Csoh: So the last chapter was good. Shanta works with red shield? Yes/No? Didn't get any arguments against the chapter so YAY!!! I hope you like this chapter...
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Chapter 10: Attraction
Saya woke up and looked around. Her drowsiness was quickly wiped away as she realized she was in what looked like a hospital room. The room was quiet except for the beeping of the heart monitor on the wall. Saya jumped off the bed and headed towards the door when a blond woman came in.
"SAYA! You need to get back in bed." She herded the young girl back under the covers and checked the monitor. Saya watched as she started to write onto a clipboard for several minutes.
"...Excuse me," the woman looked down, "where am I exactly."
"You're at Red Shield headquarters Saya." Saya looked around the room. Red Shield was a hospital... Okay... That was certainly unexpected.
"So miss, how did I get here anyway." The woman place the clipboard down and sat in the only chair in the room.
"My name is Julia. As for your question I just got here a little while ago so you would have to ask David or Hagi." Saya's insides went numb.
"How long do I have to stay here?" Julia smiled.
"We were just keeping you in here while you were asleep, if you want you can leave in a little while." Saya looked confused at that.
"Then why did you have me-" Julia laughed.
"I just didn't want the IV attached to your arm to get tangled. You obviously haven't had any blood for a while." The girl frowned.
"I don't drink blood." Julia looked at her seriously. The door was still open as the blond guy from the club walked in.
"Solomon didn't tell you that you needed blood." Julia got up.
"Morning David. Saya just woke up and everything seems to be fine." David nodded and Julia pulled the IV out of Saya's arm before leaving the room. David watched her leave before sitting down.
They both remained quiet. He stared at her as she stared straight back. The tension got stronger until finally shouting came from the hallway.
"Damn Kai." David got up and closed the door. Locking it so that the shouts were no longer heard.
"Who was that yelling?" David returned to his former seat and looked at her.
"How much do you remember." He didn't ever ask did he. Saya thought about it for a minute.
"I remember waking up in Toronto and living with Solomon." David shook his head.
"Before that!" Saya thought harder. Everything before that seemed like a blur. She couldn't remember any names or faces, although...
"I remember seeing Hagi before." David ran a hand through his hair and sighed. He seemed disappointed by that. Pounding started up on the door and David started to get up to leave. "Wait." He turned. "Do you know about my past?"
"It won't do you any good to hear about it if you can't remember." He opened the door where a red haired guy was pounding.
"HOW DARE YOU! Saya comes back and I'm the last to hear about it?!" The guy looked over at her and tried to run past David.
"KAI! Do be a fool. She can't remember you or Riku and George." Saya frowned at the names. Who in the world- Kai pushed David away.
"I help her remember then!" David rolled his eyes before leaving and Kai rushed over to her bedside. "Saya."
"Um...Hi?" The whole thing was turning very confusing.
"So you can't remember me?" Saya thought for a minute before nodding.
"Sorry. I haven't a clue who you are." Kai looked hurt. She felt terrible for not remembering.
"It's fine Saya. Don't worry I'll help you remember!" Saya didn't like the way he said that. He seemed a bit... too nice.
"Alright... Hey, do you know where Hagi is?" Kai looked like she'd just smacked him in the face. It was obvious that he didn't care for Hagi much. He was quiet for a minute as he thought about something.
"Hagi?... I think he was getting a room for you when I last saw him." Saya got up and started to leave the room. She needed familiarity and no offense to Kai, but as far as Saya was concerned he was a stranger. Kai shouted for her to stop, but Saya kept running until she reached a stairwell.
Up or down?
Since there were people heading down from the upper floors she ran down the stairs. She rushed into the hallway off the stairs. She was panting as she tried to decide where to go. Well, since this is a hospital there should be a clearly shown sign showing where the exit was. Saya looked around the hall.
Nothing.
She hurried down the hallway and jumped into an open doorway as a couple of people headed into the hallway. Saya started to back up as the voices came closer. She looked around quickly until she saw a closet that she could hide in. She opened the closet and jumped in, closing the door behind her.
The voices entered the room. Saya stayed as quiet as possible as they spoke.
"How do you lose someone whose been asleep for a week." Saya recognized the voice as David's. Kai voice retorted.
"SHE RAN OUT OFF THE ROOM BEFORE I COULD STOP HER!" They were talking about her.
"Damn. She's not in here."
"Maybe if someone would have told her about her past she wouldn't have gone running."
"She has been with Solomon for months. We don't know what he might have told her. She seemed to trust him as much as Hagi."
"She shouldn't have been unprotected."
"I'm not going to have this debate with you Kai! Not again. Now do we know where Hagi is."
"Julia said he was on this floor."
"We need to tell him that she's gone missing again."
"WE DON'T NEED HIS HELP!" Kai definitely had a problem with the guy. The voices headed out of the room and Saya waited several minutes before she opened the door and crawled out. She turned and quietly started to shut the door when a hand appeared above her and shut it fast.
"Saya, why aren't you resting." Saya felt relief wash over her as she saw Hagi behind her.
"Hagi!" Saya hugged the surprised man. He returned the embrace.
"Why were you hiding in there?" Saya looked up into his stormy blue eyes.
"...I... All these people came in that seemed to know me and then this guy named Kai came in and I..." Saya didn't know how to explain. Hagi nodded and picked her up. He carried her up two flights and into a bedroom. Saya was confused. Was the Red Shield a hospital, hotel, what. "Hagi?"
"Yes."
"Where are we?"
"Red Shield headquarters. It's a ship off the coast of France." Saya raised an eyebrow at that.
"How did I get to France?" Hagi looked uncomfortable by that.
"We brought you." Okay... So they just cruised her across the ocean while she slept. Hagi pulled a blanket off the foot of the bed and wrapped it around her. She kept a hold on his jacket and he didn't argue.
"Hagi?" He looked down. "How did you find me." Again there was some wariness before he answered.
"Your friend told us where you were." Saya thought back to Shanta.
"Shanta works for you guys?" Hagi shook his head.
"She's Joel's sister." Saya looked puzzled at Hagi.
"Sister? But didn't Joel die-"
"The original Joel died. The Joel Shanta is sister to is descended from the original."
"Oh... So she's not a DJ?" Hagi shook his head.
"She moved away to Toronto to get away from Red Shield. We asked for her help when we found that she lived near you. We figured with her last name being different from Joel's that Solomon wouldn't suspect anything." Saya looked intently at him.
"Why do you guys need me so badly?" He looked away towards the window. Saya followed his gaze and saw the shore of the ocean out the window. They lay on the bed in silence watching the waves. Saya felt more comfortable with Hagi than with any of the others from earlier.
Hagi held her close as he thought of how to answer her. Why couldn't she have remembered everything so he would have to tell her? He looked down at her. She was watching the Mediterranean Sea hit the beach, the sun was setting. She had run to one of the storage rooms to hide and he had followed the sound of her heart beating wildly when he had heard that she had run from her brother. He didn't know why she had run, but she seemed relaxed being around him. He rested his shin on her head. She pulled his chiropteran arm into her arms and started to pull up the sleeve. She pulled the bandages away and traced the claws and arm as she frowned.
"Hagi?"
"Yes, Saya?" She hugged the arm. That was a first...
"Did I cause your arm to become like this." She met his gaze.
"It wasn't your fault." She shook her head.
"Did I CAUSE you to have your arm like this." Hagi didn't want to tell her the truth, but he wasn't going to lie to her.
"Yes..." She looked back at his arm and hugged it closer. He didn't know why, but he didn't want her to let go.
Unfortunately the door burst open and Saya rushed to hide in his jacket as Kai ran into the room.
"HAGI! YOU FOUND HER!" He looked at the two of them. Hagi's arm still in Saya's arms as she hid herself against his chest. Hagi's arm was right on her- "HAGI GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER!" Kai rushed over to pull her away. Hagi tried to pull his arm away but Saya held it close and turned to face their unwanted visitor.
"GO AWAY!" Kai froze as Saya shouted at him.
"Saya... I'm your brother-" Saya leaned against Hagi as he sighed.
"Kai, why don't you give Saya some time to get used to the ship and everyone before we start trying to get her to remember." Hagi felt Kai's ice cold glare before he left the room. Saya leaned back against him.
"Thank you." Hagi merely nodded, his hand was still in the same area and Hagi again tried to move it. Saya looked up at him and smiled. "Um... So I found a journal of yours under the bed you had and I kind of read... a bit of it." She looked up at him.
"I saw that you had it." She waited for him to say more. Hagi didn't know what to say. Finally she started to trace randomly on his arm again.
"Hagi? I don't know what's going to happen to me." She sounded scared.
"Relax, I won't let anything happen to you." She looked up at him, tears rimmed her amber eyes. He wiped the tears away as he smiled faintly for her.
"Promise?"
"I promise. Why don't you get some more rest." She nodded and they both lay back until they were laying on the sheets. She rested her head on his chest and looked at him again.
"Hagi?"
"Yes, Saya."
"I don't think I like Kai very much." Hagi forced himself not to laugh.
"He's just happy that you're safe. He can be very kind." Saya rolled her eyes.
"If by kind you mean always yelling then I agree." She dozed off minutes later and Hagi listened to her sleep quietly in his arms. The world revolving around the couple as the darkness outside hid them away from the tortured grip of the past.
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Csoh: Like I said up above I hope you enjoyed this chapter, more on the way. We're going to be getting back in touch with Solomon. He really got the short end of the stick for this chapter, but the Hagi/Saya fluff I guess made up for some of it. Seriously though, Solomon and Kai will get some redemption...maybe.
Solomon: What do you mean maybe?!
Kai: YEAH!
Csoh: Well, I like the way this is twisting towards a Hagi/Saya romance and let's be serious here...Hagi's hot! ^_^
Hagi:(many miles away with Saya) ...Here we go again.
Saya: She's writing about us again isn't she. (Hagi nods)
Solomon&Kai: Yeah right!
