Hello Again! Sorry it's been so long since my last update... summer is a busy time of year.
Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own anything.
She awoke with a gasp, from yet another dream. Tears glazed over her face. She attempted to wipe them away with little success.
Artemis looked up, concern in his eyes. It hadn't been a nightmare- he knew that. Nightmares caused her to wake as though the hounds of hell were chasing her, screams muffled by her pillow, and cold sweat dewing her forehead.
"Minako?"
These were the good dreams. Dreams of a time and place so beutiful and wonderful it made the heart ache with longing. Dreams of time and place long gone and forgotten.
The good dreams caused her to wake crying her heart out.
"Mina, are you okay?"
He jumps up onto the bed to sit next to her. She blinks and more tears shatter on the bedspread.
"Where are they, Artemis?" She clentches the blanket in her fists. "Where are the other gaurdians? Where are my sisters?"
He is silent.
"I don't know, Mina-p."
Minako goes limp, her head falling into her arms. He hair falls forward to cover her face.
"Why must I always be so alone? Why must I remember, bear this heartache, while they live thier lives as we were ment to in this world?"
Artemis has no answers for her. He wishes he could find the other senshi- he doesn't even know if they are alive in this life. He wishes he could explain why they are always alone, why they are on thier own again...why, why, why?...He doesn't know.
He remembers the beutuiful place and time even better than she does. He carries the same ache in his breast. He is alone too.
Minako Aino, regular school girl, sometimes superheroine.
Artemis, talking cat, once advisor to royalty. How they managed to find each other is a mystery.
They are mearly two old souls from different worlds, trapped in this life together. They cling to each other like the last survivors of a shipwreck.
But they are starting to slip, thier life raft is sinking. They are drowning in this ocean of new. Drowning in lies and secrecy and hiding places. Drowning in lonliness.
"Do you think we'll ever find them?" Minako whispers. Artemis looks out at the night sky. The stars struggle to make thier way through the smoggy Tokeyo sky.
"I don't know, Mina. I don't know."
fin.
Please R&R! Thanks for reading.
~commontater