Day 10

I LOOKED FOR SATO AND TAKASHI

Hoping they would lead me to where everyone else was. I heard screaming and caught a glimpse of Takashi walking through the door. I followed and saw Riggs sitting in a chair bitching and screaming. I remember her voice, it was so annoying. She wouldn’t shut up. The Chief walked in and went over to Riggs. She flew up as if she was going to scream but before she said anything he told her to sit. She sat right back down. “I am going to say this once and only once. You were out of line, you should have not been in her room and you know that. I shouldn’t even have to be in here telling you this. This is all personal problems that I do not want to be involved with, so take care of them yourself or we are going to have serious problems,” and he left the room. She looked pretty pissed; it was one of the most priceless faces I’ve ever seen on her. She looked and started walking towards me. Leeha and Sato moved in front of me as to block me from her. I nudged in front of them and went right up to Riggs. “Yes?” I said. “I swear to god, if you do anything to her I will kill you,” she said in a threatening voice. “Riggs! Shut the hell up!” Leeha yelled. “Oh don’t worry Rachel, according to her, you already got that covered.” I moved closer to her face and said in a sly voice “You already killed her,” and stepped back. She had nothing to say after that and just walked past me and left the room in disgust. “Nice comeback Al,” Takashi told me with a laugh. “Yeah, well, what is her problem?” I asked. “Mmm, that’s something you’re going to have to go over with Kay herself. That’s none of our business to tell you know?” he said. I nodded in agreement, and we all left the room to go to the lounge. We saw Kay coming down the hall just as Riggs was going up the hall. We all stopped dead in our tracks and watched them to make sure nothing would happen. Kay didn’t even think to look at her and we saw Riggs’ head move to the side as to look at her but got nothing out of it. Kay walked towards us and stopped in front of Takashi. “Where ya goin?” she asked. “Goin to the lounge, would thou like to join us?” he said in a funny voice. She nodded and said “Yeah, I’ll meet you there in a few,” and walked down the hall. My head followed her as she left down the hall trying to see were she was going. “Actually, Tak, lets show Allison the holding areas for the Mobile Suits and all those fun toys,” Takuya said. So they turned around and lead me to the holding area.

     We went down the hall into an elevator that led us to where we had to go. When we go out, I couldn’t even describe to you the feeling of amazement I had when I saw this place. I mean it was fucking amazing. “That- that is Bentley. Also know as Mobile Suit RX-09. That’s Kayvroni’s Suit. It’s not normal, you’ll see what I mean sooner or later,” Takashi explained. It was big and purple. We just were browsing around all the different departments and holdings when we had to come through the Mobile holding to get back to the elevator.  “Captain? Do you know the whereabouts of Major?” I didn’t recognize that voice before so I looked around. My attention turned up to the big purple robot. “No, no I don’t Bent. Sorry. I’m sure if you put your locator on you can find her,” Leeha said. “It talks?” I asked. “Oh yeah. That’s not all it does. You’ll find out,” she said. “I would Captain but I am in the middle of a major upgrade for my systems,” Bentley responded. “Who’s doing the upgrade?” she asked. “Lieutenant Riggs Captain.” “Ew. Okay, when I find her I’ll tell her you were looking for her.” “Thank you Captain,” he said. We went back to the elevator and went back up to the lounge. I decided to go the room and see what it actually looks like besides the floor and walls. I went in to see Kay sitting on the bed. She looked up at me then looked back down. “Bentley was looking for you,” I told her. “How do you know?” “They took me for a tour of the holdings and stuff and I saw your big purple robot and he talked. He asked Leeha where you were and she said she didn’t know and when she found out she’d tell him.” “Huh, okay thanks.” I looked around the room and saw there was a couch. I went over to it and sat on it. I looked up at her and she was just sitting on her bed, doing nothing. “Uhm, listen. I know this wasn’t what you planned and the past couple weeks didn’t quite go well and whatever the case may be and I guess I just wanted to apologize for whatever,” I told her. I waited for a response but got nothing. “Or not,” I whispered to myself. I got up and went to check out the bathroom we had. “Thanks,” I heard her say while I was in the bathroom. “Mhm,” I voiced while looking around the room. “No, I meant for everything. You didn’t need to get involved in that fight. And you didn’t need to get involved in the shooting or anything else but you did. So that was really stupid but thanks,” she said looking up at me. “So I guess since I don’t really have a say in you being my partner or not, I might as well get used to it,” she said with her hand out ready for a handshake. I looked at her and went over and reached my hand out and grabbed it. She wouldn’t let me go at first though. “But you need to promise me something,” and she stood up still holding my hand in a firm grip. She moved closer to my face and I saw that her eyes were glassy; they might have even been teary. “Don’t leave me,” she said. It was kind of sneaky how she made sure she held on to my hand when she said that so I wouldn’t be able to break the promise even if I wanted to. It took me back a bit that she said that, I was kind of shocked that she would make me promise her something so strong. I looked at her with my eyes squinted in a firm look and said “I promise.” And that’s when I made the vow to stay with her to this day.