Gokudera rolls onto his stomach and pushes himself up slowly, after weeks of sleeping on the soft bed, the carpeted floor felt like rock to him.
"Damn, freaking floor hurts like a mofo." He lifts his head as a familiar smell reaches him. "It that..." He quickly stands up and walks out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and into the kitchen. "Bacon?"
Gokudera scans the kitchen until he sees Phoenix standing in front of the stove, holding a pan and dumping the bacon onto a plate.
"Let's see...bacon, eggs, waffles...what am I forgetting...Oh! Orange juice."
She goes to the fridge and Gokudera's eyes widen, she seemed just like her old self.
"Is she..."
"A-Aydan?"
Phoenix turns around quickly, eyes wide. When she sees Gokudera, she looks down and mummers.
"I didn't mean to wake you..."
Gokudera felt a pang of sadness.
"She's still broken..."
Gokudera forces a smile on his face.
"Don't worry, it wasn't your fault." He points to the bacon. "I smelt it and couldn't resist."
His smirk turns into a small smile when Phoenix smiles slightly. But she quickly looks away, brushing her hair out in such a way that it hides her face.
"I can see why I have these feeling for him...He's nice...I wish I could remember more..."
"W-Would you like some?"
"I-Id you wouldn't mind..." He sits down at the table and Phoenix places a plate in front of him. "So...do you finally remember me?"
"A little...I keep getting flashes...A bloody ankle...a destroyed room..." Phoenix's voice becomes so quite that Gokudera can barely hear her next words. "A kiss." She blushes and shakes her head. "Sorry..."
"Nah, it's okay. It'll take time, I'm sure." He digs into his food. "Did you sleep well?"
"Not really...I had a-You don't want to hear about my problems."
Gokudera frowns and swallows.
"I'm always going to be here for you. You can tell me. I don't mind.
"I...he...he really cares...But Ces said..." A small voice in the back of Phoenix's mind speaks up. "Cesar's wrong. Hayato proves that."
Aydan tells the voice to shut up and shakes her head.
"No...This is something I have to deal with on my own...Uh..." She clears her throat. "You said you loved me right?"
Gokudera blushes profusely.
"Y-Yeah...why?"
Phoenix blushes but pushes on.
"And I love you right?" She doesn't wait for an answer but pushes her hair aside to show a few marks that are still on her neck. "Because I wouldn't let you do this unless I loved you right?"
Gokudera chokes on his food and coughs, taking a large gulp of orange juice and a deep breath.
"H-How do you know it was me?"
He blushes and Phoenix turns a deep red.
"There's...There's only one bedroom..."
"And the voice won't stop talking about it..."
Gokudera bites his lip.
"Sorry about...that." He motions to the marks on her neck. "I'm sure you probably regret sleeping with someone you don't even remember..."
A memory pushes its way to the front of Phoenix's mind. Gokudera was on top of her, kisses her passionately, and neither of them had clothes on. The silver-haired teen looks down slightly and Phoenix clenches her eyes shut in pain, Gokudera looking up at her and waiting for Phoenix to nod before thrusting gently. As Gokudera rocked back and forth Aydan began to moan and arch her back. The tension in her muscles was obvious.
"This may sound strange but...no." The girl glances up at Gokudera and then looks back to the ground as a second scene like the first invades her mind. In the one, Hayato was kissing her neck and Ayden's hands were tracing symbols on his back. Gokudera didn't thrust into her, but instead massaged her breast gently. The red-haired girl bends her head back as her silver-haired lover kisses down to her mound and begins to flick his tongue over the small pink nub. Gokudera grinned as the girl moans and begins to suck on the sensitive mound.
"I...I can't help but trust you..."
Phoenix bites her lips and then slowly walks over and sits next to Gokudera. Gokudera sets his fork down and butterflies appears in his stomach.
"I feel like I'm meeting you for the first time again."
He smiles awkwardly and the voice in the back of Phoenix's head speaks up.
"Come on! How can you not love that! He's so cute when he smiles like that! Give me back control! I wanna hug him!"
Phoenix had already figured out that the voice was in fact her "non-broken" self but still having her constantly talk did nothing for Phoenix.
"Shut up...I'm trying to think."
"Sorry...I know I'm probably not the same person..."
Another memory, in this one they young couple were in the shower and Phoenix was trying to wash her hair but Gokudera was determined to distract her. He hand his arms around her stomach, holding her body close to his and kissing the scars on her shoulders, tracing a few with his tongue. Finally Aydan gave in and turned to face Hayato, he pushed her up against the wall and kissed her while his hand travels down her sides. As Phoenix's hands tangle in his hair, Gokudera hooks his hands under Phoenix's thighs and hoists her up to his waist. Phoenix wraps her legs around him as he kisses her neck, whispering in her ear, and sucking on the skin directly below it.
"Definitely not the same person"
"No, you'll always be the same person to me, Aydan." Gokudera opens his mouth to say more sweet things but is cut off by Phoenix's hand shooting out and stealing his bacon. "H-Hey! That's my bacon!"
"Not anymore it's not."
Phoenix smirks and the voice crows.
"You know we love a boy who can eat! And he loves out food! Isn't that what dad said we should look for? A boy who loves us and loves our cooking?" Phoenix puts the bacon in her mouth and can feel happiness coming from the voice. "Atta girl, but you know that's now all you can do with your mouth."
The old Phoenix seemed to be controlling the memories because she was given one involving mouths. Hayato was kissing her, biting down on her lower lip and using Phoenix's gasp to enter her mouth. His tongue moved around her mouth and Phoenix couldn't even tell what she was feeling as his tongue traces the roof of her mouth before tangling itself with her tongue. Phoenix was immediately glad she knew how to suppresses blushing.
"I'm not the same person...I know I'm not."
Gokudera frowns.
"But I don't really mind, you know. I'll love you no matter what."
"But you didn't fall in love with this me..."
She folds her arms on the table and rests her head on them.
"That doesn't matter. I'll love every form of yours."
"I don't know if I can feel love like this..."
"If that's the case, then I'll just have to make you fall for me again."
Gokudera grins and strokes her hair, Phoenix flinches away the contact.
"Sorry..."
Gokudera pulls his hand back, desperately hiding his sadness.
"No I'm sorry. That was my fault." Phoenix yawns slightly and Gokudera smiles softly. "If you're tired, you should go back to sleep."
"I'm not tired...I just need a little rest. This table isn't very comfortable."
"Come on, let's chill on the couch or something. It's big enough for the both of us and it's pretty damn comfortable."
Gokudera smirks and Phoenix raises her head.
"Uh...okay..."She follows him to the couch and sits down, instinctively making herself smaller. "W-Why did you sleep on the floor last night?"
Gokudera shrugs.
"I thought that maybe if you woke up to find me in bed with you, you might've freaked out since you don't exactly remember me..."
He feels a pang of sadness at his own words.
"Why didn't you sleep on the couch?"
A memory of her laying on Gokudera's chest appears. They were in a different room and Hayato was still asleep but Phoenix was studding his face as she rested her head against his chest.
"He's as comfortable as he looks. Go on, lean on him."
The voice was soft and there was a twinge of longing in it.
"I didn't want to leave you alone."
Phoenix barely heard Gokudera's answer as the voice kept commanding her to lean on Gokudera's shoulder.
"But that's...that's really personal."
"Me, I have done a hell of a lot of other memories that show us doing much more personal stuff with him."
"How often have you..."
"Why? You wanna see?"
"No! It's hard enough to not blush with what you've already shown me!"
"Then lean on his shoulder! If you're not going to give me back control you are going to trust Hayato!"
Phoenix takes a deep breath.
"Can...Can I lean on your shoulder?"
Gokudera felt his heart raise a bit.
"Sure."
He pats his shoulder as if to welcome her head.
"You're such an idiot Hayato..."
The voice says, laughing slightly. Phoenix smiles at the joy in the voice and leans against Gokudera.
"Anyone ever tell you you're an idiot?" She stiffens at the realization of what she just said and pulls away, fear in her eyes. "I'm sorry! Please don't hit me!"
"You call me an idiot all the time. I don't really give a damn. And...I wouldn't ever hit you Aydan. Why would you think I would?"
The voice speaks up, anger and annoyance clear.
"Other me, Hayato's is the nicest guy out there. He would never even think about it...we're safe with him."
A few memories of Gokudera standing in front of her and arguing with a faceless man flow through her mind.
"Why would he do that?"
"Because he loves us."
She looks at Gokudera and sees worry in his eyes.
"I'm sorry...it's an involuntary reflex..." Phoenix rests against him again. "I feel...safe here next to you... You're...You're not going to let anything happen to me right?"
"Never." He rests his head on top of hers. "You can trust me. You'll be safe. I promise."
"I'm sorry I don't remember you more...I wish I did."
"It's okay, It'll come back, I'm sure."
"What if it doesn't?"
Gokudera lifts up her hand and kisses it.
"Don't worry. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Gokudera doesn't let go of Phoenix's hand, but instead he lifts it up a bit more and kisses up her arm. His lips trace along the thing rough scars near her wrists before kissing and nipping up her arm. When he reaches her elbow, Hayato turns to the inside of Phoenix's arm and bites softly at the flesh by her bicep, making a small pink mark and kissing back down to her forearm. He looks back up at Phoenix and releases her arm.
"S-Sorry. I...I forgot."
Gokudera looks away, cursing himself.
"Hayato you IDIOT! She was just starting to trust you and you do THAT! You're such a fucking IDIOT!"
Phoenix looks at Gokudera for a second before pecking him on the cheek.
"Never be sorry for something that made you happy."
Gokudera blinks and touches his hand to where she kissed him, a blush rising to his cheeks.
"I...I...But I made you feel uncomfortable. I know how you get when someone touches you..."
Phoenix rests against Gokudera's shoulder again, feeling the smug happiness from the voice.
"That didn't make me uncomfortable. I didn't flinch."
"You sure? I felt you get goose bumps and you shivered a bit..."
Phoenix closes her eyes and sighs.
"Positive. I flinch when I don't want to be touched..."
"And just now you...wanted to be?"
The girl blushes.
"It felt good..."
Gokudera smiles softly and kisses the scars on her arms again.
"She used to love it when I kissed her like this..."
An idea forms in Gokudera's mind and he bites his lip.
"Hey Aydan, can I try something?
"S-Sure..."
In a few minutes Gokudera are sitting cross-legged across from each other and Gokudera takes a deep breath. He unzips her swearer and pulls it off her shoulders, taking the opportunity to run his hands along the exposed skin of her shoulders. The cami Phoenix is wearing shows Gokudera all of the scars on Phoenix's shoulders and he fills his anger rise but pushes it down. The silver-haired boy brings his lips to an area filled with cigarette scars and pecks them each gently before noticing another area with a long scar that definitely used to be a bloody gash.
"Look like a knife did it..."
Gokudera thinks as he runs his lips over the scar, kissing it as he travels down her right shoulder and over a horribly healed gunshot would. His eyes widen but he kisses the scar anyway, his hand traveling around her shoulder and onto her shoulder blade. As he feels the long scars that decorate Phoenix back he feels her shiver a bit, so he removes his hand and moves his lips over to her neck. A long thin pale scar decorates her neck and Gokudera pecks his way to the other shoulder as his hand runs up to feel the smooth skin before feeling a brand on Phoenix's left shoulder. He stops and stares at the scar.
"LO? What the hell does that stand for?"
Despite Gokudera's questions, he continues to trace the letters with his finger while nipping at her skin, tasting her and feeling the roughness of the scars under his lips.
"So many scars...she's had it even rougher than I did."
Gokudera kisses up Phoenix's neck and to her jaw, but stops at her lips. He pauses as he remembers not to go too far, leaning back to put some distance between them. Phoenix smiles slightly at the apologetic look on Gokudera's face and before he can reply says.
"Ná bheith ní Hayato. Thaitin sé liom" She laughs slightly at the expression on Gokudera's face as a sudden dizziness fills her. She blinks and place a hand on her forehead. "Hayato, I don't fe-"
She collapse forward.
