Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne. I wish I did, but unfortunately for me, I have no magical pendant to make my wishes reality… Life stinks sometimes. Poor me… Anyway, don't sue me. I also don't own any of the characters, except the ones of my creation for this story. In addition, most flashbacks in this story and the first part of this chapter are scenes directly from the series. I, of course, do not own these scenes either. They are only used to advance the plot. Sunrise owns Esca in Japan, Bandai owns it in America, and I sadly know it. I also do not own "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton.
A/N: Hello again! I am writing a Folken/ Hitomi fic… Hitomi is in love with Van though. It is a Romance/Drama… Believe me, there is a lot of Drama towards the end, there's a little angst and suspense too… (I cannot kill the eternal love… xx) Anyways, it's M for some sexual references (Nothing's described. I can't do it…), bad language (Not much, a couple words here and there that kiddies should not know… Tell that to my 7-year-old sister who's constantly asking me what the curse words she picks up mean…), and a bit of blood. It's probably overrated, but I really don't want it to be taken down because of complaints, so it will remain at M. It's better to be safe than sorry, I always say. I will start each chapter with a song I have painstakingly decided fits… I came up with many on the long 16-hour drive to Wisconsin and back. I apologize to fans of all my other fics that I wrote none of them on my weeklong vacation. It is WAY TOO pretty up there to concentrate. I had such a great time… Biking, kayaking, swimming, playing tennis, mini golfing, and "bonding" with my family… Then stupid old didn't upload this while I was gone like it was supposed to, so I have to put it up now. After I've been gone in Colorado for three weeks! I could not resist writing this. If nobody likes it, I will just write it for my own enjoyment and take it down. I hope you like it. Review and tell me what you think. (The first chapter is extremely slow. Just to warn you.) Enjoy!
Tears of the Heart
Making my way
downtown Staring
blankly ahead And I need you If I could fall It's always
times like these 'Cause everything's so wrong 'Cause I
need you If I could
fall And I, I Making my way downtown Staring blankly ahead And I still
need you If I
could fall If I could fall
Walking fast
Faces pass
And I'm home bound
Just making my way
Making a way
Through the
crowd
And I miss you
And now I
wonder…
Into the sky
Do you think
time
Would pass me by?
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand
miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you
ever
Think of me
And I
don't belong
Living in your
Precious memories
And I miss you
And now I wonder…
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by?
'Cause
you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see
you
Tonight
Don't want to let you know
I,
I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I,
I
Don't…
Walking fast
Faces
pass
And I'm home bound
Just
making my way
Making a way
Through the crowd
And I still miss you
And now I wonder...
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us
by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you...
Into the sky
Do you
think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A
thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
If I could
Just
hold you
Tonight
-"A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton
Chapter 1: Prologue
"Why is fighting the only thing you can think about?" the green-eyed girl interrupted the men's war strategies.
"Come on, Hitomi… We're fighting to protect you and everyone else." Van tried to reason with her.
"But I can see now, Van, that you enjoy the fighting…" Van and everyone else gasped at her accusation. No one liked leading his comrades onto a bloody battlefield where they were likely to never see the next sunrise.
"I really don't want you to protect me if that's what it does to you… I'm sick of it… I'm sick of this whole world…"
"Hitomi!" Van pleaded for her to understand the situation.
"Please, someone send me back to my world!" Her pendant glowed brightly as a blue column of light engulfed her and she began to rise into the air.
"HITOMI!" Van and Allen shrieked in unison, running after her to no avail. The girl from the Mystic Moon was gone.
2 Years Later…
"HITOMI!" Hitomi looked up from her focus on the ground as Yukari ran to catch up with her.
"Hey, Yukari," Hitomi greeted her best friend weakly.
It had been two years since her wish had been granted and she'd been sent home. Sent home to the Mystic Moon, away from Gaea and its pain. She had never gone to the track a second time. She had chosen not to repeat history. Who knew what would have happened if she had done so? Amano had left without so much as a goodbye from her, but maybe it was better that way. He had moved to England, to Yukari's extreme dismay. The two friends had kept in touch. Writing, calling, and visiting had sparked the flames of romance between them. It had only been a week since Amano had asked Yukari to marry him after they both graduated. Hitomi was very happy for her friends who were so in love. She just wished that she could feel the passion, the burning sensation Yukari felt whenever Amano kissed her. They'd been in love for the past two years. Even though everyone said they were too young, Hitomi thought that if anyone could make it, they could.
Hitomi was no longer the naïve 15-year-old who thought that she was too young to love. At seventeen, she knew who she wanted to spend the rest of her life wife. The boy who lost his entire family as a child. The boy who slew that awful dragon. The boy who became king of Fanelia at the age of fifteen. The boy who had to watch as his country was burned to the ground and his castle destroyed by invisible enemies. The boy who had a best friend who was a catgirl, believe it or not. The boy who was an angel, who everyone thought to be cursed. The boy who saw her kiss Allen on that bridge in the rain and ran away. The boy she had left behind. The boy she believed in and thought of every day. Van Slanzar de Fanel. Whenever she heard his name, her heart beat wildly and she could practically smell his intoxicating scent. He smelled of the grassy fields of Fanelia, illuminated by the sun in the day and the two moons at night. How she loved Fanelia's young king. All she could do was wonder if she'd ever see his smiling face again.
Probably not, Kanzaki. Give it up, you're a hopeless romantic! She chided herself, returning to the reality at hand. Van had undoubtedly moved on by now, even if he had felt something for her during her brief adventure on Gaea.
"Hitomi, what's wrong with you? Ever since Amano left, you've been acting really weird. I don't understand, but whatever it is, you can tell me, Hitomi…"
"Yukari…" Hitomi moaned, hoping her friend wouldn't go into 'the promise' again.
"Hitomi, if you really love Amano, I'll call off the wedding. I want you to be happy." She embraced Hitomi, as friends do, and Hitomi groaned in frustration.
"Yukari, I don't love Amano anymore! I'm not sure if I ever really did… You do love him! Don't back out on me now; I've already bought your wedding gift!" Hitomi whined impatiently, trying to make Yukari understand what she'd been saying for the last two years.
"I'm sorry, Hitomi. I've just been worried about you. You've changed somehow. I can't put my finger on it, but something's different about you. I'm just worried about you."
"Oh Yukari…" Hitomi returned her friend's previous hug as they stood there a minute before parting.
If only you knew… She silently regretted never sharing her experiences on that strange planet with her best friend.
"Anyway, I was thinking red dresses for the bridesmaids. You'll be the maid of honor, of course. And the flower girl will…" Yukari began to drone on and on about her wedding plans as Hitomi thought of the young king she'd left behind, so very far away. In her mind, Van was smiling at her as they laughed, dancing among thousands of flowers. No, that wasn't good enough. Hitomi added a grinning sun and a flashy rainbow to her little fantasy. Much better.
"HITOMI! ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!" Yukari shrieked in frustration as she noticed that far off look in her best friend's eyes.
Suddenly, the blue pillar of light that constantly shifted the destiny of the emerald-eyed girl came into her life once again and began to lift the girls into the sky.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Yukari cried out in fright.
"I'm going home…" Hitomi whispered happily as she enjoyed their gentle ascension into the heavens.
Wait for me Van… Hitomi could barely contain her joy as the light faded from the Earth's surface, transporting the girls to a world unlike their own, where wishes, like Hitomi's, came true…
A/N: There's the first chapter! I hope you liked it! Please review, and don't think the whole thing will be a bunch of sap about Hitomi's love for Van, it won't be…
Next Time On "Tears of the Heart":
"I am Makai, a sorcerer of Zaibach. You were brought here using the destiny prognostication engine, which Lord Folken rescued from the Vione…"
"Where is Folken? I thought he was helping the Allies…"
"A clever ploy to gain their trust, then strike. We killed them all…"
"F-Folken is a traitor?" Hitomi stuttered in disbelief.