Author's note: This is my first fanfiction and I hope everyone will enjoy it. Please read on...
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed or Gundam Seed Destiny and the characters...
An everlasting dance
The night was silent and serene. The stars twinkled in the caress of the dark sky. She stepped through the garden softly.
The orchestra played and music filtered through the doors and drifted through the garden. Soft, gentle, flowing... She knew the couples in the ballroom were swaying to the lovely music, reminiscing in their loved ones' arms. She knew her brother and sister-in-law were in there with her friends, bathing in the melody.
But she was alone...
She didn't know why she was out there, or what had made her leave the ballroom. She was supposed to be inside since it was her brother and his wife's 20th wedding anniversary, but she couldn't...
The ball wasn't for her, it was for couples...
She was once a part of a couple, but not now...
She continued to make her way through the garden until she came to the fountain.
There, she stood still, watching the water splay, watching the circle of light reflected on the surface of the water. She remembered sitting by it, her husband caressing her face, whispering sweet endearments to her. She wanted to go through it again, to feel his warm hand and hear his deep voice again. But it would never happen...
Closing her eyes, she felt a single cold, lonely tear slip down her powdered cheek. Small as it may seem, it seeped all her joy with it, leaving cold hard memories...
Her brother and sister-in-law were happily married, for 20 years. But she... she was left behind, a widow for over 6 years... She didn't blame him, for he would not have died if not for her. Those memories of her watching as he flung himself before her to protect her from the racing bullet, collapsing before her very eyes, his beautiful emerald orbs closing for the last time and his final words 'I love you... Stay happy, Cagalli... ' Those memories haunted her... She wanted to scream, to cry, to shriek, to wail, to slay those who took her husband and killed her heart. But it wasn't right... Those weren't things that could be done by the Princess of Orb and they had stopped her before she could even plunge the knife she had smuggled into the prison cell with her, into the murderer's heart.
She fell onto the cool marble of the fountain, pounding it as she sobbed.
She was oblivious when the melody stopped and the orchestra changed the tune. But then, she raised her head slowly in surprise when she heard the new melody...
Shaded by the trees,
Calling out to the wind,
I'm lying face-down crying
"Akatsuki no Kuruma... The Dawn's carriage..." She gasped. She pulled herself to her feet slowly. She knew that song...
I saw a version of myself
I didn't even recognize
On this guitar I'm playing
The melody of someone
Who's passed on
He used to sing it to her... She smiled again, as pearls of joy cascaded down her cheeks, tracing the trails of her previous tears.
A star falls in the grief of
Someone who'll never be seen again
She stepped forward...
Please don't go, no matter how much you scream,
All it will do is quietly stir these orange petals
Then, back...
Saved on my soft brow,
I send the memories in my palm far away
An eternal farewell as I keep strumming
Before she knew it, she was swaying and spinning to the music. It seemed so right... It seemed like he was back there with her...
The heart of a child clinging to a gentle hand
The blazing wheels cast it off and continue on
On this guitar I'm playing the grief of someone who's passed on
The strings in my heart being plucked at violently
She laughed... The first genuine laugh she had over the past lonely years. She spun around and sailed through the air, her gown flowing with her graceful movements.
In the pure white unstained by sorrow,
The orange petals stirred in a summer shadow
Even if my soft brow is lost,
I'll cross over the far off, red-stained sand
The rhythm of farewell
Then, he was there... His midnight blue hair fluttering in the gentle night breeze, his emerald eyes fixed on her, his full lips poised in a charming smile... "Athrun!" She smiled, stopping in her dance. "You came back!"
Branded into my memories, on the ever-turning earth,
There is something sprouting in remembrance
"Care to dance?" He smiled, reaching out. She took his hand.
Sending off the dawn's carriage
Those orange petals are stirring somewhere even now
They soared through the garden, spinning and turning in the familiar warmth of each other's arms.
The peaceful daybreak I once saw
Until it is placed in my hands once more,
Please don't let the light go out
The wheels are turning
She didn't notice the music starting to end.
She cried out when he started to fade.
"Cagalli, stay happy... I love you..." He whispered. She let a tear fall... but only a tear... for she knew that he would always be with her, ready to dance an everlasting dance with her...
Author's note: How is it? I hope it meets your expectations! All reviews are welcomed and appreciated, including criticism so please review...