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A Heart's Promise	By : Evilevergreen Category: +1 through F > Codename: Kids Next Door Views: 6282 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Fifteen: Broken Alliance

“Mushi!”

The syllables of her name, were the only sound that passed through the man's ears as he looked at the young girl in front him. Everything else around him was silence; everything else around him no longer existed. He was alone in the dark and the only thing he could see was her. Her big brown eyes were wide with surprise as she stared at the one who had shot her, but amazingly enough trust was still evident as the moon shined into the alleyway were they both stood.

The sound of footsteps entered into his world next, louder and louder they grew until they suddenly stopped. “Mushi!” Came the sound of the name again as another rushed into his view. “What did you do!” she screamed. “Wally, what the hell did you do?”

Wally only blinked as he saw the young girl, Mushi, fall into her sister's arms. She was covered in a dull red liquid as she held herself tightly. Wally tried to look away only to find that he too was covered in his strange red water. He then licked his lips nervously, but frowned. Once his lips had tasted of his girlfriend's mango flavored lip gloss, but now as he tasted metallic, realizing it was blood, he new mango would never taste the same again. The taste would forever be tainted for him. Wally then looked to his hand, a cold silver weapon resided there and he immediately dropped to the ground as he finally realized what he had just done.

More footsteps could be heard from behind, more than one set this time. Faster they traveled than the last, heavy breathing could be heard from one before Wally softly heard, “No. Please, God, no.” A young boy stepped into his vision before falling to his knees beside Kuki and Mushi. “Keep your eyes open, baby,” the young man gathered Mushi's bloody body in his arms. “Just keep them open,” he tried to keep his voice calm, but it shook despite his best efforts. His eyes then grew wide as hers slowly slid shut. “Hoagie!” screamed the younger boy calling to his brother. “She needs help!” he told him as Kuki ripped apart of her own dress to apply pressure to Mushi's wound.

“We got to get out of here and now!” she demanded. “Come on, Mushi,” she pleaded through her oncoming tears. “Just hang in there.” Then all of sudden Kuki's ears perked up, followed by her head. She looked around and realized her entire group was within her eye sight. “Get down!” she yelled as her torso turned before she made a dive for Wally's discarded gun. “Tom!” she cried before the boy covered his body over Mushi's.

The moment he did bullets ranged out from all directions. “Down!” Wally heard Gavin shout out as his hands along with Hoagie's grabbed onto him and forced him to the ground. Wally couldn't tell how many surrounded them as his cousin and Hoagie returned fired along with Kuki.

Then as quickly as it had started, it was silent, silent that is except for the sound of panting from the small group. “Is everyone okay?” Kuki asked, checking her gun. They all nodded as they began to stand careful.

Kuki walked over to Wally and dug in his coat pocket as she allowed the empty mag to fall from her gun and replace with it a new one. She did this all without directly looking at him. “Kuki, I-”

“Let's get out of here,” she interrupted him and then she turned around and began walking. “I'll go on ahead. We need to get my sister to a hospital,” she told them before disappearing down the alley.

Tommy tired to lift Mushi up off the ground, but the tears he shared had made him weak and he struggled. He then felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see his brother. Tommy rose and Hoagie took his place before lifting Mushi into his arms and the three disappeared down the alley after Kuki.

Then there was only Gavin and Wally. Wally looked to his cousin. “I didn't mean it,” he finally whispered. “I swear, I didn't mean it. I didn't know she had fallen behind, I thought she was with you guys. I never meant-”

“I know, W.B.,” Gavin reassured him. “I know.”

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Wally sighed as he laid in his hospital bed. The alliance between the Lawrence and the Senthos family, had once been strong, but it was still very new at the time, only three months into it actually, and so they often went out as a group to get to know each other and to strengthen their trust, but everything had changed after that night.

They had all gone out to dinner to celebrate Mushi's fifteen birthday, and everything was going fine. Wally and Hoagie discovered that night, that they were both into Yipper Trading Cards, when they were younger, and were making plans to meet up and play a few hands. While they did that, Gavin was making fun of Kuki and her Rainbow Monkey collection, telling her she was too old for such a thing. While Mushi and Tommy, who had been dating before the alliance was established, were the reason that both families came together.

Kuki had then turned from Gavin and asked Hoagie if he had a girlfriend, he had told her that he did, but she was away on her senior trip since she had just graduated from high school. Before Kuki could ask anything more about her, a window was broken behind them and a fire arose in the restaurant. Shots then flew into the building, causing panic and confusion among the people inside. As they stood up to leave, they noticed the members from a a rival family entering into the restaurant. That's when Wally and his group had taken for the back door. Wally had been sure he was the last one out among them. He knew he was, so how Mushi had fallen behind was still a mystery to him.

After she died, Tommy blamed her death on Wally, and so both families severed all ties with each other. And though Kuki, told him she knew it was an accident, their relationship was on shaky ground. They were fighting all the time and when they weren't doing that they were ignoring each other. So Wally, finally having enough, had gone to Gavin, telling him he just needed to get away for a little while. He just need some space from her. He needed to breathe, because it wasn't helping Wally that the Sanban sisters looked so much like. So Gavin gave in to him and let him go on out of town trips to handle the legal parts of the family business. This left Gavin to deal with the lonely Kuki, who found comfort within him, which eventually led to their own affair.

The night Wally had lost control after learning about their affair, wasn't only because he was heartbroken, but because he knew everything was his fault. He was the one that had led them all on this train of events. He was the reason, he and Kuki were always at odds, he was the reason the alliance was broken, he was the reason, he and his cousin, though they loved each other, would never truly trust each other again, and lastly, he was the reason, the Senthos had taken Abby. He just couldn't just sit still anymore.

“What are you doing?” Gavin asked as he watched Wally pull out the I.V. in his hand and detach the other devices stuck to his body. His heart monitor flat lined.

“Getting out of here,” he told Gavin as several nurses rushed in to the door and asked him the same question as one went and turned off the monitor.

“Please, Mr. Beatles, you aren't in any condition to go anywhere. Please just get back in bed,” one nurse urged him.

“Just listen to her W.B.,” Gavin agreed with her.

“Where's my doctor?” he ignored them. “I'm checking out,” he insisted as he gently pushed the nurse off of him. “Gavin, my clothes.”

“Boy, you're being reckless. Get back in bed before you hurt yourself!” Gavin demanded.

Wally looked him straight in the eye. “I'm sorry about the affair. I'm sorry, I hurt you, I am,” he said him truthfully. “But understand, I-” he exhale before he hung his head and closed his eyes. There was no way around it. He could lie to himself, but knew he'd lied to Gavin for far too long. Wally then looked at his cousin once again. “But I love her, and I'm going after her Gavin, with or without you.” A mixture of concern and fear filled his eyes as he asked softly. “Are you with me?”

Gavin was quiet for a moment as he looked at his now fragile looking little cousin. His thoughts ran back to the other day, when he had thought he had lost him. He remembered praying, and telling God he would do anything, anything, if he would just let Wally wake up, if he would just let him live. And He had been kind to him and answered his small little pray, that meant so much. Gavin, knew he would never forgive himself if he allowed something to happen to Wally or the rest of his family at that matter. He would fulfill his part of his bargain with God. “You've always stood behind me, W.B., even when you didn't want to.” He walked over to him and placed his hand on Wally's shoulder. “Now it's my turn to stand behind you.”

Wally placed his hand on top of the one resting on his shoulder. He avoided eye contact. “You're not angry?” he asked.

“I was,” Gavin declared as he sighed. “But a person can't make someone else love them, no matter how much they try, I see that now. But don't get me wrong, I still love that bird, but her heart doesn't belong to me and I don't think it ever has and I'm man enough to admit that.”

Wally then finally made eye contact. “Thank you,” he told him before taking a step into him and hugging him.

“Nurse,” Gavin called out as he embraced his cousin. “Please, go find the doctor for us, he's checking out.”

“Of course,” she replied as the other nurses followed her out the room.

“Gavin?” Wally pulled away from him and sat back down on the bed. His eyes were different from before, Gavin noted. “Remember when I asked you to hold that key for me back when-” he pressed his lips together for a moment. “Back after Mushi died?”

Gavin shook his head from side to side. “No, Wally, don't push yourself,” he warned him.

“I want the key,” he told him.

“After the other week. . . are you sure you're ready?” Gavin asked him.

“I'll only know then,” Wally told him truthfully.

Gavin nodded. “It's at the house. We'll go and get it.”

Wally picked up his phone. “She called me,” he began. “In the middle of the night. You were sleeping.”

“What?” Gavin looked surprised. “Why didn't you tell me sooner?”

He shrugged. “I'm telling you now. I'm also telling you. . . she sounded scared.” Wally nervously played with his phone. “I tried to call the number back, but all it does is ring. I won't lose her again, Gavin.”

Gavin nodded his head, as he understood, but then looked to Wally curiously. “What do you mean again?” he asked.

“What?” Wally looked up with a blank expression.

“You said, 'I won't lose her again',” he told him.

Wally just shook his head before pressing his fingers against his temple. “I feel a headache coming on. Could you go get me something for it?” he asked him.

Gavin was quiet for a moment as he studied Wally. “Sure,” he told him at last before heading towards the door. In the doorway he paused and turned around “W.B.?” he began, there was something he had to know. Wally turned his body towards him to listen. “Where did you meet Abigail?”

“At the acad-” he stop himself and once again looked confused. “No uh, the arcade?” he answered, but didn't seem sure. “Yeah,” he finally convinced himself. “At an arcade convention.”

“Alright, just sit tight,” was all Gavin said, before going to find a nurse.

Transmission Interrupted. . .
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