Red Scarves
-- Curse homework to hell! e_e --
I hate homework, and piano homework. I never finish it. Why? I have homework, writing, and. . . . *communicating with friends* (^_^;;) is also extremely important! Yeah. Those are my excuses. I #$+@#\& hate piano. I want to play flute... e_e My mom says all musicians play piano at one time or another... I'm thinking: Okay, I've played piano. Can I quit and start the flute now? Or the harp, or the -- hell, anything BESIDES the piano and cello and violin. Violins are evil (Everytime I played, it sounded like a cat howling in pain), and cellos are completely unladylike. Fuu. Enough of my ranting, start the freakin' chapter.
Oh, any if anybody here has gone to Jupiter Lighthouse (The sprites for GS2), could anyone tell me who that blonde girl (Not Sheba, hair's longer) under the 'Unindentified' category? I forgot... But how do you NOT know who King Hydros and Puelle are? O o What kind of people RUN that site? That girl... she looks so familiar, though. ;-;
GS Yaoi Fanlisting -- it is now official. Once the site is up, that'll be there. Or, like a week after the launch. ^_^ I now need to bribe somebody into drawing something! If somebody's willing to draw/create banners and whatnot (Without the bribery ^_~), I'll luff you for eternity. It's amazing, Taylor actually agreed. I mean, she says that it's also my site, I can do what I what, but still... O o; I thought it wouldn't be that easy!
PicardxFelix FOREVER!!
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Red Scarves --
-- Feizhi's arrival
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"Leave the cow alone!"
"No!"
"Leave the cow alone! If I told you once, I told you twice, and if I've told you twice, this is the umpteenth time! Felix, just be quiet about the cow!"
"Never!"
Picard glared at Felix, who was tying a red scarf around one of the villager's cows.
"Just leave the poor thing alone! It never did anything to try to take over the world!"
Felix turned around and poked him in the chest.
"I'm just recording data, Picard! What will happen if this cow comes into contact with a red scarf?"
"Are you sure you want to find out?"
Felix blinked and looked down at the bovine, which was slowly chewing on some cud. Looking at the vibrantly red scarf, then at the cow again, he snatched the accessory off hastily.
"Scary thoughts..."
Picard sighed and dragged the shivering young man back to Jenna's house. They drew a few stares -- mainly because Felix was pale as a ghost, shuddering, and clutching a red scarf which many were sure was Jenna's. They could've cared less about the romance the two shared -- they saved the world, let 'em be, in their opinion.
"You're an idiot sometimes, Felix," Picard told him, pulling him up astride to himself. Felix was still having a seizure.
"What if the cow went on a rampage? Killed everyone? I'd be the one at fault!"
"But you'd probably be dead, along with everyone else, so no one would care."
Felix muttered something under his breath and latched himself onto Picard's arm. The Lemurian sighed.
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"Mia, have you seen my scarf?"
"No, but you never wear it. Why do you bother now?"
"I always see it hanging next to my jackets when I open the closet, and it's not there today... You sure you haven't seen it?"
"No, I haven't -- oh! Felix and Picard are back... Wait a second, Felix is holding... a red scarf!"
Jenna stumbled down the stairs, staring at Mia in disbelief, who was peering out the kitchen windows on tiptoe.
"That idiot!" Jenna roared, running to the door and throwing it open. "Felix! I'll kill you!"
There was about fifteen seconds in which Picard blinked, took the scarf from Felix, gave it to Jenna, then told the Venus Adept to run for his life.
Felix listened, for once.
"I didn't do anything wrong!" Felix wailed as Jenna chased him past Garet and Isaac's respective houses.
"You took some of MY clothing withOUT asking! That's a sin, and I'm making you PAY for it!"
"I didn't do -- "
"You probably tormented the poor cows, too!"
"I still didn't do anything wrong!"
Picard sighed and went inside. He pecked Mia on the cheek as he passed her, then went upstairs to retrieve some of his healing items, as Felix would likely come back with a few appendages missing and some bruises.
He really did wonder what it would've been like to have Jenna as a sister in law...
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Later that day, Felix had a bandage wrapped around his head, a splint on one arm, and a bad limp. He also received a lecture about the differences of borrowing, stealing, and torturing harmless bovines from Jenna, and a most painful rap to the head from Mia. Mia, what with her gentle demeanor, seemed not to be the type of person to injure others, but... she believed that animals had rights just as people have, and thusly, a cow has the right to decline the offer of having a red scarf placed around its neck.
Felix found what Picard did to him was the most painful:
Kiss him on the forehead and call him an idiot.
Picard always called Felix an idiot in his soft, 'I-still-love-you-anyway- and-probably-in-spite-of-that' way, and Felix found that tone most irritating.
And now, Picard had his hands full with calming a most unhappy Felix, as the girls had deserted him to hustle the welcoming committee of Feizhi together.
"Felix, love..."
"Don't you start on that AGAIN! Don't you understand, Picard?! These animals -- they might be planning something! And here I am, the only person wise enough to grasp that!"
/Wise enough? Don't you mean... daft enough?/
"It's always possible some dreaded evil has imbued them with dark powers, and... and... giving a cow a red scarf might touch it off! But what I hate most is that none of you agree with me! NONE of you!"
Felix had been pacing, despite his bruised and sore hip, in front of Picard, who was leaning on the windowsill. Picard sighed and reached out to draw the Venus adept to him. Felix was weak, but he was still feisty enough to try and bite the Lemurian, and he did manage to leave a rather painful looking chomp on Picard's arm that bled a bit. But there was a reason why Mercury adepts were calming spirits.
"Felix. . . Remember what I said about a month ago, about this relationship?"
"That it would be imbalanced," Felix responded gruffly.
"Correct. Sheba thinks of us as polar opposites, and she probably is right, being the genius she is." Picard squeezed him gently, and pulled him onto his lap. "But opposites tend to attract..."
"Like Jenna and Mia."
"Right again. Although I may not always agree with your ideas of animals and your lactose-intolerant sister eventually ruling the world, I will defend your rights as a human being." Picard sighed before continuing, "And though nobody else may support you in these ideas of yours, I still love you, and my opinion, that should be enough to keep you happy."
Felix was quiet for a moment, fidgeting slightly now and then, and touching the bleeding bite mark. Silently, he cast Cure on it, touching the restored skin gently with cautious fingers.
"Sorry..." He mumbled, resting his forehead against Picard's chin. "It's just..."
"I know," Picard said, smoothing out Felix's unruly hair. "When you had to take the Elemental Stars, and nobody supported you then, either."
Felix stayed still, resting against the Lemurian he had traveled the world with, fought alongside in nearly impossible battles, and battled tooth and nail with as of who slept on the floor every other night when the inn was full. He fingered the necklace Picard wore, with the eight-pointed star. It was supposed to be a compass -- for life, he remembered Picard telling him.
"Love you." Felix murmured in an uncharacteristically shy way.
"Love you, too." Picard tilted his chin up and kissed him gently.
Imperfect though they were, they were flawless and without compare while together.
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Jenna was heading upstairs to call Felix and Picard out while Mia, Isaac, and the others greeted Feizhi as she arrived. She hadn't realized what was happening behind Felix's door, and thus, opened the door with her usual grand-entrance-flair. But as soon as she saw the boys making out against the window, she knew she had interrupted something. She closed the door quickly, silently, hoping to the dear gods that they hadn't heard her.
"Jenna! Feizhi's here!" Mia called from the base of the stairs.
"Mia!" She raced down the steps, and in her haste, forgot the wobbly step, and flew down ten steps and knocked down the healer from Imil.
"Oww..." Mia groaned, muffled by Jenna's large amount of hair being forced into her throat.
"Mia! I'm so sorry! I'm such an idiot! Please, please, please don't be mad at me!"
"I... I think I... I broke something..."
[Jenna: o_o!]
"No, wait..." Mia sat up, rubbing her back. "I think you knocked that annoying knot of tension in my back out!"
"...Really?" Jenna let out her breath. An angry Mia -- an angry MERCURY adept Mia -- was not a good thing for a Mars adept Jenna's health, right?
"Thank you, Jenna. Now," Jenna jumped to her feet and helped her companion up, "what about Picard and Felix?"
"They're making out," Jenna said dismissively, waving her hand. "Once they see Feizhi walking around in the street below, they'll come down."
[Mia: ...]
"And... when... might that be?"
"Hopefully before dinner."
"Well...." Mia looked vaguely nervous for a moment. "Anyway, let's just go meet up with Feizhi."
"Let's." Jenna took her hand and they ran out to meet the lady from Xian.
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It was only half an hour later that Felix realized his sister wasn't coming upstairs to bother them. He pulled away from Picard, peering out the window.
"Iris!" Felix swore, leaping up from the little shelf and immediately regretting it, as that put pressure on his bad leg. "Feizhi's here, and Jenna didn't come and tell us!"
"Aren't you glad she didn't bother us?"
Felix glared at him, hobbling over to the door while trying to put his hair into some semblance of order. Picard followed, watching him try to get down the stairs.
After Felix had gotten down six steps, nearly fallen twice, and cursed more times than Iris could punish him for, he finally turned around and gave Picard his most pitiful face.
"...Could you help me?"
"Oh, the great and mighty Felix asking for help down the stairs?"
Felix glowered at him. Picard laughed, moving downwards toward him, then scooping him up in his arms. The Venus adept yelped as Picard leaped the last five steps.
"Put me down!" He was screaming as Picard continued on outside. "I'm not a -- "
"Not a child?" Picard blinked innocently. "Why, in comparison to me, you're only an infant."
"How old are you, then?!"
"I'm sure 'older than Kraden' will suffice," The Lemurian smiled, pressing a quick kiss to Felix's forehead.
"I'm in love with a guy that's old enough to be my great-grandfather. That's... disturbing."
"Our relationship was never meant to be stable..." Picard said cheerfully, humming to himself. "Do you know where they would be?"
"Probably at the inn..." Felix mumbled, not wanting the Mercury adept to know that he somehow enjoyed this pampering-of-sorts. "You... can put me down now..."
"I don't think so." He chuckled. Felix blushed a hot crimson, and looked off in the distance.
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Jenna was pacing worriedly around the inn's main room. Feizhi and Ivan, who had managed to sneak up to Vale from Kalay, were talking animatedly about any prophecies she had had as of late. Garet, as to be expected, was dozing. Isaac was poking at his hair. (*Snerk* I wanna poke his hair, too! XD)
"Jenna, sit down..." Mia begged. "They'll come... eventually..."
"Eventually!" Jenna huffed. "They need to come *now*! They've already embarassed everyone else..."
"Feizhi's not mad," Mia said, glancing back at the purple-haired lady from Xian. Nope, no signs of madness. "At all. Jenna, just sit down and wait a little while longer -- "
Jenna seemed to see something out the window and raced out the door. Mia blinked, then with another glance back at her friends, she followed.
"Felix! WHERE WERE YOU?!"
Mia sighed.
"Where do you think?"
"Don't be smart with me!" Jenna was screaming. Felix squeaked.
"Back at the house..."
"Snogging with your little Lemurian friend?!"
A brief pause.
"Leave me out of this, please, Felix." Picard requested of the quivering Venus adept.
"Picard!" Felix yelped, clinging onto the Lemurian's neck. "She'll kill me this time!"
"Yeah, I'll kill you!" Jenna roared. Mia leaped to restrain her.
"Now, now, Jenna..." Mia said in her neutral, 'be-mature-about-this' voice. "Killing your brother would do no good for us..."
"If I killed him and Picard?"
"Jenna." Mia said evenly.
"...You're such a party-pooper, Mia."
"I don't like unnecessary bloodshed." The healer sighed, grabbing Jenna by her arm and dragging her back to the inn. "Are you two coming or not?"
"Yes ma'am!"
In a pen nearby, a chicken sat atop a cow, and clucked noisily. The cow mooed.
And all was peaceful.
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End
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......OR SO WE THOUGHT!
XD
Uber-thanxx to you people that reviewed. ::Hugz all:: I'm sorry it's on the short-side today... I wrote out the end kinda quickly. ^_^;; Gomen nasai, ne.
InuYasha? Hummm... What would I write about? ~_~;; I'm not a really big fan of yaois over there... Although Inu/Miroku is kinda cute. I like my Sessho/Kago fics fine. ^o^
'Til next time...
-- Curse homework to hell! e_e --
I hate homework, and piano homework. I never finish it. Why? I have homework, writing, and. . . . *communicating with friends* (^_^;;) is also extremely important! Yeah. Those are my excuses. I #$+@#\& hate piano. I want to play flute... e_e My mom says all musicians play piano at one time or another... I'm thinking: Okay, I've played piano. Can I quit and start the flute now? Or the harp, or the -- hell, anything BESIDES the piano and cello and violin. Violins are evil (Everytime I played, it sounded like a cat howling in pain), and cellos are completely unladylike. Fuu. Enough of my ranting, start the freakin' chapter.
Oh, any if anybody here has gone to Jupiter Lighthouse (The sprites for GS2), could anyone tell me who that blonde girl (Not Sheba, hair's longer) under the 'Unindentified' category? I forgot... But how do you NOT know who King Hydros and Puelle are? O o What kind of people RUN that site? That girl... she looks so familiar, though. ;-;
GS Yaoi Fanlisting -- it is now official. Once the site is up, that'll be there. Or, like a week after the launch. ^_^ I now need to bribe somebody into drawing something! If somebody's willing to draw/create banners and whatnot (Without the bribery ^_~), I'll luff you for eternity. It's amazing, Taylor actually agreed. I mean, she says that it's also my site, I can do what I what, but still... O o; I thought it wouldn't be that easy!
PicardxFelix FOREVER!!
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Red Scarves --
-- Feizhi's arrival
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"Leave the cow alone!"
"No!"
"Leave the cow alone! If I told you once, I told you twice, and if I've told you twice, this is the umpteenth time! Felix, just be quiet about the cow!"
"Never!"
Picard glared at Felix, who was tying a red scarf around one of the villager's cows.
"Just leave the poor thing alone! It never did anything to try to take over the world!"
Felix turned around and poked him in the chest.
"I'm just recording data, Picard! What will happen if this cow comes into contact with a red scarf?"
"Are you sure you want to find out?"
Felix blinked and looked down at the bovine, which was slowly chewing on some cud. Looking at the vibrantly red scarf, then at the cow again, he snatched the accessory off hastily.
"Scary thoughts..."
Picard sighed and dragged the shivering young man back to Jenna's house. They drew a few stares -- mainly because Felix was pale as a ghost, shuddering, and clutching a red scarf which many were sure was Jenna's. They could've cared less about the romance the two shared -- they saved the world, let 'em be, in their opinion.
"You're an idiot sometimes, Felix," Picard told him, pulling him up astride to himself. Felix was still having a seizure.
"What if the cow went on a rampage? Killed everyone? I'd be the one at fault!"
"But you'd probably be dead, along with everyone else, so no one would care."
Felix muttered something under his breath and latched himself onto Picard's arm. The Lemurian sighed.
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"Mia, have you seen my scarf?"
"No, but you never wear it. Why do you bother now?"
"I always see it hanging next to my jackets when I open the closet, and it's not there today... You sure you haven't seen it?"
"No, I haven't -- oh! Felix and Picard are back... Wait a second, Felix is holding... a red scarf!"
Jenna stumbled down the stairs, staring at Mia in disbelief, who was peering out the kitchen windows on tiptoe.
"That idiot!" Jenna roared, running to the door and throwing it open. "Felix! I'll kill you!"
There was about fifteen seconds in which Picard blinked, took the scarf from Felix, gave it to Jenna, then told the Venus Adept to run for his life.
Felix listened, for once.
"I didn't do anything wrong!" Felix wailed as Jenna chased him past Garet and Isaac's respective houses.
"You took some of MY clothing withOUT asking! That's a sin, and I'm making you PAY for it!"
"I didn't do -- "
"You probably tormented the poor cows, too!"
"I still didn't do anything wrong!"
Picard sighed and went inside. He pecked Mia on the cheek as he passed her, then went upstairs to retrieve some of his healing items, as Felix would likely come back with a few appendages missing and some bruises.
He really did wonder what it would've been like to have Jenna as a sister in law...
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Later that day, Felix had a bandage wrapped around his head, a splint on one arm, and a bad limp. He also received a lecture about the differences of borrowing, stealing, and torturing harmless bovines from Jenna, and a most painful rap to the head from Mia. Mia, what with her gentle demeanor, seemed not to be the type of person to injure others, but... she believed that animals had rights just as people have, and thusly, a cow has the right to decline the offer of having a red scarf placed around its neck.
Felix found what Picard did to him was the most painful:
Kiss him on the forehead and call him an idiot.
Picard always called Felix an idiot in his soft, 'I-still-love-you-anyway- and-probably-in-spite-of-that' way, and Felix found that tone most irritating.
And now, Picard had his hands full with calming a most unhappy Felix, as the girls had deserted him to hustle the welcoming committee of Feizhi together.
"Felix, love..."
"Don't you start on that AGAIN! Don't you understand, Picard?! These animals -- they might be planning something! And here I am, the only person wise enough to grasp that!"
/Wise enough? Don't you mean... daft enough?/
"It's always possible some dreaded evil has imbued them with dark powers, and... and... giving a cow a red scarf might touch it off! But what I hate most is that none of you agree with me! NONE of you!"
Felix had been pacing, despite his bruised and sore hip, in front of Picard, who was leaning on the windowsill. Picard sighed and reached out to draw the Venus adept to him. Felix was weak, but he was still feisty enough to try and bite the Lemurian, and he did manage to leave a rather painful looking chomp on Picard's arm that bled a bit. But there was a reason why Mercury adepts were calming spirits.
"Felix. . . Remember what I said about a month ago, about this relationship?"
"That it would be imbalanced," Felix responded gruffly.
"Correct. Sheba thinks of us as polar opposites, and she probably is right, being the genius she is." Picard squeezed him gently, and pulled him onto his lap. "But opposites tend to attract..."
"Like Jenna and Mia."
"Right again. Although I may not always agree with your ideas of animals and your lactose-intolerant sister eventually ruling the world, I will defend your rights as a human being." Picard sighed before continuing, "And though nobody else may support you in these ideas of yours, I still love you, and my opinion, that should be enough to keep you happy."
Felix was quiet for a moment, fidgeting slightly now and then, and touching the bleeding bite mark. Silently, he cast Cure on it, touching the restored skin gently with cautious fingers.
"Sorry..." He mumbled, resting his forehead against Picard's chin. "It's just..."
"I know," Picard said, smoothing out Felix's unruly hair. "When you had to take the Elemental Stars, and nobody supported you then, either."
Felix stayed still, resting against the Lemurian he had traveled the world with, fought alongside in nearly impossible battles, and battled tooth and nail with as of who slept on the floor every other night when the inn was full. He fingered the necklace Picard wore, with the eight-pointed star. It was supposed to be a compass -- for life, he remembered Picard telling him.
"Love you." Felix murmured in an uncharacteristically shy way.
"Love you, too." Picard tilted his chin up and kissed him gently.
Imperfect though they were, they were flawless and without compare while together.
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Jenna was heading upstairs to call Felix and Picard out while Mia, Isaac, and the others greeted Feizhi as she arrived. She hadn't realized what was happening behind Felix's door, and thus, opened the door with her usual grand-entrance-flair. But as soon as she saw the boys making out against the window, she knew she had interrupted something. She closed the door quickly, silently, hoping to the dear gods that they hadn't heard her.
"Jenna! Feizhi's here!" Mia called from the base of the stairs.
"Mia!" She raced down the steps, and in her haste, forgot the wobbly step, and flew down ten steps and knocked down the healer from Imil.
"Oww..." Mia groaned, muffled by Jenna's large amount of hair being forced into her throat.
"Mia! I'm so sorry! I'm such an idiot! Please, please, please don't be mad at me!"
"I... I think I... I broke something..."
[Jenna: o_o!]
"No, wait..." Mia sat up, rubbing her back. "I think you knocked that annoying knot of tension in my back out!"
"...Really?" Jenna let out her breath. An angry Mia -- an angry MERCURY adept Mia -- was not a good thing for a Mars adept Jenna's health, right?
"Thank you, Jenna. Now," Jenna jumped to her feet and helped her companion up, "what about Picard and Felix?"
"They're making out," Jenna said dismissively, waving her hand. "Once they see Feizhi walking around in the street below, they'll come down."
[Mia: ...]
"And... when... might that be?"
"Hopefully before dinner."
"Well...." Mia looked vaguely nervous for a moment. "Anyway, let's just go meet up with Feizhi."
"Let's." Jenna took her hand and they ran out to meet the lady from Xian.
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It was only half an hour later that Felix realized his sister wasn't coming upstairs to bother them. He pulled away from Picard, peering out the window.
"Iris!" Felix swore, leaping up from the little shelf and immediately regretting it, as that put pressure on his bad leg. "Feizhi's here, and Jenna didn't come and tell us!"
"Aren't you glad she didn't bother us?"
Felix glared at him, hobbling over to the door while trying to put his hair into some semblance of order. Picard followed, watching him try to get down the stairs.
After Felix had gotten down six steps, nearly fallen twice, and cursed more times than Iris could punish him for, he finally turned around and gave Picard his most pitiful face.
"...Could you help me?"
"Oh, the great and mighty Felix asking for help down the stairs?"
Felix glowered at him. Picard laughed, moving downwards toward him, then scooping him up in his arms. The Venus adept yelped as Picard leaped the last five steps.
"Put me down!" He was screaming as Picard continued on outside. "I'm not a -- "
"Not a child?" Picard blinked innocently. "Why, in comparison to me, you're only an infant."
"How old are you, then?!"
"I'm sure 'older than Kraden' will suffice," The Lemurian smiled, pressing a quick kiss to Felix's forehead.
"I'm in love with a guy that's old enough to be my great-grandfather. That's... disturbing."
"Our relationship was never meant to be stable..." Picard said cheerfully, humming to himself. "Do you know where they would be?"
"Probably at the inn..." Felix mumbled, not wanting the Mercury adept to know that he somehow enjoyed this pampering-of-sorts. "You... can put me down now..."
"I don't think so." He chuckled. Felix blushed a hot crimson, and looked off in the distance.
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Jenna was pacing worriedly around the inn's main room. Feizhi and Ivan, who had managed to sneak up to Vale from Kalay, were talking animatedly about any prophecies she had had as of late. Garet, as to be expected, was dozing. Isaac was poking at his hair. (*Snerk* I wanna poke his hair, too! XD)
"Jenna, sit down..." Mia begged. "They'll come... eventually..."
"Eventually!" Jenna huffed. "They need to come *now*! They've already embarassed everyone else..."
"Feizhi's not mad," Mia said, glancing back at the purple-haired lady from Xian. Nope, no signs of madness. "At all. Jenna, just sit down and wait a little while longer -- "
Jenna seemed to see something out the window and raced out the door. Mia blinked, then with another glance back at her friends, she followed.
"Felix! WHERE WERE YOU?!"
Mia sighed.
"Where do you think?"
"Don't be smart with me!" Jenna was screaming. Felix squeaked.
"Back at the house..."
"Snogging with your little Lemurian friend?!"
A brief pause.
"Leave me out of this, please, Felix." Picard requested of the quivering Venus adept.
"Picard!" Felix yelped, clinging onto the Lemurian's neck. "She'll kill me this time!"
"Yeah, I'll kill you!" Jenna roared. Mia leaped to restrain her.
"Now, now, Jenna..." Mia said in her neutral, 'be-mature-about-this' voice. "Killing your brother would do no good for us..."
"If I killed him and Picard?"
"Jenna." Mia said evenly.
"...You're such a party-pooper, Mia."
"I don't like unnecessary bloodshed." The healer sighed, grabbing Jenna by her arm and dragging her back to the inn. "Are you two coming or not?"
"Yes ma'am!"
In a pen nearby, a chicken sat atop a cow, and clucked noisily. The cow mooed.
And all was peaceful.
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End
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......OR SO WE THOUGHT!
XD
Uber-thanxx to you people that reviewed. ::Hugz all:: I'm sorry it's on the short-side today... I wrote out the end kinda quickly. ^_^;; Gomen nasai, ne.
InuYasha? Hummm... What would I write about? ~_~;; I'm not a really big fan of yaois over there... Although Inu/Miroku is kinda cute. I like my Sessho/Kago fics fine. ^o^
'Til next time...