OK, this one's kind of short, but the next one will be better. And I know it looks like I'm screwing with continuity, but bare with me, it'll all get explained in the next chapter.
Chapter 3 - What to say
Rose wiped tears form her eyes as Kain did his best to comfort her. "Please don't be sad Rose." He coaxed. "It's not like I left without a good reason." She nodded.
"I know." She said with a sniffle. "I'm still a little hurt you left...but I'm just so happy to see you again." Kain smiled, it had been a while since he had seen Rose, he was glad to see that she was doing alright. Still, he couldn't help but feel his life had been a burden on her.
"Alright then, let's see if we can get this cleared up." Roy folded his hands together and rested his elbows on his desk. Ed and Al sat next to one another on one side of the room and Kain and Rose were in the center of the room in front of Roy's desk. "Would you mind filling us in Fuery?" He nodded.
"Well you see, about two years ago I was set in the town of Lior, I was gathering information about the new leader who had taken up power almost overnight. This was before I was promoted, so information gathering was my speciality." Everyone listened on intently.
"I'm good with radio signals as some of you know, intercepting phone conversations and spying on Cornello was the basis of me being there. I met Rose, somewhere within the first year of my being positioned in Lior. Spying on the church meant I came in contact with a lot of the church goers." Rose looked up at him.
"I never knew you were there to spy on the church." She seemed take aback by this knowledge.
"Well,the military wasn't planning on taking over, they just wanted to know what kind of power this Cornello guy was holding. Considering it was a secret mission I was ordered not to tell anyone anything, no matter what." Rose once again lowered her gaze.
"I see..."Fuery continued.
"Rose and I got long quite well, I spent most all my free time with her. After a year had passed, the church found out about my presence, shortly thereafter,a hit was put out on me. Basque Grand covered for me and we planned to get me out of there quickly so no one would come after me. At first I was just going to go back to central in hopes of them forgetting about me." Rose sniffled.
"Why didn't you just do that? It would have been less painful." She once again sobbed. Kain rubbed her back.
"That was my first option. But I wasn't going to take the chance that they would hold you hostage to get at me. I didn't want any harm to come to you. Staging my death was the only way to ensure your safety. If there was some other way, I defiantly would have done it. SO it was settled, we staged an accident and I was pulled out of Lior right away." Rose grabbed at her yellow dress and held it tightly in her hands.
"But everything's ok now...we can just go back to the way things were before right?" Rose tried her hardest to smile, but the expression on Kain's face prevented that.
"Oh Rose...I really don't know if that possible." He lowered his eyes away form her.
"Why not." The room grew tense, no one could understand why he was saying such things.
"Rose, I belong to the military, there's no telling what I might have to do throughout my life. I could be sent off to war, I might have to be away for months at a time. There's no real way to tell where I'm going to be at in the future, and there's no real way of telling of what the military will have me do. I really don't want that kind of life for you Rose, I really care about you, I don't want you to have to worry about me like that." Rose pressed her nails into the palms of her hands.
"Regardless if I'm with you or not, I'll still worry about you...there's no hiding it Kain, I still love you." Al sucked in air.
"I wasn't expecting that..." He held back a sniffle as he said that quietly to Ed. Al was always a sap when it came to situations like this.
"Do you still love me?" Kain nodded without hesitation.
"Of course I do...but--" Rose cut him off.
"But nothing! It doesn't matter who you are or what you do I'll always be here for you." Rose began to cry even harder.
"Fuery...Look at her." Roy said. "How cold you say no?" Kain tripped over his words.
"We--- I uh..hmm." Rose took a deep breath.
"It probably wouldn't have been such a burden on me...if when you left I wasn't..." Rose couldn't find the words.
"I know you didn't have anyone...but I figured it would have been better than having you in the danger of being killed." Kain stood up in front of Rose. "I just wanted the best for you." He smiled. Rose nodded.
"I just didn't know what to tell the baby when he was able to asked where his daddy was." The room was set into a state of shock.
"B-baby?" Kain managed to stammer out. Everyone in the room was slack jawed.
There you go, like I said, short...but significant. I straighten it out all in the next chapter.
Chapter 4 - Is this baby indeed the son of Kain? What about this domestic disturbance in Lior?
Remember, read and review, if I get more, maybe I might update again today...maybe, I still have to go to the gym yet. So no promises.