Disclaimer: I don;t even have the money to buy th CD's to the songs I listen to, what make you think I could own G-Wing?
AN: *cough* Ummm, heh heh. I uhh... kinda left the story at a cliffhangar I couldn't resist last time... but I updated to make up for it. Put the pumpkins down now?
Chibi-Relena and friends: Make us evil, how wude. At weast you updated.
Heh heh... But Relena's going to rock in this chapter, to hell with pacifism. ^-^ Umm, on with the chapter. (review please?)
'thoughts'
"speaking"
More Than Meets The Eye
Chapter 12
"Well done." The chair turned slowly, and the figure of a little girl could be seen. The chair stopped halfway, and she leaned forward and blue light illuminated her young face. She was smirking lightly, an odd glint in her eyes. "Remind me to give you all a raise, especially you... Relena."
~*~
Relena smirked. Marimaia may be young, but she was just as sharp as her mother. Of course she would see right through Relena's disguise, they had known eachother all of their lives, practically.
"Please drop the charade, I know it's you. It not all that hard, Miss Relena." Marimaia eyed the girl with satisfaction in her eyes. "There are no groups in our little 'community' that consists of only five girls."
"You're right." Relena threw off her jacket and untied her braid. As she shook out her hair, her bangs began to appear slowly and the hat flew off. "But Marimaia, listen. Your uncle has been telling you lies. I never killed your mother. I never knew whom your father was. He had just used the events to convince you. Please, surrender." She held out her hand to Marimaia, as if asking her to come with her.
"You're a liar. A murderer and a liar." She stood up from her chair and stood by her uncle. "You killed them. Both of my parents, just to make sure I'd live a miserable life, just like you."
Dorothy, Meiran, Midii and Hilde had long surrounded the little platform the two Bartons were stationed on. They, like before, decided to listen to the conversation before reacting. There was still a chance for a peaceful way out.
"I have no reason to wish a life like mine upon another. And I most certainly don't wish it for you. You're like family to me, and I don't want to lose you too." Relena took a step forward, and waited for Marimaia's reaction.
"I don't trust you. I trust my uncle, he is family." Marimaia crossed her arms and stood obediantly beside her uncle.
Then there was the horrifying sound of Dekim's laughter. "There, you see? She has made her choice, and now it's time to die." He reached into his coat pocket and began to draw out his gun.
"Hold it Dekim!" It was Hilde from the other side of the platform. She had her gun out and aimed directly for Dekim. The elderly man leered at her.
"What makes you think you'll be quick or accurate enough to stop me?" He sneered at the little dark-haired girl.
"Because, we have four guns aimed straight for your head. If one misses, another will surely hit." Dorothy also had her gun right out infront of her. Midii and Meiran then came into view, each with a gun in their hand.
"Now, tell Marimaia the truth. About how you decieved her into all of this." Meiran glared at the man, enough to make him flinch a little bit.
"We could kill you now, but your little neice needs and explaination, though we won't hesitate if you try anything." Midii stepped up a step and leaned in a bit. Her voice was cold and menacing, the one she only used when she was meant to be taken dead seriously.
Dekim smirked and all four girls tigtened their holds, nearly pushing down on the trigger. Relena gasped. "Come here my little neice." There was the unmistakable click of the safety being turned off. Dekim had his gun pointed to Marimaia's head, straight at the temple. "Yeah, nice and slowly, perfect." The look on Marimaia's face was absolute fear. She looked at Relena for courage, only to find that same fear on her face.
He held the little girl up for all five to see, and laughed. "Won't do a thing with her in my grasp, will you? Even if you managed to kill me, it doesn't take that much energy to pull the trigger." Marimaia whimpered. "Now, drop every weapon you have. I will kill her if I must. I could always make a new one to rule the Earth. I'll never lose."
The girls did as they were told and kicked the weapons behind them, holding their hands in the air. "Yes... Can't do anything now can you? This is what you get for tryong to play hero. Face it, you're just useless little kids." He had turned away now, to face all the girls.
Relena watched him with a hard, cold stare. He was laughing at their misery, at his torture, and how he had deceived Marimaia. She bent her knees until she was low, near the ground. Then, as he began lecturing about stupidity and false hopes, she pounced.
She jumped at least four steps at a time, each one louder than the last, but Dekim couldn't hear anything. Her breathing was already ragged. She couldn't see anything but the gun and Marimaia's face. Her hands locked themselves together, readying for a powerful attack. Eventually, Dekim turned around, but only when Relena was too close to do anything.
Her fists dug deep into Dekim's stomach. A gunshot sounded and filled the entire room, but by the time he had shot, his arms were too weak from the sudden impact to hold onto the kicking child. Fire seemed to burn into Relena's right cheek as she felt something skim it.
But for now, that didn't matter. Marimaia had to get to safety.
"Dorothy!" Relena yelled to the closest on to her. It took the other blonde to figure a while to figure out what had just happened, but she soon nodded and ran up the flight of stairs to catch Marimaia. "Get out of here," she grabbed the gun from Dekim's hand. "Take the guns and everything, I have something to do on my own."
Her voice was venomous, and the other girls knew that it was not good at all. Marimaia had fallen from shock, so Dorothy carried her out. Hilde caught the gun Relena had thrown to the ground and Dekim's old gun, and her own. Midii and Meiran ran off towards the doors first, knowing that it would do no good for them to stay around. They had never seen Relena like this before.
Relena was still on the platform, but she held Dekim's head down with one hand and fixed her knee on his stomach so that he couldn't move. The older man was rasping for air as Relena drew back her arm and punched him in the face. She pulled away enough only to lift him up by his collar.
"You." Her eyes were slitted in anger. "I gave you a home. I helped feed you and gave you a place to sleep." She threw the man against the chair. "And of all the things you could do, you took and corrupted one of the few I hold dear. You probably killed two more for all that I know." She lifted him again and threw him against the stairs. He didn't stop until he reached the bottom. "Take over my country, lead them to war. Take advantage of an innocent child!" She threw him against the wall. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
*~*~*~*~*
"Uh oh." Hilde was looking over to the end of the hall. The other three with her looked too, and instantly saw what was wrong.
"Where's Relena?" Zechs and Heero both rasped in unison.
Meiran coughed a little, and Dorothy flicked her head towards the door. "I wouldn't go in there though. Dekim was in bad shape when we got kicked out by Relena, and she was pretty mad. Don't worry, she won't be hurt at all."
Zechs looked at Dorothy in some kind of shock and horror. "I'm guessing you aren't on the Barton's side." He narrowed his eyes and grudgingly moved to the wall. "Alright, I won't go in, but if she's hurt, I'm going to severely punish all of you, under preventors offences."
Lady Une came up to Dorothy an looked at Marimaia. "I don't know what you think, but she looks a bit like Trieze." Every member of the room turned to the unmoving girl in Dorothy's lap. Murmurs were heard and Quatre came up to her.
"Is she..." He looked worriedly at Dorothy.
"No, she was in a state of shock, but she fainted afterwards." She looked down at Marimmaia with pitiful eyes. "Just found out that her uncle wasn't whom she thought he was. Dekim pulled a gun to her temple."
Duo walked over to where Hilde was, watching the scene. "Hey babe." He smiled a bit before sitting down next to her. "Um, do you mind explaining to me why you all had to ditch us back there?" He let a stray arm wrap itself around Hilde.
Hilde sighed. "Well, Relena wanted to infiltrate alone actually. And get Dekim by herself, you know how she is. And if she makes up her mind, you can't change it. So we convinced her to let us come along. it was simple really. Don't let anyone report to Dekim or Marimaia that we were alone and there was a slim chance we'd trick them into thinking we were Oz. Well, we got to the end, the security room, but both Bartons reconized us so we couldn't do our original plan. So we got Marimaia out and here we are, with Relena dealing with Dekim inside."
Duo gave his girlfriend a blank look. "Well, she is something isn't she? Heero don't know what he got. But I don't think Trowa's any better." Hilde looked at Duo quizzically. 'He's just jumping to conclusions, that's all." She looked away towards the others.
But she was surprised to see Trowa sitting beside Midii. Typically, Wufei and Meiran were across the hall from one another. Dorothy and Quatre sat a ways from a corner, one on the left wall and one on the right. Noin and Zechs stood against the wall opposite of the doors while the other older girls stood a while off. Heero sat in some shadows beside the door. It seemed almost like he was brooding over something.
Moments later, the doors swung open and out strode Relena. Everyone stood up and began to walk over to her. She seemed upset, to say the least.
Zechs looked at her worriedly. She seemed to be holding back a few tears. Relena's eyes were downcast and her strides were strong yet hesitate at times. "Relena?"
She lifted her head and Zechs was surprised to see her eyes shimmering with unleashed tears. "I- I was expecting it, b-but it didn't help, nothing helped..." her words came out of her mouth clumsily.
"Relena, I don't understand, what happened?" He watched as his sister's hands clenched and unclenched several times before she answered again.
"Milliardo, he killed Leia, just to get Marimaia on our side. Told her lies, horrible lies. We took him in, fed him and clothed him, practically. And you know what he did?" Her voice was calm, though she trembled as she talked. The next words that came out of her mouth were just a whisper, but all of them caught it. "He killed father."
The young politician fell into her brother's arms and cried gently into his chest. She gave in to very few whimpers but each one broke their hearts a bit more. Hilde, Dorothy, Meiran and Midii gently squeezed her arm in comfort, then looked directly at the doors with a cold, hard stare.
Zechs was glaring towards the door too, but what he was focused on was beyond the door, laying in a pathetic huddle on the bottom of the room he occupied. "Heero," The brown haired man looked at his superior. "Open the door and get out of the way within three seconds." His right arm raised while the other supported the young woman.
"Wait until I get over there too." Heero opened the door wide and used his Oz hat he 'borrowed' as a stopper. Quickly he strode over to Zechs' right and aimed his gun at the huddle too.
There were at least seven shots heard in perfect unison.
*~*~*~*~*
Relena stirred slightly. She was in an oddly familiar room, and it was a while before she could place it. Her room. The one at her mansion, it appeared. But it couldn't be, it had been taken over. Had she been dreaming?
The room was exactly how she had remembered, with all the peach, white, and reddish grey. It was illuminated slightly, and it appeared to be night. It looked so peaceful, and she began to doubt any of her memories had happened.
But as she flipped the blanket off of her, she noticed something out of place. There, at the end of the bed, was three bloodied bodies, their skin a pale bue colour and their eyes were rolled the wrong way. Two were unnamed Oz soldiers, but the third, the third was her father. Relena sat there, horrified, but as she was about to run off and scream for someone, they all sat up straight.
She screamed.
~*~
Heero walked into Relena's room with his preventors jacket and a tray of foods at seven that Saturday. He expected her to wake up today; she had been asleep for over a day after she fainted in Zechs arms from exaustion. He looked over to the lady in question and nearly smiled. She looked so peaceful right then. All the lines of worry had dissappeared in her sleep.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard something behind him. Heero turned around quickly, to see Relena sitting up and staring blankly at him. After a moment, she pulled the blankets up to her chest. Her eyes reflected curiosity and slight concern.
"I brought you breakfast." He jestered to the tray on her bedside table. She nodded and looked away slowly towards the tray. "You can move back into your home within a day. The other preventors found a few faithful servants while you were going up against Dekim. They're cleaning up the mansion now." She gave him a curt nodd and he left her alone.
*~*~*~*~*
Tipping open the door, Meiran walked into her foster-parents home nearly silently. After the incident, she had gone to her cubicle in the preventors and worked all day. There was a lot of work for all of the preventors, trying to cover up what they could and keeping the press out of it.
"Meiran? Is that you?" Her foster mother appeared around the corner.
She was a Japenese woman, and married to an English man. They never had any children, but readily took in the two chinese girls. Both were nicer than Meiran had expected, but she still never got comfortable, but referred to them as her own parents.
Her mother, Jade, was a short little woman whom was almost shorter than herself. Her hair was jet black and clung to her head in short wisps. She wore silvery glasses and kept her outfits simple. Today, she just had a loose teeshirt and baggy pants.
"Yeah, I'm back, safe and sound. I would've been back yesterday bu-" Her mother had cut her off when she burst into quiet sobs.
"I'm sorry, Meiran. It's just that I was so sure you were gone, and your father has been worried sick. And Mae, she's locked herself in her room." Her mother's sobs grew softer and softer. She wiped some tears off her face. "I didn't mean to cry infront of you Meiran, but we have no idea what's going on with her." She looked up to the teenager and smiled slightly. "I'm so glad you're home. Please go talk to her, I need to know she's okay."
Meiran looked at the smaller woman, dumbfounded. She nodded and began to walk down the hall to her sister's room.
"Mae?" She knocked at the door and whispered to her sister. "Are you there honey?" There was no answer. "Let me in, it's Meiran." She called softly, thinking that her sister hadn't heard. "Mae?" Meiran pounded on the door and called urgently to the child that was supposedly on the other side of the door. "Mae!" There was still no answer and Meiran stepped back.
She took the stride toward her door and braced herself for the impact. The door creaked slightly and Meiran tried again. This time it made an audible crack and Meiran was sure it wasn't long before she was through. She stepped back again and lunged herself towards the door again. This time, it split in two and Meiran landed on the ground.
As she stood up, Meiran almostexpected to see her sister at her desk, looking at her in shock. But that wasn't the case.
The room was entirely clean; not a speck of dirt or grime anywhere. On the desk, were three neatly folded papers, and an empty bottle of pills, and another of alchohol. On the bed was Mae, resting peacefully. The blankets and sheets were neat, and her posture was graceful but stiff. There was an odd smell in the room.
Meiran dropped to her knees, in the pile of wood she had just stood up from moments ago. She heard her mother and father gasp as they saw the scene before them. Meiran choked back a sob, but one syllable managed to make it out of her mouth.
"No..."
*~*~*~*~*
Heya guys! Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out but, I kin of went on a writer's block, so I worked on my website instead. Also, my cousin came back this weekend, so I couldn't work on it. Lastly, I got AIM and Photoshop so I was a bit preoccupied. ^-^'. So enough with my SOB story, R&R please!
AN: *cough* Ummm, heh heh. I uhh... kinda left the story at a cliffhangar I couldn't resist last time... but I updated to make up for it. Put the pumpkins down now?
Chibi-Relena and friends: Make us evil, how wude. At weast you updated.
Heh heh... But Relena's going to rock in this chapter, to hell with pacifism. ^-^ Umm, on with the chapter. (review please?)
'thoughts'
"speaking"
More Than Meets The Eye
Chapter 12
"Well done." The chair turned slowly, and the figure of a little girl could be seen. The chair stopped halfway, and she leaned forward and blue light illuminated her young face. She was smirking lightly, an odd glint in her eyes. "Remind me to give you all a raise, especially you... Relena."
~*~
Relena smirked. Marimaia may be young, but she was just as sharp as her mother. Of course she would see right through Relena's disguise, they had known eachother all of their lives, practically.
"Please drop the charade, I know it's you. It not all that hard, Miss Relena." Marimaia eyed the girl with satisfaction in her eyes. "There are no groups in our little 'community' that consists of only five girls."
"You're right." Relena threw off her jacket and untied her braid. As she shook out her hair, her bangs began to appear slowly and the hat flew off. "But Marimaia, listen. Your uncle has been telling you lies. I never killed your mother. I never knew whom your father was. He had just used the events to convince you. Please, surrender." She held out her hand to Marimaia, as if asking her to come with her.
"You're a liar. A murderer and a liar." She stood up from her chair and stood by her uncle. "You killed them. Both of my parents, just to make sure I'd live a miserable life, just like you."
Dorothy, Meiran, Midii and Hilde had long surrounded the little platform the two Bartons were stationed on. They, like before, decided to listen to the conversation before reacting. There was still a chance for a peaceful way out.
"I have no reason to wish a life like mine upon another. And I most certainly don't wish it for you. You're like family to me, and I don't want to lose you too." Relena took a step forward, and waited for Marimaia's reaction.
"I don't trust you. I trust my uncle, he is family." Marimaia crossed her arms and stood obediantly beside her uncle.
Then there was the horrifying sound of Dekim's laughter. "There, you see? She has made her choice, and now it's time to die." He reached into his coat pocket and began to draw out his gun.
"Hold it Dekim!" It was Hilde from the other side of the platform. She had her gun out and aimed directly for Dekim. The elderly man leered at her.
"What makes you think you'll be quick or accurate enough to stop me?" He sneered at the little dark-haired girl.
"Because, we have four guns aimed straight for your head. If one misses, another will surely hit." Dorothy also had her gun right out infront of her. Midii and Meiran then came into view, each with a gun in their hand.
"Now, tell Marimaia the truth. About how you decieved her into all of this." Meiran glared at the man, enough to make him flinch a little bit.
"We could kill you now, but your little neice needs and explaination, though we won't hesitate if you try anything." Midii stepped up a step and leaned in a bit. Her voice was cold and menacing, the one she only used when she was meant to be taken dead seriously.
Dekim smirked and all four girls tigtened their holds, nearly pushing down on the trigger. Relena gasped. "Come here my little neice." There was the unmistakable click of the safety being turned off. Dekim had his gun pointed to Marimaia's head, straight at the temple. "Yeah, nice and slowly, perfect." The look on Marimaia's face was absolute fear. She looked at Relena for courage, only to find that same fear on her face.
He held the little girl up for all five to see, and laughed. "Won't do a thing with her in my grasp, will you? Even if you managed to kill me, it doesn't take that much energy to pull the trigger." Marimaia whimpered. "Now, drop every weapon you have. I will kill her if I must. I could always make a new one to rule the Earth. I'll never lose."
The girls did as they were told and kicked the weapons behind them, holding their hands in the air. "Yes... Can't do anything now can you? This is what you get for tryong to play hero. Face it, you're just useless little kids." He had turned away now, to face all the girls.
Relena watched him with a hard, cold stare. He was laughing at their misery, at his torture, and how he had deceived Marimaia. She bent her knees until she was low, near the ground. Then, as he began lecturing about stupidity and false hopes, she pounced.
She jumped at least four steps at a time, each one louder than the last, but Dekim couldn't hear anything. Her breathing was already ragged. She couldn't see anything but the gun and Marimaia's face. Her hands locked themselves together, readying for a powerful attack. Eventually, Dekim turned around, but only when Relena was too close to do anything.
Her fists dug deep into Dekim's stomach. A gunshot sounded and filled the entire room, but by the time he had shot, his arms were too weak from the sudden impact to hold onto the kicking child. Fire seemed to burn into Relena's right cheek as she felt something skim it.
But for now, that didn't matter. Marimaia had to get to safety.
"Dorothy!" Relena yelled to the closest on to her. It took the other blonde to figure a while to figure out what had just happened, but she soon nodded and ran up the flight of stairs to catch Marimaia. "Get out of here," she grabbed the gun from Dekim's hand. "Take the guns and everything, I have something to do on my own."
Her voice was venomous, and the other girls knew that it was not good at all. Marimaia had fallen from shock, so Dorothy carried her out. Hilde caught the gun Relena had thrown to the ground and Dekim's old gun, and her own. Midii and Meiran ran off towards the doors first, knowing that it would do no good for them to stay around. They had never seen Relena like this before.
Relena was still on the platform, but she held Dekim's head down with one hand and fixed her knee on his stomach so that he couldn't move. The older man was rasping for air as Relena drew back her arm and punched him in the face. She pulled away enough only to lift him up by his collar.
"You." Her eyes were slitted in anger. "I gave you a home. I helped feed you and gave you a place to sleep." She threw the man against the chair. "And of all the things you could do, you took and corrupted one of the few I hold dear. You probably killed two more for all that I know." She lifted him again and threw him against the stairs. He didn't stop until he reached the bottom. "Take over my country, lead them to war. Take advantage of an innocent child!" She threw him against the wall. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
*~*~*~*~*
"Uh oh." Hilde was looking over to the end of the hall. The other three with her looked too, and instantly saw what was wrong.
"Where's Relena?" Zechs and Heero both rasped in unison.
Meiran coughed a little, and Dorothy flicked her head towards the door. "I wouldn't go in there though. Dekim was in bad shape when we got kicked out by Relena, and she was pretty mad. Don't worry, she won't be hurt at all."
Zechs looked at Dorothy in some kind of shock and horror. "I'm guessing you aren't on the Barton's side." He narrowed his eyes and grudgingly moved to the wall. "Alright, I won't go in, but if she's hurt, I'm going to severely punish all of you, under preventors offences."
Lady Une came up to Dorothy an looked at Marimaia. "I don't know what you think, but she looks a bit like Trieze." Every member of the room turned to the unmoving girl in Dorothy's lap. Murmurs were heard and Quatre came up to her.
"Is she..." He looked worriedly at Dorothy.
"No, she was in a state of shock, but she fainted afterwards." She looked down at Marimmaia with pitiful eyes. "Just found out that her uncle wasn't whom she thought he was. Dekim pulled a gun to her temple."
Duo walked over to where Hilde was, watching the scene. "Hey babe." He smiled a bit before sitting down next to her. "Um, do you mind explaining to me why you all had to ditch us back there?" He let a stray arm wrap itself around Hilde.
Hilde sighed. "Well, Relena wanted to infiltrate alone actually. And get Dekim by herself, you know how she is. And if she makes up her mind, you can't change it. So we convinced her to let us come along. it was simple really. Don't let anyone report to Dekim or Marimaia that we were alone and there was a slim chance we'd trick them into thinking we were Oz. Well, we got to the end, the security room, but both Bartons reconized us so we couldn't do our original plan. So we got Marimaia out and here we are, with Relena dealing with Dekim inside."
Duo gave his girlfriend a blank look. "Well, she is something isn't she? Heero don't know what he got. But I don't think Trowa's any better." Hilde looked at Duo quizzically. 'He's just jumping to conclusions, that's all." She looked away towards the others.
But she was surprised to see Trowa sitting beside Midii. Typically, Wufei and Meiran were across the hall from one another. Dorothy and Quatre sat a ways from a corner, one on the left wall and one on the right. Noin and Zechs stood against the wall opposite of the doors while the other older girls stood a while off. Heero sat in some shadows beside the door. It seemed almost like he was brooding over something.
Moments later, the doors swung open and out strode Relena. Everyone stood up and began to walk over to her. She seemed upset, to say the least.
Zechs looked at her worriedly. She seemed to be holding back a few tears. Relena's eyes were downcast and her strides were strong yet hesitate at times. "Relena?"
She lifted her head and Zechs was surprised to see her eyes shimmering with unleashed tears. "I- I was expecting it, b-but it didn't help, nothing helped..." her words came out of her mouth clumsily.
"Relena, I don't understand, what happened?" He watched as his sister's hands clenched and unclenched several times before she answered again.
"Milliardo, he killed Leia, just to get Marimaia on our side. Told her lies, horrible lies. We took him in, fed him and clothed him, practically. And you know what he did?" Her voice was calm, though she trembled as she talked. The next words that came out of her mouth were just a whisper, but all of them caught it. "He killed father."
The young politician fell into her brother's arms and cried gently into his chest. She gave in to very few whimpers but each one broke their hearts a bit more. Hilde, Dorothy, Meiran and Midii gently squeezed her arm in comfort, then looked directly at the doors with a cold, hard stare.
Zechs was glaring towards the door too, but what he was focused on was beyond the door, laying in a pathetic huddle on the bottom of the room he occupied. "Heero," The brown haired man looked at his superior. "Open the door and get out of the way within three seconds." His right arm raised while the other supported the young woman.
"Wait until I get over there too." Heero opened the door wide and used his Oz hat he 'borrowed' as a stopper. Quickly he strode over to Zechs' right and aimed his gun at the huddle too.
There were at least seven shots heard in perfect unison.
*~*~*~*~*
Relena stirred slightly. She was in an oddly familiar room, and it was a while before she could place it. Her room. The one at her mansion, it appeared. But it couldn't be, it had been taken over. Had she been dreaming?
The room was exactly how she had remembered, with all the peach, white, and reddish grey. It was illuminated slightly, and it appeared to be night. It looked so peaceful, and she began to doubt any of her memories had happened.
But as she flipped the blanket off of her, she noticed something out of place. There, at the end of the bed, was three bloodied bodies, their skin a pale bue colour and their eyes were rolled the wrong way. Two were unnamed Oz soldiers, but the third, the third was her father. Relena sat there, horrified, but as she was about to run off and scream for someone, they all sat up straight.
She screamed.
~*~
Heero walked into Relena's room with his preventors jacket and a tray of foods at seven that Saturday. He expected her to wake up today; she had been asleep for over a day after she fainted in Zechs arms from exaustion. He looked over to the lady in question and nearly smiled. She looked so peaceful right then. All the lines of worry had dissappeared in her sleep.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard something behind him. Heero turned around quickly, to see Relena sitting up and staring blankly at him. After a moment, she pulled the blankets up to her chest. Her eyes reflected curiosity and slight concern.
"I brought you breakfast." He jestered to the tray on her bedside table. She nodded and looked away slowly towards the tray. "You can move back into your home within a day. The other preventors found a few faithful servants while you were going up against Dekim. They're cleaning up the mansion now." She gave him a curt nodd and he left her alone.
*~*~*~*~*
Tipping open the door, Meiran walked into her foster-parents home nearly silently. After the incident, she had gone to her cubicle in the preventors and worked all day. There was a lot of work for all of the preventors, trying to cover up what they could and keeping the press out of it.
"Meiran? Is that you?" Her foster mother appeared around the corner.
She was a Japenese woman, and married to an English man. They never had any children, but readily took in the two chinese girls. Both were nicer than Meiran had expected, but she still never got comfortable, but referred to them as her own parents.
Her mother, Jade, was a short little woman whom was almost shorter than herself. Her hair was jet black and clung to her head in short wisps. She wore silvery glasses and kept her outfits simple. Today, she just had a loose teeshirt and baggy pants.
"Yeah, I'm back, safe and sound. I would've been back yesterday bu-" Her mother had cut her off when she burst into quiet sobs.
"I'm sorry, Meiran. It's just that I was so sure you were gone, and your father has been worried sick. And Mae, she's locked herself in her room." Her mother's sobs grew softer and softer. She wiped some tears off her face. "I didn't mean to cry infront of you Meiran, but we have no idea what's going on with her." She looked up to the teenager and smiled slightly. "I'm so glad you're home. Please go talk to her, I need to know she's okay."
Meiran looked at the smaller woman, dumbfounded. She nodded and began to walk down the hall to her sister's room.
"Mae?" She knocked at the door and whispered to her sister. "Are you there honey?" There was no answer. "Let me in, it's Meiran." She called softly, thinking that her sister hadn't heard. "Mae?" Meiran pounded on the door and called urgently to the child that was supposedly on the other side of the door. "Mae!" There was still no answer and Meiran stepped back.
She took the stride toward her door and braced herself for the impact. The door creaked slightly and Meiran tried again. This time it made an audible crack and Meiran was sure it wasn't long before she was through. She stepped back again and lunged herself towards the door again. This time, it split in two and Meiran landed on the ground.
As she stood up, Meiran almostexpected to see her sister at her desk, looking at her in shock. But that wasn't the case.
The room was entirely clean; not a speck of dirt or grime anywhere. On the desk, were three neatly folded papers, and an empty bottle of pills, and another of alchohol. On the bed was Mae, resting peacefully. The blankets and sheets were neat, and her posture was graceful but stiff. There was an odd smell in the room.
Meiran dropped to her knees, in the pile of wood she had just stood up from moments ago. She heard her mother and father gasp as they saw the scene before them. Meiran choked back a sob, but one syllable managed to make it out of her mouth.
"No..."
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Heya guys! Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out but, I kin of went on a writer's block, so I worked on my website instead. Also, my cousin came back this weekend, so I couldn't work on it. Lastly, I got AIM and Photoshop so I was a bit preoccupied. ^-^'. So enough with my SOB story, R&R please!