Hello!
I have never written an Escaflowne fanfic before, so I'm sorry if it turns out all wrong or you hate it, please don't flame me! (although I have never been flamed, which is good so far… touch wood)
I really hope you like this, don't worry it will be Van and Hitomi together! There will be fluff, there may be more than fluff, but I can tell you I'm really enjoying writing this so far!
Anyway… On with the story… (and I don't own these characters, as everyone knows, so I don't really see the point in disclaimers… this will be my only one for this fic)
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Hitomi Kanzaki opened her eyes. She had been awake for several minutes by now, as she did every morning, hoping that she would wake up and see him. Whether he was in the room, in a picture, by her bed, in her bed… it didn't matter. She just wanted to see him.
She rolled onto her side. There was a man in her bed. Hitomi blinked, but it wasn't Van. She had known that last night when she went to bed with… what was his name again? It didn't even matter. For the last 4 years she spent most of her time thinking about Van, missing him and mourning the life they could have shared together. She was bitter in her heart that at the last moment in Gaea she had practically asked Van if she could stay. He had said that it would make him very happy, but then what did he do? He held up his stupid energist and sent her back to Earth. It was so sudden, and Hitomi had never forgiven Van for rejecting her like that.
Using the Atlantean pendant she had given him, he allowed her to see him twice, maybe three times before the visits stopped. He had given no reason, and even since then she had been the bitter, heartbroken Hitomi everyone knew but few loved.
Hitomi sat up feeling disgusted with herself. She didn't even want to sleep with these men - she just wanted Van. For her, there was no-one else. Nobody could replace that moody, arrogant, stubborn boy who would now have become a man, Hitomi realised. She put on a long shirt and went to the kitchen to get some water. She was incredibly thirsty and her head pounded a little. 'Damn bars,' she grumbled mentally.
She heard a grunt from the bedroom and realised that that guy must be up. He popped his head around the door. "Do you mind if I take a shower?" He asked. He was very good looking, and well built.
"Do what you want. I have to go out." Hitomi replied coldly. "Lock the door when you leave and don't even think about stealing anything." 'Not that there's anything worth stealing anyway,' she added in her head.
"Er… ok? Well it was nice knowing you, if you know what I mean… We should do it again sometime, princess."
What a sleazeball. Hitomi thought she might be sick if she heard him speak again. All she wanted was to be with Van. What was the use of having grown up into a stunning young woman if the one you wanted to share yourself with was inaccessible?
The man went to the bathroom and Hitomi quickly dressed. She felt disgusting but she wanted to get out of her tiny apartment, to somewhere she could think.
It was spring, and the morning was nice and cool. She went to the nearby park, where only joggers and dog-walkers were out at this time of the morning. She lay on the dewy grass, not caring that it was wet, and stared into the sky. She imagined that she was on Gaea, doing the same thing, and saw the Earth and the moon hanging in the sky. She closed her eyes, and a soft breeze caressed her body. 'Van' She thought desperately. She missed him every second, every moment regretted not being able to stay and, more strongly, she felt angry with Van for making her leave. She tried to picture his face. It had been so long now. Why hadn't he tried to get in contact with her? She wouldn't think twice about leaving Earth permanently. She had no family left, very few friends, and tried to take comfort in awful guys who only wanted her because she was gorgeous. Hitomi knew that Van wasn't like that, that the love they used to share had been real, more passionate and more painfully unfulfilled than anything she had ever known, before or since her time in Gaea.
She wished again, as she had done so many times, that she was back with Van. Knowing that she didn't have her pendant prevented her wish from being fulfilled, and Hitomi started to cry in self pity and shame for being unfaithful to her love for Van. "Van!" She whispered, anguished. "I need you so much!" Her eyes blurred with tears again as she looked away from the sky. She knew Gaea was out there somewhere beyond the moon, invisible to the human eye.
She sat up again. "Hitomi, you're 19 years old. You're way too old to be sitting in the park crying!" Even as she said the words, more tears came out. Why couldn't she go back? Why had Van not come to see her at all, or wished her back? She felt as though her heart would burst.
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I know it's really short, but I wanted to start a fresh chapter for the next bit. Think of this as a prologue…
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Ja ne!
Black-Labrador-chan