Disclaimer: If I owned Escaflowne, Van would be my own private little slave doing whatever I desired and chauffeuring me to school everyday on the back of Escaflowne. Hitomi would be used as a means of cheating on math tests and Merle would be used to annoy everyone I know with cat allergies. Be very thankful that I don't own them for the good of mankind.
Hitomi's Return
By anime animal
Prologue
"Kansaki, you're not being paid to sit on your butt all day drinking coffee! Get out here now!"
Hitomi sighed and rolled her eyes, putting down the cracked porcelain mug and heading out into the blistering heat of the midday sun. She wasn't being paid to be there, it was a means of getting away from life back home and a way of hopefully returning to him. She missed Van with every fibre in her body, every second of the day she prayed for a brief moment with him again and for what? A mere glimpse of him, not even a word exchanged between them or an embrace. The annoying little voice in her head spoke constantly in smug little tones the old lie of 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'. That wasn't true, it was more like 'absence makes the heart yearn to see him again and do things that should not even be mentioned by respectable young ladies'. The dreams didn't help matters either. She clearly needed to get a boyfriend or something to help her release some of those pent up hormones. But how exactly could she get a boyfriend if absolutely nobody met her extremely high standards? So far, there were only three qualifications for any guy who wanted to date her:
1. They had to have black hair, the scruffier the better.
2. They had to have big brown eyes, with the black hair falling in them most of the time.
3. Their name had to be Van Fanel and they had to be the half-Draconian king of a country named Fanelia.
Other than that, it was all good. No-one fitted the criteria so far, and that was a good thing because she didn't want anyone other than Van.
"Slacking off again?" A cheerful voice asked her as she made her way to the site.
Catriona McCabe, Hitomi's tent mate, was reading maps by the tent. As always, she looked a picture of elegance, her long red hair kept off her face by an electric blue bandana as opposed to being damp with sweat like so many others on the expedition.
"No, I've been working all morning, it's just the boss who hasn't been working." Hitomi said sullenly.
As the only person on the site who had spoken Japanese, Hitomi and Catriona had become firm friends and spent most of the time bitching about the other workers. As the only girls on the team, they were subjected to cat calls and wolf whistles frequently until Catriona had yelled at them with claims that she was engaged to a six foot eight rugby player which had shut them up instantly. Hitomi had secretly blessed that rugby held such an influence on the English archaeological team who she was currently spending the year with. Of course as her excuse, she had told them all that her father was a sumo wrestler.
Catriona sipped from a bottle of mineral water and offered one to Hitomi who declined.
"Do you reckon we're ever going to get to these ruins?" She sighed in exasperation. "The boss is living in a fantasy world. Everyone knows it's just a myth..."
Hitomi smiled secretly.
If only she knew...
Chapter 1 coming soon!
A.N: I'll do Chapter 1 if people want me too. You know what to do!