Thanks for all of the reviews everyone! I'm surprised that you're still reviewing after what I did earlier by changing it on all of you. Heh. I know that that was evil, but didn't I tell you that this is way better then that other version? Well you had no idea where that was heading and neither did I so hhahahahahahahahahaha. Oh! Has anyone ever read the EscaFlowne manga? Well technically it's called Hitomi Tenkuu no EscaFlowne. It reminds me of a mixture of the anime/movie. Van's actually beginning to show his feelings toward Hitomi, isn't that strange? Oh well, I wanted it that way and yeay! Van is such a bishie! Amano-sempai shouldn't be what was it that Yukari had said "Something-drool." What was it that she said? I forgot. Nya! But Van is way better then Amano and Allen any day! I decided to make it a cross over between the movie, anime, original and possibly the manga now that I've read it. Oh! I was watching the episode to where Hitomi's vision comes true to where Van rescues her from when she's falling and she sees his wings. I still don't know how she could have thought that Allen was the "Angel" (Hitomi's words, not mine!) and not Van. I mean, there is a big difference even though you can't really see Van's face. I mean if you look closely enough, the hair that you see in the vision is black with bangs and Allen is bangles and blonde with out bangs, well different then that of Van's. I mean seriously! The stupid twit! Oh well, they like one another at the end even though I don't care for the ending.

Chapter Twenty Five

"Hang on, we're going back home." Van said to Hitomi who wrapped her arms around Van's waist.

"Hai!"

Hitomi suddenly started to feel sick, she could feel herself loosing her grip on Van's waist. "Something's out there." Hitomi said as she slipped to her knees.

"Hitomi!" Van said as he looked back at his wife.

"Something… is out there…" Hitomi repeated. "Someone's calling…."

"HITOMI!" Van shouted as she passed out.

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"Is that EscaFlowne?" Allen asked Gaddes.

"It looks like it." Gaddes replied. "Are you going to let them go?" He asked.

"I have no choice but to let them go, they where guests, not prisoners." Allen replied stepping out of his guymelof.

"If you say so, maybe their doing this to keep us out of danger?" Gaddes suggested.

"Maybe, I think that the queen was right though, about Dilandau." Allen said.

"What?"

"He won't stop at nothing to get what he wants." Allen answered.

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When Hitomi woke up, she found that she and Van had landed somewhere in a cave. "Van…" She groaned as she sat up, her head hurting.

Van walked over to her. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Why did I pass out?" Hitomi asked. "Everything just started spinning and I…"

Van laughed. "You mustn't be used to heights yet." Van suggested. "We were up pretty high."

"Sorry…" Hitomi muttered which made Van look at her confusedly. "That I'm so much trouble, sorry." She said louder as she looked down.

"It's not your fault." Van said as he came over to Hitomi. "You're just used to the ground; maybe once this is all over, I'll have to take you flying more."

"Flying, on EscaFlowne?" Hitomi asked.

"I was afraid you wouldn't remember." Van said sighing as he then took off his shirt which made Hitomi blush brightly, she had seen him naked before, they had even slept together and she still felt embarrassed when she saw just his top half naked! Perhaps she was being foolish? She was a woman after all, and his wife and it was natural for a wife to see her husband naked every once in a while... "I don't know what happened to you when you where in the castle, but I can help you remember what happened afterward. I had told you most of it, but there was one thing I left out…" Van said solemnly. He then made his white wings appear from his back which made Hitomi look at him wide with those green eyes of hers.

She remembered, she remembered everything now. Yukari beating her, cutting her hair, Mamoru dieing as he tried frantically to rescue her, and Van, Van was a draconian. "Van…" Hitomi said after a few moments of awkward silence. "Why…." A feather landed in her hands, and she saw images of Van's parents, their love towards one another, and their constant bashing as people "Why didn't you tell me?" Hitomi finally asked as she reached her hand up to Van's face who winced as if expecting to be slapped, she was just going to touch his face gently but decided to slap him instead.

Van just looked at her with eyes that looked as he had just been rejected. "Why didn't you tell me?" Hitomi asked standing up being pissed off that he had kept such a secret from her for this long.

Van looked at Hitomi a bit surprised, he had expected to be rejected and called a few names but what was she doing now?

"Why didn't you tell me that you where a draconian before, Van Fanel!" Hitomi asked angrily.

"The very reason why you didn't tell me your secret at first." Van said.

"What? Do you think I would lock you up in the dungeon and throw away the key to let you whiter away like a cage bird?" Hitomi asked. "BAKA!" Hitomi shouted angrily. "Why would I reject you for who you are you baka!" Hitomi shouted. "You know that I love you but yet you don't trust me enough not to…. BAKA! I SHOULD HATE YOU FOR NOT TELLING ME!" Hitomi said as tears came down her cheeks. "Why would I reject something that was apart of the last person alive that I love?" Hitomi asked. "Why would I hate you for something that is apart you Van Fanel? The draconians destroying Atlantis was of their account, they are not you. You might have their blood through their veins but you are not them." Hitomi said. "You are Van Fanel, King of Fanelia, not someone from a legend." Said Hitomi. "Like I said before, why would I hate you?" Hitomi asked.

Van was silent as he now stood up fully. "You and Merle are the only two people in the world, who would possibly think anything like that." Said Van as he looked down at Hitomi.

"My people have a different understanding about Draconians." Hitomi explained. "Or at least, my people I should really say my family, excluding my mother." Hitomi said as she corrected herself. "My grandmother, myself, grandfather, and Mamoru all thought that draconians weren't demons, and seemed to be the only people who didn't."

"I see." Van said. "You're family is odd then."

"You're just now noticing this?" Hitomi asked.

"True, very true." He said as he then picked up Hitomi's chin which made her look in to his eyes, those green eyes, they where piercing, not in a bad way, but they made him want to look in them forever. He pulled her in to a kiss. They somehow ended on the ground again, Van still shirtless, and they where both breathing very heavily. When Van broke the kiss Hitomi looked in to his eyes.

"Van, we shouldn't do this Van…" Hitomi protested.

"Why? I thought you…"

"Not because you're a draconian." Hitomi interrupted before he could finish. "Here, and this place, what if Zaibach comes and catches us off guard like this and well… think about it Van, think logically."

"At least one of us is, Hitomi." Van said as he regretfully got up. "You're right, we shouldn't be doing this here. We are after all wanted by Zaibach, and are on the run from them, now is not the time to be doing such an activity as mating."

"Why is it that you call it mating instead of sex Van?" Hitomi blurted out and then gasped and blushed.

Van grinned at her innocence. "Only the royal family since we're somehow connected to the dragons, we might slay them in order to get our crown, but for some odd reason they are tied to us. I don't know the whole story for sure since Balgus didn't know and my mother, she died when I was young and didn't get to tell me a lot of our families history." Van laughed. "She thought I was too young but I already knew what sex was."

"That's why they call you Dragon sometimes isn't it?"

"I guess, it's always been kind of a second name that only those who are close to me call. It's a whole strange story, I don't even want to think about it."

Hitomi smiled. "And this tattoo has been labeled on you because you are Dragon?"

"It has to do with something on my mother's side of the family, the Draconians. She said I was too young at the time and that things shouldn't be explained to children. The name Dragon, I think father had given that name to me as a second name perhaps. I never found out."

Hitomi leaned on Van's chest and claimed Van's hand in to hers. "Since I won't let you do that to me tonight, you can hold me if you like." Hitomi suggested hopefully.

"Alright, only for a little while, but then we have to get moving now that the sun is gone."

"Alright, deal." Hitomi agreed as she smiled as she felt his arms around her.

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Wai! They kissed! Well REVIEW! Oh, as a note I'm going to end this up soon, I'm going to put a part two underneath a different title I think since they already love each other and it will do the title injustice if I keep it at that title.