*waves* Hullo! ^^ Well, I finally decided to post this. Yep. It's a challenge fic. Warning on a bit of angst, too...But anyways! On with the show!
To never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.
I looked around at the hospital walls. Everything in hospitals seem spotless. It's kind of scary, if you think about it. I hate hospitals. Very much so at this moment.
Frowning, I watched nurses flock in and out of her room. I knew what the doctor was going to say to me, even before he walked out of her room. She was dying. And all because I couldn't protect her. My mind wandered back to the previous day. I closed my eyes. I didn't sleep. I remembered.
So I was the one with all the glory,
While you were the one with all the strength.
Only a face without a name,
And I never once heard you complain.
I narrowed my eyes, aiming my gun at the soldier. He smirked, keeping a tight grip on her neck. She'd already passed out from the lack of air. She was pale, and I knew I'd have to act fast. I ran at him, and knocked him to the ground. He grimaced, then punched me in the mouth. I had no time to react. The room shook violently at the sound of an explosion in the nearby boiler rooms. I got up, grabbed her limp form, then I ran.
I could feel the heat on the back of my neck. I threw nyself out the window, careful to protect her from the shards of glass. Someone shot at me, and I lost my grip on her as we fell. She flew out of my arms, and into the explosion. The next time I would see her, she'd be burned badly and covered in blood.
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
And everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'Cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
I opened my eyes, then found myself staring into the face of a young doctor. He led me to her room. She seemed surrounded in a tangle of wires and bandages. Her eyes were closed. I nodded the doctor away and sat in a nearby chair. I grasped one of her small, bandaged hands. It was slightly cold. I listened to the monitor as it beeped steadily. I thought I waited an eternity right there, just gripping her hand. What I thought to be nothing more than a partnership was in actuality love. I suppose I had previously tried to deny it, dismissing it as lust or something if the sort. But right then, as I felt her life steadily slip away, I finally admitted I loved this woman. My partner.
It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
But I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth,.
I would be nothing without you.
The monitor had stopped about five minutes ago. I was now trying to fight off the tears that were blurring my vision. I wanted to see her again. I wanted to hear her again. I glanced at the once great woman beside me. The woman who had been fiercely loyal to me. I think, even as I started to cry, she knew.
I started crying because she was smiling.
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
For you are the wind beneath my wings.
I lost my Noin that day. I never said I loved her, but she knew. That was twenty years ago. And as I stand at her grave, admiring the rose I put on it, I think to myself. She was my Noin. Mine. And I let her go. But I know, that when I die, I'll be lying her beside her. Beside my strength, my love, my hero, my Noin.
Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
For you are the wind beneath my wings,
'Cause you are the wind beneath my wings.