can't live without you. (sequel)
author's note: alrite guys... revised version. all of you people that wasn't happy w/ the ending... well just scan a few paragraphs and read the last part! ^_^
He looked at the beautiful girl that was slowly disappearing. The tears slowly slipped down his cheeks. "She's finally gone. Gone. Forever. Hitomi, why did you listen to me? just why did you leave me? Just how, just how, Hitomi?" Van asked in anguish, his voice echoing in the night. "How did I fall in love with you?"
a few months later.
It was in the middle of the night, when a soft drizzle of rain started falling. With a start, Hitomi woke up. She got up uneasily from her bed and walked to her window.
Her emerald colored eyes scanned the stars in the sky and sighed.
"Van, it's been a few months. I don't even know why I left, but I hope life is good for you, I hope everything's back to normal for you, Van." Hitomi sighed. "Who am I kidding?" She asked herself. "I love Van. I guess absence does make the heart fonder. I miss him so much, but he must of got on with his life." Suddenly, a black shadow flew past her room, it was a small raven, spreading it's wings and flying towards the crescent moon.
Tears began forming in Hitomi's eyes. They fell like the raindrops outside. The raven's feathers reminded her of Van's black raven hair, and... and...
Suddenly, a large feather appeared in the palm of Hitomi's hand.
"Oh!" Hitomi gasped in surprise. It didn't belong to the raven. This happened so often when she thought about Van, a white, billowy angel feather would
appear in her palm. But this feather, it was not white, but black, and parts of it was whithering away. The bottom of Hitomi's lip trembled. "Van.." She looked into the sky, afraid of what was happening in Gaea. "Van, you're dying!"
At that very moment, a flash of light glowed all around Hitomi, and a pillar of light snatched her up.
She appeared moments later in Gaea. The sight almost broke her heart. The once bright, joyful, beautiful world of Gaea was now, dark, and dull. People milled around as if life had no purpose. As if pain and suffering was their only objective. Hitomi stood there, staring in awe, when suddenly, a man bumped into her.
"Watch where your going!" The man yelled angrilly. "Sorry," Hitomi apoligized profusely. "Do you know what's happening?"
The man sighed, as if under a great burden.
"The King of Fanelia is dying, because of a broken heart. All the best doctors on Gaea have been called to try to save the young king, but all have failed. You can't heal a shattered heart." Hitomi turned, tears starting in her eyes.
"Van! Please! Don't die!" Then, Hitomi sprinted all the way back to Van's castle. Once she got in, she headed for Van's room. Outside were mourners, all crying. Hitomi could reconize some of them, Allen, Millerna, Merle. Merle looked at Hitomi and pointed an accusing finger at Hitomi.
"You, you killed Lord Van!" Hitomi backed away, "I didn't! I love him!" When Hitomi pushed the doors to Van's room open, nobody seemed to mind. When she got in there, all she saw was Van, lying in a bed, swaddled by bed covers. "Van... what happened to you?" She whispered tears brimming in her eyes.
-Van's POV-
He lay there in the bed, every part of his body hurting, but what hurt most was his heart.
Suddenly, he got a flashback, from when he first discovered that he was dying.
-flashback-
"Hitomi's gone. There's nothing left!" Van yelled in anguish knocking everything on his desk onto the floor. He could hear everything shattering into pieces, just like his memories with Hitomi. Sighing, he cried himself to sleep that night.
the next morning, he woke up, his bones aching. His chest was hurting, it felt like his heart was breaking in half. Van flung open the windows and took a deep breath, determined not to cry. But his lower lip gave away, and the tears began flowing.
"Hitomi, why did you leave me?" He asked tearfully. He pushed and sprouted his wings, the feathers drifting all around his room. Suddenly, he noticed his feathers were no longer pure white, they were turning grey. "What's going on?" Van asked shocked.
Within the next few days, the more he thought about Hitomi, the blacker his wings got. Within a few months, his feathers were pitch black, as black as a raven's feathers. Van closed his eyes. "I'm dying. I'm dying of a broken heart."
Van opened his eyes. "I'm dying for Hitomi."
Every single beat his heart pounded, it brought him back thoughts about Hitomi. He kept getting flashbacks of that night, that fateful night, when Hitomi disappeared, in a flash of light. Then, he heard a gentle, frantic voice whispering his name. He turned his body around and gasped in joy. "Hi... Hitomi!"
Hitomi ran to his bed and placed her hands on his face. "Van..." Hitomi cried her tears falling on his face.
"Hitomi! You're, you're back! You're finally back! you're..." Van stopped with he was overwhemled with coughing.
"Van..." Hitomi said kneeling down and taking his hands in hers. His hands were rapidly turning colder.
"Hitomi.." Van said quietly in his last ounce of strength.
"Hitomi, I still love you, and I always will, remember how I promised I would die for you? Well I..."
Hitomi placed a shaking finger on his lips to stop his talking.
"Van... I.." Tears fell from her cheek and stained his pillow.
"I love you so much!" Hitomi leaned forward and kissed Van on the lips gently, holding him close to her. When she backed off, Van just looked at her with disbelief. Then he smiled gently and pulled her closer to him again.
"Oh Hitomi! I have been waiting my whole life to hear you say this." Then, drops of tears shimmered in his dark eyes. "But I won't be around anymore Hitomi, Oh I wish..." Van strained to his dresser and opened it. He pulled out something in his hand then pulled Hitomi towards him. "Do you remember?" Van said holding out a beautiful silver ring. "That night, when I wanted to give you it.. you.."
"I said I didn't love you." Hitomi finished his sentance, tears brimming in her eyes. Van slipped the ring on her finger and whispered. "Hitomi, will you be mine? Forever and ever until eternity?" Hitomi nodded and kissed Van again. It was passionate, yet gentle, soft yet full of love.
Hitomi could feel as if Van's hand growing colder, as he slipped away from her. "Van... Please don't leave, don't go. Stay with me.. Please!" Hitomi begged running her fingers through his hair. Van's eyes began closing.
"I'm sorry Hitomi, I love you, but i'm so tired, I'm so tired.." With that those violet tinted eyes closed as his whole body went cold, his face ashen. He didn't feel the girl he loved shaking him, and crying. He didn't hear her screaming his name. He couldn't taste that last kiss they had shared. He had fallen, into a deep sleep... one that there was doubt he would ever wake up from.
"Van! snap out of it!" Hitomi screamed shaking his shoulders, her tears dripping on his shirt. "Please wake up... I can't live without you Van! I just can't..."
She couldn't cry anymore... her tears had run dry.
"Van I love you, I'll never give up.." she sobbed and lay her head on his chest and closed her swollen eyes.
She didn't even notice when the pendant around her lover's neck began to shine, with brilliant light...
a/n: BWAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! oohhh.. a deadly cliffhanger eh??? but I won't leave you there too long.. once I get an idea! I hope you all happy now! BWAHAHAHAHAH~!