The Power of the Heart

Sorry it took so long to post this up i got realy side tracked and forgot about it

Disclaimer:: There are references to The darkstalkers and i\'m sad to say i don\'t own them so don\'t go sueing me

My words of wisdom:: This One is dedicated to those of you who think your too good for others... lets just say I hate you for doing so and I\'m prety sure thre are otheres who wish to be friends with you and your hurting them in the process. If those peolple keep that up through life lets just say theyll meet a lonely end. Take your time and look around at the pain your causeing let it burn in to your heart and brand you as a demon...

The Power Of The Heart

Open your Heart to Me

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Ten years passed and Jons family never forgot him they still have his room ready and always keep a steady flow of cloths for him. They all still lived together Ellena Mary and Joe still allworked at the police department and they all kept a picture of Jon in their living room and atleast one in each of the rooms of the house they loved him as strong as ever never forgeting his face and every thing about him.

Far from the House that would be Jons a cry for help was heard. A 16 year old girl was being chased by a group of Gang men she was running her baggy Gothic style pants with white seamings jingleing as the metal hit together. She was 5\'3\" with Long Black hair tied back in a ponytail. Her eyes were a kind of silver color. she wore a white tanktop with a black mesh over it. she ran onward she let out another cry for help \"someone please there gonna kill me\" she yelled out as they grew slowly closer. she turned and ran into an alley. she ran onward meeting with a dead end. she turned quickly seeing them at the other end of the alley.

This had all started as an accident she had stumbled onto gang teritory and seen something she shouldn\'t have they were burying a body in the junk at the junk yard they noticed her and she ran. they moved down the alley way moveing slowly to her they all stood atleast 6\' tall with random peirceings and tattoos the stereo typacle gang member look. they pulled out some random pistols and prepared to fire at her and silencer her forever.

The sounds of her screaming reached Jon\'s ears he was resting on the roof . He flipped down over the edge and landed between her and them.\"You dont want to do this\" Jon said calmly \"and what are you gonna do feak! I dont see a gun in your hands\" a gang member taunted \"now get out of the way or we\'ll shoot through you\" Jon stood still. The person behind him was afraid and not just of the gang members of ehat they could do to the person helping her.

The gang members gave him one las warning \"Get out of the damned way\" they all said randomly. Still Jon stood still a deep growl rising through him he tossed his bag to the side. The gang members opened fire most of them missed but Jon got hit twice once in the shoulder and another in his left leg. His fur changed again to the silvery white and the blood red. He dashed foreward and grabbed all the guns from them and threw them onto the roof.\"now leave before I get realy angry\" he said with a growl. The gangmembers just ran foreward and started to punch him. he grabbed the first guy\'s arm and twisted untill it cracked and was broken. he did the same to the other two of them. They all ran and left.

Jon fell to his knees and returned to his normal colors. \"Are you okay\" he asked slowly. She stood an walked over to him. She didn\'t recoil when she saw his face. She just looked into his eyes \"yeah I\'ll be fine... I\'m more worried about you.\" Jon laughed softly, I\'ll be fine I just need a week to recooperate... whats your name?\" he asked softly. \"Mia Kunders. may I ask the name of my savior\" she asked softly \"the names Jon and I dont have a sur-name\" He replied and a hiss of pain rose from in him as he plunged his fingers into his bullet wounds digging the bullets out. He tosed them away his blood staining his shirt and his furr at the same time.

She moved up next to him putting his arm over her shoulders and lifted him to his feet and grabbed his pack \"Im takeing you to my house while you rest\"she said sternly and he actualy whent with her without a struggle. She acted a support for his leg as he limped foreward. They reached a good sized home and she opened the door for him. he limped inside she closed the door behind them. Mia\'s father walked around the corner and jumped in fright. Mia noticed him do this and moved up next to him \"This is Jon he saved me do not judge him by his appearance he means no harm to you or anyone\" Mia told her father who just nodded and moved foreward and poked at his shoulder makeing shure he was real.

Jon grabbed the hand and shook it hello \"Hello I\'m sorry for the intrusion\" Mia\'s dad seemed to calm down as he looked past Jon\'s apearance to the gentalman inside that most people would not see \"Pardon my saying this but you look kind of odd... and your bleeding oh my Mia wasn\'t kidding\" Mia\'s dad said slowly he moved off to find the med kit. He returned a moment later with his wife in tow \"this is him please dont scream\" Mia\'s dad said to Mia\'s mom. Mia\'s mom didn\'t even recoil like her husband had she just moved foreward and pulled his now stained shirt off and moved back to her medkit and got the cleaning agent and the gauze.

She cleaned and dressed Jon\'s wounds \"there\" she said with a smile \"fancy meeting you again Jon I thought you\'d have run alot farther\" It was Jon\'s turn to recoil \" wait I recognise that scent... pardon me for doing this\" he leant foreward and sniffed at her takeing her scent in deep \"your the nurse that worked at the old Police office when the guy came in with the shotgun, I thought I recognised how you dressed my wounds\"Jon smiled and looked to her.\"God Jon youve grown you were only four feet tall back then but what am I saying you realy worried them you know and they never stopped looking for you\"

Jon looked down at his feet \"yeah I know I tried to get them to hate me so they wouldn\'t cry for me\" he said his eyes threating to cry but he held back. \"I will not call them unless you want me to I dont want to make you go home to them I\'m still good friends with them and well I think they wouldn\'t want you to be forced back although I sugjest you wait here atleast a little while as you heal\". Her concern just seemed to make Jon feel worse.\"Mia why dont you show him up to your room we dont have a spare room and I trust you the most not to bother him he needs to be alone right now\" Mia\'s Mom told her exactly what Jon would have asked but Mia\'s mom knew Mia was the type of person that would comfort him cause he needed it.

Mia suported the almost crying Jon up to her room. she let him sit down on her bed and he let his head hang in the pool of self hate. She looked at him not knowing his story but she could tell it had been tragic by how her mom had talked about it. Mia sat down next to Jon and put an arm over his shoulders he moved to push away but she stopped him she pulled him into a hug holding him tightly pressing her head to his chest knowing that he needed the hug even if he didn\'t want to ask for it. She didn\'t speak she just held him gently listening to his heart beat. slowly but shurely he moved his arms around her she noticed his tears falling on the back of her neck.

She reposisitioned hersefl so his head was over her shoulder and her head rested against his their boddies held against eachother in the warm embrace. Jon cried out his sorrows as he had done many times but he hadn\'t felt this safe while doing it since the first time he had done so with Ellena. He cried himself to sleep and Mia got up and layed him down and pulled the covers up over him. She left the room and returned to the downstairs where her mom caught her in a hug \"You just helped him more than you\'ll ever know\" she wispered into Mia\'s ear \"you might want to go back up there he tends to have nightmares and he\'ll wake up calling for his loved ones you must stay with him he\'ll sleep beter\" Mia\'s mom spoke softly.

\"Okay but why do you trust me with him you\'ve never trusted me with a guy in my room\" Mia asked softly. \"I trust you because I can already tell he\'s haveing the same effect he\'s had on every one thats looked at him for what he truly was a real soul not just a freak...I even gave into it and even just the moments he was with your father I could see it in his eyes he had fallen into it aswell. Theres just something about him that most dont see he\'s a strong soul and all that truly see him will always remember him...why am I rambleing on he needs you not me take his bag and go back up to your room\"

Mia\'s mom gave her a quick squeeze and a soft kiss on the forehead. Mia took his bag back up with her and as her mom had thought he was tossing in his sleep. She put his bag down next to the bed and climed into it with him. His nightmare faded and he calmed down feeling someon next to him he did as he had always done he moved up next to her for comfort. She hugged him with a smile she looked back to Jon\'s bag which had fallen over and a single book had come out she reached for it and brought it into her sight range.

My journal was written on the cover of the leather bound book with the pen slot in the spine of the book. she knew she shouldn\'t but she couldn\'t stop herself. she paged through the diary her sorrow for him growing with every page she made it to the memories of Ellena, Mary and Joe before he stired in his sleep wakeing up next to her.

The first thing he saw was her and how she apeared to be sad and then he saw it his diary in her hands as she read it. she saw him wake up she closed it quickly and tried to form an apology.\"Just finish it please \"Jon said slowly his head resting against her shoulder. She reopened it and proceeded to read it slowly pageing though it she shed tears as she read which he wiped away saying things like \"you dont need to cry for me I\'ve done enough of that\" he stayed lieing next to her.

When she finished she knew what her mother had been talking about she felt a deep love already formed for him. She turned and cried into his chest he cried aswell knowing he\'d made yet another person unhappy. They hugged again and they slowly let out all Jon\'s sorrow over about quarter of an hour they cried and hugged each other each with their own reasons Jon cryed for himself and Mia cryed softly for him. They wound down both physacly and emotionaly drained they just nuzzled into eachother and let sleep wash over them. They fell asleep in eachothers arms.

Jon awoke next morning and looked to her and a smile passed over his face he knew what he had to do and was trying to think about how to do it. she Woke up looking up to him \"are you going to run again\" she asked slowly \"because if you are I\'m not going to let myself be with you and this will be nothing but a bad memory\". He hugged her tightly \"no I\'m not running anymore I\'m going to face my fears and do battle with them\" he smiled \"so you want some breakfast?\" he asked feeling quite hungry and wanting to get off the subject.

She nodded and got up slowly \"we both need showers you kinda stink like tears and blood and I dont want you to smell like that your starting anew today\" he nodded \"theres a bathroom down the hall and I\'ll use mine\". He nodded again and made a mock hurt look \"you dont want to shower together\" he teased. She smiled \"I didn\'t think we were to that level yet\" she teased back.

They both blushed although his was unseen. They moved off and took their showers Jon took alot longer he had to shampoo his entire body to get all his furr. He came out in a similar pair of pants his tail worked through the hole and he pulled a white shirt on over his head feeling both Phyacly and emotionaly refreshed. They went down stairs finding Mai\'s mom awake and drinking coffee. \"I hope thats not all your gonna eat this morning\" Jon said slowly \"I thought you as a nusre would understand the need of a good breakfast\" He kidded with Her She just smiled and laughed with them noticeing the bond Jon and Mia now had.

Jon showed off by cooking a big breakfast big enough to feed them all, Mia\'s dad wandered down following the scent of breakfast. They ate well and Jon rested down on th couch next to Mia as he fell into one of his after meal naps as he digested. \"Mia do you know what I was talking about last night\" Mia\'s mom asked and Mia nodded and petted Jon slowly feeling him against her \"you mean the deep emotions that are felt by him and how he seems to just fight for himself but he always falls back into his own sorrows... If you only knew the full extent of what he\'s been through I got to read his memories in his diary and what I read there was enough to make me ...\" she trailed off not wanting to rememeber what she had read and how bad Jon\'s life had been.

Mia\'s mom noticed something in Mia\'s eyes that only showed up when she was with Jon and it warmed her heart \"You love him dont you\" Mia Nodded with a rosey blush \"I love him more than I should for only showing up to me a day ago but he trusts me He let me read his journal and in it he confessed all the feelings he supressed. I do love him but it feels diferent from other love its not pity its its deep love that I cant understand like I love every bit of him right down to his soul\". Jon had heard her confession and woke up \"Mia I love you too... you\'ve shed tears that I dont deserve you looked right past the beast in me right to who I truly am\". He felt himself falling back into his pit of sorrow and self hate.

\"Dont fall back into that I Dont want you to run again\" she kissed his muzzle softly and hugged him close. A few days passed and Jon seemed to grow ever more distant from the edge of his pit of sorrow. He sat in front of the phone He wanted to call but was too afraid that he would have succeeded to get them to hate him. He decided he couldn\'t say it in a phone call he stood up and found Mia \"Mia please come with me back to my home I\'m afraid...\"

She hugged him \"Okay I\'ll go with you\" They Told her mom good bye and where they were headed. \"Mia get on my back I can get us there in about 10 minuets. \"He said softly and She complied climbing onto his back her face planted on his shoulder. He coiled the muscles in his legs before he shot foreward and landed on a roof and continued to run jumping the gaps when he saw them. 10 minuets passed and he touched down softly right in front of What would be his house and would hopefuly be again.

Mia got off his back and stood next to him she could feel his fear. she kissed his cheek softly. he smiled and knocked three times.The sounds of someone comeing to the door were heard he turned quickly standing back to back with Mia as the door opened.\"Hello\" Joe said softly his eyes showing what Jon\'s absence had cause in him.
Mia smiled \"I think theres someon that wants to talk to you but he\'s a bit afraid...\" she spun quickly catching Jons shoulders and spun him about so now he stood next to her.

He looked to the ground feeling ashamed of what he\'d done. Joe just stared and soon Mary and Ellena could be seen behind Joe all of them were quite not knowing what to say. \"Hi\"Jon said his voice small and kinda scared sounding.he looked up from the ground his face comeing out of hideing behind his hair.you could actualy see the happyness return to everyones faces.

Jon rushed foreward takeing the first step. they caught him in a hug all three of them hugging Jon tightly. They stayed that way for a moment and Mia moved in behind them closeing the door. They hugged eachother for a moment. They untangled from eachother and Mia came up behind Jon and hugged him feeling left out from the last one she stood on tippy toe so she could look over Jon\'s shoulder.the three of them looked relatively the same they were in their uper 20s haveing been about 18 when they had last seen eachother. Ellena moved foreward and hugged Jon tightly still speachless.\"Elle I truly meant what I said you will always be the one I call a mother\" he spoke softly and Mary looked hurt \"what about me\" .

Ellena moved away soon replaced by Mary \"you too Mary how could I forget you you were yet another mother for me\" she kissed his cheek softly.she too moved away and this time Joe moved up. Jon held out his hand to shake but Joe hugged him close \"you too I will always think of you as my father\" Jon felt his cuffs on his belt. he undid them and pulled back when Joe did cathing his arms again catching his hands in his own cuffs.\"youv gotten beter at that Jon\" he said softly as Jon unlocked him and both of them smiled.

Ellena was back again hugging him tightly and crying into his chest. Jon stroked her hair gently \"I\'m sorry Ellena I was being irrational and I\'m so sorry I\'ve made you cry thats what I didn\'t want\" Elle calmed down slowly and smiled up to him. \"Jon you\'ve grown alot you were only thigh high when you came to me now I can barely reach your face to look into your eyes\". Mia smiled once again feeling left out of the hugging so she found her way to Jon\'s side with a smile \"see Jon they dont hate you I told you they couldn\'t\" she moved up and kissed Jons cheek loveingly.

Ellena was very happy to see someon of Jon\'s age being with him and not recoiling from fear but actualy showing love to him. \"who\'s this Jon your Girl friend\" Joe teased and Mia blushed.\"Her names Mia and you should now her mom she worked at the police station and probobly still does\". Joe smiled \" you mean nurse Kunders the woman who treated your arm after you saved all those people\". Mia was beaming \"Jon saved me too he took two bullets for me\" she felt proud of him and loved him all the more just thinking of how he protected her.

Joe laughed \"playing the old damsel in distres routin Jon\" he teased again. Mary moved up again and looked okaro over she ran a hand over his furred chest gently \"wow Jon your well built\" Jon blushed and Mia was the only to actualy see it. she reached out and stopped Marys hand.\"Good thats what I was looking for she truly does love him you can see it in how she doesn\'t let people touch him without permission\" Mary said outloud with a smile \"you have permission to date him\" Mary said acting motherly in her own way.

Mia just stood infront of Jon he draped his arms down over her in a loose hug. \"so\" Ellena spoke gently \"Are we going to be expecting any pups soon\" she joked with them. Jon and Mia exchanged glances \"yeah as soon as we can\" Mia said softly and Ellena sputered \"just kidding sheesh you cant even take your own joke.\" They all laughed and Mia made a phone call okaying it that she stay here tonight since Jon was staying she would stay too.

Jon was shown around the house it was pleanty big enough for all of them includeing Mia like when they looked they expected him to come back with someone.\"Jon finaly this is your room we think we got it prety close to what you like and you\'ll just have to see\" Ellena spoke softly to him as she let him enter. What he saw was enough to bring him to his knees in tears.

The walls were a forest green his bed was easily king size but thats not what made him cry it was the fact that there wasn\'t a spec of dust on anything and they had given him so much more than he could have ever asked for from them. Inside his room was a tv set with a stereo wired in and perched safely atop it was his gameboy and its games but beside that was a Ps2 and all the games he had ever thought looked good wenever he caught glimpses through an Electronics store, and on his bed was their last set of clothing.

Jon sat on the ground sheding tears.\"why are you crying Jon\" asked Ellena. \"I dont deserve this not a single thing ive done nothing but things that could probobly hurt you and you give me more stuff and try to keep my room ever like it was the first day I would have gotten it\" he sobbed into his arm. Joe Ellena Mary and a Mia all moved around him hugging him tightly all shushing him.

He felt so happy after such a long time but he couldn\'t stop crying it was just over whelming. \"Mia can we pet him\" Mary asked jokingly like she was asking to pet an animal. Mia just smiled remembering one time she had petted him and seen the pure joy it brought him \"yeah you can but I get to help\". Jon moved to excape there grasp but Joe caught his arms \"no you dont we all know you like this you\'re not getting away\"

Joe held his arms and held him down. Mia moved up next to Joe and ran her hands over his shoulders gently petting him. Mary and Ellena rubbed at his chest gently. Jon felt so good as they petted him the feeling washing away his grief and alowing him so smile and laugh when they found a tickleissh spot on his stomacke and snuck a hand down to tickle his feet. they Kept it up till he was on the verg of crying wiht laughter.

They stopped after about 10 minuets All of them feeling beter they settled down on his floor. Jon smiled like he had never smiled before.\"Jon your the only person I know that has a built in happyness gauge\" Mary said emplieing his tail and he blushed this time everyone seeing it \"And its a cute little tail too\".Joe pulled at Jons right hand checking his wrist \"you didn\'t lose the watch did you?\"Joe questioned slowly. Jon reached down into his pocket and pulled out the watch \"Id never loose this my wrist just got to big and it\'s batterie died after about 6 years but I still kept it close to me at all times\".

Joe smiled and grabbed the watch from Jons hand and rushed out of the room coming back with a small black leather case. Inside there were some random tools and a few batteries Joe whent to work restoring the watch. \"Oh Mary Remeber that Journal you gave me you were right it has been more help than I thought it would be and you were right it has brough more good than I doubt you even imagined\" he looked to Mia and Mary could tell what had happened.

\"you let her read your diary... Wow you must realy like her\" Mary said in surprise she would never let anyone read her Journal. Jon was siting against his bed and Mia moved siting behind him and petting his shoulders gently as she looked down to her he looked up to her Ellena and Mary looked to eachother \"awww Just kiss her already and get on with the lovey dovey stuff\" They chimed in unisen and Jon and Mia blushed. and they stopped.

Joe stuffed his kit back into his pocket and tossed the watch to Jon trying to make no sound but Jon caught it once again just before it hit his head \"you still made a bit to much sound Joe I think you could get anyone but me\" Jon said slowly with his smile.They all laughed and smiled. Jon moved up and snatched his gifts off his tv and opened the playstation with a smile he got up and hooked it into the tv and started to read the manual \"Jon I never took you for one that read the manuals\"Joe said with a smile.\"He loves doing it he read the one for the gameboy a few hundred times when he got bored\" Mary said wiht a smile.

Jon flicked the manual back into the box and pulled at a few of the games looking the backs over looking for a multiplayer game what he found was Darkstalkers. he opened it quickly and smiled \"now this is a game I can relate to\" he flipped throught the miniguide and found Gallons page \"I think I\'ve found my character\" he said witha smile and showed Eveyrone in turn and started up the game. They all played a few rounds finding the characters they liked best

Jon used Gallon, Mia used Felicia, Joe used Victor, Mary settled on Morrigan, and finaly Ellena used Lilith. they all took turns plaing finding that when Jon was looseing he would growl playfully and that they were all prety good at this game and despite the age difereances and such they all loved playing this. They played on for a while on stopping to get dinner and nod off to sleep all of them happy that Jon was back. they slept apart that is except for Jon And Mia the snuggled under the blankets sleeping in eachothers warmth.

Unknown ot them an evil was brewing once again in the junkyard.\"WHAT!!\" a cold icy voice called out \"YOU LET HER GET AWAY\".The thugs from before all sporting bandaged arms \"a freak stopped us and broke our arms\" the thugs defended themselves\"he looked like a wolf but was still human mainly and when we shot at him he just got stronger and he changed colors white fur and red on his chest\". A cold icy laugh was heard from the shaded figure \"so the little freak survived all this time I know just how to deal with him\" the Man moved into veiw the cold hollow face of the madman Gryd was seen as he laughed again \"I will finish you this time son. And all of you wil be my Genuie pigs as punishment\" the cold laugh was once again heard in the dark warehouse.

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