Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Poison ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 11

 

Typing away at the computer, Mia didn't pay attention to what was going on around her. Feeling as if only minutes had gone by since when she first sat down, she glances up toward the windows behind her desk to realize that the sun has set.

 

Wow! Where did the time go?

 

Shaking her head, Mia goes back to the work she is doing on the computer. Soon the college semester would start up again and she wanted to be ready for her next wave of students.

 

“Mia?”

 

Looking up, Mia realizes that she again lost track of the world around her. Standing next to her, Sage glances down once at her computer screen before looking at her.

 

“Do you have a minute?”

 

“Sure, Sage,” she replies, turning away from the computer to face her young friend. “What's wrong?”

 

“It's Satsuki,” he says, shaking his head. “I feel like she's trying to pretend it all didn't happen.”

 

“Maybe that's her way of coping with it,” she suggests.

 

“Ignoring it won't make it go away,” says Sage. “I mean, look at you and Ryo…”

 

“I thought we were discussing your sister,” says Mia, uncomfortable with what Sage has mentioned.

 

“No,” says Sage, staring down at the older woman. “Let's talk about that for a moment. Why won't you just tell Ryo how you feel?”

 

“Sage,” Mia says, shaking her head. “I won't talk about that.”

 

“Fine,” says Sage, giving up for a moment on the idea of her love life. “What are we going to do about Satsuki? She can't continue to pretend it didn't happen.”

 

“Oh? And what would you suggest I do?”

 

Turning toward the door, Mia and Sage watch as the young woman in question enters the room.

 

“Well, Sage?” Satsuki demands, striding up to her brother.

 

“I think it might help you to talk to someone,” he suggests. “Maybe we can ask Father for a name of a doctor…”

 

“You think I need a fucking shrink?” she exclaims.

 

“I only mean because of what you went through…” starts Sage, but is interrupted again by his sister.

 

“I think I know better of what happened than you ever will.”

 

“Satsuki,” says Mia calmly, gaining the attention of the younger woman and her brother. “What Sage is meaning is that he wants to help you, whatever that help may mean.”

 

Saying nothing, Satsuki turns away from her brother and Mia and walks toward the door. Stopping in the doorframe, Satsuki glances once over her shoulder before turning her eyes to the front.

 

“There's no help that you can find that will take away what has happened,” she says, and then walks out the door.

 

……………………

 

Outside the house by the lake, a dark figure stands in the shadows of the woods nearby. Watching the house, the man makes no move to get closer to the building. His eyes remain fixed on the house and those that move within its walls, searching…