Dryden and the love of Millerna Chapter 2: Never had a Dream come True, an escaflowne fanfic

Everybody's got something

Author's note: ok here is another Dryden Millerna fanfic. I'm thinking that I might wanna make another one…. like chapters of song fics? Maybe, if ppl like this one I might. Anyway no one really liked 'Creep' so I'm adding this one… yeah… anywho, tell me what you think and if you want me to continue the songfic thingy… ^.~

Disclaimer: Escaflowne isn't mine and neither is the song. That's S club 7's song by the way. (Don't much like them…. .)

Never Had A Dream Come True

Everybody's got something
They had to leave behind
One regret from yesterday
That just seems to grow with time

The merchant airship glided over the vast fields' bellow. It was like a sea of golden grass. Farmers looked up as the ship passed over. A tall man dressed in fine robes leaned over the balcony watching the people and land slip away. The way the sun makes everything soft gold and pink seemed like it was stopping time. He smiled to himself, one of his fingers stroked the day old beard. His glasses had slid down his nose and he pushed them up again. His wavy dark hair was pulled up into a ponytail. He wondered what everyone was doing back home. He hadn't been back to Astoria in a while. Dryden Fassa stood up and smiled. Van and the earth girl Hitomi were happy together. He wondered if she had come back to Gaea, or maybe he had gone to her.

There's no use looking back, oh wondering

How it could be now, oh might have been
Oh this I know, but still I can't find ways to let you go

"Millerna…" the name tasted so fine on his tongue. She was back home too, her and that Knight. He was a so handsome and beautiful, Dryden found himself wondering if there was another man as knightly and heavenly looking. But the man was not someone like him, he was a charmer but Dryden knew that there were some things that Allen Schezar could never be. It was strange, because no matter what he told himself he found that he was watching images of the beautiful princess Millerna and knight of Cali together in his mind. He had let her go free to be with the man she adored. But he was somehow convinced that he would get her back. He had to.

I never had a dream come true
'Til the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you

He felt as though he could lover her forever and ever. Why did she not return his affection? He didn't know. She was an angel in his eyes. A beautiful goddess, but like every being she had her faults. No one could truly love some one so perfect. The young woman had grown so much since he met her aboard his merchant ship so long ago. She had come asking for help, knowledge. That was something the bastard Allen wouldn't, and couldn't supply, nor the money to help her or the people she wished to help. He had fallen in love with her the moment he saw her. She was ever so much more beautiful then her sister Marlene, the one everyone said was the family jewel. Now he was here, so far from Astoria and Millerna. Why? Because he had tried to prove to her that he didn't need her. But he did! Oh gods he did! What was he doing here? He needed to be with that angel of his, he missed her so much. But the man he was he would never admit to it.

Somewhere in my memory
I've lost all sense of time
And tomorrow can never be
'Cause yesterday is all that fills my mind
There's no use looking back, oh wondering
How it should be now, oh might have been
Oh this I know, but still I can't find ways to let you go

What if she had loved him like he loved her? Images of creamy white skin and blonde wavy hair falling all around him, bright blue eyes watching intently. She was the most beautiful and sophisticated, yet simple person he'd ever met. Dryden pulled himself out of the world of Millerna smiles. He watched the last rays of sunlight slip from the day. He couldn't let her go. No matter what he did it didn't work, he couldn't replace the irreplaceable. Every woman he saw he found himself involuntarily looking for some sign of Millerna there.

"Dryden you've been betroved to Princess Millerna the youngest daughter of Astoria." Dryden remembered his father beaming down at him. He had only been seven at the time.

"But father I don't want to get married to some girl I don't even know! I want to go on adventures and see the world! Maybe one day I'll fall in love an-"

"Nonsense! This is a privilege! She is the king's daughter!" Dryden had been silent. He remembered it all so well.

"So where is this princess I'm going to meet?" a sixteen year old, tall and somewhat stalky, Dryden had asked Ereis, Millerna's older sister.

"She's here," the girl had said leading him into the garden. She was the same age as him. A child had come running through the flowerbeds. She was covered in dirt and had her blonde hair tied out of her way. She stopped panting, then looked up and smiled at him. Dryden smiled at the girl. She was only five and so cute. But how could he marry someone so young? He knelt down.

"My name is Dryden. It's nice to finally meet you Millerna."

"It's nice to meet you too Dryden, I'm sorry but I'm going to travel around Gaea before we can get married!" The oddness of the girl and her atitude made the merchant's son laugh. He hadn't wanted to marry especially the little tomboy he saw in front of him. But people change… if only her heart would change.

You'll always be the dream that fills my head
Yes you will, say you will, you know you will oh baby
You'll always be the one I know I'll never forget
There's no use looking back, oh wondering
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try and try
I just can't say goodbye, no no no no

Dryden went inside. He walked to the bridge of the airship and watched the captain steering. They were so far from Astoria. He looked at the map open in front of him. Millerna was such a beautiful person, she was one of those rare people whose outer beauty reflected their inner beauty. Dryden smiled and pushed up his glasses.

"Captain, we're going home. Set the course for the capital of Astoria. There's some unfinished business there."

"Yes sir!" the captain and crew grinned, soon they would be home with their families. Dryden smiled to himself and headed to his room. Soon he would be with the alluring Millerna. Maybe she didn't love him like she thought she loved Allen. Maybe she wasn't the perfect person he sometimes thought she was. Maybe she was just a little girl fighting off the birth right of a princess, but he loved that girl and he had no intention of spending his life without her. He said to her that he would have her and he hadn't lied. Dryden Fassa smiled to himself.