Chapter 17: The truth.

"Thomas!" Rain snapped as he sat down, starring into her now red eyes. "What are you doing here?!"

"I…I came to see you." He said shakily. Not turning his eyes away from Shadow. "Umm…"

"Raven. Can Shadow come over here. There is no way we'll get any responses from Thomas this way." Fiona said with a giggle as she moved behind Rain and flopped her arms down on Rain's shoulders with a smirk to Raven. She laid her head on one of her arms and looked at Thomas. Not noticing the odd look Rain had on her face from Fiona leaning on her. "Now Thomas. Why did you just walk in here?"

Thomas gave a small sigh when Raven pulled is finger back and Shadow walked over to him. "I was just seeing if she was awake."

"You are really weird Thomas." Rain said with a chuckle. She shifted uncomfortably under Fiona's weight on her shoulders. "Fiona…" She said quietly. Her body feeling heavy, she needed more sleep. "Can I lay back down?"

Fiona moved off of her and moved over to Thomas. Rain laid down on her stomach and buried her face in a fluffy pillow. "We'll be outside if you need anything, all right?" Fiona said as she helped Thomas up and out of the room. She shoved him into his room with her in tow. "Thomas. If you say anything about what you saw today, you will be face to face with an extremely unhappy Rain."

"Why was she with Raven?"

"Because he loves her. That's why." Fiona said as she sat on his bed. "And I know she loves him, you can see it in her eyes."

"But we need to tell the others Raven is around."

"No Thomas!" Fiona snapped. "If you love Rain what so ever you will not hurt her by doing that. If you love her you'll let her be with the one that she loves. Got that?"

"Uhh, fine. But if she gets caught I'm not saying that I knew."

"Hey Rain?" Raven asked he put a hand on her back. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah Raven." She said muffled with her face pushed in the pillow. "Just a little tired."

He laid down next to her and she turned her head to face his. "You do look tired Rain. Come on, get some more sleep."

"Nah. I'll be fine Raven. I just need some coffee, I promise. And maybe a cold shower."

Shadow grunted in disapproval, she gave him a weak smile as she started to push herself up only to lose against the fight with gravity and fell back on the bed. She turned her face down and groaned as she saw her laptop about to fall off the bed. She reached her hand down to grab it but Raven beat her to it. He picked it up and closed it. He set the laptop on the floor and turned back to face Rain. "I told you that you were tired, but did you listen, nnnnnooooo." He mocked as Rain tried to sit up again. "Rain, why don't you try to stay down." He said pushing her back down. The back of her shirt lifted up a little revealing a small part of her back. Raven looked closer and just about died. "Rain! What happened to your back?" He asked as he reached down to pull up the rest of her shirt to get a better look. Only to get his hand slapped away as Rain flipped over on her back. "Rain?"

"Nothing happened that I ever want to talk about. Got that?"

"Rain? Why don't you tell me?"

"Because I don't want to bring up ancient history."

"Rain?"

"Drop it Raven." Rain snapped as she actually sat up and went into the bathroom and turned on the water to the tub. Raven followed her into the bathroom and wrapped her up in a warm embrace. "Sorry Raven, I didn't mean to snap, I just don't want to talk about it, ok?"

"It's ok Rain. I won't ask again until your willing to tell me." He reached over and turned off the water and turned her around in his arms. "I was telling the truth when I said I loved you Rain."

"Uhhh…" Rain couldn't think straight, she just stared into his deep violet eyes lost in her thought. 'I can't do this again. I won't let myself fall in love, I refuse, I never want to be hurt again.' Her mind screamed but her body told her otherwise. 'You know you like him and he's admitting he loves you. Come on, just say it. I LOVE YOU!' "I uhhh. She looks down than back up completely flushed. "I love you too Raven."

She saw Raven's face brighten up and she let out a relieved sigh. "Thank you Rain. I love to hear you say that." He reached forward and trailed light feathery kisses on her face. "I'll let you take your bath now."

"I don't really need one Raven." She said as she drained the tub. It was only supposed to wake me up. But now I'm awake and ready to greet the world before me."

"My aren't we a big ray of sunshine." He said sarcastically as he pushed her up against the wall and started to kiss her again. She moaned in his mouth when his body pressed up against hers. He broke the kiss and wrapped his arms around her shoulders and she laid her head on his chest. "I never want you to leave me Rain." She could feel his grasp tighten around her and in response she tightened hers. "Please don't leave me Rain, please." She felt something sting the side of her face and she looked up.

"Raven? Are… are you crying?" She asked as she held his face and stared at his eyes. "Raven, why are you crying? I won't leave you, I promise." She stared at him a little longer as his tears started to settle. "Raven?"

"I'm fine Rain. I just remember my family."

"Your family?"

"I don't feel like talking about it right now."

Rain was a little taken back by that line but didn't let it bother her, if she recalled correctly, she said something pretty similar. "All right Raven. I'll wait." She let him go and walked out of the bathroom. Raven in tow. She sat on the bed and flopped down on her back and stared at the ceiling, only to have her vision blocked out by Shadow hovering above her. She reached a hand up and pushed his face out of hers. "Give me a break Shadow, I know I love him."

"I love you too Rain." Raven said as he sat next to her on the bed holding her hand. She only smiled at him than turned her gaze back to the ceiling. "You don't look to good Rain."

"I'm fine." She replied as she sat up, only to get slammed back down by hitting her head on Shadow's body. "Though I might not be anymore, ouch."

Raven reached a hand over and placed it on the top of her head, where she hit it, and laid down next to her and ran his hand across her belly. She let out a small sigh as she turned on her side and faced him. Her eyes were shut and she started drifting in and out of sleep. Raven reached over and swiped some silver tresses off of her face so he could look at her better. She stirred under the contact and woke up again. "Good morning beautiful." Raven said as Rain pushed a palm to her forehead. "what's wrong?"

"Man does my head hurt."

"That's it?" He moved over and crawled halfway on top of her and started kissing her temples. He felt her body tense than relax from his touch. "Come on Rai'. Time to get up."

"Rai'?"

"I don't know, I needed a nickname for yah." He answered as he ran his hand down her arm and grabbed her hand lovingly. "I was just thinking…"

"Please, tell me when it hurts Rave." Rain said with a quiet laugh. "You look a little confused, so does it hurt yet?"

"Very funny Rai'." He said as he helped her up to her feet and pulled her into another warm hug. "Come on. We need to get you into normal clothes."

They heard a soft knock at the door that made Rain jump out of her skin. 'Oh shit!' She thought as she stared at the door. She cleared her throat and looked from the door to Raven, and back to the door. "Umm, who is it?"

"Fiona. Can I come in?"

"Is it just you?" Rain asked cautiously. "Please say yes."

"Of course. Can I come in now?"

Rain left Raven's warm arms and unlocked the door. "You know, you could have done that with your mind, right?" Raven said as he sat down on the bed sulking.

"Sorry Raven. But I needed to make sure no one was behind her." Rain said sadly as she shut the door behind Fiona. "What's up Fi'?

"Everyone wants to stay here today. No one wants to leave." Fiona said as she sat next to Raven. "We sent Thomas and Moonbay out to get breakfast so we don't have to leave. Which gives you good news. I told Van and the others that you just want to sleep. So they decided to leave you alone. He can stay with you." Fiona said happily as she pointed her thumb at Raven. "Aren't you happy."

"That's a stupid question." Rain said as she gave Fiona a hug then got into Raven's arms. "Course I'm happy." She said as Raven pulled her back so she was lying on top of him as he laid on the bed. "So what's for breakfast?"

"I have no idea, but I wouldn't trust it. Remember, they sent Thomas."

Rain's smile disappeared and was replaced with her jutting her finger in the back of her throat while making gagging noises. "I think I'll just skip breakfast." She said as she looked up to see Fiona rolling on the ground clutching her sides laughing as hard as hard as anyone can. (If that's possible.) She had tears rolling down her and couldn't stop laughing. "Fiona?"

They heard slamming on the wall and Van's voice rose over the sound of Fiona's laughter. "FIONA. I SWEAR TO THE GODS I'LL THROW YOU OFF OF THE ROOF IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP!" Van hollered as Irvine added a little chuckle in. "And I'll help Van. If we have to we'll come into Rain's room and pin both of you down." Irvine added. When Fiona heard the line of coming into the room she shut up on the spot and gave Rain a scared glance. "Sorry." She said as innocent as possible.

"It's ok Fi'. I started it." Rain said as she sat up and gave her a small smile. "Do you want to stay in here until Thomas gets back, I don't think you wanna come face to face with them right now."

"Are you sure it's ok?" Fiona asked she looked from Rain to Raven, than back to Rain.

"It'll be fine." Raven chimed in. "You can watch some TV with Shadow."

"Now who's the bright ray of sunshine?" Rain asked as she poked Raven in the stomach. "Surely not me."

"Get over here." Raven said with a smile as he pulled Rain's arms, pulling her down on top of him. "Your mine now."

Rain and Raven put themselves into a deep kiss as Fiona watched, literally watched, (The TV? Yeah right.) Watched them and giggled. Rain looked up and gave her a smirk. She then perked up when she heard MoonBay's voice next to her door. Rain grabbed the blanket and threw it over her and Raven, she pushed down a bit and laid on top of him as she heard Moonbay enter the room with Thomas telling her 'I wouldn't do that if I were you!' Moonbay walked in to find what looked like a body lying on top of a huge folded blanket under the quilt. When she went over to pull the blanket back Fiona grabbed her hand and told her Rain was asleep. "She is?" Moonbay said as she shot glance back at the bed. "Well, when she wakes up tell her we got pancakes." (Now no one rack on me for the pancakes, I couldn't think of anything else but papaya's, and they were getting old.) Moonbay left the room and went to Van's and Irvine's to eat. Fiona stayed behind to watch the two emerge from their hiding place. "How was it under there?" She asked as she saw Rains head pop up.

TBC

Rain) PANCAKES! finds the pancakes and shoves them in mouth Yummy!

Kena) And you call me weird.

Rain) I'm hungry. So leave me alone.

Fiona) So when are we going to get a lemon that's straight?

Rain) When I want to have sex with Raven, which probably won't be soon.

Raven) What?

Thomas) I have a video camera, how bout now?

Rain) LOUD SIGH How about I sit on my ass saying I don't own zoids and catch yah later. Like I said. "I DON'T OWN ZOIDS! CATCH YAH LATER!