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::Covers eyes:: I know I know it's been a long time and I am so so sorry. Thanks to Slayers Otaku-Girl this chapter is dedicated to you because sometimes I do needed to be reminded when I am neglecting things. U.u and you did it in such a nice way. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. People can beat me if they want to taking so long. So I will shut up now and get on with the story.
Echoe Shayne ^.^
Darkness, nothingness, pain all these things swirled around her in an un ending vortex that she could not pull herself from. No matter what she did as soon as she thought that she was nearing the end she would be pulled back down into the blackness that had become her world. There was no escape there was only the pain. Had there ever been anything besides the pain?
Zel looked at the red head who was trashing next to him. Reaching his hand out he placed it on her mid section trying his best to hold her down. Shifting his hands to her shoulders he shook her gently but still she didn't stop.
"Lina!" he half yelled in desperation. His hands moving to the side of her pail face.
'Lina' she could hear her name echoing through the darkness. Someone was calling to her. It filled the air around her and she slowly became aware of herself again. Her eyes started to flutter open and she saw worried cerulean eyes looking down at her. She tried to smile if even just for him, but the little movement hurt and she ended up with more of a grimace. Tears were coursing down her cheeks but despite her pride she couldn't get them to stop.
She was thankful that only Zel was here to see her like this, but at the same time she was ashamed that he had to see her like this.
"Don't you dare look at me like Zel!" she couldn't help it when she didn't know what to do it was always good to cover it up with anger. Though to her disappointment he didn't seam to be put off by her little outburst.
Zel didn't know what to say so he just looked at her.
Under his steady gaze she felt her anger crumbling. She tried to hold on it to pull it to her but it slipped away leaving only the dull ach that clung to her body. 'Was it really living this pain?' at one time she thought pain meant that she was alive. Maybe it was something different entirely and for once she longed for something. She longed for release.
Zel hated what he saw in her eyes he watched the fire die, leaving only grief in its wake. His heart wrenched to see her like this.
"I wish I had died." her word trialed out in whisper but she knew that Zel had heard them. The look in his eyes told her everything.
'I wish I had died' the words ran through him. Was this really his Lina talking? It didn't sound like anything that she would say but the glint in her crimson eyes told him that she meant it. Anger welled up in him, never before had he felt like this. It was consuming him how could she say something like that. He felt the urge to slap her. To shake some sense into her.
"Don't you dare Lina. I don't want to hear it ." Pausing long enough to sweep her into his arms he looked down at the cascade of rest hair resting against him. "I let you go once. I couldn't follow you. This time I will, I swear to you if you go I will follow you."
She needed to hear that she needed to hear that she was worth something, that she was living for something. At the same time it hurt to know that she was putting Zel through this. The person that she loved more than anything, she was dragging him into the depths with her. He didn't disserve this.
"I'll be strong just for you."
"Don't be strong just for me Lina that's not like you. Be strong for yourself."
Hearing that she could say nothing only pull herself closer to the man next to her.
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Filia looked up at Xelloss with tears in her eyes why did this have to be happening? They had been through so much. They had worked so hard, Lina had worked so hard and for what? To be repaid by this?
Xelloss could feel her pain as it reverberated through the room. It was delicious, yes he would admit that. But he was not enjoying it. Instead he pulled her closer to him. Stroking her hair, he was thankful that she wasn't wearing that stupid hat. His gloved fingers ran through her hair. He wondered what it would feel like if he were to take off the gloves. Shaking the thought from his mid he listened to the sounds of her crying.
Filia who was always looked so together who solved everything with the swing of her mace
"No one is allowed to wonder from the course that fate has prepared for them with out paying the price of it."
Filia could hear in the sound of his voice reverberating threw his chest. It was enough to make her cringe. 'Fate' was everything so cruel?
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"I need to go and see someone." Lina said finally finding her voice.
"If that is what you want then as soon as your better we can leave." Zel said with a small smile tugging at the corners of his lips
"We need to leave now, As soon as possible." Urgency had slipped into her voice. She was surprised to hear it, because had never thought of what she was about to do as something that she would want to do. "I must see my sister."
Her sister? That came as a shock to him. Lina actually wanted to see her sister? From what he had gathered he thought that Lina was deathly afraid of her older Sister.
"If that is what you want, then why don't you rest a little longer?"
"Because I don't want to. You will not treat me like I'm a child Zel I will not stand for it." She felt some of her old spunk seep back into her and she shot him a devilish smile.
"Very well, do you want me to tell Filia that we're going?"
"No, but she'll find out and follow soon enough. So I guess that you might as well tell her." Though she regretted that telling Filia also meant that Xelloss would know what she was doing.
"You sure that you don't want to wait till morning?" Zel asked searching her features he already knew her answer. "I'll leave while you change." Standing up he exited the room. A few minutes later he heard the door open behind him.
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Amelia knocked on the door she knew that it was late but this was the only place that she could think of to come. After a few minutes she heard foot steps from inside the house. Looking down at herself she thought maybe she should have taken the time to do something about her appearance but at the time she hadn't been thinking of it.
The door opened and it was Gourry standing there a blank expression on his face like he didn't know who she was. Putting a smile on her face she looked up at the blonde swords man.
"Hello Mr. Gourry."
"Amelia?" He said not believing that disheveled person that was standing at his door was the princess that he knew.
"Yes Mr. Gourry it's me." She said feeling both embarrass and annoyed that the man didn't remember her.
"Gourry dear, Who is it?" Sylphiel called from within the house. A few seconds later she came into view and there was an intake of breath as she realized who it was that was standing there.
"Why don't you come inside Amelia." Sylphiel said placing her hand on Gourry's shoulder and guiding him out of the way.
"I would like that very much. If it's not a problem with you that is?" She said waiting for the other woman to nod before she procceded into the house.
"No you're no bother." The woman said turning to look at her husband for conformation.
Gourry seeing that Sylphiel was waiting for him to do something he nodded before turning his attention back to the petite princess that looked so different from herself.
"Would you like to take a bath? I could go and heat the water for you. You look like you've had a long journey."
Amelia frowned a little at the last words ' why doesn't she just tell me that I look awful?' she thought , but the sound of a warm bath did sound good so she only nodded.
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She sat there they had fixed up a cot for her to spend the night on since Val had taken their guest room. She watched Sylphiel walk around and get everything ready then she watched as she kissed her husband goodnight and told him that she would be there shortly.
Sylphiel approached the princess with a forced smile on her face. It alarmed her when the younger girl looked up at her with almost the same expression one that was wrapped with guilt.
"How have you been?"
Amelia wanted to say that she had been great. That by going home she had cleared everything up, the truth was that it hadn't. She felt just as lost today as she had that day that she had picked herself up off the floor.
"I wish that I could tell you that I felt great but it would be a lie. You?"
"I wish that I could tell you that I felt great but it would be a lie." She said using the other girls words because she didn't have any better ones to describe how she felt.
"I mean I did bad things. I was selfish and I hurt Miss. Lina. I hurt Mr. Zelgadiss and he things that I said." She wanted to cry right there. She knew that she could tell her anything that she could pour her heart out to Sylphiel and the woman would understand.
"I know what you mean."
"That's why I'm here I need to find them. I have to set things strait once and for all. I have to tell them how sorry I am. Even if I'm not forgiven I won't be able to go on till I admit it to them."
Sylphiel nodded in understanding as she listened to the girl. She wanted to say something but she didn't. Gourry was always there when she need a shoulder to cry on, when she needed someone to talk to, but Amelia was alone.
"You know I had myself convinced that I loved him. I really did but now that I think of it I don't know. I think maybe that I pitied him. You know I called him a monster." She said looking down at her hands that were resting in her lap.
Sylphiel was surprised at this. She had never thought that Amelia would say something like that to Zelgadiss even in a moment of anger she had never thought that the little girl would tell him something like that. Then again she had never thought that she would ever get mad at someone the way that she had gotten mad at Lina that day.
"But you know it not true. I know now that I'm the monster."
At those words Sylphiel wrapped her arms around her. "So am I. So am I." She had started crying again without even noticing it. She was sorry though because Amelia responded by starting to cry herself.
"That's why I came here would you happen to know where they are?"
"No I don't but I know that Filia went to look for them too. That's why Val's staying here."
"Oh then I guess that I should be on my way."
"No stay. At least for the night you've run yourself ragged and you need to get some rest."
She was tired. She had to admit that but she didn't want to take the time. She had no time the weight of her words were pressing down on her.
"Please for me it would make me feel better to know that you got some sleep."
"Ok." She could do that she would sleep a little before she left. Watching the other woman walk into the other room she planned on being gone before she awoke in the morning.
Sylphiel lay awake in bed staring at the ceiling her husbands light snores the only noise in the room. Then she heard it the sound of the front door opening and closing and she knew that Amelia had left.
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"They left." Xelloss said to no one in particular but Filia being there assumed that he was talking to her.
"What do you mean that they left we just got here not too long ago. We were going to stay the night." Filia looked up at the man in front of her what was he talking about? They left. Walking out of the room she crossed the hall to knock on Lina's door. Standing there she waited someone to say something. Her heart was sinking Xelloss had been right. When he had said it she had known that he was telling her the truth but part of her didn't want to believe it. She wanted to think that if they were leaving that they would have told them, at least her if not Xelloss.
"Come on Fi Chan. We'll leave in the morning."
"Why did they leave without telling us?" she asked confused.
"Because Lina Chan hates to be babied more then anything." Xelloss said only to have Filia turn on him with her eyes blazing.
"I don't understand. She lets Zelgadiss treat her like a child."
"She does not. He doesn't treat her like a child he comforts her. When you look at Lina she can see the pity in your eyes. When she looks at Stoneboy he looks right back at her. He doesn't feel pity for her because none of that matters to him. The only thin that matters to him is her, that he gets to be with her."
Filia was taken back with what he had said. Had she woken up in an alternative universe where Xelloss was kind and looked for the inner meaning of things? Looking up at him he even looked different. Then she realized what it was, his eyes were open and he wasn't smiling. Everything changed like he had noticed that she was looking at him and his old smile slipped on his face.
Xellos looked down at the golden dragon that stood in front of him. She had seen him the expression on hi face. A real expression, not the smile that he always hid behind. For some reason it surprised him. It hadn't bothered him that she had seen him like this. He wanted someone to see him like this.
"Yes you're right we should leave in the morning. It's not that long of a wait anyway." Filia said looked at him, wondering if she had really seen him looking serious or if it had just been her mind playing tricks on her.
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Lina walked quietly next to Zel, looking at him out of the corner of her eye she smiled a little. Despite all the bad things that had been happening when she looked at him she knew that everything was going to be alright. Well no that wasn't true she didn't know that everything would be alright but he made her feel like everything would.
"What's your sister like?" He asked not knowing much about Lina's older sister.
"She's, how can I put this. She's scary."
"Even to you?" He had seen Lina's reaction over her sister once before but he still found it hard to believe that Lina would be afraid of her older sibling.
"Especially to me. If she had been your older sister you would be afraid of her too. The things that she put me through. I guess when you think of it she was just trying to protect me. I have a built up tolerance to over eighty kinds of poison because of her."
"That's a good thing isn't it? I mean that she cared enough for you to go through all that trouble."
"Do you know how you build up a resistance to poison? I spent a lot of time puking my guts out because of her love. I mean I guess that my sister is the personification of the phrase tough love."
Zel looked at her so that was why she hated her sister. It sounded like her sister had done a lot of terrible things to her but in truth all those things had made Lina into who she was now. Not that it didn't disturb him that the woman had fed her poison.
"I haven't been home in so long. I almost can't remember what it looks like. Do you remember what your home looks like?"
"You've been there I grew up in that castle with Rezo." He said looking away from her.
Lina saw that he had looked away from her when he mentioned this almost like he was ashamed of the fact. Stopping she reached out pulling on the back of Zel's shirt before throwing her arms around him.
"You should never be ashamed of who you are Zel."
He looked down at her and smiled. He wondered when she was going to get tired of telling him things like that. The truth was though he needed to hear them. He needed to hear them from her.
"I'm not it's just the last time you met a member of my family involved a fight."
"Zel the last time I talked to my family it involved a fight so there's no big deal." She felt him laugh it started low in his chest as almost a rumble.
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Luna looked up as she walked through the room with a tray in her hand. People with magic had just entered, she could feel it. Her eyes surveyed the busy room till they landed on the source. 'Lina?' what was she doing here. Voluntarily even. The last time Lina had came home it had involved a strenuous four month search on her part. So it struck her kind of odd to see her here now. She watched as her sister and the hooded man walked through the crowed room and slid into a booth. She also noticed that they had side into the same side of the booth she found that rather strange.
They weren't seated in her section so she watched as another waitress approached them to take their order. Her sister had took her time pointing to different things on the menu, but the man with her must have known what he wanted because almost as soon as Lina was done the waitress had left. Standing there she watched them a few more seconds.
She liked watching her sister when the smaller girl didn't know that she was being watched. She was so full of life. In some ways she wished that she could be more like her younger sister. Looking at the clock on the wall she saw that there was still forty-five minutes left of her shift. With a sigh she continued on with her work. She knew the moment that her sister saw her and frowned so much for being able to watch her for a while now.
Lina looked up just in time to watch her sister walk out of the back room. Her body stiffened at the sight of her. She hadn't been able to help herself it was just a natural reaction when she saw her sister.
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Zel looked at the woman in the pink waitress outfit that was standing in front of them it was hard to believe that this was Lina's sister they look nothing alike. The woman had a cold and aloof demeanor. So much different then how she had been at the restaurant he thought to himself.
Lina's house wasn't how he had expected it to look either, it was a mansion. Lina had run away from this? He followed the two women into the house his eyes taking in the inside of the house observing that it was just as impressive as the outside.
"I would love to have a word with you dear sister but you look like you're about to fall over. So why do you go and take a bath before you go to sleep I'll see to your friend here."
Lina looked in shock at her Sister, looking for some sign that she was pulling her leg. But there was a sincere expression on her face. Ok so maybe she's not as bad as I remember her being. Shrugging she looked up at Zel. He nodded and she smiled rising up on her tip toes, brushing her lips gently against his before turning to leave for her bath.
Zel watched her leave with a slight smile on his face ' how did the I get so lucky' he thought as the petite red head turned the corner.
"You're not good enough for my Sister."
That's all for now I would love some reviews ^.^
::Covers eyes:: I know I know it's been a long time and I am so so sorry. Thanks to Slayers Otaku-Girl this chapter is dedicated to you because sometimes I do needed to be reminded when I am neglecting things. U.u and you did it in such a nice way. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. People can beat me if they want to taking so long. So I will shut up now and get on with the story.
Echoe Shayne ^.^
Darkness, nothingness, pain all these things swirled around her in an un ending vortex that she could not pull herself from. No matter what she did as soon as she thought that she was nearing the end she would be pulled back down into the blackness that had become her world. There was no escape there was only the pain. Had there ever been anything besides the pain?
Zel looked at the red head who was trashing next to him. Reaching his hand out he placed it on her mid section trying his best to hold her down. Shifting his hands to her shoulders he shook her gently but still she didn't stop.
"Lina!" he half yelled in desperation. His hands moving to the side of her pail face.
'Lina' she could hear her name echoing through the darkness. Someone was calling to her. It filled the air around her and she slowly became aware of herself again. Her eyes started to flutter open and she saw worried cerulean eyes looking down at her. She tried to smile if even just for him, but the little movement hurt and she ended up with more of a grimace. Tears were coursing down her cheeks but despite her pride she couldn't get them to stop.
She was thankful that only Zel was here to see her like this, but at the same time she was ashamed that he had to see her like this.
"Don't you dare look at me like Zel!" she couldn't help it when she didn't know what to do it was always good to cover it up with anger. Though to her disappointment he didn't seam to be put off by her little outburst.
Zel didn't know what to say so he just looked at her.
Under his steady gaze she felt her anger crumbling. She tried to hold on it to pull it to her but it slipped away leaving only the dull ach that clung to her body. 'Was it really living this pain?' at one time she thought pain meant that she was alive. Maybe it was something different entirely and for once she longed for something. She longed for release.
Zel hated what he saw in her eyes he watched the fire die, leaving only grief in its wake. His heart wrenched to see her like this.
"I wish I had died." her word trialed out in whisper but she knew that Zel had heard them. The look in his eyes told her everything.
'I wish I had died' the words ran through him. Was this really his Lina talking? It didn't sound like anything that she would say but the glint in her crimson eyes told him that she meant it. Anger welled up in him, never before had he felt like this. It was consuming him how could she say something like that. He felt the urge to slap her. To shake some sense into her.
"Don't you dare Lina. I don't want to hear it ." Pausing long enough to sweep her into his arms he looked down at the cascade of rest hair resting against him. "I let you go once. I couldn't follow you. This time I will, I swear to you if you go I will follow you."
She needed to hear that she needed to hear that she was worth something, that she was living for something. At the same time it hurt to know that she was putting Zel through this. The person that she loved more than anything, she was dragging him into the depths with her. He didn't disserve this.
"I'll be strong just for you."
"Don't be strong just for me Lina that's not like you. Be strong for yourself."
Hearing that she could say nothing only pull herself closer to the man next to her.
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Filia looked up at Xelloss with tears in her eyes why did this have to be happening? They had been through so much. They had worked so hard, Lina had worked so hard and for what? To be repaid by this?
Xelloss could feel her pain as it reverberated through the room. It was delicious, yes he would admit that. But he was not enjoying it. Instead he pulled her closer to him. Stroking her hair, he was thankful that she wasn't wearing that stupid hat. His gloved fingers ran through her hair. He wondered what it would feel like if he were to take off the gloves. Shaking the thought from his mid he listened to the sounds of her crying.
Filia who was always looked so together who solved everything with the swing of her mace
"No one is allowed to wonder from the course that fate has prepared for them with out paying the price of it."
Filia could hear in the sound of his voice reverberating threw his chest. It was enough to make her cringe. 'Fate' was everything so cruel?
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"I need to go and see someone." Lina said finally finding her voice.
"If that is what you want then as soon as your better we can leave." Zel said with a small smile tugging at the corners of his lips
"We need to leave now, As soon as possible." Urgency had slipped into her voice. She was surprised to hear it, because had never thought of what she was about to do as something that she would want to do. "I must see my sister."
Her sister? That came as a shock to him. Lina actually wanted to see her sister? From what he had gathered he thought that Lina was deathly afraid of her older Sister.
"If that is what you want, then why don't you rest a little longer?"
"Because I don't want to. You will not treat me like I'm a child Zel I will not stand for it." She felt some of her old spunk seep back into her and she shot him a devilish smile.
"Very well, do you want me to tell Filia that we're going?"
"No, but she'll find out and follow soon enough. So I guess that you might as well tell her." Though she regretted that telling Filia also meant that Xelloss would know what she was doing.
"You sure that you don't want to wait till morning?" Zel asked searching her features he already knew her answer. "I'll leave while you change." Standing up he exited the room. A few minutes later he heard the door open behind him.
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Amelia knocked on the door she knew that it was late but this was the only place that she could think of to come. After a few minutes she heard foot steps from inside the house. Looking down at herself she thought maybe she should have taken the time to do something about her appearance but at the time she hadn't been thinking of it.
The door opened and it was Gourry standing there a blank expression on his face like he didn't know who she was. Putting a smile on her face she looked up at the blonde swords man.
"Hello Mr. Gourry."
"Amelia?" He said not believing that disheveled person that was standing at his door was the princess that he knew.
"Yes Mr. Gourry it's me." She said feeling both embarrass and annoyed that the man didn't remember her.
"Gourry dear, Who is it?" Sylphiel called from within the house. A few seconds later she came into view and there was an intake of breath as she realized who it was that was standing there.
"Why don't you come inside Amelia." Sylphiel said placing her hand on Gourry's shoulder and guiding him out of the way.
"I would like that very much. If it's not a problem with you that is?" She said waiting for the other woman to nod before she procceded into the house.
"No you're no bother." The woman said turning to look at her husband for conformation.
Gourry seeing that Sylphiel was waiting for him to do something he nodded before turning his attention back to the petite princess that looked so different from herself.
"Would you like to take a bath? I could go and heat the water for you. You look like you've had a long journey."
Amelia frowned a little at the last words ' why doesn't she just tell me that I look awful?' she thought , but the sound of a warm bath did sound good so she only nodded.
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She sat there they had fixed up a cot for her to spend the night on since Val had taken their guest room. She watched Sylphiel walk around and get everything ready then she watched as she kissed her husband goodnight and told him that she would be there shortly.
Sylphiel approached the princess with a forced smile on her face. It alarmed her when the younger girl looked up at her with almost the same expression one that was wrapped with guilt.
"How have you been?"
Amelia wanted to say that she had been great. That by going home she had cleared everything up, the truth was that it hadn't. She felt just as lost today as she had that day that she had picked herself up off the floor.
"I wish that I could tell you that I felt great but it would be a lie. You?"
"I wish that I could tell you that I felt great but it would be a lie." She said using the other girls words because she didn't have any better ones to describe how she felt.
"I mean I did bad things. I was selfish and I hurt Miss. Lina. I hurt Mr. Zelgadiss and he things that I said." She wanted to cry right there. She knew that she could tell her anything that she could pour her heart out to Sylphiel and the woman would understand.
"I know what you mean."
"That's why I'm here I need to find them. I have to set things strait once and for all. I have to tell them how sorry I am. Even if I'm not forgiven I won't be able to go on till I admit it to them."
Sylphiel nodded in understanding as she listened to the girl. She wanted to say something but she didn't. Gourry was always there when she need a shoulder to cry on, when she needed someone to talk to, but Amelia was alone.
"You know I had myself convinced that I loved him. I really did but now that I think of it I don't know. I think maybe that I pitied him. You know I called him a monster." She said looking down at her hands that were resting in her lap.
Sylphiel was surprised at this. She had never thought that Amelia would say something like that to Zelgadiss even in a moment of anger she had never thought that the little girl would tell him something like that. Then again she had never thought that she would ever get mad at someone the way that she had gotten mad at Lina that day.
"But you know it not true. I know now that I'm the monster."
At those words Sylphiel wrapped her arms around her. "So am I. So am I." She had started crying again without even noticing it. She was sorry though because Amelia responded by starting to cry herself.
"That's why I came here would you happen to know where they are?"
"No I don't but I know that Filia went to look for them too. That's why Val's staying here."
"Oh then I guess that I should be on my way."
"No stay. At least for the night you've run yourself ragged and you need to get some rest."
She was tired. She had to admit that but she didn't want to take the time. She had no time the weight of her words were pressing down on her.
"Please for me it would make me feel better to know that you got some sleep."
"Ok." She could do that she would sleep a little before she left. Watching the other woman walk into the other room she planned on being gone before she awoke in the morning.
Sylphiel lay awake in bed staring at the ceiling her husbands light snores the only noise in the room. Then she heard it the sound of the front door opening and closing and she knew that Amelia had left.
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"They left." Xelloss said to no one in particular but Filia being there assumed that he was talking to her.
"What do you mean that they left we just got here not too long ago. We were going to stay the night." Filia looked up at the man in front of her what was he talking about? They left. Walking out of the room she crossed the hall to knock on Lina's door. Standing there she waited someone to say something. Her heart was sinking Xelloss had been right. When he had said it she had known that he was telling her the truth but part of her didn't want to believe it. She wanted to think that if they were leaving that they would have told them, at least her if not Xelloss.
"Come on Fi Chan. We'll leave in the morning."
"Why did they leave without telling us?" she asked confused.
"Because Lina Chan hates to be babied more then anything." Xelloss said only to have Filia turn on him with her eyes blazing.
"I don't understand. She lets Zelgadiss treat her like a child."
"She does not. He doesn't treat her like a child he comforts her. When you look at Lina she can see the pity in your eyes. When she looks at Stoneboy he looks right back at her. He doesn't feel pity for her because none of that matters to him. The only thin that matters to him is her, that he gets to be with her."
Filia was taken back with what he had said. Had she woken up in an alternative universe where Xelloss was kind and looked for the inner meaning of things? Looking up at him he even looked different. Then she realized what it was, his eyes were open and he wasn't smiling. Everything changed like he had noticed that she was looking at him and his old smile slipped on his face.
Xellos looked down at the golden dragon that stood in front of him. She had seen him the expression on hi face. A real expression, not the smile that he always hid behind. For some reason it surprised him. It hadn't bothered him that she had seen him like this. He wanted someone to see him like this.
"Yes you're right we should leave in the morning. It's not that long of a wait anyway." Filia said looked at him, wondering if she had really seen him looking serious or if it had just been her mind playing tricks on her.
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Lina walked quietly next to Zel, looking at him out of the corner of her eye she smiled a little. Despite all the bad things that had been happening when she looked at him she knew that everything was going to be alright. Well no that wasn't true she didn't know that everything would be alright but he made her feel like everything would.
"What's your sister like?" He asked not knowing much about Lina's older sister.
"She's, how can I put this. She's scary."
"Even to you?" He had seen Lina's reaction over her sister once before but he still found it hard to believe that Lina would be afraid of her older sibling.
"Especially to me. If she had been your older sister you would be afraid of her too. The things that she put me through. I guess when you think of it she was just trying to protect me. I have a built up tolerance to over eighty kinds of poison because of her."
"That's a good thing isn't it? I mean that she cared enough for you to go through all that trouble."
"Do you know how you build up a resistance to poison? I spent a lot of time puking my guts out because of her love. I mean I guess that my sister is the personification of the phrase tough love."
Zel looked at her so that was why she hated her sister. It sounded like her sister had done a lot of terrible things to her but in truth all those things had made Lina into who she was now. Not that it didn't disturb him that the woman had fed her poison.
"I haven't been home in so long. I almost can't remember what it looks like. Do you remember what your home looks like?"
"You've been there I grew up in that castle with Rezo." He said looking away from her.
Lina saw that he had looked away from her when he mentioned this almost like he was ashamed of the fact. Stopping she reached out pulling on the back of Zel's shirt before throwing her arms around him.
"You should never be ashamed of who you are Zel."
He looked down at her and smiled. He wondered when she was going to get tired of telling him things like that. The truth was though he needed to hear them. He needed to hear them from her.
"I'm not it's just the last time you met a member of my family involved a fight."
"Zel the last time I talked to my family it involved a fight so there's no big deal." She felt him laugh it started low in his chest as almost a rumble.
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Luna looked up as she walked through the room with a tray in her hand. People with magic had just entered, she could feel it. Her eyes surveyed the busy room till they landed on the source. 'Lina?' what was she doing here. Voluntarily even. The last time Lina had came home it had involved a strenuous four month search on her part. So it struck her kind of odd to see her here now. She watched as her sister and the hooded man walked through the crowed room and slid into a booth. She also noticed that they had side into the same side of the booth she found that rather strange.
They weren't seated in her section so she watched as another waitress approached them to take their order. Her sister had took her time pointing to different things on the menu, but the man with her must have known what he wanted because almost as soon as Lina was done the waitress had left. Standing there she watched them a few more seconds.
She liked watching her sister when the smaller girl didn't know that she was being watched. She was so full of life. In some ways she wished that she could be more like her younger sister. Looking at the clock on the wall she saw that there was still forty-five minutes left of her shift. With a sigh she continued on with her work. She knew the moment that her sister saw her and frowned so much for being able to watch her for a while now.
Lina looked up just in time to watch her sister walk out of the back room. Her body stiffened at the sight of her. She hadn't been able to help herself it was just a natural reaction when she saw her sister.
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Zel looked at the woman in the pink waitress outfit that was standing in front of them it was hard to believe that this was Lina's sister they look nothing alike. The woman had a cold and aloof demeanor. So much different then how she had been at the restaurant he thought to himself.
Lina's house wasn't how he had expected it to look either, it was a mansion. Lina had run away from this? He followed the two women into the house his eyes taking in the inside of the house observing that it was just as impressive as the outside.
"I would love to have a word with you dear sister but you look like you're about to fall over. So why do you go and take a bath before you go to sleep I'll see to your friend here."
Lina looked in shock at her Sister, looking for some sign that she was pulling her leg. But there was a sincere expression on her face. Ok so maybe she's not as bad as I remember her being. Shrugging she looked up at Zel. He nodded and she smiled rising up on her tip toes, brushing her lips gently against his before turning to leave for her bath.
Zel watched her leave with a slight smile on his face ' how did the I get so lucky' he thought as the petite red head turned the corner.
"You're not good enough for my Sister."
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