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To Live is to Die; DarkAngel013 & Mercinus3
Topic Started: Jun 23 2009, 03:37 AM (5,840 Views)
Mercinus3
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As they pulled up to the garage, Harlan remained quiet. He wasn't sure on what had happened. The only thing that he knew was that Ai was in a state. He got out of the car just as she did, ready to head back to the apartment that she owned. The disappointed guards watched as both of them walked away from the garage back to the apartment, though with doubt clearly in Ai's mind. He wanted to help her out, but there was a problem with how to calm her down. Him placing a hand onto her back had calmed her down, but she started to become erratic again. He somewhat knew what to do.

He followed her through the apartment and the elevator. Once he walked through to her apartment, he instantly took his shoes off, placing them in the same corner that he had placed them in the first place. "You can walk on through now too, although your clothes might be a bit singed." When he walked through, with his clothes a bit singed from the screen, he noticed her starting to prepare the meal that she was making the meal that they were going to have before going to meet Damien and his proposition. He was walking towards her when she dropped the containers that had the food was in. As he arrived in the kitchen, she had gathered all of the stuff from the floor and had placed them on the counter. "I-I'm sorry, I think preparing dinner might take a bit longer than I expected."

Slowly, he placed both of his hands on her shoulders, trying to be as gentle as possible. He smiled at her. "Take as long as you need to."
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"Take as long as you need to."

"I-I don't even know why I... why I'm like this," she said, looking as if she was going to burst into tears. From what, she didn't know. She never even knew these kinds of emotions existed inside herself. It was as if she was starting to realize the seriousness of the mission altogether... and what she had been doing all these years. Did she lose a part of herself when her parents had been killed?

Suddenly, the thought of her parents, after so long, made her collapse as her legs couldn't hold her up anymore. Her heart tore at her soul, she had lost her parents the same way, so she's heard. How long was it going to be when she was able to find the very self that she had lost so many years ago? All that emotion that she had shoved aside suddenly rushing forth to burst? She was trying so hard to keep them bottled up, to hold it together, especially while Harlan was here. She didn't want him to think of her as weak nor did she want him to see her cry... although, she didn't want him to see more her weaker sides than how much she was still shaken over the assignment.
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"I-I don't even know why I... why I'm like this."

Harlan watched Ai as she spoke. He saw that the woman that he was working with for the past years breaking down in front of him. Then, he saw her fall down, as if she lost the strength in her legs. In an instant, he grabbed her before she completely fell to the ground. Holding her in his arms, he carried her away from the kitchen and into the living area. He sat down on the sofa, sitting her right next to him. Worried if she was going to be alright, he placed an arm over her shoulders. "Ai? What's wrong?" He didn't care if he had shown concern in his voice, he wanted to know if she was alright and not in complete shock over the proposition that Damien had made.
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"Ai? What's wrong?"

"M-My parents..." Her eyes grew wide as the memories flooded back. The blood... it was everywhere...

She gave up, she couldn't hold it in anymore. The emotions that she had shoved aside for so many years came rushing through her body as she suddenly looked towards Harlan and embraced him, her tears now steadily streaming down her cheeks. She wanted comfort, anything, to soothe her from this horrible pain that ached at her heart and to soothe the painful memories that surged through her mind. She had been so young when those events had happened. She didn't care... as she buried her face into his broad shoulders.
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"M-My parents..."

Harlan didn't need to hear anything else to know what had happened to her. It wasn't the massive deal that they had heard of earlier. It was about her hidden past. He figured out that something terrible had happened to her during her early years, long before she had joined the Gore Angels. As he turned to embrace her for comfort, she looked towards him and embraced him. Even with a dry shirt, he could feel the tears that were streaming down her face. He placed both his arms around her for comfort, gently rocking her from side to side. The shoulder that she was burying her face in was the shoulder that the Globodex hitman had punched him, but his feelings to comfort her was stronger than the pain that was coming from the shoulders in the first place. "It's ok, Ai. I'm here." Gently, without thinking about it, he placed his lips on the side of her head, hoping that the kiss would help soothe her from the state that she was in.
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"It's ok, Ai. I'm here."

Her only reply was the hiccups between her tears. The sudden flood of tears the came to her surprised her, to realize that she hadn't cried like that in so long... The last time she had, it was with her mother. However, the stress of the emotions was already depleting rapidly. Maybe it was because she could feel the massive amount of... warmth from Harlan. Or it was the fact that he was concerned for her, more than most people had in a long, long time. Who knows, all she knew was that she was feeling massively relieved and comforted by the feel of strength from his arms. What surprised her was the feel of his lips on her head

After awhile, she calmed down, however, she didn't want to Harlan to see her tear-streaked face. "Harlan," she whispered, her voice soft. She gripped his shirt tightly. "Thank you..." A soft laugh, "I've ruined the shirt... and could we stay like this for a bit longer?" Her body was more relaxed than she will ever be at a spa or anything like that. In Harlan's arms... she felt... safe.
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Harlan remained with Ai for a while, his arms embracing her slender frame. He could feel the sobs coming through his bulky frame. Still rocking her, he started to think back to his past, which was rather hazy for him to remember. The only thing that he could remember was being in a hospital bed, the doctors telling him that he had been through a severe accident, with him suffering from amnesia. Since then, he was unable to recall what he was before this 'accident'. It was the only reason why he joined the Gore Angels, with a rumour of his past being with them.

A few minutes later, Ai managed to speak to him again. Harlan… Thank you..." A soft laughter came from her, though what she was laughing about was something Harlan was a bit hazy on. "I've ruined the shirt... and could we stay like this for a bit longer?"

For a while, both of them chuckled. "It's ok, Ai. There's always more shirts that I can wear. Plus that there is a neat invention called the Laundrette…" Sighing, Harlan continued to embrace her, letting her know that she was safe from anything that was coming their way.
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"It's ok, Ai. There's always more shirts that I can wear. Plus that there is a neat invention called the Laundrette…"

Ai only laughed a soft musical kind, one that was gentle yet, not to hoarse or too loud. She stopped after a few minutes, letting herself relax a bit more before reluctantly letting go of Harlan, although she hid her face. She didn't want him to see the face that had been red from crying. "I-I'll go wash my face and then prepare dinner... and I'll get you a new shirt," she said softly before standing up and then heading back into the master bedroom. She washed her face and then reapplied her lotion. Then she headed into the closet and retrieved a home-wear shirt for Harlan.

"Here you are," she said with a gentle giggle as she placed it over his head. She hadn't felt so relaxed in so long... she just wanted to be playful now, although why, she began to think it had something to do with... just letting herself cry herself out. She headed into the kitchen, humming to herself a gentle tune, although from what, Ai thinks it must have been from her mother. She prepared cooking, her fingers again flying across the food as she prepared the food in a rather rapid, yet elegant fashion.

"Dinner is almost ready," she said, looking up for a moment before focusing on cooking again.
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Both of them laughed at Harlan's pathetic joke that he had made. Although he failed at humour, he only said the joke to cheer Ai up from the tears that she cried on his shoulder. Soon, she moved away from his grip, with him allowing her to get herself patched up. She hid her face, though he knew that she had been crying from her haunted past. "I-I'll go wash my face and then prepare dinner... and I'll get you a new shirt." Before he could say another word, she went into the master bedroom to clear herself up from the ordeal that she had faced. Soon after she left, he got up and walked around the apartment, having a second look at the area that Ai was living in. It was nothing like the apartment that he was living in at the moment. Sure his apartment was rather neat, but her apartment was something else.

While she was getitng ready, he picked up his cell phone from his pocket and dialed a number in. "Mitch, it's Harlan. I need a favour. At my apartment, there is one car that is left. Would it be possible for you to ship that over to Taiwan within the next few days?" Chatter on the other end came on. "I know that the cost for transporting this car is very high, but I want it to be in good condition." Again, the voice came over the telephone. "Ok… thanks, Mitch. I'll pay you when I get back." Once he hung the phone up, he took the shirt off, showing his broad torso again.

Soon, Ai came back, holding a new shirt in her hand. Instead of just giving him the shirt, she placed it over his head. While he was trying to find the neck of the shirt, Ai went back to cooking, working at the speed that she was going before they went to see Damien. Once Harlan managed to get the shirt on, Ai was speaking to him. "Dinner is almost ready."

"Ok, Ai." Before he went to sit down, he walked up into the kitchen, watching her cook the meal that they were supposed to have several hours ago. Shortly after arriving in the area, he spoke up. "Ai, do you need help in anything?"
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"Ai, do you need help in anything?"

"Um... help me wash and cut that fruit over there?" she said without looking up. As she waved over in the direction of the prepared fruit, with a knife no doubt, she went back to chopping whatever she was chopping before she starting cooking it altogether.

By the time Harlan would be done washing the fruit and cutting it, Ai had pretty much finished making the meal. For two. She set it on the table before she realized something with a jolt. It-It's almost like... l-like... a... date?! she thought, freezing mid-way before setting it down on the table.
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