Characters are not mine, appreciate comments though
//-thoughts
Part four:
Her Ocean
***
"Tell me again why you must leave Duo?" she asked him as they stood on the balcony.
"I will never be happy here." He whispered looking at her. "This is not the life I want to live."
"It is him, isn't it? He has turned you away from us. From me!" she cried hitting his chest with her fist. "Duo you idiot! Do you not love me anymore?" she asked her brother.
"I do Relena, I still do."
"Then why don't you want to stay and rule with me?"
"My heart does not lie here."
"It lies with him. Damn Trowa, I rue the day we ever saw him." she huffed in her frustration. She heard Duo laugh.
"Take care my sister, rule well." He called as he took flight.
"Not if you are not my King." She whispered as she saw him land next to the elf. They looked up at her and waved, Duo's smile radiant. "Not if you are not my King."
***
She thought she saw him, and by the look on the King and Queen's faces, she knew she did.
"Where is he?" she asked. Her mother just shook her head. Just then a guard came to the King; he paled and looked at the direction of the door.
The boy held Duo in his arms, his naked body covered only by his own wings.
"Duo!" Relena cried as she rushed to the boy. "What happened to him?"
"Make him better." Was all the boy said.
She looked at Duo's sleeping form then her eyes shifted to the handsome boy that had never left Duo's side since he came here.
It had been three hundred years since she last saw him and her heart ached at his broken state. /Oh Duo, why couldn't you have just stayed with me?/
"Where is Trowa?" she asked the boy.
"He left us." He answered not looking at the other angel.
/Damn him; damn Trowa and his elfin kin!/
***
She was out by the sea, up to her knees in salt water her face upturned to the setting sun. In her hands she had a conch shell a present for her brother. She wished he could be here with her, but ever since Duo reached his five hundredth year, they began to groom him for succeeding their father and she missed him terribly.
She sighed she would turn two hundred soon and she was already proclaimed the next queen. She hated being crowned she couldn't bear it! If it wasn't for her brother and future husband she didn't know what she would do.
She heard a whistling sound and came face to face with her brother before he drowned them both in the shallow water.
"Ahhhh Duo!" she screamed getting up.
"Hahaha well hello little sister I'm glad to see you too." He winked.
"Aren't you supposed to be with your consuls?" she asked wringing her hair free from the salt water. She never could stay mad at Duo for long.
"I got tired of those old buzzards. So I left them. You think after a hundred years with me they would loosen up, but oh no! I am six hundred years old for crying out loud and they treat me like this child."
"Well if you didn't act like a child then maybe..."
"May I remind you that I am four hundred years older than you are!" she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hey look I got you this." She handed him the shell.
"Oh wow the ocean in my hands!" he laughed putting it against his ear, "this could come in handy when father begins his sermons once more." He put the shell in his belt and began to spray his sister with water.
"Duo!"
"Crowned Prince Duo?" a small voice whispered.
"Well hello Milliardo." He smiled as the little demon approached. It form was that of a three-year-old child and its blond hair was golden in the sunlight.
"Uhm, consul asked me to get you." it said.
/Aww isn't it cute./
"Did that stupid consul make you do his work again?" Milliardo just looked at him. He smiled, the embryonic demon was a gift from Noin. Barely twenty and just downright adorable. "Have you ever been in the sea Milliardo?" the demon shook its head.
"Come here then!" Relena urged it. The little demon hovered closer to the water its whole body like a chibi bishounen with dragon's wings.
All three of them were already soaked before half the sun had disappeared on the horizon. His wings were spread and he lay on the water letting the waves cradle him. His sister sat on the water, the demon sitting on her crossed legs.
"When we become King and Queen remind me to have a whole ocean created for us." He said his eyes closed.
"As you wish brother."
"Elf army." Milliardo chirped as horses came stampeding toward them from the shore.
Both angels took flight, their wet wings making their launch awkward. And as they began to leave his eyes were caught by a tall elf with brown hair and green eyes. His horse proclaimed him to be of the Clan of the Morning Bearers, the ruling clan of the elves.
When they reached the palace they were promptly reprimanded and then sent to get dressed for they had company. His hair was being brushed by the demon and his mind drifted to the shore that afternoon.
"Crown Prince Duo not himself." Milliardo said in its child voice.
"Oh I'm sorry Milliardo, yes I am not myself today."
"Because of tall elf?"
"Haha oh you sly devil! Trying to catch me huh?" he smirked as he grabbed the demon and began to tickle it.
"Duo, we are being called now." Relena called him from the outside.
"Come on Milliardo you are coming with me" He said grasping the gold chan wrapped around the demon's ankle. It flew before him like an exquisite balloon.
They entered the throne room his mind preoccupied by the little demon he was still tickling. He did not see the elfin King and his two children. He did not see green eyes capture his face.
"These are my chosen children. Duo and Relena." He heard his father's voice and the added edge did not escape him either, telling him to stop playing with his demon. He bowed before the visitors and Relena curtsied, when he lifted his eyes they were met with intense green ones.
"This is my good friend King Rashid of the Morning Bearers and his two children, Trowa and Une." He was no longer listening for the tall elf had captured him.
He was sitting on the balcony's railing, looking up at the stars. Relena was sitting at the table with Trowa while Une played with Milliardo in one side.
"So Trowa, you will succeed you father?" Relena asked.
"No."
"But I thought you were the eldest?"
"I am."
"So who will rule?"
"Une."
"Why not you?"
"I do not wish to."
Duo whistled. "If it was only that simple eh Relena?" he smiled looking at the two.
"You do no wish to rule either?" he asked turning to the beautiful angel perched on the railing.
"Nah, I'd rather just be a good-for-nothing!" he winked at him.
"What my Brother meant was that he would rather be free." Relena corrected him. "Don't say a good-for-nothing! He will think that our next King is an idiot!"
"Why would I think that?" Trowa asked. "Freedom is a great gift."
"You should thank your father for it." Duo smiled.
"I do. Everyday that I roam the earth of my own accord I do."
"I wish I could go with you."
"Why don't you?" Relena looked at her brother and the tall elf and suddenly she felt like her whole world had turned
upside down.
***
The Elven Kingdom and the Angelic Empire used to be comrades at arms and her father used to be friends with King Rashid. It all ended when three hundred years ago her brother turned his back on the throne and left with Elven Kind's first born.
And now here he was once more. In her arms. This time she wouldn't let him leave.
***
"Trowa, are you happy?" The blond prince asked his head resting on his lover's chest.
"Of course I am." He said monotonously.
"You are still thinking of the angel aren't you?"
/Yes./
"No."
"It does not matter, I will make you forget him." He whispered and something in his voice told Trowa he would.
***
He had sent a message to Queen Une, telling her of her brother's predicament. And she said she would go to war if needed.
But he wanted to see the Dragon Prince die by his own hands.
He sat looking out of the windows when Relena entered bringing his supper. He looked at her and smiled.
"You are too good to me sister."
"You are too hard on yourself. Eat."
"Where is Heero?"
"Out in the garden."
"Ah maybe I should do that."
"Eat first."
"Yes general!" he mock saluted her and sat down on his dinning table.
***
The cold evening air felt good on his face. He had been watching Duo for five years now never leaving his side. Today he was bullied by his little sister to go out and explore the kingdom.
He just couldn't take it anymore. He was in love with the angel whose heart was broken and he hated seeing him slowly wilt away because of someone else. He laughed to himself, if Duo knew how many people secretly yearned for his affection, would he still reach for that one touch. Relena loved him, he loved him, Milliardo loved him. The list goes on and on but somehow he knew that Duo never wanted all the others, all the love he ever wanted was from an elfin boy with beautiful green eyes.
"You know you can't see the beauty of our world from the ground." He heard his voice. Before he could reply Duo had hooked his hands under Heero's armpits and flew up into the night sky.
They were sitting on the ledge surveying the grandeur of the city beneath them. His proximity to the object of his desires and the solitude of the place they were on made Heero uncomfortable.
"This was where I used to go when I was a child." He smiled. "Beautiful isn't it?"
"Yes." But he wasn't looking at the city beneath him.
"I don't know what I am doing here." He sighed. "My father pretends I do not exist, my sister and mother suffocate me and you follow me around like some shadow. Not to mention the entire kingdom asking when the coronation will be held. God I need to get away."
"I am bound to you. I will always keep you safe." He said almost mechanically.
"Haha, tell me Heero, can you save me from myself?" he asked.
"You are leaving aren't you." he stated.
"Yes."
"When do we leave?"
"When I have coaxed Milliardo to take us to hell baby!" he laughed taking Heero and heading back to the castle.
***
"No." Milliardo was no longer the little demon child he left behind. It was all grown up and it was beautiful. It wore its hair long and its wings curved delicately revealing slim shoulders.
"Awww c'mon!" Duo whined.
"Crowned Prince Duo, you should know that what you are attempting is suicide." He winced at the name.
"You know you are the only one that calls me that now." he said somewhat longingly. "And do you think sitting here doing nothing is not suicide to me?"
Milliardo looked at the boy before it. When Duo left it was only a pupa of a demon, looking just twelve years old. Now it was taller than its master.
/I was but a child-demon when I fell in love with you, barely two hundred years old when you left me behind for that elf. And now here you are again before me, smaller than I remembered but every bit as beautiful./
"Please?" it looked at its master's eyes. It could just say no and foil all of Duo's plans, imprisoning him in their kingdom. Milliardo shook its head that would never work. If it said no Duo would find another to take him there and no matter how great its power was, it would never be able to keep its master where he did not want to be. He sighed.
"Crowned Prince, do you realize the consequences of what you are about to do?"
"I do."
"Can you not walk away from this?" Duo shook his head sadly. The demon just looked away.
"Aahh I love you Milliardo!" he jumped up and down and planted a kiss on the taller demon's cheek before bouncing out of the room to find Heero.
Milliardo lifted his palm to where Duo's lips had touched. /Much misery will come of this, but it is the path he has chosen and I follow him to the ends of the earth if I have to. /
***
"We leave tomorrow at sunset Heero." He said greeting his companion.
Heero looked up from the scrolls he was reading. "To hell?"
"Yes." Duo looked at him.
"Duo, this is ludicrous. You have a kingdom to rule, let the sleeping dragons lie where they are happy."
"I have a heart to get back." His own shattered. When they had began to sleep with each other he had built this hope
that perhaps Duo would take him into his heart and forget the elf. In vain he tried to persuade the angel to let things be and just live out the life he still had. With him.
That was all it was, a hope.
"A dragon prince is a formidable foe." He said his pain choking him inside.
"So is an angel's first born."
"One of you will loose here, and I cannot shake the feeling it will be you."
"If that is what you see then that is your truth not mine." A silence prevailed.
"You are stubborn Duo."
"You know I am." The angel laughed. He came close to the boy and wrapped his arms around him kissing him once on the lips. "I do not know why Trowa did what he did, but I cannot accept it."
Heero stroked the head resting on his shoulder. He knew, and he wondered if he should tell the angel he had in his arms.
/I hate you. For making me love you and loving another. And I hate him for loving you back./
***
She looked out of the window in his room. She saw the pack lying on his cushions. He entered whistling but stopped when he saw his sister.
"Relena."
"You are leaving once again."
"I have to."
"I hate you Duo! Will I never be enough?" Duo looked at her sadly.
"Why do you covet me so sister?"
"Because you make me happy." Duo shook his head at his sister's selfishness. "Don't look at me like I am the selfish one! Can't you see he is hurting you Duo?"
"And you are not my sister?"
"Come build a future with me. I will make you happier than any elf can!"
"You are beginning to sound like father!" Duo began, anger welling up inside of him.
"Can't you see? I can never have a future with you." he said walking out on her.
***
He would leave soon. He wanted to talk to Relena, to make things right between them. He was angry last night and let out some words he did not mean to say. But a part of him told him it was better if he left things the way they were. This way she would no longer expect anything from him. This way she would hate him and forgetting him would somehow be easier.
"Duo?" he looked at her standing half hidden in his doorway. "I need to show you something first please." He followed her silently.
They reached the west wing of the palace and stopped at a door he had never seen before. She took hold of the silver doors and pushed it open.
The light that assaulted his eyes blinded him and after a moment when they had adjusted he couldn't believe them. Inside was an ocean. Their ocean.
"When was this made?"
"I had it made when you left. Remember once you asked me to remind you to create an ocean for us?"
"But I will never rule."
"It does not matter." She led the way into the seemingly endless ocean, he felt the white sand at his feet and he couldn't believe how beautiful she made it. Even the sunset was perfect.
She stopped in the middle of the beach bending down to pick something up. "Remember that day?"
"Yes, it was the first time I ever saw Trowa." Her face fell. Duo looked at the conch shell in her hands. " It was also the day you gave me my ocean." He smiled. He pulled her into a hug and kissed the top of her head. "Looks like your gifts are getting bigger." He laughed.
"Just remember Duo, I will always be here when you return. All of this will."
"I will remember." He drew away from her and held her hand. "Thank you Relena, rule well." She smiled at the familiar words and memorized his back as he disappeared behind the silver doors once more.
***
The sun had set hours ago and still she sat on the beach, her toes buried in the sand. The moons had risen and Duo had left her again. She fingered the conch in her hands her mind lost. She drew from it the moon knife, which she had stolen from the high priest; it was the knife that carried out their executions. It was only one of five things that could end an angel's existence.
/This would still be here brother, but I won't. You are never coming back. And I cannot suffer to live knowing I would never hold you again./
/I gave you the ocean brother. What could he give you?/
And she closed her eyes as the blade sheathed itself in her heart.
***
notes:
i actually like the girls' part the best, relena's and hilde's which is part six...i feel like such a traitor!
//-thoughts
Part four:
Her Ocean
***
"Tell me again why you must leave Duo?" she asked him as they stood on the balcony.
"I will never be happy here." He whispered looking at her. "This is not the life I want to live."
"It is him, isn't it? He has turned you away from us. From me!" she cried hitting his chest with her fist. "Duo you idiot! Do you not love me anymore?" she asked her brother.
"I do Relena, I still do."
"Then why don't you want to stay and rule with me?"
"My heart does not lie here."
"It lies with him. Damn Trowa, I rue the day we ever saw him." she huffed in her frustration. She heard Duo laugh.
"Take care my sister, rule well." He called as he took flight.
"Not if you are not my King." She whispered as she saw him land next to the elf. They looked up at her and waved, Duo's smile radiant. "Not if you are not my King."
***
She thought she saw him, and by the look on the King and Queen's faces, she knew she did.
"Where is he?" she asked. Her mother just shook her head. Just then a guard came to the King; he paled and looked at the direction of the door.
The boy held Duo in his arms, his naked body covered only by his own wings.
"Duo!" Relena cried as she rushed to the boy. "What happened to him?"
"Make him better." Was all the boy said.
She looked at Duo's sleeping form then her eyes shifted to the handsome boy that had never left Duo's side since he came here.
It had been three hundred years since she last saw him and her heart ached at his broken state. /Oh Duo, why couldn't you have just stayed with me?/
"Where is Trowa?" she asked the boy.
"He left us." He answered not looking at the other angel.
/Damn him; damn Trowa and his elfin kin!/
***
She was out by the sea, up to her knees in salt water her face upturned to the setting sun. In her hands she had a conch shell a present for her brother. She wished he could be here with her, but ever since Duo reached his five hundredth year, they began to groom him for succeeding their father and she missed him terribly.
She sighed she would turn two hundred soon and she was already proclaimed the next queen. She hated being crowned she couldn't bear it! If it wasn't for her brother and future husband she didn't know what she would do.
She heard a whistling sound and came face to face with her brother before he drowned them both in the shallow water.
"Ahhhh Duo!" she screamed getting up.
"Hahaha well hello little sister I'm glad to see you too." He winked.
"Aren't you supposed to be with your consuls?" she asked wringing her hair free from the salt water. She never could stay mad at Duo for long.
"I got tired of those old buzzards. So I left them. You think after a hundred years with me they would loosen up, but oh no! I am six hundred years old for crying out loud and they treat me like this child."
"Well if you didn't act like a child then maybe..."
"May I remind you that I am four hundred years older than you are!" she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hey look I got you this." She handed him the shell.
"Oh wow the ocean in my hands!" he laughed putting it against his ear, "this could come in handy when father begins his sermons once more." He put the shell in his belt and began to spray his sister with water.
"Duo!"
"Crowned Prince Duo?" a small voice whispered.
"Well hello Milliardo." He smiled as the little demon approached. It form was that of a three-year-old child and its blond hair was golden in the sunlight.
"Uhm, consul asked me to get you." it said.
/Aww isn't it cute./
"Did that stupid consul make you do his work again?" Milliardo just looked at him. He smiled, the embryonic demon was a gift from Noin. Barely twenty and just downright adorable. "Have you ever been in the sea Milliardo?" the demon shook its head.
"Come here then!" Relena urged it. The little demon hovered closer to the water its whole body like a chibi bishounen with dragon's wings.
All three of them were already soaked before half the sun had disappeared on the horizon. His wings were spread and he lay on the water letting the waves cradle him. His sister sat on the water, the demon sitting on her crossed legs.
"When we become King and Queen remind me to have a whole ocean created for us." He said his eyes closed.
"As you wish brother."
"Elf army." Milliardo chirped as horses came stampeding toward them from the shore.
Both angels took flight, their wet wings making their launch awkward. And as they began to leave his eyes were caught by a tall elf with brown hair and green eyes. His horse proclaimed him to be of the Clan of the Morning Bearers, the ruling clan of the elves.
When they reached the palace they were promptly reprimanded and then sent to get dressed for they had company. His hair was being brushed by the demon and his mind drifted to the shore that afternoon.
"Crown Prince Duo not himself." Milliardo said in its child voice.
"Oh I'm sorry Milliardo, yes I am not myself today."
"Because of tall elf?"
"Haha oh you sly devil! Trying to catch me huh?" he smirked as he grabbed the demon and began to tickle it.
"Duo, we are being called now." Relena called him from the outside.
"Come on Milliardo you are coming with me" He said grasping the gold chan wrapped around the demon's ankle. It flew before him like an exquisite balloon.
They entered the throne room his mind preoccupied by the little demon he was still tickling. He did not see the elfin King and his two children. He did not see green eyes capture his face.
"These are my chosen children. Duo and Relena." He heard his father's voice and the added edge did not escape him either, telling him to stop playing with his demon. He bowed before the visitors and Relena curtsied, when he lifted his eyes they were met with intense green ones.
"This is my good friend King Rashid of the Morning Bearers and his two children, Trowa and Une." He was no longer listening for the tall elf had captured him.
He was sitting on the balcony's railing, looking up at the stars. Relena was sitting at the table with Trowa while Une played with Milliardo in one side.
"So Trowa, you will succeed you father?" Relena asked.
"No."
"But I thought you were the eldest?"
"I am."
"So who will rule?"
"Une."
"Why not you?"
"I do not wish to."
Duo whistled. "If it was only that simple eh Relena?" he smiled looking at the two.
"You do no wish to rule either?" he asked turning to the beautiful angel perched on the railing.
"Nah, I'd rather just be a good-for-nothing!" he winked at him.
"What my Brother meant was that he would rather be free." Relena corrected him. "Don't say a good-for-nothing! He will think that our next King is an idiot!"
"Why would I think that?" Trowa asked. "Freedom is a great gift."
"You should thank your father for it." Duo smiled.
"I do. Everyday that I roam the earth of my own accord I do."
"I wish I could go with you."
"Why don't you?" Relena looked at her brother and the tall elf and suddenly she felt like her whole world had turned
upside down.
***
The Elven Kingdom and the Angelic Empire used to be comrades at arms and her father used to be friends with King Rashid. It all ended when three hundred years ago her brother turned his back on the throne and left with Elven Kind's first born.
And now here he was once more. In her arms. This time she wouldn't let him leave.
***
"Trowa, are you happy?" The blond prince asked his head resting on his lover's chest.
"Of course I am." He said monotonously.
"You are still thinking of the angel aren't you?"
/Yes./
"No."
"It does not matter, I will make you forget him." He whispered and something in his voice told Trowa he would.
***
He had sent a message to Queen Une, telling her of her brother's predicament. And she said she would go to war if needed.
But he wanted to see the Dragon Prince die by his own hands.
He sat looking out of the windows when Relena entered bringing his supper. He looked at her and smiled.
"You are too good to me sister."
"You are too hard on yourself. Eat."
"Where is Heero?"
"Out in the garden."
"Ah maybe I should do that."
"Eat first."
"Yes general!" he mock saluted her and sat down on his dinning table.
***
The cold evening air felt good on his face. He had been watching Duo for five years now never leaving his side. Today he was bullied by his little sister to go out and explore the kingdom.
He just couldn't take it anymore. He was in love with the angel whose heart was broken and he hated seeing him slowly wilt away because of someone else. He laughed to himself, if Duo knew how many people secretly yearned for his affection, would he still reach for that one touch. Relena loved him, he loved him, Milliardo loved him. The list goes on and on but somehow he knew that Duo never wanted all the others, all the love he ever wanted was from an elfin boy with beautiful green eyes.
"You know you can't see the beauty of our world from the ground." He heard his voice. Before he could reply Duo had hooked his hands under Heero's armpits and flew up into the night sky.
They were sitting on the ledge surveying the grandeur of the city beneath them. His proximity to the object of his desires and the solitude of the place they were on made Heero uncomfortable.
"This was where I used to go when I was a child." He smiled. "Beautiful isn't it?"
"Yes." But he wasn't looking at the city beneath him.
"I don't know what I am doing here." He sighed. "My father pretends I do not exist, my sister and mother suffocate me and you follow me around like some shadow. Not to mention the entire kingdom asking when the coronation will be held. God I need to get away."
"I am bound to you. I will always keep you safe." He said almost mechanically.
"Haha, tell me Heero, can you save me from myself?" he asked.
"You are leaving aren't you." he stated.
"Yes."
"When do we leave?"
"When I have coaxed Milliardo to take us to hell baby!" he laughed taking Heero and heading back to the castle.
***
"No." Milliardo was no longer the little demon child he left behind. It was all grown up and it was beautiful. It wore its hair long and its wings curved delicately revealing slim shoulders.
"Awww c'mon!" Duo whined.
"Crowned Prince Duo, you should know that what you are attempting is suicide." He winced at the name.
"You know you are the only one that calls me that now." he said somewhat longingly. "And do you think sitting here doing nothing is not suicide to me?"
Milliardo looked at the boy before it. When Duo left it was only a pupa of a demon, looking just twelve years old. Now it was taller than its master.
/I was but a child-demon when I fell in love with you, barely two hundred years old when you left me behind for that elf. And now here you are again before me, smaller than I remembered but every bit as beautiful./
"Please?" it looked at its master's eyes. It could just say no and foil all of Duo's plans, imprisoning him in their kingdom. Milliardo shook its head that would never work. If it said no Duo would find another to take him there and no matter how great its power was, it would never be able to keep its master where he did not want to be. He sighed.
"Crowned Prince, do you realize the consequences of what you are about to do?"
"I do."
"Can you not walk away from this?" Duo shook his head sadly. The demon just looked away.
"Aahh I love you Milliardo!" he jumped up and down and planted a kiss on the taller demon's cheek before bouncing out of the room to find Heero.
Milliardo lifted his palm to where Duo's lips had touched. /Much misery will come of this, but it is the path he has chosen and I follow him to the ends of the earth if I have to. /
***
"We leave tomorrow at sunset Heero." He said greeting his companion.
Heero looked up from the scrolls he was reading. "To hell?"
"Yes." Duo looked at him.
"Duo, this is ludicrous. You have a kingdom to rule, let the sleeping dragons lie where they are happy."
"I have a heart to get back." His own shattered. When they had began to sleep with each other he had built this hope
that perhaps Duo would take him into his heart and forget the elf. In vain he tried to persuade the angel to let things be and just live out the life he still had. With him.
That was all it was, a hope.
"A dragon prince is a formidable foe." He said his pain choking him inside.
"So is an angel's first born."
"One of you will loose here, and I cannot shake the feeling it will be you."
"If that is what you see then that is your truth not mine." A silence prevailed.
"You are stubborn Duo."
"You know I am." The angel laughed. He came close to the boy and wrapped his arms around him kissing him once on the lips. "I do not know why Trowa did what he did, but I cannot accept it."
Heero stroked the head resting on his shoulder. He knew, and he wondered if he should tell the angel he had in his arms.
/I hate you. For making me love you and loving another. And I hate him for loving you back./
***
She looked out of the window in his room. She saw the pack lying on his cushions. He entered whistling but stopped when he saw his sister.
"Relena."
"You are leaving once again."
"I have to."
"I hate you Duo! Will I never be enough?" Duo looked at her sadly.
"Why do you covet me so sister?"
"Because you make me happy." Duo shook his head at his sister's selfishness. "Don't look at me like I am the selfish one! Can't you see he is hurting you Duo?"
"And you are not my sister?"
"Come build a future with me. I will make you happier than any elf can!"
"You are beginning to sound like father!" Duo began, anger welling up inside of him.
"Can't you see? I can never have a future with you." he said walking out on her.
***
He would leave soon. He wanted to talk to Relena, to make things right between them. He was angry last night and let out some words he did not mean to say. But a part of him told him it was better if he left things the way they were. This way she would no longer expect anything from him. This way she would hate him and forgetting him would somehow be easier.
"Duo?" he looked at her standing half hidden in his doorway. "I need to show you something first please." He followed her silently.
They reached the west wing of the palace and stopped at a door he had never seen before. She took hold of the silver doors and pushed it open.
The light that assaulted his eyes blinded him and after a moment when they had adjusted he couldn't believe them. Inside was an ocean. Their ocean.
"When was this made?"
"I had it made when you left. Remember once you asked me to remind you to create an ocean for us?"
"But I will never rule."
"It does not matter." She led the way into the seemingly endless ocean, he felt the white sand at his feet and he couldn't believe how beautiful she made it. Even the sunset was perfect.
She stopped in the middle of the beach bending down to pick something up. "Remember that day?"
"Yes, it was the first time I ever saw Trowa." Her face fell. Duo looked at the conch shell in her hands. " It was also the day you gave me my ocean." He smiled. He pulled her into a hug and kissed the top of her head. "Looks like your gifts are getting bigger." He laughed.
"Just remember Duo, I will always be here when you return. All of this will."
"I will remember." He drew away from her and held her hand. "Thank you Relena, rule well." She smiled at the familiar words and memorized his back as he disappeared behind the silver doors once more.
***
The sun had set hours ago and still she sat on the beach, her toes buried in the sand. The moons had risen and Duo had left her again. She fingered the conch in her hands her mind lost. She drew from it the moon knife, which she had stolen from the high priest; it was the knife that carried out their executions. It was only one of five things that could end an angel's existence.
/This would still be here brother, but I won't. You are never coming back. And I cannot suffer to live knowing I would never hold you again./
/I gave you the ocean brother. What could he give you?/
And she closed her eyes as the blade sheathed itself in her heart.
***
notes:
i actually like the girls' part the best, relena's and hilde's which is part six...i feel like such a traitor!
