Dreams and Visions: Chapter 3
By mercy_angel_09
Rating PG-13
Disclaimers: I don't own Escaflowne and I'm certainly not making any money off of this venture, so it'd be sort of pointless to sue me. (Besides, I'm a poor college student; you'd lose more money than you'd gain.) The creative geniuses behind EscaFlowne are Hajime Yatate and Shoji Kawamori, Sunrise, Bandai, and I'm sure a few other companies that I'm forgetting or have no idea about.
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All though Allen and Celena were staying with him for two months, he had lived through nearly two weeks without a hitch. And that made Allen and Merle slightly nervous.
It was during a quiet evening that Allen approached Van.
"Your highness, may I have a word with you?" Allen asked.
Van looked up at the twenty-five-year-old Knight of Caelie with full attention. "Of course, you are the ambassador after all."
"And that's why I want to talk to you," Allen said, sitting in the seat across from Van. "Since I've been here there's been absolutely no resentment towards me. Especially after what happened."
Van shrugged. "I see no reason to hold it against you after four years Allen. Celena is a very charming young lady and you are well, you."
Allen nodded, and then noticed what was around Van's neck. "That's Hitomi's pendant. The one that my father gave to her grandmother."
Van nodded. "Yes. And Hitomi gave it to me so that I could remember her."
Allen sunk back into his chair. "Whoa. I had no idea."
"Not a lot of people do. They ask where I got it and I said that it was a family heirloom. Draconians are the descendents of Atlantis."
"Yes, I suppose that is true. But may I ask what makes you so happy these days?" Allen asked.
"I see her every night."
"Is that so. In your dreams I suppose."
"Of course."
"You know, I did ask her to marry me. But she never gave me an answer."
"I know. But I don't think that you'll get one now."
"I guess that you're right," Allen sighed. "So, what have you been up to?"
Van chuckled at the man that was sitting across from him. "I don't think that you really care, but I'm going to tell you anyway."
~*~
Hitomi sat on the examining table nervously swinging her feet. The doctor had taken a look and then decided that he needed to take a blood sample and test it to see if there was anything wrong.
Now she was stuck waiting, and there was nothing that could make her feel worse than having to wait. After what felt like an eternity, the doctor returned.
"Good news!" the doctor said. "You're not sick."
Hitomi breathed a sigh of relief. "Then what is it?"
"Congratulations, you're pregnant!"
"I'm what?!"
"You're going to be a mother little lady," the doctor said.
"That's impossible! I've never done . . . that." 'Not in the real world anyway,' she mentally added.
"That's surprising because your hymen is broken."
Hitomi remembered back to her health class and then blushed when she realized what the doctor was talking about. "Great. And he promised no consequences," she muttered.
"Oh, this is an unwanted pregnancy?" the doctor asked.
"No, it's just that, well, erm, it's complicated. I'm sure you have other patients to attend to. Thank you," Hitomi said, grabbing her jacket.
"You're welcome," the doctor said as he escorted her out.
Hitomi saw Yukari dozing in a chair and wandered over to her friend. "Hey, do you want to go out for ice cream?"
Yukari started and then yawned. "What? Oh, yeah. And you can tell me what's wrong with you."
Hitomi sighed. "Then maybe we should skip the food and go straight to the apartment."
Yukari noticed that Hitomi wasn't acting like her self and then shrugged. "Sure. Come on, let's go."
~*~
Van felt a slight disturbance, but he dismissed it as nothing. He stretched out on his bed, a book in tow.
"Lord Van?" a voice asked.
"Yes Merle?" Van asked back.
Merle poked her head in and smiled. "Lord Van, are you going to bed yet?"
"No Merle, not yet."
"Then can I come in and sit with you?"
Van sighed and put his book down. "Sure. Is there something you want to talk about?"
"Not really, I just want to sit with you Lord Van."
Van chuckled as Merle jumped onto his bed a curled up at his feet. "You act just like a cat sometimes."
Merle looked at him with wide blue eyes and rubbed against his feet. "I am a cat. Well, sort of."
"Of course."
"Lord Van?"
"Yes?"
"Can I stay here all night?"
"Do you have to?"
"Well, no, but-"
"Sure."
"Really?"
"Of course."
~*~
Yukari gaped at her best friend. "You're what?"
Hitomi nodded gravely. "Afraid so. How am I ever going to explain this to my parents?"
"You're on your own there."
"Yukari! I can't even explain it to myself! I have no idea how this happened."
"Didn't you say that Gaea and Earth were connected by peoples' emotions?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah. So?"
"I think that it was your pure emotions that allowed it to happen," Yukari said. "Do your parents know about Van and Gaea?"
"I told my mom all about it. Actually, she already knew. See, it was her mother, my grandmother, who first went to Gaea and apparently she had told my mother all about it. My mom asked if I had seen anyone that Grandma had met, but I told her that only person that Grandma had met died the last time she went to Gaea but I did tell her that I met his son. Mom sort of smiled and said, 'Was he cute?'"
Yukari laughed. "Well, this will make sense to your mom, but not your dad."
"We didn't tell my father for obvious reasons. And my bother, forget it."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I have to tell my mom right away before she figures it out on her own. And hopefully we can put of telling my father until I have the baby."
"Are you sure that the baby is Van's?"
"Positive. You said it your self that it was our pure emotions that allowed it to happen. I just wish that I knew how to tell him."
"In your dreams would be the most logical way."
"Oh, being a smart aleck are we?"
"Naturally. So, should we tell your mom tonight?"
"Tonight? I found out a couple of hours ago myself and you want me to tell my mom right now?"
"Have her over for dinner. Just us girls, of course. How hard can that be?"
Hitomi sighed. "I don't know."
~*~
Aww, poor Hitomi! Well, it seems as though Allen and Van are getting along (creep chuckle) but that's not always the case, now is it? So Hitomi's pregnant, she doesn't know how to tell her parents, or Van. What's going to happen next?
I can't tell you that. Yet.
Mercy_angel_09 ^.~
