Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Make me Real ❯ 03 - Enjoy it! ( Chapter 3 )

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Make Me Real

-ReddAlice

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Author's Note:

Songs: Enae Volera Mezzo - Era, My own summer - Deftones, Mr. Sandman - Glenn Miller with the Andre sisters.

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Chapter 03:

"Enjoy it!"

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"I think you owe it to her as friends to talk with her, after all, I came here to see her as well." Amano explained to Yukari as they walked towards Smart Mart.

Yukari crinkled her nose agitated, her mouth about to open when a lithe body nearly plowed into her, and continued on down the street. "Oi!" She shouted, "Wa-...Hitomi?"

Leaving them in a trail of metaphorical dust, Hitomi hurried around the corner in record time, an unruffled sorry hanging in the air after her.

"Kanzaki!" Amano called out taking off after her. Supposedly the girl had quit track team and neglect most, if not all, physical activity, however her sprightly progression and incredible swiftness left him in marvel. Even while he had been attending his old high school, and held the shinning title of track star, he had never seen anyone run so fast, let alone his junior peer.

However, for some reason, Yukari didn't feel moved to go after either.

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Breaking her pace and bringing it down to a complete stop, Hitomi sagged against the stone gate of her reformatory prison gulping air. After this, she would be completely free of everything it stood for, and everyone under its service.

Curiously she glanced at her wristwatch: 5 minutes 39 seconds. "Wow…" She wheezed, she had nearly covered three miles in record time, but now it was time to pay the piper. She had been idle to long to be suddenly picking up long distance sprinting; nevertheless, she still had it. That fact alone ebbed down at the trepidation that had been building within her since the preceding day.

Rounding a corner, some guy was shouting at her, waving his hand for her attention. "Hitomi." Amano panted. "I haven't done anything have I? Won't you talk to me for just a moment."

Checking her watch again, she nodded, "I have a moment."

The tone was foreign to him, there was a hitch in her voice he had never heard before, and it pained him. She had been so sweet once, someone he cared for, someone he always would. "How are you?"

"I'm fine." A few awkward seconds dropped off the clock. "Is that everything? You just wanted to know if I was okay?"

Amano nodded earnestly, "Yeah, I did." He replied looking past her to the ominous building in the backdrop. "So that's it, huh?"

Hitomi viciously struggled against her shame and nodded, "Yes, yes it is." I have nothing to be ashamed about...I've done nothing wrong...yet.

"I know it's none of my business, Hitomi, and I don't want to pry."

A smile broke loose on her face, "If you didn't want to pry, you wouldn't."

"You're right, I do. Why are you here?" He solicited pushing his long hair back from his face.

Hitomi followed his gaze back to Fairfax "I have my final check up appointment today."

"Mind if I wait for you? We can go out for soda or something after you're done, catch up."

The invitation was too tempting, "Yeah, of course!" There was no way the day would get any better, and she hadn't felt so cherished in a long time. "That would be great."

Amano nodded, "I'll be here when you get back."

Hitomi nodded in return, her face indisputably bright, a glimpse of her former self. "Okay!

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The stale office air peeled off the scabs of freshly healing wounds, and to make the visit all the more pleasant, Dr. Takatori was leaning against his empty secretary's desk flipping through her folder nonchalantly.

"Miss Kanzaki, so glad you could make it." He piped looking up at her with a handsome smirk. The doctor's good looks had been a beacon in such a dark place, his grace a focus, and his promises hope she had so desperately needed. "Early too, what more could a man ask for in a patient. Convalescing and punctual." Hitomi regarded him severely, keeping her distance now that she could.

The practitioner waited for a few minutes truly expecting a happy greeting, but receiving nothing but a grating cold stare of contempt. "Alright, Hitomi, would you please step into my office. We'll try and make this quick…" His words trailed suggestively, as though he was about to punish her lack of reaction. She could only guess, fret, and possible pray he was only toying with her emotions, tugging the choke chain to suffocate her, and then letting her free mere seconds before her heart stopped.

Dr. Takatori shut the door with loud purpose, and blocked the exit with his body, pressing his tall frame against the wood and watching her shift from foot to foot nervously. "Let's start with an examination. How have you been?"

"I've been good."

"Has school been going alright? Interacting well with others?"

"Yeah, it's like nothing has changed at all."

"Is that so?" He was casually making his way over to her, closing the gap between them with calculate steps.

She could always scream; wait...she had done that before, she had screamed till her throat was parched and lungs wanted to collapse. Technically though, he had yet to do anything. Hitomi's heart thudded, her body voluntarily shutting down all conscious functions that held fast attachments to her emotions.

"Are you saying that you aren't tempted to break your delicate flesh with a blade? To tear into your body and physically repent for all of your sinful delusions that makes your parents and friends so sad? That makes me so sad. No more blood under the covers when you wake up? Or wounds in places no one else can see. Secret places maybe?" Takatori stopped in front of her, "Places no one usually sees."

"No, I'm not like that." She lied.

Dr. Takatori shrugged, "I would feel much better if I could see for myself."

"No." She firmly said moving around him and lunging for the door, she wouldn't fall into his trap if she didn't have to. She was strong…. Or so she thought, the door was locked and gave no sign of budging without the old key or key code pass.

Dr. Takatori laughed, "Hitomi...All I would have to say is you unfit, or said something...and you would be back here, with me every single day." A lump rose in her throat, the windows were bared, and she was stuck. "I might like that though, you know?"

Did she have the strength to fight him? As his body closed in over hers, she felt her knees buckle weakly out of fear and anticipation. All she could do was melt to the floor and hope to drain away into the cracks. "Van…" She whimpered.

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'Van...would you save me now that I'm not?'

'Now that you aren't what?'

'Now that I'm not'…There was gut wrenching sobbing, her naked form shuddering in tears.

'Aren't what?' He whispered crouching next to her and trying to wrap her body in a sheet from his bed where her blurry form lay.

Desperately she pushed out of his arms, and kicked off the shelter, her eyes set ablaze with fiery tears. 'Van!' She screamed, her eyes vague and shifting. 'Van!'

'I'm right here!'

All of Gaea became mute in Van's ears, Hitomi screaming and nothing coming out. Suddenly, she calmed, a smile curving her deadened eyes under her lashes. She was mumbling, her quivering hands looking for something.

Hitomi froze when she found the something, and then drew it to her neck. It was Van's sword, extending to full length, but even under the weight, her hand became steady.

The horror that then unfolded was that created from the threads of his worst nightmares, all of his losses accumulated and embodied inside one girl, and the smooth motion that left her throat an open wound on a corpse.

The world came back into the light as his eyes ripped open. It couldn't have been? Unraveled, and sweaty, Van reached for his neck, and felt the throbbing warmth of the pendent in his palm. It was.

All this time, and nothing from her, she had said if they shared the same feelings nothing would keep them from contacting each other. However, those words faded with each day, her image a memory in his dreams. A few months prior he had called out to her from his room, after the reconstruction of Fanelia was underway, and waited for hours for a reply. He had hoped his voice would be carried away on the wind, and would reach her no matter where she had ventured. Maybe it hadn't, but if it had she had been silent.

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"Enjoy it!" Takatori growled as he thumped against her limp body, "Want it!"

A knock at the thick door brought the violations to an immediate arrest, followed by a brief intercom message. : Doctor? There is a young man come to pick up your patient. :

Takatori hissed and leaned across Hitomi to answer the message. "Who is it?"

…Silence…

: He says he is her friend Amano, and they are in a bit of a hurry. Sorry my lunch break ran so long, he has been out her a while. :

"We'll be done shortly I-..." Takatori gagged, and in blind pain felt up his chest to his shoulder. "You bitch…" The pain was revolting; it pulsed from the wound and ran down his chest like claws.

Hitomi laid on her back smiling emptily, blood smeared on her fingers. During his distraction, Hitomi had grabbed a pencil, and thrust it deep within her favorite doctor's shoulder. "I did enjoy it." She grinned, and twisted the writing utensil with sadistic justification.

Fairfax was filled with a new scream, a violent, and vindictive cry of agony.

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TBC…Next Chapter: "I hope you die."

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Ending Note: I found a hole in the story ALREADY! I'll have to fix in the next chapter! ^-^ THANK you for reviewing, everyone, and you are all wonderful! As for everyone else...ONEGAI!!!