Ekena
Rinse
A/N: I saw this song in a Pitch Black/Riddick fic about Riddick and Kyra/Jack and I fell in love with it when I heard it so I'm putting it in
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Okay here's the deal-there's about five types of writing in this chapter so here's the key. If you get confused just ignore this and you'll figure it out okay here you go…
Normal writing like this is normal writing
Writing like this is memories, summaries, voices in someone's head or narrating
Writing like this is something that is in a memory but not necessarily a part of the memory
Writing like this is the song
She'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
She would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
The same time that Suki and Rome arrived at the hospital to find Ekena, Ekena was heading towards the Miami exit. Also, Brian was making ready to come home.
Suki and Rome screeched into the hospital parking lot and rushed up to Brian's room. Brian looked startled as they burst into his room, both out of breath.
"Where is she?" Suki asked.
"Where is who?" Brian asked, pulling his shirt over his head.
"Ekena."
"She hasn't been here since yesterday." He said, struggling to stand. Suki moved over to support him and Rome looked at her.
'I don't know.' She mouthed.
"You mean she isn't here now?" Rome asked.
"No." Brian said. "Why?"
"Shit. Come on bro-we gotta take you home right quick."
She's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
For answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight
Horns honked as Ekena sped over three lanes of traffic and onto the shoulder of the road.
"FUCK!" she yelled, pounding the steering wheel. She wasn't really angry at the steering wheel and felt bad for injuring the poor thing but right now she just didn't care. She couldn't care.
"What do I do?" she asked no one in particular. She got a response though.
'Follow your heart.'
"Then what happens?"
'Only you know that.'
"I don't." she said, tears leaking from her eyes.
'You do, Lilo. You've always known. Think.'
Ekena opened her mouth and closed it again, thinking. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply.
How she'd be soothed, how she'd be saved if he could see
She needs to be held in his arms to be free
FLASHBACK
The sound of a baby crying echoes.
Ekena looked up at her mother and threw her arms in the air, grabbing it with her tiny hands "Up!" she commanded her mother and her mother smiled down at her.
"But how will you learn to walk?" Rain asked.
"Up?" Ekena asked again and Rain laughed, hoisting her daughter upon her hip.
"Brian!" Rain called and a scrawny blond boy looked up. He has a strong jaw and blue eyes, sun kissed skin and golden hair. He looked nothing like his stepmother and his sister.
"What mum?" he called.
"Time to go home. We have to fix dinner now." Rain said calmly, her own green eyes flashing. The only way to tell that Rain Masters was angry was her eyes. They flashed when she was angry or upset-she would never show it on the outside.
"Coming mum!" Brian said, dropping what he was doing and running over. Rain put her arm around her stepson's shoulders and began the walk home with him.
The sound of a baby crying echoes.
Time seemed to fast forward for Ekena.
"Oh…" Rain said, upset.
"What is it mum?" Brian asked.
"We don't have any flour."
"I'll go get some." Brian said, but Rain stopped him
"No. You stay here with your sister. I'll get the flour." She said softly. And she ran her fingers over Brian's face once more, as if memorizing it, before leaning down and kissing his forehead. She moved to Ekena, tickling her belly before kissing her forehead as well.
"Take good care of your sister for me Brian. I love you both." She whispered, leaving the house.
END FLASHBACK
But everything happens for reasons that she will never understand
'til she knows the heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man
Letty snapped awake and fell from her chair with a loud thump.
"Shit!" she hissed, getting up and rubbing her behind. She realized the phone was ringing and scrambled to answer it.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Yeah is Ekena there?" said the male voice.
"Can I ask who's calling?" Letty asked, slightly enthralled by the voice.
"It's Tej."
"Actually, today's her day off. I can tell her you called if you want?"
"Thanks sweetheart. I'll try her cell phone. You're Letty right?"
"Uh….yeah. How'd you know my name?"
"Ekena speak buckets about you." He said and hung up. Letty just stood in shock-no one had ever told her something like that. She placed the phone in the cradle and sat back in the chair, breathless.
And if she runs away she fears she won't be followed
What could be the worse than leaving something behind
"Vince? Vince!"
Vince snapped out of his reverie.
"What?" he snapped.
"You okay, man? You seem distant these days…" Dom said, wiping his hands on his cloth.
"I-Yeah. I'm fine, Dom." Vince said, turning red and facing the car he was working on once more.
"Well can you pass me the wrench like I asked you five times then?"
Vince stuck his hand out, wrench enclosed, from beneath the car's hood.
And as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
It's loneliness she finds...
If only he was mine
Vince jumped and hit his head upon the car hood he crouched under as Rome came bursting through the door.
"LETTY!"
Letty came skidding out the door to the office and looked around.
"What's going on?" she asked. Vince cursed softly and sat on the car, rubbing his head as Dom appeared behind him. They all stared at Rome.
"Ekena's gone."
"What do you mean she's gone?" Vince snapped.
"I mean gone brother. Like up and left, vamoose! Adios, hasta la vista." He replied.
"Well what happened?" Letty asked, furrowing her brow.
"She does what she does best." Rome said.
"Race?"
"Run. Chica's always runnin', ever since I met her."
"Well how long have you known her?"
"Nineteen years today." He replied.
Vince was wondering why Dom hadn't said anything this whole time and turned to find him missing.
"DOM!" Vince yelled and both Letty and Rome looked at him in confusion.They turned as they heard tires screech and Vince ran into the road as Dom's car drove away.
She'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
She would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
Ekena jumped into her car and started it. She began to drive and turned the wheel sharply, doing a one eighty and jamming her foot on the gas.
This is it, she told herself. No more running. No more running. If this is how he wants it then that's how it will be.
But first she had to make a few stops on the way home.
She's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
For answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight
Vince's cell phone rang and he looked at the id. It was Ekena.
"Ekena?"
"Vince. I need to-"
"Where the hell have you been? Do you realize that we are on the verge of sending the cops after you?"
"Are you gonna listen to me or not?" she asked.
"What?"
"I'm coming back home. I'll be there in an hour and a half. Look for me and tell Letty to call me. There are things I need to discuss with her. Alone."
"Sure." He said.
"I love you, V. Thanks." She said and hung up the phone.
"Who was that?"
"Ekena needs to talk to you Letty. Alone. She just called and she's safe."
She must rinse him
She can't rinse him
She can't, she won't, she must rinse him
Brian was lost as to why everyone was freaking out and both Dom and Ekena were gone.
"So what you're telling me is…my little sister, broke up with Dom and then hightailed it back to Miami." He asked Rome, who opened his mouth to reply.
"She's coming back." Said a voice and they turned and saw Letty. "I'm going to meet her. Alone, unless Suki wants to come, she said."
"Hell yeah!" Suki said, jumping up and following Letty out the door.
She can't, she won't, she must rinse him
She can't hold him this way
Suki looked around for Ekena at the mall and cursed. She couldn't spot her.
"There she is." Letty said, pointing and walking away. Suki followed Letty over to the girl with short, layered brown hair.
"Ekena. We're here." Letty said and the girl turned. Suki was shocked to find that it was Ekena.
"Ekena, what'd you do to your hair?" she asked.
"No more running. I give up." Ekena said, running a hand through her hair.
She must rinse this all away
She can't love him this way
