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SabineballZ: Thanks for the title suggestion! You're the only person who responded to that question! I think I am gonna wait just a little longer to pick a title though; I really have no clue where my plot is going(after chapter 3) and I usually take the title from that! ^_^;; *sweats* HEHE you'll be there to help me out if i get writer's block right? Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
Michelle: *Bows repeatedly and blushes* Thanks! *hugs* I am glad you liked it so much! It encourages me to write more! Please review again!
Van lover: Thanks for the encouragement! Please read more and review again!
Ferai: Ask no more! Here is the next chapter with some fluffy aspects...I promise, it's gonna get really heart wrenching after a while...I am gonna do something that maybe hasn't been done before...or at least I haven't seen many of them...^_^ Anywaz, thanks for the review! Please read agian!
Starzie chick: *gets starry eyed* HI! *hugs* Thanks for reviewing my fic! *YAY* Glad you thought it was funny! Have no fear, the black stilletto's are now the running gag of this story as is the "sandwich" from Esca Returns! LOL Hehe, thanks and please do review again! I LOVE YOUR STORY TOO! *hugs* (you really think my reviews are that funny? LOL)
Al: HEHE. Yea, I love Jesse and James...I have no clue why, I just think they were terribly misunderstood in the Pokemon series. Anyway, I just got tired of saying the same sarcastic line to open up the story so then I decided to get them to do a little rhyme in the form of a disclaimer! And voila! (-what is it with my speaking Franglish lately?O_o I keep throwing French phrases in everywhere!) And all your questions shall be answered! In due time though...you get hints about who Folken is in this chapter, but he won't come in until later like in the series. AND YES, everyone has a role,in fact, Moleman's and Issac's are very vital to the story so far...muhahaha...I am takin' a gamble with this story I think but *who knows?* *winks* Millerna and Merlu...*hmn* they will be friends, eventually, but that may be right at the end of the story...depends on what I feel like making them do! Ahh hehe, genetics didn't fail Van! The authouress did! LOL I LOVE skinny, shrimpy guys! Since this story is loosely based on what my life might be in the future, I am putting myself in the place of Hitomi! (mind you,she and I kinda have the same personality!) SO, I figured, well if I get to be Hitomi, I want cute, shrimpy little Van! (Although, he is EXTREMELY tall in this; I LOVE tall guys!) Anwyay, please review more!
Random: *sniggers with* I KNOW! This is definately a fic for Barbie-san haters! Classic, you think? *raises eyebrow* I like the sound of that! OH! OH! You and I can start the Allen-bashing-review-club! LOL thanks! review more!
Ok, so enough rambling!
Disclaimer: Meowth is here this week, cuz he got left out last week! And he wanted a thing all to himself...-_-;
Meowth: Yea, see...JJ doesn't own anyting see...youse giuys better read her fic see...
jj: *looks at Meowth* Meowth, you're supposed to be a perky,scheming cat...
Meowth: *takes cigarette out of mouth* Yea, see...
jj: *rolls eyes* Anyway, just start the story already! *walks off mumbling about crazy characters and all the quirks they have*
CrAzYqUiRkS
Chapter 2: Please My Juliet
Hitomi rolled over in bed to find the sun shining in warmly on her bed from the balcony. She then noticed her book still sitting on her nightstand. Hitomi grabbed it and read:
~*"........"You know Val," said Tristan, "we've been friends ever since our Sophmore year in High School and now we're Sophmores in college..." Tristan looked at Valorie as intently as he possibly could. His amythest eyes focused in on her hazel eyes trying to speak volumes without saying anything; Tristan was knocking on the window of her soul. "You've been such a great friend to me and well...," he bit his lip as he said this. Tristan then leaned in on the picnic blanket and genlty pulled Val by her hand closer to him. "I love you like a sister...and...I..." he stuttered trying to find words.
"Wait," Val cried before he opened his mouth again. "Tristan, there's something you should know...about..." Tears welled up in Val's eyes before she could finish as Tristan took her hands and cupped them in his. "Val, I just wanted to say I think we have a good chance of being a great couple and I love you as more than a friend, more than a sister, ...I want to love you like my wife..." There was a certain disheartenment in Val's eyes. "What's wrong?" Tristan said becoming concerned that he had said the wrong thing.
"Nothing...it's not you...everything's wrong with me!" Val said crying with her head in her hands. "I don't get it," Tristan said cluelessly. Just then, a huge gust of wind stirred up everything around them. A portal opened up and a loud voice boomed, "Valkerie Raven!!! You're to come to home right now! You've lost sight of your objective!"
"Val?" Tristan asked with a curiously raised eyebrow. Val wiped a streak of tears from her face and gave a sad smirk to Tristan. "I'ts not Valorie...it's Raven...Valkerie Raven, but I go by Raven...that's what I was going to tell you...I'm not who you think I am..." Raven choked out another set of tears.
"I don't care who you are! To me you will always be Val and I love you!" Tristan screamed at the girl who had now turned her back to him walking towards the portal. She stopped and turned around at this statement simply replying, "I'm sorry Tristan,I love you too, but I can't love you like I want to..."~*
"WHAT?!?!" Hitomi yelled leaping up in bed. "NO! HE CAN'T DO THAT!!! ARGH! EVIL AUTHOUR!!!" Hitomi threw the book out on her balcony which was followed by a *ugh* sound.
"Huh?" She bent down and grabbed another one of her many black stillettos she owned.
"THANKS A LOT! That's two bruises I have on my head now because of you!"
"AHHHH!" Hitomi screamed throwing the stilletto at the voice behind the curtain through the open doors.
"$*%^!!!! If you don't stop that!!!!" yelled an adjectated voice. It was Van.
"What the hell are you doing out there?!?!?" Hitomi said her jaw dropped to the floor to see him in only a pair of pajama pants. *EYE CANDY*
"I saw a book go flying onto the balcony and I thought something might be wrong so I came to see about you..." he said grabbing his coffee cup off the table. He took a sip and peered at Hitomi who just appeared to be shocked.
"You were worrying about me?" She said turning a flush shade of red over her cheeks as if she had just had some wine.
"Of course," Van said bringing the coffee cup back down and placing it in his other hand. "I'm going to be working with you, we live next door to each other, and you don't have any friends over here really...why wouldn't I look after you?"
"Oh," Hitomi smirked.
"Here," Van said reaching around and grabbing her book. It read, " Battle Angel Valkerie: Raven by Ken Olf." "You like his work?" He said with a curious voice.
"OH do I ever! He's my favorite romance novelist! In fact, he's one of my favorite writers! I'll bet he's a real romantic and really hot! Too bad no one's ever seen him..." Hitomi drifted off clutching her book like a little school girl. "This one," she said longingly glancing at it..."I'm not even done with it yet, but it's my favorite out of all of his so far..."
"Hmnn..." Van mulled over this while sipping on more of his coffee. Hitomi noticed the awkard silence and tried to find something to say, but instead wound up noticing Van's "very nice" bod. Perfectly tanned, toned, and sculpted enough...he wasn't thick with muscular strength, but he wasn't geeky skinny. Just right. His arms were about the thickest thing on him-save for that unruly mop on his head that he liked to call his hair. "I've read him before...I hate him..." he said breaking the silence still staring at his coffee. "If you like him though, you'll definately like this other authour..." Hitomi butted in.
"You read?" she said with a smile and her eyes lit up.
Van looked up with a little smile. "Yea, I read...I've read that book already...it end really sad...and I've read everything else out there: Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Cities, and anything else you can imagine..."
"A math teacher....and YOU READ?" Hitomi said still stunned. Her mouth was hanging wide open with excitement.
Van leaned his head foward just a little bit and nodded an enthusiastic yes. "Math teachers need to escape the real world somehow, ya' know..." he said with a sigh leaping back over to his balcony.
"Hey! Wait! We have sooo much to discuss! Did you ever read..And what did you think about...Oh! And have you ever heard of..." Hitomi droned on and on about all the books she'd ever laid hands on. Van laughed. "Geez, you may need a math lesson to get your mind off books!" he said folding his arms over his chest.
Hitomi made a her face scrunch up with an indignant look on it. "And here I thought you were different than most men..." she said still clasping her book.
"Oh, I'm different all right..." Van said almost like he was ignoring her. "Bye Hitomi...see ya' later tonight..." he said folding his arms behind his head.
"HEY! We're in the middle of the conversation here!" Hitomi said thrusting her arms onto her hip. Van just ignored her and continued walking back in his apartment. "...if only I had one of my stillettos..." Hitomi thought.
Just then the phone rang. Hitomi rushed in to pick it up.
"Hello-i-i mean- wait- ja ne! -no WAIT! Konnichiwa!" She stuttered and finally spat it out. A loud belly laugh came from the other end. "I understood the first one..." said a saracstic voice. "But that sentence made no sense all strung together...'hello,i-i-mean-wait-bye bye- WAIT- GOOD AFTERNOON! hehe and it's still morning!" laughed the girl. "Yukari!" Hitomi said putting that hand on her hip again. "That's right, now, get your butt to my house now so we can go shopping!" Yukari said rather chipper. "Oh, great!" Hitomi said excitedly.
"Ah, you don't mind if Amano comes along do you?"
"No, not at all..."Hitomi said already feeling like a third weel. "I have such a weakness for wanting a guy," she thought.
"Alright! Ten min, my place!" Yukari said and then hung up.
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The three sat down for lunch and Hitomi began to wonder what her job would be like. Would the kids make fun of her? Would they say dirty things about her behind her back? Would they be nice and listen to her?
Amano could tell she was getting upset over something and then said, "You know, the school is really funny..." Hitomi's eyes jolted to his face. "Ever teacher has their own weird...prob-no...how do you say it delicately...'quirk.'...we all fit in nicely with each other," he continued to try to comfort her. "...Gaddes is the practical joker, Millerna is always crying, Merlu is always moody, Van is never responsible, Dryden is always going off on long spouts about history, Issac is always talking about war and destiny, the Mole Man is a harmless pevert,Dilly likes fire a lot...A LOT, and Allen...he is the typical 'principal.' *ahem*cough*cough*hem*"
"Oh," Hitomi said raising both eyebrows. "That's interesting..." she said taking a bite of her salad thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into?"
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Van's phone rang. He rolled off his bed and picked it up. "How's my little bro.?"
"Screw you!" he said going to hang the phone up.
"What's wrong?" the voice teased.
"Everything when you come around!" he yelled pushing his bangs back pensively.
"Listen, I got a call the other day from a friend of yours...she's says you're not taking care of yourself properly...are you making ends meet, or do you need my help and money?"
"Up yours!" Van screamed into the reciever.
"Hostile, aren't we?"
"I have good reason to be..." Van said calming down just a bit.
"Well, if you're sure you're fine little bro..."
"Go die, Folken!..." Van said slamming the phone down.
On the other end of the line, Folken simply smirked and looked at someone in the shadows. "Get me the next one he has...."
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Van picked up the reciever and dialed Dilly. They had had their differences in the past but everything was settled now. In fact, they were quite good friends. Dilly was the best drinking buddy Van had. It was getting late in the day and Van had already been depressed by Hitomi's conversation this morning.
~"You like his work?" He said with a curious voice.
"OH do I ever! He's my favorite romance novelist! In fact, he's one of my favorite writers! I'll bet he's a real romantic and really hot! Too bad no one's ever seen him..." ~
"She likes his work....*ugh*...he can't even write worth a crap..." Van thought to himself. And now, that he had recieved that call from his brother, he was ready to go drink his sorrows away for the night.
"PRYO!" answered a voice after a couple of rings.
"How about it, Albatou? Let's go burn a couple of cases worth of beer?"
"Sure! My place or yours?"
"Who's got more beer?"
"ME! I have to have the al-ki-hol for my pyromania techniques..."
"Alright, I'll be there in no time!" Van said with a smile feeling just a bit better. He was just gonna go get stupid drunk; just enough to pass out and sleep the rest of the night away.
Van grabbed his key, threw on an overshirt over his muscle shirt and headed out the door. About that time, Hitomi came walking up the stairs. "Hi Van!" she said with an enthusiastic wave.
"Hey," he mumbled with his eyes on the ground. Hitomi stopped at the top of the steps and a frown covered her face. "I wonder what's wrong with him..." she said walking back down the stairs. "Hey! Wait! Tell me what's a matter...please!" she pleaded from atop the landing.
"Nothing...." Van said shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Are you sure?" Hitomi said cautiously rasing an eyebrow.
"Yea, I just don't like my life sometimes...that's all..."
"Oh, I can relate...well, I'm just next door if you need to talk or someone to listen..." she said with a wink.
"Thanks..." Van called with that tone of voice that made Hitomi go weak in the knees. He took off again. "One min he's my best friend and the next he's so distant...weird guy, but I like him ok! AND GAAAAA IS HE HOT!" Hitomi thought aloud to herself.
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Dilandau opened the door with a micheivious grin on his face. "DUDE!" he said shaking up a bottle of wine.
Van's eyes lit up. "Hey, show me that thing you did at Yukari's!!! I completely missed it!"
"Oh yea, you did miss that didn't you?" Dilandau said with an evil smirk. "Well, grab a beer and let's watch!"
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The room is completely decorated in flames of all different colors. The couch has flames, the border is flames, the room is painted red with flames, even the couch and pillows are flames. There's so many cans on the floor of the room that one almost can't tell there is a floor. Van is sitting in the middle being hugged by Dilly. "And then...*sniff*sob*sniff*sniff*
she says....*sob*...I love him as an authour!!!! *waaaaaaaaaa*" Van bursts into tears.
Dilly comforts him and is being really supportive and forgets about being conumed with the thought of fire.(-must be all the beer and wine!O_o LOL) Van has cried so much he can't breathe. He goes to blow his nose on Dilly's shirt and Dilly throws him a look while pushing him back.
"Dude, I love you...but not that much...oh what the hell did I just say? Man, I'm drunk off my @$$...hehe...wooooo-whooooo!!!"
"But I really like her!" Van whines. "How am I supposed to impress her now? I can't compare with Ken Olf! Hell I haven't been able to write in forever...My life is over!!!" Van cries some more.
"Dude, shut up! No more beer for you!" Dilly jerks the can out of Van's hand. "Dude, she's just a girl...your life isn't over!"
"But you don't *sob* understand..."
"Your d@#$ right I don't..." Dilly says drinking some of the beer he took from Van.
"You're no help," Van says getting mopey. "You've given me a headache and made me feel worse."
"Well, that's not my forte...I burn things..." he says taking another chug. "All I know is fire...nuthin' about ladies...or maniacal famous brothers...ok, maybe just famous brothers cuz Allen is a maniac..."
"Yea, heis ifsn't he?" Van says very drukenly.
"Dude, you need to get home before you start pukin' here...I only have the carpet fireproof, not spew proof..." Dilly says throwing Van's arm over his shoulder and escorting him out the door. Van can hardly stand up.
He gets his orientation back and then calls out, "buh-buheeeeee !!! Skanks fo allll yourrrr helpssss...."
"Dude, he's not gonna make it...." Dilly whispers as he watches Van walks off.
Dilly then shrugs and goes back to shaking up the bottle of red wine. He wondered what kinda flame he could make with a blow torch....
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Van slung himself on the railing and up the stairs. "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGG...." he said grabbing his throbbing head. "I drzank waaaaaaay too muchf...." he said bent half double.
He tried to stand himself up straight. It didn't work. He had no sense of orientation and his vision was extremely blurry. He'd made it up to the second floor though and saw what he thought was his room. He made a break for it, feeling he was going to need to give the toilet a good hug....after all, the toliet hadn't had any luvin' from him in loooong time!
He ran in and noticed the door was unlocked. He thrust it open and made a mad dash for the toilet and made it just in time.
Just then, Hitomi walked up wondering why her door was open. "I'm really gonna have to start locking that thing!" she said grabbing her stilletto off of her foot. She made her way in with the spike in hand, ready to clobber the intruder.
*HEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
*EWWWW* Hitomi thought. "That sounds like...like...a party sound...like someone's had too much to-"
She stopped as she saw Van pass out on the floor of her bathroom. " To drink...." she said shaking her hand and puttin her stilletto back on her foot. She smiled some and then tried to move him out of the bathroom. It wasn't too hard; he wasn't all that heavy.
Hitomi layed him in her bed and tucked him in. She wondered if he even realized where he was. "Wonder what he's so drunk for? Maybe it was whatever upset him earlier..." she thought while standing over him.
Van woke up for just a quick min. "Hey beautiful..." he said groggily staring up at those huge,green eyes peering down at him. He reached up and twisted a lock of Hitomi's golden brown hair around his finger. "It's an angel before me and I have much sin on my lips from the liquid that I have drank...."
Hitomi was caught off her guard. "He must not know what he's saying..." Hitomi thought with a smile. She took his hand a pushed it back down but he took her hand and pulled it toward him. "Please, my Juliet, purge me of thine sin..." He pulled her closer and closer...
*Cough*cough* "Wooooo, yea, he's really drunk...you can smell it on him! He's tryin' to quote Shakespeare and he prally has no clue what I look like right now...he prally thinks I'm someone else..."
And just as Van leaned in to finally touch his lips to hers, he passed out again. "*Whew*," Hitomi thought letting out a sigh of relief. "I'd hate to have upset him more than he already was...I didn't want to kiss him anyway...at least not drunk...I wouldn't mind kissing him sober...but I wouldn't have wanted to kiss him now...it just wasn't the right time...I hardly even know him...Why am I worrying about this? I shouldn't worry about him or kissing him...it's not like I like him..." Hitomi thought to herself feeling her heart become heavy and her stomach becoming knotted.
She grabbed a blanket out of her closet and curled up on the couch with her book by Ken Olf. She had made great progression in the story today and now she was at another juicy part:
~*"...Tristan stared at Raven through the bars and attempted to touch the tip of her hand. Raven's eyes darted this way and that feeling so ashamed of her raven bird wings that now protruded from her back. She quietly shoved a lock of her hair behind her ear. "I love you, Tristan, I do...I'm sorry I had to lie...I'm sorry but it was my orders! It was follow orders or my life! But I don't regret meeting you! I don't! I love you!" Raven called pulling herself up on the bars her lips close to his.
Tristan wasn't exactly himself right now; he'd been beaten by Loki and the evil within him had been poked at enough it had resurfaced. Tears welled up in Raven's eyes. "Do you understand what I'm saying, Tristan?" He simply looked at her in a derranged manner.
Tristan finally spoke up,"my lips have sin on them, fair maiden...I have spoken harsh and cruel words agianst you and yet here you are despite what I've said still proclaiming your love for me...please, my Juliet," he said putting his nose and mouth in between a set of bars, "purge me of thine sin..."~*
Hitomi bit her lip and set the book in her lap. She then looked back at Van. "That's funny...he said the same exact thing only moments ago..." She placed a finger over her mouth. Then she remembered he'd said he'd read the book too. "Hmn...maybe he's a romantic deep down..." she thought. She layed her book on the floor and layed her head down on the sofa arm. She set the t.v. to turn itself off after awhile and started to drift asleep.
So, like no like? Basically another set up chapter with some minor fluff...I promise the good juicy stuff is coming, I just don't want to take it too fast! So, anyway, R&R!
Oh, and incase you are wondering about the story about Val/Raven and Tristan(and maybe you even want to see it posted online at www.fictionpress.net!???)- it's MY OWN ORIGINAL, which is entitled for now: "Battlefield Angel Valkerie: Raven." DON'T STEAL!!! I'VE WORKED HARD ON THAT! So Meowth please tell them who that belongs to...
Meowth: Japanimejo, that's right! *jumps up in air*
Jj: hehe that's better *pats Meowth on head*
Meowth: meooooowwwwwwwwwww!
Until next week! (hopefully with no trig tests!) ^_^
SabineballZ: Thanks for the title suggestion! You're the only person who responded to that question! I think I am gonna wait just a little longer to pick a title though; I really have no clue where my plot is going(after chapter 3) and I usually take the title from that! ^_^;; *sweats* HEHE you'll be there to help me out if i get writer's block right? Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
Michelle: *Bows repeatedly and blushes* Thanks! *hugs* I am glad you liked it so much! It encourages me to write more! Please review again!
Van lover: Thanks for the encouragement! Please read more and review again!
Ferai: Ask no more! Here is the next chapter with some fluffy aspects...I promise, it's gonna get really heart wrenching after a while...I am gonna do something that maybe hasn't been done before...or at least I haven't seen many of them...^_^ Anywaz, thanks for the review! Please read agian!
Starzie chick: *gets starry eyed* HI! *hugs* Thanks for reviewing my fic! *YAY* Glad you thought it was funny! Have no fear, the black stilletto's are now the running gag of this story as is the "sandwich" from Esca Returns! LOL Hehe, thanks and please do review again! I LOVE YOUR STORY TOO! *hugs* (you really think my reviews are that funny? LOL)
Al: HEHE. Yea, I love Jesse and James...I have no clue why, I just think they were terribly misunderstood in the Pokemon series. Anyway, I just got tired of saying the same sarcastic line to open up the story so then I decided to get them to do a little rhyme in the form of a disclaimer! And voila! (-what is it with my speaking Franglish lately?O_o I keep throwing French phrases in everywhere!) And all your questions shall be answered! In due time though...you get hints about who Folken is in this chapter, but he won't come in until later like in the series. AND YES, everyone has a role,in fact, Moleman's and Issac's are very vital to the story so far...muhahaha...I am takin' a gamble with this story I think but *who knows?* *winks* Millerna and Merlu...*hmn* they will be friends, eventually, but that may be right at the end of the story...depends on what I feel like making them do! Ahh hehe, genetics didn't fail Van! The authouress did! LOL I LOVE skinny, shrimpy guys! Since this story is loosely based on what my life might be in the future, I am putting myself in the place of Hitomi! (mind you,she and I kinda have the same personality!) SO, I figured, well if I get to be Hitomi, I want cute, shrimpy little Van! (Although, he is EXTREMELY tall in this; I LOVE tall guys!) Anwyay, please review more!
Random: *sniggers with* I KNOW! This is definately a fic for Barbie-san haters! Classic, you think? *raises eyebrow* I like the sound of that! OH! OH! You and I can start the Allen-bashing-review-club! LOL thanks! review more!
Ok, so enough rambling!
Disclaimer: Meowth is here this week, cuz he got left out last week! And he wanted a thing all to himself...-_-;
Meowth: Yea, see...JJ doesn't own anyting see...youse giuys better read her fic see...
jj: *looks at Meowth* Meowth, you're supposed to be a perky,scheming cat...
Meowth: *takes cigarette out of mouth* Yea, see...
jj: *rolls eyes* Anyway, just start the story already! *walks off mumbling about crazy characters and all the quirks they have*
CrAzYqUiRkS
Chapter 2: Please My Juliet
Hitomi rolled over in bed to find the sun shining in warmly on her bed from the balcony. She then noticed her book still sitting on her nightstand. Hitomi grabbed it and read:
~*"........"You know Val," said Tristan, "we've been friends ever since our Sophmore year in High School and now we're Sophmores in college..." Tristan looked at Valorie as intently as he possibly could. His amythest eyes focused in on her hazel eyes trying to speak volumes without saying anything; Tristan was knocking on the window of her soul. "You've been such a great friend to me and well...," he bit his lip as he said this. Tristan then leaned in on the picnic blanket and genlty pulled Val by her hand closer to him. "I love you like a sister...and...I..." he stuttered trying to find words.
"Wait," Val cried before he opened his mouth again. "Tristan, there's something you should know...about..." Tears welled up in Val's eyes before she could finish as Tristan took her hands and cupped them in his. "Val, I just wanted to say I think we have a good chance of being a great couple and I love you as more than a friend, more than a sister, ...I want to love you like my wife..." There was a certain disheartenment in Val's eyes. "What's wrong?" Tristan said becoming concerned that he had said the wrong thing.
"Nothing...it's not you...everything's wrong with me!" Val said crying with her head in her hands. "I don't get it," Tristan said cluelessly. Just then, a huge gust of wind stirred up everything around them. A portal opened up and a loud voice boomed, "Valkerie Raven!!! You're to come to home right now! You've lost sight of your objective!"
"Val?" Tristan asked with a curiously raised eyebrow. Val wiped a streak of tears from her face and gave a sad smirk to Tristan. "I'ts not Valorie...it's Raven...Valkerie Raven, but I go by Raven...that's what I was going to tell you...I'm not who you think I am..." Raven choked out another set of tears.
"I don't care who you are! To me you will always be Val and I love you!" Tristan screamed at the girl who had now turned her back to him walking towards the portal. She stopped and turned around at this statement simply replying, "I'm sorry Tristan,I love you too, but I can't love you like I want to..."~*
"WHAT?!?!" Hitomi yelled leaping up in bed. "NO! HE CAN'T DO THAT!!! ARGH! EVIL AUTHOUR!!!" Hitomi threw the book out on her balcony which was followed by a *ugh* sound.
"Huh?" She bent down and grabbed another one of her many black stillettos she owned.
"THANKS A LOT! That's two bruises I have on my head now because of you!"
"AHHHH!" Hitomi screamed throwing the stilletto at the voice behind the curtain through the open doors.
"$*%^!!!! If you don't stop that!!!!" yelled an adjectated voice. It was Van.
"What the hell are you doing out there?!?!?" Hitomi said her jaw dropped to the floor to see him in only a pair of pajama pants. *EYE CANDY*
"I saw a book go flying onto the balcony and I thought something might be wrong so I came to see about you..." he said grabbing his coffee cup off the table. He took a sip and peered at Hitomi who just appeared to be shocked.
"You were worrying about me?" She said turning a flush shade of red over her cheeks as if she had just had some wine.
"Of course," Van said bringing the coffee cup back down and placing it in his other hand. "I'm going to be working with you, we live next door to each other, and you don't have any friends over here really...why wouldn't I look after you?"
"Oh," Hitomi smirked.
"Here," Van said reaching around and grabbing her book. It read, " Battle Angel Valkerie: Raven by Ken Olf." "You like his work?" He said with a curious voice.
"OH do I ever! He's my favorite romance novelist! In fact, he's one of my favorite writers! I'll bet he's a real romantic and really hot! Too bad no one's ever seen him..." Hitomi drifted off clutching her book like a little school girl. "This one," she said longingly glancing at it..."I'm not even done with it yet, but it's my favorite out of all of his so far..."
"Hmnn..." Van mulled over this while sipping on more of his coffee. Hitomi noticed the awkard silence and tried to find something to say, but instead wound up noticing Van's "very nice" bod. Perfectly tanned, toned, and sculpted enough...he wasn't thick with muscular strength, but he wasn't geeky skinny. Just right. His arms were about the thickest thing on him-save for that unruly mop on his head that he liked to call his hair. "I've read him before...I hate him..." he said breaking the silence still staring at his coffee. "If you like him though, you'll definately like this other authour..." Hitomi butted in.
"You read?" she said with a smile and her eyes lit up.
Van looked up with a little smile. "Yea, I read...I've read that book already...it end really sad...and I've read everything else out there: Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Cities, and anything else you can imagine..."
"A math teacher....and YOU READ?" Hitomi said still stunned. Her mouth was hanging wide open with excitement.
Van leaned his head foward just a little bit and nodded an enthusiastic yes. "Math teachers need to escape the real world somehow, ya' know..." he said with a sigh leaping back over to his balcony.
"Hey! Wait! We have sooo much to discuss! Did you ever read..And what did you think about...Oh! And have you ever heard of..." Hitomi droned on and on about all the books she'd ever laid hands on. Van laughed. "Geez, you may need a math lesson to get your mind off books!" he said folding his arms over his chest.
Hitomi made a her face scrunch up with an indignant look on it. "And here I thought you were different than most men..." she said still clasping her book.
"Oh, I'm different all right..." Van said almost like he was ignoring her. "Bye Hitomi...see ya' later tonight..." he said folding his arms behind his head.
"HEY! We're in the middle of the conversation here!" Hitomi said thrusting her arms onto her hip. Van just ignored her and continued walking back in his apartment. "...if only I had one of my stillettos..." Hitomi thought.
Just then the phone rang. Hitomi rushed in to pick it up.
"Hello-i-i mean- wait- ja ne! -no WAIT! Konnichiwa!" She stuttered and finally spat it out. A loud belly laugh came from the other end. "I understood the first one..." said a saracstic voice. "But that sentence made no sense all strung together...'hello,i-i-mean-wait-bye bye- WAIT- GOOD AFTERNOON! hehe and it's still morning!" laughed the girl. "Yukari!" Hitomi said putting that hand on her hip again. "That's right, now, get your butt to my house now so we can go shopping!" Yukari said rather chipper. "Oh, great!" Hitomi said excitedly.
"Ah, you don't mind if Amano comes along do you?"
"No, not at all..."Hitomi said already feeling like a third weel. "I have such a weakness for wanting a guy," she thought.
"Alright! Ten min, my place!" Yukari said and then hung up.
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The three sat down for lunch and Hitomi began to wonder what her job would be like. Would the kids make fun of her? Would they say dirty things about her behind her back? Would they be nice and listen to her?
Amano could tell she was getting upset over something and then said, "You know, the school is really funny..." Hitomi's eyes jolted to his face. "Ever teacher has their own weird...prob-no...how do you say it delicately...'quirk.'...we all fit in nicely with each other," he continued to try to comfort her. "...Gaddes is the practical joker, Millerna is always crying, Merlu is always moody, Van is never responsible, Dryden is always going off on long spouts about history, Issac is always talking about war and destiny, the Mole Man is a harmless pevert,Dilly likes fire a lot...A LOT, and Allen...he is the typical 'principal.' *ahem*cough*cough*hem*"
"Oh," Hitomi said raising both eyebrows. "That's interesting..." she said taking a bite of her salad thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into?"
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Van's phone rang. He rolled off his bed and picked it up. "How's my little bro.?"
"Screw you!" he said going to hang the phone up.
"What's wrong?" the voice teased.
"Everything when you come around!" he yelled pushing his bangs back pensively.
"Listen, I got a call the other day from a friend of yours...she's says you're not taking care of yourself properly...are you making ends meet, or do you need my help and money?"
"Up yours!" Van screamed into the reciever.
"Hostile, aren't we?"
"I have good reason to be..." Van said calming down just a bit.
"Well, if you're sure you're fine little bro..."
"Go die, Folken!..." Van said slamming the phone down.
On the other end of the line, Folken simply smirked and looked at someone in the shadows. "Get me the next one he has...."
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Van picked up the reciever and dialed Dilly. They had had their differences in the past but everything was settled now. In fact, they were quite good friends. Dilly was the best drinking buddy Van had. It was getting late in the day and Van had already been depressed by Hitomi's conversation this morning.
~"You like his work?" He said with a curious voice.
"OH do I ever! He's my favorite romance novelist! In fact, he's one of my favorite writers! I'll bet he's a real romantic and really hot! Too bad no one's ever seen him..." ~
"She likes his work....*ugh*...he can't even write worth a crap..." Van thought to himself. And now, that he had recieved that call from his brother, he was ready to go drink his sorrows away for the night.
"PRYO!" answered a voice after a couple of rings.
"How about it, Albatou? Let's go burn a couple of cases worth of beer?"
"Sure! My place or yours?"
"Who's got more beer?"
"ME! I have to have the al-ki-hol for my pyromania techniques..."
"Alright, I'll be there in no time!" Van said with a smile feeling just a bit better. He was just gonna go get stupid drunk; just enough to pass out and sleep the rest of the night away.
Van grabbed his key, threw on an overshirt over his muscle shirt and headed out the door. About that time, Hitomi came walking up the stairs. "Hi Van!" she said with an enthusiastic wave.
"Hey," he mumbled with his eyes on the ground. Hitomi stopped at the top of the steps and a frown covered her face. "I wonder what's wrong with him..." she said walking back down the stairs. "Hey! Wait! Tell me what's a matter...please!" she pleaded from atop the landing.
"Nothing...." Van said shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Are you sure?" Hitomi said cautiously rasing an eyebrow.
"Yea, I just don't like my life sometimes...that's all..."
"Oh, I can relate...well, I'm just next door if you need to talk or someone to listen..." she said with a wink.
"Thanks..." Van called with that tone of voice that made Hitomi go weak in the knees. He took off again. "One min he's my best friend and the next he's so distant...weird guy, but I like him ok! AND GAAAAA IS HE HOT!" Hitomi thought aloud to herself.
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Dilandau opened the door with a micheivious grin on his face. "DUDE!" he said shaking up a bottle of wine.
Van's eyes lit up. "Hey, show me that thing you did at Yukari's!!! I completely missed it!"
"Oh yea, you did miss that didn't you?" Dilandau said with an evil smirk. "Well, grab a beer and let's watch!"
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The room is completely decorated in flames of all different colors. The couch has flames, the border is flames, the room is painted red with flames, even the couch and pillows are flames. There's so many cans on the floor of the room that one almost can't tell there is a floor. Van is sitting in the middle being hugged by Dilly. "And then...*sniff*sob*sniff*sniff*
she says....*sob*...I love him as an authour!!!! *waaaaaaaaaa*" Van bursts into tears.
Dilly comforts him and is being really supportive and forgets about being conumed with the thought of fire.(-must be all the beer and wine!O_o LOL) Van has cried so much he can't breathe. He goes to blow his nose on Dilly's shirt and Dilly throws him a look while pushing him back.
"Dude, I love you...but not that much...oh what the hell did I just say? Man, I'm drunk off my @$$...hehe...wooooo-whooooo!!!"
"But I really like her!" Van whines. "How am I supposed to impress her now? I can't compare with Ken Olf! Hell I haven't been able to write in forever...My life is over!!!" Van cries some more.
"Dude, shut up! No more beer for you!" Dilly jerks the can out of Van's hand. "Dude, she's just a girl...your life isn't over!"
"But you don't *sob* understand..."
"Your d@#$ right I don't..." Dilly says drinking some of the beer he took from Van.
"You're no help," Van says getting mopey. "You've given me a headache and made me feel worse."
"Well, that's not my forte...I burn things..." he says taking another chug. "All I know is fire...nuthin' about ladies...or maniacal famous brothers...ok, maybe just famous brothers cuz Allen is a maniac..."
"Yea, heis ifsn't he?" Van says very drukenly.
"Dude, you need to get home before you start pukin' here...I only have the carpet fireproof, not spew proof..." Dilly says throwing Van's arm over his shoulder and escorting him out the door. Van can hardly stand up.
He gets his orientation back and then calls out, "buh-buheeeeee !!! Skanks fo allll yourrrr helpssss...."
"Dude, he's not gonna make it...." Dilly whispers as he watches Van walks off.
Dilly then shrugs and goes back to shaking up the bottle of red wine. He wondered what kinda flame he could make with a blow torch....
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Van slung himself on the railing and up the stairs. "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGG...." he said grabbing his throbbing head. "I drzank waaaaaaay too muchf...." he said bent half double.
He tried to stand himself up straight. It didn't work. He had no sense of orientation and his vision was extremely blurry. He'd made it up to the second floor though and saw what he thought was his room. He made a break for it, feeling he was going to need to give the toilet a good hug....after all, the toliet hadn't had any luvin' from him in loooong time!
He ran in and noticed the door was unlocked. He thrust it open and made a mad dash for the toilet and made it just in time.
Just then, Hitomi walked up wondering why her door was open. "I'm really gonna have to start locking that thing!" she said grabbing her stilletto off of her foot. She made her way in with the spike in hand, ready to clobber the intruder.
*HEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
*EWWWW* Hitomi thought. "That sounds like...like...a party sound...like someone's had too much to-"
She stopped as she saw Van pass out on the floor of her bathroom. " To drink...." she said shaking her hand and puttin her stilletto back on her foot. She smiled some and then tried to move him out of the bathroom. It wasn't too hard; he wasn't all that heavy.
Hitomi layed him in her bed and tucked him in. She wondered if he even realized where he was. "Wonder what he's so drunk for? Maybe it was whatever upset him earlier..." she thought while standing over him.
Van woke up for just a quick min. "Hey beautiful..." he said groggily staring up at those huge,green eyes peering down at him. He reached up and twisted a lock of Hitomi's golden brown hair around his finger. "It's an angel before me and I have much sin on my lips from the liquid that I have drank...."
Hitomi was caught off her guard. "He must not know what he's saying..." Hitomi thought with a smile. She took his hand a pushed it back down but he took her hand and pulled it toward him. "Please, my Juliet, purge me of thine sin..." He pulled her closer and closer...
*Cough*cough* "Wooooo, yea, he's really drunk...you can smell it on him! He's tryin' to quote Shakespeare and he prally has no clue what I look like right now...he prally thinks I'm someone else..."
And just as Van leaned in to finally touch his lips to hers, he passed out again. "*Whew*," Hitomi thought letting out a sigh of relief. "I'd hate to have upset him more than he already was...I didn't want to kiss him anyway...at least not drunk...I wouldn't mind kissing him sober...but I wouldn't have wanted to kiss him now...it just wasn't the right time...I hardly even know him...Why am I worrying about this? I shouldn't worry about him or kissing him...it's not like I like him..." Hitomi thought to herself feeling her heart become heavy and her stomach becoming knotted.
She grabbed a blanket out of her closet and curled up on the couch with her book by Ken Olf. She had made great progression in the story today and now she was at another juicy part:
~*"...Tristan stared at Raven through the bars and attempted to touch the tip of her hand. Raven's eyes darted this way and that feeling so ashamed of her raven bird wings that now protruded from her back. She quietly shoved a lock of her hair behind her ear. "I love you, Tristan, I do...I'm sorry I had to lie...I'm sorry but it was my orders! It was follow orders or my life! But I don't regret meeting you! I don't! I love you!" Raven called pulling herself up on the bars her lips close to his.
Tristan wasn't exactly himself right now; he'd been beaten by Loki and the evil within him had been poked at enough it had resurfaced. Tears welled up in Raven's eyes. "Do you understand what I'm saying, Tristan?" He simply looked at her in a derranged manner.
Tristan finally spoke up,"my lips have sin on them, fair maiden...I have spoken harsh and cruel words agianst you and yet here you are despite what I've said still proclaiming your love for me...please, my Juliet," he said putting his nose and mouth in between a set of bars, "purge me of thine sin..."~*
Hitomi bit her lip and set the book in her lap. She then looked back at Van. "That's funny...he said the same exact thing only moments ago..." She placed a finger over her mouth. Then she remembered he'd said he'd read the book too. "Hmn...maybe he's a romantic deep down..." she thought. She layed her book on the floor and layed her head down on the sofa arm. She set the t.v. to turn itself off after awhile and started to drift asleep.
So, like no like? Basically another set up chapter with some minor fluff...I promise the good juicy stuff is coming, I just don't want to take it too fast! So, anyway, R&R!
Oh, and incase you are wondering about the story about Val/Raven and Tristan(and maybe you even want to see it posted online at www.fictionpress.net!???)- it's MY OWN ORIGINAL, which is entitled for now: "Battlefield Angel Valkerie: Raven." DON'T STEAL!!! I'VE WORKED HARD ON THAT! So Meowth please tell them who that belongs to...
Meowth: Japanimejo, that's right! *jumps up in air*
Jj: hehe that's better *pats Meowth on head*
Meowth: meooooowwwwwwwwwww!
Until next week! (hopefully with no trig tests!) ^_^