DISCLAIMER: I don't own Weiss, Koyasu Takehito does, and I think he'd have
a fit if he read my fics.. *gets mental image of Koyasu
reading 'INSANITY in the world of Weiss'* *rolls around on the floor laughing*
..... Anyhow, I do own Solera and Amber, and a couple of the voices in my head...^_^
Chapter 11 - An understanding
On her way to her own room, Solera stopped by Aya's room. His door was slightly open, and she knocked softly on it.
No answer.
So she opened it the rest of the way.
Aya was lying on his bed, asleep, with the novel he was reading, resting on his chest. The bedside lamp was on.
Solera giggled softly, put a bookmark in the book, grabbed a blanket and put it over him. She kissed him on the forehead and turned the lamp off.
As the door shut again, Aya woke with a start. "Aya-chan?"
He then realised where he was, and fell asleep again, to tired to even try figuring out who kissed him.
Solera couldn't sleep. She had too many things occupying her mind, so she decided to check her e-mail.
While she had stayed with Schwarz, Nagi had helped her to make up an e-mail address, but it was Schuldig who came up with it. weiss_kitten @ assassins.com(1). It was her only contact with Schwarz. Yohji and the others didn't know about it.
She logged in. There were 2 messages, both video messages.
Thank God for webcam, she thought.
One was from Schuldig, and the other was from an address she didn't recognise: bandages_and_scars @ assassins.com(1). She clicked on it, and there stood Farfarello.
"Uh, hi Solera," he started, "Just checking to see if ye got back okay. Crawford's in a shitty mood and he woulda put me in the straightjacket if I didn't disappear out the window and into Nagi's room. Maybe ye could talk to him."
He paused momentarily to throw a knife at a bird in the window that wouldn't shut up. He hit it between the eyes with amazing accuracy. "Die, dammit!"
Farf faced the webcam again. "Sorry about that. Anyway come over when ye can. If not, I'll see you next time we fight."
The video icon switched off.
// Tag, Liebe. //
Solera was startled. // Don't do that to me, Kio! What do you want? //
// Check my message and see. //
// I was just about to. Now go away so I can check it. // She clicked the icon and this time Schuldig appeared on the screen.
"Ein Problem. I want to go out with Amber and she's the same with me, but then I feel like you'd hate me for it. If it was anyone else, I wouldn't care; I'd do it anyway. But you're special. I value your opinion over anyone else's. So tell me whether or not it's okay with you."
// So...?// Schuldig was being persistent.
// It's fine with me, you should know that. Well, if you'd gone inside my head, you would've known that. //
// I'm sorry I didn't, but I was going to be polite. //
Solera could almost see Schuldig pouting, and she giggled at him. // Go on, go out with her. You know who my heart's set on. //
// Actually, no. You see, it's a toss-up between Crawford, Farf and Abyssinian... //
// Aya?! No! Where are you getting your info from? //
// Your mind. Tschus(2)! //
Solera turned the computer off, and as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was asleep. Little did she know that what Schuldig had said was very true.
The next morning, Omi woke her up. He was running around the apartment, yelling, "Taia's here! Taia's here!"
It was only 11am, and Yohji was awake and dressed. He had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and Taia hanging off one arm. Solera came downstairs wearing her blue cloud pyjamas and her fluffy slippers.
"Why are you up so early, Yotan? You're usually still asleep at this time."
"I'm taking Taia out for lunch," Yohji replied proudly.
Solera leaned over to Taia and whispered, "Don't let him take you to a fast- food place."
"Hey! For your information, I'm taking her to the new teppenyaki restaurant."
"Good. She deserves it," Solera smiled at the two of them. "Now go, have fun."
Taia went out the door first, and Ken said to Yohji, "If we have a mission, we'll fill you in on the details when you get back."
"Thanks! Bye!"
The door shut.
Solera sat on the couch next to Omi, and rested her head on her shoulder. "Omittchi, it's too early. Next time you wake me up before 12, unless it's urgent, I will chase you with my katana."
Her pyjama top was slightly oversize, and the top button was undone, showing a bit of cleavage.
Aya had to keep himself from staring.
She had pale skin, a shade darker than his own. It was lightly freckled, from exposure to the sun.
She changed positions on the couch, and put her feet on Omi's lap. "Your punishment is to be my footrest for the morning."
Omi laughed and said, "The shop won't open itself, you know, and I doubt Ken could handle all the girls. It is Saturday, after all."
"You have to make things difficult for me, ne, Tsukiyono? Alright then, punishment postponed."
Omi hugged her, grabbed Ken and the two boys ran out the door.
"I suppose it's just you and me for the day, Aya-kun."
"Hn," Aya replied.
"Come and talk to me, otherwise I'll be bored senseless!"
"Fine."
Aya put his newspaper down, walked over and sat next to Solera.
"Aya, tell me about yourself. Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
Aya tensed up at the mention of 'sister'. He looked away.
"Aya? Are you okay? Tell me what's wrong."
There was a long pause before Aya finally said, "My parents were killed and my little sister was put in a coma by Takatori, nearly a year ago."
"What's her name?"
He looked at the ground. "Her name is Aya. I took on her name to always remind myself what I was fighting for. My real name is Ran."
"Aya! That's really sad. I understand now why you're never happy. So ya wanna kill Takatori that much, huh?"
Aya nodded slightly. He then sat on the floor in front of the couch. Blinking back tears, he stared at the floor some more. He felt Solera's warm hand on his shoulder. She had a look of sadness in her eyes, like she knew what he was going through.
She put her arms around his neck and gave him a reassuring hug.
Aya's icy exterior melted slowly and he allowed himself to relax. "You remind me of my sister."
"Do I? How?"
"You look like her, and you act like her."
"Well. She's lucky to have such a caring big brother. I don't have any siblings; all I had was my best friend. He protected me, and looked out for me. He still does." Solera got that faraway look, and Aya smiled.
Solera suddenly snapped back to attention, and said, "Now, did you really miss me when I was staying with Schwarz?"
"...Yes."
Aya was glad Solera couldn't see his face, because he was blushing a little. He was still wearing his orange sweater and black pants from the night before.
"I'm surprised you haven't changed your clothes yet. You looked so peaceful sleeping last night; I didn't want to wake you."
"So you were the one who kissed my forehead?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. Thank you."
"No worries. We need to look after each other, right?"
In reply, Aya put his hand over Solera's.
Wow, she thought, his hands are pretty soft for a guy's.
Aya wasn't used to feeling the way he did. He'd never had time to pay attention to girls his own age. Hell, he'd never made time for it. But this....this was a welcome change in his world.
"Ah, you're not so bad, Aya. Don't take to heart what Yohji says. You know he can be an idiot sometimes."
"I know. But I'm the leader of Weiss, what good am I if I can't control my own team-mates?"
"Well," Solera sat on the floor beside him, "maybe you should loosen the reins a bit, so to speak. I think they'll respect you a lot more for it. You need to stop worrying so much, it's like you're concerned about something. We're all in Weiss because we've had some sort of traumatic past." She stood up again. "How about I get dressed, and we'll go see Aya- chan?"
"I'd like that."
20 or so minutes later, Aya and Solera wear headed towards Magic Bus Hospital. The hospital corridors were long and silent, but Aya seemed to know where he was going. He soon stopped outside a private room, Aya-chan's room.
It was clean, with a few bunches of flower around, courtesy of the Koneko. Aya-chan lay on the bed in the centre of the room, an almost sad expression on her face.
Aya sat by her bed, holding one of his sister's cold hands in his. Solera stood beside him, and arm draped across his shoulders.
They were like that for about half and hour before Aya got up without warning and began to walk towards the door. Solera followed him.
"Aya, you don't have to be afraid to show your feelings around me. We're on the same side, fighting for the same thing! Talk to me, dammit!"
"What's the point?!"
"Well, for one, some people actually like seeing their friends take on an emotion other than moodiness!"
Aya slowed down.
Solera's tone softened. "Where's the harm in being a little emotional? I am, and I'm even irrational at times. It's good to let feelings like that go."
"You're right."
"What?"
"You're...right. I tend to hide my feelings I feel like others won't understand and I don't want to get hurt. I get so frustrated and edgy."
He ran his hands through his hair, and looking slightly worried, he said, "You won't tell the others, will you?"
"You have my word. Now I wanna get home! It's freezing!"
Back at the apartment, no one was home yet. Solera bent over to unzip her boots, and just as she removed them, Aya wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Aya? Wha-"
"Shh, don't speak."
She stood up straight and turned around, only to have her lips meet his. She pulled away. "Aya-kun, why are you doing this?"
"I'm tired of living a lie. Ever since you arrived here, I've liked you. I wouldn't admit it to myself because I was afraid that if I did, something would happen to you. But now, I have to face up to it. I don't care if the others find out about this; I'm past the point of caring!"
Aya pulled Solera close and began to kiss her passionately.
Now I know what Schuldig meant, she thought, wrapping her arms around Aya's waist.
They sunk down on the sofa, being careful not to break away. Solera's arms shifted Aya's waist to his neck as she lay back on the sofa. Aya started to nip her neck, not hard enough to break the skin, but just enough that she's know he'd been there. Solera's heart beat faster as he placed feather-light kisses on her collarbone. She lifted his head up, and looking into his violet eyes, she kissed him gently. Aya slipped his tongue into her mouth, and massaged her tongue with his.
At that point, Yohji arrived back from the restaurant. He had taken Taia to the hospital because she had received a call that her grandfather was there. Yohji was not expecting what he saw when he got home. He was so surprised that his glasses fell out of his hand onto the floor. This alerted Aya and Solera to the fact that someone was there.
"I leave you guys alone for 5 minutes, and you're all over each other!" Yohji shook his head in mock disgust. "Having fun?"
Solera waved him away, and she and Aya continued kissing.
Yohji headed towards the shop, humming the tune to "Pop Girl".
Aya and Solera stopped kissing and sat up, breathing ragged. Solera sat on Aya's lap and gazed into his seemingly cold eyes, and for once they weren't hiding anything.
"Well, that was fun, to say the least," Aya said finally.
"Yeah, I agree. Yohji, eat ya heart out, I say!"
The two of them laughed quietly.
"God, you're beautiful." Aya whispered.
Solera leaned further into his embrace. "Aya, you have to take it easy. I've got alot of things to sort out before I can make a decision about us."
"Take as long as you need, I don't mind."
Four people coming through the door interrupted them.
Manx eyed Solera and Aya suspiciously, and Ken said, "What have you done with the real Aya?!"
Solera laughed. "No need to get hysterical, Ken. Manx, do we have a mission?"
"Yes, nothing major though. Just a routine drug bust. Here are the details." Manx handed each of them a few pieces of paper stapled together with mission details on them.
"What, no video?" Solera was being silly, she couldn't help it. She'd been in a strange mood all day.
Manx laughed and rolled her eyes. "Sorry to disappoint you. I'll do better next time."
"Good."
"Ja ne."
The door shut with a slam.
"So, Omittchi, what are the details?" asked Yohji.
"Hey! Why do you always expect me to explain these thing?!"
"But you're so good at it!" Yohji pinched Omi's cheeks playfully.
Omi looked up as if to say "Why me?" and proceeded to explain the mission.
(1)- Email addresses I made up. I don't think you'd get a reply if you sent email to these...
(2)- German for "see ya later." Email me if there are some phrases or words I forgot to translate, and I'll tell you what they mean.
R+R, onegai?
~Blue Silhouette~
reading 'INSANITY in the world of Weiss'* *rolls around on the floor laughing*
..... Anyhow, I do own Solera and Amber, and a couple of the voices in my head...^_^
Chapter 11 - An understanding
On her way to her own room, Solera stopped by Aya's room. His door was slightly open, and she knocked softly on it.
No answer.
So she opened it the rest of the way.
Aya was lying on his bed, asleep, with the novel he was reading, resting on his chest. The bedside lamp was on.
Solera giggled softly, put a bookmark in the book, grabbed a blanket and put it over him. She kissed him on the forehead and turned the lamp off.
As the door shut again, Aya woke with a start. "Aya-chan?"
He then realised where he was, and fell asleep again, to tired to even try figuring out who kissed him.
Solera couldn't sleep. She had too many things occupying her mind, so she decided to check her e-mail.
While she had stayed with Schwarz, Nagi had helped her to make up an e-mail address, but it was Schuldig who came up with it. weiss_kitten @ assassins.com(1). It was her only contact with Schwarz. Yohji and the others didn't know about it.
She logged in. There were 2 messages, both video messages.
Thank God for webcam, she thought.
One was from Schuldig, and the other was from an address she didn't recognise: bandages_and_scars @ assassins.com(1). She clicked on it, and there stood Farfarello.
"Uh, hi Solera," he started, "Just checking to see if ye got back okay. Crawford's in a shitty mood and he woulda put me in the straightjacket if I didn't disappear out the window and into Nagi's room. Maybe ye could talk to him."
He paused momentarily to throw a knife at a bird in the window that wouldn't shut up. He hit it between the eyes with amazing accuracy. "Die, dammit!"
Farf faced the webcam again. "Sorry about that. Anyway come over when ye can. If not, I'll see you next time we fight."
The video icon switched off.
// Tag, Liebe. //
Solera was startled. // Don't do that to me, Kio! What do you want? //
// Check my message and see. //
// I was just about to. Now go away so I can check it. // She clicked the icon and this time Schuldig appeared on the screen.
"Ein Problem. I want to go out with Amber and she's the same with me, but then I feel like you'd hate me for it. If it was anyone else, I wouldn't care; I'd do it anyway. But you're special. I value your opinion over anyone else's. So tell me whether or not it's okay with you."
// So...?// Schuldig was being persistent.
// It's fine with me, you should know that. Well, if you'd gone inside my head, you would've known that. //
// I'm sorry I didn't, but I was going to be polite. //
Solera could almost see Schuldig pouting, and she giggled at him. // Go on, go out with her. You know who my heart's set on. //
// Actually, no. You see, it's a toss-up between Crawford, Farf and Abyssinian... //
// Aya?! No! Where are you getting your info from? //
// Your mind. Tschus(2)! //
Solera turned the computer off, and as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was asleep. Little did she know that what Schuldig had said was very true.
The next morning, Omi woke her up. He was running around the apartment, yelling, "Taia's here! Taia's here!"
It was only 11am, and Yohji was awake and dressed. He had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and Taia hanging off one arm. Solera came downstairs wearing her blue cloud pyjamas and her fluffy slippers.
"Why are you up so early, Yotan? You're usually still asleep at this time."
"I'm taking Taia out for lunch," Yohji replied proudly.
Solera leaned over to Taia and whispered, "Don't let him take you to a fast- food place."
"Hey! For your information, I'm taking her to the new teppenyaki restaurant."
"Good. She deserves it," Solera smiled at the two of them. "Now go, have fun."
Taia went out the door first, and Ken said to Yohji, "If we have a mission, we'll fill you in on the details when you get back."
"Thanks! Bye!"
The door shut.
Solera sat on the couch next to Omi, and rested her head on her shoulder. "Omittchi, it's too early. Next time you wake me up before 12, unless it's urgent, I will chase you with my katana."
Her pyjama top was slightly oversize, and the top button was undone, showing a bit of cleavage.
Aya had to keep himself from staring.
She had pale skin, a shade darker than his own. It was lightly freckled, from exposure to the sun.
She changed positions on the couch, and put her feet on Omi's lap. "Your punishment is to be my footrest for the morning."
Omi laughed and said, "The shop won't open itself, you know, and I doubt Ken could handle all the girls. It is Saturday, after all."
"You have to make things difficult for me, ne, Tsukiyono? Alright then, punishment postponed."
Omi hugged her, grabbed Ken and the two boys ran out the door.
"I suppose it's just you and me for the day, Aya-kun."
"Hn," Aya replied.
"Come and talk to me, otherwise I'll be bored senseless!"
"Fine."
Aya put his newspaper down, walked over and sat next to Solera.
"Aya, tell me about yourself. Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
Aya tensed up at the mention of 'sister'. He looked away.
"Aya? Are you okay? Tell me what's wrong."
There was a long pause before Aya finally said, "My parents were killed and my little sister was put in a coma by Takatori, nearly a year ago."
"What's her name?"
He looked at the ground. "Her name is Aya. I took on her name to always remind myself what I was fighting for. My real name is Ran."
"Aya! That's really sad. I understand now why you're never happy. So ya wanna kill Takatori that much, huh?"
Aya nodded slightly. He then sat on the floor in front of the couch. Blinking back tears, he stared at the floor some more. He felt Solera's warm hand on his shoulder. She had a look of sadness in her eyes, like she knew what he was going through.
She put her arms around his neck and gave him a reassuring hug.
Aya's icy exterior melted slowly and he allowed himself to relax. "You remind me of my sister."
"Do I? How?"
"You look like her, and you act like her."
"Well. She's lucky to have such a caring big brother. I don't have any siblings; all I had was my best friend. He protected me, and looked out for me. He still does." Solera got that faraway look, and Aya smiled.
Solera suddenly snapped back to attention, and said, "Now, did you really miss me when I was staying with Schwarz?"
"...Yes."
Aya was glad Solera couldn't see his face, because he was blushing a little. He was still wearing his orange sweater and black pants from the night before.
"I'm surprised you haven't changed your clothes yet. You looked so peaceful sleeping last night; I didn't want to wake you."
"So you were the one who kissed my forehead?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. Thank you."
"No worries. We need to look after each other, right?"
In reply, Aya put his hand over Solera's.
Wow, she thought, his hands are pretty soft for a guy's.
Aya wasn't used to feeling the way he did. He'd never had time to pay attention to girls his own age. Hell, he'd never made time for it. But this....this was a welcome change in his world.
"Ah, you're not so bad, Aya. Don't take to heart what Yohji says. You know he can be an idiot sometimes."
"I know. But I'm the leader of Weiss, what good am I if I can't control my own team-mates?"
"Well," Solera sat on the floor beside him, "maybe you should loosen the reins a bit, so to speak. I think they'll respect you a lot more for it. You need to stop worrying so much, it's like you're concerned about something. We're all in Weiss because we've had some sort of traumatic past." She stood up again. "How about I get dressed, and we'll go see Aya- chan?"
"I'd like that."
20 or so minutes later, Aya and Solera wear headed towards Magic Bus Hospital. The hospital corridors were long and silent, but Aya seemed to know where he was going. He soon stopped outside a private room, Aya-chan's room.
It was clean, with a few bunches of flower around, courtesy of the Koneko. Aya-chan lay on the bed in the centre of the room, an almost sad expression on her face.
Aya sat by her bed, holding one of his sister's cold hands in his. Solera stood beside him, and arm draped across his shoulders.
They were like that for about half and hour before Aya got up without warning and began to walk towards the door. Solera followed him.
"Aya, you don't have to be afraid to show your feelings around me. We're on the same side, fighting for the same thing! Talk to me, dammit!"
"What's the point?!"
"Well, for one, some people actually like seeing their friends take on an emotion other than moodiness!"
Aya slowed down.
Solera's tone softened. "Where's the harm in being a little emotional? I am, and I'm even irrational at times. It's good to let feelings like that go."
"You're right."
"What?"
"You're...right. I tend to hide my feelings I feel like others won't understand and I don't want to get hurt. I get so frustrated and edgy."
He ran his hands through his hair, and looking slightly worried, he said, "You won't tell the others, will you?"
"You have my word. Now I wanna get home! It's freezing!"
Back at the apartment, no one was home yet. Solera bent over to unzip her boots, and just as she removed them, Aya wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Aya? Wha-"
"Shh, don't speak."
She stood up straight and turned around, only to have her lips meet his. She pulled away. "Aya-kun, why are you doing this?"
"I'm tired of living a lie. Ever since you arrived here, I've liked you. I wouldn't admit it to myself because I was afraid that if I did, something would happen to you. But now, I have to face up to it. I don't care if the others find out about this; I'm past the point of caring!"
Aya pulled Solera close and began to kiss her passionately.
Now I know what Schuldig meant, she thought, wrapping her arms around Aya's waist.
They sunk down on the sofa, being careful not to break away. Solera's arms shifted Aya's waist to his neck as she lay back on the sofa. Aya started to nip her neck, not hard enough to break the skin, but just enough that she's know he'd been there. Solera's heart beat faster as he placed feather-light kisses on her collarbone. She lifted his head up, and looking into his violet eyes, she kissed him gently. Aya slipped his tongue into her mouth, and massaged her tongue with his.
At that point, Yohji arrived back from the restaurant. He had taken Taia to the hospital because she had received a call that her grandfather was there. Yohji was not expecting what he saw when he got home. He was so surprised that his glasses fell out of his hand onto the floor. This alerted Aya and Solera to the fact that someone was there.
"I leave you guys alone for 5 minutes, and you're all over each other!" Yohji shook his head in mock disgust. "Having fun?"
Solera waved him away, and she and Aya continued kissing.
Yohji headed towards the shop, humming the tune to "Pop Girl".
Aya and Solera stopped kissing and sat up, breathing ragged. Solera sat on Aya's lap and gazed into his seemingly cold eyes, and for once they weren't hiding anything.
"Well, that was fun, to say the least," Aya said finally.
"Yeah, I agree. Yohji, eat ya heart out, I say!"
The two of them laughed quietly.
"God, you're beautiful." Aya whispered.
Solera leaned further into his embrace. "Aya, you have to take it easy. I've got alot of things to sort out before I can make a decision about us."
"Take as long as you need, I don't mind."
Four people coming through the door interrupted them.
Manx eyed Solera and Aya suspiciously, and Ken said, "What have you done with the real Aya?!"
Solera laughed. "No need to get hysterical, Ken. Manx, do we have a mission?"
"Yes, nothing major though. Just a routine drug bust. Here are the details." Manx handed each of them a few pieces of paper stapled together with mission details on them.
"What, no video?" Solera was being silly, she couldn't help it. She'd been in a strange mood all day.
Manx laughed and rolled her eyes. "Sorry to disappoint you. I'll do better next time."
"Good."
"Ja ne."
The door shut with a slam.
"So, Omittchi, what are the details?" asked Yohji.
"Hey! Why do you always expect me to explain these thing?!"
"But you're so good at it!" Yohji pinched Omi's cheeks playfully.
Omi looked up as if to say "Why me?" and proceeded to explain the mission.
(1)- Email addresses I made up. I don't think you'd get a reply if you sent email to these...
(2)- German for "see ya later." Email me if there are some phrases or words I forgot to translate, and I'll tell you what they mean.
R+R, onegai?
~Blue Silhouette~