Summary: Mega might finally have found love only to find out that he will loose it if he cannot prove his love by midnight. With other complications in the Mall, will he ever manage it?
Pairings: Mava, Rega, Slebony, Jady and Lex/Ram – some only references to though.
Rating: PG-13 for this chapter I think, there is some mild language.
Disclaimer: I own nothing; the Tribe belongs to Cloud 9 and Mr. Thomas. All I do is destroy their characters in fanfic.
Chapter Six
"What am I going to do?" Mega wondered to himself as he walked into his bedroom, "Well other than worry about the fact that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness you could always talk about the problem to me", Trudy's voice suggested.
"This day just keeps going from bad to worse", Mega sighed to himself as he turned around to see Trudy standing just outside his room door, he figured that she must have followed him just as he entered his room, but out loud he merely asked, "Oh and what good would that do? In case you have not noticed Trudy I am an evil heartless creature that you should not want to talk to, if I told you anything you would probably have nightmares for a month and as much as that would amuse me I have no desire to have Jay following me everywhere demanding to know what I did to you and trying to seduce Java. You really must stop him from doing that",
Trudy started on one of her main (extremely long) talks about how talking to people about problems helped and how he was not entirely evil when she heard his comment about Jay and Java, immediately she jumped on the offensive.
"What is it about Java that you are always so damned nervy when she is near Jay? Jay is with me, or Amber, he is not interested in Java", Trudy almost shouted in frustration.
Mega picked up on something else other than anger in her tone though, sadness. "What is the matter, wonder boy sleeping around again?" He asked, turning in his computer chair to look at her.
"Maybe, I do not know. He probably is, he wants Amber, I know that much and I know that he had that thing with Ebony and possibly even Java a while back but that is all over now. He is with me now, and he is loyal", Trudy said, trying to convince herself halfway through.
"Are you trying to convince me or yourself there Trudy?" Mega wondered as he heard what she was saying. He could not help it; there was something about Trudy that he could not help but talk to her. It had started by just trying to get information out of her but over the last few months - especially when Java was in the coma – he had come to talk to Trudy more and more. No one could say that they were friends or anything of the kind but there was defiantly an element to which he knew her well enough to care a little. When he heard of her insecurity he got slightly annoyed.
"Myself I guess. I mean Jay is everything that a man should be, he is gorgeous, a good guy, he is really special. I know that I am not good enough for him and I understand if he wants to be with Amber but I just do not think that I can take it anymore. I gave him a second chance and for a while everything was fine but then he cheated on me with her again. He wants to come back to me again but I do not know if I should take him back", Trudy said with a sigh.
"Of course he wants to come back. He tried the gorgeous woman, but Java would not go out with him and he showed that he was no gentleman as he would not leave her alone. Then he went for the fiery woman, but Ebony was to hot for him to handle. Then the city leader but she had nothing to keep him interested so he went for the nice safe choice, a reasonably attractive woman, kind, with a child. Surely she would never leave him, and for once he was right. He will just keep walking over you Trudy, if he gives you proof that he will treat you right and you cannot live without him then take him back but if not then let him rot in hell", Mega said, his tone annoyed.
To Mega it seemed ridiculous, if you loved someone enough to be with them then you needed to be loyal to them, if you did not love them, then you should not be with them at all. It was quite simple. He did not understand why there was all this drama between Jay, Trudy and Amber.
"Thank-you for the advice, but enough about me, what was that problem that you were thinking of, I have never heard you saying that you did not know what to do before unless it had something to do with Java", Trudy prompted.
Mega's first instinct was to tell her to mind her own business, it was one thing for her to tell him her feelings and wonder how to fix them but he did not want to open himself up but his desperation to have Java back was too great for him to be able to pass up the opportunity to have a woman's opinion.
"Okay. Java has given me until midnight to prove my love for her and I have absolutely no idea how to do so", Mega finally admitted.
"Ask her to marry you, which would prove that you love her", Trudy said with a dreamy expression.
Mega tried to suppress his evil snicker; he could hardly believe that even Trudy could be dense enough to believe that. He could hardly believe just how sweet she was to believe that a ring would keep a man loyal if he would not have been loyal anyway.
He was evil, he really was yet at that moment he had an idea and getting up and ushering Trudy out of the room he said, "Well I am sure that things will work themselves out. I have something to do now", and with that he left Trudy looking perplexed.
Within a few minutes he had found Jay and grabbed him by the throat and forced him into a wall, "Listen Jay, Trudy loves you and she is the best choice for you. Personally, I would rather see rot but that would not help Trudy so you are going to decide once and for all now, do you love her? Are you going to stay loyal to her and ask her to marry you?" Mega growled.
"Okay", Jay answered, knowing that he had no choice if he did not want to make an enemy of Mega and because he did want Trudy.
"Then bugger off, make your over the top overly romantic and wishy-washy proposal, but if I ever find that you cheated on her then I will tear you apart", Mega announced, rolling his eyes as Jay beat a hasty retreat.
Mega glanced at his watch, it read 5:30 meaning that Java would be in the bath about to waste countless hours bathing, he wished that he could see her at that moment but he could hardly tell her that he loved her when she was in the bath tub, it would not be very romantic.
It took less than a second for Mega to realise his own stupidity. There he was thinking about how stupid it was that Ebony needed a massive show of affection to realise true love and how Trudy thought that marriage was the answer to all of her problems, yet here he was trying to think of the most romantic and utterly ridiculous way of her proving himself to Java when he should not have to, as the way that he said it would not change the meaning of his words.
His decisions made, Mega marched towards Java's room and straight into the bathroom to see Java in the bath as he had expected.
Java gasped at the sudden intrusion and turned around to see who had opened the door, fully ready to yell at the impertinent person, yet stopped upon seeing Mega.
"What are you doing here Mega? I thought that you were going to prove yourself at midnight under the tree. What, have you decided that I am not worth it?" She asked in a quivering voice, she did not want that, but knew that it was better that he said that now if he had to, rather than in a years time when she had already been through even more pain.
"No Java", Mega said closing the door behind him and kneeling next to the bath tub as he took her hands in his looking deep into her eyes, "You said that I had until midnight. I know that you think that I should have waited until midnight, sang to you, begged you to believe that I love you and proposed but the truth is that it would not have meant anything and it would have just made you wait longer for my answer".
"I know that there are many things that one is meant to do to be romantic, buy flowers that people do not like and that once picked will die within a few days, buy expensive chocolates which taste horrible rather than the kind that people actually like, and listen to soppy music that neither no one actually likes and that is all fine if that is what other people want to con themselves that they want but the point is that I know that neither of us want any of those things. That is why I am not going to con you with my acting skills, but tell you the truth", he announced.
"You are not the kind of woman that a man wants to be with, you are demanding, heartless most of the time, selfish, evil, jealous and hundreds of bad qualities and I am even worse but the point is that for me, you are simply perfect. I get frustrated by how much you talk about needless things but at the same time I am desperate to hear everything that you have to say. I am not going to propose to you either, I do not want to give you something that binds you to me forever because of a piece of metal rather than love", he continued.
"I know that I do not say that I love you enough or ever in fact but the point is that I do and I will never be the kind of person who is comfortable with public displays of affection but that does not mean that I do not feel it. That is why I am promising you something more than marriage and you are in no way required to reciprocate – although I would be the happiest man in the world if you did", Mega looked down for a second catching his breath.
For the first time in his life he was truly vulnerable, she could destroy him with a word yet he had to tell her, "Java, I love you. And I promise to truly love you forever, I promise that if you were to turn around tomorrow and run off with Ram, that I would still love you until my dying breath and beyond. In this new world even I cannot control the future all the time and I cannot promise that I will never get married and watch you break down as the other woman walks into my arms but my heart will always be with you. If you never hear these words from my lips again just know that I am forever yours, I would go to hell to make sure that you were never inconvenienced and I will never have room for anyone else in my heart other than you".
The weight of what he said finally hit Java with an unexpected force, she had asked for love, expecting a brief show but with no content and instead had been given more than she could have ever imagined. She looked into his eyes and saw the feelings that she thought that she must be crazy for feeling mirrored in his eyes.
For once honest words spilled from her lips without difficult, "I love you the same way Mega. There is nothing that anyone in the world could say or do which could ever stop me loving you".
In that moment the everything was right for the Mega and Java as they realised that there love would never die and that the one would never be without the comfort of the other again … and that despite contrary belief that it was possible to have sex in a bath.