Capacity Chapter 7

Rated PG-13

I don't own them, I just like to play with them. I give them back when I'm done.

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"ZhangZi?" Xiaofan gasped.

"You've already said that," he said, moving back slightly and sheathing his knife.

"Why… Why in heaven's name did you grab me and almost gut me?"

"Blue Sun wasn't sure you were dead. They sent me to make sure. They didn't realize our familial issue."

"That explains why you're here, but not why you kidnapped and pulled your knife on me."

ZhangZi contemplated.

"That is more complicated."

"Are you going to kill me?" she asked with out a trace of fear.

ZhangZi shrugged.

"Officially, you're already dead. Not much point in it."

"Lovely, then I'm going."

He blocked her exit.

"Don't think you're safe, sis. If I can find you…"

"You took this job knowing you wee hunting your sister."

"I did."

"What happened to you, ZhangZi?"

Here, he sat casually on a crate and shrugged.

"Ma and Ba are dead. And Yeye died recently, like a month ago."

She stood, stock still.

"Ma and Ba died not long after you went off to the fancy school with all the money Yeye saved for you. Money that should have been used to keep the family afloat. But he didn't think of that. He only thought of his precious baobao."

"Yeye… I didn't know… I thought... Laoma sent letters…" she said sadly.

"Yeye sent the letters, he didn't want you distracted. Not his precious girl."

"I sent money…"

"That your Yeye gambled away."

"No he didn't!"

At Xiaofan's shocked look ZhangZi smiled.

"Not the perfect man you always pictured, huh?"

Xiaofan steeled herself.

"I sent the money, didn't I? Why didn't you contact me? Let me know things had gone to hell?"

"And beg my little sister? You didn't care about us once you got on that Core planet-"

"How the hell would you know? You never messaged me, read my letters, anything. If you did you would have known how homesick I was, how much I missed the family."