Flower in the Attic
by Rineko
Outline: Imagine if, Syaoran, in the Second Movie did not regain back his feelings. Imagine, the Hope Card delayed it's creation. Imagine, Sakura feeling so sad and depressed locks herself up from the rest of the world. Imagine…This is my version of what happens if it occurred…
Rin: At last a story…I've been distracted lately, mostly by Gaia Online; does anybody here go there? My alias there is Poizun, please contact me if you are there! I'll be so happy to make a friend…anyway, here's the story that has been bothering me in my mind—
Yes it is SS…
'There's a meaning behind everything that happens…'
Prologue
.Tomoyo.
Sometimes, she'd stare into oblivion for hours. Once, she'd remained motionless the whole day, staring out of the window. To any other stranger, she'd look as though she was doing wistful thinking.
I know she wasn't.
Not one thought passes through her head whenever she sinks into her world. It's her way of feeling happy. Or calm at least. After all, she has been through a lot…I do mean it.
The story?
Seven years ago, or somewhat, Kinomoto Sakura, my best friend was a happy ten year old. A year later she lost, Li Syaoran. He didn't die. It's a most complicated process to explain it all in detail. Of which, I may make an attempt to do. Later.
A year, after that, her father and brother drowned, during an effort of a holiday trip, in a cruise ship. It was supposed to be a vacation for dear Sakura-chan, who was already miserable, to ease her mind. Two years in row? Bad enough already? A bit more to go….
Two years forward, she became semi-deaf. Her emerald eyes now appear glassy, all her optimism lapsed. I thought that was the last straw…
Just last year she fell down the stairs. I was doing my part time job. The housekeepers were having their day off. We didn't find her until several hours later, when I came home.
The doctors found out she was paralysed waist down. [Rin: I have a senior in my school who had the same case. Someone accidentally pushed her down a flight of stairs when she was running or something. Poor thing… she's a really nice person]
.Sakura.
These strange melodious tunes invade my head. They tell stories, I don't know how but they do.
.Tomoyo.
Li Syaoran was Sakura's love interest. They liked each other over obstacles that came their way. About six or seven years ago, he professed his love. She was hesitant. He went away for sometime and when he came back, she was ready to tell him her real feelings… too late.
Sakura had magic, powered through Clow Cards or Sakura Cards as they are now called. She caught all of them, or so she though. Until that fateful day, I thought of a happy ending for both the Cardcaptors. It'll be so simple, like one of those stories; girl meet boy, boy meet girl, boy hates girl, girl hates boy, boy gradually falls in love with girl, boy profess love, girl accepts, the end. There wasn't another equation to fit right? Unless of course 'girl and boy get married' but that's part of 'the end'. Nooo…it had to be complicated.
Anyway back to his story…when he came back, there was a card on the loose; the Void. And all because it was lonely it started stealing all of the Sakura deck which started destruction since that shouldn't happen. They chase after it and came to a conclusion: Sakura will either loose all her feelings or someone close to her will be the sacrifice. Yeah, you probably guessed it. Li had to be the one. It wasn't deliberate though.
None of us[that's the rest of the people in her life] knew quite what happen but when we saw the two re-appear, Sakura was in tears and Li was looking blankly into space as though in a trance.
And that's how it is 'til today seven years later.
Maybe this isn't the end. Maybe there'd be a happy ending after all. Maybe all of this is… is just the beginning of something else…
.Sakura.
The rain pours down the grey plains, washing away the emotions that filled the her heart. She stands alone in her empty life. An entity.
Rin: Prologue finished. Short but I dunno if everything is relevant. It seems very monotonous though…Li will appear in Chapter 1, complete with amnesia or something. I think it'll be like a sequel to the Movie but also an entirely new story. Well almost. Get what I mean? Hope so.
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Onegai!