CHAPTER 7

Later that day Yuna couldn't work out why Marlene was acting so different than what she had on the airship. Now Marlene just sat in her room silent holding back tears, Yuna and Tidus had tried to talk to her but they couldn't get anything out of her.

Tidus walked upstairs and put a hand on Yuna's shoulder. Yuna was sitting on the bed reading. "She's not a bad kid Yuna." He said sitting on the end of the bed. "I don't know what's wrong with her but I bet that she has a reason to act this way." Yuna looked up at him. "She doesn't look like that sort of person."

Yuna smiled and shook her head. "I know she's not that kind of person, but I just want to know why she acts the way she has for these few days. We can't get anything out of her."

"Then I'll see if I can." She watched as Tidus stood up and left the room. "Marlene." He softly called through her door. When there was no answer when he called the second time he opened the dark wooden door. When he saw Marlene his heart went out to her. She was curled up on her bed with her face in her knees sobbing. "Hey. What is it?" Tidus asked her sitting on the bed and putting his hand on her back. "No one can help if you don't tell us."

Marlene knew they wouldn't stop until she spoke up. "This is the day mommy died." She sobbed remembering the horrifying murder that had gone on in the up stairs bedroom, remembering watching her own mother being slaughtered.

"Oh. Well if you told me about it then you wouldn't feel as bad?" Tidus suggested for her sake.

Marlene nodded ready to talk. "It was night time. Mommy was tucking me in bed and was going to read me a bed time story. There was a big window down stairs, we heard it break. Mommy ran out of the room and looked down stairs. She ran back into the room and put me in the wardrobe, she told me to there until help arrived and to not make any noise. A man came upstairs, he had a knife. He kept on hitting mommy with it, she was screaming. She fell off the bed dead. The man who did it to her dragged her downstairs. It turned out she wasn't dead I could still hear her screaming. When I went down stairs there was blood every where. It was on the walls, the beds, the floor, every where." Marlene started to cry hard as she remembered the events. "I couldn't help her."

Tidus felt sick as she had explained all those events, but then imagined how she felt and would have felt. Tidus put his arms around her and tried his hardest to hug her. Tidus stood up when he heard what sounded like moaning outside the door. He walked over to the door and opened it; he was shocked to see Yuna sitting on the floor holding her large stomach. Tidus helped her of the floor supporting her back and holding her up. "It's too soon!" She screamed. Tidus looked back at the floor where Yuna was laying and saw a wet patch there.

Tidus helped Yuna back into their room and helped her on the bed. "Stay here! I'm gonna go get Lulu!" Tidus shouted running out the room and downstairs.

"Well I'm not exactly going any where am I?" Yuna screamed back.

Marlene could hear loud screaming coming from Yuna's room and wondered what was going on. The last time she had heard screams like that it had been from her mother. Not wanting to lose any one else Marlene chose to be brave this time. She got off her bed and looked through the door in Yuna's room. She heard loud foot steps and saw Tidus and Lulu running upstairs. "What's happening?" She asked Tidus who was moving her away from the door.

Tidus quickly explained it and ran into the room that Yuna was in. Yuna was in labour for seventeen hours! Marlene had gone over to Wakka and Lulu's house so that she could be with someone and not having painful memories.

Late at night Marlene was awoken by a small child's cry. She could see that it wasn't Vidina so she quickly ran back to Tidus and Yuna's home. She ran into the bedroom where Yuna looked extremely tired and so did Lulu, when she looked up though Tidus was holding a small baby in his arms wrapped up in towels. He bent down so that Marlene could see the new member of the family.

"She looks like you." Marlene said seeing that the baby had blonde hair and tanned skin."

Tidus shook his head. "It's a boy." he told her standing back up. Marlene smiled and walked over to the tired Yuna.

"Are you okay?" She asked seeing how tired she was.

Yuna nodded. "I'm more okay than I ever have been." Marlene looked up at Tidus again and saw him putting the child into Yuna's arms.

After a few hours of looking at the family every one said that it was late and time to rest. All that night Marlene thought of how nice it would be to have a little brother in the house even if they wern't related.

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