHITE?!" Lina started over with the wracking sobs, and by this time, Kaji had walked through the door. Kaji walked over to Lina's bed and bent down. Lina turned to him, grabbed the collar of his jacket, looking menacingly into his eyes. A couple seconds later she started to cry on his shoulder, still holding the collar of his jacket (you get what I'm saying?). "I left the only person I love!" Lina cried. She couldn't calm herself down, and she needed someone to talk to. "Gourry's gone, and I didn't tell him where I was. I was afraid that when he found me, he'd be mad at me. I was so afraid!" The wracking sobs got the better of Lina. She started crying harder.
"Doushite? Is Gourry so kowai that you couldn't tell him the truth?" Kaji spoke soft and soothingly. He thought of Lina as a daughter, and seeing her like this was tearing him apart. He smiled understandingly at Lina.
"Nani?"
"Is Gourry really that scary?"
"Iie!!!!! NO! Gourry wouldn't hurt a fly unless he had to. He's…he's sweet…" Lina's hands flew to her mouth. A look of shock covered her face. She seemed to calm down a bit. Enough to stop crying a bit. Tears kept on flowing, but she wasn't making that much noise.
"Then what was wrong? You had him in your grasp, Lina-chan…you just have to get up and go! You can't think about it…just do. Fearless. That's what it's like. Just doing things without thinking it through. That's all you have to do when you're in love."
"It's not right. Not right that I should love him when I'm going to die soon," Lina started crying again. Today wasn't her day.
"Lina-chan. Everyone deserves to be loved. There's nothing to it. No matter who it is. Everyone deserves to be loved. Everyone. Even if they're about to die."
"No. I'd just be causing Gourry more pain," Lina's eyes welled up with tears again, and she started crying hard again. "I'm sorry…this…this isn't me. I don't cry. I'm tough. No need to cry. Stop this Lina. Just stop," She lectured herself.
"Lina-chan. Cry a river if you have to. Gourry will find you. I'm sure. Cry as long as you want. No one's stopping you. Setai Daijobu dai yo. So we'll leave you alone for now."
Shimo walked over to Lina, "Like Kaji said Lina-chan…Everything will be OK, for sure." Lina started her round of racking sobs as they left the room.
"Shimo…keep a record of Lina's mood swings. Make sure she's ok. This is a very unique situation. I want you to find this Gourry Gabrieve. Find him soon and tell him where to go."
"Hai. I promise." :: Be strong, Lina-chan. We're here to help. ::
***A couple hours later***
Shimo crinkled the paper she had in her hand. "Stupid…technology…can't find anyone!" Shimo was steaming. (Looks a lot like me when I can't find information for something for school, except I yell at my computer and hit it a couple times where as Shimo just crumpled the paper…ooooooo.) "Why is it so hard to find someone?!" Shimo stomped into Lina's room. She opened the door and screamed, "OK! Now you're going to help me find this guy and you're going to help me NOW! Now GET OVER HERE!" Shimo was breathing deeply and resembled Sakura (from CCS people) when her brother called her a monster.
Lina stared at her.
"COME ON! LET'S GO!"
"Who are you looking for?"
"You traveling partner Gourry, and it's impossible to find him and this stupid card catalog has no idea and no one else has seen him for years…and you traveled with his for pete sakes! WHERE IS HE?!" Lina had never seen Shimo this mad. Technology (Or lack there of) must have finally gotten to her. But she remembered where Gourry was, so maybe she could calm her down and repay her and Kaji for this morning.
"Shimo-chan ^_^; …I know where Gourry is!" Shimo glared at her.
"Where?" She continued to take long deep breaths.
"Well…he's at that inn I stayed at with all my other friends in that town that I left!" Shimo's expression changed.
"OK…now what town were you in?"
"I have absolutely no idea! ^_^" Shimo got monster like again as she stomped off to find Kaji. A couple minutes later Shimo was screaming down a different hallway. Bossing people around when she was angry was one of her specialties. It was funny to look at her when she was mad. It'd make a great painting. Lina lied down on the pillow and stared at the ceiling. Suddenly she was staring at Luna-Xellos.
"ANE-CHAN!!!!!" Lina backed into the corner of the bed.
Xellos lifted up the long bangs, "Wrong again, Lina-chan!"
"XELLOS?!"
"Hai?"
"You're still in that disguise?!" Lina didn't think he liked the disguise that much, but I guess you never really can tell with Xellos.
"Well yes. I mean I wouldn't be…but I sort of can't get it off."
"Can't get it off?" Lina stared at him.
"Well yes! It's magically stuck on me."
"Oh…"
"Yes."
"Wait…Xellos you're strong in magic…why can't you dispel the spell?"
"Well…it seems that someone with strong white magic has cast the spell, and I can't work against high white magic spells. It makes me gag."
"Whatever…so…what are you doing here?"
"Well I've decided to be useful for once, and help that deranged nurse of yours."
"She not deranged."
"Well she something…definitely got issues!"
"Say one more word about her, and I'll release my ultimate weapon upon you, Xellos." Xellos went all wide eyed with an expression like 'You wouldn't' pasted on his face.
"You betcha I would. Would you like me to demonstrate?" Xellos paled.
"NO! No…that's quite alright Lina-chan." Lina smiled smugly at Xellos.
"Almost lost all your cool the, didn't you?" Xellos glared at her.
"I hate you."
"OK, so now go make yourself useful Xellos! Go on! Be a good boy! Go and help Shimo!"
Xellos stalked off glaring daggers at Lina.
***A couple hours later***
One kaijuu, and one kaijuu looking person stomped into Lina's room.
"I CAN'T STAND HIM (HER)!!!!!" The kaijuu said.
"OK!! OK!!!!! Don't get all stressed about it!!!"
***Ten minutes later***
Xellos and Shimo swayed back and forth with one of their arms on the other's shoulder. Both had sake bottles in their free hand, and the song 'That's Amore' played in the background.
"Wow…it worked!" Lina stared at the Duo very surprised. Kaji walked in, and stared at them.
"Lina-chan…uhm…what…happened here?"
"OH!! Kaji-san! I just got these two to get along!"
"And exactly HOW did you do that?"
Shimo and Xellos sway even harder.
"Well, Kaji-san…you'd be surprised how much better life seems when you have a little alcohol on hand! ^_^" (Not really…it just fit in for this situation, ne?)
Kaji sweatdropped. A good staff member was now drunk. How was he going to fix this?
*I'm a Believer starts to play* BYE ALL!!!!! TILL THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!! *dances with some of her characters* WHOOOOOOOO!