There You'll Be
Written by Star
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Chapter Two
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In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky
In my heart there'll always be a place for you
For all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
(Faith Hill)
Love burns like a fire; strong, fiery and passionate, gentle, caressing and yielding. I couldn't help but wonder what, if any kind of flame D-boy and I had. Protective, but passionate? What is it about him that makes me want to cling to hope? Why do I still remember him, unable to get him out of my thoughts? Surely if we were meant for each other...
Aren't bells supposed to ring or something like that?
Why does everything have to be so complicated?
I think I preferred it when I was blissfully unaware of the double edged sword called love. So powerful, it can cut through your inner demons and triumph over the anguish of the past. So powerful, once taken away it leaves a wound deep and painful, you die a slow agonizing death. Not really dead, but not quite alive, the world seems to stand still and not proceed anywhere.
I never thought it was possible; to love someone so much that the world literally will die without him.
Earth is falling to her knees, its children turning on each other while they scrounge in the dirty bowels for the means of prolonging a signed death warrant.
D-boy, our only hope is gone.
Why bother any more?
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"Come back here you thieving bastard!" Noaru chuckled gruffly as he picked up speed and dodged another branch. Sliding down a shallow ravine Noaru forced his heavy breathing still, much to the protest of his heaving lungs.
"You think he'd the one who attacked Marsh's place last week?"
"Got a lot of nerve to take from us." Noaru's eyes rolled back as the lazy guards whined about their lost dinners. He thought that would be the end of it, that they'd give up and leave.
No such luck.
Noaru heard the sounds of guns reloading, of menacing laughter mixed with curses. Shit, how was he supposed to get out of this?
Think Noaru, think!
"Hey, who's that?"
"Hey pretty lady, what you doing out here all by your lonesome, hmm?"
Noaru's eyes snapped open when he heard Aki respond.
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"What ya doing out here all by yourself little lady?" Aki felt the bile of contempt rise, but composed, kept it down. A year ago, she'd happily comply with a little combat, but the fighting spirit inside her has now dimmed to a flickering dying candle in the wind.
"I've heard there's been some problems on the plantations; I've disturbed a thief in my garden. I'd be so grateful," Aki's grew husky. "If one of you boys could deal with him. I'm all by myself with no way to defend myself."
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Aki stared after the disappearing group with pale contempt. She looked in Noaru's direction and her face distorted in disdain.
"Noaru, it's not going to take them long to figure out, even morons like them." Noaru scrambled out of the ravine and shook his head.
"What a cool liar you are, Kisaragi-sa. You take my breath away; since when could you speak like a sultry temptress?"
Suddenly, Aki slapped him. Hard.
"You bloody idiot!"
"Excuse me?"
"We have enough food, but no, you have to piss off people who have enough fire power to take over a country!"
"Aki, they've been taking it from the local farmers and I..."
"And what about your feet? You may not give a damn whether or not they get infected..." Aki face stilled, as she turned it in the direction of her 'garden'. "We have to go, now."