7: Recollection
Victor was standing next to a huge boulder, and Yang was leaning her back against the giant rock. Victor took all the details of her in his mind, and pictured himself kissing her.
Then, without warning, his mysterious demonic monotone came in out of nowhere and said, "You look sexy."
Yang looked at him, confused.
Victor spoke in his normal voice, "It's not me!"
Yang raised a hand to motion silence, and she asked, "OK, maybe you should tell me more about yourself first. Why is it that you LOOK like you are lonely and unsocial but friendly at times with red eyes, and then, without warning, you change color to blue eyes, and sound like a jerk with a face of arrogance."
Victor sighed, and said, "It's a split personality disorder I have. My name is Victor Nero Hyde…."
Blue Eyes and Monotone spoke again, "AAAAAND I am Ian Jekyll!"
Yang processed this. "Split Personality? Well, this is the most vocal one I've ever seen…. And the eye change color is quite interesting…"
Victor explained, "That's not all. We are completely different. I mean, literally. It's more like we are two different people in one body."
Ian butted in, "For example, Victor is a shy sheep, but I am a flirt, and I am proud of that."
Yang rolled her eyes in amusement, "Noticed…."
Ian: And while you could say Victor is a bit of a 100 pound weakling, look at these pythons!
He immediately flexed his arms. They remained thin looking. Yang laughed. But Ian looked insulted, and walked up to the boulder she was leaning against. Ian with both hands lifted the thing clean high. Yang was flabbergasted.
Ian then put the thing down and Victor came back again, and HE tried to lift the thing. But instead he almost broke his arms in trying to simply budge the huge boulder. Yang said, "Oh I see. Ian and Victor are different people, and with different strengths."
"And skills…" Victor added, "He's better in a fight than I'll ever be. And my Aura works for him better."
Yang then tried to lighten him up, "But no matter what, you're a true person. Who cares if he's got firepower? You have heart." She made her move by touching his chest where the heart is, "And that's what matters right now."
When she touched his chest, he felt cold, but what had happened before, the pain of his flowing into her, didn't happen. So she was definitely making some progress. She felt his heart pick up speed.
Yang said, "Let me ask you something. The dance at Beacon? Do you remember that?" Victor nodded in silent approval. Yang asked, "So who did you dance with?"
Victor guessed he had to tell her the ugly truth.
"No one."
"What?"
"I danced with no one."
Yang was stunned, then remembered that nobody had danced with her, but she had danced with Blake, and that was just to make Blake enjoy the dance. But she said anyway, "Those bitches!"
Victor sighed, "Yeah. Most of it was actually Ian's fault."
Ian spoke out, "Hey, I tried to grab us a hot girl to dance with!"
"Yeah!" Victor snapped, "You tried to accomplish that by acting like a jerk!"
"It's called flirting, man. You should try it out sometime."
"I will not!"
"Listen," Yang interrupted Victor's argument with himself (or his other self), "I didn't dance with anyone."
Victor gasped. "NO ONE?" A part of him was thanking god.
"No one, and therefore, Victor Nero Hyde, I ask you to dance with me."
Victor looked at her, stunned. How would it look, dancing with a girl in her pajamas?
"Sure," Ian replied for him.
So much for quick thinking….
Victor and Yang positioned themselves and Victor said with a red face, "I have never slow danced with a girl before." Yang smiled and simply put her hands behind his waist, and she said, "Well, you should put your hands on both my shoulder and my waist at close distance. At too close, put both hands behind my waist."
Yang, on purpose went on too close distance, and put her head on his shoulder. Victor's mouth got muffled by Yang's thick hair. Yang asked, "So why are you so full of sadness?"
Victor hesitated, and said, "My dad…. He…."
Yang knew what was coming.
"He was….. everybody thought he had died a mysterious death. But I knew exactly how he had died. It was in his diary. Some guy had been threatening to kill him for days. And then… he was murdered within his own office. That was when Ian came along. My dad was dead. My mother had died earlier, after I was born. One of my dad's closest work partners looked after me. But I never got over his death…. I guess I drowned in sorrow."
Yang looked up at him. Victor saw the pity in her eyes.
"Oh. I Thought he just… disappeared, like my mother." Yang said, "I guess both of us have suffered losses."
Victor looked away. He hated discussing this. But after hearing what Yang said, he realized at that very moment…..
Ian took control of Victor's arms, and placed one directly behind her waist, and the other in her hair. Yang recoiled, and suddenly landed a powerful punch directly in Victor's face. Victor flew nearly a dozen feet, and landed against a tree. Yang quickly snapped out of it and ran up to him ,saying, "OH MY GOD! I am so sorry!"
She slipped on a leaf, and both heads (V and Y) collided.
And in those very few split seconds where the heads both connected, there was a flash, in their minds, and they both saw a flurry of images and memories, but it was clear what they were showing: painful moments in their life. And then the memory where Yang discovered she lost her mother, and Victor discovered he lost his father.
Then the flash came again, and they were both back in reality. Victor took a deep breath, and looked down. He was on the ground, and Yang was lying right on top of him, and she was looking up at him. They both were in this position, and Victor finally asked, "Did…. Did you see that too?"
She nodded.
They both got up, and stood there, with Victor's left arm on Yang's arm.
Noah and Ruby, both in pajamas, were gaping at them. Ruby shook her head, and said, "Yang!"
Yang and Victor snapped out of the trance they were in ,and looked at her. Both quickly got away from each other, and Yang asked, "What is it?"
Ruby said, "Weiss is missing!"
Next Chapter: The Investigation begins!