Van felt completely helpless right then. It had been nearly a week and Fiona was still pretty sick because she had been throwing up a lot lately. He wished that he knew what was wrong with her. One would first think of morning sickness but you have to be pregnant in order to have that and Fiona was incapable of that. He felt so bad for her and wished that he could do something to make it stop for her.
"You know Fiona, it might be a good idea if you went to see the doctor about this," Van muttered through the locked door to the bathroom. He knew Fiona wouldn't though. She hated going to those places ever since her accident a few years ago. Heck, she hated it back then as well. He had to force her to go there back then also.
"No! I absolutely refuse to go to that place!" Fiona yelled through the door followed by some more throwing up. It went on for a few moments more before it finally stopped and Fiona came out of the bathroom not looking too good. "You know I hate those places Van," she said still feeling a little queasy.
"It would really make me feel better if you went Fiona. I thought that you would have gotten better by now if you were just sick. Heck, you have barely been sick a day in your life. Please Fiona. I want to know that you will be ok. So will you please go?" Van begged but Fiona adamantly refused with a shack of her head.
"No, no, no!" Fiona yelled shaking her head. Nothing ever good happened to her whenever she went to one of those places. The first time she went, her mother died, the second time, she got hit by a car on the way back home, and the third time all her dreams were crushed when she learned that their child had been killed in the accident. She refused to go back there for anymore.
Van was starting to have enough of her stubbornness. "You are going Fiona even if I have to drag you there myself. Besides what bad could happen? I mean you just haven't been feeling too good and I want to make sure everything is alright," Van said wrapping his arms around her shoulders.
Fiona refused to look at him but she didn't seem to be trying to get him off of her right then. "Van I am not going to go and there is no way that you can possibly make me," Fiona said being stubborn.
"Good to know that she is going to see a doctor. I was beginning to worry that there was something seriously wrong with her. Why is it that she told you and not me though?" Thomas growled angrily when Van had told him about Fiona decision to go and see the doctor.
"I happened to be around," Van said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Besides, what she does is none of your concern," Van growled at Thomas in the exact same tone that Thomas had used on him.
"When my future wife is sick, then it is my concern," Thomas growled back but Van started to burst out laughing and actually ended up falling off of his seat and landing on the floor. "And what may I ask is so funny about my plans for the future?" Thomas asked glaring daggers at Van
"That it is an impossible dream. Why do you even think that you even have a chance at being with her? It is obvious that she has no interest in you," Van said picking himself off the floor and plopped himself back down into his seat but he was still chuckling a bit.
"I knew that the two of us were meant to be ever since we first met. That was back before she was going out with that idiot boyfriend of hers. Before she made the biggest mistake of her life," Thomas said with a dreamy look in his eyes as he thought back to those days.
Flashback
A younger Thomas was walking down the halls to his new school. He was bummed out about being forced to go here. He new no one whatsoever, and he also had to spend the next few years with them since he was only in junior high school.
He had gotten to school early that day to have a look around. He got there so early that the halls were completely bare except for a few teachers and very few students. It seemed almost peaceful compared to the hustle and bustle of the school days in which the halls were completely filled with students.
He turned a corner of the school and something collided with him ending the two people sprawling onto the ground. The person that he had run into lost all off the things that she was holding and they went all over the floor.
Thomas picked himself off of the floor and turned to the person to make whoever it was apologize for running into him. He took one look at the woman and found that he was incapable f speaking. She was a beautiful blonde woman with crimson eyes that anyone could get lost in. 'I think I'm in love,' he thought to himself with a small blush crossing his face.
The woman got up quickly uttering a quick sorry before she ran to collect her things. He had no idea what she could possibly be in such a hurry for; school wasn't scheduled to start for a while. It was still very early.
Thomas started to collect the stuff that she had dropped and when he saw that there was nothing left he walked over to her and handed her back her stuff. "Here. Are you ok?" he asked trying to be as polite as possible to her.
"Um... yes," she said looking around the hallway and to at him. "I'm sorry I have to go," she said running off down the halls quickly. Thomas couldn't bear to see her leave so soon after he first saw her.
"Wait!" he yelled making her stop and turn around to look at him with those beautiful crimson orbs of hers. He suddenly found it very difficult to speak and had to force the rest of his sentence out of his mouth. "W-what is you name?" he asked her.
The woman looked like she didn't want to answer. "Um... it's," she said but she wasn't able to get it out of her mouth before she heard her name being called from somewhere behind her.
"Fiona!" a voice yelled causing her to turn around and a bright smile to cross her face. She quickly ran to the man. "There you are. Where were you? I was going to go looking for you," he said kindly as she smiled at him.
"Sorry, I had a bit of accident. I kind of ran into someone and I needed to gather all my things together since they went flying everywhere. We really need to get to work on our project so lets go," she said taking his hand and running down the hall dragging the man along with her.
'So her name is Fiona, what a beautiful name for such a beautiful woman,' Thomas thought as he watched her run off with that man. He was jealous that that man got to be with her. 'Maybe I will like it here after all. Especially if I can have Fiona by my side through it all,' he thought happily.
End Flashback
"I knew ever since that day that the two of us would end up being together. You can imagine how upset I was when I learned that she got together with that pathetic excuse for a man," Thomas said not realizing how much he was pissing Van off.
'Oh yeah! I remember that day perfectly! That was the day thing became way too screw up for my liking!' Van thought bitterly. Thomas never realized that the two of them went to the same high school together and Van was thankful for that. He had too much going right now to let Thomas ruin it like he usually did.
"So you see Van. You cannot possibly understand the bond that Fiona and I have. You are merely just getting in the way s it would be greatly appreciated if you would keep out of our business and leave Fiona alone," Thomas said once again shooting daggers at Van which he seemed to ignore.
"Bond my ass! You probably don't even know the first thing about her!" Van said losing his temper once again. 'I know everything there is to know about her since we have known each other since we were babies,' Van thought rolling his eyes at Thomas.
"I know everything about her! That shows just how much of a bond the two of us truly have. You will never understand it with how cold your heart is!" Thomas yelled and before he knew it, he was knocked backwards by a very powerful punch to his face courtesy of Van.
Thomas stood up and wiped the blood that was trickling down his face. "How dare you! I give you a place to stay and this is how you repay me! Get out of my house this instant!" Thomas yelled pointing towards the door with blind fury coursing through all of his senses.
"You're an ass Thomas," Van said with an amused smirk on his face. "You know perfectly well that without me, your company will fail so quickly that it will make your head spin," Van said turning his back to Thomas.
"Shows how much you know! I was doing just fine with it before you ever came along so I wouldn't be talking. We were merely having a small financial trouble so I called you, that is it!" Thomas yelled still pointing towards the door.
"Your company was near bankruptcy," Van said finding himself growing annoyed. Van suddenly had an idea on how to really piss Thomas off for the heck of it. "You can't handle anything. You can't handle the company and you can't even handle one woman. You keep saying that she is a virgin right?" asked Van with a smirk.
"Of course she is! She always talked about waiting until she was married before having that sort of relationship and she is a woman that never goes back upon her word!" Thomas yelled at Van.
"Like I said, you know nothing. That woman is anything but a virgin. I should know personally," he said not turning around to even look at Thomas. He knew Thomas would be seriously pissed off upon hearing this. Van felt that he could use a good fight though.
Thomas's bangs fell in front of his eyes shading them so that no one would be able to see what it was that he was feeling at that moment. The only thing that gave it away was the shaking that his body was doing. "How... dare... you! How dare you deflower Fiona like that!" Thomas yelled turning his furious eyes at Van.
Van felt like laughing at Thomas's misfortune. He had so many dreams and Van was crushing them before his very eyes. He was enjoying this way too much. Thomas needed to be knocked off his high horse anyways.
Thomas was beyond pissed. He was madder than he had ever been in his life. He could not believe that Van could do such a thing to Fiona. He was convinced that Van must have raped her to get what he wanted.
He didn't know what happened but his body moved on it's own. It picked up a very sharp knife that was near him in the kitchen and before e could stop himself, he threw the knife directly a Van.
Fiona had this huge smile on her face as she rested at her house. She had gone to see the doctor and learned that there was nothing wrong with her. In fact, everything seemed to suddenly become right. She just hoped that it could remain that way for a little longer.
She wanted so desperately to talk to Van and tell him about what he had been told when she went to see the doctor. It was news that she was still trying to comprehend but she felt great to hear it.
Fiona walked over to the phone and dialed in the number of Van's cell phone. It rung once, twice, three times and it continued to ring. He wasn't picking it up. 'That's odd. He usually is always there to pick it up," Fiona thought curiously.
Hanging up the phone, Fiona just decided that she would go and find him herself rather than call. She didn't feel like talking to him over the phone about this. It was too important for that anyways.
She walked outside and got into her car before driving off in he direction of his work. She thought that maybe he just didn't want to talk to anyone at that moment because that had happened before when he was in a bad mood. He always said that she made him feel a lot better when he was upset.
She drove for a while until she came across the place that he worked at. She hoped out of her car and ran into the building. She didn't want to disturb him if he was busy though. "Excuse me, is Van in?" Fiona asked a elderly secretary that work under Van.
"I am sorry Fiona but he hadn't shown up today," the kind old secretary said with a smile on her face. She was also kind of wondering where Van was because he had never missed a day without calling with an excuse first.
This made Fiona become really worried. She never had this hard of a time locating Van before so she wasn't sure what was going on. It made her feel helpless. "Ok then," Fiona said with a frown turning around and walking out of the building slowly.
A thought then came to Fiona. She was kind of reluctant to try it because she really didn't feel like facing Thomas and his obsession with her but she figured that it was the last place that she could look for Van at because knowing Thomas, he was trying to make Van do all of his work for him. He never did do anything by himself.
Fiona drove to Thomas's place slowly. She looked up at the giant mansion as it came into view sadly. The place wasn't as beautiful as it could have once have been because of Thomas's carelessness.
Pulling up the driveway, Fiona parked the car as close to the door as she was able to so she could get out of there quickly if she had to. Thomas always gave her the creeps and she was only putting up with him right now for Van's sake.
She raised her hand to knock on the door but ended up pausing before she had a chance. She just decided that she was going to wait to find Van. She turned around and walked away but the door opened showing a slightly surprised yet nonetheless happy Thomas.
"What a pleasant surprise to see you Fiona. I was just on my way out to meet someone and I end up running into you. Why don't you come in and we can talk for a little while," Thomas said holding an icepack to his cheek where she noticed a nice bruise and a bit of blood.
'He was planning to out looking like that? It will scare more people than usual away. I guess they ended up having a dispute,' Fiona thought with a grimace. "No... thank you. I was just looking for Van because I needed to talk to him about something," Fiona said taking a few steps back.
Thomas's eyes hardened at the mention of Van. The thought of what Van had said to him about him and Fiona having sex made it hard for him to even look at Fiona. "He is not here," Thomas said grouchily looking away from Fiona. "But please come in. There is something very important that I want to talk to you about," Thomas said grabbing Fiona arm rather hard.
"No... I really have to go," Fiona said but Thomas just continued to drag her inside so she figured she might as well hear him out if it will get him to let go of her. "Fine! What is it?" Fiona asked rather annoyed by how he was acting. He knew something that he wasn't telling Fiona.
Thomas suddenly came to a stop when they reached the living room. "Fiona. Until that day a few weeks ago, I know it had been a long time since we saw each other but I knew that it was a blessing that day that we ran into each other. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So I was wondering if maybe you would agree to marry me?" Thomas asked turning towards Fiona.
"No," Fiona said quickly turning her back and already walking towards the door. "I will never marry you Thomas," she said rather icily as she continued to walk towards the door but Thomas grabbed her arm once again stopping her.
"Then what are you planning to do then, go around screwing other men like you had been with Van? Behind my back too! I thought you were better than that Fiona. What ever happened to waiting for marriage like you said you would. I can offer you that to make you an honest woman and you are rejecting me!" Thomas yelled with his anger clearly showing.
Fiona swung around smacking Thomas's arm off of her shoulder and then smacking him in the face. "What the hell do you know Thomas?" Fiona yelled catching Thomas off guard with her choice of words.
"You are nothing but a whore Fiona! I can give you everything that you could ever want. Van can't give you anything that I can give to you! I am wiling to take you despite what you have done, so why are you rejecting me!" Thomas continued to yell in Fiona's face.
"Like I said before Thomas. You don't know anything!" Fiona yelled before smacking him in the face. After she did that Thomas backhanded her making her fall to the ground. She knew that there would be a bruise there later.
"Fine then! I gave you a chance to have everything and you continue to reject me. How about this Fiona? Why don't you just sleep with me? That might make you happier considering that you have no problem sleeping with Van!" Thomas said advancing upon her. Her saw her move away from him as quickly as she was able to. "So you would rather go you him? It won't happen, I made sure of that," he said with an evil smirk.
Flashback
Van heard something coming at him and he turned around just in time to see the knife coming at him rather quickly. He moved off to the side but the knife still managed to graze him arm. "What the hell!" Van said turning to Thomas and seeing an insane gleam in his eyes.
"How dare you!" Thomas yelled diving at Van and tackling him to the ground. He punched Van in the face but it didn't do too much to him. Thomas just continued to punch at Van.
Van found an open space and punched Thomas hard in the stomach making him roll off of Van. Van took this opportunity to get up and run out of the house through the closest door her could find. This led him out the back but he knew what he was doing. Van knew that Thomas was out for blood. 'Ok... maybe the taunting went a little too far,' Van thought with a small chuckle.
Thomas pulled himself together quickly and got up and ran after Van. There was one thought on his mind about what was going to happen to Van. 'Death,' he thought with a malicious glare within his eyes.
Van ran into a small forest that was behind the mansion and knew it was the perfect place to do something to get Thomas off of him long enough to get him to where he knew he could get away at. 'What the hell is up with him! All of this over Fiona and me! That guy really does have a one track mind!' Van yelled into his mind as he listened and heard the sounds of Thomas following a good distance behind him. Van suddenly saw something and went for it. He grabbed a low branch and waited for Thomas to come into view.
Thomas came running don the path that he had seen Van running in only a few moments before. He ran into the tees and was about to continue going before a branch swung out of nowhere and smacked him in the face sending him flying to the ground. He heard Van run again and got back to his feet.
Thomas reached his hand up to his face and brought it back noticing that there was blood on his hand from a gash that was given to him when the branch nailed him in the face. 'He will pay for that!' Thomas growled into his mind.
Van continued to run until he eventually came across a cliff that led to the ocean, which was a good mile or two away from the house. He didn't realize he had run that far until he came up to it. 'Now what to do?' Van wondered looking around. He heard someone come running up and knew that he was caught.
"Nowhere to go now Van!" Thomas taunted seeing the position tha Van was in. "Fiona was supposed to be with me but you interfered just like her old boyfriend continued to do with Fiona and mine's relationship!" Thomas yelled at Van continuing his advance.
"You are overreacting to this way to much Thomas. You really need to calm down and think logically. What you are trying to do is kill me," Van said but his face held a calmness in them that was unusual for someone that was in the situation that he was currently in. Van looked down to notice that it was a really long fall with lots of rocks at the bottom.
Thomas took another step towards Van and he saw Van take anther step back out of response and he ended up slipping and falling off of the cliff. Thomas ran to watch. When Thomas got to the edge he looked down only to see a large ripple in the water right between many rocks. "No more interference from him," Thomas said with a smirk.
End Flashback