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Seven: Yume
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Title: Yume
Mini-series: 7th story of `Arguments of The Soul and Mind' series
Status: Complete and unedited. Companion to my other stories of the `mini-series'.
By: Shinigami Goddess (Lionna)
Warnings: shonen-ai/ mild yoai Y'know me: angst, emotional, etc. Always torturing the characters. Some language. Referrals to Relena's Episode Zero and the official manga of Operation Meteor. About 95% of this part is dream sequences (hence the title).
Started: July 9, 2000 (early) Completed: July 9, 2000 (early)
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Sally ended up dragging all of us into the medics unit. Since you had passed out and Quatre was already resting, she had no need to use the tranquilizers on either of you. She's stubborn when she wishes to be and finally Trowa, Wufei, and I had no choice but to let her inject the sedative.
I can remember being in the void between sleep and reality, I felt detached for what seemed like hours. I was relieved to fall into a full sleep, I didn't even remember the last time I'd slept more than an hour. Let me backtrack, I was relieved… until the dreams started.
I walked slowly through the snow-topped rubble with a single, yellow flower in my hand. It was such a fragile thing that I wondered if the snow would break it. I didn't look anywhere but my destination - a small mound. Earlier I had arranged two rocks in a tower, my only memorial to the little girl and her puppy. The image was still so clear in my mind… the blood still washing from my fingertips. I set the flower down with a slight waver in my hand. I could feel the matted fur that was once silky soft, the young dog's blood had tangled the coat. Its body was so cold but the blood was still warm… trailing down my hands and arms to stain my shirt. [1]
For a time I stared at the pathetic memorial. Silently I withdrew my handgun from the waistband of my shorts and clicked off the safety. Finishing preparing the gun, I raised it up as I focused on the flower before me. I remember thinking that it could all end and that I wouldn't have to deal with the insane doctor ordering me on the newest, biggest mission. The cool steel rested on my temple. I closed my eyes and my finger tensed, any more pressure and it would go off. [1]
My eyes flew open at a familiar and unwanted voice. I spun to see him standing there. His voice was clipped as he reprimed me. I turned my head away and the scene faded; a new memory starting.
It was such a fancy school, completely unfitting for a dirty child like myself. I stared coolly at the entrance, if it weren't for my mission being placed there I would have steered clear of it. Some girl spotted me through the window, I ignored her. I knew I was a mess, that would draw attention but at the time I didn't care. [2]
I walked down the hall with my file of information in hand. Someone was walking opposite of me but I hardly noticed since I was busy running through the information in my head. Something collided into me and the file skidded along the floor. Angry and startled, it took self-control to keep from hitting the girl who'd caused me to loose the file. I retrieved my things before staring at the girl who had run into me. She apologized and then stopped, staring with curiosity. She had shoulder-length, gold-blond hair and cornflower eyes. She looked incredibly innocent, not fit to be born in the time we were living in. I snorted mentally and turned. I wouldn't know who she was until later… [2&3]
More memories filtered through my mind and I felt the too-large gun in my small hands. I began falling back as the missile launcher fired from my hold. I stared down at the dying man before me, my face impassive. It wasn't until he stopped breathing that I realized he really had been dying. My eyes widened as I saw the last person that I had considered `family' moved on. [4]
I began walking through black, not really knowing where I was. Loud laughter began echoing in my ears and I tried to move on without thinking about it. It just continued and I realized whose laughter it was… yours. You always do haunt me in my dreams, it had just to be a matter of time before you entered that one. I paused and stared ahead where I saw your form materializing. The normal outfit adorned your body as the customary smirk dashed across your features. I saw you reach your hand out with an object clutched in it. I watched without emotion as I heard the familiar `click' resound as you pulled a mechanism back.
Still smirking, you held the all-too-familiar handgun to me, handle first. I stared for a moment before my hand reached of its own accord. Your smirk turned to a simple smile as you mouthed something that I couldn't understand. Seeing this, you pointed at your heart, then pointed to the gun, and next, to my heart. I opened my mouth to ask you what you meant but then a flash of light blinded me from you. I could have sworn I heard a gunshot but…
I opened my eyes within a second and found myself staring at the ceiling of the medics unit. Within the two beds to my right I spotted Wufei and then Trowa, both still asleep. I sat up and ran one hand through my hair, as if removing the memories of the dreams. Dreams. Hmm… I still wonder what you meant.
My feet slid off the bed and I stood, I looked to the left. You were lying in one of the beds, staring at the ceiling with unseeing eyes. Something was haunted about you. I frowned.
~~~ Owari ~~~
[1] These paragraphs refer to the manga Operation Meteor the day before the gundams are sent to earth. Heero has these two rocks set up and sets the flower the little girl gave him down by it. The rest of the scene is described in this part. He was about to pull the gun's trigger when Dr. J came up… not sure what he said.
[2] From Relena's Episode Zero. Heero is dressed in this ratty outfit and is quite dirty. He stands at the school entrance in the beginning and the young Relena sees him. (From what I can tell she wants to know who he is and such.) They bump into each other in the hall and a folder Heero has skids along the floor. Anyhow, you pretty much have their first meeting there.
[3] The girl is Relena at age 11 (AC 191) for those of you who didn't guess.
[4] This relates to Heero's Episode Zero in which Odin Lowe dies. The part about the missile launcher and such is from other scenes in which 8-year-old Heero is holding different weapons practically his body size. It's really strange to think he was trained as an assassin since age 2…