A/N:: Here I am again! WAHOO! So, um so, um...lol! Oh, and just in case you were confused, when Gippal said "Night Rikku..." He whispered it faintly so Rikku didn't hear it! LOL! Well, do become a part of my C2 community because I'm bet I'm not such a good writer and I bet I might screw up on that...I dunno how I got into that in the first place...LOL! Kingleby, you are like reviewing all my chapters! Yea! Thanx so much!!!!!!! Cries

--gip-Rik

chapter 3i can't die, because you'll be with me...

As Rikku woke up from the faint whisperings heard in the hallway, she headed towards the bathroom and she was a mess. Tossing and turning was basically all she was doing last night. She couldn't remember if she had a nightmare? She looked in the mirror and her eyes were cold and face was yet so pale. She got dressed into her default thief dressphere and went outside. She walked down the hall to Gippal's room and knocked, but it was so languish.

"Gipp-pal...Op-pen up." Rikku exclaimed wearily as she turned around and started spinning around apace.

Gippal opened his door all dressed up and saw what Rikku was doing.

Inner Gippal:: Has she been drinking?

"Cid's girl, what is wrong with you?" Gippal asked as he grabbed Rikku inside his room and sat her down on his couch.

"Get a hold of yourself Cid's girl." Gippal said as he sat Rikku down on his couch.

She stopped, and her eyes were even redder, and she was shaking.

"Rikku, get a hold of yourself! Please?!" Gippal was so scared here! What happened to her?

Rikku just sat there it hadn't even occurred to her that Gippal used her real name, what was wrong with her?

"Rikku! Tell me what's wrong!" Gippal screamed mentally at her, as he slammed the wall, "Damnit!"

"September 30..." Rikku said softly as she got up, "Today's the day my mother died."

She looked at Gippal and looked at him frighteningly.

"My mom was murdered in front of my eyes, how could I forget?" Rikku asked, she walked towards Gippal, and looked at him furiously with a little fright in her eyes. Her swirly eyes weren't swirly anymore, but more sad and fierce.

She shocked Gippal and he couldn't believe it was today.

"Get a hold of your self Cid's girl...Calm down." Gippal said as he walked back and she grew even angrier in rage.

"Don't call me that asshole, I don't live there anymore." Rikku snapped, she wasn't Cid's girl anymore.

She fell down in sudden shock and fainted. Lay down there like someone who had just died.

Gippal picked her up and had her lay down on his bed. He was frightened, what had happened! He immediately called the doctor. The nurse had picked up and told him that the doctor was on his way. There was something wrong with her! He knew it! Gippal sat down on the side of his bed and Rikku was there. She was breathing and she didn't look so good. He stayed there the whole time holding her hand and totally forgetting about breakfast. His stomach growled but he didn't care.

"Rikku, please...?" Gippal asked, but it was hopeless. She was vey frightened by this day, he knew it. He cried a little and then flashed back.

Flashback

Little Gippal stood by Rikku as rain poured down in the cemetery. He looked at his Rikku who was crying as she held his hand as a man spoke in Al-Bhed, saying his respects to Rikku's mom. She was crying, and eyes were so red. She had told him everything that had happened when her mom was brutally murdered.

End Flashback

Gippal looked at Rikku, who was turning around, and saying stuff like, "no!" And, "please, no!"

What was she thinking about? Today was the day Rikku's mother was killed. Rikku squeezed Gippal's hand harder and she screamed out "NO!!!!!" She got up and opened her eyes, and looked around, saw Gippal crying, and fell back down.

Rikku's Flashback Dream

Rikku played in her room, as she looked at the new dolly her mommy had bought today.

"I'll call you uh...Dolly! Tee-hee!" Rikku exclaimed bubbly as she walked outside and started to play in her sandbox. She started to her some loud cries and it sounded like her mother!
"No! Please don't hurt her?! Please?!"

"Then I'll kill you!"

The sound of a knife was heard.

"I'm giving you chance woman!"

"NO! AAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!! Rikku run away!!!!!!"

She ran behind her back yard and hid in the trashcan, it was the best she could do.

Gunshots and glass shattering was heard.

The murderer came to the back yard and searched for little Rikku.

"Bitch!" He screamed in terror, as he walked away nowhere in sight.

Rikku got out the trashcan and ran inside. She looked inside and didn't find her mother, where was she? She went inside her room and looked in terror when she saw her mother dead with two gunshots in her heart and a knife stabbed in her back right on spine. Rikku called the emergency and soon had called Cid. It was one of the most painful nights in her entire life. She wanted to die.

End Flashback Dream

Rikku woke up and found a doctor checking her temperature.

"She'll has a one-hundred degree fever, but I'll leave some medicine just in case it gets worse." The doctor explained as Gippal looked over to her and saw her awake. She saw that his eyes were so red and his face was pale.

"Cid's girl?" Gippal asked just as the doctor left.

Rikku looked at his one green-eye as it became loose and redder.

"Cid's girl! Thank goodness your awake!" Gippal exclaimed as he hugged her, but didn't want to hurt her, because she was in pain.

"Gippal? You know that my mom died today right?" Rikku asked as a tear fell down her face, but before it went down all the way, Gippal stroked it right away, gently. Rikku closed her eyes as they stayed there in silence.

After fifteen long painful minutes of silence Gippal had to speak, "Cid's girl?"

"Yeah?" She looked up him and seen his eye that was ever so red.

"I won't forget your mom."

"I can't forget her either...I can die..."

"Don't say that Cid's girl..."

"I don't want to die anymore, because you're here with me..."

"Yeah...Wait I am?"

Rikku giggled softly, "Yeah..."

I can't die...because you'll be with me...

A/N:: How did ya like that! Hehehe! So please review and become a part of my C2 community! Yeah! Hehehehe! Why am I saying that!!! Hehehe! LOL! Please Review!!!!!

--gip-Rik