Warning!: All Alice chapter.
Disclaimer: YES! I own Digimon, as well as Microsoft, the NFL, Sprint, Lucas Arts, Puffs, Cartoon Network, Fox, Pirates of the Caribbean, Affair of the Necklace, Cinderella, two pairs of Nike socks, and a printer that doesn't work. I am the Empress of a small island nation off the coast of South America. I also own a huge group of hotels. I am staying at one now, and am currently strolling the beaches of Hawaii with a super hot rock star. *rolls eyes* Honestly people. I'm posting this at a place called fanfiction.net.
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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Nine
Alice wandered around the woods, without any apparent destination. Why did he have to ask her out? Alice had never thought of him as more than a friend, but then the second Rika went up to add to the scores, he asked her out. Alice had like Ryo for years and he and never looked at her as more than a friend, or a sister. She had known this. She also knew he liked Rika, and she hadn't thought the red head had liked him back at the time, but now she knew different. So with all of her time spent liking Ryo, she hadn't given any thought to Henry as anything but a friend.
Henry was smart, funny, understanding, you could always depend on him, you could play around with him and it didn't matter if you were thin, fat, short, tall, young, old, if you had a perfect family, or a perfect wardrobe. Money never mattered to him. And he had never tried to change her. He respected her for who she was. And to top in all off he was really hot.
He was the perfect guy for her.
But she didn't want him. He was just her friend. And that's all he'd ever been to her, right?
Even though he said if she didn't want to, they would still be friends like before. But she knew they wouldn't. He may forgive and forget, but she knew that she would never be able to treat him the same way again. She'd never be able to feel comfortable talking about crush problems, or when she got a boyfriend she would never feel comfortable bringing him around him. There would always be that gap. But if she said yes, despite she didn't like him, sooner or later she would have to break up with him and tell him, and that would be worse.
Sighing, defeatedly, Alice collapsed into a sitting position, under a tree. Their tree. This was the tree that the three of them would meet under when they got here, just as they had one in real life.
~*~Flashback to a Little Over a Year Ago~*~
Alice sat there, arms crossed, and knees drawn to her chest, her back against the tree. Her dad had canceled their lunch again, it was her birthday, and his last day here. His plane would leave at two fifteen, to take him to America for a meeting. He promised, but his boss wanted to discuss the trip earlier, so from ten to eleven he was at the office. Then came his girlfriend Bon-Bon. Her dad called her Bonnie. She didn't know for a fact that's where he was but she had a feeling. 'Bon-Bon isn't even a real name. It's a candy.' He hadn't called until one forty-five. She had been waiting in the restaurant for and hour and a half. 'His plane should be taking off now,' she thought, staring at her watch.
"Cheer up." A voice said, happily.
She looked up to see Henry, standing there holding out a yellow dandelion. Smiling, she took it, and thanked him.
He quickly sat down beside her and pulled a card and box out of his jacket pocket. "Here, Happy Birthday."
She stared at it for a moment before taking it. "Thank you." Then opening the card and reading it, she smiled and turned to the box. Inside of it was a really pretty charm bracelet. "Wow, Henry." He smiled. "Thank you." She said again, as she put it on.
"Your welcome." He replied, cheerfully. "So what did the others get for you?"
"Rika got me some digimon cards and a CD, Ryo got the same, and Jeri got me a gift certificate for a preppy clothing store in the mall. And uh...Kazu said he'd clear is schedule if I wanted to go on a date...I turned him down...I swear he acts more and more conceited everyday. The only reason he gets most of those dates is cause he pretends to be Ryo."
Henry laughed. "Well, who knows. Maybe you'll end up dating him someday."
"Eww! Kazu? Gross. I may be blond but I'm not brain dead, which I'd have to be to even want to go out with him."
"Maybe I meant Ryo."
Now if it was Suzie or Ai he was talking to about someone they liked, they would have gone dreamy-eyed for a moment and forgotten about the conversation. If it was Jeri, she would have yelled a yes happily and blush and act all giggly. Even Rika, who with as much ability as she had for hiding things, would have blushed and denied it. However Henry was talking to Alice McCoy. She just rolled her eyes at him. "Come on, Henry. Grow up." As she said it she got up, and together they left the park.
~*~End Flashback~*~
Alice wasn't wearing the bracelet now. She had left it at home, but she did where it from time to time. She did like it, but it wasn't one of her favorite things. Henry was not a guy that she liked. He was just her friend. He was her best guy friend, and she would just have to make him understand that.
So turning, Alice head back to camp. Her team was the farthest away from the woods, being that the teams' campsites were set up in a triangle, so she had a good fifteen or twenty minute walk on her hands.
After a few minutes she came out of the woods. This is where Rika and Henry's team camped, right on the edge of the woods. Turning, her ears caught a voice coming from Rika's tent. A silhouetted figure stepped out of it, and quickly walked off. Jeri maybe? Or perhaps Ryo. Stepping a bit closer, Alice tried to get a better look. Doing so her tripped and fell over a tree root. The person stopped. Alice stayed perfectly still, not making a sound. The figure looked in her direction, allowing Alice to catch a glimpse at the mystery persons face. Miranda.
Not seeing anyone, however the artificial blond turned and walked off.
Slowly, Alice picked herself up, and quickly walked toward her friend's tent, wondering what horrible thing Miranda had done to the sleeping Rika.
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Somewhere they're speaking Somewhere they're coming in Oh and it's rising in the back of your mind
You never could get it Unless you were fed it Now you're here And you don't know why
But under skinned knees and the skidmarks Past the places where you used to learn You howl and listen Listen and wait for me Echos of angels that won't return
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
Waiting for someone to put you together Waiting for someone to push you away There's always another Wound to discover There's always something more you wish he'd say
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
But you'll just sit tight And watch it unwind It's only what you're asking for And you'll be just fine With all of your time It's only what you're waiting for
Out of the island Into the highway Past the places where you might have turned You never did notice You still hide away Anger of angels that won't return
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
I am everything you want I am everything you need I am everything inside of you That you wish you could be I say all the right things At exactly the right time But I mean nothing to you And I don't know why
Everything You Want
Vertical Horizon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PLEASE READ MY ANNOUNCEMENTS! They begin below where it says announcements.
First off, I apologize for not posting this sooner. School is a royal pain in the ass. I meant to post it but I got grounded. I've had this done for a couple weeks, or so I thought. Until today when I was in my backyard thinking about it. This chapter just didn't quite seem right even though I had said it was done. Then inspiration hit me and I wrote another 2 or 3 hundred words, so I am glad I didn't post this earlier. However I still apologize and hope it doesn't take this long next time.
I did a search and there are no Jenrya/Henry and Alice stories. I'm going to write one, I think. If I do I'll need someone to help me by telling me about the episodes with Alice in them. But what I meant was that I believe this is the only story with Henry and Alice as a couple other than main, that they aren't already a couple, or aren't just hooking up and doing the Jeri thing.
You know there aren't many Alice couple fics...only two I've found. Ryo/Alice= Ki Ni Naru Aitsu by Kenji Kotaro, and a Kazu/Alice called Thieves in the Night by SilvorMoon. Thieves in the Night only has one chapter, and I'm about 3/4 done reading it as I'm typing this, but it's pretty good, and I'm not even a fan of that couple. If I can I'm going to post this under both Ryo/Ruki and Jenrya/Alice, maybe alternating in chapter. I'm not sure. I don't think I can do that. I think it is one or the other. Anyways, thanks to everyone who reviewed so far.
AkaOkamiRyu: Yes, I have read both of them to the end, or at least to where the end was when I last read them and I think they are really good. I am so honored to be compared to them. Another good couple of Ryo/Ruki fics are There For You by CQueen and Gotcha by Stoned Snail. Read them if you haven't.
~*~ANNOUNCEMENTS~*~
VERY important news. Three things. I will start with the good news.
1: I am starting a little place on the web that is dedicated to Ryo and Ruki. I know there are already some out there but I personally haven't found any good ones, and most have been closed. If anyone wishes to send any fan art or fan fiction to be posted on it, please send it to me at FairyRoses216@yahoo.com. Please let it be your own. If you would like you fanfic to be there and it has already been posted at ff.net, you don't need to send me the whole thing, just a link to the story here.
2: The second is that the chapters may be coming slower for this story due to my school starting back last week, other stories I plan on posting, and my ryuki place, mentioned above. It shouldn't be too bad, though. It will most likely only slow me down by a day or so.
3: The third is this: My pen name used to be HikariAngel. Someone else has that name now, and I don't mind. It was only a slight inconvenience to change my pen name. However, while that was my name I posted a Ken/Kari story called A Fallen Angel's Love. I had intended to finish it, but I got writers block and then a lot of crap came up and by the time I got back to it, it was about March of this year. I posted a chapter and an authors note, but when I went back in the end of April/early May, It was no longer there. I considered it a glitch and ignored it but when it was not back a couple weeks later I got annoyed and decided not to come back here to write. Obviously I did come back, but I no longer have the story. The first chapter was typed and so it was the same as the copy on ff.net, and I may still have it somewhere, but the remainder was written first. I did all of my editing of the story while transferring it from writing to text. Most of the chapters varied greatly from my written copy. My computer had done...something...and my dad had to restart the whole thing, causing me to lose my files. By restart I don't mean off and back on, I mean wipe the whole computer clean and start over. I thought if I needed to I could come to ff.net and copy them back onto word document. I never did this because I didn't realize that my stuff could be deleted without my permission. So I don't have it and I would like to finish it. Please, if ANYONE knows of someone who may have copied this fic of mine onto a word document to read offline and still has it, please have them email it to me. My email is FairyRoses216@yahoo.com. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I really appreciate it.
Geez...I think the song and my stuff at the bottom took up more than the chapter itself.
Disclaimer: YES! I own Digimon, as well as Microsoft, the NFL, Sprint, Lucas Arts, Puffs, Cartoon Network, Fox, Pirates of the Caribbean, Affair of the Necklace, Cinderella, two pairs of Nike socks, and a printer that doesn't work. I am the Empress of a small island nation off the coast of South America. I also own a huge group of hotels. I am staying at one now, and am currently strolling the beaches of Hawaii with a super hot rock star. *rolls eyes* Honestly people. I'm posting this at a place called fanfiction.net.
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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Nine
Alice wandered around the woods, without any apparent destination. Why did he have to ask her out? Alice had never thought of him as more than a friend, but then the second Rika went up to add to the scores, he asked her out. Alice had like Ryo for years and he and never looked at her as more than a friend, or a sister. She had known this. She also knew he liked Rika, and she hadn't thought the red head had liked him back at the time, but now she knew different. So with all of her time spent liking Ryo, she hadn't given any thought to Henry as anything but a friend.
Henry was smart, funny, understanding, you could always depend on him, you could play around with him and it didn't matter if you were thin, fat, short, tall, young, old, if you had a perfect family, or a perfect wardrobe. Money never mattered to him. And he had never tried to change her. He respected her for who she was. And to top in all off he was really hot.
He was the perfect guy for her.
But she didn't want him. He was just her friend. And that's all he'd ever been to her, right?
Even though he said if she didn't want to, they would still be friends like before. But she knew they wouldn't. He may forgive and forget, but she knew that she would never be able to treat him the same way again. She'd never be able to feel comfortable talking about crush problems, or when she got a boyfriend she would never feel comfortable bringing him around him. There would always be that gap. But if she said yes, despite she didn't like him, sooner or later she would have to break up with him and tell him, and that would be worse.
Sighing, defeatedly, Alice collapsed into a sitting position, under a tree. Their tree. This was the tree that the three of them would meet under when they got here, just as they had one in real life.
~*~Flashback to a Little Over a Year Ago~*~
Alice sat there, arms crossed, and knees drawn to her chest, her back against the tree. Her dad had canceled their lunch again, it was her birthday, and his last day here. His plane would leave at two fifteen, to take him to America for a meeting. He promised, but his boss wanted to discuss the trip earlier, so from ten to eleven he was at the office. Then came his girlfriend Bon-Bon. Her dad called her Bonnie. She didn't know for a fact that's where he was but she had a feeling. 'Bon-Bon isn't even a real name. It's a candy.' He hadn't called until one forty-five. She had been waiting in the restaurant for and hour and a half. 'His plane should be taking off now,' she thought, staring at her watch.
"Cheer up." A voice said, happily.
She looked up to see Henry, standing there holding out a yellow dandelion. Smiling, she took it, and thanked him.
He quickly sat down beside her and pulled a card and box out of his jacket pocket. "Here, Happy Birthday."
She stared at it for a moment before taking it. "Thank you." Then opening the card and reading it, she smiled and turned to the box. Inside of it was a really pretty charm bracelet. "Wow, Henry." He smiled. "Thank you." She said again, as she put it on.
"Your welcome." He replied, cheerfully. "So what did the others get for you?"
"Rika got me some digimon cards and a CD, Ryo got the same, and Jeri got me a gift certificate for a preppy clothing store in the mall. And uh...Kazu said he'd clear is schedule if I wanted to go on a date...I turned him down...I swear he acts more and more conceited everyday. The only reason he gets most of those dates is cause he pretends to be Ryo."
Henry laughed. "Well, who knows. Maybe you'll end up dating him someday."
"Eww! Kazu? Gross. I may be blond but I'm not brain dead, which I'd have to be to even want to go out with him."
"Maybe I meant Ryo."
Now if it was Suzie or Ai he was talking to about someone they liked, they would have gone dreamy-eyed for a moment and forgotten about the conversation. If it was Jeri, she would have yelled a yes happily and blush and act all giggly. Even Rika, who with as much ability as she had for hiding things, would have blushed and denied it. However Henry was talking to Alice McCoy. She just rolled her eyes at him. "Come on, Henry. Grow up." As she said it she got up, and together they left the park.
~*~End Flashback~*~
Alice wasn't wearing the bracelet now. She had left it at home, but she did where it from time to time. She did like it, but it wasn't one of her favorite things. Henry was not a guy that she liked. He was just her friend. He was her best guy friend, and she would just have to make him understand that.
So turning, Alice head back to camp. Her team was the farthest away from the woods, being that the teams' campsites were set up in a triangle, so she had a good fifteen or twenty minute walk on her hands.
After a few minutes she came out of the woods. This is where Rika and Henry's team camped, right on the edge of the woods. Turning, her ears caught a voice coming from Rika's tent. A silhouetted figure stepped out of it, and quickly walked off. Jeri maybe? Or perhaps Ryo. Stepping a bit closer, Alice tried to get a better look. Doing so her tripped and fell over a tree root. The person stopped. Alice stayed perfectly still, not making a sound. The figure looked in her direction, allowing Alice to catch a glimpse at the mystery persons face. Miranda.
Not seeing anyone, however the artificial blond turned and walked off.
Slowly, Alice picked herself up, and quickly walked toward her friend's tent, wondering what horrible thing Miranda had done to the sleeping Rika.
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Somewhere they're speaking Somewhere they're coming in Oh and it's rising in the back of your mind
You never could get it Unless you were fed it Now you're here And you don't know why
But under skinned knees and the skidmarks Past the places where you used to learn You howl and listen Listen and wait for me Echos of angels that won't return
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
Waiting for someone to put you together Waiting for someone to push you away There's always another Wound to discover There's always something more you wish he'd say
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
But you'll just sit tight And watch it unwind It's only what you're asking for And you'll be just fine With all of your time It's only what you're waiting for
Out of the island Into the highway Past the places where you might have turned You never did notice You still hide away Anger of angels that won't return
He's everything you want He's everything you need He's everything inside of you That you wish you could be He says all the right things At exactly the right time But he means nothing to you And you don't know why
I am everything you want I am everything you need I am everything inside of you That you wish you could be I say all the right things At exactly the right time But I mean nothing to you And I don't know why
Everything You Want
Vertical Horizon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PLEASE READ MY ANNOUNCEMENTS! They begin below where it says announcements.
First off, I apologize for not posting this sooner. School is a royal pain in the ass. I meant to post it but I got grounded. I've had this done for a couple weeks, or so I thought. Until today when I was in my backyard thinking about it. This chapter just didn't quite seem right even though I had said it was done. Then inspiration hit me and I wrote another 2 or 3 hundred words, so I am glad I didn't post this earlier. However I still apologize and hope it doesn't take this long next time.
I did a search and there are no Jenrya/Henry and Alice stories. I'm going to write one, I think. If I do I'll need someone to help me by telling me about the episodes with Alice in them. But what I meant was that I believe this is the only story with Henry and Alice as a couple other than main, that they aren't already a couple, or aren't just hooking up and doing the Jeri thing.
You know there aren't many Alice couple fics...only two I've found. Ryo/Alice= Ki Ni Naru Aitsu by Kenji Kotaro, and a Kazu/Alice called Thieves in the Night by SilvorMoon. Thieves in the Night only has one chapter, and I'm about 3/4 done reading it as I'm typing this, but it's pretty good, and I'm not even a fan of that couple. If I can I'm going to post this under both Ryo/Ruki and Jenrya/Alice, maybe alternating in chapter. I'm not sure. I don't think I can do that. I think it is one or the other. Anyways, thanks to everyone who reviewed so far.
AkaOkamiRyu: Yes, I have read both of them to the end, or at least to where the end was when I last read them and I think they are really good. I am so honored to be compared to them. Another good couple of Ryo/Ruki fics are There For You by CQueen and Gotcha by Stoned Snail. Read them if you haven't.
~*~ANNOUNCEMENTS~*~
VERY important news. Three things. I will start with the good news.
1: I am starting a little place on the web that is dedicated to Ryo and Ruki. I know there are already some out there but I personally haven't found any good ones, and most have been closed. If anyone wishes to send any fan art or fan fiction to be posted on it, please send it to me at FairyRoses216@yahoo.com. Please let it be your own. If you would like you fanfic to be there and it has already been posted at ff.net, you don't need to send me the whole thing, just a link to the story here.
2: The second is that the chapters may be coming slower for this story due to my school starting back last week, other stories I plan on posting, and my ryuki place, mentioned above. It shouldn't be too bad, though. It will most likely only slow me down by a day or so.
3: The third is this: My pen name used to be HikariAngel. Someone else has that name now, and I don't mind. It was only a slight inconvenience to change my pen name. However, while that was my name I posted a Ken/Kari story called A Fallen Angel's Love. I had intended to finish it, but I got writers block and then a lot of crap came up and by the time I got back to it, it was about March of this year. I posted a chapter and an authors note, but when I went back in the end of April/early May, It was no longer there. I considered it a glitch and ignored it but when it was not back a couple weeks later I got annoyed and decided not to come back here to write. Obviously I did come back, but I no longer have the story. The first chapter was typed and so it was the same as the copy on ff.net, and I may still have it somewhere, but the remainder was written first. I did all of my editing of the story while transferring it from writing to text. Most of the chapters varied greatly from my written copy. My computer had done...something...and my dad had to restart the whole thing, causing me to lose my files. By restart I don't mean off and back on, I mean wipe the whole computer clean and start over. I thought if I needed to I could come to ff.net and copy them back onto word document. I never did this because I didn't realize that my stuff could be deleted without my permission. So I don't have it and I would like to finish it. Please, if ANYONE knows of someone who may have copied this fic of mine onto a word document to read offline and still has it, please have them email it to me. My email is FairyRoses216@yahoo.com. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I really appreciate it.
Geez...I think the song and my stuff at the bottom took up more than the chapter itself.