As usual Gundam belongs to someone far cleverer than I and any similarities with story or another Fic is accidental. This is seriously AU maybe even OOC we'll have to see what kind of trouble I can get into before I finish.
The Twilight Hour
By: Amber
Prologue
A giggle softly sounded down the hallway. Tilting her head slightly, the young woman paused as she headed to the nursery it sounded like another voice one she didn't recognize coming from there. She frowned slightly and moved forward. Stopping at another door and quietly pushing it open; she allowed the light from the hallway to pierce the gloom illuminating the small blonde figure of the sleeping boy within. A slight smile softened her face before concern returned once more pulling the door closed she moved on to the nursery.
She leaned in toward the door hearing nothing she shook her head at her fancy before turning away when it came again. The unmistakable sound of two voices worried now she turned back and opened the door. Pushing it open, she allowed her eyes to become accustomed to the small glow within, her feet muffled by the thick carpeting enabled her to silently come around the corner to see her charge sitting up in the bed chattering away.
Frightened her eyes strained to probe the gloom searching the shadows in the direction the child was babbling she could see nothing. Relief made her light-headed as she moved forward. "Miss Relena." She smiled, "you should be asleep young miss." Coming abreast the bed, a chill slid up the back of her spine and relief so newly won suddenly skittered away as it was replaced with uneasiness warily her eyes searched the room once more. Bending down she motioned for the child to lie down.
"Sweetheart who were you talking to?" Relena smiled mischievously, before a yawn over took it blinking up into her governess's concerned eyes. "My fwiend." Relena slid deeper into the covers clutching her bear she shifted several times to get comfortable before her eyes fluttered and slid closed.
"Relen...?" Looking down she smiled wryly, before tucking the covers about her young charge heading for the door she stopped scanning the room once more for anything out of place. She pulled the door to then stood pensively on the other side. Maybe it was one of those imaginary friends. She shrugged and walked off imagination or not it couldn't hurt to be a bit more attentive tonight specially in light of the current tensions in the area.
~ ~ ~ ~
The cloaked figured shimmered and reappeared; mist swirled clinging lovingly to his form and for a second within the human concept of time he slumped.
"You play a dangerous game my friend." Straightening once more he faced the void strong and sure defenses in place and unrepentant. The murmured words echoed around the void before bouncing back in increased volume.
He tilted his head back staring upward. "In all these eons I have asked nothing, never once questioned ."
"And you question now?"
"NO! No, but there is also a reason for this, don't you see all this time and none have.. I needed to," he trailed off
"None have?" The voice gently prompted with a mix of curiosity and wistfulness.
"No none why is that? Her soul it calls to me it's so bright it warms *me* ME from within. What's happening to me?"
"I don't know but there is a difference in you. You have just come from her it's very beautiful. But.."
"But?"
"Lines have been altered you now have this connection whether she's happy or sad. Even, while she loves another. Behold it begins.."
The mist swirled and shifted taking form and substance as he watched the scene play out before his eyes. Soon he would go he already felt the pull. The images cleared and he stiffened in protest..
"Watch," the voice murmured.
Soldiers were going from room to room searching for something. Then the scene shifted to the mother and father he watched impassively as mortally wounded,
they crawled across the floor to one another trying to touch one last time before surrendering to Death's embrace. The images continued on, until finally showing a young woman running down the hall pausing here and there until she came to the door of a bedroom throwing open the door she came out with a small girl bundle up in a blanket murmuring soothing phrases to her half asleep form they rapidly went back the way they came.
"It was not her time."
"No, the voice concurred it was not."
" What did you mean I'm playing a dangerous game?"
A soft sigh trickled through the void stirring hair of golden brown. "I see lines converging intertwining tighter than previously ordained. Unless... It can be stopped
If it is done now."
The head on the cloaked figured bowed and remained silent. "Do you want it stopped," she pressed?
The dark form was shifting fading even as her words echoed through him pounding at his conscience. "I must go now their calling."
As he disappeared from the mists the scene below continued to play out as the couple breathed their last clasped tightly in one another's arms. "I see," she murmured. Destiny watched thoughtfully, as the cowled figure came for the gossamer souls that once resided inside the King and Queen of the Cinq kingdom.
"I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way.."
Exodus
The Twilight Hour
By: Amber
The young girl walked along oblivious to the world carrying on a slightly bizarre one-sided conversation with herself. He shook his head charmed he had watched her grow from a child into a beautiful young girl she was a constant source of joy through out the years. He wasn't sure why he was here today he had tried endlessly to keep his future and present separate.
But over the years trying to understand this feeling for one frail mortal had convinced him of several things one of them it was meant to be. The other was that this feeling he felt for her was love it was similar to the one he felt when in the presence of the divine. So knowing the depths of his love and the constant of it how could he stay away today of all days. He returned to the present watching Destiny weave her dance as Relena spotted the boy washed ashore. He felt the pain of watching the beginning of her infatuation, her love, and welcomed it in some perverse way as the price he had to pay for the years of joy she gave him when he should have remained impervious to her lure.
He floated above them safe, secure from mortal eyes for no one here this day was meant for his domain. He winced within the darkness of his hood, he felt everything she did culminating with the intense loneliness and longing for the boy as he ran up the beach toward the highway. He clenched his fists fighting the urge to act knowing that this couldn't be changed here at least in this he was powerless.
It was with shock and terror yes he wasn't devoid of feeling, the fear at that familiar pull summoning him at the time of transition the departing of ones mortal life for the spiritual one. It wasn't the act itself it was who of it all. No he whispered he stood with them on the pier future and present were about to collide.. He knew what he was about to do without even thinking about it, waving his arm he stretched his powers and summoned the one he needed and then waited impatiently for Duo Maxwell join the play setting in motion the first of many such episodes in cheating death his due.
"I think it's pretty obvious here who's the bad guy. You alright lady?"
Relena's eyes darted back and forth trying to figure out this new turn of events. The gun's explosion jerked her from her thoughts. She winced watching the blood trickle down Heero's body. A splash and the sound of something humongous breaking the water's surface caught her attention when the other boy saw her staring he ignited a flare suddenly blinding her.
"I'm sure you have your reasons for being here but you don't want to go there it's nothing but trouble. Why don't you go home?"
Relena gasped, she lifted her arm to shield her eyes as she did she sensed Heero's intentions and mentally chanted don't do it but deep down she braced herself as he tensed to move. The second shot slammed him off his feet and she jumped placing herself between him and the other boy. "Stop why did you have to shoot him?"
The boys eyes widened and flashed with a strange hurt and for a moment she ached with him feeling as if she failed him somehow. Relena stepped forward impulsively but once again Heero broke her strange connection with the boy as he launched himself at the torpedoes sending them on their way.
Relena stood frozen watching the two strange mobile suits shudder at the impact and sink as the other boy screamed in pain. She checked her impulse to comfort him as she realized Heero never came out of the water. Relena ran to the edge of the pier searching the water frantically. When she caught a flash of green a couple of yards away she launched herself off the side. Duo turned at the sound of the splash and slapped his forehead. "O man what is it with this girl?" Holstering his gun he moved to the edge watching her swim after the very guy that tried to kill her.
Go after her.
Duo shook his head before turning to slowly scan the pier for the moment it was just the three of them but with the size of the explosions that wasn't going to be for much longer. "Man I am as crazy as they are now I'm hearing things." Diving over the side he met her half way she was struggling she wouldn't have made it back without help not dragging the other kid behind her the current was working against her.
"Give him to me." She floated there a moment treading water searching his features intently. "Come on we don't have much time lady decide whether you trust me or not."
Relena bit her lip, "I trust you she said huskily I just don't want anyone else to get hurt tonight." A wave washed over her head causing her to choke she turned looking at shore then the pier, which was already swarming with military personnel. She couldn't let either of them get caught nodding she allowed the boy to take Heero's weight before striking out the rest of the way to shore. The last few yards she allowed the waves to carry her onto the beach before crawling weakly the rest of the way from the water and collapsing in the beach. She turned her head watching the boy stagger up beside her with Heero. Pushing her hair back she studied him a moment silently.
" Thank you."
Duo shook his head, "your crazy you know that?"
Relena smiled, "no crazier than you for saving the guy that you tried to shoot earlier."
Duo grinned. " You have a point there. Or maybe I just wanted to see you smile he winked."
Relena pushed herself up on her knees wiping her hand on her dress she offered him her hand. "Relena Darlian." Duo started a moment at the formality then laughed offering his. "Duo."
She smiled, "it's nice to meet you Duo I hope this is doesn't sound forward but I hope we can be friends."
Duo sobered eyes of cobalt blue stared into her as if he was reading her soul and for a second a burst of joy exploded in her mind. O how I've missed you where have.. Relena blinked a moment lost in trying to remember. And then it was gone. He continued holding her hand his thumb softly stroking the top of hers. They both noticed at the same time he still held her hand Relena blushed and pulled away.
The sounds of soldiers searching the beach drew closer. Relena looked over her shoulder frightened. "Go she urged don't worry about us I'll get him to a doctor."
Duo leaned forward and grabbed her arm. "What about you?"
She smiled wanly, "don't worry being a foreign minister's spoilt daughter has its benefits."
Duo jumped to his feet and flashed her a brilliant smile. "We'll meet again.."
Relena watched him vanish into the shadows. "I'm going to hold you to that Duo," she smiled softly.
Um I think this is going to be a 2xR story it wasn't suppose to be but well it taken over. And I dont have a clue where its going except it was suppose to be a Halloween offering. If there are errors my apologies since I have not proofed thoroughly at all. OOC very probably but I hope you'll read anyway.As always I hope you find something inside to enjoy.
The Twilight Hour
By: Amber
Prologue
A giggle softly sounded down the hallway. Tilting her head slightly, the young woman paused as she headed to the nursery it sounded like another voice one she didn't recognize coming from there. She frowned slightly and moved forward. Stopping at another door and quietly pushing it open; she allowed the light from the hallway to pierce the gloom illuminating the small blonde figure of the sleeping boy within. A slight smile softened her face before concern returned once more pulling the door closed she moved on to the nursery.
She leaned in toward the door hearing nothing she shook her head at her fancy before turning away when it came again. The unmistakable sound of two voices worried now she turned back and opened the door. Pushing it open, she allowed her eyes to become accustomed to the small glow within, her feet muffled by the thick carpeting enabled her to silently come around the corner to see her charge sitting up in the bed chattering away.
Frightened her eyes strained to probe the gloom searching the shadows in the direction the child was babbling she could see nothing. Relief made her light-headed as she moved forward. "Miss Relena." She smiled, "you should be asleep young miss." Coming abreast the bed, a chill slid up the back of her spine and relief so newly won suddenly skittered away as it was replaced with uneasiness warily her eyes searched the room once more. Bending down she motioned for the child to lie down.
"Sweetheart who were you talking to?" Relena smiled mischievously, before a yawn over took it blinking up into her governess's concerned eyes. "My fwiend." Relena slid deeper into the covers clutching her bear she shifted several times to get comfortable before her eyes fluttered and slid closed.
"Relen...?" Looking down she smiled wryly, before tucking the covers about her young charge heading for the door she stopped scanning the room once more for anything out of place. She pulled the door to then stood pensively on the other side. Maybe it was one of those imaginary friends. She shrugged and walked off imagination or not it couldn't hurt to be a bit more attentive tonight specially in light of the current tensions in the area.
~ ~ ~ ~
The cloaked figured shimmered and reappeared; mist swirled clinging lovingly to his form and for a second within the human concept of time he slumped.
"You play a dangerous game my friend." Straightening once more he faced the void strong and sure defenses in place and unrepentant. The murmured words echoed around the void before bouncing back in increased volume.
He tilted his head back staring upward. "In all these eons I have asked nothing, never once questioned ."
"And you question now?"
"NO! No, but there is also a reason for this, don't you see all this time and none have.. I needed to," he trailed off
"None have?" The voice gently prompted with a mix of curiosity and wistfulness.
"No none why is that? Her soul it calls to me it's so bright it warms *me* ME from within. What's happening to me?"
"I don't know but there is a difference in you. You have just come from her it's very beautiful. But.."
"But?"
"Lines have been altered you now have this connection whether she's happy or sad. Even, while she loves another. Behold it begins.."
The mist swirled and shifted taking form and substance as he watched the scene play out before his eyes. Soon he would go he already felt the pull. The images cleared and he stiffened in protest..
"Watch," the voice murmured.
Soldiers were going from room to room searching for something. Then the scene shifted to the mother and father he watched impassively as mortally wounded,
they crawled across the floor to one another trying to touch one last time before surrendering to Death's embrace. The images continued on, until finally showing a young woman running down the hall pausing here and there until she came to the door of a bedroom throwing open the door she came out with a small girl bundle up in a blanket murmuring soothing phrases to her half asleep form they rapidly went back the way they came.
"It was not her time."
"No, the voice concurred it was not."
" What did you mean I'm playing a dangerous game?"
A soft sigh trickled through the void stirring hair of golden brown. "I see lines converging intertwining tighter than previously ordained. Unless... It can be stopped
If it is done now."
The head on the cloaked figured bowed and remained silent. "Do you want it stopped," she pressed?
The dark form was shifting fading even as her words echoed through him pounding at his conscience. "I must go now their calling."
As he disappeared from the mists the scene below continued to play out as the couple breathed their last clasped tightly in one another's arms. "I see," she murmured. Destiny watched thoughtfully, as the cowled figure came for the gossamer souls that once resided inside the King and Queen of the Cinq kingdom.
"I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way.."
Exodus
The Twilight Hour
By: Amber
The young girl walked along oblivious to the world carrying on a slightly bizarre one-sided conversation with herself. He shook his head charmed he had watched her grow from a child into a beautiful young girl she was a constant source of joy through out the years. He wasn't sure why he was here today he had tried endlessly to keep his future and present separate.
But over the years trying to understand this feeling for one frail mortal had convinced him of several things one of them it was meant to be. The other was that this feeling he felt for her was love it was similar to the one he felt when in the presence of the divine. So knowing the depths of his love and the constant of it how could he stay away today of all days. He returned to the present watching Destiny weave her dance as Relena spotted the boy washed ashore. He felt the pain of watching the beginning of her infatuation, her love, and welcomed it in some perverse way as the price he had to pay for the years of joy she gave him when he should have remained impervious to her lure.
He floated above them safe, secure from mortal eyes for no one here this day was meant for his domain. He winced within the darkness of his hood, he felt everything she did culminating with the intense loneliness and longing for the boy as he ran up the beach toward the highway. He clenched his fists fighting the urge to act knowing that this couldn't be changed here at least in this he was powerless.
It was with shock and terror yes he wasn't devoid of feeling, the fear at that familiar pull summoning him at the time of transition the departing of ones mortal life for the spiritual one. It wasn't the act itself it was who of it all. No he whispered he stood with them on the pier future and present were about to collide.. He knew what he was about to do without even thinking about it, waving his arm he stretched his powers and summoned the one he needed and then waited impatiently for Duo Maxwell join the play setting in motion the first of many such episodes in cheating death his due.
"I think it's pretty obvious here who's the bad guy. You alright lady?"
Relena's eyes darted back and forth trying to figure out this new turn of events. The gun's explosion jerked her from her thoughts. She winced watching the blood trickle down Heero's body. A splash and the sound of something humongous breaking the water's surface caught her attention when the other boy saw her staring he ignited a flare suddenly blinding her.
"I'm sure you have your reasons for being here but you don't want to go there it's nothing but trouble. Why don't you go home?"
Relena gasped, she lifted her arm to shield her eyes as she did she sensed Heero's intentions and mentally chanted don't do it but deep down she braced herself as he tensed to move. The second shot slammed him off his feet and she jumped placing herself between him and the other boy. "Stop why did you have to shoot him?"
The boys eyes widened and flashed with a strange hurt and for a moment she ached with him feeling as if she failed him somehow. Relena stepped forward impulsively but once again Heero broke her strange connection with the boy as he launched himself at the torpedoes sending them on their way.
Relena stood frozen watching the two strange mobile suits shudder at the impact and sink as the other boy screamed in pain. She checked her impulse to comfort him as she realized Heero never came out of the water. Relena ran to the edge of the pier searching the water frantically. When she caught a flash of green a couple of yards away she launched herself off the side. Duo turned at the sound of the splash and slapped his forehead. "O man what is it with this girl?" Holstering his gun he moved to the edge watching her swim after the very guy that tried to kill her.
Go after her.
Duo shook his head before turning to slowly scan the pier for the moment it was just the three of them but with the size of the explosions that wasn't going to be for much longer. "Man I am as crazy as they are now I'm hearing things." Diving over the side he met her half way she was struggling she wouldn't have made it back without help not dragging the other kid behind her the current was working against her.
"Give him to me." She floated there a moment treading water searching his features intently. "Come on we don't have much time lady decide whether you trust me or not."
Relena bit her lip, "I trust you she said huskily I just don't want anyone else to get hurt tonight." A wave washed over her head causing her to choke she turned looking at shore then the pier, which was already swarming with military personnel. She couldn't let either of them get caught nodding she allowed the boy to take Heero's weight before striking out the rest of the way to shore. The last few yards she allowed the waves to carry her onto the beach before crawling weakly the rest of the way from the water and collapsing in the beach. She turned her head watching the boy stagger up beside her with Heero. Pushing her hair back she studied him a moment silently.
" Thank you."
Duo shook his head, "your crazy you know that?"
Relena smiled, "no crazier than you for saving the guy that you tried to shoot earlier."
Duo grinned. " You have a point there. Or maybe I just wanted to see you smile he winked."
Relena pushed herself up on her knees wiping her hand on her dress she offered him her hand. "Relena Darlian." Duo started a moment at the formality then laughed offering his. "Duo."
She smiled, "it's nice to meet you Duo I hope this is doesn't sound forward but I hope we can be friends."
Duo sobered eyes of cobalt blue stared into her as if he was reading her soul and for a second a burst of joy exploded in her mind. O how I've missed you where have.. Relena blinked a moment lost in trying to remember. And then it was gone. He continued holding her hand his thumb softly stroking the top of hers. They both noticed at the same time he still held her hand Relena blushed and pulled away.
The sounds of soldiers searching the beach drew closer. Relena looked over her shoulder frightened. "Go she urged don't worry about us I'll get him to a doctor."
Duo leaned forward and grabbed her arm. "What about you?"
She smiled wanly, "don't worry being a foreign minister's spoilt daughter has its benefits."
Duo jumped to his feet and flashed her a brilliant smile. "We'll meet again.."
Relena watched him vanish into the shadows. "I'm going to hold you to that Duo," she smiled softly.
Um I think this is going to be a 2xR story it wasn't suppose to be but well it taken over. And I dont have a clue where its going except it was suppose to be a Halloween offering. If there are errors my apologies since I have not proofed thoroughly at all. OOC very probably but I hope you'll read anyway.As always I hope you find something inside to enjoy.