Once Upon A Time
By spheeris1
Pairing: Dorothy/Relena
Warnings/notes: Dorothy POV, angst and prose [short]
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Once upon a time
You and I fought a war, a battle stuck in adolescent mode
And who lost the fight? Was it you? Was it I?
Funny, but the answer does not seem
So clear now….I used to know the words so confidently, but now…
Now I am just not sure.
Is that growing up? Learning that you don't know everything?
Or that everything that you knew can change?
Once upon a time
You and I shattered an illusion, the walls of childhood
Torn down and falling around us….but my hand grabbed your hand
And I pulled you from the wreckage…
I pulled you into my disaster zone.
Watching you become a martyr from a little girl, like larva to a butterfly….beautiful….
You, cut from your father's rib and skin like marble…how I loved you.
It is in my nature to question good fortune
And it is in my nature to destroy the people I love.
How I loved killing what we had….once upon a time….
Tiny kisses tasting of talcum-powdered flesh, smelling of French perfume---
Your skin stained my bed more than your sexual conquest ever could.
I carry the sheets, I keep them dirty.
And maybe I wish I could go back and I maybe I wish I was not so keen
To rip the world apart, to rip our world apart.
Maybe I want the fairy tale back, the one I never believed in when I was still a young girl.
The one where the lovers find each other in the end despite trial and error,
The one where the trauma makes them stronger and makes them wiser,
The Once Upon A Time.
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