It's coming along….slowly….but surely.
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CHAPTER 7: Empty Reflection
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Rubia walked down the busy street of the city invisible to the numerous people that passed her. Her head was hung low and her eyes remained bleak and empty.
Where her feet were taking her, she did not know. To her, everything around her was dark and desolate. When she had finally realized she was surrounded by people she felt scared and alone. There were so many faces….all of which she did not know.
She then paused to gather herself and noticed a second her within her presence. Slowly turning her head to her left she saw herself in the reflection of a store department window; and stared at her reflection until she lost herself in the dress that lay modeled before her.
It was a simple dress, in spring time fashion of a red and white design. The sleeves were of a dark red silk and had a split in it to allow arm movement since it didn't clasped at the wrist. It looked as if it would come 2-3 inches above her knees and the waist completed it with a pink bow that wrapped around and tied in the back.
She touched the glass in deep thought.
"When I was growing up, red was my favorite color. Now…it's all that I see." She thought sadly.
"If you want it so badly you should try it on to see how it looks on you." said a male's voice from behind her. She turned around and saw the pilot of Deathsythe standing behind her looking at the dress as well.
"Personally I think you'd look to hot for your age in it." He said stepping up beside her.
"Well that would say how much you know about me now wouldn't it?" she remarked flatly.
"Well what do you know…she speaks at last." He came back. "And here I thought you'd be just like your brother."
She remained silent and began to stare at the dress again, altering her vision to see her own reflection.
"Hmm…guess you to aren't to different after all?" he said bluntly.
She closed her eyes to register and absorb the information before inhaling and holding her head high to respond.
"Well Mr. Maxwell, I suggest you do a bit more research before you conduct any conclusions on me." She said highly. She turned toward him with the most beautiful and genuine smile he had ever seen and said, "And besides haven't you ever heard of that saying that only don't know people if you don't know yourself?"
With that said she ran off down the city street disappearing in the crowd. Stopping her would have been futile; she was too fast and agile to catch up with in this large crowd. Summer was coming to an end so everyone was spending the last few days trying to dress to impress or start early on their holiday shopping. But something about that girl…there's something about her that's just drawing him in.
He looked toward the dress once more from top to bottom pondering more on Rubia than the dress.
"She's so mysterious…and yet…" he began to think. "Ahh what am I doin? I need to get goin before Hilde starts to freak out."
Rubia walked into her home she shared with other friends who shared her ability and the family wants her power. But most of the people who lived there she didn't really speak to anyway because she felt it a waste.
"Miss Yuy, welcome home!" greeted a widely built maid.
"Where's Sophia?" Rubia instantly demanded.
"You're aunt is in the study, but- oh wait you can't go in there she's…"
Rubia walked over and threw open the doors to the study, causing them to swing back and slam against the wall with force. She walked inside and saw her aunt sprawled across the desk on the other side of the room, half nude with a man's face between her legs. Yet her aunt continued to enjoy the sensual pleasure she indulged from the man as if no one had walked in at all. But this didn't stop Rubia for she continued her course of action as if it was a natural thing to see and stood in the middle of the room to begin her assault.
"Sophia!" she yelled.
"What…?" she asked, never halting in her sexual pleasure.
"I want some answers and I want them now!" she demanded with venom in her voice.
"Ugh! Fine!" the woman gave in, pulling the man's face away from her. "And it was getting so good to." She pouted.
Rubia turned to the man who was still fully clothed as he began to gather his things to leave.
"Listen Sophia, I don't care what you do to help your precious little daughter get by in life by sleeping with her teachers but I suggest you do it on your own time." she suggested, as the man took his presence out of the room.
"Well what do you think I was doing darling?" she asked innocently.
Rubia winced. "Don't respond to me that way you sick slut! You wanna fulfill your pleasures you do that in your room! Not where I conduct business!"
"Fine, fine." Sophia went on casually. "Now what is it you wanted to talk about?"
"I want the documents." She stated.
"What documents?"
"Don't play stupid Sophia! I want all the documents you have on tests that were done with me in that lab for the past 10 years." She demanded.
The woman fixed her clothing and stared at her before starting on her hair.
"I still don't know what you're talking about Ruby." She said bluntly.
This infuriated Rubia and the glass surrounding the walls of the room all began to shatter.
"I want them now!" she demanded.
"Fine! Just stop being some kinda a freak!" she hollered.
She stopped instantly at the remark. Funny…she endured every form of pain man kind had to offer and then some and took it all like a pro. But the one thing she couldn't endure was when people started picking on her when they meant it.
"I see I hit a sore spot." The woman cheered. "To bad…you make your weaknesses so apparent Rubia ever since you were a little girl. But I'm here to protect you from all of that."
SILENCE
The woman got up from her spot and walked to the other side of the desk she and her previous guest had occupied. She rumbled through some papers and brought forth a folder of papers and a lighter. Placing a cigarette in her mouth she used the butane lighter to light her cigarette.
"Here it is…" she said holding the folder over the lighter. "…and there it goes." She took a puff of her cigarette before throwing the burning material into the ignited fireplace beside the desk.
"You must understand Ruby…" Sophia started. "I can't keep receiving money for your care in the Yuy name if the government finds out I didn't marry a Yuy." She began walking toward the door in a victorious matter.
"Tell me…." Rubia began stopping her at the door. "Did you ever love my uncle?"
The room fell silent for moment, until a soft click was heard from behind her signaling the woman had left.
Rubia walked over to the sofa on the far side against the window and gazed at the night arriving sky.
"I feel…I feel like glass." She stated to no one holding a pillow tightly to her chest.
"I'm used by all who don't want to fight nature themselves, but empty…without my own true reflection. Oh Eric…" she began burying her face in the small pillow.
Big brother I will get you back! No else will take you away! And I'll destroy anybody you block s my path…anybody.
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THE DARLAN HOME
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"Quatre, are you sure?" Relena asked. "Are you certain that that girl is related to Heero?"
"His little sister in fact." Knowing corrected.
"Still that doesn't explain why we couldn't dig up any information on her ourselves. But in any case my mystery is solved I finally will know who Heero Yuy really is." Sally commented.
"They call her Red." came a voice entering the room. "Because of her eyes and favorite color." He inquired placing a bag on the floor next to him on the couch.
"Well Dou, seems your digging up more information than the rest of us."
"I have my sources." He said stretching in the seat. "It's not much but I could definitely find out more."
"Well right about now you're our only source of information." Sally admitted. "The sooner we find this entire thing out the sooner we could crack the mystery of the real meaning behind all of these wars."
"That's right!" Relena acknowledged. "I remember Dr. Jay telling me once that all of the battles between OZ and the earth's sphere came to play after the assassination of Heero Yuy, that's were Heero got his code name from."
"Well that's certainly an interesting turn around on things." said Knowing. "A soldier like him being named after a great liberator. His very being is nothing but an empty reflection of the real."
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TBC
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5 months to update, man I'm on a roll! I'll get the other up soon though, you can count on that. School's out and I got more free time on my hands!