Disclaimer: I don't own Loveless just the OC's and story line.
AN: this Prologue is set in our modern world, it sets in motion the plot line that then moves to the world of the Fighter units which starts in the next chapter.
Binding Love
Chapter 1 – Prologue
{Mustard, salad fixings, cheese, milk, dog food….}
The Woman in the little blue compact car whizzing down the mega highway was thinking about what she needed to get at the store on her way home from work that night. She worked the evening shift and had gotten off at midnight, so the traffic on the highway was relatively light, being a huge metropolitan area there was always somebody out and about, and many grocery stores were open 24/7. She liked shopping after work as it was so much less crowded in the stores, and it meant she didn't have to go home right away.
She never stood a chance, the Semi in front her jackknifed suddenly, she was too close, and there was no time, even though she tried desperately to avoid the collision. But she'd had only seconds before her compact car slammed into the side of the oil tanker and…exploded.
Nothingness, Silence and complete Darkness,
Was she dead? Is this what happened when you died? Well this sucked the big one, where was the light everyone talked about? And where was everybody else? She here was all alone, was this some kind of hell perhaps, had she been sent to Hell? She'd tried to live a good life, sure it was a boring life and she had always felt there was something important missing and she had often felt a complete 'nothingness' about it all. But she didn't think she deserved to be sent into eternal damnation for a few minor indiscretions when she was a kid, or maybe it was that affair, the one she'd had in her mid thirties. It was the only time she had truly felt alive.
She still missed him with every fiber of her being, because for a short time she hadn't been lonely, hadn't felt that she had no purpose, felt alive for the first time in her life. But her work had forced her to move far away from him, and he having been severely damaged over the years by an abusive childhood and deep seated feelings of abandonment and loathing, retreated back into himself. She'd understood him and his 'needs', but then she'd left him just like everyone else, (at least so it seemed to him) and two months after she'd been forced to move he'd managed to succeed in killing himself, finally ending his pain. He was gone from her forever and 'her' pain had begun.
Where was he? She wondered, this would be okay if he had been here waiting for her. But she was alone, or was she.
[The time has come for you to fulfill your true destiny]
{What's that, who there. Who are you?}
[We are everything. You are not 'whole', we offer you a chance to join your true loves. Do you accept? They need you desperately.]
{True 'Loves'? There's more than one. Ah, what if I don't accept?}
[You can remain 'here' until the wheel turns once again and you are reborn into yet another world and you can attempt to find one or both of them yourself. We will not lie, it will not be easy to free them from the turmoil that surrounds them.]
{Okay, Hard, that I can deal with, I accept.}
[Then listen to words we will engrave upon your heart and soul]
{Alrightly then, let's get this party started.}
Was it an eternity that she spent listening to the voices or only a few moments? Floating in that timeless nothingness she would never know for sure. The words they whispered to her, she tried to hold on to them but only a few facts seemed meant for her conscious mind. Most were absorbed by her unconscious self. She realized she wouldn't even remember most of the choices she made during that time. Then just as suddenly as it had begun it ended.
[The time has come. You have but one more choice to make. Will you return as a male or female?]
{I actually get a choice in the matter?}
[Yes as you are now you do not have a form, the choice will be yours to make.]
{Wow, um okay….well then I chose….