Karigoya yabureme
By shadows/of/flame
Chapter 9
You are all going to kill me for this chappie... I apologise in advance. :(
Shoutout to all my reviewers - this ones for all of you! And anymore new ones that review between now and the next time I update.
Silence filled the dusty, already silent doctors office as the doctor looked sympathetically at the young man he had just examined.
His hard but young filled, carefree life was about to take a turn for the worst. A turn for the much, much worse.
The doctor took a deep breath, and checked the results again, to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
There was no denying it... it was true.
"Son... that water you drank... was tainted with Dark Eco. There was a dark eco spill by the river in South Town... You're going to die."
The man dropped, ironically, the glass of water he was drinking, and it smashed all over the floor.
That glass was like his life now...In pieces.
"This... can't be true! Why! Just when I have found the one true thing in my life I'm happy with!" he screamed, pounding his fists into the doctors chair. The doctor stood by him, a hand on his shoulder sympathetically.
"I'm sorry son... but only the Baroness can be blamed for not telling everyone about the eco spill. No one else has been poisoned apart from you though."
He sunk to his knees in defeat and despair, wondering what he was going to tell them...
0o0o0o0
"Shit!" Torn yelped helplessly as Jak dropped the hammer on his foot for the billionth time that day.
"Jaaaak!" he groaned, nursing his foot back to health, and grumbling under his breath.
The rebuilding of the city was well underway, and Jak and Torn were in charge of where Ashelin thought was most important seems the Palace was already rebuilt- the reconstruction of the Underground hideout.
Jak just apologised for the billionth time, sounding like a 5 year old as he whined his sympathy, and went back to hammering in all the nails Torn had embedded in the new doorframe. Torn grumbled something about rubber tubing and certain parts of Jaks mother before returning to work, not before being hit on the head lightly with a hammer for his comment.
"I am so glad we are nearly finished this! Once I've slapped on some paint and bought some cool furniture, this place will be the greatest!" Tess beamed. Daxter grinned, as Torn and Jak rolled their eyes.
"No love seats, no pink and no stuffed animals." Torn smirked.
Tess looked crestfallen as the three men - well, 2 men and an ottsel - laughed at her.
"They're just kidding sweetums!" Daxter cooed. "Just not too many loveseats, ok?"
Tess smirked, and went back to the decorating plans she had been devising.
"Just changing the subject, hows Keira? You'd better be taking good care of her." Jak asked Torn, grinning as the taller elf blushed slightly.
"Shes OK... shes helping Ashelin prepare for the wedding at the palace last time I knew."
Torn went back to building the walls, and Jak smiled.
'He deserves her in his life.' Jak smiled to himself, before resuming working.
0o0o0o0
"Lets take a break." Ashelin suggested, as Keira finished drawing up the concept sketches for the wedding dress.
"Come on. I want to show you something outside, and we could go and have lunch afterwards?"
"Yeah sure! But what is it?" Keira asked as Ashelin lead her out of the Palace and down the streets towards the Slums.
Ashelin smiled softly.
"You'll see."
Ashelin led Keira to where the boys, and Daxter and Tess were working, and shouted "TORN! VISITOR!"
Torn peered out from behind the wall he was putting into place, and saw them approaching.
"Keira!" Torn yelled, and she ran straight into his arms.
Keira hugged him tightly, almost squeezing the air out of him, and not letting go.
"I've missed you!" she beamed.
Torn just held her for a few minutes, and then let her back onto the ground.
She buried her head in his chest, and they just stood like that for a few minutes.
The others just smiled at the spectacle, and then went back on with their work.
"Are you OK now?" Torn asked, wanting to be reassured by her, not Onin prophecising her death, or Samos shaking his head at her state.
"Of course I am! Since when were you one to worry?"
Torn shrugged slightly, and released her to arms length so he could take a better look at her.
"You are recovering quite well." He smiled slightly.
She beamed, and gave him a quick kiss.
"Still a few cuts and bruises, but they'll heal. What about you? You're fine now, right?
Torn was quiet.
"Well... a lot of things have happened..."
Keira looked at her lover suspiciously.
"What do you mean?"
Torn bowed his head.
"A dark eco spill has poisoned some of the cities water supply... And I'm dying Keira."
Torn: (shakes me) You're going to kill me! I have to object.
Me: Hehehe... It was a short chappie, but hope you liked it!