Note: words in italics are meant for emphasis while a phrase between '' is a person whispering italics and '' are thoughts and there is writing in this chapter so what's being written is between //\\
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Epilogue
By Aku Tenshi.
Milliardo tossed back in forth in bed as the dream continually tormented his mind, with a sigh he swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood as the images passed through his mind. He knew that they weren't merely dreams but memories that were now resurfacing; and he had long since forgotten them. He shoved his feet into his slippers and pulled on his bathrobe and glanced into the crib by his bed, Anna was sleeping soundly. With that he shuffled out of the room without a glance at the digital clock on his nightstand that read two Am. Walking out into the hallway he shuffled down the hall and checked on Marimaea. As always Marimaea had kicked off the blankets to her bed and he replaced them, planting a soft kiss on her forehead. As quickly and quietly he came into the room he left the door swishing shut behind him. He slowly walked down the hallway and took a left he stopped and shook his head. The garden was left in his old house now it was right; he changed direction and opened the terrace doors. As soon as the night air hit him he was attacked by an onslaught of memories; grasping the top of his head in his hands he grimaced as he suppressed a cry.
"Milliardo?" came his wife's shaky voice as she saw what position he was in. "Milliardo?"
"It was a thunderstorm on an evening and Relena and I were playing. She ran far ahead too far for me to catch up to her, into the woods. I searched for her the lord knows I searched for her but I couldn't find her, only when I heard her scream." He pulled his head down and clenched his eyes shut. "I found her, and this servant girl one that looked similar to Relena was holding Relena's limp body in her arms a pair of rusty shears tipped with blood in her hands." He began to sob now. "She killed Relena but I must have blanked out and had a type of amnesia because I couldn't remember it at all. And then the next day, the Cinq kingdom was under siege. Oh God Lu I should have been there I should have protected her." He cried the tears pouring from his closed eyes onto the terrace floor.
Lucretzia gathered him in her arms and soothed him, "No you couldn't have and what's done is done, nothing can change it love. Not you not me not anyone it's in the past." She coaxed as she led him back to their room, "All in the past." She repeated as she looked back outside at the fading stars. 'And now I know the truth and I never wanted to know it.' Lucretzia thought as she closed and locked the terrace doors and then continued to guide Milliardo to their room.
Tasha sighed as she walked up her apartment stairs; yes she had gotten into college and proved to be quite smart really; now it was her second year in college and she still was an honor-roll student. She was now majoring in philosophy but she wanted to become a pediatrician and a surgeon as well. She shifted the bag of groceries from one arm to the other luckily for her Quatre had paid for her tuition and dorm, but this year she and her roommate had moved into an apartment. She sighed at the thought of him; he was so kind and loving he'd make some lucky girl very happy one day. She came to a halt in front of her room and dug around in her pocket for her keys; after finding them with minimal struggle she inserted the key into the lock and turned the knob. Pushing the door open she called "Alice I'm home and look I bought the groceries for this week." She frowned, as silence was her answer.
After placing down the groceries on a near-by counter she walked over to the couch in the main living area "Alice?" she called again. It was then she spotted Alice's long red locks over the side of the computer chair. "Oh ha, ha Alice not this time." She said as she turned the chair and screamed as her roommates' head fell to the floor with a thump. Behind her in the direction of her room she heard a noise hesitantly she turned around and spotted her all time fear Ida, an axe in her hand and burns covering the majority of her body.
"Why hello Tasha, I decided to pay a visit." She said her voice dry and raspy, not the voice of someone living. She lurched forward towards Tasha and she let out a blood-curdling scream.
Tasha opened her eyes; the light in her room was on and her friend Alice was shaking her. She sat up and hugged Alice tightly burying her head on her shoulder and cried. These nightmares were always recurring as if Tasha feared one day that it would become a reality. It was all a dream of course Ida's body had been found only to be charred bone. They had to ID her body by comparing it to computer files, although with how easily Ida had changed some things on the computer it left one wondering.
"I'm alright Alice, sorry for screaming." She said shakily as she regained some composure
"Do you mind telling me about it?" Alice asked her green eyes full of worry and concern.
Tasha shook her head to and fro, "No it was only a nightmare, nothing more." Tasha replied softly looking down at the floor.
"Sure and the third one this week are you sure you're okay?" Alice asked, ready at any moment if need be to get anything her friend wanted.
Tasha smiled weakly and nodded "Yeah I'm fine besides maybe it's just exam stress." She said emphasizing her point with a shrug of her shoulders.
Alice stood and walked to the door, but then turned back, "If you ever need to talk Tasha I'm right here always ready to lend an ear." And with that she left.
In her wake Tasha sighed 'I'm sorry Alice." Tasha whispered when Alice had long since left hearing range. She swung her legs over the side of her bed and stood up. As she walked over to grab her bathrobe she saw herself in the mirror, for some reason her image startled her. Her hair was now knee length, while she wore a muscle shirt and some shorts she stared for some reason because it looked as if she had changed somehow. She shook her head and shrugged as she slipped into her bathrobe and into the bathroom.
As she turned on the shower allowing the steam to billow she leaned against the sink and peered into the mirror as she turned on the water to wake herself up. She slipped out of her cotton pajamas and stepped into the shower allowing the hot water to wash her nightmare away. By the time she got out of the shower and changed into a pair of shorts and a T-shirt her hair loose, Alice was already gone. As she walked into the kitchen Tasha braided her hair into a long plait intending to let it air dry. She happened to come across the cereal bar that rested atop a note. Ripping off the wrapper of the cereal bar Tasha ate it while reading the note.
//Tasha went to go shopping and then to the library,
Alice\\
Tasha crumpled the paper with ease she tossed it into the trash bin along with the cereal wrapper. The computer was turned on and a page in the word processor was opened, a blank page. Tasha smirked, "Right my term paper for philosophy." She mused as she sat in front of the computer and began typing.
// If a person changed their appearance to become like another does that mean that they do not exist? But they can think, breathe and behave as any other healthy human being but are they really there? And what if you had gotten to know this person but they were only mimicking the life of another if they left would they actually have existed?//
Tasha paused and leaned back in the chair, looking at the picture that rested beside her it was now her that replaced Ida in that picture but did the others in some form or the other mold her to replace Relena?? She shook her head as she stared into the small face of Heero Yuy, true he hadn't loved her probably never will. But that didn't matter to Tasha right now her schoolgirl crush had long since been crushed by actual men in her life that she had come to know and admire. What she had felt for Heero she decided had been lust. Lust for something she could not have and lust for something she wanted only because of that reason. She pointed out Quatre's face and her brows slowly pulled together, Quatre she did not understand she was confused about her feelings with him for some odd reason. She sighed as she pulled herself out of the chair and stretched she was becoming thirsty and so she stood up to get a drink of water. When she returned to the computer chair she typed one more word and then saved the document and stood, she began to pace the floor a cup of water in one hand and the other posed behind her back. The shrill ringing of the phone startled her as she almost dropped the water; she set the water down and then answered the vid-phone. Up came Quatre's face.
"Hey Quatre, what can I do for you?" she asked softly a smile coming to her face without any effort.
"Well Hilde's in labor at the moment." he answered and returned her smile.
"What?!" Tasha exclaimed, "I'll be there as soon as possible!" and with that she ended the transmission and grabbed her jacket yanking it on she hurried out of the apartment her document still on the newest words in bold italics.
//No.\\
End.
Now that ended much better than my last attempt of the epilogue. There were two versions, I may or may not release the first one because I was not pleased with it. Heh well I've been tossing and turning in my sleep trying to think of a proper epilogue and I decided this one was better while the other was rushed and well just sloppy. Yes now I leave it up to you all I have started yet another story (since when haven't I?) and you must make the decision of which one I write next the choices are, "Scarlet Sky." A mystery/drama and "Fallen from Heaven to be raised in Hell." Slightly AU and some out of character it's a drama/romance/angst. So I leave it to all of you which one I should continue? ^_^