Aaaand i haven't been able to get to my computer for three days! TT3TT but that's okay... i was with my friends :3 anywho! so I liked writing this! idk why... but i did!
Disclaimer: I don't own Assassin's Creed
After my little…debacle… Ezio took me back to the Villa, careful to keep a close eye out for that… heathen. Man, I've always wanted to say that! It's like… old-time slang or something. Always in the movies.
When we arrived to said Villa, Ezio took me to a random wall. "Scale it," he ordered.
I gave him a weird look. "You mean… up the wall?" I asked nervously.
"No, up that arcobaleno(rainbow). Yes up the wall!" he joked. Gesturing to the wall.
Subconsciously, I gazed to the sky for that rainbow. Ezio snickered. "What?" I asked, a sounding a little annoyed.
"There's no actual rainbow up there, mia cara," he teased. "I thought you'd know that. It didn't even rain today!"
"Oh shush," I barked, looking nervously back up the wall. "So uhh… you're not even going to help me?"
"Nope."
"Well alright then!" I began to study the wall. 'Come on, Mel. You've seen the guys in your school do this before. All you have to do is run up it, grab the ledge, and propel yourself up to the next ledge! It can't be that hard!' Boy, was I ever wrong.
I ran up the wall, but I didn't even get to the ledge. Apparently, my brain didn't even fathom that I had to simultaneously basically do a sit up. Except it wasn't… I just had to face the wall… whatever! You get the gist! I fell backward, and after a bit of dizziness, I noticed Ezio was standing over me… laughing.
"A-Are you a-alright M-Melina?" he said between laughs.
I grunted, getting to my feet and glaring Ezio down. Although, after looking at his carefree smile, I found myself cracking one of my own, grinning widely from ear to ear. I giggled, and punched Ezio lightly in the arm. "Don't make fun!" Although, I too was laughing at my stupidity.
"To be honest, I just wanted to see you try it first. You're awfully carina (cute) when you're flustered," he explained, still shuddering from laughter.
I narrowed my eyes, and said, "You're such a flirt."
"Ah, but you're still friends with me!" He winked.
For some reason, part of me was upset about being friend-zoned all the time, but instead I stated, "Yep, and even though I'm a complete retard, you're still friends with me."
"Somehow."
I looked back up at that damned wall. Like it or not, I was going to get up it today one way or another, I didn't care if Ezio had to drag me up there himself. "OK, now help me get up this thing!" I barked.
"Well—" And so he went into the entire explanation, which I won't bore you with, and I tried fruitlessly over and over again to scale that wall, even getting to the ledge would be a great accomplishment. But, even though my fails were of epic proportions, he never once gave up on me. Instead, he cheered me on, urging me to try again. For that, I was sincerely grateful.
"Oh my god! L'ho fatta (I did it)!" I exclaimed as I made my way to the second ledge.
Ezio smiled up at me. "You see? Sapevo che poteva farlo (I knew you could do it)!" he yelled up to me.
Butterflies filled my stomach. The fact that Ezio was being to supportive was truly heart warming, but I couldn't quite place where these butterflies were coming from. Afraid of my voice wavering, I just smiled back down at him, turning back to face the all-mighty wall. Truth be told, I will probably never look at walls the same way ever again.
I launched myself up to the next ledge. 'Okay… now all that's left is getting to the roof.' I thought. It took me a while to heave myself up, as I wasn't exactly the Hulk, but I got up nonetheless. When I sat on the roof, I realized just how late it was. It must've been at least 10:30 PM. The sun was long gone, and the moon now took it's pedestal in the sky. I had to have been trying to climb that wall for at least five or six hours.
Next to me, Ezio sat down with a thunk of his armor. "Bello, isn't it?" he asked as he gazed out at the horizon with me.
"Sì, very much so," I said. I turned to him. "Ezio?"
He didn't turn, but I know he heard me. "Hmm?"
"Grazie," was my simple reply.
He turned to me then, a curious look on his face. "For what?"
For a moment I was baffled. "What do you mean, 'For what?'? For everything! For taking me into your home when I had nowhere else to go. For not leaving me behind when you came here. For inviting me to go with you… wherever! For buying me clothes today, and for filling my bath for me because I sure as Hell couldn't lift that bucket. For always being so nice to me, even though I've done nothing to deserve it. For teaching me how to climb, and agreeing to teach me how to defend myself. For saving my life. And, most of all, for just being there for me," I ranted.
Ezio's eyes softened. "I'm glad to do all of it. There isn't much I wouldn't do for you, Melina," he explained. He ruffled my hair.
I smiled at the corniness of it all. He really was just too nice to me. I could feel the beginnings of tears brimming my eyes, but I blinked them away. "Is there anything I can do to repay you?"
"How about telling me where you're from?" he asked kindly.
I laughed lightly under my breath. "Prepare for a shocker," I stated, toying with my sash.
"What do you mean?" His eyebrows were knit together, and his head was turned sideways. He vaguely reminded me of a little bird.
"No need to sugar-coat it… I'm from just about five-hundred years in the future," I said as plain and normal as if I were saying that it were night out.
"W-what?" Ezio seemed truly stumped, but he didn't brush me off, or deem me insane.
"Whether you believe me or not, I'm from the future. I was on a vacation to Italy, from America, which…. What year is it?"
"1476," he said, obviously perplexed by my previous statement.
"Hasn't been discovered yet," I continued. "Don't tell anyone I told you this, wouldn't want to screw with history, but the world is actually round, and there is another land mass out there, in the ocean between Europe and Asia. And that's where I came from! That's how I know English, as that is the majority spoken there," I explained for my earlier freak-out moment when I had met the Leonardo da Vinci… still wasn't over that. "Anyway, I was on a trip to Italy, to Firenze, and I took a tour of the city. Actually, I went through the gate of your home, and that's how I came here. Then I found you and Federico fighting with Vieri at the bridge. Not to be weird or anything, but I was drawn to you in particular. Not the romantic kind of 'drawn', but that I felt that there was some kind of force pulling me to you. To this day I still don't know why. But here I am, and here you are, listening to this and probably thinking I'm the most insane girl you've ever met."
Ezio seemed to still be taking it all in. "So… you're from the futuro (future)? And you found me because you were… 'drawn' to me?" he asked.
"Basically, yes."
"Any rational man would call you pazzo (crazy), and run away as fast as he can," he said. My face fell, he did think I was crazy. Oh God, he probably hated me. "But, with all that's been going on and the fact that you are one of the closest people to me, I believe you."
My head snapped up to meet his gaze. He was smiling a warm, forgiving smile, and his eyes were soft, even when hidden with the shadow of his hood. "Thank you!" I cried as I basically threw myself at him, encircling my arms around his waist.
He flew back a moment, but wrapped his arms around me nonetheless. "What was your family like?" he asked cautiously, as if careful not to upset me.
I pulled myself away from him, sitting up on my knees and grabbed my locket. I opened it, revealing a family photo. My mother's soft, brown eyes and mousy brown hair, my father's short black hair and tall frame, and my sister's small body with her curly auburn hair, much like mine. I stood in the middle, smiling happily between my parents, my hands on my sister's shoulders, who stood, smiling widely, in front of me. The bond between us all was inseparable, and we never had one family feud. "This is them," I told him. "We were possibly the happiest family we could have been."
"Do you miss them?" he asked tentatively.
My eyes began to water. "So, so much…" Soon, tears began to stream down my face. Ezio had wrapped a supportive arm around my shoulder, pulling me into his side, allowing me to cry into his chest. He said nothing as I cried, and that was all I needed, someone to vent to. Despite dearly missing my family, I was really happy to have met Ezio.
Weeeell? SHE CAN FINALLY CLIMB! And a little moment with Ezio doesn't hurt ;)
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