Disclaimer: You should realize by now that I don't and never will own anything that deals with Chrno Crusade. I don't even own the dvd! TT (Downloaded them)

Thank you NightElfCrawler for pointing out my mistake. I put the Chrno has a braid in his demon form. He doesn't, only in his child and adult form, so now let's all pretend that Chrno didn't have a braid in his demon form in the last chapter. Thanx you for bearing with me!

I was listening to this song (Evanescence is really good =D) and I thought that this is what Chrno would be thinking of when he thinks about Rosette. Don't you guys agree? (sorry that it came out in caps, but I'm too lazy to retype it in lower case letters)

YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME

BUT I REMEMBER YOU

I LIE AWAKE AND TRY SO HARD

NOT TO THINK OF YOU

BUT WHO CAN DECIDE WHAT THEY DREAM?

AND DREAM I DO...

I BELIEVE IN YOU

I'LL GIVE UP EVERYTHING JUST TO FIND YOU

I HAVE TO BE WITH YOU TO LIVE TO BREATHE

YOU'RE TAKING OVER ME

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ALL I KNOW

AND ALL WE HAD?

YOU SAW ME MOURNING MY LOVE FOR YOU

AND TOUCHED MY HAND

I KNEW YOU LOVED ME THEN

I BELIEVE IN YOU

I'LL GIVE UP EVERYTHING JUST TO FIND YOU

I HAVE TO BE WITH YOU TO LIVE TO BREATHE

YOU'RE TAKING OVER ME

I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SEE YOUR FACE

IF I LOOK DEEP ENOUGH

SO MANY THINGS INSIDE THAT ARE

JUST LIKE YOU ARE TAKING OVER ME

Taking Over Me

By: Evanescence

NightElfCrawler: Yay! You're my first reviewer again! (waves a banner) =D Oh thanx for pointing out my mistake! I watched the anime again and realized that Chrno has shorter hair in his demon form than in his adult and child form, so my bad. I don't think that I'll go that crazy with the household name. I'll just search my brain for a name (if I can find it, its summer so it's gone on vacation) I have part of the plot in place, so I'm not completely hopeless =D, but I'm more of a spur of the moment person. Hehe.

jainga: aww thanx you. That was nice, glad I don't put the manga nad anime to shame. Don't worry the ending wotn be as depressing, I couldn't stand them (they made me cry TT) so that's why I wrote this!

just a reader: thanx for the idea. I'll be using some of it. Thought I won't get in Chrno choosing between Rosette and Magdelena (thought Rosette would win. Yay!) that'll be digging my own grave, I'm not that good of a writed to pull that off! But nightelfcrawler did. Glad that you liked his entrance it was hard writing that. =D

evilanimeblond22: aww thanx. Glad that you liked my chapter.

ruby-dream: Yea, Rosette should buy Joshua a new skateboard. She gonna be spending lots of money! Don't worry she'll be getting all her memories back; it wouldn't be the same without it! But I'm not saying when...

Geonitz: You're a genius!! Thanx for the idea! I'm defiantly going to be using it!

Rosette Christopher: thanx for reviewing agian, and here's more for you!

YumeTakato: Here's your update!

irdri: Hehe thanxs. Don't worry I will.

jazzywolf: Thanx you very much. I'm glad that you liked it.

The year is 2044, over a hundred years since her death. With an evil threatening to reoccur for the third time, the world may have no choice but to call forth her power, and reunite her with what killed her, in hopes that she may bring about the salvation of the world. Chrno x Rosette, Joshua x Az
She was there. She was right there in front of him. Blond hair askew, sapphire eyes filled with questions.

He had been in the bank when the demons had barged in and demanded the teller to giver the keys to all the safety deposit boxes. He couldn't do anything. A man had already tried to stop them and he and another person had ended up being killed. If he could transform into his true form, then he could beat them, no problem. Except there wasn't enough room, people were pressed up on all sides of him, if he transformed now then people would be hurt, not that they weren't already.

When the teller had fumbled with the keys, one of the demons had picked up a little girl, threatening that he would kill her if she didn't hurry up. Chrno clenched his fists, he had to do something! And when the demon had been burned with holy water and the girl rescued by another person he had rushed out and killed the low level legion easily. The he had blocked all the attacks from the other demons that tried to get to the two girls behind him, but he couldn't do much in his human form.

He had finally transformed when he heard a boy cry out and killed the demon that was attacking him and the girl from earlier. He still hadn't realized who she was, but when she called put at him, it struck a painful cord inside him. He turned to look at her; he couldn't help but utter her name. How could she be here?

She was dead.

Killed over a hundred years ago.

By him.

Time hadn't made the wound any less painful. And it took all he had to wretch his eyes away from her and block an attack from another demon. Twisting, he brought his tail up and ran the other demon through. There was one more demon left, with its long dirty tangled hair streaming past its head and all four gangly limbs touching the ground. It took one look at Chrno and ran for the entrance, headless of the chaotic mess around it. But it was stopped short when a gun was pointed at its ugly head.

"I wouldn't be doing that if I were you." A clam Yuan said.

"Yuan!" Both Rosette and Joshua shouted.

It took Chrno a couple seconds to remember who the man was in front of the demon. "Remington." He said as he remembered the blond man.

Yuan's eyes flicked up and met Chrno's a series of emotions flashing through them. Yuan then nodded his head at the demon and Chrno got the message. He moved so that he was now behind the demon, trapping it in between the two of them.

"Why were you here?" Yuan asked in an ice cold voice.

The demon just hissed at them.

"Don't pretend that you can't speak their language," Chrno said in a low voice, "Answer truthfully and we let you live."

The demon hissed again.

"Why were you here?" Yuan asked once more.

"To retrieve an object." The demon said slowly.

"What?" Chrno demanded.

"It was not made known to me." The demon replied.

Chrno listened intently and picked up accelerated heart beat of the demon in front of them.

"You're lying." He said flatly nodding to Yuan to apply more pressure to the gun pressed to the demon's forehead. "One more chance, what did you come for?"

The demon began to panic. "We were supposed to retrieve an object that looked like an old pocket watch."

Chrno felt his blood run cold. "Who sent you?" He growled.

"I don't know." The demon stammered. "We were offered a large sum of money if we retrieved the watch.

Chrno glanced up at Yuan. "He's telling the truth. Let him go." And Chrno turned his back and stalked away into the bank.

Yuan lowered the gun and stepped aside, letting the demon pass by him. "If I see you again, you're dead." He told the demon as it scurried away.

He walked over to where Rosette and Joshua were, and motioned for them to get up. Chrno then chose to appear a couple feet behind him.

"We have to talk." Yuan said.

"I know." Chrno sighed, his gaze resting on the siblings, but more on Rosette than Joshua.

Rosette opened her mouth to voice a question but was cut off by Yuan.

"I'll fill you two in later." He promised.

Rosette surprisingly said nothing and just stared at Chrno, who had by now returned to his human adult form, with questions in her eyes. Joshua knew better than to second guess Yuan's and his sister's action followed Rosette's action.

"We can go back to my place." Chrno said, running a hand through his hair, and walked out, Yuan following him.

Rosette stared after the two of them. The demon had looked surprisingly familiar, she had recognized him from her dreams, but she had also felt a sense of déjà vu. Something was bugging her in the back of her mind. She felt that she should know this demon, but she couldn't for the life of her remember who he was.
Later the two men found themselves at Chrno's finely furbished apartment.

"Beer?" He offered Yuan.

The other man accepted as Chrno sat across from him at the table.

"Well this time we had a fairly nice reunion." Yuan said, his voiced laced with humor.

"No missing Joshua. No frozen orphanage. No contract..." Chrno stopped there. "Well Remington, we seemed to have started off on a friendlier foot this time."

"Oh so true." Yuan said. "So what have you been up to all these years?"

"Probably the same that you've been doing." Chrno replied.

"A demon exorcist. Well, I wouldn't have really expected you to do anything else. You must be pretty successful, considering our surroundings."

"The first couple decades I was, but I haven't really done anything in the past couple years, except for a bit of traveling." He smiled ruefully, "They wanted to do that too, you know, Rosette and Joshua."

"I remember." Yuan said quietly.

"Was it really her?" Chrno asked softly, voice contracted with emotion.

"Ah." Yuan replied.

"Reincarnation?" asked Chrno as he took a sip of his beer, his eyes both unsure and hopeful. "How can you be so sure?"

"I had my doubts at first too, but after seeing too many similarities between their counterparts over 100 years ago and now." Yuan calmly stated.

"But why would she come back now? The world is full of danger where she could easily get hurt-" Chrno started.

"Which is perhaps why she has come back, with Joshua too. The world might need her again." Yuan interrupted. "I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other apostles turned up too. But I thought that you would be happy to see her again. It must have been hell living without her all these years. You obviously haven't lost any of your love for her."

Chrno's face showed raw, painful emotion that proved Yuan correct for a second before his face closed up once again.

"It has been." He muttered, more to himself than to Yuan, he took a long swipe of his beer. "I keep seeing reminders of her. A pink dress she once wore, a gun she would have loved, a shade of blue so close to the color of her eyes." His voice chocked up slightly on this, showing Yuan just a little bit of what he must have been going through. "But when I saw her, she didn't even recognize me. All she knew me as, was the man from her dreams."

"You would have rather been the man of her dreams." Yuan said as he cracked a small smile.

"That I would." Chrno said quietly as he finished his beer and started on a second one.

A silence settled between them.

"Her heart recognizes you." Yuan said, looking the demon in the eyes. A glimmer of hope was there, and Yuan felt compelled to turn it into more than a spark, for both Chrno and Rosette's sake. "She has told me that she has been reaching out for this other person-"

"Me" Stated Chrno, with a slight note of challenge in his voice.

"Yes you. But she does not know it. There is a possibility that if she stays around you long enough she might begin to remember, Joshua too. Though I do not know if that would be such a good idea, it took him five years for his mind to revert out of a twelve-year-old's and if he remembers it might harm him." Yuan finished.

"We can't stop memories, but we can help him bear them." Chrno said.

"Why were you at the bank?" Yuan asked.

Chrno smiled, "For the same reason that the other demons were." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the watch and set it on the table.

"Who do you think sent them?" Yuan asked.

"Aion, it couldn't be anyone else."

"Will he come after you to get the watch?"

"No, he probably just wanted it to... prevent some difficult situations in the future."

Yuan's eyebrows furrowed in the middle of his forehead. "Explian."

"Aion lost his horns, and he still hasn't found them. So he probably wanted the watch for a future source of power. But it wouldn't be that big of a deal for him, he managed so far without his horns and if I have it, he knows that I won't use it."

"Makes sense." Yuan murmured.

"What doesn't is why he is becoming so active all of a sudden." Chrno said thoughtfully.

Yuan gave him a small smile. "I think that I might know why."

Chrno gave him a questioning gaze.

"I did some research a couple days ago to find out your whereabouts and found some very interesting information. It seems that there was a fourth Fatima's prophecy that no one knew about."

"How could that be?" Chrno asked.

"Well, unlike the first three, that were all given at the same time. The fourth one was given about thirty years after the original three. The third prophecy was about another great war, World War Two. The fourth one, from what I could gather, was about yet another great war, but this time it would be one that would not be fought between countries, but instead by humans and demons."

"A third great war. Are we supposed to be fighting this one too?"

"Who knows? It didn't say when it would happen, but my guess is that if Aion is becoming active again, its probably to bring this about."

"Then were in for a hell of a lot of trouble." Chrno stated.

"True, that's why I have a proposition for you." Yuan said, "I figure that if Aion is responsible for the little heist today then he probably already knows about Rosette and Joshua. You guys did cause a lot of trouble for him in the past, so he might be thinking of causing trouble for them. Even if he doesn't, we still have an obligation, because of our pasts, to at least try and stop him this time."

"So you want me to work with you." Chrno said, a hint of a smile was playing around his mouth, they both knew what the man was hinting at. Getting to know Rosette again.

"To sum it all up."

"Deal." There was no way Chrno was going to pass up this chance to be near Rosette.

And at that the two men shook hands.
The next morning Yuan was awakened by a frustrated Rosette glaring at him from beside his bed.

"Who the hell was that?" Rosette screamed at Yuan. "Sure he was tall and sexy-"Rosette clamped her hand over her mouth. "I did not just say that."

Yuan started to laugh.

"Rosette pipe down, you'll wake up the neighbors. He was a demon right?" Joshua asked slowly, the teen was still half asleep, having been awakening by his nosiy sister.

"It's already eight, they should be up anyway." Rosette scowled. "Anyone could tell that Chrno is a demon, but how did you know him?"

Yuan looked at Rosette, Surprise evident in his face. "How did you know his name?"

"Didn't you say it?" A flustered Rosette asked.

"Nope." Yuan said, he smiled slightly and continued on. "Chrno, is my new partner, and our new colleague."

"That means we'll be seeing more of him right?" Joshua asked.

"Right." Yuan said, "And you guys better get moving, school starts in half an hour!"

"Damn it." Rosette mumbled as she ran to her room to get ready. She was confused, how had she known his name? Ah, too confusing, she would think about it later.
Later turned out to be in math class. Rosette let the teacher's voice drone on in the back of her head, as she sketched out lightly the demon's form, where her calculations were supposed to be. He seemed so familiar. Maybe she had fought a demon like him before? No, she would have remembered a fight like that. All the demons that she had fought were usually low level legions.

"Who's that Rosette?" Her friend Elizabeth whispered.

"Chrno." She replied absent mindedly before realizing what she said.

"And he's....?" Elizabeth trailed off.

"No one Lizze." Rosette replied.

"Sureeeeeeeee." Elizabeth said, drawing out the syllables, "Does my little Rosette have a crush on a demon?"

"No!" Rosette shouted.

"Miss. Christopher, is there something in my teachings that you have such a strong protest to?" The teacher asked, while her classmates snickered around her.

"No Ma'am." Rosette murmured, catching Elizabeth's apologetic gaze. She smiled at her to let her know that she had been forgiven.

"Good now I would appreciate it if you would pay attention."

"Yes Ma'am."

Rosette walked in the door with Joshua trailing closely behind her. Of all the nerve that Yuan had! Making them take the bus and then walking for another twenty minutes with twenty-pound school bags to drag them down. He had just probably wanted to get out of her questioning him more in the car. Well he was going to go through hell now!

Rosette dropped her school bag beside her shoes and then stomped over to where his office was. As she approached she could her him talking to someone on the phone.

"Well, at least you made a good impression on her. In the morning she demanded to know who the tall, strange se-"

Yuan stopped short, the words on the tip of his tongue as he stared at the fuming blonde that had just slammed his door open. "Uh-oh I'm in trouble."

The person on the other line, presumably Chrno, said something.

"Yeah she's here."

More talking from Chrno.

"Good suggestion, tha-" Yuan was unable to complete his sentence as the phone was ripped out of his hand and now held by a very angry Rosette.

She dropped the phone as she advanced on him, each step promising a lot of pain. Yuan backed up.

"What were you saying about me?" She asked very quietly, each word seething with anger.

"Rosette be reasonable, if you hurt me there are plenty of witnesses around." Yuan said calmly, a sweat drop forming on his head. He might be used to facing death by the hands of demons, but a very angry Rosette was not someone to mess with.

She took another step towards him. "Oh I don't think that Joshua will be ratting out on me."

"I don't think that he minded that you said that about him, he probably liked..." Yuan trailed off as he could literally see the steam coming out from Rosette's ears. Woops, he thought, that was probably the wrong thing to say.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" Rosette shouted, "YOU MAKE ME WALK HOME WITH A TWENTY-POUND BACKPACK, AND I COME HOME TO HERE YOU SAYING THIS?"

"Uhhh..." Yuan waved his hands in front of his face, a desperate look forming on his face.

Joshua walked over and picked up the phone that Rosette had dropped, as she continued to scream. Plugging one ear with his finger and holding the phone to his other one Josuha started to talk.

"Hello, you're the demon that we saw the other night right?" He asked. "Correct, my name is Chrno." Chrno answered.

"Hmmm, that's a nice name."

"Is Remington still alive?" Chrno asked.

"Remington? Oh Yuan, ya Rosette just chased him out of the room screaming bloody murder."

"That would explain why it has gotten quieter, I thought that maybe he was dead. Can you tell Remington that I'll drop it off later tomorrow?"

"Drop what off?"

"Oh, it's just some stuff that I don't need anymore, he seemed interested in it, so I offered it to him."

"Are you doing anything for dinner tomorrow?"

"No, why do you ask?"

"Oh, then do you want to come over for dinner? We should do something to repay you for saving Rosette the other night and it'll be a good chance to get to know you, since you'll be working with us."

Chrno hesitated in answering. Silently he weighted his possibilities. If he went to dinner he would see Rosette, however she might be mad at him for saving her the other day, he would guess that Rosette still wasn't the type that liked to play damsel in distress. But it was better then sitting at his apartment alone again.

"Sure, but are you sure that they wont mind?"

"Nope, I'm cooking so I can invite anyone I want. Come at 6:30 tomorrow. Ja!" And with that Joshua hung up. Walking outside of Yuan's office he found Rosette waving a gun around screaming.

"WHERE ARE THOSE DAMN BULLETS!?"

Yuan was no where to be seen.

"Nee, nee-san?" Joshua said carefully, "Chrno's is coming for dinner tomorrow." When he'd had finished saying those words, Joshua fled to the safety of his room.

Rosette stood in the kitchen, gun forgotten in her hand.

"WHAT!?"

-End Ch. 3-

So what did you guys think? More of the plot comes in with a little bit of other stuff. But I dunno, it seems a bit too predicable for my liking. That's probably because I've been reading it over and over. Thanx to Geonitz for the idea about the 4th Fatima's prophecy. Just some food for thought, but what should Chrno drive? I have absolutely know clue about cars, so could you guys help me on that? Thanx!

Srry, there's no previe this time becaus I don't have any of the next chapter typed up. forgive me!

Please review on your way out!