Nash and Guile: You always hurt the one you love Part IV: If we could fall into the sky do you think life would pass us by?

By: Eternal_Ukyou

I took Julia Upstairs, carrying her in my arms. Even with child she felt so light. "Will, why did you stay away? I missed you much." She put her delicate arms around my neck. "I." I faltered, how do I explain what I had felt, what I had seen in my dreams, knew in my heart? "Was it another woman?" "Oh, God never!!" I nearly dropped her. "Good. you know," She smiled deviously, "if I killed you I'd get away with it. Pregnant women have been known to have bursts of insanity." I laughed (and prayed she wasn't serious.) "No. I went. to find something." Laid her down on my bed. "Well, did you find it?" "Yea, I think I did." No more was said about it that night, we laid close, wrapped in blankets and each other's arms. I made sure she knew I loved her, made sure she know I would never leave her alone again, or so I hoped. But my fighters' spirit was building; my thirst for strength had only just begun. If only it hadn't.

Over breakfast the next morning my mother told me all about how things had been since I had left, and how worried they all had been when I had not retuned when Nash had. I told them of the power I had found, tired to explain to them what I had felt and why I had to go after it. My father spoke of the army and urged me to join as early as my child's birth, with out thinking I complied between mouthfuls of my mother cooking.

That afternoon, Nash feeling gutsy, challenged me to a fight, dinner with Julia was the winners prize. "I know you've gotten stronger. Now I wanna test it." "Can you handle it?" I laughed. "What are you boasting about, we all know who the best is here." Nash slid into a sturdy, with a grin. "We shell see." I ran my comb thought my hair.

Nash sat I the grass, near tears as he clutched his stomached. "What. what the fuck was that?" "I. It's what I found, my." I laughed. "Sonic boom." Nash looked at me, a strange endearment in his eyes. "Teach me."

Everyday from dawn till dusk, and sometimes longer Nash and I would fight. Trying to awakened his own power. Julia would sit on the veranda with a little fan and watch intently. There to tend to the inevitable wounds. I hadn't felt this close to ash in a long, long time. It almost felt like childhood again. The sweetness in his voice, the strange caring was he touched me, even how he said my name, it was all there. Could I have asked for another more?

Soon after Julia gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Kristina. I was so shocked when I saw her, this new life this perfect child. I made this, she was part of me and everything I had been and will be was I her. When Julia first put the child into my arms, in was scary. I mean I had never held a child. I was so afraid I would drop her, but she looked so tiny, so sweet lying in my strong arms. Hot tears of something deeper than joy come to my eyes. What a careless thing I had done to create something so purely wonderful. I looked at Julia, she laughed. "No one died, don't cry." She smiled sweetly. I didn't know what to say to that. I smiled and kissed Kristina on the head softly. Nash came up and wrapped his arms around my shoulder, it almost bothered me, but then, I loved his touch, after all. I think, even despite is all I still loved him, as my best friend, my brother. This was destiny after all and who am I to defy the stars?

That very after noon, as we filled out the birth papers Julia asked me: "Is she just like you dreamed she would be?" She meant Kristina of course. "Most stunning things I've ever seen. Cept' for you of course." I leaned close and kissed her neck and ear. "Oh, Will! That tickles!" She laughed light heartily. "Oh I love you so much. Your like a dream" "Then never wake up." I whispered back. "Oh! Never! Never!" "Marry me then?" Hidden in my pants pocket was a small silver band set with her birthstone. "Will. I." "Don't you think it sounds nice? Mrs. Julia Guile, Kristina guild, like a real family. Not just disillusioned children. Don't worry about the money, I'm joining to Army in August, plus my parents' will-" her arms came about my neck and squeezed me tightly. "Oh, yes! Will, yea please! Give me the honor of being your wife. It is a pleasure I dared not dream of. Oh, Will!"

Just outside the door Nash watched, jealousy, the green eyes monster grew inside him until it became anger, a rage even. I came out of the room just in time; Nash was storming for the exit. I caught up with him just outside. "Nash! Nash, hey, wait up!" I reached out to him. "'Wait up!' you've always said that. You always looked up me didn't you?" Nash was teetering on yelling, or lashing out. "Of course I did. Nash, you where always better than me when we where kids-" "And now that we're not kids, you're better?! Because you fucked up and knocked up some broad?!" Ouch. "On, That's no it at all. Nash, we're adults not, there is no better. You'll always b Nash and I'll always be Will, why compete?" I could hardly believe the rational coming form my mouth, when a normal person would be screaming in anger. "It's no you I'm competing with." She looked at me, anger flashing behind angry tears. "It's her! If she hadn't shown up you've still love me!" "Nash!" I shouted, with an over powering air. "Get in the car!" I walked over to my beat up old mustang and unlocked the passenger door. Nash didn't move. "Get in damn you before I have o hurt you." He got in. I went around to the driver side door, he reached across and unlocked the door, I got in and started the car. "Now, keep your mouth shut till I tell you." He did. We drove away form the hospital will we reached the empty coastline, boarded with a long winding, empty freeway that seemed to stretch form here to eternity. "Now," I said as I turned the car off on a bank that faced the horizon. Far away the sun was hanging just above the horizon in a bloody shade of crimson. "Say anything you want, but if you piss me off I'll hit you." I looked at him, the firs of anger was gone from his eyes. "Will." He leaned across the center consul and clung to my chest. "I. I can't give it up. The stronger you become, the better you are than me, the more I want you. I can't stop my heart." A song on the radio brought tears to my eyes. 'We have eyes like twins' is sung out softly. "For as long as I care to remember my life you have been there. The only happiness I have never know what the happiness I shared with you." He gripped me tightly. "Put your arms around me Will. When you don't it reminds me of how empty my life is." "Nash.!" "Think about it Will. What am I, compared to you? Your stronger, faster, smarted then me, your family is great and Julia. and Kristina. I'm sorry for-" "I know" "When you loved me, it wasn't that long ago ya know, I was dumb. To caught up in my pride to accept the best thing anyone ever offered me. And I. I beat you up. I embarrassed you, I ruined you so no one would think of me they way they thought of you. But. I always love you. I know I haven't been the best friend, but please Will, don't ever let me go. I love you, so much more than her." Gently, I stroked his hair. My heart felt torn and pulled between my faith in Nash, and my love for Julia and Kristina. "We could run away," She spoke, " somewhere beyond all this. Japan maybe, join and underground fighting rings. And just be together." He laughed at his own dream as tears came to his eyes. "Nash." There are time in life when you with you could let go, no matter how badly I wanted to, I couldn't. I gripped him tighter to me. I felt his sob break, like wave on the shore. Was he my salvation or my crutch?

We sat for a long time. I knew I should have been with Julia, but my family always said 'blood before love' and Nash was more than blood, as he clutched me I knew, he was part of my soul. "Nash. why can't we just. no, we could have. You're right, I messed it all up. If hadn't fucked up with Julia, I'd just step on the gas now and never look back." "Fight with me." He whispered softly into my chest. We got out of the care, took off our shoes and rolled up our pants. "I'll make you a deal Nash," I smiled as I stood in the shore break waiting for him "if you can do the Sonic boom, we won't go home tonight." He laughed and I thought I might regret saying that. I love fighting; when I did everything seemed so far away. The only think that mattered water drops of water that came off my kicks and glittered in the evening sun. This was what my body was built to do, I knew. Everything Nash connected solidly with my flesh, I knew I was worn with an uncontrollable lust for strength and fighting, born to be a street fighter.

It's needless to say we didn't go home that night. Nash did, with a style that was so distinctly his, but still part of me. What strength behind it to. It knocked me back into the water and for a moment I was numbed with the pain and the water washed over my face. What a sweet pain to feel. I called Julia that night from a pay phone and told her one of Nash's friend had gotten into a build of trouble and we needed to go bail him out. She was so exhausted she replayed 'have fun.' Nash and I went down the coastline, racing with the setting sun. It had been a long time since it had been just the two of use. We used to race the sunset on our bicycles, trying to hold on to day light, to child hood just a it longer. We kept hoping one day we could just ride forever all the way around the world watching the sun try to set. But the sun would always slip away, like a coin from my hand, like my childhood, it just slipped beyond my reach. We made camp in an open field where we laid and watched the stars in the summer sky. For a long time we just lay close together and talked of idle things far away and long ago. Nash soon fell asleep with his head on my chest, his eyes closed he looked so gentle. He did not look like a fighter. My hand came up and stroked his cheek, my thumb over his lip. How cruel fate was. Fireflies hung about us, it seemed so surreal, like a dream. I don't know thy, but I leaned down a little and with out doubt or fear I stole a kiss from his lips. Our very first. It didn't feel wrong or strange, it felt much to. right. I, sinfully, did not think of Julia as Nash's eyes opened and he took back the kiss as I stole. And gave me so many more. Such a forbidden, shunned list, punt up for far to long exploded in our strong hands and bodies. We could not stop ourselves form feeding this terrible hunger. We didn't sleep anymore that night, but when the run rose, our bodies glistened with sweat, among other things in the mornings pale pink light. I had never left so much a man before taking Nash, never felt such joy in something so wrong. We where fighters, men, friends, brothers and yes. kindred spirits.