He's Going To Be mine
Hello! Hello! Everyone, I'm alive! I'm deeply sorry for not updating in over a month! I have been extremely busy between final exams, making a website, trying to find out whether or not me beta reader was dead (don't ask), and trying not to be killed by my stalker (don't ask again). So! Since my beta reader has disappeared (again), and I have yet to find another one (sorry Leona) this chapter will probably be filled with tremendous errors. I can't spell for cookies and Microsoft word is some crap! So for an apology gift, Cloud will give all the ladies (and guys ) free manicures and Leon will pack your groceries for a week (if he gets out of the hospital)
Chapter 17: Minor Resolutions
Rain bounced off the steel metal of the bright orange taxi as one woman sat situated in the back fidgeting with her purse and biting her nail. She could not believe what had happened to her in the past few hours. She was knocked completely off her feet as she caught a glimpse of her daily 6:00 morning news.
Flashback
"Stunning news of a young teenage male hijacking a Destiny Island bus filled with over fifteen people," The TV blared from the kitchen of the lovely two-story house.
"Kids these day," Eda mumbled to herself as she prepared for work that morning. "They have no sense what so ever!"
Walking to the white kitchen to retrieve her daily poppy seed bagel she happened to glace over at the TV screen.
"He was rushed to the hospital after a sever bullet wound in his left arm. Officials say . . ."
The TV reporter's voice was long in the distance for Edea. Her world had basically stopped spinning. Was that her nephew on TV?! It couldn't be! It had to be a look alike.
Dropping her bagel to the floor, she listened as the reporter continued.
"His name is Leon Leonhart age 17—"
"Oh my lord!" She gasped out too shocked to actually comment at the moment. Quickly looking around her trying to make sense of how something like this could have happened, she rushed to her room and over to the mahogany closet. Throwing it open she grabbed a suitcase and threw whatever she could find in.
End of FlashbackAnd now here she was in the back of a cab on her way to the airport to purchase a one-way ticket to Destiny Island. No matter how this situation turned out she was planning on staying for more than a few days.
Rikku and Sora casually trailed down the halls of the hospital trying to blend and not look too suspicious. As they walked, occasionally they would try to peek in an empty room or a cracked bathroom door to see if they caught sight of the blonde and brunet anywhere but so far they were out of luck.
"Rikku I'm getting hungry! Why do we have to look for the horn-balls anyway? If they get caught isn't that their problem?" Sora asked holding his stomach that was currently answering to his touch.
"Sora, be quiet and just follow along." Rikku hissed at him. In turn he pouted and slowed his pace so that he was following right behind her. Looking at his feet, Sora was too busy to notice that she had stopped causing him to bump in the back of her and step on her heels.
"Ow! Watch it; you almost crippled me!" She yelled hopping up and down while grabbing one of her ankles.
"Rikku stop doing the monkey dance! It's not my fault you decided to stop so abruptly!" He rolled his eyes.
"Ooooh big words; 'abruptly', does that make you somebody special now?"
"Not as special as you." He sneered at her.
Rikku glared and turned her head.
"You know, you're not as cute as you used to be. I think Cloud and that Riku kid have been messing with your mind."
"Nu-uh!" He protested.
"Whatever, look. I stopped because I think I can see Irvine." She said pointing to a door to a doctor's office no doubt.
"What?! How can you tell, the windows are tinted."
"Look closely. Who else do you know that wears a cowboy hat? No one on Destiny Island wears a cowboy hat! Most the time it's too hot!"
"That is true," Sora commented letting the topic linger in the air for a while. "But I really don't' think that Irvine and Seifer would stoop so low as to actually doing it in a doctor's office."
"You wanna bet?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"How much?" Sora questioned, dittoing her movements.
"The usual. . ." Rikku casually spoke out.
"Deal!"
Both nodded in approval and turned their head both ways quickly to make sure no one was around. After precautions, the two cautiously made their way to the door titled 'Dr. McShane's office'.
Riku gave a heavy sigh as he plopped himself down on the bright red bench in the nearest Ice cream parlor. All this drama had him aching for some good ol' fashion vanilla ice cream.
"So, what's going to happen to Leon?" Quistis asked sticking a spoon full of coffee ice cream in her mouth.
Riku gave out another heavy sigh and look down at his cup.
"Well, there's no way we're letting him go to jail!"
"I know that! But do you know why he did it?" She inquired
"No I don't. I was so busy worrying about his arm; I forgot to ask him why he decided to hijack a bus."
"I see."
"Where did Cloud go again?" Riku asked her
"I think he said he wanted to go back and see what he could do about his house door or something like that. Is anything wrong with his house door?" the blonde girl asked
Riku rolled his eyes and sighed once more.
"It's a long story. . . a very long story."
"Well, you're sighing an awful lot today."
He didn't answer her and instead interested himself once again in his ice cream. Silence followed the two until the sound of the stop's bell caused them to look up at the entrance door. And you wouldn't believe who came waltzing in.
"Oh my goodness, Riku! Is Leon ok?!" An overly hyper Selphie asked as she jumped over to him and grabbed his hand in a very dramatic fashion.
"Is he ok?" She continued.
"Yeah, he's ok." He answered looking past her to the redhead standing in the back.
"We were really worried." Kairi said giving him a concerned look.
"Yeah, so was I." He said giving a skeptical look to see if she was going to try and pull something.
"It's been a while since we've talked Riku." She mumbled out looking away.
"It has."
"I missed you." She smiled at him.
"Yeah, I missed you too Kairi." He gave her a small smile back that reassured her that their friendship was still good. After that incident with Sora, she didn't think he would ever forgive her. When she looked back, it seemed so childish to fight over someone the way she did.
Smiling, Selphie and Kairi took seats with Riku and Quistis to let them tell them all about Leon and how he was. And not once did Kairi ever even try to hit on Riku. And for that he was glad. They were back to being good buddies like they used to be and that was good.
"Ok, Mr. Leonhart, there will be no charges held against you." The investigator said from across the room. He was currently sitting in an old fashion chair across from Leon's bed. Leon sat propped up on his good arm listening to what the investigator had to say.
"So you're letting me off that easy?" He asked blinking a few times trying to comprehend.
"Well, technically you didn't do anything wrong." The other man said tapping his foot against the ground.
"Yeah but, don't I get fined for taking over a bus or something like that?" Leon questioned
"Well if you want I could—"
"No that's ok! I was just asking."
"The two original criminals have been taken into custody. Actually Mr. Leonhart, one of the women on the bus wanted to reward you for saving her life."
The middle-aged man reached in his pocket and pulled out a small white, un-marked envelope.
"She wanted me to give you this." He said handing Leon the envelope. The brunet took it and carefully searched it for anything diseased like anthrax or something.
"So you're telling me a woman wanted to reward me," He asked suspiciously. "Do you know what woman this was?"
"She asked me not to tell you her name but if you would open it, you would see what's inside."
Leon looked at the man with a look that said 'Are you stupid?!'.
"Um, excuse me sir but incase you haven't noticed, my arm in damaged so how do you suppose I open it? With my teeth?"
"Oh! I'm sorry about that!" He apologized and took the envelope from Leon. He carefully opened it and handed it back.
Leon peered inside to see a white sheet of paper with writing on it.
"A Check?!" He exclaimed pulling out the thin slip of paper. His eyes widened at the amount on it. "A thousand dollars?! This woman gave me a thousand dollars?! Wow! I'm starting to like her!"
"Wow," The man in the cloak said from across the room. "Looks like she's really grateful."
Leon watched as the man across the room got up out of his chair. Walking to the door he stopped and turned around.
"A tip though," He said putting up his pointer finger. "Don't high jack anymore buses."
Leon nodded his and in agreement and the investigator left. Sighing, the teen looked over the check once again. What was he to do with a thousand dollars?
Sora and Rikku sneaked up to the office door. Both took a glance at each other and nodded their heads. Carefully Rikku turned the knob. The old wooden door made a small squeak as it creaked open but not enough to disturb the peace.
"Do you boys understand how important this matter is?" A man's voice was heard from the other side. Sora kneeled down on the floor and peeked in to see a rather large man that looked to be in his late 40's sitting at his desk, talking to someone. If only he could see a little more, he would be able to see whom he was talking to.
"Open the door some more, Rikku. I can almost see them." He whispered to her.
Nodding her head, she opened the door a little more causing it to creak a little louder.
Sora turned his head to get a better view when he saw just who they were looking for. Irvine and Seifer were sitting right across from the old man looking down right ashamed.
"Have you two ever been taught about protected sex?"
Sora's eyes widened. Irvine and Seifer were in the middle of a sex-ed lecture!
"Having any kind of sex in a public place is very, VERY unsafe! Do you know the risk you boys put yourselves in?"
Sora tried to stifle a laugh at the though of Irvine and Seifer being caught 'doing it' in . . . wherever they were doing it.
"What's going on?" Rikku asked eager to see what was happening on the other side of the door.
"Ssssssh!" Sora hissed at her trying to tell her to quiet down.
"But I wanna see!" She exclaimed bending down to kneel next to Sora. Resting her hand on his shoulder she pressed up against him.
"Rikku, you're heavy! I'm going to loose my balance!" The brunet warned.
"Are you calling me fat?!"
"No but I—"
And before Sora could finish what he was going to say, he lost his balance and both he and Rikku tumbled in to the doctor's office.
"Oow." The blond girl moaned rubbing her elbow. It took her a few minutes to notice that three pair of eyes was watching her intently.
"Well it looks like you two came looking for us." The cowboy said tilting his hat.
"What is the meaning of this?" The doctor asked confused as to why two kids came tumbling into his office.
"Oh! Don't mind us!" Sora laughed out nervously standing up and brushing his clothes off.
"Yeah, we'll be on our way now—"Rikku mumbled, starting for the door while grabbing Sora's hand.
"Wait just one minute!" The doctor called out to them.
Turning around, she cocked her head to the side in a questioning jester.
"Do you two know them?" The man raised an eyebrow.
Sora and Rikku looked at the two and then back at the doctor.
Sora: "No"
Rikku: "Yes"
Both looked at each other and then reversed it.
Sora: "Yes"
Rikku: "No"
"Well it looks like there's some type of confusion here." The old man said standing from his desk.
"Look sir. We do know them but at the moment we choose not to acknowledge them." The short brunet said boredly looking at his fingernails.
"Do you know what they were doing?"
"Well yeah but—" Rikku started but was nudged in the stomach by Sora.
"Smart on Rikku!" He hissed at her.
Shocked, Dr. McShane gripped is desk.
"It looks like all five of us need to have a long talk. Where are your parents?"
Rikku, Sora, Irvine, and Seifer all shook their heads immediately at the thought of their parents getting involved with any of this.
"No!" They all screamed at the same time.
The doctor sighed and shook his head.
"Ok, I tell you what. I won't involve any parents in this little incident if we all have a nice long talk about sex. Deal? You teens really need to know about this thing since you think you can go off and 'do it' a willy-nilly."
Walking over to the wooden door, Dr. McShane closed it with a loud squeak.
Edea looked down at the clouds through the small plain window. Taking a deep, depressing sigh, she called over to the flight attendant across from her.
"Excuse me but could I have some peanuts?" she casually asked.
"Salted or salted?" The woman asked.
"Excuse me?"
"I said: salted or salted. Choose one."
After a long pause Edea answered the woman.
"What's the difference?"
"One is salted and one if salted."
Another long pause followed the attendant's comment.
"You know what? Never mind." The dark-haired woman didn't have time for foolishness at the moment. She just wanted to get to Destiny Island and check to see if her two nephews were ok.
"Can I just have a sprite then?"
"Do you want sprite or sprite?"
Getting agitated with the flight attendant's stupidity Edea snapped at her.
"What the hell is the difference?!"
"Excuse me ma'am. I'm going to have to ask you to lower your voice."
"I wouldn't have raised my voice miss if you would just give me a sprite and some peanuts."
The flight attendant pulled a walkie-talkie from her waist and flipped a side switch.
"Excuse me, but we have a hostile situation over her. Can I get some help?"
"Hostile situation?!" Edea exclaimed.
"I'm on it." The man from the other side said.
Within seconds there was a tall bulky man with a small head standing in front of her.
"What's going on here?" He asked
"We have a very disruptive and uncooperative person here."
"Excuse me?!" Edea asked shocked. She just wanted to know why this woman asked her to choose between 'sprite' and 'sprite'.
"I see what you mean." He answered the woman next to him. "Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to lower your voice."
The raven-haired woman began to chuckle at the nonsense that was going on. No way they though she was being hostile!
"Ok," She began. "I apologize but I was just a bit irritated that the woman asked me to choose between 'sprite' and 'sprite'. I just wanted to know what the difference was."
"Why on earth would that confuse you?" The small woman asked like it was the simplest thing in the world to understand.
Groaning, Edea put a hand on temples to calm her nerves.
"Fine! I don't want anything! So can the two of you please leave me alone?"
Nodding, the muscle man walked away. The flight attendant bowed to her and gave a warm smile.
"Here on Destiny airlines, we are dedicated to making you flight an enjoyable one. Good day miss and happy flight." After another bow the woman walked away.
Edea felt like just taking that slogan, lighting it with a match and sending it to hell! What kind of a slogan was that when they had just made her ruined day worse?! Pulling out a book titled 'He's going To Be Mine' from her travel bag, Edea flipped to the last page she was reading. Maybe a good book would calm her nerves.
Lol, I hope this chapter made up for my absence. I liked it. How about you? Can you guess what Leon's going to do with the $1000? I'm working on the next chapter now! So there will be a quick update! Besides, schools out! XD
Revisions 11/12/04
Oh my goodness! I said I was actually going to do a quick update? What comedy! This chapter was updated back in June and here it is now November. What a laugh that was. LOL