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Of Love of One
Chapter 6
"Are you sure you don't remember anything about us?" and a hand motioned to the rest of the crew.
"I'm sure, I'm sure."
"Are you really sure?"
"Dammit! I told ya once, didn't I!" bellowed Jim. He and the rest of the crew were sitting in the kitchen with the two males sitting at the table, facing each other and the girls standing behind Gene.
Gene dragged a slightly trembling hand through red hair. He seemed to be doing that a lot lately. And it was mostly because of things pertaining to the very blonde slouched it the chair before him.
The once little and innocent looking blonde boy was now a rude and impatient man of 19, and even bolder then they remembered.
Gene took one swift look at the one before him and then banged his head on the metal table also before him, very loudly.
He let out an exasperated sigh, 'He's still a kid. He might look like he's only about a year younger than me, but he's not; he can't be. He's still a kid…' This was the mantra that Gene mentally repeated over and over, trying to convince himself that the man that was begrudgingly planted before him was still the little, blonde boy…just stuck in a different body. Yeah that was it. 'Just stuck in a different body. With a horrible attitude problem. But still the same Jim. With a horrible, horrible attitude problem. And sexy as hell to boot.'
'Wait…'Gene's mind did a complete stopped and he's breath went slightly ragged, 'Did I just think that or did I actually say that?' He couldn't hear anything coming from the other's pertaining to his thought so he came to the conclusion that he really just did think it.
That was a close one. And he was about to risk it again and try his luck.
So praying to all the gods and deities he could think of, the redhead inconspicuously peaked up to get a look at the blonde and a slight shiver raced down his spine. Yeah, he was sexy. Damn his luck.
Though Jim had only been gone for what the crew knew to be about two days, it seemed as if the blonde had been gone for longer than that. For about 8 years it seemed, but that couldn't be possible. Right?
Well, it must have been because no matter how many little peaks Gene was able to get at the blonde, they all presented the same 19 year old claming to be Jim.
This new Jim was, yes, still blonde, but it wasn't the same shade or length any of them remembered. His hair was now a beautiful goldenrod shade, shimmering and shining in the bad lighting of the ship. But if the ship's horrid lighting made his hair look that good, then image what it would look like in real and uninterrupted sunlight.
And now, through his hair had a base color of an almost blondish white, there were so many deep, stunning honey colored strands highlighting his hair that no matter how he held his head it gave off the same beautiful goldenrod shade. The strands looked so velvety soft that Gene had it keep himself from reaching across the table and attempting to touch them.
Then if Jim held his head just right then his new choppy bangs would act like a fringe and dust his nose in some places but still leave enough room to see his stunning cobalt eyes.
'His eyes couldn't have been that color; they look so deep and enticing, yet piercing now. They can't be his eyes.'
It was then that Gene realized that he now had his arms folded on the cold table with his head resting on them, a hazy and almost longing look glazed across his face while he basically stared at the blonde beauty before him. And it was Jim that made him realize this with a gruff and icy, "Wha' in the fucking hell are ya lookin' at, ya dipshit?" and the blonde reclined in his chair by balancing it on its two back legs.
With this slight movement of the chair it caused Gene to realize something. Well, two things to be precise.
The first being that Jim's hair was no longer slightly long and barley brushing his shoulders in a choppy manner; it was now almost past his shoulder blades, weaved together in a loose braid, with strands falling out and some of them falling and landing around his face with the choppy fringe for bangs. Gene could tell it was in a braid because when the blonde reclined in the kitchen chair, it caused the braid to come from its hiding place behind Jim's back and dangle loosely from the chair, swaying when he did in the chair.
Then the second thing was that Jim had called him a dipshit and he hadn't responded with a witty comeback yet. The redhead never let people call him such things without some kind of retaliation on his part, but at the moment when Jim had insulted him he was too busy taking in the new blonde to really notice. But now he did and he wasn't going to let the other slide without some kind of punishment. No matter how hot or sexy he looked.
"Did ya hear meh, ya dipsh—"
"Yea I heard you, you ungrateful little twit," spat Gene as a glare hardened his features, "And you have no right to call me that. Whether you remember us or not, you still aren't allowed to call me that."
"Well, then stop starin' at meh, ya dipshit."
"That's it!" and Gene lunged at the other, but Suzuka stopped him with a firm hand and a strict glare.
"That wouldn't be wise, Gene," she calmly stated and Gene sat back down with a hard pound in the chair.
"Wha'? Hidin' behin' ya're little whore there, ya dipshit?" coldly stated Jim as he crossed his arms over his chest in a defiant manner.
"YOU BASTARD!" And with one swift moment, Gene launches himself out of the chair and onto the blonde, and a loud 'crack!' could be heard by the girls as Gene's sturdy fist made contact with Jim's face.
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