I'm sorry to say that this is the final chapter of Broken Past. I feel really good, because I've actually finished this fanfiction. Believe it or not, but this is the first one that I've ever actually finished. Well, second one. I finished a D.N.Angel one recently. But anyway, here are...
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the two of them (boris and voltaire) they don't really care anymore, which i'm glad of. i kinda had an idea for a sequel. if I get reviews for this chappie, i might respond to them and give you all the prologue of the sequel. o.O
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Three days passed without incident. Lyssa and Tala visited Kai twice, in which they'd been lucky. According to the nurses,
Kai slept most of the time. He was still getting his strength back, they said. It was good for everyone, as they'd all been a bit nervous around each other since their run in with Black Dranzer. However, three days without incident made them suspicious. Why wasn't anything happening like it usually did. Things had changed so much...
Four days after Tala's release, it was Kai's turn. Lyssa went by herself, as Tala had had an errand to run. When he'd told her, it'd sounded important, so she'd let him go. She went into the hospital and straight to Kai's room. With her she brought clothes for Kai to wear: a grey long-sleeved shirt, black pants, and a belt. Hopefully, they'd keep him warm enough until they could buy him a jacket as well. Lyssa didn't want him to get sick, but their supply of money was limited at the moment,
so they all had to make due with the few clothes.
Putting the clothes on a chair, Lyssa went to Kai's bedside and gently woke him up. "Kai, it's time to go." She played with his hair until he opened his eyes. Kai smiled at her. She smiled back and helped him sit up. He was still a bit groggy, as he sat up and rubbed his eyes.
Lyssa gave Kai the clothes and asked, "You'll be able to manage?"
Kai nodded. It was a stupid question to ask, really. He could handle much more than putting on clothes, even in his present condition. He pulled the curtains around to block himself from view. For some reasons, Lyssa found it amusing. Normally,
he wouldn't care about privacy, but ever since they'd gotten to the hospital, Kai'd acted a bit...guarded, though it wasn't in a bad way.
Lyssa checked Kai out of the hospital once he was dressed, and they headed to the apartment. Lyssa let Kai buy a coat with some of the money she had. He'd been shivering. The snow fell moderately as they walked, flaking their hair with specks of white. Kai looked at Lyssa and couldn't help a smile. The sight of her warmed his up a bit more than his coat could.
The apartment was still empty when they arrived. Lyssa hoped nothing had gone wrong with Tala's errand. Kai saw the pillows and blankets and wanted to sleep, desperately. But for some reason, he couldn't. He went to the window instead and looked out over the town. Kai felt Lyssa wrap her arms around his waist. Her embrace was just another reason why Kai loved her so much.
He didn't know when he'd started having these feelings for her, but they must have sprung up sometime. That sometime, when Tala had become jealous and angry.
"I was so scared." Lyssa said softly, jerking Kai out of his thoughts. "You lost so much blood. The same thing had happened to...Dom. I didn't find his body until a day later." Her grip on Kai's waist tightened ever so slightly. "The blood had dried around him, staining the cobblestones." She took a shuddering breath. "I didn't want to see that happen to you, too.
When Tal and I carried you to the hospital...I looked back and...I saw your blood marking the way we'd come. Staining the ground, just as Dom's blood had."
Kai turned around and tilted her head up by her chin so their eyes met. Lyssa saw the pain and sadness in the depths of Kai's eyes. "I never meant to hurt you, or to take Dom away from you." He hugged Lyssa, and she hugged him back. "It caused me as much pain as it did to you." Words had never been Kai's strong point, but he knew the meaning of his words. She'd always known what he'd meant. But now, the meaning was so clear that Kai felt vulnerable. He didn't care.
"Kai," Lyssa started, "I didn't realize it, but I'd forgiven you the moment I took you in. It may have caused me pain, but pain is fleeting. It'll leave and then come back, but less intense every time. I've never forgotten you. I really loved you,
more than just a brother. I love Tala deeply, but he's not the one for me. And now that Tala...he's sort of given me his blessing." She ended on an odd note. "Kai..."
Their faces grew closer to each other, and then their lips touched for the first time. Each felt a strange sensation, but it wasn't bad. Far from it. It was...indescribable. Their souls became intertwined, as though they were not two separate entities, but one complete being. Their hearts became one, as both had slowly thawed over the past few years. Both Lyssa and Kai knew that this was the way it was meant to be.
They slowly pulled apart and smiled at each other.
As they started to move about, Kai looked for the food, and Lyssa showed him where it was. The door opened, and Tala entered the apartment. Scattered in his hair were snowflakes. He shrugged the jacket off and hung it in the closet diagonal from the door. Tala was shivering, so Lyssa hurriedly handed him a blanket, which he wrapped around himself. He looked so much like the Tala she remembered from the old days, when all they'd been angry at was Boris and Voltaire. He smiled at Kai, the smile he'd been so hesitant to show for weeks. It was good to have him back, have them both back. Her lover and her brother.
The three of them sat in a circle on the carpeted floor, each with a cup of hot chocolate. Tala took a cautious sip and said,
"Do you know what's strange? Everything we've done in the past has somehow influenced what, and who we are today. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think all the training we've gotten has made us better than we ever would have been."
"So what are we going to do now?" Kai asked, "We haven't got much money left, and we can't stay here forever."
"Not to mention that Voltaire would have your uncle skin us alive if we ever came back, Ly." Tala took another sip and saw Kai's smirk. "What are you smirking at?"
Kai shook his head and drank from his cup.
Silence fell between them, as it often did. Lyssa broke it by saying, "Even though our pasts are broken and torn, we've turned out right enough. People may think we're odd or mad, but we've got each other, and that's what counts."
Kai couldn't help chuckling at the two of them. "Someday, I bet you two are going to be writing books."
"On what?" Lyssa inquired, starting to smile.
"Either on your pasts or your philosophies."
"Well, Kai," Tala said sarcastically, "I can't possibly see what you'll be doing in the near future."
Kai had a full blown smirk on his face. "I have Ly. But I could pal around with you sometimes, Tal."
"Lazy pile of muscle." Tala muttered, also smirking. He threw away his plastic cup.
"What did you say?" Kai also threw away his cup.
Lyssa knew what was going to happen and got rid of her own cup, moving the pillows and the blakets. In mere minutes, Kai and Tala were on the floor, wrestling, laughing the whole time. She laughed too, watching the boys already playing around like nothing had ever happened between them. Just like old times.
No matter how many pieces lay scattered on the sands of time, there was no going back. No need to go back to broken pasts anyway. Instead, the three of them looked to the future, and what it held in store for them. For Kai and Tala, wrestling seemed a good place to start. Lyssa was utterly happy that she and Kai could be together. All three of them lingered on the fact that they were inseperable. Which happened to be true, as proved here, through these words.
Something broken would not separate these three.
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Going On
Keep going.
Full speed ahead!
Even though
We know
There'll be things to dread.
We have each other,
And we're not dead.
We're glad the story's out,
And not inside Lyssa's head!
-courtesy Kai, Lyssa, and Tala
END
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OMG! That's the end. Here're my thanks.
1. Thanks for all the reviews. They gave me an incentive to keep going with the story. Hope I get some for this chapter. I'll give you the prologue for the sequel. Thanks especially to Frostt, who was my first review ever! Thanks also to MyOwnWoRLD and rustyspoons, who were constant reviews. And not to forget my new reviews, bladebreakers, Redemberx, brezzybrez, and CrimsonSkye06.
2. Early thanks to anyone who comes up with an idea for the sequel. I have a vague idea, but I'd like to see what you all have to say first. I'll put up the prologue when I get some reviews. Then we'll see where we go. :D
3. Thanks to everyone who read this story. I know that some anonymous readers to read the story, though I'd hope that everyone would review as well as read. Anyway, it's good that I got some hits. Whoo-hoo!
So, review and I'll give you the prologue. Then tell me what you think or want to happen. Thanx a bunch, everyone!
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