Hey everyone. :D Here's chapter 6! Hope ya like it. ^w^ Please review!
Sam:
Astrid.. she was really here. Actually here... not dead, eaten by coyotes or whipped by Drake... she was alive. And.. right here in front of him. Sam could hardly speak.
Suddenly, Astrid took a step closer to him. "Sam..? Are you okay..?"
"Yeah... i'm fine..." He lied.
Then Astrid stepped forward again, and wrapped her arms around Sam, clinging to him. She buried her face into his chest. "I'm so sorry... for leaving. I just needed some time to think..."
"Think? What the hell was it you needed to think about that was so damn important that you couldn't even tell me?" Sam pushed her away, gently enough so that it wouldn't be seen as him wanting to hurt her, but firm enough so that she would know he didn't exactly want her that close right now.
"I waited for months Astrid. I didn't know if you were alive or dead. Hell, after months, i almost expected you were dead. You couldn't even think for one moment, that maybe i'd like it if you told me you were leaving instead of just disappearing? Yeah, i get it Astrid, you sacrificed Little Pete, thinking the wall would come down. I get that you felt responsible for that. Believe me, i do. But maybe, just maybe, instead of vanishing into thin air and leaving me wondering if you'd been eaten by coyotes, whipped by Drake, or smashed over the head with a rock by Caine, you could've told me. You could've let me help you. Instead you left me so depressed i hardly got two hours of sleep every night and Edilio had to do all my work. Now, you show up and expect everything to just be exactly how it was? Not that thats much better anyways."
When Sam saw her face, he immediately regretted his little outburst.
Astrid:
Astrid was in shock. She'd never seen Sam like this. First he pushed her, and now he was yelling at her for leaving... they'd had fights, but this was different. Way different. This... this wasn't even Sam. She felt herself crying long - suppressed tears, and saw Sam's look of guilt when he saw them. He had stated it. She had left, she had ruined everything. And she had killed Little Pete. Innocent, unaware Little Pete...
He was right. She knew he was. But he had been right in the past, but he'd never yelled at her, not like this... this was just cruel.
"I.. I'm so sorry, Sam..." She could feel her voice tremble as she spoke. She had never actually apologized to him before, for anything. She was afraid of ever admitting she was wrong. She was, after all, Astrid the 'Genius', thought anyone who would actually call her that at the moment was obviously insane. Then something he had said finally registered.
'Now, you show up and expect everything to be exactly how it was? Not that thats much better anyways.' What exactly was he implying? Obviously, the second part meant that their relationship hadn't been good before either, which even though she knew it hadn't, still stung like hell to hear. But that first part... surely he just meant they had some things to talk about? Unless...
Then it all clicked. Edilio not letting her in here. Kids staring at her in shock. All the whispers they thought she couldn't hear. 'What about Sam?', 'Whats Sam gonna do now?', then Sam implying something had changed...
This time, it was Sam who hugged her. Not like her's, his was a friendly hug. Which only reinforced her ideas more...
She pulled away, and looked up at him, her eyes still red and puffy from the tears, contradicting the now steely, cold look on her face.
"You found someone else didn't you?"
A slight pause. Then, "Yeah..." Astrid felt like someone had just driven a knife through her heart. He claimed he loved her before... and she had accepted that she had messed things up between them. But... he couldn't even have waited for her to figure herself out?
Sam:
"You son of a bitch..." Sam was completely stunned at her foul language. Astrid really had changed in those woods... He was even more stunned by the cold, hard, slap across his face, followed by, "You couldn't even wait for me? Couldn't stop to think, 'Oh, maybe she just needs a little time,'? You just ran off and found someone else. He saw a second slap coming, and instinctively grabbed her wrist before it connected. Then, he let her go.
"You think i didn't think all of that, and more Astrid? I waited for three fucking months!" He was yelling now, "i thought you were dead! I thought you were dead..." He repeated a second time, much more quietly.
Sam could see a hint of tears welling up in her eyes again. "So... who was it, Sam? Who did you end up with? I swear to God, and thats serious with me, if it's Taylor i'm going to kill her."
Sam's eye twitched slightly at the mention of Taylor. She didn't think he was that desperate did she? Then, extremely quietly, to where he wasn't even sure she could hear, "Dekka..."
Astrid went quiet for a few moments. "Well... i guess that explains the glare i got when i saw her passing me by to the fields." She looked both irritated and broken at the same time. "I always knew you two were close... never thought it'd end up like this." Now, the tears did fall. She turned and walked out of the house without another word. Sam followed.
Dekka:
Dekka was still fuming as she began making the return trip from the fields. She had seen Astrid on the way to the fields this morning, but had elected not to talk to her. She had seen her heading to Sam's house, and she figured it would be best for Sam to talk to her about it.
Still, it was hard to resist the overwhelming urge to drop her from about 200 feet in the air.
When she arrived at the house, Dekka could hear Sam and Astrid yelling at each other from all the way down in the basement. Even though she knew it was wrong, she couldn't help but feel rather happy about that. Maybe things would actually go right for once. She sat down next to the doorway to the 'White houseboat' just a little while longer, waiting for something to happen, until Astrid stormed out of the house, her pale cheeks tear-stained. She looked like a wreck, Dekka almost felt bad for her. Almost.
Astrid gave Dekka a cold glare and a rather obscene hand gesture which involved the raising of a certain middle finger, which Dekka returned easily. Then, she saw Sam rush out of the house like Astrid had. Shit. Dekka followed a bit hesitantly, not sure whether or not she wanted to see what happened next. Astrid walked all the way to the other lakeshore of Lake Tramonto, where Dekka and Sam had been skipping out on their work just a few days ago. Then, she turned to face the two of them.
Astrid:
Astrid could hardly believe what had happened today, or what she was about to do. She had never expected her return to go quite like this...
But what had happened had happened, she couldn't change that. And if Sam couldn't get over that, well that was his mistake. She turned to face Sam and Dekka, now with a cold, steely glare on her face. She looked first to Dekka.
"You... you're pretty lucky, ya know that? If it hadn't been for my mistakes... you probably wouldn't be the one he was with right now."
Then to Sam. "You. I never even want to see you again." Her voice broke and she was on the verge of tears as she was saying it. Then, without another word, she turned and headed to Perdido Beach.
Toto:
Toto was disgusted. Two lies in a row? Unbelievable. Liars.
He shook his head, and looked up to where he saw a figment of his insanely tortured imagination, a floating Spider-Man head. He then looked to the two people who had been lied to. Sam... and Dekka, if he remembered right. They'd been the ones who'd killed Spidey and turned him into this ghost. For that he still resented them. But, being the truthteller he was, he had to destroy the lies told by the blonde girl.
He saw Sam and Dekka hug each other so tightly it looked like it might actually hurt, then he slid up next to them and said, "Those were lies."
Sam and Dekka both jumped in sheer surprise, and within a second Sam's palms were facing outwards towards Toto. When he saw who it was, Sam lowered his palms and shook his head. "Damn it Toto... Don't sneak up on people like that." His eyes were as red and puffy as the blonde liar's. "And by the way, sometimes, its better to leave a lie unexposed..." He looked down, obviously even further upset by Toto's revelation. "Alright..." Toto said, and turned around without another word. He then headed back to his cabin, leaving the two to comfort each other for whatever reason, talking to his Spidey-Head the whole way there.
Sorry Sastrid lovers! I really, really hate that pairing, and this is a Sekka fic... so yeah. o.o
P.S., aside from Dekka and maybe Sam, Toto is my favorite character. xD