Story Notes:
If you're thinking, 'Where have all the reviews gone!? WTF happened?' well it was due to an error, you see when the change over happened from the old AGNPH to the new one happened, I had to add my Co-authors back on, seeing as it took them off for some unknown reason. Anyway, when that happened, 2 copies of this story were made. I tried to delete the one without co-authors but when I did, it also deleted the other one, leaving me with no copies of blood and love, so yeah, have to re-upload. This is a pain in the ass but I heard that there was a problem with the text in all the older stories that made the text all glitchy, so maybe it was for the best that I re-uploaded it. Fortunatly, 'Blood and love' over at FanFiction isn't fucked up so that should make things easier. Also I've now noticed theres a duplicate 'Blood and love' story floating around, why this has happened I have no idea but I'm gonna try get it deleted. Oh, hears the stats for the story before it got wiped out.Views: 26,000Rating: 4.5Reviews: 59Oh, disclaimer. Yeah, Pokemon, I don't own it and I don't intend to make a profit out of it. This was done just for fun.
Family troubles.
7 Hours later...
It was dark and the car had stopped in the forested area of route 42, just outside of Ecruteak City. Richard and Tera had already set up their tent, as did Louis and Reaper.
Bruce didn't bother to even get out his camping equipment; he instead moved some large logs to make up a sort of sitting area. Bruce hadn't touched a drop of alcohol since he heard that they were heading by Olivine City, and now he was really bored.
'I need to find something to do before I go fucking insane.' He thought to himself. He looked to the campfire and thought of grabbing a flaming stick and chasing Kiara around with it to kill the boredom. Only when he thought about this did he suddenly realize that Kiara was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is that rat?" Bruce mumbled to himself as he began walking around the campsite to find her. He wasn't concerned for her, he was just really bored, and he figured a good argument could kill the boredom.
Bruce walked deeper into the forest; he wasn't sure if Kiara was even in the forest or just back at camp somewhere, out of sight. He didn't really care anyway, it gave him some time to think about things and it gave him something to do, it wasn't fun but it was compared to staring at three bags full of alcohol that he wasn't allowing himself to touch which was kind of his idea of what hell would be like.
Bruce searched for a few minutes before he thought to himself, 'Fuck it, I'll find something better to do than searching for a blue bitch I don't even like.' Bruce was about to walk back, until he saw something out of the corner of his eye, something pale blue. 'Found ya!' Bruce thought to himself as he moved in for a closer look.
Kiara had found what she was looking for, Pecha berries. She happily bitten down into the soft sweet fruit, but then spun around when she heard footsteps behind her. "Bruce, step any closer and I'll freeze your balls off!" Kiara shouted at him.
"Pff, you're a jumpy little frozen bitch aren't ya?" Bruce responded with a smile.
"Only around a man whose problem is that he has too much blood in his alcohol system." Kiara snappily replied.
"What?" Bruce confusedly asked.
"I didn't think you would get that one either." Kiara said with a smirk.
Bruce thought about what she said in an attempt to come up with a smart comeback but all that he ended up saying was, "...Oh, fuck you!"
Kiara let out a little giggle at the stupid human in front of her. "Sorry, next time I'll remember that you have the brain power of a sleeping Snorlax. So, why exactly were you sneaking up on me like a drunken ninja?" Kiara inquired.
Bruce didn't even really know why he looked for her himself, but he tried to think of an answer. "I was bored, so I decided to come here to piss you off." Bruce answered with a smirk.
"Don't you just drink when you're bored? And excited... And anything else." Kiara asked.
Bruce didn't want to tell her that he had stopped drinking until they were out of Olivine City, he didn't want to tell her anything about his personal life. "I don't drink all the time!" Bruce lied.
Kiara almost burst out laughing, she nearly never seen him stumbling about without a bottle in his hand or passed out, with a bottle in his hand. "You liar!" Kiara blurted out.
"Hey, believe it or not, I wasn't born with a fucking bottle in my hand!" Bruce angrily retorted.
"You weren't? That's a surprise." Kiara sarcastically said.
"Ah, fuck this, I was better off staring at rocks than talking to you." Bruce said as he stormed off back the way he came.
Kiara waited until Bruce was no longer in sight and she could no longer hear him before she went back to eating the remaining Pecha berries she had found.
Richard was sitting on a log next to the campfire, looking through his backpack when Tera sat down beside him and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Nothing." Richard replied as he kept looking through his backpack.
"You're looking for nothing?" Tera responded with a smile.
Richard chuckled a little before he felt something thin and card-like, he didn't know what it was but he pulled it out anyway. Both Richard and Tera looked at the photograph he pulled out. It was a picture of Ethan, Lucy, Mac, Cleaves, Stripes and themselves standing outside of the police station.
Both Richard and Tera both remembered when this picture was taken, it was taken on New Year's Day with the camera Richard got from Tera as a Christmas present.
Richard smiled and asked, "Remember this?"
Tera smiled back and replied, "How could I forget, especially after what happened that night."
Richard looked back over to Tera who was now giving him a seductive look. "I can't wait to get back home so we can have more nights like that." Richard told her as he slipped the photo back into his backpack and looked into her eyes.
Tera kissed him on his cheek. "Neither can I." She quietly stated to him.
Richard had wanted to be alone with her for a while now, he just wanted to spend a quiet night with her, not worry about ambushes or people coming to kill them. He wanted to make love to her again, and she wanted to make love to him, but they both didn't want to be heard by people they have only known a few days. Richard wrapped an arm around her waist as she rested her head on his shoulder
Owen was sat on the log opposite Richard and Tera; he was doing nothing apart from eating a chocolate bar that he bought from the gas station. His attention was soon drawn to Bruce who sat down beside him and muttered, "Blue frozen bitch..."
"Still angry at her?" Owen asked.
"I don't forget that fucking easily, I swear I'll get that bitch back somehow." Bruce mumbled before he looked back over to the car, which his three backpacks full of alcohol were still in. He was missing the booze already.
Owen wasn't sure if he should say anything else, Bruce already seemed pretty pissed. Richard had noticed Bruce talking about Kiara again; he hoped that he could calm him down, again. "Kiara is snappy but I'm sure that she doesn't mean you any harm... Well, not much anyway." Richard told him.
"The bitch froze a fucking beer bottle to my lips! I know she's just fucking around with me like the twat she is, but fuck she's annoying!" Bruce exclaimed before taking another look at the car, still fighting the urge to shove as much booze as he possibly could down his throat.
"Eh, I guess shouting at her was funnier than sitting here and staring at that fucking car though." Bruce added.
Richard had noticed that Bruce didn't have a bottle in his hand, this was a rare sight. Richard knew Bruce and Kiara liked annoying each other; it killed the boredom during the rides between places and gave the others something to watch.
1 Hour later...
Richard lay on his sleeping bag and looked over to Tera who still held the blue rose-like flower in her paws. Richard smiled as he stated, "I'm glad you like that flower so much."
Tera held the flower to her snout and inhaled its sweet scent once more. "It's really beautiful, and it smells really nice too." Tera replied with a big smile on her face.
"You're still the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." Richard told her before giving her a kiss on top of her head.
Tera couldn't stop smiling; she never got tired of hearing compliments from Richard. "And you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." Tera responded before putting the blue flower to one side and giving Richard a short sweet kiss.
Richard looked deeply into her crimson eyes, and got lost in them once more. Tera smiled as she looked into Richard's bluish-grayish eyes right before drawing him into another kiss.
Together, they closed their eyes and just enjoyed the passionate kiss they were so happily engaged in.
Meanwhile...
Louis and Reaper were sat on the log Richard and Tera were previously sat on; Bruce and Owen were still sat on the other log. Louis turned to Reaper and asked, "Why did you stay with me after you rescued me?"
Reaper turned to Louis; he was surprised he would ask a question like that. "Why wouldn't I? You were just a kid; I couldn't just leave you..." Reaper answered before looking down to the ground; there was more to it than just that.
"Not even after Sharon and David took me in?" Louis questioned.
"You were scared when you first met them; I figured a friendly face could help you settle down with them. After a while, I just didn't see a reason as to why I should leave you, or why I should go back." Reaper told him.
Louis smiled; he knew he was lucky to have met Reaper. "Well, I'm just happy that I have a friend like you." As Louis said that, he saw that look again, the one that looked like Reaper was smiling.
Reaper was happy to hear him say that. "Hah, thanks kid... How's the leg?" Reaper asked as he looked down to the bandaged up wound on Louis' thigh.
"Better, but it's going to be a while before I can run properly." Louis told him with a smile.
"If we're lucky, we won't have to run anywhere." Reaper responded.
Louis laughed and questioned, "When have we been that lucky?" All Reaper responded with was a chuckle.
Bruce felt like crap, he felt like punching someone in the face, but most of all, he felt like he needed a drink. "Shit I'm bored... Hey, agent guy, want a shooting match?" Bruce asked Owen who was sitting next to him.
Owen turned to him and said, "That's not a good idea, we should conserve as much ammunition as possible."
Bruce let out a sigh. "Fucking hell, the ice queen is less of a buzz kill than you are." Bruce tiredly stated.
"I just don't think it's a good idea to be shooting off rounds in a forest while people are trying to kill us." Owen retorted.
"Well right now I'd rather be shooting at some slaver cunts than doing fuck all around here!" Bruce angrily shouted.
Owen could tell that the lack of alcohol was getting to him, he had complained about his drinking before, but now he wished he was drinking, it would probably calm him down. Owen's attention was drawn to Kiara who now walked towards Bruce.
Kiara had heard what he had to say. "Still being an ass as usual Bruce?" Kiara said with a smile.
Bruce looked over to her and said, "Still being a devious little shit?"
"I asked you first." Kiara responded with a smirk on her face.
Bruce looked over to the campfire, and a big smile came to his face. "Let me ask you another question... Are you afraid of fire?" Bruce deviously said.
Kiara had a confused expression on her face, but she knew what he was thinking. "Err, no." Kiara lied.
Bruce reached over to a loose flaming stick and grabbed it. "Shall we put that to the test?" Bruce asked as he quickly moved the flaming stick towards Kiara.
Kiara let out a yelp before jumping back and shouting, "What the hell are you doing you drunken ass?"
"Pay back is a bitch." Bruce stated before he quickly got up off the log and chased her with the flaming stick.
"Get the hell away from me before I freeze your legs and break them off your stupid ass!" Kiara shouted as she ran away from Bruce who tried to keep up with her.
"Try it rat and I'll shove this stick right down your fucking throat!" Bruce shouted back as he continued to chase after her around the campsite.
Kiara knew there was no way Bruce could catch up to her, so she decided to play around with him a little. "Don't hold that stick too close to your alcohol stained clothes, I wouldn't want to see you go up in flames... Not near me anyway." Kiara giggled.
"Tough fucking words for a rat shaped ice cube." Bruce laughed he chased her around a tree.
"How can I be a cube if I'm shaped like a rat?" Kiara pointed out as she led him around another tree.
"What? Fuck! You know what I mean!" Bruce shouted out as he chased her back through the campsite. Bruce soon realized that there was no way he was going to catch up to her, that's when he threw down the stick and shouted, "Ah, fuck this shit!"
Kiara looked behind her to see Bruce with a frustrated look on his face. "Given up?" Kiara asked with a smirk.
"Fine, you win, now fuck off!" Bruce barked at her before walking back to the log he sat at.
Kiara watched as Bruce sat on the same log Owen was sat at, still maintaining that pissed off look on his face. She enjoyed that look. "Sore loser." Kiara whispered as she headed back into the forest.
The next day...
Everyone was in the car once more, driving towards Olivine City. Bruce reached into one of his backpacks, but this time it wasn't to get a drink. Kiara saw Bruce reaching into her backpack and instantly said what was on her mind. "I knew it wouldn't be long till you would pull out another drink." Kiara stated with a frown.
Bruce shot her an angry look and said, "Don't look at me like that." Bruce felt around inside his backpack, until he felt something soft, he knew he found what he was looking for, now he had to find a way to get it in his pocket without Kiara noticing what it was.
Bruce had an idea, it wasn't a smart one, but it was an idea. Bruce looked out of the smashed window and yelled, "What the fuck is that?"
"What!" Kiara exclaimed as she looked out of the window and looked where Bruce was looking.
While Kiara was looking out of the window, Bruce quickly pulled out the soft blue teddy bear and stuffed it into his trouser pocket. "Oh, it's a dumb ass rat looking out of the car window." Bruce replied with a smirk.
Kiara looked back to Bruce with an angry expression on her face. 'How did I let that moron trick me?' Kiara asked herself. "Shut up." Was all Kiara had to say to him.
"Hah, I think we both know that I won't." Bruce replied with a smile.
Kiara let out a sigh; she knew she wouldn't hear the end of this.
Bruce turned to Owen and said, "I have to do some shit in Olivine City so I'd be grateful if you could just... Stop the car wherever you want while we are there."
Owen thought about it for a second, he then decided that he should let his team leader decide. "Ask Richard, he's the leader anyway." Owen stated as he continued driving.
Richard looked over to Bruce and said, "Do what you've got to do... Just don't get yourself arrested."
A smirk grew to Bruce's face. "I'll try not to, but no promises." Bruce replied.
Kiara looked to Richard and Bruce with a frown. "Oh great, unleash him upon the poor citizens of Olivine City." Kiara said disapprovingly.
Richard smiled. "Well, look on the bright side Kiara, you can't complain about him being annoying if he isn't near you." Richard optimistically replied.
Bruce sat back in his seat and began thinking about what he should do when they dropped him off in Olivine City, he figured that the first thing he should do was to find his sister's house, wherever that was now.
30 Minutes later...
"Here, stop the car!" Bruce shouted over to Owen.
Owen did as he said and pulled over besides a pub, and Kiara instantly objected. "I knew it, planning on getting yourself thrown through another window Bruce?" Kiara said as she remembered the first time she met him.
Bruce just looked back to her and replied, "Not today." Bruce then climbed out of the car and closed its door behind him.
Owen quickly decided to tell him that this would be their meeting point. "Right, we should be back with the medic within the next two hours, we'll meet you back here then!" Owen shouted over to Bruce who just gave a nod in response.
Bruce now stood on the sidewalk of a fairly busy road, all he could see was numerous houses, he recognized the pub, and he knew he had a pretty long walk ahead of him. Without saying a word, he began walking up the sidewalk.
Kiara was surprised he didn't walk into the pub, that made her wonder where he was going. "Why didn't anyone ask him where he was going?" Kiara asked the others in the car.
Everybody just shrugged; Kiara just had to know what Bruce was up to. Before Owen could drive away, she quickly jumped out of the smashed out window. Tera quickly got out of her seat and went over to the smashed out window. "Kiara! Where are you going?" Tera shouted over to her as she watched Kiara almost turn a corner to go after Bruce.
Kiara looked back over to the car and shouted back, "To follow Bruce! Someone has to keep an eye on him!" Kiara then quickly followed Bruce, trying to keep her distance, and trying to stay unseen.
Bruce looked behind him, but all he saw was a deserted sidewalk behind him, for a second, he could have sworn he had heard Kiara's voice, but he guessed that must have been her shouting something like, 'goodbye drunkard!' out of the window as the car drove away.
Bruce continued to walk up the sidewalk, he hoped that he still remembered the way back to his sisters place, it had been a few years since he last saw her, he didn't even know if she had moved.
As Bruce walked through countless streets, he looked behind himself constantly, he felt like he was being watched. Bruce had left his shotgun and machete back in the car, but he still had his handgun.
'Any fucker jumps out on me and I'll smack the twats around the face and kick them in the bollocks!' Bruce thought to himself as he walked down a quiet street.
20 minutes later...
"Well... Fuck, I'm lost." Bruce told to himself as he looked around the busy street, suddenly something caught his eye. On the street was a bus stop, behind that bus stop on the wall of the bus station was a public information terminal, and there was no one standing around it. "Maybe that fucker can help." Bruce said aloud before he walked over to it.
'Where the hell is he going now!' Kiara thought to herself as she watched Bruce from a distance while he walked over to the screen with writing on it in the wall.
Bruce stood at the terminal; its screen was full of instructions, and at the bottom, legal stuff. Bruce had used one of these a long time ago, he remembered that they were meant to be installed around the city, but that never happened.
The way they were supposed to work was that you ask a question, and it answers it, say something, and it'll respond, or at least that's how it was supposed to work.
"Err, hello?" Bruce said to the screen.
"HELLO!" Shouted back a robotic female voice.
Bruce jumped back slightly, as did the people behind him waiting at the bus stop. "Fuck me that's loud!" Bruce shouted back in response.
"Then lets rock!" The robotic female voice shouted back.
'Did I seriously hear that? From a fucking robot? Fucking awesome!' Bruce thought to himself. "Ha, I'm liking you... Ya crazy robot chick." Bruce stated with a smirk.
"Neither." The robotic voice replied flatly.
"What?" Bruce asked out of confusion.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" The robotic voice exclaimed.
Bruce thought he had just found the reason why they were never installed. 'This thing is fucking broken!' Bruce's voice said inside his mind. Bruce let out a sigh and asked, "How do I get to Norven Street?"
"Walk to the other side." The voice replied.
"The other side of what?" Bruce asked.
"The road." The voice stated.
"This road?" Bruce questioned as he scratched his head.
"This door." The robotic voice stated.
Bruce looked around himself before saying, "What? There is no fucking door!"
"I have a friend that I like, but I'm not sure if he likes me back. How can I find out?" The robotic voice asked.
Bruce had a look on his face that was a mixture of anger and confusion. "What the fuck? Hey, I'm trying to get directions; I don't have time to solve boyfriend issues with computers!" Bruce shouted at the Terminal.
Kiara watched as people in the street stopped walking to watch the argument between Bruce and the terminal. 'What the hell is he doing!' She thought to herself while still watching the conversation grows stranger.
"He saved me." The female robotic voice told Bruce.
Bruce just wanted to smash this terminal's screen in, but he just had to ask. "Ugh, who?" Bruce inquired.
"Sebastian?" The terminal said as if it were a question.
Bruce's patience was running low. "...Right, no more bullshit. Norven street, do you know how to get there?" Bruce angrily asked.
"I don't know who that is." The terminal replied.
"It's not a fucking person, it's a fucking street! Do you know where the fuck it is?" Bruce asked as his hands balled up into fists, he was already angry about keeping himself away from his own drinks, and this terminal wasn't helping him get any calmer.
"My answer is a keyboard. Final answer." The terminal responded.
"Wrong fucking answer!" Bruce shouted out before he raised his fist but stopped himself from punching the terminal's screen.
"Do the right thing, and be good please!" The terminal said, almost mockingly.
That sent Bruce over the edge. "Fuck you!" Bruce shouted at the terminal before punching its thick glass screen, cracking it down the middle.
Bruce knew it wasn't going to help him, but at least he got to vent out his rage on something, but that just created a new problem. 'Oh great, now my fucking knuckles are bleeding again!' Bruce angrily thought to himself.
"Do you leave the bathroom door wide open when you know you are the only person in the house?" The terminal inquired.
Bruce was actually surprised, he expected it to say a lot of things, but that was not one of them "What the shit? Oh, you're so fucking broken!" Bruce yelled as he began to back away from it.
"Thanks I appreciate that." The terminal replied.
Bruce was tired of arguing with the terminal, and he didn't really care for being stared at by passersby's. "Fuck this, I'll find the street myself." Bruce sighed as he began to walk away.
"So, what music do you like?" The terminal asked.
Bruce stopped walking away and turned back to the terminal, he just felt like he had to answer it to see what dumb ass response it would come up with next. "Metal and rock." Bruce answered.
"That's. Awesome." The terminal replied.
When Bruce heard it say that, he had a big grin on his face. "Finally, you say something that makes some fucking sense!" Bruce shouted.
"What makes sense to you?" The robotic voice asked.
Bruce let out a sigh before saying, "Couldn't stay quiet, could you?"
"No." The terminal flatly answered back.
Bruce didn't bother to say anything back; he knew that if he did then he would just spend an eternity of yelling at that stupid machine instead of trying to find his sister, which was what he was searching for in the first place.
The thing that Bruce found the worst was that he would never have the last word with that machine. Bruce noticed some of the people staring at him, that's when he suddenly realized that he just had an argument with a machine in front of about one hundred people.
'Shit, they must think I'm a dick... Oh well, fuck them!' Bruce thought before he threw a V shape with his fingers towards the crowd and shouted, "Enjoy the show fuckers?"
Bruce then walked away, he wasn't sure if it was the lack of drink, or the anxiety of meeting his sister for the first time since the incident, but he felt a lot angrier and edgier than usual. Maybe it was just the city, just being there was like a constant reminder of that night.
Kiara continued to follow Bruce, she knew that she wouldn't be bored watching Bruce, but she did still wonder why he would want to go to that street he was asking that terminal about. She guessed that she would find out why Bruce wants to get to that street so badly.
Again, she stayed out of sight; she wouldn't want him knowing that she was following him, not after what she saw him do to the terminal.
10 minutes later...
It had taken Bruce some time, but he was finally here, he was finally at his sister's house. As he approached the door, he felt something that he hadn't felt for some time, fear.
He was afraid of what her reaction would be to seeing her brother on her doorstep, he wouldn't have been surprised if she slaps him around the face or shouts at him, he could take it, but at least he would get to seen her again.
He braced himself for whatever was coming. Bruce knocked on the white door three times, and he could hear someone coming to answer the door.
"Who is it?" A female voice called out from behind the door.
Bruce took a deep breath before saying, "It's me, Bruce."
"B-Bruce?" The woman behind the door asked as she opened up the door to find Bruce there on her doorstep, looking rougher than ever.
Bruce looked at his sister for the first time in years, she was almost exactly the way he remembered her, just as tall as he was with long blonde hair, green eyes like Bruce's and looking younger than she actually was. "Kelly... I'm sorry." Bruce said in advance.
Kelly wrapped her arms around Bruce and gave him a hug. "Bruce, I've missed you so much." Kelly told him as she felt tears coming to her eyes.
Bruce hugged Kelly back tightly, he was glad that she was happy to see him. "I've missed you too." He said as he rubbed her back.
Kelly sobbed into Bruce's shoulder. "I-I didn't want you to leave me!" Kelly shouted as she cried.
"I didn't want to, but I had to! I would have just put you in more danger, I almost got you killed!" Bruce shouted back as he felt tears coming to his own eyes.
Kelly wanted to argue, but she couldn't find the strength to do it. "Bruce, just... Come inside." Kelly said as she let go of him and led him inside her house.
Kiara watched Bruce walk into the house and the door close behind him. 'Who was that woman? His girlfriend maybe?' Kiara thought to herself as she found a spot to wait for Bruce to come out of the house.
Kelly sat down with Bruce on the couch in her living room before asking, "Why did you leave after I got shot?" Kelly asked as she felt more tears coming to her eyes. Bruce had already answered that question in a letter to her after he left, but she had to hear it from Bruce.
"I... I put you in danger and I almost got you killed, those cunts were coming after me and they wanted me dead. As long as I was around you, I was putting you in danger, I just didn't know until... You know." Bruce said to her as he looked down to the floor.
"Did... You think about me while you were in Kanto?" Kelly asked.
"All the time, I was worried for you every night! I couldn't even get to sleep most nights." Bruce started before he pulled out a blue soft teddy bear. "Remember this?" Bruce asked as he the teddy in one hand.
Kelly had a surprised expression on her face, that was the same teddy bear that she had given to him as protection when Bruce joined up for the army; she hadn't seen it since she gave it to him. "Y-you still have it?" Kelly asked as she looked at the old teddy bear.
"I never could throw it away; I knew it meant a lot to you." Bruce told her.
Kelly could see that Bruce had put himself through a lot; she had even heard that he had become an alcoholic from one of his old friends. "You've began drinking again, haven't you?" Kelly asked him.
"Yeah." Bruce answered.
"Bruce, you're going to kill yourself if you keep drinking like you did before!" Kelly shouted at him as she remembered how much he used to drink when he came back from the army.
"I'm hard to kill." Bruce simply responded.
"Bruce, please just slow down on the drinking." Kelly pleaded with him.
Bruce let out a sigh. "Fine, I will." Bruce lied.
"I hope you're telling the truth... Why are you here then if you put me in so much danger?" Kelly questioned.
Bruce wasn't sure if he should tell her about the mission, but he decided that she deserved to know everything. "I'm on a mission..." Bruce answered.
Kelly had a surprised look on her face. "A mission? B-but you left the army didn't you?" Kelly asked with clear concern.
"I did, but something came up..." Bruce started as he wondered if he should tell her the details, but then he decided that it would probably make her a target, he couldn't let himself do that again. "Anyway, I'm here because this might be the last chance I get to see you again." Bruce added.
Kelly had a scared look on her face; she knew that whatever her brother had gotten himself into, it was bad. "Why?" Kelly quickly asked.
"Because the mission that I'm on is insane, and I don't expect that I'll be coming out of it without a new hole." Bruce told her.
Kelly was frightened for him, it seemed like he always put himself in danger, even when he wasn't in the army.
1 hour later...
Bruce had calmed Kelly down, and talked to her a lot. He talked to her about their parents, their lives, and what they were planning to do in the future. It was perhaps one of the most normal conversations that Bruce had in years, but then he had to leave.
The others would be arriving at that pub soon with the new recruit, and he had to be there. He had hoped that he would get the chance to talk to his parents, from what Kelly said it sounded like they thought he was a coward for running away; he really wanted to pay them a visit and tell them exactly why he did it and why he doesn't care what they think.
He figured that if he lived through the mission, then that would be the next thing on his to do list. Bruce had thought that coming back here was a very stupid thing to do, but now he was glad he did it, if he didn't, he would have gone on thinking his sister hated him for leaving her.
Bruce now had one less excuse to drink now, but that wasn't going to stop him getting really drunk later though.
He then exited her house, saying nothing else but a simple 'goodbye', and began walking back to the pub, never looking back.
Kiara, who had tried to listen in on their conversation, followed him, still wondering what was going on.
It was dark and the car had stopped in the forested area of route 42, just outside of Ecruteak City. Richard and Tera had already set up their tent, as did Louis and Reaper.
Bruce didn't bother to even get out his camping equipment; he instead moved some large logs to make up a sort of sitting area. Bruce hadn't touched a drop of alcohol since he heard that they were heading by Olivine City, and now he was really bored.
'I need to find something to do before I go fucking insane.' He thought to himself. He looked to the campfire and thought of grabbing a flaming stick and chasing Kiara around with it to kill the boredom. Only when he thought about this did he suddenly realize that Kiara was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is that rat?" Bruce mumbled to himself as he began walking around the campsite to find her. He wasn't concerned for her, he was just really bored, and he figured a good argument could kill the boredom.
Bruce walked deeper into the forest; he wasn't sure if Kiara was even in the forest or just back at camp somewhere, out of sight. He didn't really care anyway, it gave him some time to think about things and it gave him something to do, it wasn't fun but it was compared to staring at three bags full of alcohol that he wasn't allowing himself to touch which was kind of his idea of what hell would be like.
Bruce searched for a few minutes before he thought to himself, 'Fuck it, I'll find something better to do than searching for a blue bitch I don't even like.' Bruce was about to walk back, until he saw something out of the corner of his eye, something pale blue. 'Found ya!' Bruce thought to himself as he moved in for a closer look.
Kiara had found what she was looking for, Pecha berries. She happily bitten down into the soft sweet fruit, but then spun around when she heard footsteps behind her. "Bruce, step any closer and I'll freeze your balls off!" Kiara shouted at him.
"Pff, you're a jumpy little frozen bitch aren't ya?" Bruce responded with a smile.
"Only around a man whose problem is that he has too much blood in his alcohol system." Kiara snappily replied.
"What?" Bruce confusedly asked.
"I didn't think you would get that one either." Kiara said with a smirk.
Bruce thought about what she said in an attempt to come up with a smart comeback but all that he ended up saying was, "...Oh, fuck you!"
Kiara let out a little giggle at the stupid human in front of her. "Sorry, next time I'll remember that you have the brain power of a sleeping Snorlax. So, why exactly were you sneaking up on me like a drunken ninja?" Kiara inquired.
Bruce didn't even really know why he looked for her himself, but he tried to think of an answer. "I was bored, so I decided to come here to piss you off." Bruce answered with a smirk.
"Don't you just drink when you're bored? And excited... And anything else." Kiara asked.
Bruce didn't want to tell her that he had stopped drinking until they were out of Olivine City, he didn't want to tell her anything about his personal life. "I don't drink all the time!" Bruce lied.
Kiara almost burst out laughing, she nearly never seen him stumbling about without a bottle in his hand or passed out, with a bottle in his hand. "You liar!" Kiara blurted out.
"Hey, believe it or not, I wasn't born with a fucking bottle in my hand!" Bruce angrily retorted.
"You weren't? That's a surprise." Kiara sarcastically said.
"Ah, fuck this, I was better off staring at rocks than talking to you." Bruce said as he stormed off back the way he came.
Kiara waited until Bruce was no longer in sight and she could no longer hear him before she went back to eating the remaining Pecha berries she had found.
Richard was sitting on a log next to the campfire, looking through his backpack when Tera sat down beside him and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Nothing." Richard replied as he kept looking through his backpack.
"You're looking for nothing?" Tera responded with a smile.
Richard chuckled a little before he felt something thin and card-like, he didn't know what it was but he pulled it out anyway. Both Richard and Tera looked at the photograph he pulled out. It was a picture of Ethan, Lucy, Mac, Cleaves, Stripes and themselves standing outside of the police station.
Both Richard and Tera both remembered when this picture was taken, it was taken on New Year's Day with the camera Richard got from Tera as a Christmas present.
Richard smiled and asked, "Remember this?"
Tera smiled back and replied, "How could I forget, especially after what happened that night."
Richard looked back over to Tera who was now giving him a seductive look. "I can't wait to get back home so we can have more nights like that." Richard told her as he slipped the photo back into his backpack and looked into her eyes.
Tera kissed him on his cheek. "Neither can I." She quietly stated to him.
Richard had wanted to be alone with her for a while now, he just wanted to spend a quiet night with her, not worry about ambushes or people coming to kill them. He wanted to make love to her again, and she wanted to make love to him, but they both didn't want to be heard by people they have only known a few days. Richard wrapped an arm around her waist as she rested her head on his shoulder
Owen was sat on the log opposite Richard and Tera; he was doing nothing apart from eating a chocolate bar that he bought from the gas station. His attention was soon drawn to Bruce who sat down beside him and muttered, "Blue frozen bitch..."
"Still angry at her?" Owen asked.
"I don't forget that fucking easily, I swear I'll get that bitch back somehow." Bruce mumbled before he looked back over to the car, which his three backpacks full of alcohol were still in. He was missing the booze already.
Owen wasn't sure if he should say anything else, Bruce already seemed pretty pissed. Richard had noticed Bruce talking about Kiara again; he hoped that he could calm him down, again. "Kiara is snappy but I'm sure that she doesn't mean you any harm... Well, not much anyway." Richard told him.
"The bitch froze a fucking beer bottle to my lips! I know she's just fucking around with me like the twat she is, but fuck she's annoying!" Bruce exclaimed before taking another look at the car, still fighting the urge to shove as much booze as he possibly could down his throat.
"Eh, I guess shouting at her was funnier than sitting here and staring at that fucking car though." Bruce added.
Richard had noticed that Bruce didn't have a bottle in his hand, this was a rare sight. Richard knew Bruce and Kiara liked annoying each other; it killed the boredom during the rides between places and gave the others something to watch.
1 Hour later...
Richard lay on his sleeping bag and looked over to Tera who still held the blue rose-like flower in her paws. Richard smiled as he stated, "I'm glad you like that flower so much."
Tera held the flower to her snout and inhaled its sweet scent once more. "It's really beautiful, and it smells really nice too." Tera replied with a big smile on her face.
"You're still the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." Richard told her before giving her a kiss on top of her head.
Tera couldn't stop smiling; she never got tired of hearing compliments from Richard. "And you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." Tera responded before putting the blue flower to one side and giving Richard a short sweet kiss.
Richard looked deeply into her crimson eyes, and got lost in them once more. Tera smiled as she looked into Richard's bluish-grayish eyes right before drawing him into another kiss.
Together, they closed their eyes and just enjoyed the passionate kiss they were so happily engaged in.
Meanwhile...
Louis and Reaper were sat on the log Richard and Tera were previously sat on; Bruce and Owen were still sat on the other log. Louis turned to Reaper and asked, "Why did you stay with me after you rescued me?"
Reaper turned to Louis; he was surprised he would ask a question like that. "Why wouldn't I? You were just a kid; I couldn't just leave you..." Reaper answered before looking down to the ground; there was more to it than just that.
"Not even after Sharon and David took me in?" Louis questioned.
"You were scared when you first met them; I figured a friendly face could help you settle down with them. After a while, I just didn't see a reason as to why I should leave you, or why I should go back." Reaper told him.
Louis smiled; he knew he was lucky to have met Reaper. "Well, I'm just happy that I have a friend like you." As Louis said that, he saw that look again, the one that looked like Reaper was smiling.
Reaper was happy to hear him say that. "Hah, thanks kid... How's the leg?" Reaper asked as he looked down to the bandaged up wound on Louis' thigh.
"Better, but it's going to be a while before I can run properly." Louis told him with a smile.
"If we're lucky, we won't have to run anywhere." Reaper responded.
Louis laughed and questioned, "When have we been that lucky?" All Reaper responded with was a chuckle.
Bruce felt like crap, he felt like punching someone in the face, but most of all, he felt like he needed a drink. "Shit I'm bored... Hey, agent guy, want a shooting match?" Bruce asked Owen who was sitting next to him.
Owen turned to him and said, "That's not a good idea, we should conserve as much ammunition as possible."
Bruce let out a sigh. "Fucking hell, the ice queen is less of a buzz kill than you are." Bruce tiredly stated.
"I just don't think it's a good idea to be shooting off rounds in a forest while people are trying to kill us." Owen retorted.
"Well right now I'd rather be shooting at some slaver cunts than doing fuck all around here!" Bruce angrily shouted.
Owen could tell that the lack of alcohol was getting to him, he had complained about his drinking before, but now he wished he was drinking, it would probably calm him down. Owen's attention was drawn to Kiara who now walked towards Bruce.
Kiara had heard what he had to say. "Still being an ass as usual Bruce?" Kiara said with a smile.
Bruce looked over to her and said, "Still being a devious little shit?"
"I asked you first." Kiara responded with a smirk on her face.
Bruce looked over to the campfire, and a big smile came to his face. "Let me ask you another question... Are you afraid of fire?" Bruce deviously said.
Kiara had a confused expression on her face, but she knew what he was thinking. "Err, no." Kiara lied.
Bruce reached over to a loose flaming stick and grabbed it. "Shall we put that to the test?" Bruce asked as he quickly moved the flaming stick towards Kiara.
Kiara let out a yelp before jumping back and shouting, "What the hell are you doing you drunken ass?"
"Pay back is a bitch." Bruce stated before he quickly got up off the log and chased her with the flaming stick.
"Get the hell away from me before I freeze your legs and break them off your stupid ass!" Kiara shouted as she ran away from Bruce who tried to keep up with her.
"Try it rat and I'll shove this stick right down your fucking throat!" Bruce shouted back as he continued to chase after her around the campsite.
Kiara knew there was no way Bruce could catch up to her, so she decided to play around with him a little. "Don't hold that stick too close to your alcohol stained clothes, I wouldn't want to see you go up in flames... Not near me anyway." Kiara giggled.
"Tough fucking words for a rat shaped ice cube." Bruce laughed he chased her around a tree.
"How can I be a cube if I'm shaped like a rat?" Kiara pointed out as she led him around another tree.
"What? Fuck! You know what I mean!" Bruce shouted out as he chased her back through the campsite. Bruce soon realized that there was no way he was going to catch up to her, that's when he threw down the stick and shouted, "Ah, fuck this shit!"
Kiara looked behind her to see Bruce with a frustrated look on his face. "Given up?" Kiara asked with a smirk.
"Fine, you win, now fuck off!" Bruce barked at her before walking back to the log he sat at.
Kiara watched as Bruce sat on the same log Owen was sat at, still maintaining that pissed off look on his face. She enjoyed that look. "Sore loser." Kiara whispered as she headed back into the forest.
The next day...
Everyone was in the car once more, driving towards Olivine City. Bruce reached into one of his backpacks, but this time it wasn't to get a drink. Kiara saw Bruce reaching into her backpack and instantly said what was on her mind. "I knew it wouldn't be long till you would pull out another drink." Kiara stated with a frown.
Bruce shot her an angry look and said, "Don't look at me like that." Bruce felt around inside his backpack, until he felt something soft, he knew he found what he was looking for, now he had to find a way to get it in his pocket without Kiara noticing what it was.
Bruce had an idea, it wasn't a smart one, but it was an idea. Bruce looked out of the smashed window and yelled, "What the fuck is that?"
"What!" Kiara exclaimed as she looked out of the window and looked where Bruce was looking.
While Kiara was looking out of the window, Bruce quickly pulled out the soft blue teddy bear and stuffed it into his trouser pocket. "Oh, it's a dumb ass rat looking out of the car window." Bruce replied with a smirk.
Kiara looked back to Bruce with an angry expression on her face. 'How did I let that moron trick me?' Kiara asked herself. "Shut up." Was all Kiara had to say to him.
"Hah, I think we both know that I won't." Bruce replied with a smile.
Kiara let out a sigh; she knew she wouldn't hear the end of this.
Bruce turned to Owen and said, "I have to do some shit in Olivine City so I'd be grateful if you could just... Stop the car wherever you want while we are there."
Owen thought about it for a second, he then decided that he should let his team leader decide. "Ask Richard, he's the leader anyway." Owen stated as he continued driving.
Richard looked over to Bruce and said, "Do what you've got to do... Just don't get yourself arrested."
A smirk grew to Bruce's face. "I'll try not to, but no promises." Bruce replied.
Kiara looked to Richard and Bruce with a frown. "Oh great, unleash him upon the poor citizens of Olivine City." Kiara said disapprovingly.
Richard smiled. "Well, look on the bright side Kiara, you can't complain about him being annoying if he isn't near you." Richard optimistically replied.
Bruce sat back in his seat and began thinking about what he should do when they dropped him off in Olivine City, he figured that the first thing he should do was to find his sister's house, wherever that was now.
30 Minutes later...
"Here, stop the car!" Bruce shouted over to Owen.
Owen did as he said and pulled over besides a pub, and Kiara instantly objected. "I knew it, planning on getting yourself thrown through another window Bruce?" Kiara said as she remembered the first time she met him.
Bruce just looked back to her and replied, "Not today." Bruce then climbed out of the car and closed its door behind him.
Owen quickly decided to tell him that this would be their meeting point. "Right, we should be back with the medic within the next two hours, we'll meet you back here then!" Owen shouted over to Bruce who just gave a nod in response.
Bruce now stood on the sidewalk of a fairly busy road, all he could see was numerous houses, he recognized the pub, and he knew he had a pretty long walk ahead of him. Without saying a word, he began walking up the sidewalk.
Kiara was surprised he didn't walk into the pub, that made her wonder where he was going. "Why didn't anyone ask him where he was going?" Kiara asked the others in the car.
Everybody just shrugged; Kiara just had to know what Bruce was up to. Before Owen could drive away, she quickly jumped out of the smashed out window. Tera quickly got out of her seat and went over to the smashed out window. "Kiara! Where are you going?" Tera shouted over to her as she watched Kiara almost turn a corner to go after Bruce.
Kiara looked back over to the car and shouted back, "To follow Bruce! Someone has to keep an eye on him!" Kiara then quickly followed Bruce, trying to keep her distance, and trying to stay unseen.
Bruce looked behind him, but all he saw was a deserted sidewalk behind him, for a second, he could have sworn he had heard Kiara's voice, but he guessed that must have been her shouting something like, 'goodbye drunkard!' out of the window as the car drove away.
Bruce continued to walk up the sidewalk, he hoped that he still remembered the way back to his sisters place, it had been a few years since he last saw her, he didn't even know if she had moved.
As Bruce walked through countless streets, he looked behind himself constantly, he felt like he was being watched. Bruce had left his shotgun and machete back in the car, but he still had his handgun.
'Any fucker jumps out on me and I'll smack the twats around the face and kick them in the bollocks!' Bruce thought to himself as he walked down a quiet street.
20 minutes later...
"Well... Fuck, I'm lost." Bruce told to himself as he looked around the busy street, suddenly something caught his eye. On the street was a bus stop, behind that bus stop on the wall of the bus station was a public information terminal, and there was no one standing around it. "Maybe that fucker can help." Bruce said aloud before he walked over to it.
'Where the hell is he going now!' Kiara thought to herself as she watched Bruce from a distance while he walked over to the screen with writing on it in the wall.
Bruce stood at the terminal; its screen was full of instructions, and at the bottom, legal stuff. Bruce had used one of these a long time ago, he remembered that they were meant to be installed around the city, but that never happened.
The way they were supposed to work was that you ask a question, and it answers it, say something, and it'll respond, or at least that's how it was supposed to work.
"Err, hello?" Bruce said to the screen.
"HELLO!" Shouted back a robotic female voice.
Bruce jumped back slightly, as did the people behind him waiting at the bus stop. "Fuck me that's loud!" Bruce shouted back in response.
"Then lets rock!" The robotic female voice shouted back.
'Did I seriously hear that? From a fucking robot? Fucking awesome!' Bruce thought to himself. "Ha, I'm liking you... Ya crazy robot chick." Bruce stated with a smirk.
"Neither." The robotic voice replied flatly.
"What?" Bruce asked out of confusion.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" The robotic voice exclaimed.
Bruce thought he had just found the reason why they were never installed. 'This thing is fucking broken!' Bruce's voice said inside his mind. Bruce let out a sigh and asked, "How do I get to Norven Street?"
"Walk to the other side." The voice replied.
"The other side of what?" Bruce asked.
"The road." The voice stated.
"This road?" Bruce questioned as he scratched his head.
"This door." The robotic voice stated.
Bruce looked around himself before saying, "What? There is no fucking door!"
"I have a friend that I like, but I'm not sure if he likes me back. How can I find out?" The robotic voice asked.
Bruce had a look on his face that was a mixture of anger and confusion. "What the fuck? Hey, I'm trying to get directions; I don't have time to solve boyfriend issues with computers!" Bruce shouted at the Terminal.
Kiara watched as people in the street stopped walking to watch the argument between Bruce and the terminal. 'What the hell is he doing!' She thought to herself while still watching the conversation grows stranger.
"He saved me." The female robotic voice told Bruce.
Bruce just wanted to smash this terminal's screen in, but he just had to ask. "Ugh, who?" Bruce inquired.
"Sebastian?" The terminal said as if it were a question.
Bruce's patience was running low. "...Right, no more bullshit. Norven street, do you know how to get there?" Bruce angrily asked.
"I don't know who that is." The terminal replied.
"It's not a fucking person, it's a fucking street! Do you know where the fuck it is?" Bruce asked as his hands balled up into fists, he was already angry about keeping himself away from his own drinks, and this terminal wasn't helping him get any calmer.
"My answer is a keyboard. Final answer." The terminal responded.
"Wrong fucking answer!" Bruce shouted out before he raised his fist but stopped himself from punching the terminal's screen.
"Do the right thing, and be good please!" The terminal said, almost mockingly.
That sent Bruce over the edge. "Fuck you!" Bruce shouted at the terminal before punching its thick glass screen, cracking it down the middle.
Bruce knew it wasn't going to help him, but at least he got to vent out his rage on something, but that just created a new problem. 'Oh great, now my fucking knuckles are bleeding again!' Bruce angrily thought to himself.
"Do you leave the bathroom door wide open when you know you are the only person in the house?" The terminal inquired.
Bruce was actually surprised, he expected it to say a lot of things, but that was not one of them "What the shit? Oh, you're so fucking broken!" Bruce yelled as he began to back away from it.
"Thanks I appreciate that." The terminal replied.
Bruce was tired of arguing with the terminal, and he didn't really care for being stared at by passersby's. "Fuck this, I'll find the street myself." Bruce sighed as he began to walk away.
"So, what music do you like?" The terminal asked.
Bruce stopped walking away and turned back to the terminal, he just felt like he had to answer it to see what dumb ass response it would come up with next. "Metal and rock." Bruce answered.
"That's. Awesome." The terminal replied.
When Bruce heard it say that, he had a big grin on his face. "Finally, you say something that makes some fucking sense!" Bruce shouted.
"What makes sense to you?" The robotic voice asked.
Bruce let out a sigh before saying, "Couldn't stay quiet, could you?"
"No." The terminal flatly answered back.
Bruce didn't bother to say anything back; he knew that if he did then he would just spend an eternity of yelling at that stupid machine instead of trying to find his sister, which was what he was searching for in the first place.
The thing that Bruce found the worst was that he would never have the last word with that machine. Bruce noticed some of the people staring at him, that's when he suddenly realized that he just had an argument with a machine in front of about one hundred people.
'Shit, they must think I'm a dick... Oh well, fuck them!' Bruce thought before he threw a V shape with his fingers towards the crowd and shouted, "Enjoy the show fuckers?"
Bruce then walked away, he wasn't sure if it was the lack of drink, or the anxiety of meeting his sister for the first time since the incident, but he felt a lot angrier and edgier than usual. Maybe it was just the city, just being there was like a constant reminder of that night.
Kiara continued to follow Bruce, she knew that she wouldn't be bored watching Bruce, but she did still wonder why he would want to go to that street he was asking that terminal about. She guessed that she would find out why Bruce wants to get to that street so badly.
Again, she stayed out of sight; she wouldn't want him knowing that she was following him, not after what she saw him do to the terminal.
10 minutes later...
It had taken Bruce some time, but he was finally here, he was finally at his sister's house. As he approached the door, he felt something that he hadn't felt for some time, fear.
He was afraid of what her reaction would be to seeing her brother on her doorstep, he wouldn't have been surprised if she slaps him around the face or shouts at him, he could take it, but at least he would get to seen her again.
He braced himself for whatever was coming. Bruce knocked on the white door three times, and he could hear someone coming to answer the door.
"Who is it?" A female voice called out from behind the door.
Bruce took a deep breath before saying, "It's me, Bruce."
"B-Bruce?" The woman behind the door asked as she opened up the door to find Bruce there on her doorstep, looking rougher than ever.
Bruce looked at his sister for the first time in years, she was almost exactly the way he remembered her, just as tall as he was with long blonde hair, green eyes like Bruce's and looking younger than she actually was. "Kelly... I'm sorry." Bruce said in advance.
Kelly wrapped her arms around Bruce and gave him a hug. "Bruce, I've missed you so much." Kelly told him as she felt tears coming to her eyes.
Bruce hugged Kelly back tightly, he was glad that she was happy to see him. "I've missed you too." He said as he rubbed her back.
Kelly sobbed into Bruce's shoulder. "I-I didn't want you to leave me!" Kelly shouted as she cried.
"I didn't want to, but I had to! I would have just put you in more danger, I almost got you killed!" Bruce shouted back as he felt tears coming to his own eyes.
Kelly wanted to argue, but she couldn't find the strength to do it. "Bruce, just... Come inside." Kelly said as she let go of him and led him inside her house.
Kiara watched Bruce walk into the house and the door close behind him. 'Who was that woman? His girlfriend maybe?' Kiara thought to herself as she found a spot to wait for Bruce to come out of the house.
Kelly sat down with Bruce on the couch in her living room before asking, "Why did you leave after I got shot?" Kelly asked as she felt more tears coming to her eyes. Bruce had already answered that question in a letter to her after he left, but she had to hear it from Bruce.
"I... I put you in danger and I almost got you killed, those cunts were coming after me and they wanted me dead. As long as I was around you, I was putting you in danger, I just didn't know until... You know." Bruce said to her as he looked down to the floor.
"Did... You think about me while you were in Kanto?" Kelly asked.
"All the time, I was worried for you every night! I couldn't even get to sleep most nights." Bruce started before he pulled out a blue soft teddy bear. "Remember this?" Bruce asked as he the teddy in one hand.
Kelly had a surprised expression on her face, that was the same teddy bear that she had given to him as protection when Bruce joined up for the army; she hadn't seen it since she gave it to him. "Y-you still have it?" Kelly asked as she looked at the old teddy bear.
"I never could throw it away; I knew it meant a lot to you." Bruce told her.
Kelly could see that Bruce had put himself through a lot; she had even heard that he had become an alcoholic from one of his old friends. "You've began drinking again, haven't you?" Kelly asked him.
"Yeah." Bruce answered.
"Bruce, you're going to kill yourself if you keep drinking like you did before!" Kelly shouted at him as she remembered how much he used to drink when he came back from the army.
"I'm hard to kill." Bruce simply responded.
"Bruce, please just slow down on the drinking." Kelly pleaded with him.
Bruce let out a sigh. "Fine, I will." Bruce lied.
"I hope you're telling the truth... Why are you here then if you put me in so much danger?" Kelly questioned.
Bruce wasn't sure if he should tell her about the mission, but he decided that she deserved to know everything. "I'm on a mission..." Bruce answered.
Kelly had a surprised look on her face. "A mission? B-but you left the army didn't you?" Kelly asked with clear concern.
"I did, but something came up..." Bruce started as he wondered if he should tell her the details, but then he decided that it would probably make her a target, he couldn't let himself do that again. "Anyway, I'm here because this might be the last chance I get to see you again." Bruce added.
Kelly had a scared look on her face; she knew that whatever her brother had gotten himself into, it was bad. "Why?" Kelly quickly asked.
"Because the mission that I'm on is insane, and I don't expect that I'll be coming out of it without a new hole." Bruce told her.
Kelly was frightened for him, it seemed like he always put himself in danger, even when he wasn't in the army.
1 hour later...
Bruce had calmed Kelly down, and talked to her a lot. He talked to her about their parents, their lives, and what they were planning to do in the future. It was perhaps one of the most normal conversations that Bruce had in years, but then he had to leave.
The others would be arriving at that pub soon with the new recruit, and he had to be there. He had hoped that he would get the chance to talk to his parents, from what Kelly said it sounded like they thought he was a coward for running away; he really wanted to pay them a visit and tell them exactly why he did it and why he doesn't care what they think.
He figured that if he lived through the mission, then that would be the next thing on his to do list. Bruce had thought that coming back here was a very stupid thing to do, but now he was glad he did it, if he didn't, he would have gone on thinking his sister hated him for leaving her.
Bruce now had one less excuse to drink now, but that wasn't going to stop him getting really drunk later though.
He then exited her house, saying nothing else but a simple 'goodbye', and began walking back to the pub, never looking back.
Kiara, who had tried to listen in on their conversation, followed him, still wondering what was going on.