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Of Love of One

Chapter 5

The next two days were spent in the search of the little blonde boy Jim.

But it wasn't until later the second day did the crew actually come across a clue.

Well, to call it a clue would be like calling a porcupine soft and cuddly, but at the time it was the only thing that would be of any aid in the search.

What had happened was that as Suzuka tried to explain that at the time right before Jim disappeared, she heard an explosion. And then after some discussion amongst the rest of the crew, they had come to the conclusion that they too heard this explosion. But when they tried to pull up any information on the ships data base, a message kept popping up stating that no such thing ever occurred on the ship.

And as you might have guessed, this was rubbing everyone the wrong way because it just didn't seem right. But the one most affected was of course Gene.

"Damn computer!" he shouted as his fist made contact with the keyboard, "I know there was an explosion, so why don't you have anything in your history of it happening!"

"Gene, you know that hitting the ship's computers will do nothing to aid us in the search for Jim," Calmly stated Suzuka with Mel and Aisha nodding in the background.

"I know, but it makes me feel better."

"That it might, but it will end up damaging the system in the long run."

"No it won't. This thing can withstand anything," and just to prove his point Gene whacked the keyboard another time, "see—"

Kaboom!

And there went another explosion.

Again it caused the whole ship to black-out. And this time the ship's back-up generators didn't kick in like they were supposed to.

"Dammit Gene!" cursed Aisha, "look what you did, now we'll never be able to get Jim back!" and with that she raced out of the main control room to the engine room only to get stopped halfway out the door.

It wasn't anyone from the crew that had grabbed her to stop her; she had run into something. Or rather someone.

"Ouf!" she huffed as she made contact with the person's chest.

And of course it didn't make it any better that she could barley seem in front of her, so she couldn't see who she had run into.

"Gene?" she mumbled as she tried to stare at the male figure before her, "gene, is that you?"

"Aisha, you calling me?" came not from in front of the white-haired cat girl but from behind. Behind the girl and where Gene was standing.

Aisha slowing felt in front of her with her hands and turned her head around, "Gene, if you're in front of me then why does your voice sound like its coming from behind me?"

"I think I am behind you."

"Huh?" and it was then that Aisha's wandering hands made contact with the soft object—correction person—before her and she let out a loud shriek just at the lights kicked back in.

But just as the lights came back on, Aisha's shriek was soon joined by Mel and surprisingly Suzuka's screams. Which just left Gene, but he's too much of a man to scream so he just opp-ed to let his mouth hang open in surprise.

The reason of the yelling and of Gene's gapping?

The long-lost, little, blonde boy had returned.

But he wasn't so little anymore.

A/N: ummm..hi? .:gets rotten tomatoes thrown at her:. I know and I'm so freakin' sorry! .:cries:. I meant to update last month but then summer came around and such and wahhhhh! .:snuffle:. But yeah I hope you don't kill me too much because I'm writing the 6th chapter right now! I promise! Oh, and a huge enormous thank you to all those that are still reading and especially to the anonymous reviewer who threatened me with "another wrench-in-the-head" because it was because of you that I remembered that I was still writing this fanficcy! So I dedicate this chapter to you "another wrench-in-the-head" reviewer! Oh, and if you could, leave some kind of name so that I can properly name you as one of my reviewers because I love all you guys! Thanks to: Kylie-chan and to "another wrench-in-the-head" for reviewing chapter 4! Willow out! See you on the other side of sanity, if I ever get there that is! YAY! 3

PS: Oh and to "another wrench-in-the-head", sorry about the long author's notes! lol More story later!