Road Less Traveled
by SMYGO4EVA
Sometimes Kudelia wondered what would happen if she had never gone to Earth, had never left Chryse, keeping the wish of a better future for everyone to herself. She wondered if she kept herself hidden away, swept under the carpet as though she didn't exist.
She had wondered what things would have been like if she hadn't met Orga, Mikazuki, or for that matter, the rest of Tekkadan. Things would have been stagnant. Nothing would have changed. In a different lifetime, it was possible that she still could have met Orga. It was likely he would accept her, and for them be equals. They had become that, but there were times when she had caught herself thinking, what if they were more than equals. What if, in another lifetime, he would have been able to love her, as she did him.
As she told herself to stop standing still, to not reflect on any flights of fancy, Kudelia imagined how she would have taken Orga's hand, calloused yet strong, with her own, threading their fingers together, and how she would have never let him go.