To Mine
Lina was simply giddy, she spun around in the new scarlet robe crafted expertly in silk. Two sillouetted dragone weaved their way 'round the back and front of the robe up to the collar where the heads curled down then back up so that they were looking at eachother with their mouths open, on either side of the robe. It felt as if it had been made specifically for her, for it hugged her small form like a lover's embrace. Lina smiled at the thought, many a morning she had woke up in a living dream, being held by someone she gave her heart too long ago who had returned it at the same time, only, just weeks prior had they figured it out. It was true, tragedy did bring strength, only, he swore that if she EVER did that again he'd personally set her sister on her. That was a prospect Lina didn't want to think of twice.
She sighed, she had just recieved a package from Amelia for her birthday [a few days early but Amelia didnt need to know that she had already opened it] and Lina personally loved it. She looked in the full-length mirror of the bathroom of the hotel in which she was staying, for she came to see her parents, thinking it'd be easier to go see them for her birthday than have them come all the way home. They had objected obviously, but she insisted, she HAD to get away from Luna, and Amelia who had turned into a house maid since the incident, over everyday just making sure she didn't leave.
"I love it!" Lina screeched and jumped up and down excitedly. Gourry was out right now, probably getting food, 'Good, cause I'm hungry!' Lina thought a minute, "He probably ate it all already, that doof," she let the frustration roll over her then smiled.
A knock at the door disturbed her thoughts, "Gourry, you have a key,you don't need to knock."
The knocking didn't stop and Lina rolled her eyes, walking to the door and opening it. However, rather than meet Gourry, Lina met a rather flustered busboy, "Can I help you?"
An annoyed look crossed his face, "Lina Inverse I presume?"
She crossed her arms and jutted her hip cockily, giving him her patented 'I'm bored with you and I'm busy' look, "Who want's ta know?"
"I was told to deliver this to you." The busboy held out as single, exquisit golden rose. Lina gasped, it was beautiful, one of the few wonderous treasures untainted by human greed. Commonly, only those gifted with magic knew of a golden rose, for those with magic knew which myths were true and which were false. Lina looked up at the busboy.
"Sad really, they have to paint a rose now-a-days just to show a girl love. Certainly was easier, and more sanitary back home." He mummbled as he walked off down the hall.
Slowly, Lina closed the door, holding the rose to her chest, "A golden rose, an elven treasure, who could have given me this? It's definitly real, I can feel it." Regardless of what insecurities, she smiled. She ran her hand down the stem and carefully over the thorns, reveling in the beautiful scent of the rose when her finger hit something, causing it to fall to the floor. Leaning down to pick it up, a thought occured to her, "It could have been mom and dad," again she smiled.
Lina looked down at what her hand was picking up and she gasped, a single, gorgeous diamond ring, two rubies on either side of the large diamond, lay on the ground. Lina looked at the rose curiously, picking up the ring.
Just as she stood, the door opened and Gourry stepped in the room, holding trays of food, "You wouldn't believe the lines down there! Tons of people, all getting the biggest orders like there's no more food. Oh, you see you got the rose and the ring."
"Y-you did this?" She eyed him with suspicion, "How'd you get a real golden rose?"
Setting the trays on the bedside stand, Gourry put his finger on his chin looking very thoughtful, "Well, my mother's side is elven. That's why I couldn't tell ya where we went when we moved away for that while, mom said it's a place where only her people can go."
Lina nodded and looked at the rose and the ring, "The busboy seemed rather, annoyed." 'Oh wonderful, I must sound so lame!'
"Yeah, wonder why that is."
"Well, it has seemed rather busy lately."
"It has?"
"You're such a jellyfish brain."
Scratching the back of his neck, Gourry laughed nervously, "Yeah, I guess I am. You haven't said anything about the ring, if you don't like it I can take it back."
"No! Don't you dare! I happen to love it thank you very much! But, well, why did you get it?"
"Well, I actually had a question for you, it's um, kinda hard to ask really, um, do you think, after school's over, cause ya know we're, um, almost done with it and all...do ya think, uh, would you..." Gourry seemed as if he were having a harder time remembering what he was supposed to be asking rather than having difficulty asking the question.
However, with each stuttered word, Lina's hopes soared, in fact, if she weren't so hopefull, she's probably whack him or something. However, she settled herself with merely stepping closer to him and smiling sweetly.
Gourry had seen that look many times, it was a dangerous smile, that preceeded pain, he tried to back up to wind up tripping over the bed.
Lina sat beside him taking his hand and placing the ring in his palm. Confused, Gourry took it and looked at it, she said she liked it, so why was she giving it back? Did that mean she didn't want to, well, maybe she didn't know what he was asking her, he hadn't exactly come straight out and asked, 'Na, Lina's smarter than that.' Suddenly, Gourry jumped back when a hand appeared before his face, held out as if displaying something that wasn't there. Lina flicked her wrist, gestering toward the ring Gourry was holdnig, slowly, he slipped it on her finger watching her face.
Lina couldn't help herself, breaking the dam of smiles that was going to invereably going to break soon anyway. Not a second went by in the time between Gourry slipping the ring on her finger until she lunged at him, knocking him flat on the bed. Laying her head on his chest, they sat in rather comfortable silence for a while.
After a short time, a particular question had began to plague her thoughts, but was it really safe to ask? Oh well, Lina often left little to chance, she sighed and began, "Hey, Gourry, whatever happened to uh, Xellos?"
Gourry snorted, but said nothing.
"Oh come on Gourry! I'm just curious is all."
"Well," Gourry opened his eyes and put a finger to his chin in a desperate attempt to think, "I can't exacly remember a lot of it all, but I know I didn't kill 'im. That was one thing I couldn't do." He smiled despite himself, "Anway, his arm healed all back up before I got to his house, but I just dropped him off there and told his parents I found him passed out somewhere.
Lina snuggled into him, "Good."
"Huh?" Gourry recieved no explaination to Lina's response, he looked over and found she had fallen asleep. Suddenly, however, he felt a rather painful stinging sensation in his arm. "Owowow! Lina-chan!" He groaned and scowled at her. Slowly, his scowl broke into a smile and he turned so that he encompassed Lina's form in his embrace, her facee buried in his chest. He smiled and drifted off to sleep himself. *** The door to the hotel room opened slowly and two forms walked in slowly, curious as to the silence of the late afternoon. The silence was soon broken as a distinctly female voice cooed, "Awe." Then, a grunting sound as the eldery female yanked a male of a slightly older age away from the sleeping couple on the bed , "What'er you doing?" came from her in a harsh whisper.
"Do you think they should be so....close? The male of about forty-five looked disapprovingly at the blonde man with his arms about his daugher.
The woman smiled as something caught her eye as it sparkled off the sunlight, she shoved her husband out the door, "I think we have no right to wake them."
"B-but!"
"Sh! Let's go!"
And thus, the pair exited, leaving Lina and Gourry asleep on a bed, next to a table stacked full of food, which itself sat next to piles of gifts from friends and family. Atop these, sat a glistening, obsidian black, double sided blade, sharp enough to split hairs, polished to a professional sheen. The blade was fastened atop the cross of the hilt which was shaped as two vines, coiling around a small bar. The vies crawled up to come out as sharp points about a quarter-way up the blade on both sides, resulting in, if the stab were deep enough, three wounds, rather than just one, the entire hilt [that which was not covered in leather where the dagger was to be held] was made from a black/silver metal. The bottom of the leather hilt ended at the pommel stone, it being a large, equally exquisit polished, trasparent purple stone. The sun-light reflected from Lina's ring shot across the room, hitting the purple stone, sealing the light inside, as if sealing the two's fate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a/n: i have an idea for a continuation of this story, but i have agreed to another fic before i start on it, so plz be patient w/me. hopefully the idea will be out soon. thank you all my fans! i'm really glad you all liked this so much, i loved writing it! be at peace all of you and i'll see ya in my next fanfic!
FIN
Lina was simply giddy, she spun around in the new scarlet robe crafted expertly in silk. Two sillouetted dragone weaved their way 'round the back and front of the robe up to the collar where the heads curled down then back up so that they were looking at eachother with their mouths open, on either side of the robe. It felt as if it had been made specifically for her, for it hugged her small form like a lover's embrace. Lina smiled at the thought, many a morning she had woke up in a living dream, being held by someone she gave her heart too long ago who had returned it at the same time, only, just weeks prior had they figured it out. It was true, tragedy did bring strength, only, he swore that if she EVER did that again he'd personally set her sister on her. That was a prospect Lina didn't want to think of twice.
She sighed, she had just recieved a package from Amelia for her birthday [a few days early but Amelia didnt need to know that she had already opened it] and Lina personally loved it. She looked in the full-length mirror of the bathroom of the hotel in which she was staying, for she came to see her parents, thinking it'd be easier to go see them for her birthday than have them come all the way home. They had objected obviously, but she insisted, she HAD to get away from Luna, and Amelia who had turned into a house maid since the incident, over everyday just making sure she didn't leave.
"I love it!" Lina screeched and jumped up and down excitedly. Gourry was out right now, probably getting food, 'Good, cause I'm hungry!' Lina thought a minute, "He probably ate it all already, that doof," she let the frustration roll over her then smiled.
A knock at the door disturbed her thoughts, "Gourry, you have a key,you don't need to knock."
The knocking didn't stop and Lina rolled her eyes, walking to the door and opening it. However, rather than meet Gourry, Lina met a rather flustered busboy, "Can I help you?"
An annoyed look crossed his face, "Lina Inverse I presume?"
She crossed her arms and jutted her hip cockily, giving him her patented 'I'm bored with you and I'm busy' look, "Who want's ta know?"
"I was told to deliver this to you." The busboy held out as single, exquisit golden rose. Lina gasped, it was beautiful, one of the few wonderous treasures untainted by human greed. Commonly, only those gifted with magic knew of a golden rose, for those with magic knew which myths were true and which were false. Lina looked up at the busboy.
"Sad really, they have to paint a rose now-a-days just to show a girl love. Certainly was easier, and more sanitary back home." He mummbled as he walked off down the hall.
Slowly, Lina closed the door, holding the rose to her chest, "A golden rose, an elven treasure, who could have given me this? It's definitly real, I can feel it." Regardless of what insecurities, she smiled. She ran her hand down the stem and carefully over the thorns, reveling in the beautiful scent of the rose when her finger hit something, causing it to fall to the floor. Leaning down to pick it up, a thought occured to her, "It could have been mom and dad," again she smiled.
Lina looked down at what her hand was picking up and she gasped, a single, gorgeous diamond ring, two rubies on either side of the large diamond, lay on the ground. Lina looked at the rose curiously, picking up the ring.
Just as she stood, the door opened and Gourry stepped in the room, holding trays of food, "You wouldn't believe the lines down there! Tons of people, all getting the biggest orders like there's no more food. Oh, you see you got the rose and the ring."
"Y-you did this?" She eyed him with suspicion, "How'd you get a real golden rose?"
Setting the trays on the bedside stand, Gourry put his finger on his chin looking very thoughtful, "Well, my mother's side is elven. That's why I couldn't tell ya where we went when we moved away for that while, mom said it's a place where only her people can go."
Lina nodded and looked at the rose and the ring, "The busboy seemed rather, annoyed." 'Oh wonderful, I must sound so lame!'
"Yeah, wonder why that is."
"Well, it has seemed rather busy lately."
"It has?"
"You're such a jellyfish brain."
Scratching the back of his neck, Gourry laughed nervously, "Yeah, I guess I am. You haven't said anything about the ring, if you don't like it I can take it back."
"No! Don't you dare! I happen to love it thank you very much! But, well, why did you get it?"
"Well, I actually had a question for you, it's um, kinda hard to ask really, um, do you think, after school's over, cause ya know we're, um, almost done with it and all...do ya think, uh, would you..." Gourry seemed as if he were having a harder time remembering what he was supposed to be asking rather than having difficulty asking the question.
However, with each stuttered word, Lina's hopes soared, in fact, if she weren't so hopefull, she's probably whack him or something. However, she settled herself with merely stepping closer to him and smiling sweetly.
Gourry had seen that look many times, it was a dangerous smile, that preceeded pain, he tried to back up to wind up tripping over the bed.
Lina sat beside him taking his hand and placing the ring in his palm. Confused, Gourry took it and looked at it, she said she liked it, so why was she giving it back? Did that mean she didn't want to, well, maybe she didn't know what he was asking her, he hadn't exactly come straight out and asked, 'Na, Lina's smarter than that.' Suddenly, Gourry jumped back when a hand appeared before his face, held out as if displaying something that wasn't there. Lina flicked her wrist, gestering toward the ring Gourry was holdnig, slowly, he slipped it on her finger watching her face.
Lina couldn't help herself, breaking the dam of smiles that was going to invereably going to break soon anyway. Not a second went by in the time between Gourry slipping the ring on her finger until she lunged at him, knocking him flat on the bed. Laying her head on his chest, they sat in rather comfortable silence for a while.
After a short time, a particular question had began to plague her thoughts, but was it really safe to ask? Oh well, Lina often left little to chance, she sighed and began, "Hey, Gourry, whatever happened to uh, Xellos?"
Gourry snorted, but said nothing.
"Oh come on Gourry! I'm just curious is all."
"Well," Gourry opened his eyes and put a finger to his chin in a desperate attempt to think, "I can't exacly remember a lot of it all, but I know I didn't kill 'im. That was one thing I couldn't do." He smiled despite himself, "Anway, his arm healed all back up before I got to his house, but I just dropped him off there and told his parents I found him passed out somewhere.
Lina snuggled into him, "Good."
"Huh?" Gourry recieved no explaination to Lina's response, he looked over and found she had fallen asleep. Suddenly, however, he felt a rather painful stinging sensation in his arm. "Owowow! Lina-chan!" He groaned and scowled at her. Slowly, his scowl broke into a smile and he turned so that he encompassed Lina's form in his embrace, her facee buried in his chest. He smiled and drifted off to sleep himself. *** The door to the hotel room opened slowly and two forms walked in slowly, curious as to the silence of the late afternoon. The silence was soon broken as a distinctly female voice cooed, "Awe." Then, a grunting sound as the eldery female yanked a male of a slightly older age away from the sleeping couple on the bed , "What'er you doing?" came from her in a harsh whisper.
"Do you think they should be so....close? The male of about forty-five looked disapprovingly at the blonde man with his arms about his daugher.
The woman smiled as something caught her eye as it sparkled off the sunlight, she shoved her husband out the door, "I think we have no right to wake them."
"B-but!"
"Sh! Let's go!"
And thus, the pair exited, leaving Lina and Gourry asleep on a bed, next to a table stacked full of food, which itself sat next to piles of gifts from friends and family. Atop these, sat a glistening, obsidian black, double sided blade, sharp enough to split hairs, polished to a professional sheen. The blade was fastened atop the cross of the hilt which was shaped as two vines, coiling around a small bar. The vies crawled up to come out as sharp points about a quarter-way up the blade on both sides, resulting in, if the stab were deep enough, three wounds, rather than just one, the entire hilt [that which was not covered in leather where the dagger was to be held] was made from a black/silver metal. The bottom of the leather hilt ended at the pommel stone, it being a large, equally exquisit polished, trasparent purple stone. The sun-light reflected from Lina's ring shot across the room, hitting the purple stone, sealing the light inside, as if sealing the two's fate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a/n: i have an idea for a continuation of this story, but i have agreed to another fic before i start on it, so plz be patient w/me. hopefully the idea will be out soon. thank you all my fans! i'm really glad you all liked this so much, i loved writing it! be at peace all of you and i'll see ya in my next fanfic!
FIN