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Rings of Fate:
Chapter 2: Having a heart
In a desert there is nothing exciting… it is one of the most peaceful places on the face of the earth. The radiant sun constantly rains down rays of life on the water deprived soil. The cacti taking the sun light with open arms. The light breeze taking the edge of the heat that for certain folk, find it a sigh of relief from the harsh climate. The untouched, still quality that brings even the most troubled minds to ease…
A quick streak of red flew a crossed said scene, causing a whole chain reaction along with it. The once calming sight now was aggravated as some of its dry soil kicked up in the air in this huge dust cloud that chased the red force. The gentle breeze whirled around off course, quickly losing its sense of direction… And even the once settled mind of the ex-racer became troubled at the sight of the rookie lack of focus.
Doc shifted from side to side, agitated at Lightning's actions. He had been up since the crack of dawn, no breakfast, not enough sleep, and not enough 'positive attitude' for the rookie. "Come in!" He yelled out toward the racing maniac that still stirred up the once settled ground. Doc couldn't take the sight of this any longer.
The young racer slammed on his brakes in response to his crew chiefs cry in frustration. "What was that Doc?" The rookie called back, his voice sound clueless at Doc's tone. He had no idea what Doc was about to dish out.
"Come in!" He repeated his words, this time harsher than before causing Lightning to get a taste of his emotional state...he swallowed hard and obeyed orders.
"What's the matter Doc, something wrong with my run?" Lightning tried to sound like nothing was wrong, in reality he sounded like a child that got caught by his parents.
Doc felt his eye frames crash together in frustration, his crystal blue eyes half closing as his breath let out an aggravated sigh. "Lightning, you know this track like the paint on your hide. Why are you making careless mistakes?"
Lightning blinked at Doc's mood, "Careless mistakes?"
Doc glared at him, "Do I have to make an appointment to check your hearing?"
Lightning felt himself getting a little agitated as he rolled his eyes, "No Doc, I can hear just fine."
"Alright then," Doc said as he let his features relax a bit. "Now tell me something…" He said locking his gaze with lightning's as he pointed at the track with his tire, "Where the heck was your head out there?"
Lightning shrugged, "Doc I …" he sighed as he felt his body lower itself slightly, "I guess I haven't been thinking clearly lately."
Doc's frame rose slightly, "You can't do that a week before the race kid." His hard eyes seemed to catch Lightning's body language. His green/blue eyes seem to dart back and forth at the ground, as his tire played with the dirt. His hard eyes softened, "What's on your mind Rookie?"
Lightning froze for a second, a little off guard by Doc's amazing diagnosing skills. "Doc, it's hard to explain…" He said as he rolled a little away from Doc, slightly embarrassed. "I don't think you'll understand."
Doc felt his emotions change from irritation to worry, 'this isn't like him.' Doc thought as he followed him, "Try me."
"Well, I've been thinking a lot about the town… and my life… and Sally." Lightning started off rough… "And… I was thinking about… well…"
Doc felt a smile growing on his face as Lightning continued to struggle. "It's been almost two years… and I was kind of thinking of…"
Doc rolled up alongside Lightning and rested a comforting tire on his side, "Yes I do understand."
Lightning looked over at Doc's eyes sheepishly, "I just don't want to rush into things."
Doc nodded in understanding, "Honestly, it's not the matter of rushing into things. It's if you listening to your heart, your feelings, the attraction…" Doc sighed contently, his mind seemed to drift off to one of his old memories, "Yes, only then will you know."
Lightning smiled, "Sally means the world to me. And I know for a fact that my life would mean nothing if I couldn't spend the rest of it with her."
Doc smiled as he rubbed his fender with his tire in a playful way, "As long as you know what you're doing kid. I'll support ya."
Lightning gave a sheepish grin, "however…" Lightning's little smile fell as Doc continued.
"That's not going to make up the fact that your careless mistakes are going to cost you another fifty laps!"
Lightning sighed, "Aww!"
Doc chuckled, "Well, that's what you get for losing your focus. The sooner you start the sooner you finish. So get a move on!"
Lightning huffed inaudible words as he took off at the track.
Doc couldn't help it, the warm feeling his was getting showed on his face. 'Lightning wants to get married…' He found it almost touching how much Lightning cared for Sally. He knew what that feeling felt like, the tightness in his gas tank, the fluttering in his hood, the face turning a shade of red… just from the sight of her… but that hasn't happened since his ex-fiancé .
Doc felt his gut begin to knot up …
Someone with water at twilight blue paint, rubbed up along his side. "Hey Hudson," She said as she gently pushed over a can of 5W-30 oil, "Flo said she didn't see you this morning and she wanted to make sure you got something in your system."
A kind smile came a crossed her face, "I just offered to bring it." Her midnight blue eyes sparkled at Doc as those eyes caught something way out in front of her, her eyes followed its movement. "How's he doing?"
Doc followed her gaze out to the red figure with a dust cloud tracing circles around the track. "Well, he would be fine if his mind wasn't busy."
"Busy? Is something bothering him?"
Doc shook his head, "More like a life changing decision than a problem."
She raised a frame, "What? Is Harv trying to make him change sponsors?"
Doc sighed, "It's a personal matter. I have no say."
She sifted her weight, her eyes losing her moving target, her mind racing a mile a minute.
"Does this have anything to do with Lightning's possible engagement?"
Doc snapped his head over to her, truly shocked, "How did you know?"
She shrugged, " I can read body language well. I know the look, the 'alone time', the nervousness…" She smiled, "Everything screams 'love'."
Doc felt his face fall to that crooked smile he was known for. "You never cease to amaze me. Is there anything you don't know?"
Kendal sat for a moment, pondering… "You." she replied simply.
Doc felt his oil pump flutter under his hood at the sound of that word. "Umm..." he cleared his throat, as he felt his face tint red, "Well…"
Kendal smiled sheepish, "You are one mysterious car Hudson. You are a very complex individual."
Doc surpassed the feeling, "Is that a complement?"
Kendal chuckled, "it can be."
Doc smiled warmly, "Well, in that case…" He bowed his head, "I thank you for the complement."
She felt herself diverted her eyes to the ground, some of her paint changed purple. "You're welcome Hudson."
Doc looked up at Kendal, "that's one thing I never got the answer of." He rose back on his tires to his normal position, "Why do you call me that?"
Kendal raised a frame, "Isn't that your name?"
"Well, yes. I've been called Doc, Dr. Hudson, Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and even Huddy."
Kendal raised a frame as a smirk grew on her face, "Huddy?"
Doc couldn't hold back his smile, "I know, I don't know how that started." He chuckled, slightly embarrassed. "But that's beside the point."
He turned to face her, locking his amused, crystal blue eyes with her taken back, midnight blue eyes. "Out of anything you can call me…Why do you call me Hudson?"
Kendal broke her gaze, "Why are you offended by it?"
Doc shook his head, "No not at all it's just, this question has been stirring my thoughts. I just want to know." Just then a loud gurgling noise was heard, causing Doc's face turn red in embarrassment.
Kendal laughed, truly amused, "Why don't you get something in you." she said as she moved the strayed can in front of him. "Eat."
"But you d-"The oil can spout was shoved in his grill, causing him to stop his statement.
Kendal smiled as she nodded towards the oil, "Eat."
Hudson's eyes smiled for him as he took a single gulp out of the oil can. Then that's when Hudson's numbed senses realized how hungry he really was… how ravenous he was as he drank that whole entire oil can in the matter of a minute.
He pushed the can out of the way, "much better…" he sighed with relief as his body accepted the oil with no questions asked.
She smiled, "how long have you've been up?"
Doc sighed again, "Since three."
Kendal blinked, "Why on earth were you up so early?"
Doc pointed to the dirt track, "training him."
"At three? You usually start training at five."
Doc shrugged, "I woke up early."
Kendal chuckled, "Hudson, you're unbelievable."
"And speaking about that, you never answered my question from before. You always seem to beat around the bush about this topic." Hudson rolled in closer to her, "Which just feeds my curiosity…" he stopped inches away from Kendal's grill, making her wondrous eyes widen slightly and her face felt feverish. "Why?"
Kendal swallowed hard. "Well…"
"Well?"
"I call you Hudson because it-" she smiled warmly at Hudson, causing a tingling sensation down his frame. She laughed at Hudson's expression, "Cold?"
It took him a moment to realize he actually shivered. "No, it's just-"he smirked, "Don't change the topic."
Kendal playfully smirked back, her eyes sparkled, "Alright. It's because it-"
"Hey Doc!"
A Mustang appeared out of the air causing the pair to jump back a few feet.
"Alice…"Doc breathed, letting his racing heart idle back down to normal rhythm, "Where did you come from?"
Kendal took a deep breath, studding herself as well. Alice looked at her startled mother, Kendal, and her shook in up guardian, Doc. "Did I scare you guys?" Alice chuckled out her words, her jade green ring rippled away in between her blinks. "Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."
Doc sighed, "What's up kiddo?"
"Oh! Right… I actually need to talk about…" Alice froze for a second as the jade green ring flickered in her violet eyes. Her awe struck face from the sudden vision… she smirked. "So when's Lightning going to propose to Sally?"
Doc eyes widened as his frame sank slightly, "Does everyone know?"
Alice took away her ring from her eyes. "No I don't think so. I just got a flash from the future; Normally, I don't get these visions unless my ring is still active." Her face became confused, "Why?"
Doc shook his head, "Never mind. Why are you here?"
"Yes, speaking about visions." She drew out a green journal. "I need to talk to you about this." She said as she shook the book with her tire.
Kendal looked at her daughter, "Is it something serious?"
Alice shrugged, "Honestly I don't have the slightest clue. It was weird…"
She gave the journal to Doc, as he began to flip through the pages. "It felt like the past, but the only problem I'm having is that I'm in it." Kendal snuck on over to Doc's side as she took a peak at the journal along with Doc.
Doc's eyes left the pages to meet with her violet eyes. "How can it be the past if you were there?"
Alice shrugged, "that's troubling me too! it was strange… I felt like I didn't belong there, like I had to keep hidden from folk in the area or it might affect… something later, something big…"
Kendal turned the page in Alice's journal, making Doc look over in Kendal's direction; he wasn't done with that page yet….
"Why were you there?"Her mother asked as her midnight blue eyes ran back and forth through the pages.
"I was looking for something… I-I-I can't remember what exactly the dreams too fuzzy."
"A house with a car in it… and another car that wasn't supposed to be in the house?" Doc said as he quoted the journal entry, "this isn't very detailed…"
Alice huffed, "Well, it was a dream, and I wasn't really thinking about detail when my heart felt like it was about to pound out of my hood!"
" What happened?" Her mother spoke again as she kept flipping back and forth between the two pages.
"Well, it was weird. I was outside of this house, peering through a window, and there were these two cars… arguing or something I don't know. Then something happened… like a fight, which caused the owner of the house to fall down and stay down. The figure spotted me and leaped… into me…" Alice shivered at that experience. "Those eyes…"
Doc flipped the page and kept it down, making Kendal a little disgruntled.
"Well, I don't really know what to say at the moment." Doc said as he closed the journal and handed back to Alice. "things aren't clear yet. But I think we should keep an eye on these dreams…" He smiled, "at least I know my home coming gift came in handy."
Alice chuckled, "Yes, more than you know."
Kendal smiled "Hey why don't we go to flo's, I'm sure one can of oil won't cut it." She smiled at Doc as she turned to see the red figure, lying on the ground…sleeping. "And by the looks of things…" she giggled as she pointed with a tire, making everyone else turn. "Someone needs a break."
Doc saw his protégé snoring softly in the middle of a turn, getting a amused 'huh' out of the old hornet. "Maybe three in the morning was too much for the rookie…"
Lol a little different…=D