Steal Away
By: jneisha
J_neisha@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Tekken is not mine and neither are the lyrics to Mary J. Blige's: Steal Away. Steal Away's lyrics will be read through out this fanfic. Might I add that Mary's CD: No More Drama is one of the best CD's of all time! Oh, and Trevene is mine though.
Chapter 9Jin sat next to me hugging me tightly. I didn't hug him back; I just sat there wondering why Eddy did what he did to me. Trevene was now sitting next to me crying on my shoulder, praying that Eddy wouldn't come back. Julia and Steve stood in front of us just staring down at us as if we were some weirdo's in a freak show. Hwoarang was in my room punishing himself for what had just happened…constantly hitting himself in the head…just going crazy because he thinks that he caused all of this. I tried to get up to go to Hwoarang but between Jin hugging me so damn tight and Trevene sobbing into my shoulder, I couldn't move. I still had the same bruises on my face but now they hurt even more. They felt like someone was pinching my face and wouldn't let go.
"Jin, I'm alright now. You can let me go," I said while trying to get out of his grip.
"I know, but I don't want to let you out of my sight again. Eddy may try to hurt you." His grip on me now was tighter than before and I was beginning to loose feeling in my arms.
"Jin!" I screamed and he quickly let me go startled. I grabbed Trevene and we went into my room where we seen Hwoarang…he was a mess. His hair was all over his head and he was banging himself upside the head with his hands. He was the one who saved me from Eddy, but still he blames himself for what happened just an hour ago. If he didn't save me not only would I be in a hospital but I would also be in a mental institution. I owe my life to Hwoarang. Trevene was now crying uncontrollably facing away from her boyfriend. Julia and Steve followed us and looked at Hwoarang. Julia put her hands to her mouth while looking at him wide eyed. Steve on the other hand looked at Hwoarang and tried not to laugh but managed a small chuckle. I turned around to him while Trevene looked at him with tears streaming down her face.
I shook my head. "What the fuck is so funny Fox?!"
He looked at me and smiled even harder. "It just looks funny the way Hwoarang is sitting there beating himself senseless." He let out another chuckle.
This time Trevene spoke. "I for one don't know what the fuck happened but I do know it must have been drastic to see Hwoarang like this. What if Julia was like this?! Would you laugh at her?!"
I looked at Trevene and put a hand on her shoulder. "Of course he would. He's an asshole."
"Hey now! No I wouldn't. I love Julia." Julia heard nothing of what we were saying. She was too busy watching Hwoarang. Jin had just made it over to us on his crutches, looking at Steve with a really mean look.
"You got some nerve you sick son of a bitch. That's my best friend in there and he's been through hell. But you wouldn't know of that because you're treated like royalty."
Steve said nothing but started to laugh. I really got pissed but I did nothing to him. I just looked down to the floor and began to cry. An asshole like that talking about a man who is about to go crazy…wait…who is going crazy is beyond me. He knows nothing of what happened to Hwoarang and me just an hour ago. Speaking of it…Eddy had snuck out while Hwoarang and I were hugging each other.
I walked into my room and sat next to Hwoarang. He looked at me and it scared me. The look that he gave me was just a pale look…a look that someone in a mental institution would give their doctor when they want to be released. He wanted to be released too, from all of the torment that he had just suffered. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him. Trevene was now watching along with Jin, Julia and the asshole as I hugged him. He stopped hitting himself and just stood still as I hugged him. Then I looked down at him and watched as he put his head onto my shoulder.
"Hwoarang, if you think that this is your fault…it isn't. It's mine."
He raised his head and looked at me. "It's mine," he managed to say as he calmed down. "I was the one who told Eddy about you and told him that you were seeing Jin." Everyone in the room gasped, including Steve. The truth is going to come out and I know it. No one knew what happened…they just seen me sitting on the couch with my fucked up face and the first thing they did was panic.
I sighed and let him go. "I know. I heard the whole thing. Eddy knew I was standing there but of course he didn't let on."
Hwoarang looked down to the floor. "I didn't know that."
"And you wouldn't have known that. Eddy has tons of street smarts. He knows how to hide things."
He sighed. "But, know he knows what you've been hiding."
I tensed up. He was right. He knows that the baby I am having is his and not Jin's. "I know." The stares that I got were so fierce that they pierced right through me. I couldn't take the staring, but they couldn't take the suspense.
Jin spoke first. "What have you been hiding?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
I sighed and looked at all of them. "Jin don't hate me for this."
He nodded as I continued. "Jin, I lied to you. The baby that I am having isn't yours. It's…Eddy's."
Jin froze before beginning to cry. His tear streaked face looked at me for a long time as I looked back at him…then the rest of the room. Everyone was looking at me. Trevene, Julia, Steve…all in shock. Hwoarang just sat there looking down at the floor. After a little while, Jin finally got the courage to speak. "Christie…how could you do this to me?"
I looked at him and began to tear up myself. You can't look at a hurt man with a straight face. "I apologize for what I did. I thought it was yours and I actually thought at the time I was two months pregnant but when I found out that I was three instead of two at the time…well…let's just say that I was off a whole lot everywhere."
Jin was still looking at me with a tear streaked face but this time he shook his head. "You could have been honest with me, Christie."
"I didn't know how to tell you."
Steve found the oddly amusing and put his two sense into it once more. "Well…I see that Christie is hoaring herself off to Jin and Eddy in an effort to find out who she really wants to be with." He laughed a hardy laugh before looking at Hwoarang. "Hwoarang I wonder if you fucked her too," he laughed again, "if you did…was it good?"
I was just about to lunge at Steve when Hwoarang grabbed me and held me down. Jin hit him with one of his crutches and sent him flying down to the floor. Julia ran to his aid screaming and crying while Jin looked at him holding on to one crutch. She helped him up from off of the floor and helped him to the couch. I smirked at him as Hwoarang let me go. Jin and Hwoarang knew what they were doing…keeping me down while Jin did his thing. I should kiss him later…if he'd let me.
Jin looked back at me still holding on to the one crutch. "Christie…" he began. He didn't finish though. He just kept staring at me. Staring at me so hard that my blood turned cold. I looked at Hwoarang to avoid Jin's look but the look pierced right through me. Hwoarang was back to his normal state though, looking at me with a straight face.
"Christie, what exactly did Eddy do to you?" Hwoarang asked while getting up to walk over to Trevene. He hugged her tightly while she stood still in his arms shuddering.
I sighed and stayed silent. I didn't know how to tell them. "Did he rape you?" The question Hwoarang asked made Trevene quiver in fear…
I looked at Hwoarang again. "No," I said. "He tried to though."
Jin gasped. "What?!"
I nodded. "I know he was talking to Hwoarang and the next thing I knew he grabbed me by my wrist and wouldn't let go. Then he wanted answers but I wouldn't talk, so he began to beat me to get answers out of me."
"I swear that son of a bitch will pay." Jin hopped over to the chair next to the door to my room and sat in it. He then threw the crutch down to the floor and stared at it. I guess he was really confused about all of this…Eddy taking out his frustrations on me, he know being told that he wasn't the father of my baby…if I were him I'd beat me just like Eddy did.
"Jin…I'm sorry for what I put you through." I started to cry. I didn't cry silently this time, no. This time I wept. The pain I felt was too great for me to keep to myself.
Jin looked up at me. He didn't say anything and just stared at me narrowing his eyes. He started to cry now too but this time he kept all the pain inside. I think he enjoyed watching me feel his pain. "Christie I've cried too much over you. I've worried about you too much."
I stared at him still weeping. "What?"
He continued. "All those mood swings that you had and you going out and not coming back just because you feel like it. The people in this dorm room trying to find out whether you are safe. You not answering your phone because you don't feel like it. Everything is about you. I'm sick and tired of it. I don't know if I can stand by a woman as self centered as you."
My eyes went wide. "Jin, I'm so sorry! I really do want to make this work! I—"
"You haven't proved to me that you wanted to make this work yet. Maybe I rushed into this relationship like I said the first time that I met you. Remember that day?"
I nodded then looked down. "That means nothing."
Jin gave a small chuckle. "Why doesn't it?! I really did care for you, Christie. But you don't know whom you want to be with and you really don't know what you want to do with yourself. But as far as caring for one person, you care for yourself. Ha, you and Eddy were meant to be together."
I wept even louder now. Steve turned around and looked at us, I guess his little concussion went away. He walked over to us while Julia sat on the couch. I couldn't believe that Jin didn't feel as though he didn't want to be with me anymore…but I really didn't want "Mr. Know it All" to put his two sense into it either. But I don't always get what I wish for.
Steve stood over Jin and folded his arms over his chest. "See, Jin? What did I tell you about Christie? You were better off with Ling, at least she didn't cheat on you." I looked up at Steve as he continued, "Ling might have been crazy but she was loyal. I don't even think she was crazy, I just think she cared a little too much.
"Steve that's enough," Trevene said as Hwoarang let her go. "The situation is bad enough."
"Ha," Steve said patting Jin on his shoulder. "This situation could get much worse as well as much funnier." Jin paid no attention to Steve as he went on with his rambling.
"I think it's time for you to leave." Trevene pointed to the door.
Steve smirked. "Whenever I say something, it's time for me to leave." He started to stretch. "I am only trying to make a point."
"No you're not you ass. You're only trying to make this worse for us and amusing for yourself."
I watched as Jin's tear streaked face looked up at Steve. He looked at him as if he actually was making a point. Steve wasn't done his rambling yet though. He wouldn't be done until he got Jin's full attention. "Jin. You realize that she as out all night with her boyfriend Eddy and she didn't tell anyone. You would wonder that something happened that night…right?"
I frowned at him, but not for long because of the pain in my face. "Where the fuck are you getting at?"
"Where am I getting at…let me see. Don't you think that her and Eddy did something that night…and she neglects to tell you? Hey she neglected to tell you that Eddy is her baby's father."
I looked at him. "I also neglected to tell him that you always had your head in your ass."
He looked at me with an amused grin. "Tisk, Tisk, Christie. You shouldn't speak with such language. After all it's not me that you are trying to persuade…it's Jin."
"Don't you think that I know that?!"
"No. I don't think you know anything." I calmed myself down from slamming my fist in his face. I just turned away from him and he continued to talk all of his shit. "Jin. Do you think that she is using you as just a gimmick to get Eddy back?"
Jin looked at Steve with a confused look. "No. I don't think she was doing that."
"You don't think that she was doing that? Well she may have been…maybe Trevene and Hwoarang have more information."
Hwoarang and Trevene gasped while looking at each other. Jin turned his chair to face them and looked at all three of us now. "What's he talking about, Hwoarang? Trevene?" Trevene looked at me while Hwoarang sighed. I shook my head at Trevene and mouthed to her not to tell but by the look on her face she may tell anyway. Hwoarang looked at Jin and the look on Jin's face scared Hwoarang.
"Jin," he began, "The girls and I knew that she wanted to go out with you all along."
"What does that have to do with what Steve's talking about?" Jin had an eyebrow raised. He looked at me and he watched as my tear stained face looked at him and I shook my head. This time Trevene continued for him.
"Jin, she had this plan to 'Steal' you away from Ling all the time. She wanted to catch your attention…that's all. She meant no harm… at all."
I put my face in my hands and began to weep. He's going to leave me for sure now. Jin looked at me for a minute then turned to Steve. "What kind of shit are you trying to pull Fox?"
Steve looked at him with wide eyes. Obviously his plan to get Jin to break up with me wasn't working. "Nothing at all. What Julia told me was different."
"What did Julia tell you?" asked Trevene as she walked over to Julia. "What the fuck did you tell your boyfriend?"
Julia looked up at Trevene to see the all the anger in her face heating up onto hers. Julia stood silent for a long time before turning to look at me. "I didn't tell Steve anything."
"So why would he say something like that?" Trevene looked at Steve with the same look while Hwoarang and Jin did the same. Steve started to back over to where his girlfriend was. "Julia, sweetie, I thought you said that she was trying to hoar herself off to him so that she could get Eddy back?" he said through clenched teeth.
She looked at Steve, then at Trevene. "I said…" she began but remembered that Trevene was standing there. Trevene couldn't take Steve and Julia anymore. She was fed up with them and their ways, trying to make me miserable.
"Get the fuck out, the both of you. And make sure that you two don't return." Hwoarang helped her open the door while she pushed the two of them out. "Oh and Julia, your bags will be packed tomorrow." She slammed the door.
They both turned back to Jin and me. Jin was staring at me with a confused look but my head was still in my hands, crying away. Jin pushed his chair up to me and took me into his arms. "Christie, I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I was just upset at what happened."
I looked up at him. He wiped the tears on my face away with the palm of his hand. "So this means that you really do care and that you'll stay?" I sounded like a little girl who was about to loose her father.
He smiled. "I never said I didn't care and I will stick with you. Eddy won't hurt you again."
I smiled. Steve didn't succeed with whatever shit he was doing…and I got to keep my hunk. Jin, Hwoarang and Trevene came in to give me a group hug. The feeling that washed over me was joy. I didn't want to loose this feeling. I knew that my friends cared and that they wouldn't let me be hurt by anyone…
TBC