Charlotte had crossed the river and had walked down the streets and little alleys of Paris until she was in Martial Park. She kept walking to some remote little corner of the park and had sat down at a bench. She wasn't sure which part, she had just walked. Anything to get away from there. She looked around and she could see the Eiffel Tower which meant she was close to the center. It was getting dark and they had just switched on the park lights. The Eiffel Tower glowed blue for the festival theme. She sighed and looked at her cut up hand. Inside her palm was her bloodied up beyblade.
"Why did he do this?" she asked Anukis.
"I don't know. Maybe he wasn't lying, maybe he is really confused, but I know you love him. Maybe you should let him leave." She replied back.
Charlie got up and folded her arms and walked a few meters away from the bench.
"Well, I'm not stopping him; he can do whatever the hell he wants. As long as I have Alex and you, I'll be okay." Charlie said to herself.
"Speaking to yourself again?" someone said from the shadows.
She looked and saw a hint of red hair.
"You again?" she asked, looking as Tala stepped out into the light.
"Who else would be following you this time of night?" he asked.
He walked up to her and expected her to flinch. She expected herself to flinch, but somehow, she didn't.
"I keep asking myself that question. What are you doing in Paris, or even France for that matter, shouldn't you be crawling around in some God forsaken snow covered landscape?" she asked him.
He reached out for her cut up hand and took it gently in his. He ran his finger over the bloody cuts.
"Still hurting yourself." He said, looking at the cuts and she pulled her hand away from him.
"What do you want?" she asked, going to sit back down.
He licked his finger tip and walked closer to her.
"Tell him to beat it." Anukis whispered to her.
She giggled at her. Despite the fact of what he had done to her, she still found him sexy and now that she was single again, maybe it might be time to go for the real bad boy. He sat down next to her and looked at the Eiffel Tower.
"Beautiful, right?" she asked him.
He turned to her and smiled.
"More so now that she's home." He said, smiling at her.
"Charlie, he wants to kiss you, tell him to get lost. You love Kai remember." Anukis begged her.
"Yes, Anukis, you're right." She sighed out loud.
Tala's eyes lit up and he realized what had happened at the Louvre'.
"I knew it, who are you speaking to? A bitbeast?" he asked her.
She opened her other hand and showed him her beyblade. He reached out to take it and she pulled away.
"No touching. She won't like it." Charlie said to him.
He smiled and leaned over to look at her bit.
"A bitbeast, you got one anyway. What's it's name? Wait, you've said it already, Anukis. Right?" he asked her.
"Yes," she said, putting her into her pocket.
"I just got her." She said, looking at him, looking at her.
"And you're still here because…" she asked him.
"I'm staying here for a while. Until Boris needs me. And Black Dranzer of course, now you have Anukis, you have no need for her, give her to me." He said, holding out his hand.
She looked at it, then at his face and shoved it away.
"I gave her back to Kai." She said, folding her arms over her chest.
"Kai, he's here?" he asked her.
She sighed and looked in the opposite direction.
"Yes, but not for long. He's leaving." She said, looking across the park at the couple walking hand in hand.
She sighed and looked at her feet. She felt him lean against the back of the bench.
"Leaving, where are you two love birds going?" He asked.
She looked at him and looked him dead in the eye.
"Not we, just he. He broke up with me." She said, getting up and walking a few steps away.
She heard him get up and walk up behind her.
"So, now you're single, after all the things you did for him Russia..." He said, brushing her hair off of her shoulder and softly kissing her skin.
"Tala, please, I don't want to talk abou…"she was cut off by him turning her around. He pulled her against his body and she felt the little resistance she had towards him, slipping. It hurt her aching ribs, being moved unexpectedly, but the warmth of his body made the pain numb, for a little time anyway. She gasped at the pain and felt a tear welling up in her eye. She hadn't taken her pain pills, as she had promised herself, and now she was wishing she had. But the pain was all right. It reminded her of what had happened, for everything she had sacrificed for Kai in Russia.
"In Russia, I said I would kill him if you didn't do as I say, I still can, if you want me to." He whispered against her lips, teasing her with ever word, brushing lightly against her lips.
"Tala," she whispered back, brushing her lips against his.
He smiled and moved just that last centimeter, pressed his lips against hers and kissed her deeply. He drew her closer to him and she whimpered in pain, and this made her gasp for air. She broke the kiss and softly moaned.
"Still hurts?" he asked her, enjoying her moving like this in his arms again.
"A…little." She said softly.
She pushed him away and turned to walk back to the bench, but he had hurt her ribs again. She stopped and breathed deeply.
"I'm sorry, Tala, but I don't want to start anything now." She said, sitting back down. He came and sat next to her.
"We're just having fun." He said, brushing her hair away from her neck and leaning closer.
She leant back against the bench seat and felt his warm breath on her neck as he breathed. She felt him press his lips against her neck and kiss her gently. She opened her eyes and moved away from him. She turned and looked at him, then she lifted her hand and laid it on his cheek. She pulled him closer to her lips and kissed him intensely. She felt him slowly push her over onto the bench seat and lay his body over hers. She felt his heart beating faster and faster and his chest heaving as he breathed in deeply. She felt him run his hand up her thigh and reach for her jean zipper. She reached for his shirt buttons and undid one, then the next. She put her hands on his chest and felt his heart racing under her hands.