Strelitzia Reginae- Bird of Paradise : Wild Columbine and Epimedium
Enter standard disclaimers here: No I don't own the Weiss boys and I give all gratitude to those who do.
Not you fan girls, the people who actually made the series!
Authors note: Strelitzia Reginae, Wild Columbine and Epimedium are actual flowers, if you don't believe me then look them up for your self. Any thing with a " " has a meaning or needs to be explained. They are not numbered but they are explained in the order that they show up in.
I like Yoji way more then any of the other boys, if you haven't figured that out by now then your just euber slow. So for us to come in for this mission was totally my decision and well only so I can cuss out that bitch Neu/ Asuka.
Ohhh advanced notice. I am not really good with the spelling or the punctuation and its like12:30 am. Bite me! ON WITH THE STORY!
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Chapter 14: Don't ask about betrayal.
Carr Carr looks up at the kitchen clock and sighs then stares into her cup of green tea. "Don't worry I know she will come back." Aya says comfortingly.
"But its 3:45 I know she's mad about this but still if she doesn't come back soon she will drain all her energy and die. And who knows how much of that forest is left or who she met that is no longer in one piece. I am really worried about her."
The kitchen door opens slowly to reveal a young woman, battered, blood shot eyes with bags, her skin pale and clammy and her hair disheveled. Carr Carr gasps when she see her friend in this bad condition. She rushes over and embraces her friend in a loving hug. Ivy pushes her friend away and looks to Aya with her tiered eyes. Carr Carr looks at her friend slightly hurt but says nothing.
"May I please brow a pillow and some blankets?" Ivy asks directly to Aya, ignoring Carr Carr completely.
Aya looks from Ivy to Carr Carr then back to Ivy. "Hall closet top shelf. 3rd door from the bathroom." he looks down sadly and to avoid any other questions. Ivy bows and leaves the room leaving the door open. Carr Carr takes a few steps forward when Aya speaks out to her "Carr Carr- chan don't. Not yet. She needs time to get over it."
Carr Carr nods and sits back down beside Aya. "That's easy for you to say I know what's gona happen and that wont be pretty." Carr Carr mumbled as she picked up her cup and started to sip the rest of her tea.
Ken and Omi walk in looking slightly tired and really board. Both take a seat at the table. Omi asking what the matter was with Carr Carr, Aya explaining that Ivy had finally made it home.
"Really? Is she okay? Where did she go?" Ken asked with pure worry in his voice.
"Yea she's going to bed . . somewhere. She's as okay as she will get for now." Carr Carr answered
"Her heart must be in like a billion pieces right now with Yojis girl thing coming back." Ken said looking at the kettle thinking about putting on some more tea. "Any idea what we should do so we don't step on any toes or get her pissed off at us? Well cause in reality I really don't feel like flying through a wall any time now."
"Yea especially since what we have gone though so far show no signs of what were looking for." Omi says sadly. "We've been at it since we got back and we haven't found a thing yet."
Every one starts to think of what they can do while Ken fills the kettle with water for more tea.
Aya speaks first "well personally I would want to be given space so I could sort out my feeling and thoughts."
"Or we could force our presence on her and basically always have one of us with her." Ken offered turning around and leaning on the edge of the counter.
Omi took a bit longer and thought it out. "We can show our support for her by talking to her and letting her talk to us and using us as a sounding block for her troubles"
the 3 guys look to Carr Carr for direction. Her being the only one who really knows Ivy. Carr Carr swirled her cup and thought about it. "I think . . We should give her space for now and after a day or 2 let her know that she can come and talk to us if she needs to, even if its rambling and incoherent thoughts." the guys nodded agreeing with the plan of action.
Ken finishes making the tea for him self and Omi. Offers some to Aya and Carr Carr both turn it down and go to bed.
' Thats Yoji's voice.' Ivy thought leaning on a support beam in the dojo. Still in the slacks and sweater she was sure that belonged to Ken. She found them in the clean pile in the laundry room. She listened to Yoji ask Neu about her memories. She squeezed the pillow harder when she heard a woman's voice speak distressed. A cardboard box across the room rose into the air and ripped it self to shreds.
'It hurts my ass! I'll give you something to complain it hurts!' Ivy's thoughts paused as she starts to cry again. Stopping mid cry to hear the door slam open to a room and Aya yelling for the where about's of his sister.
Carr Carr runs in after Aya and grabs his arms stopping him from shaking Neu any more then he had. She pulls him back a few steps and stands in front of him hugging him. "Aya stop!"
"Look I will find that out later!" Yoji said practically yelling at his katana welding partner in assignations.
Carr Carr lightly pushes Aya back then grabs his hand and pulls him from the room.
The rest of the day was spent with no incidents, Ivy no where to be found by any one, Yoji and Neu out of the house, Aya grumbling with every thing he did and glaring at any one that talked to him, Omi and Ken spent the day going though the files still.
At dawn the next day Ivy tries and successfully launches her self to the roof using her powers. She sat watching the sun rise. Thinking of what's happening next and how even though Carr Carr and her self are in the show how its not messing up the episode. Eventually she just started to stare blankly and thoughtless at the light blue cloudless sky. Her right hand fingers dragging repeatedly on the roof material continuously even when the rough surface broke the skin and her fingers started to bleed.
Once the sun was well above in the sky Carr Carr made her way up to the roof and sat beside Ivy. "Hey." Ivy snapped out of her thoughtless trance and looked over at her friend then down to her hand. She held her hands together in her lap hiding the blood out of sight from Carr Carr. "I have been looking all over for you." Carr Carr looked around and whistled "wow you pick the good spots to sulks. Not only is it hard to get to but the view is amazing!" Ivy bowed her head not particularly looking at anything then at her friend out of the corner of her eye. Carr Carr looked at Ivy. "Hey you know your not the only one going through this. I like Yoji too you know and I want to beat Auska up just as much, . . okay maybe not as much as you do but still." Carr Carr paused.
"Don't call her Auska. She isnt Auska. Yoji thinks that she is and will remember and that his love for her can make her remember and he will soon find that out its not going to work. And soon he will have to kill the only person in the world that he fell in love with." Ivy's voice was filled with hate and spite and huge amounts of sorrow. "I know I cant interfere with his time with her. It wouldn't be right and it wouldn't feel right." she paused and looked up to the sky to see 2 birds fly past above them. "But that doesn't stop the horrible feelings that come and wipe out every other emotion I have then when it leaves it leaves me emotionless. I am starting to think that meeting the guys was the worst thing in the world it doesn't change anything."
Carr Carr thought about what her friend was saying and realized even know that they had come in and was taking part in the story it didn't change much from what they watched a week before when they were sitting back in her living room. "But that still doesn't mean that you have to do all the suffering by yourself. Aya and Ken have been sickly worried about you and Omi has been making enough food to cover you as well at dinner times. He makes a nice little package and leaves it in the fridge with your name on it because well none of us know where you are sleeping. He hopes that you will find it and eat it but its always there in the mornings. I guess you haven't eaten in days. Have you? How about we go out for dinner to night? Just the 2 of us?" Carr Carr looks over to her friend to find her picking at her right handed fingers that are covered in blood. "Whoa! Ivy! Why didn't you tell me!"
Ivy just stared blankly at her fingers picking a small pebble out of the index tip. Carr Carr pulls Ivy's hand out and gingerly pick the pebble out and heals her hand by passing her fingers over Ivy's. Ivy takes her hand back and continues to pick at the healed finger tip.
"Ivy. If you ever need to talk you know where you can find me okay?" Carr Carr asked putting a hand on her friends shoulder and shaking her a bit to get her to come back. Ivy nodded and mumbled her thanks. Carr Carr got up and left leaving her friend to sit on the roof by her self.
Carr Carr walks past the garage into the kitchen and sees Aya reading the news paper. She smiles " Hey Sanzo. Where's your glasses!" Carr Carr snickers at the glare she gets from over the paper and helps her self to the contents of the fridge. "Hey where's Yoji and "Auska"?" she makes the little bunny ears with her fingers. "Seven is missing"
"They have gone to some place to help her remember" Aya said shortly and flatly.
Carr Carr stopped "ah. I see"
That day Carr Carr helped in the flower shop but only out of total boredom. "Hey Carr Carr. Come help with today shipment!" Ken called to her. "You can carry these to the front right window that would be great they are tropical flowers so they need lots of sun light." Ken handed Carr Carr a large green bucket with long stemmed odd looking flowers. It had multiple orange and blue pointed flowers stood vertical from a green horizontal curled flower.
Carr Carr looked at the flowers in her hand. "Are these what I think they are?"
Ken smiled and held up two other potted plants. One was like a flower with double petals, light red all most a purple on the inner one surrounding the pollen stem. The outer a darker red which split into 2 just past the connection to the stem and pointed out at the end. The stem being small, thin with med to small leaves.
In the other pot there was a 4 petaled purple flower with a white stripe that grew off the main petal and into a soft balled tip. The stems were thin and spinally coming from large heart shaped leaves.
"This one is called a wild columbine and this other one a epimedium. " Ken smiled " I though you would like them so we special ordered them in for you girls."
"Yea." Omi chimed in "and the one your holding is called 'birds of paradise' or as you girls first referred to your self 'Strelitzia Reginae'"
Carr Carr smiled wide and put the bucket down and ran over to Ken giving him a great big hug. "Oh you guys are the best! Thanks soo much!"
The day could have gone better but it didn't get much better then that. After dinner Aya, Ken Omi and Carr Carr gathered down stairs to talk about the mission when Yoji walks in.
Aya stands and demands to know if she told him anything. "Tell me has she said something!"
"No she hasn't remembered anything yet and you cant badger her into it either. You cant find her Aya!" with that answer Aya storms off. Totally pissed.
Carr Carr leaning on the back of the couch slowly recognizes the scene. She points to Ken. Who ignoring her pipes up and asks Yoji. "Hey what if she's just playing with you?". Then she points to Yoji. As if playing the episode in slow motion Yoji balls his hand into a fist and pulls back, aims and punches Ken square in the jaw. She couldn't believe her eyes even know shes seen the episode numerous times before. Still in slow motion she watches Yoji storm from the meeting room hair and shirt flowing behind him.
Ken rubs his jaw. "I guess that was the wrong thing to say."
Carr Carr gets up and walks over to Ken. "Of course it was! Dumbass!" The flicks her hair over her shoulder and walks out the same way the 2 before her did.
Sanzo is the Buddhist monk and leader of the 'Sanzo group' from Saiyuki. Usually when they are stopped in a town or close to a town you will often see Sanzo reading a news paper with his top down and sexy little reading glasses