ELVIRA
A Xenogears
fanfiction
By Yûmei.
Disclaimer:
I own nothing… I am nothing… Square is my master…
Little
apology: I'm so bad with my brand-new computer… I just CAN'T use HTML.
SorrySorrySorry for those horrible program lines…
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Here I am…
it is true, after all… when you're about to die you see again, one last time,
what made your life…
And now, I
see…
All I could
think of, as that monster looked at me with a smile which was a death sentence,
was the little girl waiting for her mother to come back. Shakhan, you'll burn
in hell for making this little girl an orphan…
A tear on
my face. No… I won't give you this pleasure, murderer… Too many tears have been
shed because of you…
I remember…
as my last moments are passing by, I see again the faces of the ones I loved:
my brother, the King, and his adorable son, the wife he never loved, and the
lover he could never forget… My dear Mother, in title and in truth, dead just
minutes ago… my husband, who I hope to reach soon in heaven, and my daughter,
my jewel…May God protect you, my child…
[gunshot]
************
I was just
a teenager in Nisan when my brother fell in love… He was about to become the
king of Aveh, and he crossed this girl's path. She was a flower of the desert,
beautiful as a summer day… he wanted to
marry her, but our family said no… she was no nobility… She was just a dancer,
a girl who didn't deserve a king… for a while, he thought of abandoning
everything to go away with her: his duty, his family, his kingdom… But the day
before he intended to leave, he
discovered she was gone… She just left a letter where she said she never wanted
to see him again, and that she wished him happiness… Of course, he looked for
her… everywhere…
But no one
ever heard of Shalimar Harcourt after that…
A few years
later, my brother married one of the Ladies of Aveh. He didn't love her, and
she didn't love him. But they got along together. They had a son, the future
King. After the birth, they began to sleep in separate rooms. In their own way,
they were happy together, they ruled the country well for a while… Before the
Monster arrived…
Me? Oh, I
had a good life. I have no regrets. I had the luck to be able to marry the man
I loved, and as my mother was the Great Mother, I never had the burden of power
to bear. I had a daughter, the joy of my life. One day, it will be her turn to
become the Great Mother. I hope she will be happy… maybe with Edbart's son…
My husband
died when Margie was three. A terrible sickness killed him in less than two
months. I was broken, but all the ones I loved were there for me when I needed
them the most. I went to live with my brother and his family for a couple of
weeks, and it helped me a lot. My sister in law and I became close friends… and
our children too!
It hurt me
so much when I heard –he- had killed them… only the boy was able to escape with the help of one of the king's knight. The name of this
knight was Sigurd… Harcourt. I will never know if my brother knew about his
son.
There are
many other things I will never know.
I can only
have faith in life, and in my daughter.
**************
"Margie?"
The young
Mother of Nisan turned her head to see her husband walking towards her. She
sighed and put the rose she was holding on the tombstone.
"Yes,
Bart?"
"What are
you doing? You've been here for more than an hour… Why are you so blue?"
He reached
and touched her face. She closed her eyes and smiled sadly.
"I was just
thinking our child will never have the chance to meet his grandparents… it just
made me a little nostalgic."
Bart put
his other hand on his wife's stomach.
"I know… but think how lucky he will be with parents like us!"
Margie
laughed a little. "You're right… I think mother would be so happy for us."
Bart looked
at her intently. "So don't be sad. The past can't be changed. We can only make
the future better."
She smiled and hugged him. Then they began to
walk towards the Fatima castle, leaving the past behind them and the dead rest
in peace.
'Yes, my
child, I'm so proud of you…'
THE END
Author's
notes: This is my first fiction ever published in English, and I'm not sure my
grammar is always correct… so if you have the time, feel free to contact me for
corrections. But please, don't flame me too much. It's so hard to write in a
language that is not yours…
Anyway,
Elvira Fatima is a character that appears only in the "Perfect Works" book. I
know absolutely nothing about her, and she's been intriguing me for a while.
That's why I wrote this little thing about her.
Thanks for
reading.
Yûmei, May
27 2001.