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« on: May 10, 2013, 10:01:46 PM »
After PBPB ordered Zeta to stay with PB no matter what she decided to go to her room real quick and change into her pajamas. They were similar to Sakura's pajamas only Red instead of Peach. She returned to the room to see that PB was just finishing his soup. He was also now wearing a medical gown.
"Sorry, was I out long?" Zeta asked as she sat down on the bed
"Nah you came back really fast, I hardly missed you." PB replied "Are you sure you really want to stay here tonight though?"
"Of course I do PB." Zeta answered "I mean with the state you're in you most likely are going to get nightmares or something. Plus I'm not going to leave you alone in your condition, no offense but you might try to do something stupid."
"I honestly don't really take it as an offense, and knowing me you might be right." PB sighed "Still you don't have to do this I mean I caused you a lot of stress, you should go relax."
"I'm fine really, I'd probably be more stressed if I wasn't here to be honest." Zeta replied.
"....PBPB told you to stay with me didn't she." PB said suddenly.
"It was that obvious?" Zeta asked.
"I know my sister pretty well." PB nodded.
"Well you are right, but that's not the reason I want to stay here. I honestly don't want to leave you alone in this condition, I don't want to see what happened before I kissed you again." Zeta said honestly "I would have stayed here whether she asked me to or not."
"I had a feeling that's how you felt." PB laughed a little "Guess I'm not getting rid of you anytime soon, huh."
"Nope." Zeta smiled.
"Alright I won't ask you to leave then, it's obviously not going to do anything." PB smiled
"Good." Zeta replied.
PB became quiet as he thought of something.
"Zeta?" PB asked.
"Yes?" Said Zeta.
"Did I scare you when I acted like that?" PB questioned
"When you we insane or hysterical?" Zeta asked.
"Both." PB replied.
Zeta thought for a minute before she gave her answer.
"Well I can't say that I wasn't scared." Zeta sighed "Though I was more scared for you than myself, especially when you were trying to pretend you forgot everything. I still can't believe I fell for it at first, but I guess the shock of you being awake already kinda made it hard to see that. Though I most likely would have realized it when I came back or BB might have helped or something."
"I'm sorry you had to go through all of that because of me." PB sighed as he went over and put an arm around her "That was pretty selfish on my part."
"Don't worry about what happened in the past, just concentrate on recovering okay?" Zeta dismissed
"You're right about that, it seems that those god damn Frenzy Waves must have some effect that makes you severely depressed." PB said as he looked down.
"And causing those affected to have terrible fevers." Zeta sighed.
"What do you mean by that?" PB questioned
"Remember when you said that I had no idea what those Frenzy Waves did to you?
Well everyone in St. Acidburg had a taste of what they did to you because Baldy II decided you weren't powerful and insane enough and decided to bring in Frenzyman to do just that creating more Frenzy Waves right in the center of the city. Even before that he caused even more destruction and deaths by bringing in 5 huge Raptors. The entire situation was just one giant mess." Zeta explained
"My god all that happened while I was going crazy?" PB's eyes widened in shock "That's just horrible, but it made sense of something I was thinking about.
At one point in the battle I felt like I was losing even more of myself. There were times early in the battle that I was able to briefly break the control and talk to Vixy and Sakura.
But after a while I found myself feeling weaker as the insanity grew stronger. It wasn't until Sakura started singing that I was able to gain a little more of my sanity but I was so scared that I would lose it again and would keep hurting you, or even kill you.
That's why I asked you to kill me, I didn't want that to happen again."
"It's okay PB that's not going to happen to you again, we'll make sure it doesn't." Zeta said reassuringly
PB nodded as he became quiet again and thought something else.
"How..." PB gulped "How is Sakura right now?"
"I'm surprised you didn't ask that sooner." Zeta said a little shocked.
"It's just, I know Sakura was the most hurt because of what happened.
She and I are really close, she's like a little sister or daughter to me. I practically raised her myself, well she was raised by Lucarios for the first 14 years of her life but I pretty much taught her almost everything she knows. She looks up to me and we love each other like family.
But when I saw her after I regained my sanity, she looked absolutely exhausted. She overexerted herself because of me, suffered because of me. I just feel horrible for what I put her through, I don't know if I can face her after what happened." PB finished very worried
Zeta held PB's hand understanding how much Sakura meant to him.
"Saki's fine she's just resting because of that nasty fever everyone got from the Frenzy Wave exposure." Zeta reassured.
"Everyone got sick? But PBPB was fine when she came in her, a sick person can't hit someone that hard." PB questioned
"Yeah I was just as surprised as you when she came in here completely healthy, she swam in the sewers for crying out loud." Zeta sighed.
"Why was she in the sewers?" PB asked trying to imagine PBPB in the sewer of all places.
"That's where Frenzy Man was. Fexnini was there too, and apparently Frenzy Waves can also reanimate ninja turtle and mouser corpses." Zeta explained.
"That's just wrong." PB said feeling horribly disgusted "But back to Sakura, do you think she's over her fever too?"
"I honestly doubt that." Zeta shook her head "I think she would have caught that fever even without the Frenzy Wave exposure. With the stress, fusion, and possibly that weird power she got before I fought you."
"Weird power?" PB asked.
"Yeah she used some weird power on Vix-Vix's sword to make it stronger or something." Zeta explained "She said it was similar to your Ego-Kinesis or something."
"I see." PB contemplated "Do you know how it works?"
"Well it seems to be able to affect objects, not people like yours can." Zeta remembered.
"That's good." PB frowned a bit.
"What's wrong?" Zeta asked.
"Well it's just that I never taught her how to use Ego-Kinesis, and I don't want to teach it to her to use it. " PB sighed
"Why's that?" Zeta prodded
"It's kinda personal, it's not something I like to talk about." PB stated with a far away expression
"Does someone know about it at least?" Zeta questioned.
"I told PBPB, Vixy, Hitomi, and Sakura about it." PB confirmed
"Okay I won't ask about it until you get better." Zeta decided
"I'm surprised you're letting that slide." PB raised an eyebrow.
"You already have enough to deal with right now, no need for me to prod you about your past." Said Zeta understandingly.
"Makes sense, I guess I shouldn't prod you about yours either yet right, about how you failed to save someone?" PB guessed.
Zeta looked away from him for a moment,let go of his hand and moved a little away from him.
"Normally I wouldn't mind talking about that, but it's just with all that's happened to you and those Frenzy Waves bringing it out from the deep part of my mind reminded me so much about what happen. I just can't talk about it right now, I'm just too stressed." Zeta sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry about that." PB apologized as he held her hand.
"It's okay, it's not really import-" Zeta began
"That's not what I meant." PB interrupted "I caused everyone so much trouble because I wouldn't let people help me or tell them something was wrong.
Before I was kidnapped Sakura slapped me much like you and PBPB did for the exact same reason you 2 slapped me again. Yet I did the same thing to both of you, despite the fact I knew that me and PBPB have a psychic link which meant she suffered part of the same trauma I did.
All my life I've pride myself for having this huge Ego, but what's the point of having it if I get into situations I can't handle by myself and refuse help? That I'm blind to those around me and they suffer because of it.
I never once thought that my own Ego, my greatest strength could also be my greatest weakness.
But it's the biggest part of me and I...I just don't know what to do anymore!"
As he finished talking he started to cry in anguish, and tears rolled down his face. He was truly at a loss of what to do and trembled in despair.
Zeta let go of his hand and slowly embraced him. PB was shocked about this action but as he felt the warmth from her body he started to somehow feel at ease.
"Don't be so hard on yourself." Zeta soothed as she stroked the back of PB's head "You don't have to fix everything at once, just take it one step at a time. Everyone here will help you if you need it, you don't have to go through this alone."
"Th-thank you." PB choked out as he continued to cry into her chest and relaxed into her arms.
They stayed like that for a few minutes and PB eventually stop crying while resting after the stress he let out. It was really the first time he let so much of his worries out like this to someone. He felt some of the weight on his shoulders get lighter, which was something he never really experienced before.
Sure he was a really open guy and could get people to talk about their problems with no effort but when it came to his own problems he always kept them to himself, even his closest friends and family sometimes had a hard time getting him to talk things out.
But even though he was able to help others, it seems not letting others help him made them feel horrible which made his efforts moot. Zeta, PBPB, Vixy, and Sakura payed the price because of it which made him feel horrible. He knew he had to change, for everyone's sake and become the Leader that they needed.
Eventually he started to notice that he was extremely tired. He figured it must have been because of the mental and emotional strain he experienced along with his still somewhat weak body. But before he went to sleep he needed to ask Zeta something.
"Zeta, are you getting tired?" PB asked after a while.
"Yeah I'm starting to." Zeta answered "Are you getting tired as well?"
"Very, I'm completely exhausted in every sense of the word." PB yawned.
"You should go to sleep, you've been though a lot and need to rest." Zeta recommended.
"You're right about that, but before I do can I ask you something?" PB said a bit nervously.
"What is it?" Zeta said curious of what he wanted.
"Will you...." PB said but the last part was too quiet to be heard.
"I'm sorry I didn't catch that can you repeat it?" Zeta asked.
"Oh sorry." PB said as he got out of Zeta's arms so he could be clearer "I asked if...if you...could...sleep...with me...tonight?"
Zeta was a little surprised and PB seemed really nervous when he asked. She knew of his reputation of charming and sleeping with women constantly but the way he asked her made it unbelievable that he had such a reputation.
"Why do you want to sleep with me?" She asked after a while.
"Several reasons really." PB said as he shifted his position a little "The first one being that I don't really want to sleep alone tonight, I don't even want to imagine what kind of nightmares I would have."
"I can understand that, you seemed to have some pretty nasty ones before you woke up." Zeta sighed as she remember her and Asch having to calm him down a few times.
"I can imagine." PB nodded "The second reason is that you can help me relax. I don't know why, but I feel like I don't have to worry about anything with you here."
"I'm really flattered you think that way about me, but I never slept with someone before. I'm kinda nervous since I have no experience with this." Zeta said as she looked down.
"You don't have to worry about that Zeta, I understand your concern but I don't really mind." PB said as he put a hand on her shoulder "Which leads me to the most important reason I want to sleep with you. I want to help you relax."
"What do you mean, you don't have to worry about me I'm fine." Zeta said a little shocked at what he said.
"You may be right, but I owe you big time for the hell I put you through during and after the battle. I feel terrible about that and at least want to help take the stress that I caused away. It's the least I can do after everything you did for me." PB explained honestly.
"Can I have a moment to think about this?" Zeta asked still shocked.
"Of course it's your decision and I certainly won't force you. I don't mind as long as you do what you want to do." PB nodded.
Zeta thought about it for a minute and found she only needed to ask one thing.
"Uh if I do do this is it okay if we both keep our clothes on? I'm not really comfortable being naked." Zeta asked while blushing a little.
"Of course you can, I'm not going to do something you're not comfortable with." PB assured.
"Okay then." Zeta said as she got close to PB "I'll sleep with you tonight."
"Are you sure?" PB asked tentatively
"I am." Zeta nodded as she started to embrace him "I trust you and this would probably do us both some good."
"Thank you." he said before he leaned in to kiss her.
The two kissed each other passionately and slowly moved to the head of the bed before they fell asleep together side by side.
(Well that sure was something.)