"Y-you're a T-Turk? That's… err… wonderful!" Nina said as she slowly backed away from her friend.

"Yeah… I know… and I guess I should tell you before I go, that I have to kill you…" a pale strawberry blonde woman known as said as she carefully slid a knife out of her shirt, "as much as I hate to do it… I have to… please… don't make this harder for me… please" 'oh god… here I go…'

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" the crazed Wutian woman said as she pushed her former best friend away and turned away to run.

Getting her chance to strike where she wanted, Claudia leapt forward and plunged her knife into the area of the other women's brain stem.

Almost instantly blood started to seep out of the wound to the clothing. Panicking, and on the verge of tears, Claudia screamed for Reno and Rude to come help her, she carefully pulled the dead woman to the sink for the blood to drain there.

Rude came in and helped Claudia calm her nerves, after rushing to the toilet to vomit every thing that she had in her stomach. "Claudia every thing is fine… please don't cry… every thing will be happy again… we're your friends… please don't cry…" Rude whispered into the shaking woman's ear.

"H-how… c-could I do t-that t-to my f-friend? I-I'm going to g-go to H-hell!" Claudia stammered before she started to cry uncontrollably into the man's chest.

"I'm not going to let you go to hell… fat chance you will… and if you do then all of us will be along side you!" a familiar red head said.

'God damn him! He always takes my lines, and my girls!' Rude thought bitterly, as he rubbed the girl's back softly.

Tseng emerged from behind a corner, and looked at the weeping girl, and didn't know what to say to this new Turk. He never thought that she would actually kill some one for the job. And also what do you tell some one when they just killed their best friend!?

Finally Claudia looked up at Rude, who smiled kindly at her, she suddenly felt embarrassed for crying into his chest. She didn't want to look weak… did she? 'Oh god! When Marc comes home, what will he see?! Oh god… I gotta go make her look normal! I don't want him to come home to an empty house! Oh god what am I going to do!? Dress her up! Yeah! And have all his stuff packed! He's going to collage soon any way!'

"Err… would you three like to help me with some things before I go?" Claudia asked with a weak voice

"What do you need, Claudia?" Tseng asked putting both hands behind his back.

"Um… help me pack Nina's son's belongings… so he doesn't have to… it wont take long… he doesn't have much stuff… just his games, and stuff…" Claudia said as she started to scratch her wrists again.

"Sure. We'll help… after all… you're one of us now…" Tseng said as he gave Claudia a small smile.

Claudia smiled weakly and walked to Marc's room and sat on his king size bed. She frowned 'That look in her eyes… they used to be so… warm. When I told her my job… she recoiled… and her eyes… they wern't warm anymore… I don't get it…' Claudia thought; looking around the room.

"May I come in?" Reno asked softly, leaning against the doorframe.

"Yeah…sure… I need some one to be around… so I don't do something stupid…" she replied looking at her feet, as Reno sat down, " I remember like yesterday… when I came to get something I left here, Marc was 15, I heard noises coming from this room. I knew what he was doing… but I never told on him… but I did tell him I knew… and he was so surprised… I will never forget that face."

"The first kills are the hardest… and after the fifth kill it gets easier… well that was how it was for me… do you want to stay with me and Rude for the night…" Reno added quickly, "so you don't do anything stupid… we can all sleep on the floor, and we do wake up easy… so you wont look for knives or anything…"

"I would like that…" the strawberry blonde said sounding sleepy as she stretched on the bed. It wasn't long until she found herself slowly drifting to her new reality.

Hahaha! Can you see the romance starting up? Please be nice and review… and I will forever love you people… and I got this up faster than I usually do… for once I put Two Precious Stones on the back burner! Yeah! -does happy dance- well I might be borrowing FF9 soon! I am excited about that… and I also need to beat the games that I haven't beaten… oh… and before I forget… I might make a new title for the story… so I need you to email me and suggest a good title… please? I will give you 10 cookies and a cracker… well I'm off!

…Pleasant somethings people…