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PRELUDE
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The bright morning sunlight poured into the room filtering through the only window. Birds chirped happily in the trees, telling everyone that morning was here and to wake up. Hakkai stirred, pulling the blankets over his face to shield them from the sun and trying to quite the loudness of the birds outside. Wasn't that window on the other side of the room last night, he thought turning onto his right side. It was too early to wake up, then again, waking with the sun always was too soon to be broken from dreams. I had better get up though, or else Goku will be bothersome from lack of food in his stomach. He finaly rolled onto his back and rubbed his emerald eyes free of the sleep he wished to continue. He pushed himself into a sitting position and looked out the window that was on the far end of the room. The day looked like it was going to be very pleasant. Only a few thin high clouds drifted throught the sea of bright blue. He could hear the faint noise of some children playing out in the street already and he smiled.
He got himself motivated by throwing the blankets off himself and swung his bare feet to the floor. The coldness of the bare wood made him wish that he had a pair of slippers to put on. As soon as he thought that, he saw the slippers peaking slightly out from under the bed. Standing up he took them out from under the bed with his right foot and put them on. He didn't remember slippers being in the room, but then again, he was so tired last night, he couldn't even remeber the orientation of the room this morning.
He turned to the night stand where he had left his monocle, noticing it's absence right away. Panic set in as he raced over to the window and trew it open. This is impossible! I haven't been here since...A soft knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Gonou! Are you awake?"
That's impossible...she's dead...it can't be her...
The knob turned opening the door slightly. "Are you awake dear? You're going to be late getting to the school if you sleep any longer." The door opened some more and the girl popped her head in, smiling at the man before her. "Is everything okay?"
His eyes widened with disbelief and horror. He doubled over, his stomach turning as anxiety and panic took over him.
"Gonou...are you not feeling well, what's wrong?" The girls face became full of unknowing sympathy.
He quickly looked about the room and ran over to the washbasin that sat on a table on the right side of the room. He threw up, clutching his stomach. Having not eaten anything, only biter, burning acid leaked from his lips. He wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his night shirt, turned to her, and fainted.
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He woke again in the same bed that he was in before. He sat up quickly, as panic filled him again. It had to be a nightmare...nothing more. He had to get himself to wake up, then everything would be fine. He began to rub his eyes franticly until they hurt. He opened them, stars cluttering his sight. His vison cleared and the room still surrounded him as it had been moments ago. The room, I can see everything clearly. This is impossible! How come I didn't notice this earlier...
Getting out of the bed, he walked over to the door noticing the handwritten note taped to it: Gonou, You should have said something to me last night about not feeling well instead of pushing yourself all the time. I've gone to the school to tell them you're not well. I have a feeling I'll have to fill in for you also. If so, please stay home and rest. Don't worry about anything until I get home later. You better not be out running around town or cleaning when I get home! Love, Kanan P.S. There is miso soup on the stove ^_^
So it was true. The woman who had killed herself in front of him, was alive. How that was so, was still beyond his capable thinking, nevertheless, he would find out what was going on. Even if it meant having to relive the past to figure out his future.
Disobeying the order to stay home and rest, he rummaged though the dresser he hadn't seen in five years for something to wear. Finding a white dress shirt and black dress pants he dressed quickly, and headed towards the front door. The bright morning sun greeted him by making him squint as he stepped on to the front walkway. He couldn't stomach being waited on by a Kanan that wasn't even real. That's if this was all a fabricated lie. It had to be though, there is no way that someone could wish something in there past away like that.
He walked down the street happy and horrified all at the same moment. He was glad to be able to act like nothing ever happened years before or the present time where he currently was. Perhaps his being sick on this very day has saved her life. Saved it from what had happen not so long ago...
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Gonou stood there in the door way of his house, looking at the remains of the items it had held, knowing that his beloved had been taken violently and without a second thought.
"We couldn't do anything or we would have been killed..."
He didn't want to hear the excuses from the crowd that gathered...
"There were too many of them to fight off..."
...but they kept coming back, like a bad disease.
"I'm sorry I couldn't do anything for her, I would have been killed..."
He didn't make it home from the school in time, she was long gone by the time he got back. Nothing told him to go home, nothing urged him to defend her in that dire time. His sixth sense never yelled in his ear to run back and save her from the fate of that ungodly hour.
He was now headed to where they had taken her. Taken to be violated and beaten like a play thing. The only thing going through his mind was that he needed to get to her. Nothing stood in his way. The blood of the deamons who took her, covered his clothes like water from the rain pouring from the sky.
Broken and bleeding he walks down the now silent hallway, calling out her name. His right eye is bleeding from being injured, and his vision is horribly blurred. He hears the softness of her voice calling back to him from some place he can't see. He turns down a diffrent corridor seeing her standing at the bars of a cell with tears in her eyes. He runs to her, seeing that she is still alive. Alive and still able to go home with him now, to be held safely in his arms.
"Kanan, let's go home."
"I can't Gonou. That loathsome monsters child is already inside me," she says to him as she draws the dagger from his waistband. Tears run down her face, yet she smiles at him one last time. "Good-bye, Gonou." She puts the blood stained blade to her throat and cuts into her lily-white flesh staining his blade with her own blood. He can do nothing to stop her because the bars of the cell hinder anything he can do.
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