A.N. ----
Oh my god, you guys have no idea how much grief I am giving myself over taking so damn long to get these new chapters out. Especially because I already had them written. Here's my list of excuses:
1. They took my computer away… they had to re-image it and when that didn't work, they sent it away and replaced the mother board. Something about a fried mother board.
2. When they gave it back four days ago (yes, it took me 3 ½ weeks to get it back) I tried to upload the chapters and it said "Uploading an empty document". I tried a bunch of different things and in the end I had to RETYPE EVERYTHING!!! So now I'm in English class and typing this before I upload the chapters.
Wufei: Onna, shouldn't you be listening to your scary onna teacher?
Shut up or I'm putting you in a dress.
Wufei: That's unfair, onna.
Maybe if you stopped calling me Onna I wouldn't be forced to do devil things to you. ::smirk:: I have a name you know.
Wufei: Yes yes, I know. Fate's Child. What kind of stupid onna name is-
Chang Wufei, you shut up. I'm trying to apologize to my readers. Something you don't seem to understand. ::hits Wufei over the head with BIG, THICK disclaimer::
Wufei: ::grumble:: I'm going to go train.
::googles:: Sounds like Vegita. Anyway….. Okay, so I'm done with my excuses. But you guys should know that I am really really sorry. The next chapter after chapter 7 (b/c I'm uploading two today) will be LONG, like ten pages, and it will be out this weekend, I promise.
Love you all and if someone would E-MAIL ME for ANY REASON I might have a prize for them.
-Fate's Child (Terraline Ash-ri Ran Brooks)
Author: Fate's Child (Terra Brooks)
Date: December 11, 2001
E-mail: Prncss_Earth@hotmail.com
Heero Yui had been drawn out of bed because he couldn't get his mind off of the woman sleeping down the hall. She had disappeared for ten years and fought during some of them. Calling her weak struck a cord in her that turned her voice to ice and her eyes just as hard. She liked to cook and clean and was good at both and she loved her brother. That was all they knew about her. He couldn't even find anything on his computer about her and that's what frustrated him most. She had cared for him, healing him completely in a matter of days without taking him to the hospital and didn't ask questions about bloody clothes. He ran his hand through his hair and made his way to the kitchen. A few minutes later, he heard the haunting cords of a guitar drift from the music room. Making his way towards the room, he leaned on the doorframe and listened to the piece of music and the words the girl sang.
It was a song that captured the pain of someone who had ever lost a loved one, every guilty conscience come to life. It was the embodiment of pain and love, of grief so large it welled up inside and threatened to drown you. The song ended abruptly and he heard the guitar hit the ground. He peeked around the door and saw her fall to the ground, tears running down her cheeks and sobs racking her body. He stood at the door for a minute, unsure of what to do before walking in and gathering her up in his arms, rocking her back and forth, running his hand over her hair in what he thought would be a soothing gesture.
After a few minutes, her sobs stopped and her shattered voice reached his ears in a language that he hadn't spoken since meeting her.
"Oh kami. Oh kami, not again, not again." In her distress, Lita had reverted to speaking in Japanese again. "Don't let me see her die again, not again. Not again, please not again." This time it was a whisper, a plea. "Why did she die, why did I let her die? I should have been stronger, should have done something. Not again, kami-sama, don't let me see her die again."
Heero never stopped his rocking, but he closed his eyes as he heard her crushed words. In his own mind, he kept seeing the little girl with the puppy dying over and over again. He never noticed the tear that made it's way down his cheek.
Hours passed and neither moved. Finally, Heero looked down and noticed that the girl on his lap had fallen asleep. He picked her up gently and brought her to her room, placing her under her covers. He stared down at her and made a decision. He would find out why this girl whose personality had touched them all was so lost and broken inside. Even if it meant acting human.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW TEMPTED I AM TO STOP IT HERE. BUT IT WOULD BE MEAN CAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN A PAGE LONG. DAMN. OKAY, HERE'S MORE.
Pounding on her door woke Lita from a dead sleep. Groggily opening her eyes, she looked around the room in confustion.
"How the hell did I get into my bed?" she whispered. When the pounding didn't stop, she glared at the door. "What?"
"You decent?" She smiled at her brother's voice.
"Always." He bounced into the room before jumping up to sit on her bed. "How old are you?" She teased. He looked at her carefully before asking.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Lita ran a hand over her face. "Bad dreams. Don't worry about it. Did you want something?"
"Only to tell you that Quatre had to change plans and we are leaving to go to the Sank kingdom tomorrow morning." Lita smiled.
"Thanks." When her brother made no indication that he was going to move, she groaned and fell backward onto the bed. "What else?"
"I had a question." Duo's voice was serious. "Why did you take Heero home with you?"
"I was actually just going to drop him off at the nearest hospital. He told me not to-in Japanese. It reminded me of when I was someone else, when I was a soldier. So I took him home to heal his as a favor to the senshi I once was."
"Senshi?"
"Soldier, warrior, whatever you want to call what I was." Duo thought about her answer for a minute before opening his mouth again.
"You having been a soldier makes this a little bit easier, Trio. I've done things that I'm not proud of. But I'd do them again because it was helping the people of the colonies and earth. I don't... I haven't come to terms with that yet, so I don't know if you can either. But I-" Duo stopped mid-sentence and looked down on the bed. Lita spoke up before he could open his mouth again.
"I forgot who I had been for a long time, Duo. I can't tell you much about the life I led, but I can tell you this. I was so caught up in being this other person that I forgot all about being Lita Trio. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about you or what we could have been doing. But I prided myself on being the person I was then. And I made a life for myself because I didn't know if you were alive or not. But everything died less then a week ago. And I remembered, I remembered who I was. And I realized that I didn't want to be who I had been for the past ten years. Because it wasn't who I was, not completely. So I came to find you. I want you to know that there's always going to be a part of my I have to hold from you. So let's leave the past as the past and just concentrate on the future." She grabbed Duo into a hug and tried to hold back tears. "I missed you so much. I just want to make a place for me with you." Duo nodded and hugged her back.
"I'm going to make you proud of me." Duo whispered.
"I already am. Is that what you were afraid of? That I wouldn't be proud of you because you'd done questionable things? Duo, you forget who I am. I'm you sister and I don't exactly have a clean past either."
"But-"
"No buts. No more regrets." She waited until he nodded. "It's early so let's go make breakfast. Maybe I'll teach you how to cook. If I can teach Minako how to make a passable dish, I can certainly teach you." Duo jumped off the bed and headed downstairs, Lita at his heels.
* * *
Lita looked around the kitchen table at the boys that were seated there. None of them gave any indication that anything was different from the day before. She narrowed her eyes as she chewed on a piece of apple. She knew it hadn't been Duo. Quatre would have showed some emotion, some worry. So would Trowa. Wufei would have used it to tease her about something. Her eyes widened as they landed on the last member of the table. Heero. She had probably cried all over Heero Yui, the 'perfect soldier'. She had heard Duo call him such a few days ago. Her mind almost shut down in embarrassment when a beeping noise filled the room. Heero looked over to the counter and noticed that it was his laptop. He opened the screen and read the mission, clicking a few buttons in response. He looked up at the table and tilted his head in the direction of the library. The boys got up, making their way out of the room while Duo looked at Lita apologetically.
"Don't worry about it, D-boy. I know you've got your own secrets." She winked before picking up her plate and the others and heading towards the kitchen. A minute later, she almost dropped the plate she was washing.
"INJUSTICE!" Even through all of the walls and doors between the boys and her, she still hears Wufei's voice. "I WILL NOT ACCEPT!"
Lita finished drying the plate she had in her hand and moved to the others. There was no more noise coming from the room. After she finished, she made her way to the small training room that Quatre had down the hall. Changing into the gi she kept in her space pocket, she began to warm up. Picking up a blindfold she tied it over her eyes and began a simple routine. After a few minutes, she felt a presence behind her. Not bothering to turn around, she kept moving.
"Can I help you?"
"Why do you blindfold yourself?" Wufei's question came from where she felt the presence.
"Because one day, I might not be able to see in battle. I will use my other senses to fight. You know something about this." Without a warning, she turned and attacked the Chinese boy. He easily blocked her attack. "See? You're always ready. That's another part. Never let your guard down." Her voice came out hard. "Never." Wufei began to counter attack her punches and kicks.
"You're telling me how to fight, onna? What would you know about always keeping up your guard?"
"That I didn't. And I lost the person that meant the most to me. Wufei, I'm telling you this because you are taking care of the person that means the most to me now. Don't let anything happen to-"
"Duo can take care of himself." They stopped talking as they kept attacking each other. Wufei landed a punch in her stomach, which was met with a kick to his head. A second later, Lita heard him unsheathe his katana. She flipped up and backwards, barely missing the blade. Out of her space pocket, she pulled out a long blade, a green handle adorned with a rose and lightning bolts. She ripped off her blindfold, no longer seeing a friendly match. Instead of seeing the young Chinese boy, she saw the youma that killed her friend.
TBC
Oh my god, you guys have no idea how much grief I am giving myself over taking so damn long to get these new chapters out. Especially because I already had them written. Here's my list of excuses:
1. They took my computer away… they had to re-image it and when that didn't work, they sent it away and replaced the mother board. Something about a fried mother board.
2. When they gave it back four days ago (yes, it took me 3 ½ weeks to get it back) I tried to upload the chapters and it said "Uploading an empty document". I tried a bunch of different things and in the end I had to RETYPE EVERYTHING!!! So now I'm in English class and typing this before I upload the chapters.
Wufei: Onna, shouldn't you be listening to your scary onna teacher?
Shut up or I'm putting you in a dress.
Wufei: That's unfair, onna.
Maybe if you stopped calling me Onna I wouldn't be forced to do devil things to you. ::smirk:: I have a name you know.
Wufei: Yes yes, I know. Fate's Child. What kind of stupid onna name is-
Chang Wufei, you shut up. I'm trying to apologize to my readers. Something you don't seem to understand. ::hits Wufei over the head with BIG, THICK disclaimer::
Wufei: ::grumble:: I'm going to go train.
::googles:: Sounds like Vegita. Anyway….. Okay, so I'm done with my excuses. But you guys should know that I am really really sorry. The next chapter after chapter 7 (b/c I'm uploading two today) will be LONG, like ten pages, and it will be out this weekend, I promise.
Love you all and if someone would E-MAIL ME for ANY REASON I might have a prize for them.
-Fate's Child (Terraline Ash-ri Ran Brooks)
Author: Fate's Child (Terra Brooks)
Date: December 11, 2001
E-mail: Prncss_Earth@hotmail.com
Heero Yui had been drawn out of bed because he couldn't get his mind off of the woman sleeping down the hall. She had disappeared for ten years and fought during some of them. Calling her weak struck a cord in her that turned her voice to ice and her eyes just as hard. She liked to cook and clean and was good at both and she loved her brother. That was all they knew about her. He couldn't even find anything on his computer about her and that's what frustrated him most. She had cared for him, healing him completely in a matter of days without taking him to the hospital and didn't ask questions about bloody clothes. He ran his hand through his hair and made his way to the kitchen. A few minutes later, he heard the haunting cords of a guitar drift from the music room. Making his way towards the room, he leaned on the doorframe and listened to the piece of music and the words the girl sang.
It was a song that captured the pain of someone who had ever lost a loved one, every guilty conscience come to life. It was the embodiment of pain and love, of grief so large it welled up inside and threatened to drown you. The song ended abruptly and he heard the guitar hit the ground. He peeked around the door and saw her fall to the ground, tears running down her cheeks and sobs racking her body. He stood at the door for a minute, unsure of what to do before walking in and gathering her up in his arms, rocking her back and forth, running his hand over her hair in what he thought would be a soothing gesture.
After a few minutes, her sobs stopped and her shattered voice reached his ears in a language that he hadn't spoken since meeting her.
"Oh kami. Oh kami, not again, not again." In her distress, Lita had reverted to speaking in Japanese again. "Don't let me see her die again, not again. Not again, please not again." This time it was a whisper, a plea. "Why did she die, why did I let her die? I should have been stronger, should have done something. Not again, kami-sama, don't let me see her die again."
Heero never stopped his rocking, but he closed his eyes as he heard her crushed words. In his own mind, he kept seeing the little girl with the puppy dying over and over again. He never noticed the tear that made it's way down his cheek.
Hours passed and neither moved. Finally, Heero looked down and noticed that the girl on his lap had fallen asleep. He picked her up gently and brought her to her room, placing her under her covers. He stared down at her and made a decision. He would find out why this girl whose personality had touched them all was so lost and broken inside. Even if it meant acting human.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW TEMPTED I AM TO STOP IT HERE. BUT IT WOULD BE MEAN CAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN A PAGE LONG. DAMN. OKAY, HERE'S MORE.
Pounding on her door woke Lita from a dead sleep. Groggily opening her eyes, she looked around the room in confustion.
"How the hell did I get into my bed?" she whispered. When the pounding didn't stop, she glared at the door. "What?"
"You decent?" She smiled at her brother's voice.
"Always." He bounced into the room before jumping up to sit on her bed. "How old are you?" She teased. He looked at her carefully before asking.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Lita ran a hand over her face. "Bad dreams. Don't worry about it. Did you want something?"
"Only to tell you that Quatre had to change plans and we are leaving to go to the Sank kingdom tomorrow morning." Lita smiled.
"Thanks." When her brother made no indication that he was going to move, she groaned and fell backward onto the bed. "What else?"
"I had a question." Duo's voice was serious. "Why did you take Heero home with you?"
"I was actually just going to drop him off at the nearest hospital. He told me not to-in Japanese. It reminded me of when I was someone else, when I was a soldier. So I took him home to heal his as a favor to the senshi I once was."
"Senshi?"
"Soldier, warrior, whatever you want to call what I was." Duo thought about her answer for a minute before opening his mouth again.
"You having been a soldier makes this a little bit easier, Trio. I've done things that I'm not proud of. But I'd do them again because it was helping the people of the colonies and earth. I don't... I haven't come to terms with that yet, so I don't know if you can either. But I-" Duo stopped mid-sentence and looked down on the bed. Lita spoke up before he could open his mouth again.
"I forgot who I had been for a long time, Duo. I can't tell you much about the life I led, but I can tell you this. I was so caught up in being this other person that I forgot all about being Lita Trio. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about you or what we could have been doing. But I prided myself on being the person I was then. And I made a life for myself because I didn't know if you were alive or not. But everything died less then a week ago. And I remembered, I remembered who I was. And I realized that I didn't want to be who I had been for the past ten years. Because it wasn't who I was, not completely. So I came to find you. I want you to know that there's always going to be a part of my I have to hold from you. So let's leave the past as the past and just concentrate on the future." She grabbed Duo into a hug and tried to hold back tears. "I missed you so much. I just want to make a place for me with you." Duo nodded and hugged her back.
"I'm going to make you proud of me." Duo whispered.
"I already am. Is that what you were afraid of? That I wouldn't be proud of you because you'd done questionable things? Duo, you forget who I am. I'm you sister and I don't exactly have a clean past either."
"But-"
"No buts. No more regrets." She waited until he nodded. "It's early so let's go make breakfast. Maybe I'll teach you how to cook. If I can teach Minako how to make a passable dish, I can certainly teach you." Duo jumped off the bed and headed downstairs, Lita at his heels.
* * *
Lita looked around the kitchen table at the boys that were seated there. None of them gave any indication that anything was different from the day before. She narrowed her eyes as she chewed on a piece of apple. She knew it hadn't been Duo. Quatre would have showed some emotion, some worry. So would Trowa. Wufei would have used it to tease her about something. Her eyes widened as they landed on the last member of the table. Heero. She had probably cried all over Heero Yui, the 'perfect soldier'. She had heard Duo call him such a few days ago. Her mind almost shut down in embarrassment when a beeping noise filled the room. Heero looked over to the counter and noticed that it was his laptop. He opened the screen and read the mission, clicking a few buttons in response. He looked up at the table and tilted his head in the direction of the library. The boys got up, making their way out of the room while Duo looked at Lita apologetically.
"Don't worry about it, D-boy. I know you've got your own secrets." She winked before picking up her plate and the others and heading towards the kitchen. A minute later, she almost dropped the plate she was washing.
"INJUSTICE!" Even through all of the walls and doors between the boys and her, she still hears Wufei's voice. "I WILL NOT ACCEPT!"
Lita finished drying the plate she had in her hand and moved to the others. There was no more noise coming from the room. After she finished, she made her way to the small training room that Quatre had down the hall. Changing into the gi she kept in her space pocket, she began to warm up. Picking up a blindfold she tied it over her eyes and began a simple routine. After a few minutes, she felt a presence behind her. Not bothering to turn around, she kept moving.
"Can I help you?"
"Why do you blindfold yourself?" Wufei's question came from where she felt the presence.
"Because one day, I might not be able to see in battle. I will use my other senses to fight. You know something about this." Without a warning, she turned and attacked the Chinese boy. He easily blocked her attack. "See? You're always ready. That's another part. Never let your guard down." Her voice came out hard. "Never." Wufei began to counter attack her punches and kicks.
"You're telling me how to fight, onna? What would you know about always keeping up your guard?"
"That I didn't. And I lost the person that meant the most to me. Wufei, I'm telling you this because you are taking care of the person that means the most to me now. Don't let anything happen to-"
"Duo can take care of himself." They stopped talking as they kept attacking each other. Wufei landed a punch in her stomach, which was met with a kick to his head. A second later, Lita heard him unsheathe his katana. She flipped up and backwards, barely missing the blade. Out of her space pocket, she pulled out a long blade, a green handle adorned with a rose and lightning bolts. She ripped off her blindfold, no longer seeing a friendly match. Instead of seeing the young Chinese boy, she saw the youma that killed her friend.
TBC
