Train Wreck

Hey, told ya it’d be out by Saturday. I didn’t lie. Hope you all forgave me for that author’s note that you hoped was a chapter. Anyway here are the shout outs!!

Setsuna ~ Thanx for the moral support. I love it! Sorry for the late chapter.

Earth Neko ~ Thanx, I always love hearing how good I’m doing. I’m not sure how Eiri will react to Shuichi being on the train. As for the fan girl? I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know that he’s gay. Sorry it wasn’t updated soon enough.

Chocho ~ Thank you!! Haruna is definitely insane. I think it’ll only get worse. Shu and Eiri will get together soon, I hope anyway.

(blah) ~ Just a reminder of where we left off last time.

Chapter 5 ~ Broken Hope

(The man looked at her in disgust and looked away, mumbling under his breath, “You’re insane. Just like you’re mother.”)

Haruna once again snapped out of her dream land and turned her head sharply toward the old man, eyes narrowed in anger. “Don’t talk about my mother! What the hell do you know?” She yelled close to his face.

The old man stood his ground and yelled back, “Don’t talk to your grandfather that way you ungrateful little bitch! Did you forget what happened to your mother a couple of years ago? I warned her to back off but she didn’t listen and look when she ended up!”

“Shut up! I don’t want to hear what you have to say! You locked her away in a psychiatric ward to get rid of her!” Haruna said loudly covering her ears with her hands and squeezing her eyes shut.

~*~*~*~*~

(Suguru sat with his mouth open in amazement. When he was about to yank down Hiro’s head phones, an announcement came broadcasting in the train car with a soft click. “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re sorry for the inconvenience but we seem to be having difficulties at the moment. Just sit tight, we should be up and running in a matter of minutes.” The announcement ended with another soft click.)

When the announcement ended, Suguru turned again to Hiro and yanked off his head phones. “Hey” Hiro said when he felt the head phones being pulled off. “I was listening with those.”

“Could you try to be more worried please? It’s getting on my nerves. The train has stopped with no mention of when it will start going again and people are starting to panic. What if we’re stuck here for the rest of the week?” Suguru said frantically, pulling on his hair.

Hiro stared at him in disbelief. After a pause, he shook his head in amusement and snatched away the head phones from Suguru’s hands. “If you ask me, I think the only one panicking is you. And if you remember the announcement said it would take only a couple of minutes, I highly doubt it would take a week.” Hiro sighed as Suguru sat there seething and slipped his head phones back on.

~*~*~*~

Shuichi climbed into the next car on hands and knees carefully making his way across. Noticing the door already open, Shuichi managed to turn around on the bars and slowly lower himself into the passenger car. Without a flashlight it was rather difficult to see around too far inside, only the shining of the moon over head illuminated the car enough for Shuichi to know where to go without tripping.

He climbed the first seat and jumped down, landing on his feet with an echo that shattered the silence within the car. At the faint sound of shuffling debris, Shuichi lifted his head and called out anxiously, “Eiri?” His voice echoed out in the car, bouncing off the walls, causing a few rocks to shift.

Then Shuichi heard it again. The sound of rocks being moved around, as if someone was pushing them out of the way. Shuichi stepped forward trying not to make too much noise and started to climb the seats in front of him. Before jumping down Shuichi looked out over all the seats ahead of him and called again, “Eiri? Is that you?” He voice shook slightly, that little voice in the back of his telling him that it’s not Eiri at all but someone else. Like many of us, Shuichi did not want to believe that the voice was right

A cool breeze blew in from one of the shattered windows above, blowing across Shuichi’s face and shifting his hair a fraction. Suddenly there was a creek from just in front of him, like from a worn out chair with those annoying springs. In the darkness, Shuichi could just make out the shape of a person standing up from four seats ahead of him. Goose bumps played across Shu’s body, spreading down his arms and legs. Now that little voice in his head was screaming at him to turn around and run back. Taking baby steps backward Shuichi stared a head at the figure and whispered “Eiri?” once more, hoping what he was seeing would change by his will.

When the figure began to move quickly forward towards him, Shuichi panicked, his eyes going wide and his breath hitching. Shuichi turned around as fast as he could without getting whiplash and began climbing the two seats that separated him from the door. Shuichi jumped down from the first set and landed on a couple of good sized rocks causing him to loose his balance. Getting up too fast, he ended up scrapping his knee on a piece of metal that stuck out from the wall. Ignoring the cut completely as blood flowed down his leg from his knee, Shuichi tried climbing over the last set of seats. In his haste to get away from the shadow, Shuichi got his foot caught in-between the seats as he tried lifting himself up.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Armand and Kyoko, unable to unhook the tables, moved the chairs out of the way and carried in all the cushions they could into the dinning car, laying them flat on the ground. When they stood up and turned around to go back and get the last cushion, Armand heard a voice calling out in the distance. “Did you hear that?” He asked Kyoko standing on his left.

She turned her head to look at him then stopped and looked back behind them. “Hear what?” Kyoko asked appearing to be confused.

“That voice!” Armand insisted.

Kyoko moved her eyes slowly from side to side trying to hear, her brows down in concentration. “Voice? What voice?”

Armand sighed heavily. “That voice calling out not too long ago!” He almost yelled. “Didn’t you hear anything?”

Kyoko pushed her fingers threw her blonde, red tipped hair and continued to walk back to the other car. With a shrug of her shoulders she said, “Maybe it was a cat.”

~*~*~*~

Shuichi tugged at his leg trying to free his foot without success. Almost to the point of being scared shitless, Shu looked up to find the figure only a seat away from where he sat. As a yelp of surprise escaped his lips, Shuichi pulled at his leg again even harder and managed to free his foot from his shoe. Not bothering to retrieve his shoe from the seats, Shuichi climbed down and ran for the walkway just as the shadow jumped over the seat with one more in front of him.

Shuichi grabbed the edge of the door frame and pulled himself up into the walkway. Not bothering to be careful as he crossed, Shu scrambled across, his hands slipping a few times causing him to smack his chin on the cold metal bars of the railing. Hissing in pain, he pushed himself up again and finally came to the end of the walkway at the other door. Moving too fast to pay any attention to what he was doing, Shuichi slipped while trying to climb down and ended up falling into the car, landing on his back with a sharp pain in his shoulder blades and lower back on impact.

With a grunt filled with excruciating pain, Shuichi managed to get up onto his feet as quickly as he could, lifted the door and slammed it shut just as the figure reached the doorway. With the lock sliding into place, Shuichi sighed and placed his forehead against the wall that had cooled from the night air.

~*~*~*~*~

Kyoko jumped down from the doorway and landed expertly on her feet. She strutted over to Eiri and crouched down in front of him. “You okay? How do you feel? Dizzy, lightheaded, nauseous?”

She took out her pen light and moved to shine it in Eiri’s face. Eiri caught her wrist in his hand and pushed it aside. “I’m fine.” Annoyance creeping thru his voice, Eiri placed his hands behind him on the wall and pushed downward, lifting himself off the ground. “I take it your done decorating the dining car then?”

Kyoko placed her hands on her hips and pouted at him. “Listen you, I’m the doctor here. I need to make sure you’re alright. Don’t want to have you falling over and passing out now.”

“Whatever.” Eiri mumbled and rolled his eyes when he saw her brows draw together in frustration.

Armand had just climbed down from the walkway with more ease and touched his feet to the cushioned ground when a small scream that echoed off the walls was heard as it made its way into the first passenger car. Eiri turned his head toward the sound, a confused look crossing his features. “Shuichi?” he spoke softly, barely shy of a whisper.

“Don’t tell me you didn’t hear that?” Armand accused with a pointing finger at Kyoko. Kyoko grew a fierce look on her face, ready to retort when she noticed that Eiri had made his way into the doorway of the train car and was proceeding to crawl across the metal bars into the dining car it was connected to.

“Hey. Where the hell are you going?” Kyoko yelled up to him.

Eiri called back to her without turning around, “You heard a scream didn’t you?”

“Well yeah, but, I mean…” Kyoko said getting flustered.

“That’s your answer!” Eiri landed in the next car, his voice carried to her thru the walkway and amplified by the small opening of the doors.

~*~*~*~

Haruna’s eyes narrowed as she stared at her grandfather, her mouth set in a tight line. The old man was just about to make a remark when the sound of someone falling hard to the floor came from behind them. Haruna stood quickly turning around to see Shuichi painfully getting up off the ground and quickly shoving the door closed and locking it. “Oh my god! What’s happening?” Haruna said franticly making her way over to Shuichi. She had barely glimpsed the figure in the walkway before Shuichi had closed the door.

The old man watched her climb over the seats looking as if the love of her life just got in an accident. His curiosity getting the best of him, the old man managed to pull himself to his feet and somehow climb over the chairs that stood in his way.

A/N:: yep, that’s it. Hey at least it’s longer than the last one. Be grateful for that. Hahaha. Well, hope you liked it. Oh, does anyone have any preference? Should the figure get a hold of Eiri or Shuichi?