XNeonkittyx: Hi, today I'm here to post the disclaimer.
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XNeonkittyx: Glares and sighs, fine, be that way,
I do not own Escaflowne or any characters within it.
"Hello?" The boy asked and shook his head at her, hair of stunning silver looked back at her and ruby red eyes blinked.
"Your…an…" Hitomi stuttered.
"Albino? Ya, I know," He said looking down as if afraid of something. Hitomi's eyes flashed for a second but she shook it off, something had triggered in her mind but she just could not figure out what it was.
" Alright, now I see you have already passed the written portion and passed the interview, so all that's left is a tour, welcome to JDR!" She said and got up to shake his hand only to have him look up at her and say
"I don't do handshakes" and he walked out smirking. Hitomi looked very annoyed and she followed him out to say, "Hey, you work for me now, so you have to shake hands unless you want to get fired." He stopped and turned around and glared. He extended his and Hitomi proudly smiled. As she reached over she saw a scar on his right hand.
"How'd that happen" She asked him with slight concern.
"Fencing accident," He said and soon he walked out.
"So where's my office?" He asked her looking up at her wondering if she was actually concerned about his arm.
"This way," She managed to get out and led him to a small cubicle and soon he was seated and she had no more reason to stay around so she walked off wondering about the "Fencing" accident.
Soon it was lunch and she was waiting for Yukari's call when Babette walked out and said to her, umm Yukari can't make it today, her boyfriend asked her out lunch with him. She says she's really sorry."
"Oh, it's okay…" She said sadly. She was alone for lunch for the first time in 8 months.
"Hey do you wanna get something to eat?" She asked Babette who was putting on a coat.
"I'd love to but today's my day off and I'm off to a wedding, sorry, maybe some other time." She replied. Hitomi nodded and grabbed her stuff. As she was walking off she heard sounds of someone furiously typing on a keyboard.
That's strange; no one stays here for lunch.
She walked to the source of the sound and saw Fred madly typing down on the computer.
"Hey, it's lunch you know?" She said and leaned against a post.
"Yes but I have tons of work to finish." He replied not even looking up. Hitomi looked on his desk and saw piles of work.
"Why do you have so much?" She asked wondering what on earth he was doing with so much work. He was only a rookie after all.
"Four other guys are all sick, sick my ass, they're probably down at the football game today. I have to do it all." He bitterly said.
"Well, why aren't you there?" She asked automatically thinking all guys loved football.
"Not interested, what's' so exciting about catching a ball and smashing body parts?" He asked her but kept typing.
" I have an idea, come to lunch with me and then you can get back to working." She said and before she could stop her self she realized that she practically asked him out on a date. He looked up and grinned.
"I'm flattered but I don't tend to go on a date with my boss." He said. Hitomi's cheeks burned.
"That's not what I meant, sheesh, I'll just leave if you don't want to come." She said and tried to walk away with what little dignity she had left.
"Hey you didn't let me finish," He called out. Hitomi stopped and turned around.
"I was going to say, I don't' tend to go a date with my boss but for someone as hot as you are, I'd love to." He said. Her cheeks burned once more and her knees felt a little weak.
"Well, you can't come now." She said bravely and she turned around and smiled and began to walk away when her heel got caught on a nick in the carpet and she fell.
He laughed and walked over to pick her up. As he extended his hand she took it and he pulled her up with ease.
"Maybe I should come eat with you, you're so light, is this the first time you ate in like months?" He questioned her.
"Thank you for your help, but I can take care of myself." She said to him and started to walk away and before she knew it, these little incidents had happened again…and again.
Two days after that had happened she bumped into someone and fell and that person happened to be Fred, she thought nothing of it until she found herself one day right outside of Fred's office trying to trip her self.
What am I doing?
She blushed and just when she was over the trip accident she fell, for real.
"You okay? Maybe you should stop wearing heels," A familiar voice said. Hitomi hoisted her self up and was about to answer when he said,
"Hey, I'm going to Yuko's for lunch, do you like wanna come?" He asked her. She smiled and blushed.
"Sure, I'd love to." She mocked him and like that the two started to develop a friendship.
"So, what do you exactly want to do after this?" She asked him after the lunch.
"Let's ditch and walk around." He said and paid for their lunch.
"What, this isn't' high school, it's work." She said.
"So what? C'mon this one time." He said.
"Fine, but if I'm fired-"She tried to say but he cut her off
"I'll support you until you find another job" He said simply making her blush and somehow they ended up at a tattoo parlor.
"I think that one is hot," He said pointing to a flaming heart.
"That's so boring, everyone knows that one." She came back with.
"I love fire, my friends think I'm a pyromaniac." He said. Hitomi's eyes flickered and that's when it clicked,
Dilandau.
She started to feel weak and she slumped down and started to rock back and fourth.
Fred was like Dilandau, o God; Dilandau was trying to kill Van, o, Van…
Hitomi's eyes started to water and all the memories came back and she started to cry.
"Hitomi?" He asked and slumped down.
Hitomi looked up at Fred's face and saw Dilandau's insanity instead and she screamed and she tried to run but her legs could not move.
"Hitomi!" He yelled and everything became black and she fainted.
Two weeks after the incident Hitomi forced her self to go to work, even if it meant seeing Dilan-Fred.
She got up and put on a skirt and a top and she drove to the office, people welcomed her back and she simply nodded. When she had to pass by his office, he came out and he hugged her not caring if the whole world saw them.
Hitomi froze and the next thing she knew she was in her office with scissors and she looked in the mirror and all her long hair was gone, her boyish hair was back and she put her hand against her heart when she felt a bump, she looked down and saw it.
She was wearing her pendant. She slowly was going back to that fateful year.
OOO, R/R please, what's going to happen? Find out next time, I will not update until I reach 10 reviews! (I know that's kind of sad but o well,)