Title: "My One and Only"
Author: Serori
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst/Romance
Warnings: Uh...nothing major. Sad things...oh, and this who thing is one huge spoiler, though most fanfiction is.
Pairings: Chii/Hideki
Author's Notes: Having just finished the Chobits Anime, I decided to poke around in the Chobits fics on fanfiction.net, and was surprised by the level of...er...well, I didn't see much of my style of ironic angst. So, I wrote this little idea in my head, all stemming from one small thought that crossed my mind after seeing the series...well, yeah. This is basically a very, very short one-shot.
Brief Summary: "..and so, I found the person only for me. And...I lived out one happy lifetime with him...but every fairytale ends someday..."
She is sitting alone in the apartment, waiting for him to come home from work.
Just like everyday. Just like it has been everyday, these past years...
Everyone is happy, nowadays. Everyone has their one and only, and it matters not whether they are human or persocom, as long as they are happy...and every, every personcom can think, and feel...
All thanks to her. To them. To the two meant for each other.
...and she's still waiting, waiting for her one and only to come home.
Just like everyday.
The clock strikes 5. She looks up, anxious, elated, knowing that the time has come. Everyday, he would come in, and smile, and she'd return the smile and...
...she stands, prepared for his arrival. She smiles. And now, it is time, time for their daily ritual.
But that door doesn't open. The door in this apartment hasn't been used for 50 years.
"Hideki." She reaches out, to the ghost that she now sees only in her mind, "Okaeri!"
And she keeps smiling, arms outstretched, for a long while.
* * *
"This city...it is full of people. People who love, and people who are happy. Because, now people are happy with each other, as well as that. People live and people love in this city full of people."
"But...I still remember...that there was a time, a time when this city had no people. A time before I met my one and only."
"...and I lived a lifetime, a whole lifetime, with my one and only. And we rose into the sky, finally happy, watching the city as it filled with people, people that we called out from the houses."
"These people...we are the reason that they can live so happily, with each other and 'that.'"
"But...there was still a problem. While 'each other' will live out their lives until death, 'that' cannot die. Only rarely does 'that' die."
"And I was 'that,' but my one and only...my one and only was not 'that.' He was not immortal."
"And so, that is why I wait for my one and only and I to be reunited. Because...I know that someday, he will return to me, and I to him. For myself, I pray for the day, the day that we can finish happily ever after."
* * *
Chii's smile faded, her face slackened. And, in a second, she was back to kneeling on the floor, waiting.
She is sitting home in the apartment, waiting for him to come home from work.
Just like everyday.
So...why, today, does it make her want to cry?
