InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's Not Over Yet... ❯ He's back... ( Chapter 14 )

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Phew…Well, after hiatus, you guys must be wondering what's happened? Well, I started a new fic, which was not something I planned. It's called The Model Village. This is also an Inuyasha fic, only it's not along the same lines as this fic. This one is a continuation fic, where MV is a comedy and it's along the same taste as the series of Inuyasha. It's really good, and it's flowing quite nicely. MV is going to be a short one compared to this one, but that means that once that one is over, I will once again be concentrating mainly on this fic. I've noticed that MV has gotten a huge response compared to this one, but don't fret. I am happy with the response MV is getting in such a short time, but this one means so much more to me than MV that I promise to finish this fic. Also, thank you all so very much for the response and for the support you all have given me through writing this fic. I love you all, and I always look forward to your reviews and your praise. Ja ne for now!

Chapter 14: He's back.

Homecoming was coming up in two weeks, and Katie was looking forward to it. She planned to ask Brian if he'd like to go with her. The first thing she thought about when the date came about was what it would be like to slow dance in his arms. Those arms were so warm, and she felt safe in them. She sang, as she got ready for school on a warm September morning. After she put her contacts in, she looked at herself in the mirror, and liked what she saw. Then she pulled out her makeup to cover the blemishes and her face became beautiful and flawless. She didn't need to use a lot of makeup, but her face looked natural with some color on her cheeks and eyes when she finished.

While she was sitting in science class, her teacher taught the class a lesson on water treatment and that water habitats, such as lakes, marshes and swamps can contain animals and insects that confirm the quality of the water. This Katie already knew these facts due to her experience with Earth Club two years before. She went on field trips where they checked the quality of water at places such as a marsh near them. I was neat seeing the different insects and animals. They were very intricate, and they all had their purpose for being there.

As he teacher pointed to a poster board that showed different species of animals in the water and what their presences meant, she started to itch her right eye. As she did that, her left eye started to itch. That's when the itching got out of hand and she could no longer see through her contacts. She wiped under her right eye and saw this white stuff on her finger. She felt something under her eye, and she wiped it away. She reached into her purse and pulled out her mirror, and saw this stuff coming out of her eyes. She started to pull it away from them, when one of her classmates sitting next to her just grimaced and called on the teacher to get his attention. Katie had no idea what was happening, but it obviously was not normal. The teacher stepped up to Katie's desk and looked at what was happening to her.

"Oh my! How did this happen, Katie?" The teacher asked as he looked closely at her face and handed her a paper towel to wipe her hands.

"I don't know, teacher. My eye started to itch and then the other started to itch and then this stuff just started coming out of both eyes!" Katie replied as she held up the paper towel with the puss on it, and the class reacted with, "Ew!"

The teacher walked up to his desk, grabbed the hall pass for her, and instructed her to go to the bathroom and remove her contacts and wash her face and hands. Then she was to go directly to the nurse's office without wasting a minute's time. When Katie reached the girl's bathroom, she walked right in to look at the mirror. Her eyes were pink and puffy. She grabbed her little contacts case and solution and set them down upon the counter under the mirror. She washed and dried her hands and got the solution and the case ready for her contacts. Once that was done, she leaned in close to the mirror to remove her contacts. It was painful for her to remove them from her eyes, but they felt better once those annoying lenses were gone. She saw how dirty they were and wondered what could have caused her to have that reaction. She had never experienced that before. Once her contacts were in the case and being cleaned, she put the case in her purse, and walked cross eyed down the hallway towards the nurse's office.

As she walked in, the nurse saw Katie and asked her to sit down, not even needing to ask her what was wrong. It was quite evident what was going on with Katie's eyes. The nurse told Katie she had seen this many times, it was a bad case of pink eye. The nurse mentioned that it was common amongst contact wearers. Katie's head started to hurt and she could no longer see out of either eye. As she sat and listened to the nurse call her mother, the symptoms became more evident, and her sight steadily got worse. The nurse asked Katie to lay down on one of the beds in the back of the office while she waited for her mother to show up for her. Katie's headache was getting steadily worse after just ten minutes, and she began to feel like she had the chills and a fever.

After fifteen minutes of just deteriorating in that little bed, she saw a streak of hot pink, white, and purple cross past the windows next to her. Mom was finally there, and she brought the Circus Wagon. Katie didn't want to move when her mother reached the office where she laid. Katie closed her eyes as she listened to the conversation her mother had with the nurse, and when they finished talking, she heard her mother step up to her bed and pull up a chair. Her mother, Paula, reached over and put the top of her hand against Katie's forehead and noticed Katie was burning up. Katie looked in pain and groaned as she felt her mother's cold hand placed upon her forehead.

"Ooo…That feels good, mom." Katie said as she managed a smile without opening her eyes.

"Wow, you're really burning up, Sweetie. Come on, we have to get you to the doctor." Paula said as she helped Katie sit up and direct her feet to the floor, allowing Katie the guidance without her sight.

Katie walked down the hall ways with her eyes closed and her arm around her mother's for guidance. She heard a few gasps from the hallway stragglers and knew it had to do with her face, and how puffy it was. She was afraid to even lean over or look down. She noticed as she picked up her purse from the floor in the office that her eyes felt like they would fall out of their sockets. Nice image, huh? Yuck!

Katie survived the ride to the clinic and then sat for a while just trying not to fall out of consciousness as her head exploded every few seconds starting from the eyes and going back towards her neck. After she was finally examined, she was released with prescriptions and dilated pupils. Luckily, she didn't feel like keeping her eyes open, due to the bright sunlight that shone that afternoon. Katie was taken home and put to bed immediately after taking her antibiotics. The doctor had said that she was extremely contagious and that she even had to have her own chair to sit in. This was the first bout of pink eye that family had ever experienced. Patrick avoided Katie completely due to not wanting to miss any days off work. Paula on the other hand, took good care of Katie. She fed Katie soup and crackers due to her fevers and she even helped her when she needed something off the floor or down low. Due to her generosity, Paula ended up with pink eye a couple of days later.

Katie remained home that whole week, talking to Brian every now and then over then phone. That's when it got weird. Brian's younger sister Natalie requested the phone a lot when Brian was trying to talk to Katie. Natalie was complaining about not being able to talk to her boyfriend while he was on the phone with Katie. Katie heard the arguments and yelling going on in the background to the last straw, when the phone was hung up suddenly. By this point, Katie was almost finished with her antibiotic and she no longer looked like a china man. What surprised her though was when the doorbell rang that night. Katie stayed in her room working on homework that was brought to her house by a friend of hers. She was sitting at her desk at the Brother Typewriter she had, working on a term paper for one of her classes.

That's when her door opened suddenly, and Brian appeared in the doorway. Katie looked up in surprise through her glasses and saw he didn't look too happy. Katie saved her work on the Brother, and then stood up from the desk, walked over to her bed, and sat beside Brian. She could read the look in his eyes. He was upset and ashamed at the same time.

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?" Katie asked as she grabbed hold of his hands and he turned to face her.

He looked up and made eye contact with her. He looked like he was near tears. That's when he spoke. "I did something wrong. I don't know how to explain it. You're gonna be afraid of me and mad as well." He said as his eyes reverted to their hands.

"What do you mean? What did you do? You can tell me." Katie said as she reached her hand up to his face and he raised his eyes to hers once again.

"You remember earlier when the phone was hung up while we were talking?" Brian asked.

"Yeah, what happened? You couldn't have done that." Katie stated.

"No, that wasn't me. It was Natalie. She reached around the recliner I was sitting in and pushed the hang-up button on the phone cradle and threatened you in front of me." Brian replied as anger and bitterness appeared in his gaze.

"What happened after that?" Katie asked.

"I got so upset that I grabbed her arm, dragged her out of the house and beat the shit out of her for threatening you." He said as he bit back the tears that he held in for long enough. "I beat up my sister! I am so mad at myself! I hit a girl! Why did she have to push me that far? I don't like what I've done. I don't like how I feel. I'm a bad person, Katie. I don't deserve you. I'm afraid I'll hurt you one of these days. I'm afraid of who I am, Katie. I'm angry at the things I've done. There are things you don't know about me, Katie. If you walk away from me, I won't blame you. I'm not worth it. Believe me when I say that." Brian unloaded with a sniff as he directed his gaze to the floor, away from her eyes.

"Brian, why would I leave you after something like that? I don't see anything wrong with what you did. Natalie is selfish, and she needed to be taught a lesson obviously no one else would teach her. You were merely protecting me. She threatened me. She hasn't even met me. What did she say she'd do to me?" Katie replied.

Brian's eyes shot back up to hers in shock. `She's not going to leave me?' He searched her eyes for a moment and saw determination in them. Determination he lacked. "She said she would beat you `til you left me so that she wouldn't have to put up with me calling you." The anger returned In his eyes as he said that.

His eyes never left hers as he poured more of his heart out to her, with hopes he gains comfort, and not rejection from her. "What I meant by saying I'm a bad person is that in a nutshell, Katie. I've done things you would hate me for. When I was in grade school, I was a delinquent. I had friends who got into trouble all the time. No matter what they did, I went along with them. One time, we decided we wanted to try shoplifting. There were four of us. Well, we all walked around casually for a bit and then we grabbed candy bars out of the candy isle and stuffed them into our coat pockets. As we were on our way out, I was the last one in line. We were stepping up to the exit door when an alarm sounded. We all started to bolt, but I got caught by a security guard, and pulled back in, while the rest of us got away and kept on running. The security guards asked me who they were and why I did what I did. I had to rat them all out. I don't know what happened to them after that, but the guards let me go because they saw that I was honest and was pretty much innocent compared to them. Especially since I told them it wasn't my idea."

"It wasn't your idea?" Katie asked.

"No. It was one of the kids who got away. I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyways." Brian replied as his gaze went to his fidgeting hands.

"What else did you do that makes you `such a bad guy'?" Katie asked as she raised her hands to make quote marks in the air.

"I got into a lot of fights when I was younger. I never started them, but I wasn't afraid to kick any kid's ass for making fun of me, or one of my friends. I got expelled on my last day of sixth grade because some kid challenged me in the schoolyard before school. So, I broke his nose and knocked the wind out of him. I punched his stomach so hard he pissed his pants." Brian exclaimed as he chuckled, but only slightly.

"Wow. You got into a lot of fights, huh? At least you stood up for yourself. There's nothing wrong with that." Katie said as he turned his gaze on hers once again, in surprise. Katie was happy that he was finally opening up to her. She was also happy that she didn't have to ask him anything. It was his turn to unleash his tarnished past this time around.

"I even smashed a kid into a locker so hard once that the locker door had to be replaced. That was cute, I tell ya. That happened when this kid looked at me wrong. I did it `cause he had no reason to look at me the way he did. I didn't even think twice, I just did it. He avoided me after that. I had the reputation of `the bad boy' in school because not everyone knew me personally, but I was in choir, I was in football, and I was even in basketball. This happened in junior high. I met my best friend Ted then. He's the one who helped turn me around. He's the reason I've cooled down. Doing what I did to Natalie just brought it all back to me. It showed me that my delinquent side is still there."

"I wish I could've met you back then. It must have been interesting to see you all tough and bold." Katie exclaimed as she flexed her arm muscles like a body builder, trying to cheer him up.

"No. If you knew me back then, I would have made fun of you. I made fun of kids who wore glasses and were pushovers. It's a good thing you met me now. After I met Ted. I thank God for his friendship everyday. He brought me to God. He's the reason why I hate what I've done to Natalie, and why I don't think I'm worthy of your love, or your heart Katie. What is it you see in me?" He turned his gaze to her as he searched her eyes. What he found was amazing. Love. Unconditional love. `That's not possible' he thought to himself as she leaned in close to him and placed her lips on his in a gentle kiss.

Brian did not expect her to do that. He had expected to be kicked out of her house, out of her life, out of heaven. He didn't expect her to hold him close as she shared her heart and affection with him in her bedroom on that cool September night while her homework sat unfinished. She kissed him softly at first and then once he gave in to his gift from her, he once again poured his heart into his offering of thanks for her existence. How such an accepting and wonderful creature such as her could exist was beyond him. In her eyes, he could do nothing wrong. In her heart, she wanted nothing more than him.

Once the kiss became more than that, Katie then pulled away reluctantly and brought her eyes to his to show him her answer. She looked calm. She looked happy. She knew in her heart that he was the one she hoped she'd find. No other guy she'd dated ever showed her so much of himself. Brian showed her his heart, his soul. He has shown himself to her in many ways. She felt safe with him. He made her happy. She had only felt nervous the first day she met him. He never gave her reason to fear him, or feel nervous once she got to know him. He was not trash. He was worth more than he felt he was. He was the diamond in the rough. There was a reason why they were brought together, and she knew she would spend the rest of her life finding out why they met. The way they met was amazing. It was too perfect. It had to be for a good reason. One thing she knew for certain, she wanted to make him feel loved, and let him know how wonderful he truly was. The fact that he became so much more mature than his friends and turned his life around made him that much stronger than he was back then. She could never allow herself to reject him from that point on.

Brian saw the look in her eyes. The look she was offering said it all. He had no reason to question how she felt. But he did wonder. What was it he did to capture this wonderful girl's heart? All he did was talk to her, and then ask her to a movie. Nothing special. He didn't give her flowers; he didn't sacrifice anything for her. Man, he didn't even have to promise her anything for her affection. She gave it and accepted willingly. Almost too willingly. How he struck gold on his first try was beyond him. No other girl had interested him before he first saw Katie. What was he to think of all of this? Fate? Coincidence? Who knows? One thing he was sure of, he wasn't about to let her out of his life. He vowed to himself that if he had to, he would keep a hold of her and keep her there in that room, in his arms for the rest of his life. All that just to make sure she was safe, loved and happy. He vowed to give her his heart and never take it back as he held her close for a while longer as the night passed without fail.

Phew! Wow, what a chapter, huh? Well, now we know more about Brian's past and how he is like Inuyasha as far as circumstance. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter at least as much as I enjoyed writing it. I had originally wanted to write this chapter differently, naming it before I wrote it, and it turned out to make sense in the end anyways! Plus, I hope you like that the chapters are longer and contain more content. I am still working hard on that. Well, let me know what you thought, K? Ja ne! {^_^}