Weihnachten Fotographie

"A photograph is nothing but a memory frozen in time."

Chapter 6

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Last Time: He sighed, "Alright, But it's a long story..."

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"That's alright, we have time, days even.", Emiko placated, taking another spoonful of her five-star-resturaunt quality soup.

Krad sighed, "Fine, fine. I'll tell you.", He had hoped that his reluctance would deter her, unfortunaltley hopes never seem to work properly as it only seemed to send her curiousity on even more of a joy ride.

Another sigh was heard from the blonde, "What I am about to tell you is entirely the truth. Not an ounce of fiction can be squeezed out of it, although I wish sometimes it could...", He trailed off fot a moment to gather his thoughts, grateful and slightly irritated by the silence that ensued.

"I really have no idea where I'm from, and plenty of patches of my memory are...just...not there..."

"For a good part of my younger life I roamed around a bit with what you'd call nowadays a 'gang', but it wasn't like that...more of a...", He was silent for a moment searching for the right word when Dark interjected.

"Band?", He supplied helpfully.

Krad nodded, "Yeah..'band', thanks..", He mumbled before returning to his 'narration'.

"So, we traveled around a bit, in this 'band' we were all theives. Stealing stuff was second nature; Like breathing, but we never stole needlessly or wasted anything, just took what we needed. I guess that doesn't sound as eloquent as I'd like worded that way, but there's really no other way to...And back to the story."

"We travled and we eventually came to a town...", Taking a couple deep breaths to calm himself enough to retell the part that was coming up he began unconciously fiddling with his long blonde hair.

"Well...we ran into some high-up guy, who had all the people adressing him by 'lord' or 'duke', a real stuck-up sort. But, anyways..He claimed to be my father, at first I didn't beleive him, who would!.? I mean, he just came up and went 'You're my son. I thought you died. Rember me?', I had half a mind to curse at him then, but he was able to prove it."

"I still didn't trust him though,", He paused for a moment, watching the expressions on his listeners' faces for a moment before returning to his speech-thing.

"I was right not t-to...t-that night, well, he, uh, t-this isn't easy to say...but, he..."

At this moment he really didn't want to continue, but not seeing any understing on his audience's faces he forced himself into a detached emotionless persona before continuing.

"He raped me.", He said, looking up from playing with his strand of hair at the simoltaneous gasp from both Dark and Emiko.

"Please, let me continue. Don't say anything..."

Nodding silently they kept their mouths shut, witing for him to continue.

"He did it more than once, I don't remember how many times or even my supposed age..."

"A few days later, or maybe it was a month...I can't really tell, my memory's very fuzzy around this point...Well, the band and I ran away from the place...Went to another city...Soon after we had arrived most of them started falling ill; and died soon after...I think I ran...I can't remember that far..."

"And the only memory I have after that is being chased by Dark...Alright, Talk. I know that sounded like a piece of some depraved teenager's 'I-want-your-pity-'cause-my-life-sucks' fiction, but it's not.", He said, attention never leaving his fingers intertwined in his hair resting on his lap, the shadows of the candlelight making odd yet enchanting patterns on them.

Emiko just looked at the blonde for a moment before getting up and bringing her bowl back to the sink, not saying a word. She hadn't known it'd be that bad, and what was with the blank spots in his memory that he claimed to have? She wondered.

"That was intersting!", Dark chirped, purposley-on-accident hitting the blonde with his elbow. Slowly the blonde looked up and Dark nearly winced from the hollowness of the blondes' golden eyes, who simply nodded.

"...I guess..."

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Ck: Wowers, that was fun! Has anyone read a flashback entirley in dialogue before!.? 'Cause that was alotta fun! And yeah, I guess this was semi-angsty. Cookies to anyone who can guess what the blank spots in Krad's memory are!

Reviewer Replies:

Kyuseisha no Hikari
2005-11-16
Glad you like that!And alongside an excellent chapter, as well! "excellent in nearly every aspect"/Dies again/ With all the time you've killed me with you're nice-ness I'm surprised this still gets upadated!
Update quickly: I guess you can't say that all the good fics never get updated anymore XP

Respond to your reviewers, That's a must!
Have, so far, the cutest most wonderful plot, /Dies/ Yet again... I'm glad you like!
Are a wonderful writer, ...More authress death...But, Thank you!
Don't seem to have any visible errors in the text I only have WordPad, no MS word or editor, so to hear that makess me giddy!
Thsnks for your luck! I hope you'll still be with me for the next chapter!

Hakudoshi-chan /u/561049/
How's this for 'UPDATE SOON'?

neko-nya /u/622995/

That's funny what you did to your friend! "sweeping krad off his feet"?...I'm afraid I don't understand...

leon shinosha

"humor, mystery, and angst!", I liked that line. And I want to finish this one too! That's why everything else is on hold until I finish it!

Koway Oceshia /u/847477/
You didn't have to wait long! I spoil you guys!