The Road I Can No Longer See
Chapter 3
By: SilverRose82
Alright people lets stop telling me that I have run-ons. I know I do and my English teacher has told I in not so many words that I am a horrid writer. So lets not bother Silver with more point outs of run-ons. Thank You.
Rambling Naiad : Hugglez, questions tend to catch my eye mostly or something that someone says in response. I think I wrote the Sanc Kingdom scene only an hour or so before I posted the chapter and I knew what I wanted but couldn't remember it when I needed to write it.
juxagirl : basically
Lacrea Moonlight
joy
setsuna-3000
Irihi
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"Well I'm heading back to L2, got some people to find." Duo told Quatre as the two war comrades made their way through the spaceport. Quatre gazed over at Duo, studying his friend he nodded, Trowa, Wufei, and Heero had disappeared soon after the Mariemeia incident and the destruction of their gundams. Turning to gaze out at the crowd milling around the spaceport he sighed knowing that today was probably going to be his last true day of freedom.
"If you need anything you know how to get a hold of me." Quatre smiled as he turned to part ways with Duo and make his way to the shuttle that would take him to L4 and a responsibility he did not truly want to take up as his. Waving back at Duo as he handed an attendant his ticket he smiled.
"Thanks Quatre." Duo waved as he grinned in his kindhearted friend before allowing himself to be swept up in the crowd. Quatre shook his head knowing that Duo probably would never take him up on his offer. Charity during the war was one thing they needed to be in close proximity to one another then, but now. Now they were on their own again, going back to the lives they had before the wars and were trying to pick up where they had left off. Nodding to himself Quatre had a feeling that this was probably not going to be the last time that he saw Duo.
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"Bes up, go UP! These boys are not tippin' you to just dance." Rin yelled as she moved around tables of loud, laughing and drunk men. Holding the tray of drinks and snacks higher as she maneuvered through a relatively tight crowd she kept her eye on the girls. Ever since they had come to work at the new club the girls had become shyer and were not doing as well as they once had. Shaking her head she smiled brightly as she past a group of regulars before slowly making her way toward the poker tables.
"Hey baby, how much for a night on the town?" the smell of alcohol invaded Rin's senses as she glanced over to shoulder at the blonde man standing behind her. Smiling she turned around to face him, knowing that giving him the cold shoulder could ended up with her in the hospital again.
"Sorry love, it's my week off from you fellas." Rin laughed as she turned to continue on her way. Humming to herself as she finally made it to the table of her current order she began to place the drinks expertly onto the table while the drunken men hit on her, groped her and such before tossing the tray over to a nearby waitress. As the rowdy group began to beg for her to stay while laughing and watching Bes finish up her set. Smiling brightly Rin wrapped her arms around a black haired man's neck before gracefully sitting on his lap. Using his lap as she would any other chair she crossed her legs suggestively before feeling his arms wrap around her waist.
"So the little whore wants to come and play with the big boys?" a near by redhead laughed before turning to watch the next girl come onto stage. He grinned as the black haired girl began to strut across the stage her short black and red Chinese style dress shimmered in the blue and black stage lighting. Turning back to Rin he smiled at her before his characteristic smirk appeared on his face. "Your last bitch didn't do so well."
"She's new, gonna have to get her broken in." Rin told him as she played with strands of her current chair's hair, turning to look at her friend she smiled slightly as she stared at him intently. "So Jason, what are you of all people doin' in a place like this?"
"Come to tell ya that Duo's back, saw him at the port not even a day ago." Jason told her as he lifted Rin up and moved her so that she was now straddling his waist. Shifting around uneasily at the position her long time friend had placed her in she smirked suddenly before hopping off his lap.
"Well if ya see him and he recognized ya and asks about me, you don't know a damn thing he's talkin' about, she died the moment he left." Rin glanced around the table and stared at each and every man sitting there looking at her, all four of them nodded knowing the terrors that Rin could cause them should they break her trust. All having grown up on the streets together, their friendship was solid, even more so after Duo had truly left and the only person they had to come up with ways to get them food had been Jason and Rin. Jason came up with ways to steal and Rin used her looks and body to get what she wanted, together the pair had become the best when it came to getting anything and everything that the group wanted and needed. "Now if you boys will excuse me, I'm going to head on home. It's no fun when you can't play."
"Rin being torn up never stopped you before." The redhead laughed as he glanced at the blonde before him, her blue eyes sparkled dangerously as she pulled at her blue midriff tank top that barely covered her. Glaring at him she flipped a stray strand of hair behind her before stalking over to the red head.
"Well, Toby, I'm not torn up. If that's what you're askin." Rin whispered in his ear before making herself scarce and melded into the shadows. The deafening sounds around seemed to lessen their roar as she moved to make her way over to the door that lead to the back room.
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The silence was something that Rin had become used to as she walked through the polluted streets of L2, heading to the one place where she had always found solace. Always found herself wishing that Duo would come back and take her away. But that wish had yet to come true and who was to say that he even remembered his promise made two years ago, before the wars had even began.
"Serena." Rin jumped slightly as she glared into the eternal darkness that surrounded, forbidding her from locating the owner of that voice. Turning around when she was suddenly sure of his presence she covered her eyes slightly when she was met with the intense blinding light of a flashlight. Studying the person holding the light she hid a smirk before turning slightly to continue on her way home. She most certainly would not give him the satisfaction of finding her so quickly after the hell he had put she and her friends through.
"Not my name, sorry." Rin laughed as she waved him off before returning to her thoughts before she had been interrupted. A hand shot out and grabbed her arm preventing her from leaving, reacting much like she would with any other man and their annoying some persistence she spun to kick him in the side. Only her foot did not make contact with his side like normal, this time she found herself flung onto the ground and pinned beneath her capturer, her arms held above her head by one of his hands.
"You're lying." He whispered as she began to struggle against his hold, his knee was pressed lightly into her stomach and she was sure that even with that light pressure that she was going to bruise up. Glaring at him she turned to look at the side trying to figure a way to get out of his hold. She had to, after all, fight off the advances of unwelcome men almost daily but how could she fight off a gundam pilot.
"Maybe I am, but then again how would you know?" Rin asked as she moved to try and kick him off, however he stopped her advances by wrapping his other leg around hers. Taking a deep breath she tried to calm her nerves before recalling the words and techniques of her trainers.
"Because I do."
"She's dead." Rin told him with venom before jumping from his suddenly lax hold, having surprised him by her response. Smirking at him she turned and ran the same way she had come, going to lose herself in the town and lose him before heading to her so called home. Duo watched silently as she disappeared into the shadows, shaking his head he sighed. What had happened to his best friend? Before she would have jumped into his arms, hugged him until she no longer could. Something had changed her and he vowed to find out what it was and help her save herself.
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Alright it's taken me nearly a month to update this. The reason. I wrote some and lost it, wrote another and kept forgetting to take it out of my purse. Finally bring it to type it and I spill my drink all over it. But most of it was salvageable.
In other news:
Updates will come around slowly finals are in two weeks. I have six to take with my four classes.
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