That says to me
This isn't over
Ashley's keen brown eyes watch with a glimmer as she watches her family match up in a game of basketball. Heero is low dribbling the orange sphere, a madly giggeling girl on his arms. Facing off against the matching duo is a teenage boy remarkably resembling Heero, though with Ashley's deep toned skin>
From the outside looking in
You see there's nothing sacred here
Nothing sacred
You can bend
But you can't break
Heero's trying to look stern and displeased with his daughter, who stands with a sunken head before him and a bruised cheek. Heero breaks in after only a few seconds of her puppy dog gaze and sorry features. Sweeping her up in his arms with a mock roll of his eyes, she grabs him around the neck and hugs till his cobalt eyes bulge.. >
For the reasons out of our control
You try to make it roll
Like a dice away
But you say that you're all empowered here
This is obviously not clear enough
To me
Ashley and Heero are in a heated discussion, his fists balled up
tightly and strand of hair out of place on her head from their shared screams.
In the doorway of the kitchen in which they are arguing, a young girl
leans up against the doorframe with one small chubby hand and sucking on
her free thumb.
A hand firmly grabs her shoulder, turns her with a talon like grip,
and leads her back down the hall to the children's room. >
You can bend
But you can't break
Hey little girl keep dancing
Hey little girl keep dancing alone
Ashley is washing dishes with her two dark haired children, the trio has a nearby radio cranked as they go about their kitchen task. Ashley's at the front of the sink, her voluptuous hips swaying back and forth with the beat as she dips the dirty dishes in bubbly water. Lee is at her immediate right, their shoulder's brushing as he head bangs to the same tunes, retrieving the dishes from Ashley's murky water and then rinsing them with the sink nozzle. He then gently passes them to Epyon who embraces them with her tiny hands wrapped in a drying towel, who's head bobs to the side as she tries to imitate her older brother. Heero is laughing full force at the sight ahead of him from his place on the living room recliner. >
'Cause there's not enough time in your day
To keep you here.
Heero is tossing in his bed violently, grasping with white knuckles
at his bed sheets and panting with his dreams. His teeth are clenched shut
and sweat beads decorate his brow. Ashley leans up over him and pats his
fore head with her comforting palm, a worried expression on her lovely
face as she goes through another of Heero's memory fits.
In the bed down the hall Epyon sits straight up in her bed, listening
with a dark face at the commotion coming from her parents room. >
The soldier's daughter
Did your daddy
Did your daddy hurt you
Epyon scampers down the cul de sac sidewalk to where the eldest
of the Barton family is proudly walking their new family pet on a delicate
leash. A small blonde colored Labrador retriever puppy. Epyon's blue eyes
widen as Latalia offers the younger girl to hold the puppy...>
Did he make you feel bad
Did he poison your views
With the water he was raised on
Heero is splayed out on the lush green grass in front of his house,
smiling as the sun shines though the large oak trees and covers him in
dark and light splatters. He sits up abruptly as his daughter's little
feet sound against the ground as she runs full speed towards him.
The smile he wore when he sat up disappears when he sees the small
golden bundle of puppy in his daughter's arms. And quick flashes of the
little girl from so long ago and her little dog Mary replaces ones of his
own daughter. Both with the same vivid blue eyes. >
Oh your father's son says hang on
Hang on
Hey little girl
Keep dancing
Hey little girl
Keep dancing alone
Epyon joyously tries to show her father the new Barton addition,
even as he cold stares at her with a look of pure horror. She shoves the
small puppy in his face till the two touch noses.
Epyon jumps back and screeches as Heero's arm lashes out and he back
hands the dog away from him, sending it sprawling against the ground a
few feet away. Heero jumps to his feet and runs away from the scene, his
eyes full of tears. He can't even stand to look at his horrified daughter.
Later:
Epyon flings herself on her bed face first, burying her tear soaked
face into her pillow and pounding it with her balled fists. Lee watches
from his bed across the room, and automatically speeds to comfort his sister.
Rubbing soothing circles on her back and offering his shirt sleeve for
her to wipe her eyes on as she retells the cruel incident with the puppy.
>
'Cause there's not enough time in your life
To stay here
So over the hills he'd climb
Liam smiles cooly at Epyon, who is tramping down the steps from
her home and making her way to his much older form in the car. She clambers
in the front seat and he instantly covers her lips with his, entangling
the two of them together even as her father death glares from the living
room window. Heero watches the red headed nineteen year old kiss his fifteen
year old daughter with extreme distaste, glowering at the fact that he
happens to be Duo Maxwell's son. >
Just to see her there in time
Just to watch the sun shine through her dress
Epyon listens with wide eyes to the pastor before her, swallowing
lumps in her slim throat as she listens to the age old words.
'Do you, Epyon Tempest Yuy, take this man, Liam Solo Maxwell, to be
your loving husband? To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, till
death do you part?'
Epyon looks to the man with frightening caramel eyes to her right,
and then wrenches her head over her shoulder to where Heero slumps in the
bench behind her.
He waits endless seconds before giving her the warmest smile he can
conjure up, then a quick 'go on' nod of his head.
She smiles at him, mouths the words 'I love you', and then plasters
a self confident smile and turns back to the pastor with renewed courage.
'I do.' >
The sweet soldier's daughter
Heero watches his daughter say the infamous last words, then takes a quick glance across the isle to where the budding Maxwell clan is seated. He and his old time friend exchange a curt nod and equal smiles as their children unite. >
The sweet soldier's daughter
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Author's rants~ Okay, I'm kind of disappointed that this one wasn't
quite as sweet as the Butterfly Kisses one. But then again, no matter how
much of a family man Mr. Sadistic becomes, he and his spawn couldn't really
pull of sweet and heart wrenching.
I like it none the less. Ashley, I love you girl!
I don't even know where I found this song, it works frighteningly well
though. I mean, common' 'Soldier's daughter'?! Did they plan that out or
something?!
Scurey.