A/N: sorry for the delay in uploading this chapter, it was my university's homecoming this past weekend. Needless to say, I was distracted all weekend long!

Also, Heve-chan, a faithful reader and reviewer was really awesome and made a youtube video for this story! Go here
watch?v=O2dzkFK9aDE&feature= and leave a comment! It's really so well done. Be aware, Bee is being portrayed by Rinoa from FFVIII, as she wears blue a lot, has dark hair, and is often shown with angel wings/feathers. Please watch!

Chapter 10: Take Care of You

It was just past dawn when Bee woke up to get ready to leave for the WRO. She showered quickly and ate a light breakfast, knowing that eating more would most likely make her sick on the helicopter ride. She packed an overnight bag, not knowing if she would need it or not; Reeve hadn't said whether or not she would be staying the night, and she hadn't asked. She left a note on the shop door letting her customers know that the store would be closed for the day, but would reopen in the afternoon tomorrow. She locked the door behind her, and walked briskly down her street, making her way to the 7th Heaven Bar.

Tifa was already up and busy going over things with Yuffie and Marlene both of whom would apparently be looking after the bar for the day as Cloud was away on a delivery. The three girls greeted Bee with smiling faces, with an added hug from Marlene. Bee was relieved to notice that Tifa had a bag packed as well, she wasn't the only one to think of it. Shelke and Denzel were still sleeping, Tifa informed Bee, so the wouldn't be able to say goodbye to them. Tifa left a note instead, and the two older girls left the bar, giving goodbye hugs to the two younger ones before walking out.

Tifa lead Bee to almost the outskirts of Edge where an airship and helicopter landing was stationed. There was a single Shinra helicopter there, the pilot standing just in front of it. He introduced himself as a pilot for the WRO, giving his name and shaking hands with Tifa and Bee. They gave polite smiles and then loaded themselves into the chopper's back seats and fastened themselves in. They were given big green headphones, so that they could talk to each other over the roar of the propellers, the pilot told them. Two minutes later they were in the air and headed for the WRO headquarters. The pilot told them that it wouldn't take as long as an airship would, Shinra helicopters were built for speed and they would arrive by early afternoon because of their early start.

"Are you okay, Bee?" Tifa's voice asked over the headphones. Bee had been staring out the helicopter window, watching the ground zip by in dizzying speeds. The helicopter made her extremely nervous. Slum girls were never meant to leave the ground, she decided. At least, never in a big metal flying machine.

"I don't like flying hunks of metal," Bee responded through gritted teeth, turning to face Tifa instead of watching outside and wondering just how long she would have to wait for impact into the earth if the helicopter went down.

Tifa chuckled at that but shook her head. "No, I meant are you okay about today? About seeing Toby? You never talk about him, just that he was in SOLDIER and you thought he had died on Meteorfall."

Bee looked down at her hands shamefully, unable to look Tifa in the eye. "Toby... Toby and I didn't end things well before he left. Or when he came back." She recounted the story of her two arguments with her brother to Tifa, her eyes firmly focused on her hands the whole time. When she finished the story she looked back up at Tifa and said, "I love my brother, I really do. But I was just so angry at him for leaving his family. My mom and I, we worked so hard to get by. If you think I work hard now... You would be shocked to have seen what I was like back then. It was necessary to survive. But Toby... he threw us away and went off to work for the company that was killing the planet, the reason everyone was in the slums in the first place. The people who hunted Aerith and took Zack away! He went and stayed in his comfy little Shinra world while we starved in the slums! And he didn't even care. And I... I have never forgiven him for it."

Tifa listened to Bee in silence, taking in every word with consideration. It was unlike Bee to become so emotional, especially when the emotion was anger. It was even more unlike Bee to hold a grudge, though from what Tifa understood, she probably would have held a grudge were she in Bee's position as well. It was also unlike Bee to be a hypocrite. Bee had slept with a man working for Shinra, although Bee had felt much guilt over this, and so Tifa decided not to mention it. She delicately placed a hand on one of Bee's and squeezed it, trying to convey some sense of comfort to her friend.

"Bee... It will be okay. I'm sure Toby has realized what he did. I'm sure he's eager to make it all up to you," Tifa told her in a quiet voice that she hoped was soothing. Bee's face softened and she nodded, taking hold of Tifa's hand in turn.

"Hopefully," she said with a nod, "I mean, I thought he was dead. I thought my family was gone. It's very overwhelming to suddenly find out that he is alive. It's just too much to take in."

"Then don't think about it right now," Tifa suggested, "You've got all day to talk to him, why don't you worry about it then. Thinking about it now will not change what happens when you see him."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Bee relented, some of the tension slowly leaving her shoulders. She looked out the window again and noticed that they were crossing a small span of water. "Tifa, can I ask a favor?"

"Of course, anything."

"Can you help me pick decorations out for my living room?"

"What?" Tifa laughed at Bee's question, but when the younger girl turned to look at her again, she noticed that Bee's face was serious.

"Reno told me that my living room was boring," she said with a scowl, "And I actually think he's right. So I want to buy paintings, or like a mirror, or something for the room to look nicer."

"Reno told you that?" Tifa questioned, completely shocked.

"Yeah," Bee affirmed. She was still scowling when she went on, "He thinks my whole life is boring, so he's been getting me to watch movies, and bought me a TV, and thinks I should redecorate, and he wants to take me mountain-climbing, but I don't think he will actually do that."

"You've been hanging out with Reno?"

"Yeah, I told you already that we decided to be friends," Bee reminded her, her scowl turning into a simple frown, feeling that Tifa should have remembered that.

"No, no, I remember," Tifa told her with a shake of her head and a wave of her hands, "It's just... Cloud and I really didn't think that was going to mean anything. Just... you would be civil towards each other. You actually see him on a daily basis?"

"Well, I saw him when he took care of my shop that first day, and then when he got me the TV, and then when he wanted to eat dinner with me and then watch a movie again, and that was last night. And I already knew him from the bar, and from the meeting. We've talked a lot. I like his company." Bee ticked off times she had actually spent time with Reno on her finger tips, looking up at the top of the helicopter as she did so. When she looked back at Tifa, the martial artist was giving her a strange look. "What?"

"That's where you were last night? I was wondering why you didn't come to play with Marlene. I was worried, you come to the bar every night," Tifa said, not able to keep the astonishment from her voice.

"See?" Bee exclaimed, pointing at Tifa for emphasis, "I do the same thing every day. Wake up, eat, work at the shop, take care of patients, eat again, go to the bar, go home, shower, sleep, in that order. Every single day. Reno told me I don't do anything fun."

"You really take what he says into consideration, don't you?"

"Well... I thought it over, and I decided he was right."

"I guess so."

They sat in silence again for the next hour until Tifa finally spoke up again.

"Do you like him?"

"Huh?" Bee was startled by Tifa's words. She had just started to drift off to sleep, and the question jolted her awake.

"Do you like Reno?"

"Well, sure. I said we were friends. I wouldn't be friends with someone I didn't like."

"That's not what I meant," Tifa said impatiently. She had spent the last hour thinking about why Bee would dwell on Reno's words so much. Though admittedly, nobody else had told Bee before that her routine life was a bit drab. They had just assumed that she was happy with having the same routine every day. Some people were. When Tifa and Cloud had found Bee, she was a broken slum-girl who hadn't been in a normal society in over two years. She could barely even dress herself, and she barely slept. Tifa had often caught her crying in her bed at night. She had taken Aerith's death extremely hard, as it had been almost of a last straw for Bee. Her family was gone, her best friend and best friend's boyfriend were gone, her whole life was gone. Tifa had assumed that the routine lifestyle was Bee's way of managing starting over, and it worked for her. She had never lived on her own before, maybe doing the same things every day helped her to keep herself sane. Now, Tifa was having doubts about that. Maybe Bee just didn't even know any better. Maybe she was still grieving over her friends' and family's deaths.

"What then?" Bee asked her.

"Do you like Reno as more than a friend?" Tifa elaborated, "I know that Vincent talked to you about Reno. He's dangerous. The life of a Turk means that he doesn't make relationships with people. It's weird he's even spending as much time with you as he has been."

"I know that," Bee answered, coming off just a bit defensively, "But I think he's funny, and he's taken an interest in my life, and if he's willing to spend time with me then I'm going to let him."

"You didn't answer my question," Tifa accused, a smile on her face as she looked at her friend.

"I don't... I don't know," Bee answered unsurely. She had never really thought about it. She had already slept with Reno, the most intimate action you could perform with another person, so when she cuddled with him on the couch, it hadn't seemed awkward to her. Their relationship was strange, Bee knew, but she had never realized just how strange it was. Normal friends didn't watch movies while sitting on a couch the way they did. Friends didn't kiss the other person out of nowhere and for no reason like Reno had done back at the meeting at headquarters. And friends didn't flirt with each other the way Reno did all the time. But Bee couldn't say that they were more than friends either. They hadn't slept together since that first night, Bee refused to let them do that. They didn't kiss again after that first time. They didn't go out on dates; Bee didn't classify the diner as a date. There was a certain boundary that Reno and Bee had set up unconsciously between the two of them, and neither one dared cross it. So Bee had stayed on the one side, never even thinking about crossing, until now.

She definitely found Reno attractive. Heck, if she was being honest with herself, she thought he was the most gorgeous man she had ever met in her entire life. She liked his humor, his personality. He had that playfulness that Bee had never found in anyone else before except maybe Aerith, though they were obviously nothing alike. Bee hated that Reno was a Turk above all else, and hated that he had such lose morals. When they were together, however, she seemed to forget about all that. When she was with Reno, he was just her friend, just Reno. And he was slowly showing her a new way of life that she had never known before. She was making more jokes now, watching movies, considering decorating her house, experiencing jealousy for the first time, all because of him. Her heart always sped up when she was around him, and she found it easier to laugh. But did that mean that she liked him romantically?

"I like being around him," she admitted to Tifa, "But I never thought about him that way."

"Well, you've dated two guys already," Tifa pushed, trying to get more out of her friend, "Does this feel similar?"

"No," Bee denied immediately, "Being around Reno is easier. I don't feel like I have to try so hard around him. Like he won't judge me if I say something stupid. I feel... safer with Reno than I did with them."

Even that didn't really help Tifa. "I think you should think about it," she told Bee, "If you find that you do... it could complicate your friendship very quickly."

"Are you telling me I shouldn't have feelings for him?"

Tifa sighed, wondering herself where she was going with this. "No, that's not really what I'm saying. You can't help the way you feel about someone, nobody can. But having feelings for Reno will most likely end with you getting your heart broken. I'm not saying Reno is a bad guy, I'm saying he's got a job that turns him in to a bad guy. Reno on his own is fun to be around, I agree. But he's done some very horrible things in his life, and may do some more down the road. It's not worth involving yourself in."

"I know," Bee confirmed with a nod. She did know. She had told herself this when she had decided to become friends with him. Having a Turk for a friend wasn't exactly the best thing in the world. Her talk with Vincent had only reinforced this. "But when he hangs out with me, he's not a Turk. So I'm going to continue to be his friend."

"I agree completely, Bee. Just... Be careful, okay?" Tifa looked down at Bee in concern. Bee had already been broken so badly, Tifa didn't know if the girl could take being broken again.

"I will, I promise Tifa. Thank you." Bee smiled. Tifa was always such the mother hen.

They lapsed into silence again, this time for the rest of the flight and Bee managed to finally nap. When Tifa woke her when they had arrived, she had to unstick her forehead from the glass window. She rubbed it furiously, knowing that it would be red, and Tifa laughed at her. She rubbed it all the way to the stairs that lead to the headquarter building, where Reeve was standing waiting for them. He gave Tifa and Bee both hugs, and told Bee that the reunion would take place in the conference room that she had been in before. He lead the way, and invited Bee to enter into the room alone, telling her that Tifa would join when she was ready. She should meet her brother again on her own. Bee nodded, took a deep breath and opened the door to the room and entered, ignoring how weak her knees felt.

Toby sat at the table Bee had sat at just weeks before, his hands knotted nervously together in front of him. He was wearing the WRO soldier outfit, his helmet on the chair next to him, and Bee noticed that he had a few stripes on his shoulder signifying that he was an officer in the WRO, another reason why it had probably been so easy for Reeve to identify him. He had cut his hair from the last time she saw him, it flopped over his forehead but not longer reached his shoulders. Bee noticed that he had a high forehead too, something she had forgotten, but his hair was a darker brown then hers was, and his eyes were a lighter shade of hazel. She had her father's eyes, something her mother always hated.

He looked up at her then, finally noticing that she had entered the room. She closed the door behind herself and stood awkwardly in front of it, unsure of how to proceed. Toby however, took the lead as he leapt from his chair, almost knocking it over in the process. He caught it before it fell, and Bee could not help the giggle that escaped from her. He looked at her in surprise, and smiled.

"Hey," he said, his voice low. She remembered that he had just turned twenty-six. He looked more like a man now than he had when he came to visit her, all those years ago. He towered over her small frame, and she had to crane her neck to look up at him after his approach.

"Hey," she said back weakly, trying her best to muster a smile. It was more difficult than she had thought it would've been after giggling the way she did.

"Director Reeve told me you go by Bee now?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Yes. I... after mom died, there was no one around who knew my real name anyway. I wanted to leave it all behind," Bee explained, "Start a new life..."

"I looked for you!" he surprised her by announcing loudly, his voice full of pain, "I came rushing back looking for you, I went to the house and the bakery. I recovered mom's body. I buried her just outside the slums, I can take you to see her. But I never found you. I looked for months! Where were you?"

"Healing people," she answered dumbly, feeling bashful that she had been moving around, unwittingly thwarting his efforts to find her. "There were so many people injured after Meteorfall... I had to help them."

"Of course you did," he admonished with a sigh. He leant his lean frame over to cover hers in a bear-like hug that crushed her lungs and stole her breath. "You always were such a do-gooder. I was always so proud of you."

"You were?" Bee never knew that he had regarded her so highly. She hugged him back, trying to match how tight he was hugging her, but her little arms couldn't muster up the strength.

"Of course! Your potions and antidotes were even known in SOLDIER!" he exclaimed after letting her go. He lead her to the table and gestured for her to sit in the chair that wasn't occupied by his helmet while he took the one that he had previously been sitting in. "We had a guy who was in the slums on a mission, got poisoned by some rat-like creature. Said you fixed him up like new."

Bee remembered that man. He was a SOLDIER 3rd-class, and she had found him on her way home. Aerith had just left and Toby had just visited, she was only seventeen. She had hated the fact that a Shinra worker was in the slums, so she had given him an antidote and told him to leave as her payment. He thanked her, not even realizing that she hated him.

"I didn't know my alchemy had spread all the way to Shinra... Reeve didn't seem to know about me when he asked for my help."

"It didn't get very far," Toby told her seriously, "I told the guy not to spread it further or else Shinra may have come looking for you earlier. At least now it's Reeve that got you. He's a good man."

"You did that?" Bee had never known any of this. Toby had never once told her that he knew about the SOLDIER she had helped, never contacted her to tell her she was safe from Shinra.

"Of course I did!" he said, looking at her as though it should have been obvious, "You didn't want to be part of Shinra, and you probably would've worked with Hojo, and he was a snake of a man. There was no way I was letting him get his hands on you."

"Oh. Thank you, Toby." Bee was at loss of what else to say to her brother, her silent shield that she hadn't even known about. He smiled at her, and she found it easier to smile back now.

"Reeve said you have your own shop now, that you're working to help the armies. That you healed Rufus Shinra! Tell me about it all," Toby pried, moving a hand to cover Bee's. She stared at it, noticing how it basically engulfed her own.

"Yeah, my shop is pretty successful. I make more money than I did in the slums," Bee started, earning a proud grin from her brother, "I'm really good at it. And I have really great friends. One of them brought Mr. Shinra to my shop and that's how I was commissioned to help with the armies. Apparently I'm one of the only people that can counteract the poison that the Wutain rebels are using."

"You're just like mom," Toby praised, clamping a hand on Bee's shoulder, "Always so hard working. You ever take a vacation?"

"I can't right now," Bee told him, "My friends are depending on me."

"I'm glad you found such great people to take care of you. Reeve said you brought one of them, I'll have to thank her." He looked down at her with such a proud smile that Bee felt suddenly very ashamed and didn't know how to respond. Where had this been when he visited before? Where was his family pride back then?

"Reeve said you were in Kalm..." Bee told him, "But he said you are in the WRO now."

"That's right," Toby confirmed with a nod. He took his hand off of Bee's shoulder and placed it on the table. "I left Kalm to come look for you and when I never found you, I left Midgar. Shinra was gone, SOLDIER was already in shambles even before Meteorfall. I had nothing left. So I went back to Kalm until I heard about the WRO. I knew I had to join, do some good in the world. And I had met Reeve before at Shinra. I knew how he worked. His vision would propel us forward, I really believe that."

"Why did you go back to Kalm?" Bee asked curiously, "Why didn't you go somewhere else, like Junon? Shinra still had armies there."

"I... well..." For the first time in her life, Bee was witnessing Toby blushing. He scratched at his face for a second before answering, "I met a girl in Kalm. So when I had nothing left in Midgar, I went back to her. We got married, sis. Look."

Bee watched as Toby shuffled around in the pockets of his protective vest and pulled out two pictures. He handed them to Bee and she took them slowly, holding them delicately in her small hands. The first was of Toby in a suit, a woman in a wedding dress standing next to him. They were holding hands, and not even looking at the camera they were so absorbed in each other. The second picture was of the two of them again and Bee got a better look at her face. She was very pretty, Bee expected nothing less from her brother, he had always been the ladies man. But she was softer looking than she expected. The woman wasn't much taller than herself, and she had pin straight blonde hair and pale skin that shone in the flash of the picture. But what shocked her most of all was the third individual in the picture.

"We have a son," Toby told her, stating what Bee had already figured out from looking at the picture. "His name is Aiden, after Mel's dad. Melinda, my wife, I told her I was coming to meet you and she was so excited. She wants to have you for dinner in Kalm. Meet Aiden. He will be one soon, and he looks a lot like you. You should be there for his birthday, I mean, you are his aunt."

Bee's hands were shaking, she knew because the pictures were shaking. He had a family? She had a family. A sister and a nephew. She looked up at Toby and tried to say something, anything, but found that her throat wouldn't work. Her tongue felt like it was swelling.

"Sis, it's okay," Toby said in concern. He moved forward and took the pictures back from her, put them away, and slid his chair as close to hers as it would go. He placed both of his giant hands over hers, trying to steady them. "I know it's a lot to take in. I know. But you're not alone anymore. If you didn't have the shop, I would've asked you to come live with us. We would take care of you. We still can, we can send money if you ever need it. I make enough here at the WRO to support you too, and I know you probably don't need it because you probably make enough at your shop but..."

"I do," Bee cut in, suddenly feeling anger well up inside her. Her hands continued to shake, but it was in disbelief and total rage at her brother. Now he was willing to help her out, now when she didn't need it. Where was this support when she was still in the slums, when she and her mother slaved away every single day to support themselves. Where was he then? "I don't need your Shinra money."

"Sis?" Toby pulled away from his sister as if her hands had burnt him.

"I can support myself," she spat at him, "Or do you forget how I supported myself for years in the slums while you went and played hero for Shinra? That me and mom worked harder than you ever have in your life? And now, when I finally don't need you, you come back into my life and offer me money, thinking that it's perfectly fine? Toby, you left us when we needed you most! Where were you then?!"

Her anger was sudden, and fierce, and blinded her. She stood quickly, finally able to be the one to look down on her brother, and she found it fitting. He looked up at her in utter shock, and she hated it. Hated that he could still play innocent when he had wronged her and their mother so badly.

"Why didn't you ever offer to help us?" she cried down at him, hating even more that she was crying now, "You left without even saying good-bye to mom! And then when you came to visit, you didn't even go see her! Why is it that she had to die for you to finally go see her! She missed you everyday! She always asked me if I thought you were coming back! She waited! And then you run off to Kalm with this girl like we were nothing!"

"I came back!" he protested, still sitting in the chair, but leaning back so that Bee no longer towered over him, "I came back and searched for weeks for you!"

"When you knew you had to!" she argued back. Her face was flushed red from her anger and her hands just would not stop shaking, not matter how much she tried. She never remembered being so angry in her life, and she felt dizzy, like she couldn't breath. "When Midgar was in flames! So mom and I had to be in danger for you to finally come help us?"

Toby stood now, forcing Bee to take a step back, and she hated him even more for it. The room was a blur now, she saw nothing but Toby, and she wanted to hit him. Hit him so hard, make him feel the pain that she felt while she struggled alone. He tried to calm Bee down, but she kept going.

"And I was never alone! My friends have taken better care of me than you ever have!" She wiped at her face, trying to stop her tears, make the room more visible. She should at least be able to see Toby clearly if she was going to yell at him, she determined. "They have always made sure that I was safe, that I had money, and food, and clothes! What have you done for me? You left when I needed you most! When Aerith needed you most! She's dead, did you know that? Shinra killed her! Just like they killed Zack! And yet you ran off to work for them, spouting off nonsense about becoming a hero! Well who did you save, Toby? Because you certainly didn't save me."

She whipped around after her rant, running for the door to the conference room. Toby shouted at her, shouting her real name, and that was the last straw. When he grabbed her wrist, she flung around and slapped him hard across the cheek, and was satisfied at the red mark that she left.

"Go back to your perfect life without me and mom!" she screamed now, and she heard the door open behind her and Tifa yell at her, but she ignored her friend, "Go back to your wife and your son and forget all about me! I know how easy it is." Her voice cracked on her last word, and she took her wrist back from Toby, not even noticing how easily he let go of it. He stood in silent shock, not knowing what to do. Bee ran out of the room, bypassing Tifa and Reeve, both of whom were shouting at her to come back. She ignored them, and with her vision marred by tears, she ran outside of the headquarters as fast as she possibly could, hating herself and her brother more and more with every step she took.

She imagined that Toby ran after her, but she wasn't sure. She never turned back, and she couldn't hear anything over the sound of her heart beating loudly in her ears. The adrenaline rush was too much, she couldn't even see where she was running, she had no sense of time or distance, and she finally stumbled down a sloping hill, rolling to a stop at the bottom. When she stood up and looked around, her chest heaving and heart burning, she had no idea where she was. The WRO building was in the middle of nowhere, she hadn't seen a town nearby on either of her flights to the building. She turned around, trying to catch her breath and noticed that the building was barely visible over the hill she had fell down. She was in a valley of some kind. How long had she run for? She realized that she didn't know. It had all happened so quickly. Her phone rang, and she remembered that she had never put her backpack down. It was still perched on her back, the straps tight against her shoulders and she silently thanked whatever god it was that watched over Gaia that she hadn't thought to take it off when she met Toby. She pulled it out, letting her backpack fall to the ground with a loud thump, and looked at the front screen. It was Tifa. She ignored it. She then checked the time on her phone. While she didn't know exactly what time she had ran out of head quarters, she guessed that she had ran for at least a good ten minutes, maybe even more. She wasn't very sure, she hadn't even been aware of her surroundings as she had run, let alone aware of the span of time.

Her knees were stained with grass, her chest heaved, trying to regain her lost breath, and her headband had fallen off halfway down the hill. She went to retrieve it and placed it back in her hair, pulling some blades of grass out of her brown locks. Her phone rang again. It was Reeve this time. She ignored him too.

Having nothing else to do, Bee sat down in the grass with her backpack. She was still crying, and she didn't bother to wipe them away this time. Instead, she cried freely, enjoying letting her anger out for once in her life. How had that conversation gone so wrong? How had she let herself become so violent, so angry? Her hands were still shaking, and she was coming down from her adrenaline rush. It was still light out, the talk with her brother had not lasted more than maybe ten minutes. Her phone told her it was two in the afternoon. They would find her soon, she determined, and the last thing she wanted was to be found. So she stood, grabbed her backpack, ignored another phone call from Tifa, and then dialed a different number.

"Usually, I'm the one calling you," the voice answered on the other line, a sense of smugness coming through.

"I need help," she cried into the phone. She was stumbling uselessly through the valley she had fallen into, trying as hard as she could to walk through the tall grass and get even further away from headquarters as fast as she could. She was finding it particularly hard to do considering she couldn't see all that well.

"What's wrong? Where are you?" the voice was urgent, hurried, and Bee heard shuffling in the background, a slam of a door, and she finally started to calm down. He was already on his way.

"I don't know," she admitted, trying to take a deep breath. Her mind wasn't really working which meant that her whole body wasn't working either. Her feet were stomping in an odd pattern and her mouth was having a hard time forming words. She wondered briefly if she was going into shock in the aftermath of her argument. She wouldn't be surprised, she always was a wimp. "Reno, come get me, please."

"I'm coming. I'm going to call Tseng and have him trace our phone call, okay?" he told her, his voice still urgent, and a little bit demanding. He had gone into Turk mode, Bee noticed. And she surprisingly was so very glad he was. "Are you hurt? Were you attacked? You were at headquarters, weren't you? What happened?"

"I can't... I can't tell you. I'm too pathetic," she sobbed to him, "I can't even have a conversation with my own family. Family! Reno, I have family! Isn't that weird?"

"Bee, calm down! You need to breath, you're hyperventilating."

So that was why she didn't seem to be getting enough oxygen. Funny, she thought there was a hole in her lung. She took a deep breath, trying to do as he asked, because if he was really coming to get her then she would honestly do anything he wanted her to right then.

"I am a horrible person, Reno. There's something wrong with me. I'm pathetic." She was still crying, taking long, deep breaths in between each sob. She kept walking, still not sure where she was going.

"I take it your meeting with your brother didn't go so hot, huh?" he questioned her, a tone of kindness in his voice that she had never really heard before.

"No. No it really didn't. Will you still get me even though I'm not hurt? Because I really don't know where I am, and I don't want to go back and see him because I'm a horrible person and my life is pathetic."

"Yeah, little bug, I will. And you are probably the greatest person I've ever known in my life. So you stay where you are okay? Don't go anywhere. I'll be there soon and take you home. Sit your buggy ass down and wait for me," he told her sternly. He listened until he heard a thump, and an "ow."

"I'm sitting," she told him, not caring that she probably had even more grass stains on her shorts now. What did it matter? Nothing really did right now.

"Okay, now stay put. Don't think. Try and sleep if you can." She obeyed, leaning back in the grass and closing her eyes. She placed her backpack behind her head and used it as a pillow.

"Okay. Thanks, Reno. Oh, can you do me one last favor?"

"What?"

"Bring alcohol."

"Sure thing, babe."

Bee smiled, and shut her phone, and waited for Reno to get her, drifting off after a half hour. Her last thoughts were how ironic it was that Reno, a Turk and a man she had just met over a month ago, was willing to drop everything to take care of her, while her brother, her own flesh and blood, had forgotten her for almost eight years.

A/N: As most of you have probably come to notice, Bee is a very flawed person. I wanted to show this in this chapter, and would love to hear your thoughts on her. If you feel negatively towards her, that's okay! I am expecting you to! I would love to know how you feel about her! Please review and view Heve-chan's video!