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Chapter 7: I'm Not Broken
"If I smile and
don't believe, Soon I know I'll wake from this dream. Don't try
to fix me, I'm not broken. Hello I'm the lie living for you so
you can hide. Don't
cry."
Once
the tears had dried, everyone entered into the large great room. Tea
had been brewed and people were waiting for explanations.
Kieran sat stoically on the couch next to Jaryn, who was actually being serious.
Zeb and Nick were sitting on the floor to make room for Ami and Setsuna.
Jonathan
and Amelia, sat on a love seat across the room. The paper work lay
forgotten on the table until later.
"Um... Setsuna was it?"
Zeb asked.
Nodding her head for him to go on.
"How do you know Ami?" Zeb asked.
"I was a friend of hers in Japan. Then I was sent here to get away for a while." She couldn't tell them the whole truth, it wasn't actually a lie. She had been sent away.
"And no one told you about Ami's mom." She nodded again,
"No
one knew where I went to. So needless to say they didn't know how
to contact me." Setsuna replied.
Ami was still leaning
against Setsuna, she was completely drained from crying.
It
was an easy explanation, so for about another half an hour they sat
there in silence. Until Jonathan spoke up.
"Setsuna, I have a question for you." He said as he looked to Ami, and saw how comforted she looked.
"I haven't seen Ami this calm since she has been here." He paused trying to phrase this with out making Ami out to be weak.
"But,
I think it may be a good Idea for you to stay here, with us, at least
for a little while. I can't let Ami live with you, but I can have
you live here, and help her." He said.
For the first time,
everyone in the room saw an actual real smile on the young women's
face.
Zeb gasped, she lit up the room when she smiled. Ami turned her head to Jonathan then back to Setsuna, waiting for a reply. Setsuna looked at Ami.
"Only if it is ok with you Ames." She said.
"Please, It would be nice to have some of my old life back." Setsuna smiled.
"Then yes, Mr. Preevy, I would love to stay." Setsuna answered.
Jonathan smiled, beaming, he looked to Amelia.
"Amelia, would you please set up a mover, and help Setsuna with everything." he said.
"of course." Amelia replied.
"Mr. Preevy, how soon would you like me to move in." Setsuna asked.
Jonathan looked to Ami and saw a small gleam in her eye for the first time, a little light of hope that she maybe o.k.
"Well, when you can. I think Ami would like it to be soon though." Setsuna looked to Ami, and the girl gave her a 100 watt smiled, that could have out done Minako or Usagi's smiles.
"I
can start on it tonight."
It
was a dark night, the moon was glowing with all its brilliance.
A lone man walked down a dark alley trying to get his drunken self to bed. He had been tailing his dream girl for about a week now. He couldn't get close enough. Those men, always seemed to be around. Watching her like a hawk.
From the shadows, a lanky man appeared. Gliding to the drunken one as if he floated threw the air.
"Excuse me sir." The lanky one said.
"What do you want?" The drunks gruff voice replied.
"I have a present for you from Mr. Anderson." The lanky man said, as fangs appeared in his mouth he leapt for the big man and pinned him to the ground feeding yet not killing.
'we
have out newest soldier' was Gideon's
thought.
Over the
course of the next few days, Setsuna was so busy getting things
ready, that she never noticed, the old gray Chevy, with blackened
windows that was parked outside of the building, or the man that
lingered by the doors at all hours of the night.
Grabbing her
last box, she went down the elevator and hopped in to her car.
Looking up at the building. She sighed a bit out of relief. She didn't like that building, it just didn't feel right. But who was she to complain.
Though now, she had to figure a way to get to the gates, and find out what was going on. At this point it was to late to change things.
Ami already started her transformation.
'If the other girls new what was going on, they would not be happy.' Setsuna said to herself.
The rest of the Senshi had no idea of what lay beneath the surface of the so called weakest Senshi, the power that she could amass.
But,
they would soon find out, if things kept going the way that this path
said it would. It was one of the time streams she looked at. She had
tried her hardest to keep it from happening. But it seemed, someone
wanted her to release the power that was so deeply buried, that not
even Queen Serenity new about it.
Setsuna so deep in her
thought took the route that had been burned into her mind the past
few days. Never noticing the car that was following or the evil that
lurked with it.
There
was a whole wearing in the floor right out side of Ami's door.
He paced back and forth for about the past two hours, while Ami was only doing God knows what. His mind kept racing. She is beautiful, she's smart, she's sweet.
So why the hell could he not ask her out.
'For
all the reasons you just listed you idiot.' he mumbled to
himself.
He was not the type that would normally be this
worried about asking a girl out. He was able to get anyone he wanted,
and did, then dropped them as soon as he was done. He prayed to all
the God's he knew that she would never find out about that.
'I'm a dumbass, and Kieran will kill me if I ask her out'.
He
was probably right, out of all the guys, Kieran had made it clear
that he wouldn't let anything happen to her. That he would always
be there for her.
Flashback
"I don't
know what it is about her, all I do know is that she is some how
important to all of us." Kieran said walking around the room.
All the guys looked at him like he was crazy.
"But, she's just Ami, nothing big, Kieran, yeah she is sweet, and pretty and all those things, but what make's you think she is so important." Jaryn asked.
"Look
it is just a hunch alright." Kieran plopped down on his bed waiting
to be berated by his friends.
"I understand." Nick said.
"She has something we need, though at this moment I don't know what it is." He slowly rubbed his head, trying to force the thought out.
"Maybe she is to help us here, you know with all that has been going on. It IS her father who is running the newest group." He said, a small light gleaming in his green eye's.
All heads turned to look at him like he was crazy.
"You can't say that you two haven't felt it." Nick said, about to just smack everyone for being so dense.
They still looked like he was loosing what was left of his mind.
"That our lives are about to drastically change. Hopefully for the better, and it all revolves around her and now Setsuna." The other guys minus Kieran looked like they just saw the light.
"You
guys know there are no such things as coincidence, it is all just
fates plan, and we are just the
pawns."
"Zeb"
A voice floated into the air.
The young man was shaken out of his musings, by one of the anomaly's that were now his friends.
"Ask her out. She won't bite." Zeb looked down at his feet and then looked back up into garnet eye's.
"How do you seem to know everything that goes on around here." He said.
"Well, the only one who can't see that you like Ami is Ami." Setsuna replied.
"Can I ask you something?" Zeb said.
"Go ahead." Setsuna replied.
"Well, why hasn't Ami had a boyfriend, I mean its not like she is ugly or anything, I would think most guys would jump at the chance." He said.
Setsuna got a small gleam in her eye.
"Because
most of them did exactly what you are doing now and lost their
chance. Ami is special, and she will never realize that she is
beautiful, which makes her even more special. The fact that Ami is so
innocent, is what makes her beauty shine."
With those last
words Setsuna walked away, leaving Zeb to ponder his
thoughts.
Behind the
door, Ami was pulling on her bathing suite, A present form Minako.
This was something that you would normally not see the shy Ami
wearing. It was beautiful. A small two piece bikini, silvery blue,
that shimmered to a darker blue in the lights. Slipping it on, she
pulled a big t-shirt over it. Then grabbed a towel from her
bathroom.
Going to the door she could hear footsteps quickly
walking away.
She slipped threw the halls, and down the stairs
to get to the pool. This time she wanted to be out side underneath
the moonlight. She silently pulled the T-shirt off and slid into the
depths of the clear water, resting herself on the bottom.
She
loved the water. It seemed that it would sing to her recently. Wash
away all her troubles and all her fears.
But in turn it also
made her think. Never realizing she has been under for about five
minutes with no problems. She started thinking about the most recent
thoughts of a Blonde haired young man.
'Ami,
it will never happen, the world will bow down before you, before he
even notices you are alive,' She thought to herself.
Just
then she heard a splash and calmly went to the surface. When her head
broke the top of the water, she came face to face with the same blue
eye's that had burned themselves into her mind.
Zeb could
have jumped fifty feet in the air and he would still have been no
closer to heaven than he was right now.
From
what he could see of her. She gleamed under the light of the moon,
the small water pellets dripping from her hair and down her soft
skin. His eye's roamed even further, what she was wearing made even
him blush. It showed just how much of a body she really did have, and
with the water dripping down her, made her all the more alluring to
him. She seemed as if she owned the water, she was its master, no
more like Goddess and it moved with her mere thought.
Ami on
the other hand, was ready to freak out, she was wearing practically
nothing, and her infatuation was right in front of her.
'Good job Ames, the best way to run him off, show him how ugly you are.' She dipped her head back under the water, to gather her thoughts before she had a heart attack.
When she cam back up he was still right there.
'Nope
wasn't a damn nightmare, where are those things when you need
them.' She berated no one in particular.
"You wanna race."
Zeb said.
There was no way he could get out of the water at this moment. (just think about it).
"Umm.... Sure why not." Ami replied.
They made there way to one end of the pool. Looked at each other and started off.
Zeb
started out ahead, only because he was taller than her. But quickly
she sped up, and he trailed by almost half the length of the pool.
When he finally reached the end. He just looked at her amazed.
"I
probably should have told you, that I was the best swimmer on the
team at home." She said and started to giggle.
Zeb
just looked at her and hoped he didn't do anything stupid.
Unfortunately he was saved from doing anything at all.
"Zeb,
who is this?" A low voice asked.
"Gregg what are you doing here." Zeb replied, he hated this guy, his own grandfather didn't even like him. 'and why does he always come over at night, no one ever realized it except for him.'
"Gramps
wanted to see me." Gregg's eye's wondered over to Ami, making
Zeb growl and Ami, Slip a little closer to him, under Gregg's
gaze.
"I'll just leave you two alone." Ami said as she
started to slip out of the pool.
Gregg's eye's stayed on her the entire time.
When she tried to get around him he blocked her.
"Gregg knock it off, or Jonathan will have your hide." Zeb said.
"You
think I am scared of that old fart." he replied, this made Zeb get
out of the pool and ready for a fight. But before he could get there.
Gregg had already grabbed Ami's arm.
In the blink of an
eye, he was on the ground with a bloody nose. Zeb just stopped and
took a minute to register what had just happened. One second Gregg
had grabbed Ami's arm, the next, like a flash of lightning, she had
punched him in the nose and threw him over her shoulder. At this Zeb
burst into laughter.
Ami turned to look at the guy on the
ground and in an ice cold voice said "Never touch me again, or it
will be worse."
With that she turned to Zeb. "Would you mind walking me back to my room, to make sure I don't come back here and finish him off." Zeb stopped dead in his laughter.
"Sure."
Gregg
stayed laying on the ground for a few more minutes. Thinking of the
picture his master had showed him. It was her, she was here,
unfortunately it was the home of the most feared people of the
Vampire and Werewolf clans in California. This was not going to get
him on his boss's good side.
He slowly walked to Jonathan's office and entered.
"Ami, uhh.. Where did you learn that?" He asked pointing back toward the pool.Ami showed one of her rare smiles.
"Do you remember the really tall girl in the picture I showed you." She said.
Zeb nodded.
"Well,
at this point in time I am not going to thank God, I will thank
Makato, the top martial Artist in Japan." She said beaming.
"How
long have you known how to do that stuff." He asked.
"She
started to teach me, when a bully wouldn't leave me alone at
school. After that, lets just say he didn't even want to go back to
school."
The twinkle in her laughter, made him want to kiss
her, except now he feared for his nose. Zeb looked around the hall
way outside of her room. Noticing a shadow at the end of the hall, he
saw Setsuna mouth the words. "just ask her." and with that she
walked back to her room.
He
had watched her and followed her all the way to where Ami lived. This
unknowingly to him was the worst possible house he could be in, no
one told him who else lived
here.
"Ami,
uhh. Would you do me a favor." Zeb said.
Ami looked at him puzzled. Why did he all the sudden look nervous.
"Depends on what it is, and no I will not beat up Jaryn for you." She replied, trying to at least make him calm down a bit. Zeb laughed, and then he had to breath.
"Would you go to dinner with me tomorrow night." He said, it was done and he let out a breath he didn't know he had held in.
But
before he could get a clear answer, Ami had crashed to her knee's
with a look of shear terror and pain on her face. The only thing he
heard before she started to dash down the hall was a whispered
"Setsuna"
He sprinted to keep up with her, she was really
way to fast to be human. When he reached her, she had just made it to
the door and was pushing it open.
There was nothing, Setsuna lay on her bed about asleep. Until Ami burst threw the doors. Her ice blue eye's searching the shadows.
"Ami, what are doing?" He whispered so that Setsuna wouldn't wake up.
"Can't you feel it." She said.
But to Zeb her voice was deeper than usual, it was even more serious than it normally was.
Her eye's were still searching the shadow's. Not really knowing what she was looking for.
Zeb stood still for a moment and concentrated, then he felt it. Pure evil, from somewhere in the room. The evil he had fought since he was thirteen.His
eye's glanced to the shadow's looking for what he knew was there.
"I must be loosing my mind." Ami said in a whispered
tone.
"I swear the was someone here." She said mainly to herself.
"Ami, look." Zeb said.
As there was movement behind a curtain. She almost gasped until she thought better of it.
The raced toward the shadow as it made its way to the balcony. It jumped into the darkness. Both youths not really thinking that the other was their. Did what instinct told them to do.
Go and destroy evil.
They ran until they were out of breath, stopping and noticing the other was there. They just starred.