This fanfic is from Harvest moon 64, but I add Hardy, the doctor, from AWL so don't get confused. Go on and read.
As Jack walked away from his grandfathers house, he noticed a girl walking towards the farm. He didn't want to bother with her. His grandfather had past away only three weeks ago, and Jack's heart was still mending. He had been left a run-down farm, tools, and 300g. Only time would tell if he would be able to keep the farm up or fail to fulfill Grandfathers dream.
In the city, Jack had been dating one girl named Gertrude, but he figured that since he was becoming a man now, he wouldn't need a girl...yet.
"Hello. My name is Karen. I heard about your Grandfather. I'm sorry." Karen walked up to Jack sitting on the front steps of the cabin.
"Don't be sorry. I just gotta' have some time and I'll be okay. But thanks for your concern," Jack smiled. "Oh, my name is Jack." He remembered suddenly to introduce himself.
"Do you want me to show you around Flower Bud Village?" Karen offered.
Jack stood from his seat and the two of them started walking.
The first place Karen showed Jack was the vineyard. It was sort of run down. It looked as though the fires of hell had been teasing the place for a while.
"This place looks pretty shabby." Jack acknowledged.
"Yea,... this is where I live." Karen's face felt a tear slip. Jack looked over at Karen. His icy blue eyes showed compassion like no others.
"Are you okay? Did I say something?" He stood infront of her and held her shoulders. "Why are you crying?"
"It's just...forget it." She closed her eyes and turned her head."I don't want to burden you with any of my problems. Your grandfather just past and you just arrived a few days ago and I don't want to drop all of my life's issues on you."
"C'mon... don't feel bad. Tell me." Jack's voice ran clear through her heart. She felt like she could always trust and believe him. The sympathy she had recieved from him calmed her soul.
"My father and I have these arguements all the time, and he doesn't care about anything anymore... I don't know what to do because my mother tries to stop us from fussing and every time..." she paused and sat down on a nearby log. Jack sat beside her and comforted her with a smile.
"You don't have to be afraid to tell me anything. You can always trust me." Jack nodded.
Karen couldn't help but smile at Jacks unceasingly smiling face. She told him everything about her father and mother, and the way she used to be so much more happy.
For a few seconds, Karen caught herself staring undeviatingly into his soft eyes, and Jack into her dark sparkly green ones. Karen glanced away to see Kai coming from the wine cellar. Karens smooth hands left Jacks soft but strong city hands before Kai arrived.
Kai was almost stunned,"Heh. Hey Karen. Who's your friend?" Kai tried not to sound to intent on knowing but Jack knew he wasn't wanted around.
"Karen, it was nice getting to know you. I hope you can fix everything." Jack shook his head and nodded to Kai.
"Kai! how could you be so unmannerly?" Karen stood abruptly and started to go after Jack. Kai grabbed Karen's shirt and pulled her back towards him. She breathed a breath of insecurity and anger. Kai turned her around with his strong muscular arms and kissed her.
"Let me go!" she tried to get away. Kai pulled her to his shack and closed the door.
"What do you think you're doing? You can't just run around holding hands with any guy you want!" He was raged as he threw her down onto a pile of dirty rags. Karen started crying again. The pain she felt was in a spot no one could reach. It was so deep inside of her that not even happiness itself could rid her of the hurt. Kai and Karen quarrled silently for a moment. Then Karen decided to say something. "Kai... just beca--"
"Shut up! I don't want to hear another word out of you!" Kai lit a cigarette and walked around the room for a while. Then he pulled up a chair and sat beside her as he let out a puff of smoke. He puffed a few times and finally let out a deep uneasy breath to say, "I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking." He used his black unseen eyes to convence Karen to forgive him.
"It's okay..." Karen sat up on the bed. Kai held her hand. "I still love you." Karen lied. Not only did she hate Kai for overpowering her, but for feeling a She kissed his parched lips. While leaving Kai's room when he was still smoking on the bed, Karen shut the door slowly but rushed to town on Kai's horse. The Earth's dusty ground masked her face as she yelled,"hya! hya! Gidd-up!"
Kai soon realized she was lying. He hated her for this. But instead of wasting time, he ran to find Gotz's horse and raced to find Karen before she made it to town.
Kai found Karen by the river giving her horse a drink. He slowly crept behind her kneeling body. Muffled sounds came from her mouth after Kai had covered it with his calloused hand. He gagged her and tied her hands behind her back. He also threw a sack over her body and tied yet another rope around her. Because he had two horses he threw her body over Gotz's and led it while riding his own horse.
As he came upon Gotz's house, he realized now that Shasha was home. Kai opened the door to his own shack and threw the tied body on his bed. The next thing Karen knew Kai had come from Shasha's house and Karen was untied, sitting infront of Kai on his horse.
"Don't cause a scene while we are gone honey. I wouldn't want anybody suspectin' anything." He grinned with eyes full of evil. She could see straight through him.
"Believe me... I wouldn't," Karen pulled her arms away from Kai, and gritted her teeth... Kai was taking Karen out of town. Karen gave fake smiles to the ones they passed. Afterwards, she gave Kai the worst time he could possibly have. Then she asked to either be dropped off at Jacks house or she would yell for help when anyone came around...
The first morning of Jack's field work, he went to town to pick up a few things need for planting crops. During the spring, it wasn't too hot so he hadn't learned that the heat of the summer would soon overwhelm him.
He stopped by the Flower shop to meet a very comely young lady. Popuri was very beautiful infact, in his eyes. He pondered for a moment, but quickly came to realize she had just asked him,"Excuse me, may I help you?"
He gave a strange but yet captivating smile," Yes, Uh. What about some,..eh, turnip seeds." He smiled again.
Popuri's eyes slightly widened and her mouth gave a quaint grin, as she turned to pick up the seeds behind her desk. "Here you are", she gave him the seeds. She changed her expression to curious."Are you new around here? I've never seen you before."
"Well, yea. My uh, grandfather just..."
"I'm sorry. I heard.." Popuri lowered her head along with Jack." you're taking over the farm, aren't you?" She lifted her expression.
"I hope I can do it. It's pretty hard to take over a farm that has been run down for the past five years."
"So you'll be staying? How wonderful!"
Out of a graceful guesture, Popuri gave Jack two free bags of cabbage seeds aside the turnips and wished him good luck. As Jack walked out of the door. He sighed a sigh of yearning for his grandfather. The anguish that swooned his heart over sent him home to sleep.
He awoke during the bleak night to realize his eyes were dampened with tears. They hurt to no accruement. He had never conceptualized that losing someone would be so terrifying. He reckoned that the rest of the day had past while he had dozed. Jack could cry no more. He wished he didn't have to cry: that emotions never existed so. "God! Why do you put me through this?" He sniffed "I never did nothin' wrong! I ain't even wantin' to run this farm!" he lashed out toward the sky after he walked outside.
The angry twenty year old threw his knees into the dirt. Tears crossed his grinding teeth. He grasped the roots of thick uncut grass and pulled them towards his uncovered, sweating chest. His hair swaying gently across his shiny forehead. The boy gave a sigh of relief and closed his eyes as he tilted his head towards the empty sky above. He dropped the grass and shifted his legs to be in front of him. Sitting now with his arms folded over his bent knees, he calmed himself. He almost felt as though God had spoken to him. The tears in his eyes dried. Blue moonlight glaring upon his sweated body, made him look enchanting. Over and over again, he thought of how to make his grandfather proud of him. But he couldn't He took a colourfully quilted blanket from his closet and lied on it outside for the night.
"Ung...ah!" Jack was awakened to a familiar face. Karen had come to visit him.
"Um...are you okay? Did I come at the wrong time?" she was unsure of what Jack was doing. He stood from his mat he lied on the night before and lifted it up to his neck.
He laughed hesitantly,"No, I just need to um...can you just stay right there out side for a minute. I won't take long, I promise."
With the quilt held to his neck he stepped backwards towards his cabin while staring at Karen as though he was very nervous. Jack had been very remorseful for Karen to see him undressed, asleep, on a blanket, outside. After he dressed in his house, he walked outside to see that she wasn't there anymore. Wondering were she was, he saddled his horse, Rage, left to him by his father. He mounted and left the farm. The chalky dirt arose around the horses tall legs. For about twenty minutes dirt lined the walls of Johnny's mouth.With so much dust and unclean air, he could tell that summer was aproaching.
With the help of a cantine of water, he made it to the vineyard. The roads were brick now, so he didn't have to worry about breathing in too much dust. He rode up to Karen's house and knocked on the door. There was no reply."Karen, it's Jack," He knocked again, still with no reply. "Hello? Is anyone here?" carefully, he opened the door to find Shasha lying still on the floor. Recklessly, he ran to her side to listen to her breath. She was unconscious, though he picked her up with reassurance that she was still breathing. Quickly he ran to the doctor, Hardy...
"Will she be okay?" Jack questioned the concerned look on Hardy's face."I found her lying on the floor."
"She'll be okay," Hardy answered, satisfied that Jack had found her in high time."It looks as though she didn't just fall or slip unexpectedly. I would say that she was made unconscious by a blow to the face." Hardy, looked at Jacks uneasy face. Almost as if he had expected some tragic happening to have occured, he asked," Jack, was anyone else at the house? Karen or Gotz?"
"No, that is what I am worried about. Karen came to visit me this morning, but..." An intense, painful feeling of repugnance filled his heart. He feared of what was to befall Karen, if anything had already happened. "I'm going out to find Karen. She needs to know what's happened to her mother."
"Jack, wait!" Hardy grabbed Jacks shoulder."We need to put together a search party."
Jack agreed, but in his heart he knew that he couldn't linger for a much greater time. That night, Jeff, Cliff, Grey, the Pastor of the Church, Rick, the head carpenter and his carpenters, along with the mayor, all agreed to be part of the search party. But Jack didn't show up.
"Where is Jack?" Grey announced.
"I don't know. He was suppose to be here ten minutes ago." Cliff suggested with a notion that Jack had already left.
"I'll go check his house," Rick blurted out. He saddled his horse and mounted on the top of Stag. Immediately, Cliff understood that Rick had liked Karen for quite some time now. She had three lovers now, but who was the third?
Cliff stood between the doorway and watched as Rick rode to the end of the horizon. He wasn't going to Jacks house. He left to catch up with who ever had messed with Karen.
BIG CLIFFE! YEA! sure...