10"I don't know, I just do."
Sigh. "Come here, then." She set down her wine and cigarette and motioned in a motherly way.
Xellos flew to her and sat down before her, his back wedged between her legs in a purely mother and child pose. She combed his hair with her hands before settling her fingers on his temple and forehead. "Now take a deep breath, and release all of your shields on your mind."
Xellos did as told and relaxed against the back of her chair, feeling her mental probes poke at him. He let go his walls protecting his intellect and she flooded his mind.
Just as she suspected, his mind was just... too neat and orderly. She could never find anything this way. She then looked at the handy map on the side of the wall and looked up 'Filia'. Instantly scenes of the dragon flashed before her. Flashes of when Filia got mad and her tail popped out, when she turned into dragon state, her hair swirling around her, her sleeping, all flashed like lightning before her. But, the image that stayed the longest was when she gave him her beautiful smile, right before they combined their powers to defeat Dark Star. 'This must be when he clamed her.' The rest of the images of Filia flashed just as quickly as before. Once the images stopped, blackness was all she could see in front of her. So, she began to sift through all of the images, all of them led from the smile incident onward. Then, during the third time watching the smile scene on her movie screen, she noticed that there was a blinking picture on the bottom right corner. She paused the 'movie' and clicked the little blinking book look- alike. A very strange feeling over smashed into her. It engulfed her entire being, eating away at every fiber, but it healed her as well. Just as quickly as it came, it disappeared. She had no idea what it was, but she missed it. She liked that feeling, and it being gone made her sad. As the 'movie' played, the emotion on the bottom right corner changed somewhat. Whenever Xellos got Filia mad, or was hurt, he felt that, and had to do something. It had started when she first smiled at him.
Zelas knew that this was the reason, but she didn't know what it was! She was completely stumped. It felt like what she feels, to an extent, to Xellos but not the same as well. She withdrew from his mind and began to comb his hair again.
Sigh. "I don't know what that feeling you feel towards her, but you may keep her. Just don't get yourself killed over her." She leaned back into the chair and picked up her wine and cigarette.
"Hai, Mistress." He teleported to his room, finding Filia asleep on his bed. It had been a very taxing day on the poor dear, as it seemed. She was sleeping with her lips partly open, and her eye's rolling under her eye lids, a sign of dreaming. Everything but her dress was scattered on his bed side chair. He took off his cloak, shoes, shirt, gloves, and socks and laid them on the chair as well. His staff was already there, leaning against the wall behind the chair. Xellos then, careful not to disturb the dragon, laid next to her. She responded, much to his surprise, by rolling over and curling up against him.
He chuckled deep within his chest as his hands went up and locked her within his embrace and stroking her hair, which would most likely become a habit. "You truly are an amazing creature, my dear Filia..."
The End.
MDF: I love that ending!
MDFR: It seems like you should add more, though.
MDFW: It would be too hard though.
MDFR: I hate you...
MDFW: The feeling is Mutual.
MDF: How can you hate yourself? Furthermore, how can you hate yourself for hating yourself?
MDFR: ?
MDFW: ?
