(I need love, love

Ooh, ease my mind

And I need to find time

Someone to call mine)

"Ami!" His voice called to her in her dreams, lonely. Ever since Beryl's defeat, he'd been calling to her, pleading with her, his anguish echoing across a thousand years of slavery and sorrow.

She wasn't going to answer him.

(My mama said

You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

But it's a game of give and take)

Zoicite sighed, wistfully. "Ami..." He whispered, finally giving up, admitting defeat. Why would his beloved Princess ever answer him, given what he'd done? Destroyed her home, her world, her people.

Her.

It was hopeless.

"Zoicite?"

(You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

Just trust in a good time

No matter how long it takes)

His head snapped up, and he stared disbelievingly. She was here, she'd come! He stood, then dropped to his knees. He could never ask her forgiveness, had no right to. A General, a traitor had no right to ask a senshi's forgiveness.

"Zoicite?" Her voice was hesitant, frightened. It pierced his heart to hear that tone from her.

"I'm sorry. I can never ask you to forgive what I have done, but I can regret, can wish that I had never been so foolish, so blind. I had everything, life, love, happiness, and I threw it away. I wronged you, and I am eternally sorry."

(How many heartaches must I stand

Before I find the love to let me live again

Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on

When I feel my strength, ooh, it's almost gone

I remember mama said)

"I forgive you."

(You can't hurry love

No you'll just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

It's a game of give and take

How long must I wait

How much more must I take

Before lonliness

Will cause my heart, heart to break?)

Zoicite's eyes widened in shock, and he looked up at forgiving blue eyes set in a pretty, intelligent face. Eyes that forgave him for youthful foolishness and pride. His voice cracked as he spoke, tears pouring down his face.

"Ami... Mercury... Beloved..."

(No, I can't bear to live my life alone

I grow impatient for a love to call my own

But when I feel that I, I can't go on

Well these precious words keep me hanging on

I remember mama said)

She smiled, whispering back to him.

"Zay... Zoicite... Beloved..."

Her own tears rivaled his.

(You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

Well, it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

Just trust in a good time

No matter how long it takes, now break!)

Time seemed to stand still, as if taking a snapshot of this scene. The warrior king forgiven, his princess waiting. Still there was one complication.

"I'm dead."

"I will wait for you."

Zoicite's tears slowed and stopped. "One last kiss, until we meet again?" He whispered. Ami smiled.

"Yes."

(Now love, love don't come easy

But I keep on waiting

Anticipating for that soft voice

To talk to me at night

For some tender arms

Hold me tight

I keep waiting

Ooh, till that day)

According to an old story, there have been five great kisses and one truly spectacular kiss since the world began. At that moment, when a pair that had been tragic even before Romeo and Juliet met in what was to be a final kiss, the second truly spectacular kiss was added to the list. Both were to absorbed in their kiss to see the small, shadowy figure that watched them, or to here her words.

"Even Death has mercy, Zoicite, General of the South. You are released from your obligation to me."

There was a flash of light, and of dark laughter as Saturn granted a safe passage back to the world of the living.

(But it ain't easy (Love don't come easy)

No, you know it ain't easy

My mama said)

Ami blinked awake, sobbing quietly, then gasping when a warm hand tilted her chin up to met sparkling green eyes.

"Weeping, sweet princess? Hardly neccessary."

"But, how?"

"Don't ask, just feel." His eyes sparkled with joy, and Zoicite leaned in for a kiss. Everything was quiet for a while, until Ami's mother walked in to check on her daughter.

(You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

It's a game of give and take

My mama said

You can't hurry love

No, you'll just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

It's a game of give and take)

"NOONDA!?!?"[1]

"Mother!"/"Mrs. Mizuno!"

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I felt in a sappy, support Ami x Zoicite mood, so I wrote a song fic. Any flames will be answered by an enraged General of the South and his Princess.

[1] Noonda= What the hell?