OK!! Back with another chappie!=D...I really gotta work on what I'm writing. I'm not watching to carefully on what i'm doing, sorry!! . When it comes to writing on computers, it screws me up. Anyway, I'm hoping to get the story moving a bit faster and make it a lot of chapters. Well, we shall now enter someone's POV! Yay!!! Well now, and new developments will hopefully interest you all a bit. Enjoy! R&R!!!
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Light Your Face With A Smile
Chapter 1
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= Mary's POV=
I volunteered to be the representative for the Kukai Foundation to intend the meetings being held at the Sub Committee, seeing as we have some unfinished business to attend to. At first, I really didn't understand why I decided to do the boring job of coming here, but after seeing MOMO, well, my reasons changed. He told me that MOMO would be sent here by the orders of Juli Mizhari. How could I forget? He always talked about her....Enough of that...I've been attending the meetings for a couple of weeks now, and since I'm waiting for my ride back to the Durandel, I stay with MOMO in her room and talk to her...about anything. Me and her have started to become close.
I remember when her face always lit up with those bright gold eyes. When I see her now though, she looks so lost, so alone. I wonda what made her act like that to begin with? Was it her leaving him? Or does the Sub Committee do things to her that I'm not aware of? Knowing me, I don't go into depth about this facilities business, as well as MOMO's. She'll tell me when the time is right.
So here we all are, in the conference room, chatting away about issues being thrown here and there around the table, some of them being about the gnosis. I'm not really paying attention though, the meetings have become boring after a period of time...Plus, I'm not old like them! I can still have fun while knowing my responsibilities. Unfortunately, MOMO has to come to every single meeting these old farts have. I don't even have to ask her how much she dislikes...maybe hates these meetings. I look over to her and see that she's starring at the other side of the conference table. I follow her gaze and rest my eyes on a women with short dark hair. Juli Mizrahi...the lunatic's wife, or that's what people know her to be...
She talks the most at these meetings, but I don't know her all that well to judge her. MOMO calls her mother, I wonder if they have a good relationship. But from what I see so far, Juli gives her this cold stare that I really can't describe. Over our conversations, she hasn't mentioned one thing about MOMO, only how "She's vital to the Sub Committee" or "We need to keep her under close watch" blah blah blah...
I suddenly felt a slight tugging on my outfit. I quickly got out of my thoughts and noticed MOMO standing next to me while I'm sitting. "Mary, can we go now? The meeting's over" MOMO questioned quietly as I felt slightly embarrassed to see that she was right. I stood up quickly and scratched my head at my stupidity. "Geez I'm sorry MOMO! Yea, let's get outta here!" I smiled as MOMO only nodded. We began to walk towards MOMO's room like always. I frowned, seeing that once again, my attempt at making MOMO smile had failed.
"She never smiles at all now...maybe if he was here, she would. I smile when he's around. He adds such a nice aura to the atmosphere..." Thinking as I bowed my head down, of all the times he was around me. I suddenly felt the heat rise to my cheeks. "Stop it...he doesn't like you, he likes MOMO...It's so unfair to MOMO though, I get to see him and she doesn't...he's always so damned busy, he can't help it." "Mary? Where are you going? Your going to pass my room." MOMO pointed out as I stopped walking. Realizing that I stopped in front of a wall. Again, I laughed at my stupidity. MOMO titled her head to the side and walked in the room. Hearing a soft squishing sound, I guessed she sat herself on top of her bed.
( NOTE: Mary liking Jr.? Yes, it's quite possible! If it isn't liking, she certainly is attractive! MY PROOF OF THIS!? If you watch the part in the game where you first play as Jr. during the U-TIC battleship, you will see Mary and Shelly talking about Jr. being attractive. Therefore, in my opinion, she's attractive to him!! There, my point has been made! =D )
=POV END=
Mary finally calmed down and regained her composure and sighed. " Seems to me that I've been thinking about him a lot lately" She whispered as she strode into MOMO's room. She looked around and found a seat by MOMO's desk. She then took the time to look around the room.
Out of all the rooms here, MOMO's room was the best! Her walls and ceiling were painted a mint green, as her floor was tiled a checkerboard green and white. It reminded her of a nursery. Her shelves filled with toys and...books. "I see he has quite the influence on her..." Mary thought, smiling at MOMO's small collection. The room also consisted of a table by the door, a desk by the far wall with a swivel chair, a dresser, a nightstand, and MOMO's bed. Her bed was filled with such cute stuffed animals. At the moment, MOMO was playing with a bunny. It's fur a fluffy white and pink long ears. A bow tie rested on it's neck, a pink and green combination. The bunny also had a pink nose and black beady eyes that starred at the door.
"So MOMO" Mary said, attempting at a conversation. "It's been a week and a half since I last saw you. What's been going on?" She added as MOMO stopped playing with her rabbit. Should she tell her what's been really going on? About Mommy? About how she thought of him?
"Same old thing...nothing new ever happens...and mommy..." As MOMO said, looking at the picture sitting on her desk. Once again, Mary followed her gaze and noticed MOMO looking at a picture frame on top of her desk. She hadn't noticed that picture there before. It was Juli in a light yellow dress...She looked so alive compared to now, which she seemed cold and always had no time on her hands. "I hardly get to talk to mommy either...She's always busy, it's her job I guess." MOMO sighed and looked back at her rabbit.
"MOMO..." "Daddy told me a lot of things before I was born. I remember him telling me once that the dress mommy's wearing in the picture was her favorite. They used to have so much fun together. They had a lot of things in common to..." MOMO trailed off as Mary kept looking at the picture, letting the words register in her mind. "Maybe if I was born earlier...I...I wish I could have had fun times with daddy and mommy, maybe she'd would've liked me now..." Mary snapped her head up at MOMO's last sentence. Was their relationship that bad? Was this one of the reason's MOMO's attitude changed so suddenly? Mary tried to give her some comfort. "Don't say that MOMO, like you said, she's always busy..." Mary was quickly cut off.
"Just like him??" MOMO questioned as Mary became startled. How could she answer that? MOMO suddenly stood up and threw the rabbit softly back on the bed. The damned thing reminded MOMO to much of him, after all, he is the one that gave it to her. "I'm sorry...I've been really...a lot of things have been on my mind lately, I miss mommy no matter how close she is...and I miss him too..." MOMO bowed her head down as her bangs covered her face. " I'm sure he misses you to MOMO..." Mary whispered. MOMO was about to reply as a sudden knock on the door was heard, making the two females look towards it. MOMO's eyes grew wide as she was surprised to see her mother there, along with two other guards...
"Mary, thank you for coming, your transportation has arrived and is waiting for you outside for departure" Juli said, her voice never changing into something pleasant, it made Mary think twice about her attitude. Mary glanced at MOMO and whispered to her "Don't worry MOMO, I'll be back soon, till we meet again! Bye!" With that said, Mary left with the two guards, acting as escorts, behind her, leaving MOMO and Juli alone. MOMO looked at her mother as Juli looked away, not wanting to stare into her eyes. Juli noticed the small table by the door, took out a small notepad, and dropped it there. Without saying a word, she left.
MOMO looked at the notepad quizzically. Her mother had never been in her room before, why start now? What did she want? What was written on that notepad? Why didn't her mother ask how she was?? Why? Why? Why?? All these questions evaded MOMO's mind as one question stood out from them all the most... "She knew how they were treating me here?" MOMO whispered loudly as she walked over to the door, which was left open. MOMO starred through the open door and suddenly slammed it, making a big echo throughout the empty halls. She suddenly became angry. "And she didn't do anything about it? She acted just like them..." MOMO whispered to herself once again as she quickly picked up the notepad and read the contents written on it.
"I should have known...just more lab dates to torture me..." Becoming more angry, she raised the notepad in the air as if to throw it, but something shinned on her wrist is what made her stop. It was her charm bracelet that he gave to her...She looked at it and then threw the notepad on the floor, where it skidded under the bed and laid discarded. "You said you'd be there for me...where are you now?" MOMO moved slowly to her bed and dropped herself down on the bedpost suddenly...these so called "antibiotics" were making her feel weak. She held her head as tears began to form. "Why can't they just leave me alone? I just want them all to go away and leave me ALONE!!" MOMO shouted out as she let the tears fall freely. She curled into a ball on the floor as suddenly her head began to ache.
"Please...make the pain go away...it hurts...anyo-" MOMO suddenly felt dazed and fell unconscious on the floor.
Bang!
A shotgun shell fell to the floor as another was reloaded into the weapon quickly.
Bang! Bang!
He studied his eyes with fierce speed on his next target as it went down in a matter of seconds.
Bang!
A multiple of targets appeared, deciding to switch to his BLOOD9 guns, he closed his eyes , as if concentrating, and suddenly opened them.
( NOTE: BLOOD9 are real guns he receives in the game. It's his ultimate weapon he gets from one of the decoders, just posting if anyone was wondering. )
"Prelude to Battle!" He shouted out as each target went down with ease. This was the only thing he could do in his spare time before another meeting started. The other room was unusable at the moment, so he decided to take out his frustrations with his toys...a.k.a. big guns. Moving about and doing some acrobatics to move away from his enemies, the red goggles he wore suddenly warned him of danger.
"Heat signature detected...heat signature detected."
He suddenly stopped when the last target was put out for good. He calmed himself and focused on where the last enemy was hiding. After a few moments, movements were heard from above, behind him. He quickly took out his shotgun, and with one graceful swinging motion, he shot the last enemy from behind and blowed on the shotgun's opening.
Now that's how it was done
Clapping was then suddenly heard as the dim lights became brighter, signaling that the session was over. He took a deep breath and sighed, content that he beat his old record of popping out the targets one by one.
The clapping had ceased, as a man with black hair and eyes, wearing a dark navy suit began to approach him.
"Your skills are improving very well, you looked like you were dancing." The black haired man said as the other male pulled off the goggles from his face, revealing dark piercing blue eyes. His hair was flaming red, which matched his outfit quite nicely. The blue eyed male approached the other as his dark boots were heard hitting the floor, and his red trench coat bellowed behind him softly. "Of course, no one could ever match my skills Gaignun" The male said with a grin plastered on his face, as his shotgun was strapped behind his back and he flipped his BLOOD9 guns easily and put them back in their holsters.
"Yes...but your attitude still needs checking up on Rubedo..." Gaignun replied as he received the lovely gesture of the finger from his male friend. Gaignun chuckled at this as Rubedo smiled. "Don't call me that, it's Jr. now...it would seem that you'd figure that out now...Nigredo..." Jr. emphasized the last word as he began to put his equipment away. Gaignun ignored the comment as his face grew serious. This is not what he came here to talk about. He suddenly walked next to Jr. who was now standing at a table looking over his results. Gaignun placed his hand on said results and looked over at Jr.
"I would like to have a word with you..."
"What?"
"Your hiding something..."
"Huh? No I'm not..." Jr. said dully as he shoved Gaignun aside and headed for the stairs. Jr. knew all to well that the I-don't-know-what-your- talking-about phrase would give him away easily.
"Then your thoughts on a previous nightmare haven't been troubling you?" Jr. froze at the last statement. How did he...? Crap...Jr. must have forgotten to block his thoughts during that one time...Yes, one out of many.
Ever since his departure from everyone, and two weeks after that, he had been having disturbing dreams. He wasn't even sure if they were dreams...they were more like faint cries being heard. He couldn't find the source of the weeping anywhere on few occasions in the middle of the night. It was strange...he could have sworn it sounded like...
"Please tell me."
"It's not your business...besides...it's nothing." Jr. replied as he left the room, which soon left Gaignun to frown and go after him. He had been pondering what was wrong with Jr. recently, seeing how the way he acted seemed off lately. This could be his chance to find out. It was affecting all the good people he knew.
"I didn't want to be rude and here your thoughts so suddenly, but the words crying alerted me of something amiss."
"Quit it Gaignun, I'm over it." Jr. spit out, becoming annoyed.
"Well I'm not"
"And I am." Jr. cursed under his breath. He hoped he could make it to the meeting room without having further questions. He knew how short tempered he was, and he didn't want to burst out on Gaignun. But, as of today, someone upstairs was pissed with him and decided to let Gaignun have some fun. Gaignun suddenly stood in front of Jr., arms folded in front of his chest.
"Really? I highly doubt it."
"Really? Go shove it." Jr. sarcastically retorted as Gaignun tilted his head to the side.
"No, I'm not into such protruding activities, but I would like to know what is wrong."
"My god! There's nothing wrong! SCREW OFF." Jr. shouted as suddenly, surprise caught him as Gaignun shoved him to a wall. Luckily, the hallway was empty, it might have been embarrassing for people to seem them like this. Gaignun's eyes starred fiercely into Jr.'s.
"I'm very tired of you trying to knock me out of your thoughts recently Jr., as well as everyone else. I would like to know what is happening to you. You have been acting quite strange and edgy as if you know something is about to happen that I don't. We said we'd stick together remember? I'd like to help out." Gaignun stated plainly as Jr. dropped his shoulders dejectedly.
"Not now Gaignun..." Jr. said softly. He wasn't ready to tell anyone yet, not until he figured out what the hell was going on. Gaignun suddenly narrowed his eyes and let go of Jr. "Is it her, that is troubling you?" He questioned as Jr. looked down. He wasn't sure if it was. At the beginning it had been...
Ever since they left each other, he promised he'd write to her...as of late though, he hadn't received one replay back from the one he cared the most. It made him some what depressed, and angry. What she really be the cruel to him? No, it wasn't likely...maybe something happened? He wasn't sure...
"Well, when Mary comes back from Second Miltia, you could ask her then how she's been doing. Mary's told me quite a few things."
"She didn't tell me anything..."
"Were all so busy, maybe she doesn't have the time too."
"Then why does she tell you then eh? And what if she does?? Maybe she's trying to hide something from me."
"Don't jump to conclusions Jr., she has her reasons."
"There you are, sir, the meeting has already begun, It's not like you to run late to a meeting." A women said suddenly appearing. Her long purple hair passing her waist, which matched her long purple dress. Her eyes, the same color as her appearance, gave a warm glow as she smiled. "Ah, Shelly, your correct, we should be going." Gaignun replied as Shelly nodded. Before leaving, he turned around and glanced at Jr. one more time. "I'm sure everything is quite alright Jr. All of your questions will be answered once Mary comes, now if you'll excuse me." Gaignun explained as offered his arm to Shelly and linked it with hers. They soon disappeared down the corridor.
Those two did make a cute couple...
Jr. sighed and looked at his surroundings. Currently, he was at the Kukai foundation. The Durandel hadn't come back from space yet, so he would have to wait while he was dragged around by Gaignun to attend meetings. Plus, he had paper work to do. Maybe he could do that and skip the meetings. He wanted to keep his mind off of her, keeping busy would help him do that right? After a half an hour had past, he found himself at the private beach. This beach wasn't helping him at all to drive his thoughts away. But he found peace here, no one could bother him, so he took the time to sit down on the synthetic sand and looked out towards the crystal clear waters.
He wasn't sure how she had been doing. He liked to send her things. He remembered sending her a stuffed animal, hopefully, she had received it and loved the present. Damn her...she was torturing him. He wanted to know everything and what she was down right now. He missed her so much...
As if answering his call, a sudden noise was heard. "alone...pain...it hurts..." Broken words were all he heard. Then a sudden cry came about. Jr. immediately stood up and looked towards the stars. It was that crying again. Wait a sec, why now? It had surprised him to hear at this time of day, he would only hear it at night...the noise came back again, the crying hadn't ceased. "Who's crying?" Jr. questioned aloud. This was really starting to tick him off. He couldn't get any sleep because of this person crying. He took a deep breath in an suddenly shouted out.
"WHO'S CRYING!!??" He had stopped pacing around the beach, and threw his hands in the air in defeat. He fell back down on the beach's sands and covered his ears. He was tired of hearing it...he couldn't stop thinking about it. The voice was hard to describe, but he could tell that it was a female. It sounded like her...
The thought of Mary flashed threw his mind and he suddenly went in a sitting position. Mary had to stop running from him. He wanted to know how she (not Mary) was doing. "Damn you Mary, why won't you just tell me? If only I could have as much freedom as you and go to Second Miltia. But...I can't...I'm being held here for reasons I don't care about...your not making things any easier...I..." Jr. stopped abruptly as suddenly his eyes held determination.
That's it, he was tired of hearing the excuses. He was tired of not getting to do what he wanted...he was tired of not being able to see her, he was tired of it ALL! He got up quickly and headed off the beach. No more sending letters to her...no more sending gifts to her...he was going to get to the bottom of this. Her and that crying. He was going to demand answers, not receive more questions! When it came to the Godwin sisters, he new quite well that whenever they hid something from him, Gaignun knew about it. No doubt Gaignun might no something about it, he said himself that Mary's been telling him things.
And the first person to interrogate would be Mary...
So what ya thing of this chappie!? Might be a tad bit boring but now since I introduced the main players, we can now start moving onto juicy stuff!!! Mary has it in for her eh? Gaignun's real name is of course Nigredo, which means blackening. Same for Jr.=Rubedo, which means reddening. Chapters that have been put up so far will now be explained and understand hopefully better in the next chapter!!! And...DUN DUN DUN!!! Another flashback!!! What has Mary got to do with these two younglings? What ever happened to Jr.s letters? What about the rest of the Xenosaga crew!? What's with all the questions!! Found out in the next chappie! R&R WILL BE LOVED!!! =D