Hmmm…………….Well I don't really know about this chapter. It's a cross between me rambling on and on over one subject and important information. I'm just not sure which is winning here. Probably the rambling so you might as well get on with reading it. C-ya.

Kyoshi

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Chapter Four: Don't Care

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Well you can only do something without a clue for so long before you realize what's going on. I suppose it was right after, or maybe during, the Marimea incident that it finally hit me.

I had fallen in love with him. I knew that I cared for him and trusted him and that those had been my first mistakes, but they weren't horrible. I thought I would just have to distance myself from him and everything would turn out fine. So I stayed at the circus with Catherine hoping to work him out of my system. It didn't work of course. I only found out that I hated being away from him.

I had finally figured out that he wasn't just my best friend, or the only person I'd ever trusted. He was the person I lived for, the person I would have died for. The person I wish I'd died for...

Now, what do you think I did with that revelation? Hmm? Do you suppose I thought about what consequences this little tid-bit of knowledge could bring? That I thought about how much it would affect him? Or me? Or both of us?

No. Of course I didn't. The only thing than ran through my mind was that I had to tell him. So I hopped the first shuttle to earth, then caught a cab to his house. Don't get me wrong and think I wasn't nervous. Or that I didn't have my doubts. I did. It just never occurred to me to be less than completely honest with him. I had just figured it out. It concerned him. So naturally, in my way of thinking at least, he should be the first to know.

You should have seen the look on his face when he answered the door. I thought that if nothing else the whole trip had been worth it for the smile on his face. I stepped into the house when he invited me and then blurted it out.

"Quatre, I love you."

That was all it took and I got another priceless look in the space of ten seconds. He stared at me for so long, not even moving I was afraid I had killed him. He only snapped out of it when I shook him lightly. I suppose I could have waited a while and tried to have broken it to him gently, but I would have just gotten more and more nervous and probably have just chickened out.

Besides, beating around the bush isn't my style. When he finally snapped out of it he stared at me a little more, only this time tacking on a question.

"Really?"

I nodded and before I could blink his arms were around me, with his lips pressed to mine. I was so happy I think I could have died of happiness, when he whispered back to me, I love you, too. I was in heaven. But, then, all good things must come to an end.

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T.B.C.?

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