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"I guess Father Juliano found out about me and the guys drinking on my birthday last year." Robin mumbled as she fidgeted with the necklace around her neck. Amon glanced over at her,
"You have some pretty good dance moves." Amon trying to get her mind off of her guys.
"Oh, I just let the music carry me." Robin shrugged,
"Hn." Amon nodded,
"So where are we going this late?" Robin asked,
"It's a surprise, technically I am taking you to get your other gifts." Amon explained.
"You didn't have to get me anything Amon." Robin explained,
"I wanted to make it up to you for not even bothering to ask you about your birthday." Amon explained.
"It's the 25th of September. Your birthday is New Years, you will be 26." Robin explained,
"How do you know when my birthday is?" Amon asked, Robin glanced over at him,
"Your medical report." Robin turning her head to look out at the night life. Amon winced, he was more interested in how bad the attack had been on her team than catching her birthday on her medical report, he knew he fucked up, but again he never expected to feel for her, he wasn't even going to give her the chance to become as close as she had gotten to him.
"I'm sorry Robin, I was…" Amon being interrupted,
"You were more concerned how damaged I was in the attack, and you had every right to know what you would be dealing with." Robin explained, almost like she was talking about the weather.
"You don't really seem like a guy that is too concerned about birthdays." Robin thought out loud.
"I am not." Amon glancing over at her, he finally pulled into the armory,
"The armory? What are we doing here?" Robin confused, he got out and shut the door, she followed after him. He had the keys, so he unlocked the door and flipped the lights on,
"Do you remember our deal we had or better, yet it was on the list of things you wanted since I looked at your medical report. Robin's eyes widened,
~He can't have possibly gotten my guns.~ Robin thought, Amon took her over to a cage and unlocked it, he walked down the row of shelves and found a particular case, exactly where Zaizen said it would be. Amon grabbed it and made his way back up to Robin, he presented her the case,
"Happy belated birthday Robin." Amon handing her the case. Robin stared at the case, knowing her guns that had helped save her life was in that case. She had never felt excited but scared all at the same time, she slowly reached out for the case in his hand and took the offered case. She was excited to be able to touch her guns again but so afraid that her guns would bring up bad memories. Robin walked over and laid the case down on a desk, Amon was curious to see her guns as well, so he followed her to the desk, he watched her hesitate on unlocking the case and noticed her hand shaking so bad.
"Robin?" Amon whispered, Robin shook her hand,
"I'm good, I'm alright." Robin trying to convince them both that she was alright, she unlocked the case, there in the case laid her guns that had been recovered from the attack plus a note from Father Juliano. Both guns were heavily modified 1911's, Robin turned to Amon, but didn't look at him,
"I never thought I would see these again. This one, Malocchio, it's more suited for quick draws and has a slightly higher rate of fire. The other one, Dante, is geared more towards long range and has a slightly different hammer and sights compared to Malocchio." Robin pointing to each gun. Robin took the note in one hand and ran her fingers over her guns, scenes of the attack assaulted her, most of the scenes she was shooting the guns that now laid in front of her. Robin staggered Amon grabbed her waist,
"Robin." Amon growled, Robin waved him off, slowly she unfolded the note,
"I cleaned them the best I could, I hope they continue to save your life. Father Juliano." Robin mumbled, she laid the note down in the case, and carefully picked up one gun that had an ivory handle. She turned it around in her hand to see if there was any damage to it, there were bloody fingerprints stained on the bone handle.
Amon's eyebrow knitted together, he didn't think her getting those guns back would cause so much sadness, but he saw the blood on the handle and saw Robin hold the gun to her chest, caressing it, almost lovingly for saving her life in that attack. He looked at the magazine for one of the guns and found it full of wooden bullets with a rune carved into it. Robin noticed him looking at it,
"Like I said, we had to make our own ammo." Robin reminding him. It pissed him off that they didn't have ammo or the high-tech equipment to work with, but he wondered if that would have helped them in the end since the ice witch had manipulated Robin's men to kill each other, as far as he knew there wasn't anything to protect hunters if a witch could turn hunters against hunters like that.
"Amon, please, can we go home now?" Robin having snapped the case closed and was now holding it, Amon nodded.
"I don't understand why you didn't have the funds for anything." Amon confused,
"It may be because your team is supplied by Zaizen, a wealthy boss. Our team only has Father Juliano." Robin explained as she walked out to the car with the case, he walked out and locked up again. He watched as she handled the case with ease, she didn't look like she had any trouble whatsoever carrying it.
~Why didn't Zaizen give them the supplies they needed? If Zaizen didn't have the money we would also be just getting by with what little we had.~ Amon thought as he quickly walked to the car. Once they were seated in the car,
"Don't ever try to fire my guns, they are protected with engraved runes on them. You can handle them but if you try to fire either one, great harm will come to you." Robin explained, Amon raised a brow,
"They keep other witches from turning my own guns against me. You said your mother was a witch and your father a seed, I don't want to take the chance of them hurting you." Robin explained, Amon nodded, he started the car and headed back to the apartment.
"You don't seem to have night terrors anymore." Amon brought up on the way home,
"Um, yeah, my guys threw me a party in my dream and told me what they would have given me for my b-day and told me that they were going to let me go, that I was in good hands. They said if and when I need someone, they would be the ones to come. I guess if the situation is bad enough, they will have my back." Robin whispered.
"Hn, it is good you will be able to sleep now." Amon commented, though he missed the nights she would scream out in pain from being tortured in her sleep, because it meant he could crawl into her bed and hold a warm body to his, he had honestly slept better when he had to comfort her on those nights, it was better than hugging a cold lifeless pillow.
"Thank you for coming to my party and demanding a party to be thrown for me." Robin glancing over at him,
~What…I demanded…ah Karasuma, what a little lair!~ Amon thought.
"You only turn 16 once. Again, I am sorry that I didn't think of asking you when your birthday was." Amon grunted out. It wasn't long until they made it back to their apartment.
"Just leave the bags, we will get them tomorrow." Amon explained,
"We could take a load up tonight since we are going up to the apartment now." Robin grumbled, Robin opened the door to the backseat and grabbed her gun case and shut it back.
"Alright." Amon grumbled, Robin opened the door to the backseat and grabbed her gun case and shut it back. Amon popped the trunk and grabbed a few bags, Robin came over and grabbed two bags and headed up to the apartment, Amon shut the trunk lid and started walking up as he locked the car up for the night. Once they made it into the apartment Robin went to her room and laid the case down on the bed.
"Did you bring your iPod in?" Amon asked as he sat her bags down by the chair,
"Yeah." Robin pulling it from her coat pocket.
"Come out to the living room and I will show you how to put music on it. Amon explained,
"Okay." Robin nodded, she followed him out to the living room. Amon opened his laptop and sat on the couch, Robin sat down beside him and gave him everything that came in the box with her iPod.
"Thank you for this. It will be nice to listen to some music while I work out." Robin seriously explained, Amon turned his head to look at her,
"I didn't really know what type of things you were interested in. Karasuma didn't think that you listened to much music." Amon explained as he hooked the iPod into his laptop.
"Do you see how this is plugged in?" Amon asked,
"Yeah." Robin nodded,
"You will need to plug it in like this every time you want to charge it or download music." Amon explained.
"Right." Robin paying close attention,
"We need to set you up an account first. What do you want your username to be?" Amon asked.
"Um, I don't know." Robin shrugged,
"How about pyrokinetic?" Amon asked as he glanced over at her,
"Sure." Robin agreeing,
"Now you need a password." Amon explained,
"Your birthday." Robin quickly said.
"Why my birthday ?" Amon asked confusedly,
"It's easy to remember." Robin explained.
"What about yours?" Amon asked,
"I don't remember it very often. Never really had the whole cake and party thing. The only birthday I can remember was my 15th birthday and it wasn't really a party. The guys had just bought three bottles of that wine we drank tonight, and we got drunk and goofed off." Robin shrugged.
"Alright, my birthday then. Now you are ready to download some music. You will have to go to audiomack or soundcloud to download music, it's free and also it's where I get my music from anyway." Amon typing in the webpage. He went to his song list and pick out a song, he let it play,
"Alright, under the screen here is where you will find the download button. If you like the song, you hit download and you find your device you want to download onto, and click on it and it starts downloading." Amon explained.
"Can we listen to what you have saved?" Robin asked,
"Sure, I don't care." Amon shrugged, he left the laptop on and let it play the songs, he went and started fixing a pizza from scratch. Robin glanced over at him in the kitchen,
"What are you doing?" Robin asked as she fidgeted with the necklace around her neck.
"Making dinner for us since all we had was cake and a really good bottle of wine." Amon explained.
"Hm, yeah, I'm glad Father Juliano sent a bottle. It seemed like I had a piece of my guys there." Robin walking over and sat on one of the stools at the kitchen bar.
"Robin, you will always have the guys you lost, they will never be too far." Amon explained as he glanced up at her, he saw her playing with necklace,
"Yeah. Hey, youre making a pizza." Robin noticing him rolling out the dough.
"Yeah, perhaps you could give pointers?" Amon asked,
"Never made pizza before, on rare occasions we got to get a couple of frozen ones." Robin shrugged.
"That is a shame, you lived in Italy and never made a pizza before." Amon thought aloud.
"Yeah, I guess so. I never really got to go anywhere unless it was to the training field or hunting witches." Robin shrugged. Robin watched him fix the pizza while listening to Amon's song list,
"You must be excited to finally get to come out to the field us soon." Amon making small chitchat.
"Excite though I am a bit worried for my first hunt." Robin whispered,
"If it's about not being able to train while taking it easy, we can go running tomorrow. That leg has healed nicely, and we could do with a light jog." Amon explained as he spread the sauce on the dough.
"It's not that, it's more of I am afraid of how I will react to being around a dangerous witch, with having to relive the attack so many times in my dreams." Robin explained.
"Well, you don't know until you get back out there." Amon shrugged as he put cheese and pepperoni on the pizza and popped it into the oven for the right time and temperature. He came around to her side of the kitchen bar, Amon saw her hand laying there and gently took her hand, Robin raised her brow,
"I could see that you wanted to dance earlier. So, come on." Amon walking over with Robin to the computer and scrolled through his song list until he got to a good song to slow dance to.
"Are you sure about this?" Robin asked as she looked eyes with him, his eyebrows knitted together
"Absolutely not." Amon pulling her by her wrist to his chest and wrapping his arm around her small waist. Robin saw him swallow hard as he watched himself bring her waist slowly toward his, she saw his brows knit in pain, almost as if it hurt him to be this close to her. He put her hand that he still held around his neck, and he took her hand and wrapped it around the other side of his neck, they started to slowly sway around in a circle.
All I need by Within Temptations
I'm dying to catch my breath
Oh, why don't I ever learn?
I've lost all my trust though I've surely tried
To turn it around
Robin laid her head over his chest and brought her hands down, one rested over the other side of his chest as the other arm snaked around his waist, and completely melted in his arms.
Can you still see
The heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear me down
"Thank you for making it up to me since you missed my birthday." Robin whispered with her eyes closed. Slowly his hand came up and held her small hand to his chest as he hung his head down over her shoulder and close to the side of her head.
You've opened the door now
Don't let it close
I'm here on the edge again
I wish I could let it go
I know that I'm only one step away
From turning it around
Can you still see
The heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place
"Normally our teammates here don't really celebrate our birthdays, its why we didn't think to ask you of your birthday." Amon's warm breath hitting her ear, instantly she had goosebumps.
"Amon, I want you to know I do not regret my decision to make out with you on your couch and I'm glad you were my first." Robin whispered.
I tried many times
But nothing was real
Make it fade away
Don't break me down
I want to believe that this is for real
Save me from my fear
Don't tear me down
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Don't tear me down
For all I need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place
Make my heart a better place
"I want to regret it because I am not a guy who could ever be a family man, but I don't regret being your first to make out with. Most guys like me would not have held back and stopped it before it went too far. You are an amazing young woman Robin, and you didn't do anything wrong. If you were older, I don't think I could have stopped. I didn't want to stop this time, but I am not a pervert." Amon petting her hair.
"By the way you are an amazing kisser." Amon whispered, Robin laughed a little,
"It was my first kiss." Robin shyly explained, Amon nodded,
"I'm glad I was your first." Amon pulling away from her to lock eyes with her. She locked eyes with him for a minute only to realize the song had changed to another song, she quickly pulled away and walked over to download the song they had just danced to onto her iPod. While she was busy with that Amon went to his coat and pulled out the box that held the charm bracelet and walked over and sat on the couch beside her. Amon stared at the box and finally reached over and put it on his laptop, Robin glanced at it then over at him.
"But you already have given me far too much for my birthday." Robin staring at him,
"I wanted you to have something nice besides an iPod." Amon explained in a whisper as if it were a secret. Robin picked it up and carefully unwrapped it and lifted the lid, she was speechless, she stared back at him.
"It's called a charm bracelet. There is still room for more charms if you find any in the future that you like." Amon explained as he took it out of the box carefully. Amon looked up at her,
"May I?" Amon asked holding it out, ready to clasp it around her wrist. Robin couldn't speak so she gave him a slight nod, she held her wrist out and Amon gently clasped it around her wrist.
"It's really beautiful, I love it Amon." Robin hugging his neck,
"You are welcome, Robin." Amon hugging her back as he closed his eyes and knitted his brows together, he always looked mad or in pain around Robin, and Robin's eyes were already leaking tears. Amon didn't let go for a good few minutes. Suddenly the alarm on the stove rang out,
"Pizza is done." Amon raising his head and slowly and reluctantly pulled away from her, he heard her grunt almost like it had been painful to let him go.
~I can relate, Robin.~ Amon thought as he went to pull the pizza out, Robin walked over and checked out the pizza.
"It smells edible." Robin trying to joke with him, he glared at her,
"See if I cook for you next time." Amon huffed. He took a knife out of the drawer and began to carefully cut the hot pizza,
"You may not know anything about pizza, but you know something about good wine." Amon explained as he dished her out two pieces of pizza.
"I didn't pick it out, my guys did." Robin fingering the necklace,
"I'm glad you could have something of your teammate to remember him by." Amon glancing at the necklace.
"I have a feeling Father Juliano has more things from my guys, but he is probably going to send each piece that he has as gifts for my birthdays and Christmas." Robin going to her room and finding the car and photo and brought the photo back out. Amon was sitting at the kitchen bar eating and drinking sweet tea, Robin laid the photo down by him,
"That's all of us." Robin going to the fridge and getting some tea out and coming around to the bar and sitting next to Amon.
"I guess you do look like a family." Amon thought aloud,
"They all were one of a kind." Robin whispered, as she shoved pizza in her mouth. They were quiet as they let Amon's list of songs play, after they ate Robin went into her room and grabbed her gun case and brought it out to the living room and sat in the floor, leaning back against the couch as she took apart one of her decade's old guns.
"What are you doing?" Amon asked,
"Cleaning my guns, one it's a habit, two its relaxing, and three it's all I can do since you are still fearful of me working out." Robin shrugged.
"We can go running tomorrow if you like. Your doctor approved of it Friday when I called and asked him." Amon sitting on the couch, his legs next to her since she sat in the floor. He watched as she meticulously cleaned her guns,
"Why didn't you tell me until now?" Robin turning around to glare at him.
"You were mad at me." Amon shrugged as he went to the home webpage that he always downloaded from and found more songs from Within Temptation's albums that he thought Robin might like and let them play. He noticed some songs she would look over at the laptop to see the artist and title of the song that played so he would go ahead and download them for her. Amon lifted his legs and laid on the couch comfortably and shut his eyes with a smile playing on his lips.
He was pretty happy with himself he had more than enough made up for forgetting her birthday, but now it seemed like she was pissed that he didn't tell her that the doctor told him it was okay to let her exercise, he thought back to earlier in the day.
~Perhaps if I had told her she would have never been in the tub to begin with.~ Amon thought, the next thing he knew he was being shook awake.
"Hey, you fell asleep on the couch, come on, I'll help you to your room." Robin getting him to sit up. He rubbed his face,
"It's fine, I can walk." Amon grunted. He got up and drug himself into his room and shut the door. He stripped down to his boxers and crawled into bed, wishing and hoping Robin would have another night terror so he could have a reasonable excuse to hold her to his body again.