My Fake Fiancee Chapter 15: Where There Is A Will, a hamtaro fanfic

Chapter Fifteen: Where There Is A Will

Hmmm... I don't have anything interesting to say so let's just get on with the chapter.

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My how time flies by. Twas the day of the wedding, and all through the house, not a creature was happy except for that mouse (André).

Poor Boss sick in bed, and Hamtaro stuck with thoughts about Bijou's unhappiness in his head. All the while Bijou cried for she thought of the man, in three hours, that she was to wed.
Now no one could hide, as much as they tried...You thought you were safe, then came that high tide; You're paying the price for you have lied........Watch in Terror.... They all had to admit in fear that:

The day of the wedding had arrived.....

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Hamtaro sat on his bed with tiredness in his eyes, ice in his hands, and depression sulking in his heart. What could've worked out so perfectly crashed into nothing but enraging swirls of sick horror. What was the poor Ham to do? The girl of his dreams was soon to be snatched up in the jaws of the dragon called André, and he sat there, glooming and doing nothing! It's bad enough being scolded by your heart, but when you know that you could've done something about it, you feel like every miniscule imperfection in the world is entirely your fault.

But like Hamtaro cared about every other miniscule imperfection in the world! All his heart desired for was Bijou, her safety, her happiness....her love. That's all he wanted, and although he did feel socially outranked whenever near this pure princess, his heart ached to hold her and protect from all the vile (André) things that could harm her in the world.

So, consumed with crestfallen images about the sweet girl, Hamtaro ran a finger between his mixed/bushy hair. His mixed hair.....The aspect that signified him as not a purebred, and that's what Bijou deserved. A dignified Ham who could give her everything she ever wished for. A Ham that was socially equivalent to her. A Ham who could let her enjoy life, and he would enjoy it, too, whenever that Ham was with her.

But above all these qualities, Bijou should've been able to love him, and he should've been able to return that love back with an equal or stronger force.

Hamtaro placed his hand on his heart, "He should love her, even if I doubt that anyone could ever care for her more than I--Boss does."

Hamtaro jerked his hand away from his chest as soon as he heard his door creak silently open. His heart hoping that it was Bijou so that he could talk to her again, but alas, we almost never get what we wish for in this world.

"May I come in?" Josie asked in a whisper as she poked her head through the door.

"Of course; it is your house," Hamtaro replied as he tried to fake a smile for Josie. Of all people crying on this ever so tragic day, Hamtaro knew that Josie would weep the most, for he knew that Josie loved Bijou with an impenetrable love, and no mother who cared that much could ever see their child in pain.

"Zear me! You look completely dizzheveled!," She declared as she looked upon the raggedy and definitely not prepared for a wedding Hamtaro.

Hamtaro stood up and scanned himself with a faked smile on his face. "If by disheveled you mean the fact that I look nowhere prepared to go to a wedding, then I guess I see no problem, Madame, because I'm not going to the wedding," he explained with that black, consuming depression overtaking his fallen heart once again.

Josie's face at that moment looked like an exquisite an elegant doll's face with fine detailing in the painstakingly painted face.....After it had been introduced to the sledgehammer....

"You----you----You are not going to zee wedding? Why?"

"I don't see what the point is: Bijou's doing nothing but promising herself misery for the rest of her life."

"But Stan, Sandy, Panda, Oxnard--all the others! They are going, yes?"

"Yeah, well, André said that they could all go, plus they all have something to wear to the wedding. As for me, all I have are my T-shirts and jeans, and honestly, I don't think that's appropriate clothing for a...wedding."

Josie, being the clever woman that she was, started massaging her chin with her thumb, "Hamtaro?"

"Madame?" Hamtaro asked as he stared out the window in front of him, aimlessly looking for something.

"Would you say that you and André were opposites?" Josie asked, slyly covering her true intentions for asking that question.

"Well," Hamtaro started carefully, "André likes to torture people, and that's not me. He enjoys burning ants with a magnifying glass, according to what he told us about his 'entomologic studies'. He likes to yell at people for no decent reason. He likes to take out a full extent of revenge if someone laughs at him. He likes to take people--special people--for granted. Madame, I don't want to make myself seem perfect or anything, but all these wrong things that André has fun doing are exactly what I dream that I will never do, intentionally that is." Hamtaro turned his face from the window to Josie, and he almost looked at her as if she was reviewing his answer. Like she had to criticize his values or something...

"Well spoken," she breathed softly as she instantly erased the tears that started to gloss her eyes. "I visited Bijou last night."

"How is she?"

"She's fine, except for zee whole eating thing....But I zid ask her a question."

"Hmmm? What question was that?"

"Well, I asked her what she thought about André. And, frankly, to put it in Laymen's Terms, she said that she hated him-"

"Then why marry him?"

"Well, if you had let me finished speaking, she started a whole lecture about promises and how to never break them.....She's a very high-scrupled girl, you know. She believes in doing strictly right things, and she intends on righting the wrongs that she has committed."

"But marrying André-well, that's a wrong she's committing to herself. Why does that qualify as 'OK' in her mind?"

"She always put others' happiness in front of herself. You should know zat. I zon't remember a time when she did otherwise." Josie gave Hamtaro a weak smile, "And she also said that André was her exact opposite in a bad way, and since you said that you were André's opposite, I suppose....."

"Madame?" Hamtaro asked with curiosity written all over his face. "Are you implying something?"

"Me? Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" Josie quickly turned herself to start leaving the room. "I was simple fantasizing out loud. Say 'Bonjour' to Boss for me, please." She waved her hands elegantly like Bijou sometimes did, as she strolled herself out of the room.

"I wonder...." Hamtaro said to himself carefully, "Nah......."

---------Boss's Waiting Room---------

"I'm worried about her, Boss. She gets paler everyday. This wedding is taking a major toll on Bijou's health," Hamtaro said to Boss. Boss was feeling better, yet the doctors told him to stay in the hospital for a few more days because they said that Boss needed rest, and they had to do a few more tests to make sure he was ready to go home.

"Doesn't she say anything when you ask about her health?" Boss asked in a rough whisper.

"Whenever we try to tell her to eat something she refuses saying that food adds weight and André doesn't want a fat bride," Hamtaro said clenching his fists.

"She's going through with the wedding?" Boss asked as his voice started to crack.

Hamtaro took a deep breath "She says she deserves this fate because she had no right lying to her mother, and that marrying André would be the legal thing to do."

"But she doesn't want to, right?"

"Boss, this is killing her. I'm surprised she isn't in a hospital room hooked up to machines," Hamtaro explained pointing to the bulky computers monitoring Boss's heartbeat.

"Are you sure you've tried everything to prevent the wedding?"

"We tried to persuade Bijou to runaway or to not show up at the wedding, but she still refuses. Maxwell suggested that he reads the wedding speech wrong so that Bijou and André wouldn't legally be married, but she still said no. She fully believes that she deserves nothing more than André."

"Hamtaro, will we ever see her again, I mean, after the wedding?"

Hamtaro barely heard Boss for he just heard the subtle click of the clock turn to the 12:00 afternoon bell....

"I'm not sure, Boss. Let's hope we will," Hamtaro wished as he looked at the door, and right as the clock struck noon, Bijou came in. She had been visiting Boss everyday at noon sharp. Unfortunately, Hamtaro and Boss both knew that this would be the last time she'd ever visit them.

She slowly swung open the door, and walked with lousy springs in her step.

She forced herself to smile as she looked around the room; seeing Boss sent her heart crashing even more than it already was, and seeing Hamtaro, well, that was another story...

"Bonjour," she greeted as she tried to sound happy, "Boss, you need rest. You should not sit up like that, it'll hurt your back," she said as she fixed the pillows on his bed. Boss noticed her fading skin color. Where once stood a brilliant and beaming beauty, stood a faint and feeble girl.

"Bijou, are you going to marry André?" Boss asked ignoring Bijou's health warnings.

Bijou stopped what she was doing and stood there with a blank face. "Of (gulp) course I am. Why would I not?"

"There's still time, Bijou, you can still change your mind," Hamtaro reminded, hoping that Bijou would raise her confidence and realize that she was better than André.

"Hamtaro, I am legally bound to André. Just as Acricius of Argos learned, you cannot change your fate."

"Yes you can. You know that deep down in your heart you want to throw away all that legal junk and slap André silly. Heck, I bet you even want to throw him off the face of this earth, all the rest of us Hams want to," Hamtaro argued.

"Listen to Hamtaro...zu...zu...zu He speaks the truth," said the Snoozer that the Hams had put in Boss's room so that Boss wouldn't get lonely and because Panda was getting tired of Snoozer's consistent snoring.

"It iz not my place to speak up in this matter. I am going to marry André just as the paper that bound us together all those years ago predicted. It iz my destiny."

"But Bijou, that paper was ripped up," Boss said.

"But the promise that our families made wasn't. Today I will be declared Mrs. André, and zat will be zat," her fading voice spoke.

'Mrs. André' That title made Hamtaro's blood boil. "Bijou I promised you that you would never have to marry André, what happened?"

Bijou stared around the light blue hospital room than went to the beautiful view window and stared down at the village she saw through it. "Hamtaro, I know what you're doing is kindhearted, but you have done enough for me. I tried to escape my fate, and went to great lengths to accomplish that, but all along I had been writing my own doom. I do deserve these consequences, I was selfish and lied to my mother. Playing with her mind as if she were a mere child gullible enough to believe anything. I lied about a legal engagement, and I do believe that that counts as fraud. Don't you see, Hamtaro? I deserve this punishment. André iz my legal fiancé, and there's nothing that I can do to change that."

"No, don't say that. You can overcome anything. You deserve to be loved, that's something André just can't do. He'll close you up from the rest of the world. You deserve someone who can give you so much better than that," Hamtaro explained.

Bijou blushed thinking of the fact that Hamtaro thought she was worthy enough of such things. "I must go. I zoo have a wedding to plan," she said as she hurriedly raced out of the room.

"What are we going to do?" Hamtaro asked himself as he ran a hand through his bushy hair.

"'You deserve to be loved'?" Boss asked as he quoted Hamtaro. Over the past few weeks, Boss had been noticing something that he refused to believe before: Hamtaro and Bijou's feelings for each other. True, he tried to deny it. But after what Bijou told him the day she and all the Hams visited, well let's just say she sealed the deal that he had a special place in her heart, as a big brother. Though Boss's heart cringed at Bijou being with another Ham, Boss believed that if you truly love something, let it go. If it comes back, then you know it loves you. But Boss knew that If he let Bijou go, she would not fly back to him. He knew that she cared for Hamtaro, and the feeling was mutual. He saw the way Bijou glowed in Hamtaro's presence, and that glow was the one thing, Boss believed, that would bring life back into Bijou.

"Heh-heh.... well what I meant was that Bijou deserves better than Andre, and who doesn't? The guy's a lunatic. Nobody deserves to be in the same room as him, especially Bijou-I mean she's too good for him because well uhh umm.... nobody deserves Andre?" He asked Boss to see if Boss bought the story, and sure enough, he didn't.

Boss shook his head. Hamtaro was expecting a nasty comeback from Boss, but instead he found Boss laughing.

"Heke?"

"Hamtaro, why do you try so hard to keep hidden what is so obvious?"

"I don't know what you are talking about, Boss," Hamtaro lied as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Give it up, kid, I know that you like her."

"Like who?" Hamtaro asked innocently.

Boss threw a pillow at Hamtaro. "Mona Lisa, that's who you like!" he said in an angry/sarcastic voice.

"You mean the painting?" Hamtaro asked failing to keep his cover, and yet another pillow went straight for him.

"Quit it! I know you like Bijou. You know, about a little bit shorter than you, white hair, two blue ribbons tied in two cute ponytails, and a French accent."

"I don't like Bijou," Hamtaro tried to deny.

"Don't lie to me, kid. It's not working."

"I'm not lying!" Obviously, stubborn Hamtaro would not give in. Boss just had a better idea.

"Bijou is so pretty. She's so sweet. She's so kind. She's everything a guy could want, and more," Boss slyly said as he kept hard trying not to blush.

And just like Boss predicted, Aphrodite's insignia of red crept upon Hamtaro's face.

"Give in, kid, I've got you cornered," Boss teased.

Hamtaro still said nothing. Boss sighed and took a deep breath.

"Would it help if I told you that I didn't like Bijou anymore?"

"You DON"T?!?" an astonished Hamtaro asked "Uhh... I mean.. it's not like I would care. I don't like her."

"Kid, you're annoying me. You like her, don't deny it because she likes you."

"What?" a bug-eyed Hamtaro asked wondering if there were such things as miracles.

"I can't believed you never noticed it. She likes you, she truly does. I wish you'd do something about it because the girl you love is waiting for her knight in shining armor to come and save her."

"But what'd she want with me? I'm not special."

"Kid, it took me a long time to figure out that she just does, and if the shoe fits BUY IT IN EVERY COLOR YOU IDIOT!!!" Boss ended with an aggressive 'duh' voice. He gripped, to the best of his restrained hands' ability, the bed railing with a molding force.

"Zu.. zu....zu.. Love that isn't worth taking risks, isn't worth having at all zu.. zu.. zu," Snoozer repeated in his sleep.

"Yeah I remember how you said that to Boss the day we first found out about the whole fiancée thing," Hamtaro said blankly as he stared blankly at nothing in particular.

"Zu...zu....zu.. I am afraid that you are mistaken zu....zu....zu I said that to you zu....zu....zu.."

"What is Snoozer saying?" Hamtaro asked very surprised as he came out of his little trance.

"The same thing I've been trying to tell you since Bijou left!" a very, very, very annoyed Boss explained.

"Are you sure she likes me? She's such a high aristocrat, and I'm just... me."

"But you must be something much more than that to her," came a new voice. Boss and Hamtaro shifted their heads in the direction of the window, for that's where the sound had come from. And sure enough, right in front of the window, a lather of bright blue sparkles was foaming up.

"Yosei?" Boss and Hamtaro asked in unison as the figure began to take some shape.

"Who were you expecting, Glenda the Good Witch?" Yosei asked smiling.

"Well in this world you never know...." Hamtaro mumbled to himself.

"Now where was I? Oh yes! Bijou, Hamtaro, values you much more than you give her credit for."

"No, no, that can't possibly be true," Hamtaro said trying not to get his hopes up.

"Oh but she does. Hamtaro, you and Bijou have a special bond so amazing, so supernatural that the heavens and stars have waited centuries for this one moment.... For this one secret to be revealed."

O.o "Okay," Hamtaro said skeptically "We're just friends."

"So you keep reminding yourself. Are you so pessimistic that you can't believe something good will happen to you?"

"That's what pessimists usually do."

"Well quit it! You, Hamtaro, have a special link with Bijou that goes beyond the outer limits of friendship. You guide each other along life's path, and deny it as much as you want, you long to walk together on that path one day."

Hamtaro blushed giving Yosei the signal to continue.

"You were both born for each other... literally. ( AN: That explanation will come in the sequel which is the third part of the My Fake Fiancee trilogy. The second part is the SM sister fic, coming soon) You two sustain each other with each passing day. You somehow are able to telecommunicate with each other. You two just...well just.... Let's just say that the Fates are on your side, and don't ever doubt their powers."

"I wish I had popcorn," Boss thought as he watched this soap opera get better and better.

"But why didn't she ever say anything? Why didn't she ever tell me?" Hamtaro questioned.

"Duh! Girls never reveal their feelings first, that's the boy's job. But someone, I'm not going to mention any names cough Boss cough made it so that you could never have one another," Yosei explained turning her attention to the Ham in the hospital bed.

"Hey, I'm only Ham-Human! You would've done the same thing for the guy or being or whatever you like!" Boss explained feeling inferior to Josie. "And if Hamtaro cares for Bijou more than I do, how come only I fainted?" Boss asked making a very important point.

"I fainted you. I put a heavy unconscious spell on you," Yosei explained as if this was as common as saying 'the sky is blue'.

You know how Boss gets really, really angry when he sees someone flirting with Bijou?

Ok...Imagine that an infinite amount worse....
You know how anime eyes pop out like bugs when they see something weird?
Ok....Imagine Boss's eyes like that, only like the size of ten dinner plates.....
And you know how people start cracking up even though they're not supposed to but they do anyway really hard?
Ok....Imagine Hamtaro doing that only with fits of laughter that were completely consuming over a Ham that's depressed.

"YOU...... WHAT?!"

"Quiet, Boss. This is a hospital, you know. And I only did it so that...ummm... well I thought that it would make this thing seem more interesting," Yosei nervously explained.

"You are one big-" Boss started

"Whoops, running late, gotta go!" Yosei all to hastily mumbled as she quickly started disappearing again.

"But wait!" Hamtaro called. He wasn't just gonna let Yosei go without a fair explanation no matter how hard he was laughing....

"You know what to do...." Yosei called as her voice echoed throughout the small room.

"I do?" Hamtaro asked.

"And it's time you go do it," Boss suggested.

"But what about you? You love Bijou too."

"She's not the right girl for me. And besides, it's always the taken guys who are the slaves."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, now go! The one you're destined for will make the mistake she'll regret for the rest of her life in about two hours!"

"All right, I'm going!" And Hamtaro rushed out of the room.

Boss watched Hamtaro dash through the door, and with an extremely loaded heart, he fell upon his pillow that Bijou fluffed fo him, and he knew that he would spend the rest of the day crying....

The Rosemary Field

Kiran watched as an orange blur raced past her.

"Where're you going?" she asked Hamtaro.

"I have a wedding to stop!!" he called back as he rushed past the horizon toward the Villa.

Kiran looked at the massive bag of rosemary she held in her hands. "Father would be displeased-," but then she took another look at the determined Hamtaro racing his legs off "But it'd be so worth it."

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Celestial Night: I'm gonna say a few things about the SM sister fic-

Sandy and Maxwell: It's really good!

Celestial Night: You haven't even read it yet!!! Now let me continue! The SM sister fic will-

Sandy and Maxwell: But if it involves us, then it has to be good!!!

Celestial Night: I guess but-

Sandy and Maxwell: What's the story called?

Celestial Night: I was getting to that. It's called-

Sandy and Maxwell: Hurry up!!!

Hamtaro and Bijou: If you'd let her speak, maybe she could tell us about the story!!

Celestial Night: Thank you, now the story-

Sandy and Maxwell: Fine! You authors are so pushy nowadays!! I mean-

Celestial Night: QUIET!!!! Now, I was going to tell you a little about the sister fic, but some people just kept interrupting! Since I'm running out of time, I'll tell you this, the story is called :Taking Someone Special For Granted".

Sandy and Maxwell: One of us takes the other for granted?

Celestial Night: I never said that.

Sandy and Maxwell: Did too!!!