A/N: Well, well, well! Thank you to all who are reading, I may only have 5 reviews but I'm getting a lot of hits and am already on two people's faves list! Thank you to Deathscythe's Sister and angellaggaine! I feel loved. Remember, I don't care if you review or not, just if you're reading. And here we go.

Good-Bye Melfina

Chapter 2: Nothing Without Mel

Gene was absolutely terrified when he realized Melfina was no longer on Dragon. The four remaining crew members had searched the ruins of the planet, all the while yelling at Gene for letting Melfina go out on her own. He was so guilty, and was so ashamed of himself. Jim reminded him constantly that if he had just been a little nicer, Mel would still be there. Aisha took any chance she got to strike Gene down, out of anger. The outlaw took any and every blow she shot at him.

Thinking back on the way he talked to her, Gene didn't see a problem with it. Suzuka tried in vein to get him to realize the way he spoke with her was rude and demeaning.

"Gene, why did you push her away?" She pleaded, while they boarded the ship, now convinced that Mel was no longer on the planet. The only thing they could to was go look for her and hope for the best.

"I wasn't pushing her away! She was bothering me!" Gene defended himself, coldly. He didn't seem to realize just how much damage he had caused to Melfina, the crew... and himself. He sat in his pilot seat and ignored the rest of what Suzuka scolded him with.

"Gene, you knew very well that you were pushing her away! You shunned her so badly, she has left us all. You spoke out for all of us, and now she may have the idea we do not want her around!" Suzuka had never spoken like this to anyone of the crew members, Jim and Aisha were looking from Gene and Suzuka and then at each other.

"Well... we better sit down, huh, Aisha?" Jim asked the cat girl, with a fake last in his voice.

"I guess, but hey! Can we fly this thing with out Mel?" Aisha asked, jumping into her seat.

"We can," Jim said slowly. "But she is our navigation system, so it will be hard. We can get lost real easy, so we better be careful." Jim pressed a buttons. "Gilliam, do you think the ship's memory of our courses can help us at all?"

"Well, Jim," Gilliam replied. "Space is so vast, the ship can not pin point an exact course, but we may be able to get back to the space port and have a map downloaded into our data base."

Jim smacked his forehead, "Oh man, those are so expensive! Gene, do you think we'll be able to afford one?"

Gene wasn't paying attention, he had his face buried in his hands. Jim looked at him for a moment, and was going to poke him, but decided against it. They were giving Gene a whole lot of heap for what he'd done, and disturbing him was not a good idea. Aisha and Suzuka were looking away from Jim as well, both very saddened. Melfina's disappearance seemed to be affecting everyone worse than they thought it would.

Jim sighed deeply and started up the Outlaw Star, heading towards the nearest space port. The flight was quiet and very depressing. Melfina's absence was getting to everyone, mainly Gene. He had to deal with the guilt that she was gone because of him. Once or twice Aisha tried to start up a conversation, Jim would try and help her, but it would fade fast when Gene would say something like, "Melfina would want to do that."

For a while the trip seemed to be getting better as Jim tried to tell everyone that they were going to find Melfina soon and everything would be normal again. But Aisha just laughed at him and turned to the crew with sad eyes, but a smile on her face.

"If Melfina left, then she doesn't want us to find her..."

Melfina let Harry guide her to his and Ron's ship. He had a firm grip on her hand and she was gripping it back, just as hard. A strange happiness was flowing through her right now, she and Harry were almost gliding across the planet... or at least to Melfina, it seemed that way. Harry was walking as fast as he could to get them to the ship; he was desperate to get her into a private room. Fear that Mel might trip in his speed, didn't stop him from rushing them across the surface.

When they finally reached the ship, Ron wasn't there. Harry had searched the ship for him, before bringing Melfina aboard. "I have no idea, where he might me," He said helping her up. "He should be back later though... for now..." Harry giggled. "We're alone." The insane grin came back but Melfina did nothing but smile sweetly at him.

"Could you show me around your ship? I've never been on it..." Her head turned around the loading dock intriguingly. Harry smiled and led her to the piloting room. And to the storage room and every other room. Then he showed her the bedrooms, he and Harry had if they grew tired or weary from travel.

"This is... my room.." Harry said, giggling more. Melfina walked in, unaware of why Harry was showing her the room. He quickly shut the door and sat on the bed. "What do you think?"

"Its nice..." She said looking around at the square room. There was a bed in the far left corner, it was up against the wall horizontally. Next to the head of the bed was a night stand, and next to the door was a table with two chairs.

"Oh, Mel, come sit on the bed," Harry was speaking in a very seductive voice. Melfina looked at him, now noticing the sound in his voice. She wasn't sure what to do, arguing with herself in her mind, she was saved by Ron McDougall.

"Harry?" He said, flinging the door open. "Aw, thought you'd be in here." He glanced at Melfina. "What? You got her...?"

Harry jumped up from his seat and pushed Ron out of the doorway and into the hall. He turned back to shut the door, "Melfina, hold on." Harry said angrily slamming it shut. "What are you doing here!" He spat at Ron.

"I just came back, I was watching Starwind and the others to make sure they didn't bother you. And they stayed put. Right when I left they had just finished looking at some scriptures." Ron was eyeing the door, "How did you get her to come with you?"

Harry flipped his hair, "She loves me, obviously. Gene doesn't understand her like I do and she's finally realizing that!"

"Okay well, hurry up, they'll be looking for her soon, and we don't want them to know we're here. So come, on, we gotta leave!" Ron ushered.

"Aw, man, but I almost had her!" Harry whined.

"Well there is plenty of time for that. Right now we need to go, get her into the cock pit."

Harry sighed sadly and informed Melfina they were leaving. Leading her back into the piloting room, he sat her down and assumed his seat. The ship started and left the planet Dragon. Melfina watched as they took off, she stared deeply at the temple, feeling as if she should go back and apologize for even thinking of abandoning them.

"You won't have to deal with Gene ever again, Mel." Harry said as they broke through the planet's atmosphere and were now in space.

It was too late to change her mind, and with Harry's comment she didn't want to. Gene was a thing of the past now. She wouldn't have to worry about it now. She was free and now with Harry...

To Be Continued...

A/N: Sorry for the shortness of this chapter. And I don't have time to edit it so... yeah. This is pretty shitty. XD Lol, anyway, I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless, and thanks to those who are reading (reviews aren't necessary, but really do help me!) I know at least 30 people are reading... or have read it. Yay, that's a lot. Anyway, see ya in the next chapter!