Ah, chapter 9, bet you've all been waiting for it!

Marth was genuinely worried about his sister. Since Kai's funeral, she had just sat there, zombified on her bed, thoughts running through her head he couldn't begin to comprehend. His amber eyes shone with worry, through the crack in his eldest sibling's door, and she simply let out a breath to show that she knew he was there. Marth blinked, and quietly entered the room. Trinity turned around and looked at him, and to his surprise she wasn't crying. 'Then again, her grief seems to be beyond tears.'

'Marth, I am starting to wonder what happened to her when she went back to the past on her own on the day Kai died.'

'Argh! Don't read my thoughts, Kiz!'

'Well, I'm just as worried as you are you know!'

'We're both worried, we should try to cheer her up.'

'Yeah, you're right, she needs to get out. I'm coming in.'

In a matter of seconds Kirralee was in Trinity's room. Trinity looked up at her and laughed dryly.

"I know what you guys are doing, and thanks for trying to cheer me up, but I need some time to think."

"Awww, c'mon Trin, you've had enough time for all three of us! We need to take you out to have some fun." Kirra smiled the 'I'm just so naughty' smile she has definitely inherited from her mother.

"Yeah! Hey, maybe we could go to that dance party down the road from school."

"Heh, I'd love to go but you have forgotten 3 little words that could stop us from going within a mile of the place." Trinity smiled slightly.

"Err, what 3 words are those?" Kirra asked.

"Mum and Dad."

"Well... they don't have to know. They never let us have any fun anyway."

"This would have been a lot easier with Kevin, after all he usually hosts these parties."

"Yeah, but we still have to get out of the house without Mum and Dad knowing."

"Hey, have you forgotten that Stella has the power of teleportation?"

"Well, that does make it a whole lot easier."

"Okay then, it's a date! C'mon Trin, we gotta get you ready!" Kirra smiled.

"Sigh, girls are so... girly..." Marth muttered before leaving the room.

Meanwhile, in the present, Kai was in almost the same state as Trinity. Chibi Trin was crawling around the floor, pretending to be a cat. The White Tigers had left the day before, trying to find their families. Lee, of course had no family left but Mariah, so he went with Kevin. (AN: You need to remember this)

"Kai, you can't keep moping around like this, you need to get out a bit! I mean you're upsetting Trinny!"

"Meow!" said Trin, before crawling over to Kai and biting his leg.

"Ow! Watch the fangs, kid!" Kai growled before chugging the rest of his coffee. Trinity crawled off the carpet and onto the floor tiles, her ringlets bouncing up and down.

"Jeez, watching that kid's hair is making me motion sick!" Tyson complained.

"Tyson, can't you see we're trying to brighten the mood?" Mariah questioned. Tyson shrugged. "It's only old sourpuss over there." (AN: I think Nightswift suggested that name for Kai, so thanks!)

Trin's attention was suddenly caught. "Puss?" She then pointed at Kai. "Sourpuss, you!" she said with an evil look on her face.

Kai smiled. "Yea, at the moment that is an accurate description, kid."

"Grr!" Trin Grred before looking at the tiles on the floor and once again grinning evilly.

"Yeah, but anyway, you need to lighten up! Whatever upset you in the first place has really gotten through to you." Mariah said softly before Ray pulled her onto his lap.

"Mariah is right, lighten up!" Ray grinned.

Kai eyed the pair, they looked so happy together. "Easy for you two to say."

Suddenly Emily and Max entered the room, and both immediately let go of each other, and stared at where Trinity sat.

"Oh my gentle Jesus."

"Umm, Mariah... Trinity is..."

"Not now guys, we're trying to cheer Kai up."

"But, Ray, she's..."

"In a moment, Max."

"SHE'S LICKING THE FLOOR TILES!" yelled Emily. Everyone immediately turned their attention to Trin, and Emily was right. Trinity was lying on the floor, with her tongue out, and her tongue was licking the floor tiles.

Trin then noticed everyone staring at her.

"Yum?" she said, with a guilty look on her face.

Mariah sighed, a baby was a baby. She walked over to Trin and picked her up.

"You, young lady, are going for a nap."

"No."

"I am going to murder whoever taught her that word," Mariah said, before walking down the hallway. Everyone sweatdropped, except Kai who was suppressing laughter. He decided to just let it loose and he laughed until his sides ached.

"Jesus, that was classic! I feel so much better now!"

"Glad to hear it." Ray smiled before standing up. "I need to go help Mariah." He then left the room.

Meanwhile, in the not to distant future, the three siblings had arrived at the party. Trinity had her hair done, although it now reached the small of her back. Her hair was one of those 'I don't care' factors. She was dressed in her usual black, but she also had mascara and dark red lipstick that matched her hair colour. Her clothes were also different- she had a long black skirt on and a black top that did up at the back and around her neck, slightly showing off her midriff. (AN: Think triangle bikini except more material and doesn't show off boobs but you can see down it if you look from a bird's eye view) Marth looked exactly like he always did, he didn't really care much about looks. Kirra however looked completely different. He had a pink long sleeved shirt on, and a black skirt that showed a lot of thigh. She had rushed out and bought some knee-high boots that made Trinity's look ground level high.

"Err, Kirra, where did you get those shoes?" asked Trinity, raising one eyebrow.

"I have my sources," Kirra smirked.

"Kiz, those boots have enough height to commit suicide off," Marth said.

"Oh well, won't be doing that anytime soon! See you guys, I'm going to the bar!" Kirra smiled before giving her siblings a finger wave and walking off.

Marth took a deep breath of air and ran of into the dancing crowd. "See ya Trin!" he called over his shoulder.

Trinity sighed, and sat on a chair on the side of the hall, tapping her foot to the music. A few times a guy asked her to dance, and she did so, just enjoying herself. However her comfort was shattered when she heard Marth's voice in her head.

'Hey Trin, you seen who Kirra is with earlier?'

'No, why?'

'It's that guy we saw with Brittany in the toilets the other day.'

'That's a bad thing?'

'Apparently he hasn't got the best reputation. Plus I think Kirra's had one to many Barcardi Breezers.' (AN: It's a nice drink, the only alcohol I have ever tried in my life. I had it at a wedding)

Suddenly, Kirra's groggy voice was heard in their heads.

'Err, guys, a little help here?'

'Kiz? What's wrong?'

'Alley, out the back, guy trying to rip my shirt off...'

Trinity could feel her brother's anger.

'Marth, don't do anything stupid...' Trinity warned, but she was too late. She could see the aura around him glowing gold, his eyes going completely gold, and him storming out of the crowd. He went towards the wall that led to the alley next to the nightclub, and glared at it. The wall crumbled. Kirra was there, lying in a fetal position sobbing, with a very surprised person standing over her. Marth glared at him, and he flew backwards into the wall of the building next to the nightclub.

"You... you almost did that to my sister!" Marth said. His voice was dangerously quiet. The guy gulped and tried to crawl away.

"BASTARD!" Marth yelled, and punched him in the face.

'Marth, leave him alone, he can't fight you!' Trinity begged in her mind, but her words did not get through to her enraged sibling. She ran to Kirra, who was still crying, and wrapped her arms around her, hugging her. Kirra sniffled and crawled closer to her sister.

Suddenly, out of the bemused crowd, two other men ran.

"You think you can bash up our friend you punk kid?" one said.

"Do you think your pencildicked friend has the right to rape my sister?" Marth growled.

"I know how to settle this," the second man said, pulling a gun.

"Ah I see, that sounds fair to me," Marth said, and then turned to the guy who had tried to assault his big sister. "BUT LET ME SLUG THE BASTARD ONE MORE TIME BEFORE YOU DRILL HIM!" he yelled. Trinity desperately grabbed Marth's elbow.

"Don't fight them."

Marth glared for a moment, before calming down and nodding. His eyes returned to normal, and he turned his head back to the three men.

"Come near my sister again and I'll rip your balls off. Then again, you probably have balls invisible without a microscope."

Marth picked up his sister, who was still curled up on the floor and started walking away. Trinity gave one last glare to the bastards, and then quickly followed her younger brother and sister.

"Trin..." Kirra spoke for the first time, her voice husky from crying, "Where will we go? Mum and Dad will kill us!"

Trin smiled and called out Mystellara. "Stella, take us to the past."

Kai was lying awake, on the couch, looking tired. Hmmmmmmm, maybe it was all the coffee he had. Everyone else was asleep, so he was also kind of bored. He yawned and scratched his arm and flopped back on the couch, trying to get to sleep. He assumed that he had dozed off, at least for a little while because next thing he knew he felt a hand desperately shaking his arm and a voice in his ear.

"Kai! Oh God, please wake up!"

"No, Boris piss off! I don't have to listen to you anymore!" Kai mumbled and rolled over. He then heard a tongue clicking and an intake of breath.

"KAI IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP I'M GONNA PUT DRANZER IN THE WAFFLE TOASTER!"

This got him awake, looking around drastically for whoever spoke. His eyes then locked on the golden ones staring at him, and he saw those eyes roll towards the Heavens.

"About time." Trinity's large golden eyes blinked and then looked into his; worry evidently shimmering in them.

"Kai, you've got to help us. We went to a party and Kirra got herself pissed and almost raped, and we kind of can't go home because our parents will kind of have us shot. So can we please stay here a while, just while our parents calm down?"

"Why do you need to wait for them to chill if they knew you were there?"

"Err, that's just the thing," Kirra mumbled "They didn't."

"Ah, well never having any parents that you can remember does have advantages. Sure you can stay here, I'm sure the others wouldn't mind."

'Not saying that their parents from this time won't slaughter them if they find out that they are their children..." Kai thought, staring at the floor.

'We heard that.' The three voices echoed in his mind, and he looked up to see all three of them glaring at him. Marth shrugged and started off down the hallway with Kirra.

"Um, there's a spare bedroom at the very end of the hallway," said Kai (AN: they have lots of them don't they?)

"I know, I grew up in this house remember?"

"Aa, sou desu ne." (AN: Aah, I see in Jap.)

"Right."

And that left Kai and Trinity alone with an uncomfortable silence. They both shifted and wriggled around a bit before they both spoke at the same time.

"I'm sorry," they said at the same time, before blushing slightly and looking away from each other. Then Kai spoke up again.

"It was all my fault, Trin I shouldn't have done it. We were always destined to be apart. We both come from different times... literally," he laughed dryly "...and you're the daughter of one of my best friends. It even sounds wrong. I guess we were both always destined to be the lonely ones in life. Your parents have each other, Max and Emily have each other, and I'm sure the other guys will find someone who will look after them. But I've been alone for as long as I can remember, even at that God forsaken abbey. I should just forget about you, you have your family in the future, you probably don't even feel the same way as I do."

Trinity's eyes widened at this confession, and looked at Kai, you was just staring back, his face totally emotionless. She half lidded her eyes and sighed.

"Don't think that I don't feel the same way... please." Kai simply continued to stare at her while she looked at the ground and blushed.

"I've always loved you, ever since I was little, in one way or another at least." Trinity was looking at him now, her eyes shimmering with emotion.

'It's exactly the same way Mariah looks at Ray...' Kai thought (AN: That's a sure sign of love, lol!), and in one swift movement had crossed the room and had her in his arms. She buried her head into his chest and just stood there, listening to the rhythm of his heartbeat. Then Kai looked down and Trinity looked up, and they both knew what to do. Their lips met in a soft kiss, and Kai placed one of his hands on her left cheek, and the other one on the small of her back. Trinity responded almost immediately, sliding her arms around Kai's neck and leaning into his embrace. After a long while they broke the kiss and stared at each other, neither of them able to comprehend what had just happened, just knowing they wanted more. Presently, Kai picked her up and cradled her in his arms for a moment, before heading down the hallway towards his bedroom. For a moment Trinity panicked.

'Okay, getting slightly out of hand...' she thought, and looked up at Kai, but seeing the loving way he was looking down at her made her melt, and she didn't protest again. When they finally got there, which seemed like a long time to both of them, but when they got there, believe me, the time rushed by. She didn't really feel comfortable with this but he was so gentle... so caring. She'd never seen this side of him before. 'You're kidding yourself girl. Me and Kai, no way,' she thought. However, after that, she thought about nothing but Kai. He was lying on top of her, his right arm on the bed so she could take his weight, his mouth on her neck. She grabbed his face and redirected it to hers and they shared another passionate kiss. Trinity now had her hands up Kai's shirt, and the only thing she thought about was him... and what would happen when she had to return to the future. They removed each other's shirts and with her bare chest pressed against his, her mind went completely and blissfully blank. They broke the kiss they were currently in, and looked into each other's eyes.

"Kai, I love you."

He smiled and pulled her closer. "I know."

A few rooms away, Kirra and Marth were tired, but still wide-awake. They could hear their sister's thought, and of course, when she was in that situation it could keep anyone awake.

"Squirt, sticking your fingers in your ears won't block the noises she's making."

"Yea, but it make me feel better all the same," Marth said.

"We'll have to remind her to close her mind to us when she's with Kai," Kirra stated.

"Yeah, we'll tell her it's not easy to get to sleep when your sister is getting lucky."

'Jesus, Trin shut up!' Kirra snapped.

'Oh shit, forgot you could hear me.'

'Well, don't forget next time. You're soiling our virgin brains.' Marth growled. 'If Mum and Dad knew about this you'd be dead. In fact, when I told them I could hear your voices in my head they thought I was nuts, so if they don't kill me I'll be in a mental institution.'

"We'd all be dead," Kirra muttered. 'I don't think they'd let us live long enough to stick us in a nut house.'

Trinity had stopped making obscene noises, so Kirra and Marth rolled over in their beds and tried to sleep. However they were both worried about one thing. What their parents' reactions' would be to this whole ordeal.

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