Endless Blue
By Serena
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It was cold, except for the fiery patches of his skin illuminated by the sun. He wanted a cigarette.
A song not unlike a dolphin's melody, but not much like it either, rose on the air. Hayami leaned out from his makeshift shelter to see her looking over the waves, singing. He wasn't altogether sure of what she was-or who she was, perhaps that was better-but she was here. She was somebody.
He looked at the bones by his side, bones that would be bleached by the sun and were looking freakishly like the remains of small children, even though a faraway part of his mind knew that they had once been fish. Only fish...
Only fish.
Was the girl who had saved him really a girl, or was she only a fish?
The Blue Fleet would, of course, say that she was only a fish. Hayami's mind kept stubbornly repeating that she was a girl, that she was somebody. And Kino...
Enemy, Kino would say. Enemy, Kino had said, and Hayami had felt a pain in the heart that he wasn't supposed to have. To see Kino and know that she was so deep into this battle that she no longer saw the people involved, only which were her enemies and which were not.
Kino. It was easier to think about Kino now that she wasn't around. Kino had this way of taking up a lot of space and commanding your attention no matter how much you tried to ignore her.
He felt for Kino-he felt for Kino totally in a way that he'd never quite felt before. He could hear Kino's voice drenched in tears and want to dry them; he could see Kino's eyes shining with rage and want to put that fire out. He could look at Kino as she battled those who had destroyed her life and could understand, perhaps better than anyone, the waste of that life.
He'd never wanted to relieve anyone's pain like that, but Kino...did something to him. He probably would have been better off just flipping her off when she'd tried to recruit him, but she'd already gotten under his skin. Damn her...
Uneasily, Hayami remembered that the last thoughts he had before being swallowed by the angry ocean were of Kino.
Now Blue Dome was destroyed, and the only proof that it had ever existed was now Hayami's only shelter.
The song carried over the still water, and it was being answered. But Hayami was alone.
I've got nothing left, he thought. Now I've really got nothing left, except the sea. Unconsciously Tetsu Hayami smiled. And Kino, of course.
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I've never written a Blue Sub 6 anything before. Feedback craved, but be gentle with me, it's my first time, if you know what I mean!
By Serena
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It was cold, except for the fiery patches of his skin illuminated by the sun. He wanted a cigarette.
A song not unlike a dolphin's melody, but not much like it either, rose on the air. Hayami leaned out from his makeshift shelter to see her looking over the waves, singing. He wasn't altogether sure of what she was-or who she was, perhaps that was better-but she was here. She was somebody.
He looked at the bones by his side, bones that would be bleached by the sun and were looking freakishly like the remains of small children, even though a faraway part of his mind knew that they had once been fish. Only fish...
Only fish.
Was the girl who had saved him really a girl, or was she only a fish?
The Blue Fleet would, of course, say that she was only a fish. Hayami's mind kept stubbornly repeating that she was a girl, that she was somebody. And Kino...
Enemy, Kino would say. Enemy, Kino had said, and Hayami had felt a pain in the heart that he wasn't supposed to have. To see Kino and know that she was so deep into this battle that she no longer saw the people involved, only which were her enemies and which were not.
Kino. It was easier to think about Kino now that she wasn't around. Kino had this way of taking up a lot of space and commanding your attention no matter how much you tried to ignore her.
He felt for Kino-he felt for Kino totally in a way that he'd never quite felt before. He could hear Kino's voice drenched in tears and want to dry them; he could see Kino's eyes shining with rage and want to put that fire out. He could look at Kino as she battled those who had destroyed her life and could understand, perhaps better than anyone, the waste of that life.
He'd never wanted to relieve anyone's pain like that, but Kino...did something to him. He probably would have been better off just flipping her off when she'd tried to recruit him, but she'd already gotten under his skin. Damn her...
Uneasily, Hayami remembered that the last thoughts he had before being swallowed by the angry ocean were of Kino.
Now Blue Dome was destroyed, and the only proof that it had ever existed was now Hayami's only shelter.
The song carried over the still water, and it was being answered. But Hayami was alone.
I've got nothing left, he thought. Now I've really got nothing left, except the sea. Unconsciously Tetsu Hayami smiled. And Kino, of course.
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I've never written a Blue Sub 6 anything before. Feedback craved, but be gentle with me, it's my first time, if you know what I mean!