Author's Notes: This is from the POV of Sailor Uranus/Haruka during Episode 110 when Sailor Neptune dies. It's very sad and has a few bad words in it so, here's your warning!
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, Naoko Takeuchi does (lucky!). I do not own Sailor Uranus or Neptune… though I wish I did!
"Must Be Heaven"
By
ViolinTides
I stared at her. For me, it felt like an eternity. For everyone else, it was but a few moments. I couldn't take my eyes off her for a moment as it happened.
She had forced her body to continue even though it was broken, bruised, and bloody. She fell, instead of attacked, onto our enemy. The red-haired bitch with a gun. It was aimed at the chest of my love. In that instant I wanted to save her. I wanted to grab her, kiss her, tell her everything will be okay. But I couldn't. I saw everything in slow motion. The burst of energy from the gun forcing out the heart crystal of my beloved. I barely noticed the shining hand mirror that the crystal became.
In that flash of light, I remembered to the previous day when we had talked. She said she loved my hands. She had looked into my eyes with such love. I had wished with all my heart to be with her in that instant. To hold her close, to love her, to marry to her; to give her all the things she deserved. I had pushed her away, though. 'For the mission', I had said. The mission always came first. But in this instant, in the moment when I have now lost my one true love because of this senshi business; I damn the mission.
Reality kicked in and now all I saw was her body as it fell to the ground. Her creamy skin, her delicate violinist's hands, her eyes as deep as the ocean she loved; every piece of her went limp in that instant.
She was so beautiful, even in death. Her hair hung over most of her face like a curtain of aqua. Her senshi outfit remained on her body, even though it would soon fade for lack of energy to keep it up.
I wanted to kiss Neptune, but I knew there would be no life in those ruby lips. I wanted to hold her and cry over her body, I wanted to do anything but just sit there staring. My body just wouldn't respond to much else, though.
Then my eyes moved to see a beautiful sight. I saw the murderer, hovering over me, threatening my life. I cared not, I wanted to die. But my savior, the Messiah, appeared. Wait, my eyes deceived me. It was merely Usagi. She was unable to henshin since her brooch was in my possession. Eudial, my lover's murderer, was pushed off the bridge by Usagi. Immediately I saw the young girl hovering over the body of my love. Her hands surrounded the aqua mirror. I didn't hear what she said. All I heard was the lack of Neptune's voice in the air. The silence in my head was deafening.
I pointed the gun that would steal heart crystals at my own chest. Usagi tried to fight to get it from me. She claimed she would save the world without any talismans. This little girl fought with no brains and all heart. I thought to myself, 'You can't save everyone, Sailor Moon.' I tossed her the transformation brooch she would need. I pointed the gun at my chest one more time, "Find the last talisman, Sailor Moon."
My last words before I pulled the trigger.
Everything went dark for a moment.
Then I saw her.
She was laying on a chair by a pool. A seashell was held up to her ear. The wind seemed to run it's fingers through her aquatic curls. She was so beautiful. I stared down at her from behind her. My head hung over the chair to see her. She was upside-down but I don't care.
This must be heaven, because I am with her. Wherever she is must be heaven.