Waiting for Setsuna
by DDFA (Mark A Page)

Part Nine - The Decay

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Scene: Haruka and Michiru, sitting on a brick wall in an empty park,
somewhere in Tokyo. In the background are the sounds of distant
explosions and various emergency vehicles. There is smoke blowing
across the sky from somewhere in another part of town. They are
both staring off into space.


Haruka: She's late.

Michiru: Yes, she's late.

Haruka: Very very late.

Michiru: Yes, she's very very late.

Haruka: .....

Michiru: Probably off having an illicit affair with Mamoru-
san....

Haruka: MICHIRU!

Michiru: Teehee.

Godot: Excuse me.

Haruka jumps in surprise at the sudden appearance of an old man.

Haruka: Erk!

Godot: Oh, I'm so terribly sorry.

Haruka: Who the hell are you?

Godot: The name's Godot.... I heard you were waiting for
somebody, and thought I could give you a few pointers on
the art.

Haruka: Eh?

Michiru: On what? The art of waiting?

Godot: No no no.... The art of making people wait.... I often
use it to get back at all those bastards who have held
me up in my life.... Lemme tell you. There was this
pair....

Haruka: Oh KAMI!

Michiru: Somebody! Stop him before he starts reciting an old
story....


Cut Scene: Ami and Makoto are lying on a beach in Hawaii, in the
skimpiest of swimsuits, sunning themselves.


Makoto: You're right, you know.... This is so much better than
Tokyo in the mid winter.

Ami: Told you so.... You should always take my advice when
it comes to holidays. I ALWAYS know what I'm talking
about.

Makoto: Pity nobody else does.

Ami: What was that?

Makoto: Oh, nothing.... Nothing.... I was just contemplating
the sky.

Ami: Yes, it's so blue.

Makoto: Very blue, indeed.

Ami: With the tiniest speckles of clouds.

Makoto: Yes. Yes, they are clouds, aren't they.

Ami: Well, of course they are. I ALWAYS know what I'm
talking about.

Makoto: Yes, yes, yes.... You're the smartarse amongst us all.

Ami: What was THAT?


Ami sits up, scowling at Makoto, who ignores her.


Makoto: You know, I wonder how that pair of lame-ass Outers are
going at waiting in our place?

Ami: Who cares? I'm having a good time.


Ami lies back down.


Ami: Ah.... We should have done this a long time ago.

Makoto: We couldn't.... Our paypacket only increased upon the
signing of our last contract.

Ami: Yeah, you're right about that.

Makoto: Best we could afford, when the show started, was a trip
to a hot springs in the mountains.

Ami: How positively quaint.

Makoto: Not to mention hokey....

Ami: I bet the slavering hoardes of hentais out there would
have given an arm and a leg to see those moments....

Makoto: Yeah, they would have.

Ami: Amusing how I always seemed to come out on top in all
the character polls, too....

Makoto: Stop bragging, you blue-haired bint.

Ami: Number one on the Animage character poll, I was.

Makoto: Gawd, here she goes again.

Ami: I knocked that lame-ass Nausicaa flat! Boring Miyazaki
slag.... Gets a role in ONE movie, and everyone wants
her as their daughter. Well, I showed them.

Makoto: And then you were booted from number one. I hear the
fight is now between a firebrand sorceress and and blue-
haired chick with a stock line.

Ami: .....

Makoto: "Baka", she says.... I really hate it when catchy
little quotes like that become the in thing.

Ami: .....

Makoto: What's wrong with you? You've gone quiet.

Ami: I've just realised....

Makoto: What?

Ami: It's.... It's all over.

Makoto: What ARE you talking about?

Ami: We.... We now only exist in the minds of the dedicated
fans.... Our show is no more....

Makoto: Oh, don't get all moody.... There'll be some great
revival, one day.... Bandai always milks its cash cows
dry, you should know that.

Ami: I.... suppose you're right.

Makoto: Well, I ALWAYS know what I'm talking about.

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: Bitch.

Makoto: Ah ah ah, no claws, thankyou. We're on holiday.

Ami: I'm not so sure this was a good idea, anymore.

Makoto: What is it then? Chopped liver?

Ami: It's.... kinda strange, but I have a strange feeling
this really isn't happening....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: Like.... this is some kind of diversion.... That we're,
in truth, still back in Tokyo, waiting for Minako-chan.

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: Now you've got me going....

Ami: Eh?

Makoto: I'm getting kinda freaked out, here.

Ami: What?

Makoto: I've got the same feeling as you.

Ami: No! Don't say that.... It might be TRUE.

Makoto: But it isn't true, is it? I mean, we're here, on a
beach in Hawaii, aren't we?

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: Well, we ARE, aren't we?

Ami: The sky is so blue.

Makoto: Don't change the subject.

Ami: It looks to me just like the sky in Tokyo....

Makoto: Stop that.... You're scaring me.

Ami: Mako-chan....

Makoto: What?


Ami turns and looks at Makoto.


Ami: I've always wanted to know....

Makoto: What?

Ami: Ever since that episode with Haruka and all that....

Makoto: What? Come on, what?

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: Do you prefer margarine to butter?

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: .....

Ami: .....

Makoto: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!


END OF PART 9

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Will Minako ever arrive? Are Ami and Makoto on a beach in Hawaii,
or is it all a figment of their imaginations? Stay tuned for the
next exciting installment of the enthralling wait by Ami and Makoto,
in "Waiting for Minako", brought to you by Death. If it's good
enough for Kenny, it's good enough for YOU! ^_^

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