AN: Seven reviews! Yeah...this is another chapter that doesn't really have that much action. But it's important too. The last chapter was about the realization that Chise wasn't just a sex toy but a person and that sex should not be a motivation for living (?!), or however you want to interpret it. Bleh. This one is kind of like the first chapter and the last chapter...you'll see why... (By the way, thanks for all the reviews!)

I walked down the street, the bleak streetlights drowning the brilliance of the stars. I was drenched in darkness and the aura of the impure. I had always tried to peer beyond the dark, to the stars and to my dreams, but this time...I had mistaken a nightmare for a dream.

I was born again in Chise, her body drawing me in and spitting me back out as if I was something to be feared, poison. A nauseous birth, made up of liquid poisons and the darkness within myself.

I needed Chi. She was everything that was pure and good, a benevolent angel fighting the shadows of her past life to reach to me, an insignificant in the future of the world. She became my world, and I became her everything. She let go of her past, her sister's warnings, everything, to be with me, to be my special person.

But she wasn't my everything. My perverse personality restrained me from giving everything to her, and her sister's warnings.

I thought I was special, gaining the love of a Chobit, being the first to fulfill her. But that wasn't enough. Stupid hormones.

Yes, that was it, I thought, as I swiped some beer from a vending machine. Stupid hormones, I raged, downing beer while sitting next to the beer machine.

Stupid hormones, I chanted in my mind, chanting it faster and faster as I drank more and more beer, the adrenaline rushing to my head, creating a sudden high. I laughed and hugged the vending machine, then ran off to dance with some trash in a corner, waiting to be thrown in a landfill. I'm not doing anything bad, I thought. It's just trash; dirty smelly things. Whores.

But what goes up must come down.

I let go of the black bags and hurled everything in my system onto the pile of waste, creating a green stain that crawled over the bags and their shadows. Exhausted, I fell onto the place where the puke landed, the smell absorbing into my body and the filth rubbing into my clothes.

"Chi," I whined. "Chi."

I laid there until a watchman patrolling the streets saw me.

"Hey, sonny. You okay?" The man stared at me with a mixture of disgust and compassion in his face.

"Sure..." I murmured, finally rising from my nest. I stared upward at the heavens, feeling eternally low as dawn approached, the sun an angel creating the morning. The brightest star. The morning star.

I cried there, in front of the policeman, at the sight of the miracle of the morning and at the reminder that I had killed Chi, my own morning star.

I remembered what had happened to her sister. Her sister's warnings whirled in my mind like a tornado, gaining force and speed as it traveled across the ground of my memory, recollecting the thoughts of the night. Her warnings coupled with Minoru's warnings. I had betrayed so many people.

"Sonny," the policeman murmured. "What have you done?"

"Everything," I said. "Everything."