Disclaimer: Characters are not mine. They are Clamp's. But you already know it, don't you?
N/A 1: Based on manga and what would have happened if the answer to a certain question had been different. But…hey…I have not read the manga. I only know what happen in it from the web. So, if is different from what I imagined, don't flame me, please! Really, is a mix anime-manga, I think. I'm cruel with L-kun, I know…but after all I'm Nova, am I not?
N/A 2:I'm Italian, so English is not my mother language…and my translator doesn't work so well (it seems drunk) so forgive me if my grammar is horrible and certain phrases don't make sense, ok? Finally…the story!!!
Whom do you want marry?
Lantis was in love. He had tried to deny it, also to himself, but it was useless. After the death of his brother he had told himself that if this was the love… he didn't want to fall in love. He knew the loneliness, and it didn't frighten him. Alone… who more than him? He had always been a man of few words and many facts, and this little expansiveness had never given him many friends. If he had one of them, he was Eagle. He had to be enough for him. But then he had seen Hikaru… he still remembered the first time. He had arrived to the castle, bringing in his arms that child that he had saved, and she had gone toward him. His cloak was dyed some blood of the monster that he had killed… and she was worried. For him. For one that she didn't know even. He had been cold, as always. But this had not discouraged her, neither made distant. When she had realized that he was indeed wounded, to the hand, she had asked to Fuu to deal herself of this. But there was Primera… Yet since that first time Hikaru had impressed him. For how much distant, icy he had been, that her to worry herself for the others, her smile had opened a wound in his heart. A wound that Primera could not recover…
He was not changed. Always cold, always of few words. Also with her. Above all with her. She didn't have to imagine… Yet, she was the only one that succeeded in making him smile, sometimes. She was the only one that succeeded in bringing some heat in his look. Had she realized? had she realized the fire that she had hung inside of him, the love, the desire that burned him? In silence, he had loved her. But he didn't now make it more. If she had succeeded in forcing him to speak, simply being herself, smiling to him, how much strong could it be what he felt? He believed to know it, but not even he perhaps imagined it completely. They were met to the fountain. Again. Once, Lantis had already been there, next to speak… but instead he had acted. Giving her amulet of his mother. He had seen the amazed look in her eyes when he had asked her as people declared own love on the Earth. He had revolved the matter. He looked for the words to say. It had always been difficult, for him, to find the words. How to express the storm that he had in heart? She had explained him about marriage. "Do you want to marry me? " Few, simple words. Lantis had been on the point to tell them. But then…
"Whom do you want marry? " This he had said, instead. Hikaru had blushed. After all, what right did he have to want to know it, Lantis said to himself? Until he didn't declare… But then Hikaru had spoken. She had always been open. And naïve, Hikaru. Naïve. A word, an alone. "Eagle." Possible that ached so much? He had not spoken, Lantis. He had not reacted. He knew what was to know. He would have liked to leave, but he had not been able. He was not sure that the legs would have supported him. So he had remained there. And Hikaru had continued… "It can seem strange, I know it, because we have been hostile… but we have never been it really. I was definite to stop him, this yes. Does he resemble me, don't you believe? We have gone out both of the room of the crown, I want to say. This doesn't have anything to do with it, however. Or better, despite he has that terrible will, he is always… cheerful. Kind. He warms my heart. He is a sun… " At this point she interrupted herself, blushing again. She is right, Lantis had thought. Eagle is a sun. He has even the gilded eyes. And between the sun and the shade… what could choose the knight of the fire? Lantis continued keeping silent. Hikaru seemed confused, now. "I… I don't know why I am telling you everything this." He could not continue keeping silent anymore. He had forced his voice to be cold and expressionless as always. She didn't have to know how much she had pierced through him. She didn't even have to imagine it. Never. "It can be said that I have asked you it, do you remember? " Still the silence among them. Then, Hikaru. "Lantis… " Her voice interrogative, undecided. "Yes? " He, calm as always. Although inside he felt like howling. "Eagle is your friend…" He had nodded. So it was, even if… "I… I was asking me… in short, do you know if he loves me?" She had blushed even more this time. "He is always… dear with me, do you see, but I… I am not sure... " What was waited that he responded? He had been sincere at the end. "We… we have not expressly spoken of it… " And it was true. Even to Eagle he had spoken of her. Luckily. "But I believe that he loves you." For this he had kept silent. Among the other things. And then, who could avoid to love her? But he had not told this. It would have meant to reveal too much himself. "But would not he be confided with you? " "Perhaps… and perhaps no." She had looked at him, and then… "You could not try to discover it? ".
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