Some Surprises Are in Order

~Chapter 28~

Damn that's cold…he thought as the gun barrel was pressed solidly to his head. Kail took deep breaths; the sweat trickling down his face. He could feel the tension in Gabe's skin on the trigger. If you're gonna do it, squeeze, not pull…he mused to himself. But for once in his life, musing wasn't going to get him out of this situation. He glanced over at Megan.

"Your joking right?! How can you make me choose between my Father, and the man I-I…I…" she looked down and almost whispered the last part. "…the man I love…" She slowly raised her tear filled eyes to the stone of Gabriel's. He smiled, amused at her little comment.

"Very well! I guess I'll just hafta decide for you, my dear," Gabe mocked while his finger slowly started to squeeze the trigger.

Kail's eyes widened as he realized what was about to happen. He struggled in Gabe's arm, grabbing his wrist, but Gabe was stone, never to waiver. Oh my god…he's gonna do it. Kail's eyes began to plead, but to no avail. He's going to shoot...shit.

Megan's eyes reflected it all, her tears mirrors containing the scene. "NO!"

Gabe smirked at the girl. "Too… late…" he pulled the trigger.

It was awkward to Kail. The gunshot sounded the same as any other. Hell, he had that sound memorized. That was Gabe's pistol, used in emergency. Whenever he heard that noise, he came running to assist.

But who would assist him now? Didn't matter…all was numb. A wry smiled slipped across his lips as he fell…a near perfect hole between his bloody eyes…

Megan screamed as Gabe laughed, throwing Kail's limp body into her fragile arms. She couldn't believe what just happened… she didn't want to believe it… couldn't! Kail, her Kiwi, the love of her life--her soul mate-- was dead. There would be no return for him. She had forever lost him. It was that simple…and that tragic. Megan knelt there gently holding her love in her lap, crying as if her life had just ended, …and Gabe didn't care…With a malignant smirk, he walked over to the mourning girl and grabbed a hold of her shoulder and ripped her to her feet. He caressed her cheek, mockingly taking her tears…and started to drag her away without a single word.

For once Megan didn't fight, struggle, or voice a complaint to the rough and painful hold that was held upon her shoulder. All she cared about was gone… Kail the light of her life would no longer be there to comfort her. As she turned and cast one final look upon him she noticed her father, still alive, but for how long? She looked up at Gabe at these thoughts, surely after killing Kail so heartlessly; he wouldn't care at all for them. He would most likely later return for her father and sister. At those thoughts she gladly gave herself over to the darkness, which shock so often brings to tattered souls.

***

Well, I'm not dead…that's for fucking sure. Lex grunted, slowly feeling the pain slither up her spine. How the hell am I alive after that? Gabe should have just… But she avoided the after thought. She sighed. If I open my eyes, I acknowledge I'm conscious…if I don't…I lie here like a ninny. She opened her eyes. She was on her back; looking up at the pristine white of her room in the TURK's Ward at the Midgar Hospital. Of all the fucking places… she thought as she tried to sit up.

"You almost ruined everything, Midnight."

Lex slowly drew her eyes over to the corner to find Mike leaning against the wall, "Well, excuse me, dear Mikey," she snapped with a glare. "You said you would get her out of there in a few weeks, it's almost been a 9 months and she's still not back."

Mike sighed and pushed off the wall to walk towards her, reading the pain in her eyes. "It's not that easy, Lex." He gently put his arms on her shoulders to help her sit up.

"Thanks," Lex said with a grunt. She put a hand on Mike's wrist. "What's not easy… you just get her out of there and bring her to us."

Mike let out a deep sigh with a sardonic grin "Hojo's got Gabe. And I won't just… up and leave the man who raised me in that hell."

Lex sighed and looked at her IV in the arm she held Michael with. She put her head against his arm as he laid his head on top of hers. "Babe…give me another week to try to talk to Gabe about this, he doesn't want her there anymore then you or Vinnie."

Lex raised a brow. "He sure didn't seem to mind when I saw him." Mike ran his left hand through his hair, which alerted Lex that something was wrong,

"Come on, Mikey, somethin's bugging ya, your rubbing your head."

Mike looked down at her and gave a small laugh, "Well so I am."

"Don't change the subject, Micheal. What's going on...really?"

He didn't answer for moments. He let it drift in his head. What's going on? Not even he knew. The facts were limited, and time was running out. That much he knew. But he couldn't help state the obvious: "Gabe hasn't been himself lately."

She rolled her eyes in amusement. "I know that, you know that, hell Vinnie knows, that after seeing him yesterday--"

"It been almost a week since then, Babe."

Lex stopped. Her mouth dropped slightly. "How…how long?"

"5 days."

"Well, mother of fucking Christ. I'll be damned!"

Mike nodded. "For that little comment too."

"Javier, please… tell me what' s really going on?"

He sighed. "She used my full name." He looked down into her glimmering, smiling eyes. He couldn't help but grin. "I wish I could tell you, and I mean really tell you, but I can't...hell I don't even understand what is really going on. Maybe when this is all over, but not now…because you need your rest."

"Mike…" she said glaring as he laid her down. He started to walk out.

"Silence! Je suis inquiété de vous, petit guerrier. Soyez sûr."

"My dear, Jevi…I'm a poor slums girl without culture…" She said grinning. He stopped and looked at her.

"Ri-ight." Her grin widened. "Rest. You're useless if you can't walk." He nodded his head to her. "Oh," he paused "Vinnie is in the next room, Gabe almost killed him. But he's alive, beaten, both mentally and physically... don't tell him what I'm up too. I don't want to get his hopes up, just incase it fails and all."

Lex nodded, "A week Micheal."

He didn't answer…but kept walking.

"Mike," she gently called to him, propping herself up. He stopped, framed in the doorway, looking over his shoulder at her. "Thank you…"

He grinned gently and shut the door like so many times before.

~*~*~*~*~*

Megan slowly opened her eyes to find herself safely tucked into Gabe's bed, alive but shaky. Was it all just a dream she thought as she looked over to Kail's bed. No! It really happened she though. Gabe really shot Kail in the head... killing him. As she remembered what had happened tears slipped once again into her eyes. "He's gone!" She said as she rolled over and cried into Gabe's pillow.

"Who's gone?"

"Kail" she said as she cried harder into the pillow.

"That's odd, I don't feel dead" the voice said laughing.

Megan's head snapped up as she quickly looked to her side, " Kail!" She she yelled as she quickly sat up and dove at him. "You're alive!"

Kail looked down and hugged her to himself," And why wouldn't I be alive Shug?"

Megan glared and shoved away, "How dare you!" She said in a rage.

Kail backed up surprised at his loves outburst, "Hey Shug, come on it's

me Kail," he said holding his hands up in defense.

"Right...I saw Gabe shoot him! I'm not that dense Jenova!"

Kail raised an eyebrow, "Meggie come on please believe me."

Megan looked him up and down, "Fine! Give me a reason to believe you."

Kail smirked, walked over and kissed her more deeply then he had ever kissed

her before.

Megan's eyes widened 'I greatly hope this is Kail, I mean Jenova doesn't

strike me as the type to kiss me like this.

Kail gently pulled back and smirked," There now, feel better?"

Megan blushed and smiled, "Unless Jenova changed her chosen preference of love I think I'm safe" she said as she jumped at him, "You're alive!"

Kail smiled and hugged her, "Yes I'm alive...why wouldn't I be?"

Megan laughed but then frowned when she realized that he wasn't joking, "Gabe shot you in the head...how are you alive?"

"Uhm... Shug, hate to break it to you but Gabe didn't shoot me, I wouldn't be alive if that happened. And as you can see, I'm far from dead."

Megan shook her head, "But I saw..."

Kail never let her finish, "I don't know what sick dreams she's sending you now but don't worry about it, they're not real."

Megan looked at him as she started to shake, "It was too real to be a dream!"

Kail smiled and hugged her, " Would you feel better if I were to promise you not to get shot again?"

Megan nodded.

Kail laughed and put his hand to his heart, " I give you my word of honor that I shall not be shot in the head."

Megan sighed and hugged him, "Thank you." With a smile Megan yawned and snuggled into Kail's arms and closed her eyes.

"Tired?"

"Very."

"Wouldn't it be easier to sleep laying down Shug?"

Megan nodded, "But then I won't be in your arms."

Kail laughed and laid down on the bed and pulled her atop his chest. "There, problem solved," he said as he stroked her hair, "Now get some sleep."

Megan nodded and quickly fell asleep.

Mist...mist again...why mist? She thought as she walked through the Mist Field hoping to stumble upon Angel. "Uhm hello out there ...Angel can you hear me!" She yelled hoping to catch his attention.

"I'm here." Angel said as he stepped partly out of the shadows.

Megan smiled, "Good morning Angel."

Angel smiled and nodded.

With a smile Megan walked over and hugged him, "I missed you."

Angel opened his mouth to reply but another spoke before him, "You seem rather perky for someone whose boyfriend was just shot in the head and lived."

Angel glared out into the mist and wrapped a wing protectively around his charge, "It wasn't your place to tell that Jenova!"

Jenova still in Lex's form, walked out of the mist and towards them, "But she had the right to know."

Angel glared and tightened his wing around Megan, "Leave now!"

But sadly the damage had been done, as Jenova had planned. Megan pushed away from Angel and carefully approached Jenova, "What do you mean shot in the head? That was just a dream."

Jenova smiled, "That is what they wanted you to think My Dear Child."

Megan glared, "That's impossible! Kail wouldn't be alive if that really happened."

Jenova nodded and looks at Angel, "That is what I'm trying to figure out...how in the world did that boy live."

Angel glared yet again, which seemed to be the theme of this night's entrainment, " I won't repeat myself Jenova, LEAVE!"

Jenova's smile only widened, "Oh! Have we hit a nerve with the angel?"

Angel glared even more and wrapped a wing around Megan and pulled her towards him. Jenova, clearly pleased that the damage that had been done smirked, "Very well Angelo hold onto your secrets and shelter the girl from the truth." Angel sighed and looked down at Megan, but Jenova kept talking, "My child when you tired of these lies everyone is feeding you come and I shall show you the truth of my words."

Megan looked up at Angel wondering about what secrets he hid, but Angel still glared at the Jenova. Megan gently reached up and moved some of Angel's hair causing him to look down at her, "Don't listen to her lies Little One, she only means to lead you down the path which your brother walked upon."

Megan looked up at Angel for a moment then back at Jenova, "So your telling me that you are not the reason for Kail surviving?"

Jenova shook her head, "As much as I would love to take credit for that it was not of my doing...I would have let the boy die."

Megan glared as did Angel.

Jenova looked between Megan and Angel and smiled, " Oh I see... that is what is really going on." Jenova smirked as she looked on the two of them. Angel held Megan protectively in his arms, "I should have guessed from the start, there's only one way he could have survived, and you my dear Angel are it." With that Jenova vanished laughing to herself.

Megan looked up at Angel wondering what she meant, what she saw thought wasn't what she expected. Angel's eyes were set on the spot Jenova had stood, his face was set in anger, wings fluffed thought one was wrapped partly around her so to ward off dangers. His arms were wrapped tightly around her waist. It wasn't his holding her that caught her attention, it was the expression on his face, deep anger at Jenova's threat, a look she had often seen. Realization quickly filled her eyes, of who Angel really was, "Oh my God..."

Author Notes - Ok I own all of you an apology. I meant to get this out a good deal of time ago, but classes and time itself were against me. I am on my spring break now, so I plan to write my next chapter this week, I have nothing due that will take long so I will have some free time. Anyway I have some thanks to give.

To Crystalis Blade - Thank you for the wonderful editing job you did, and for helping me with Midnight's personality. But then you are Midnight, heehee.

Also thank you to all my loyal reviewers. To you I give my fondest thanks, you make my day. I ask of you to please continue to send me such wonderful reviews. Thank you.

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