Email: swythangel@hotmail.com
Title: Despite Everything
Type: 4/?, Series
Teaser: Two beings fall in forbidden love. Overcoming the barrier of time, they have been granted three chances to find each other again in their reincarnated lives. But twice they have failed. This is their last chance. Will they be able to recognize each other before it is too late?
Rating: PG –13 (to be safe…)
Spoilers: Episode 4
Warnings: Shonen Ai, AU, definitely AU!
Disclaimer: Weiß Kreuz is not mine…will never be mine but damn if that'll stop me from torturing their lives in my fics...
Keywords: RanxKen
Omi: looks
at chapter title>Oh No! Here we go again…
Swyth-chan:
Ahohoho! Damn straight, Omiitchi! I just have to have my say that this
is the nicest title yet.
Omi:dryly>Mostly
because it has Quatre-kun's name on it.
Swyth-chan:
Damn straight! wide grin> Anyway, I hope you guys are still reading
this ne? This is a very short chapter, mainly because I just wanted to
put some of Ran-kun's thoughts in.
Ran: sniffs>
Fine, put me in as an afterthought why don't you!
Swyth-chan:
whacks Ran>Well at least you're one of the main characters. Omi and
Youji aren't even mentioned yet.
Omi & YOuji:
Yeah! Unfair. We should report you to the union.
Swyth-chan:
sighs and ignores the two> On with the story….
Legend:
/words/ ----thoughts
//words// ----
flashback/memories
[words] ----
unconscious thoughts
Quatre: Flickerings of the Past
I watch in the shadow of the tree as my fellow assassin, Ken Hidaka, teases the little girl. I watch silently and listen to the lilting voice, a tiny throbbing pain doing a steady staccato beating in my chest as I remember my sister. She was once the same inquisitive little thing this precocious child is now.
"Maybe you have a mission or something to do here ne, Aki-chan?"
//"Of course I'm right, Katie-girl. Many of us are angels who need to fulfill God's great plan on this earth. Ask Leander here." //
I blink in annoyance. There it goes again. These flashes of something I cannot even begin to comprehend. They come at the strangest of times, mostly when I am near this perplexing talking dynamo that is Ken Hidaka.
"That boy is searching for
her."
I say, my eyes trained on
a 15-year old redhead that bears a resemblance to the girl in Ken's arms,
my tone abrupt. Its purpose is to banish the flashes of memories that belong
to another time, another place, another person. Certainly not Ran Fujimiya's.
I see Ken staring at me with inquiring eyes. I almost forget why I am here.
"We have a mission."
Ken's face has an unreadable expression on it. Something I cannot understand. What? Did I say something wrong?
I start to walk away to conceal my confused expression. Why is it that I never know how to act when he is around?
A sigh rises up from his vicinity and before I know it he is walking beside me. We walk in silence for a while. But even I with my much-vaunted tolerance for the quiet have the need to talk now and then. So I burst out with the question niggling my mind.
"Do you believe it?"
My query seems to hang in the silence, a deep slice in its almost-tangible state. Perhaps I said it too abruptly. This is confirmed as I look at Ken and see an expression of perplexity on his face.
"Believe what?"
I can almost see the surprise and the confusion in his open eyes, almost read his thoughts in those eyes. Friendly, warm eyes. Eyes that seem to call out to something in my innermost soul.
[Raine's eyes…]
Who the hell is Raine?
"Do you believe in the things you said. About angels."
A slightly impatient tone enters my voice, not because he didn't get what I said but because I keep hearing these voices inside my head. I do not mean it to sound so abrupt because for all my outward indifference, I want to hear his answer. It is somehow very important that I do.
"Yes, yes I do. I think we were all angels. And you?"
I? How can I believe in angels when I can't bring myself to even believe in a Divine Being?
I am fully convinced there is no God. Because if there is a God, and He is as good as they say He is, He wouldn't have let that happen to my parents and my sister. No, I can't believe in angels at all. Nor in the fact that we were all angels. If we were all angels, then God shouldn't be punishing us here on earth. He shouldn't be able to stand having His children suffering.
//"Heya, Leander, back me up will you?"
I sigh and look at the little girl in Raine's arms. And with all the sincerity I can muster I smile and answer her.//
"No, I think its crap."
Even as I say it, I look at him and see the open friendly face being outlined by the last rays of the sun, making Ken glow with an unearthly light. Such an innocent face for someone who bears so many burdens.
I wonder again how he can possibly smile even after Kase's betrayal or how he could still have had hope that Kase was innocent. Maybe it just isn't in Ken Hidaka to not trust people. Because he almost always tries to see the good in them.
/If I ever need to find an angel in human guise, Ken Hidaka, I would start with you./
If there are more like Ken Hidaka here in this world, then maybe there are angels who walk the earth. Shit! What a thing to think about. I shouldn't be dawdling when there is a mission to do.
I walk faster, leaving the soccer player behind in startled silence.
//"Many who fall here are angels, Katie. Trust Me."
As soon as the words leave my lips, Raine's eyes lights up in gratitude and he smiles at me. A smile that makes me feel warm all over even though the sun is barely shining.
Oh, yes, Katie, there are angels on this earth. The one holding you can never be anything but an angel.
The stray thought gets away from me as I look at the former thief lying on the grass near where the tree where I am leaning my back against. Yes, Raine must have been an angel.//
[Just as Ken must have been an angel…]
TBC
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