AN: Glad some of you enjoyed the last chapter. Well if you're reading this now I am RUBBISH at doing periods of time. I just like to stick to the story. One of you said that Luthae and Tidus got together to quickly but Luthae came to Djose in September and they got together in October. So if you're wondering about the time you'll find out about the bond they have later. Anyway time's not v important to me just the story is really so that's why the time is crap. Well hope you like this one and please Reviewwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!
He loves me. He loves me. He loves me! I don't believe it I'm sooooo happy. But what about Yuna? Oh my Fayth she'll feel so sad. Oh I don't know what to do. Oh well I'll just take everything in my stride, and now. He loves me. Come on I'm not a selfish person, but things hardly ever go right for me.
Luthae and Tidus then stood looking at each other talking.
"Wow. I feel really weird." Tidus said, "Knowing you return my feelings."
"I know, but what about Yuna?"
"She'll understand." Tidus said
Hopefully
"Yeah that's what I was thinking." Luthae muttered.
Leblanc stood by the entrance to the playing field. Out of sight from Tidus and Luthae.
Oooo this is interesting. She thought I've just thought of I way I'll benefit in all this.
Luthae heard this. She told Tidus she had homework to do and sprinted across the field to find Leblanc. She found her coming out of the library. She'd obviously been waiting for when Luthae would turn up.
"Yes Logos," she said rather loudly on purpose, "It's true, I don't know what little Yuna will make of all of this."
Luthae confronted Leblanc and backed her up to the wall, but Ormi and Logos were ready.
"Come on then, if you think you're tough enough to take us all." Leblanc goaded. Luthae got out her weapon and the fight began. Everyone came out of the library to watch and started chanting 'fight'.
Luthae was doing pretty well. She'd almost pounded Leblanc into submission, but Logos' Russian Roulette was proving quite a challenge to miss. She'd already been poisoned and her HP was getting lower and lower. She kept at it though. Considering it was three against one, she was proving quite a difficult target.
"Ready boys?" Leblanc then said
"Of course we's ready,"
"After you boss."
Everyone gasped. They knew what was going to happen. No one alone had taken on the Leblanc Syndicate overdrive single-handedly and won. It was over in a matter of seconds. Luthae was spinning in the air. Logos started to fire his pistols. To Luthae they didn't hurt much more than Seymour using her as a dummy to practice his magic on. She then fell to the floor. That hurt, she held her hand in front to protect her face, but she still came out with a nose bleed though and several bullet wounds. Ormi was then about to jump on her. The onlookers knew this was when most people met their defeat. Luthae on the other hand got up and used haste. She ran round Ormi till he was dizzy. Then she hit him in the chest and he fainted. Everyone gasped no one had done that before, especially after a No Love Lost (AN: is that what it's called the overdrive I can't remember) Luthae then started another attack on Leblanc. Leblanc knew she'd loose in close combat so she cut in before she too was defeated.
"This battle is no more than an annoyance. Logos?"
"Of course boss."
He fired his pistol, once, twice, thrice, four times and Luthae was still managing to almost crawl over for an attack. Logos then came right up to her.
"You don't know when to give up do you?" He fired again and Luthae fainted.
She woke in the medical room. Leblanc was standing over the bed she was on while Logos was checking how his comrade was doing on the other bed. Luthae sat up, got off the bed and confronted Leblanc. Considering Leblanc was in lower six and rather tall but smaller than Tidus, Luthae still managed to look bigger in the way that she stood, much like her brother.
"Okay," Luthae said angrily, "You've beaten me up, what more do you want to do to me?"
"I take it you've already sussed what our little secret is, but it's not what I'm going to do to you love, it's what you're going to do for me." Logos then gave a suggestive cough.
"Okay us."
"And if I don't?" Luthae replied defiantly.
"You never know Yuna might hear something out that's not so nice about her lover boy." Luthae gave her a look that said you wouldn't dare.
"Okay, okay," Luthae then sighed, then she paused she'd heard Leblanc's mind say homework.
"Homework!" she exclaimed, then realised what would happen if she didn't do it, "Okay." She replied reluctantly
"Yes homework, ours for the rest of the Christmas term starting from next week. I won't ask how you know, but at least you do. And don't think you can saddle it with that brother of yours."
"Wha'? Brother what brother."
"Don't try and act dumb with me love. He sits next to me in class and says how much of a pain you are. Well he's right about one thing."
So Luthae had to agree. Leblanc had her blackmailed for two things. Luthae didn't know whether Leblanc would tell them about Seymour, but she still kept her guard.
December came and the end of the Christmas holidays came. The six formers had been given homework over the holidays. Luthae had the Leblanc syndicates homework piled on her desk. It was rather difficult especially putting all of Ormi's misspellings and Luthae was struggling to find time to do her own homework. Her grades were falling and Luthae was wondering if she'd scrape by with a D. Luthae was sitting in the living room at a desk doing the homework, when there was a knock at the door.
"Hey it's us." Yuna called
"It's open." Luthae replied
Tidus and Yuna both came in.
"Whoa!" Tidus exclaimed looking at the homework all over the desk. "Talk about you getting bad luck. No wonder you couldn't meet up the other day." Luthae's stomach jolted. Sometimes she thought Tidus would give the game away himself let alone Leblanc reveal the secret.
"Hey do you want me to help you?" asked Yuna.
"Yeah it would help." Luthae replied pulling her own homework out of the pile and shoving the rest under the desk.
After an hour they were on the last question. Luthae was bored and then copied Yuna's answer.
"Don't copy." She said abruptly moving Luthae's hand away. Luthae felt slightly resentful. Yuna was nice but she was another person who treated her like a five-year-old, even though she was the same age.
I just can't seem to win in this world Luthae thought.
After Luthae had done her homework Yuna asked her if she wanted to come down to the Moonflow. Luthae however said she couldn't. She still had Logos and Leblanc's homework to do and was making little progress. Tidus then said he would catch up with Yuna after he talked to Luthae.
"Luthae, "he began, "What's with you at the moment you just have so much homework. Have you been slacking cos it doesn't look like it in some lessons. You just always seem so tired."
"Well its stuff that I erm..." she trailed off miserably. "Anyway," she continued, "On the subject of me slacking..." she was rather hesitant. Luthae was not one to beat about the bush, but she wanted to say it in a way that wouldn't hurt Tidus' feelings. "Well I don't think this is working out."
"What?!" Tidus said surprised. Their relationship had been working out since they'd revealed they like each other. Then he realised. "Ahh Yuna."
"Well yes," Luthae replied. "I mean it's not fair hiding from her we should tell her. Or I don't want to carry on really." Tidus was suddenly angry but crestfallen. He loved Luthae and he couldn't believe she was acting like this.
"So!" he barked, "You don't want me anymore is that it? I love you Luthae or should I say loved. Was it all a game? You thought you'd go out with the guy that everyone liked? Was I only a one-night stand but you had to carry on until the time was right hey? Or have you found someone else?"
"No it wasn't I.." Luthae loved Tidus and she knew he still loved her and would always, but this blackmail was going to destroy her life academically and she'd never be able to become a maester and make Spira a better place. She knew she'd have to sacrifice her love in the balance but she didn't want Yuna's life to be destroyed as well by the news of her and Tidus.
"It's just that well I don't know how to say this..."
"It's because you were using me and you've found someone else!"
"No!" Luthae burst into tears. Not just because of what Tidus was saying but also the fact she could feel Tidus bleeding inside and could feel his pain. They weren't so different in the fact that they both strived to please people in their lives but somehow couldn't and that tore them up inside. Luthae sometimes thought that's why they were so close at times. Yuna had never strived to please anyone. She'd put every foot right practically from when she was born.
Tidus stormed out the room the door slamming behind him. Luthae didn't give up though she ran after him. He walked into the lift and she charged downstairs. She found him on the ground floor going to the entrance of the school to join Yuna.
"Tidus!" she called and ran up to him he turned round with his back to Yuna and the others, "Listen I'll tell you then to prove I still want to be friends." She said 'still want to be friends' because Yuna was standing by the entrance within earshot. Luthae's eyes were red from sobbing so hard.
"You see I'm..."
Tidus looked into her eyes. He then saw that Luthae was scared of something or threatened he didn't know what was wrong but he knew something was. His eyes softened, as he seemed to read her soul.
"What's wrong?" he asked softly realising something was wrong.
Luthae then saw Leblanc and her cronies walking down the hallway and Luthae to her gaze off Tidus and took a nervous glance at them. They'd come to collect their bounty of well-done homework. Leblanc gave a warning head gesture towards Yuna.
Tidus then put it all together. The pile of homework, the urgency to break up because of Yuna and the warning look towards Yuna.
"Your being blackmailed." He muttered to her his voice caring and compassionate again. "I'm sorry."
Luthae choked on new tears of gratitude he was so forgiving. She began to half sing half whisper words.
AN: any song lyrics I use will have # at the beginning. Also I might change the tense to make it relevant to the story. I do not own any of the song lyrics I use!
# How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you found it and lead it back home...#
Tidus took that to be a sign of forgiveness. He hugged her and gave her a discreet kiss on the forehead that Yuna didn't see.
Leblanc then cam over and addressed Luthae.
"So love," she said confidently to her. She knew Tidus knew but thought she would benefit that as well. "Have you done it?" She extended a hand expecting the homework to be given to her then and there. She was surprised however when she did not receive was expected.
Luthae gripped Tidus' hand lovingly for strength. "No Leblanc I haven't! I'm not going to be pushed around by you anymore, cos you're a big coward. You hide behind those two in every fight. I could kick your ass any day."
"Yeah go Luthae!" Tidus cheered.
"So that's how you want to play?" She asked angrily, "With two you're strong Luthae but as one you're weak."
"Stronger than you love." Luthae scoffed.
Leblanc couldn't be bothered to keep the secret any longer. In fact she'd never wanted to keep it in the first place. She was kind of glad that Luthae had chosen to act this way. She was the kind of girl who couldn't wait to spread some gossip round the round the school.
"Oh Yuna!" she called gliding down the hallway, "I've got something to tell you!"
No Luthae thought she couldn't stop her. It would be over in a fleeting moment. She'd loose a friend.