My Morphine:

Ch 7: Where did all her tears go?

((whee, hopefully a Meara Chappie. The Title, "Where did all her tears go?" was inspired by a lain "commercial" as it said on the DVD menu.))

Thomas let out a saddened, but relieved sigh as he stroked Raven's dark hair. He was finally asleep and seemed somewhat at peace. He kissed him softly, all over his wan face, still holding him close to his skin.

His head perked up as he heard a slight crash and a muffled scream.

/Meara?/

"That's it! I've had it!" she screamed as Reese tried to comfort her.

"Meara, darling, please--"

"No!" She shouted, shrinking away from her touch again. "I'm sick of this! I can't stand by and watch anyone else I love and care for get hurt! That blast was from out forces new weapon! Hiltz fired at us, at Van, knowing that we were there, knowing that we would be affected by it! He killed Shadow! He meant to, as well!" She screamed, tears clinging to her eyelashes but not falling.

"Meara, you don't know that--"

"Don't I?! Well!? You're the mind reader, Reese, tell me, do I or don't I?!" She said stolidly as the Zoidian fell silent. "Hiltz must pay, he must die!"

"Meara!" Reese cried, freely weeping at her lover's sharp words. "Don't you think you're losing your head about this? Please…calm down…"

The beautiful brunette's eyes filled moreso with tears as she hushed, leaning against the wall for support and blinked them away.

"It's not fair…"she whispered as Reese nestled her face into the taller's chest.

"I know it's not….I know this hurts you, it hurts me too as well as Raven and Thomas but we have to carry on! We are all we have left, Meara …I promise I'll never leave you…" The cerulean haired Zoidian looked sincerely into her big green eyes. "I love you."

The sniper weakly smiled and held her close. "I love you, too, but I'm not going to sit on my ass and let that sorry fuck, Hiltz get away with this."

"But!--"

"No buts." She shook her head softly and let Reese go. "I'm going to kill Hiltz, or die trying."

Her lover's azure eyes filled with tears as she pleaded uselessly.

Thomas looked down at Raven who remained sleeping. Slowly and apprehensively slid his beloved from his embrace and quickly dressed, emerging from their bedroom.

He looked to Meara and spoke up. "I'm coming with you."

"Eh?"

"You heard me, you won't be able to do it alone. Kill Hiltz, I mean." She said nothing. "He hurt Raven, I'm not letting him get away with that or killing Shadow."

"Fine." She turned and grabbed her staff, Reese looking back and forth between the two.

"You're both crazy!"

"It's your decision to join us or not." Thomas said, collection his things and inspecting the BEEK AI gun.

She sighed and nodded. "All right, I'm coming." She paused. "What about, Raven?"

"Stay here with him, then." Meara said as she shook her head.

"Uh-uh! You're both crazy, you need someone sane to go with you, I'm coming."

Meara said nothing as she sat on the sofa and materialized a pen and paper. She wrote quickly, then handed it to Thomas with a sharp hairpin.

"Put it on the door." She instructed simply.

He wandered back into the room and did one last check on Raven. He put another blanket on him and brushed the hair from his face, kissing him softly. Last, he stuck the letter on the door, adding a small note from him and shut it as he left.

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Meara led the way, strangely silent as they trudged to New Helic City at top speed.

"Out objective is a stealth Barrage. Thomas, When we get there I need you to do a complete analysis of the situation, I'll get into the best position to use the long range rifle, Reese, you shall hang back, be ready to use the charged particle beam, Thomas, after the analysis, be prepared to go all out on my signal. Do you understand?"
"Yes."

The Dibison moved as sneakily as such a large Zoid could and hid between two semi-standing buildings.

"BEEK, begin the analysis, combat strategy." he whispered to his pride and joy who whistled an affirmative.

Meara lay on her stomach, already peering through the scope, bottling up her emotions again., hidden in a nearby building, ready to shoot through a broken window.

"Mea, come in…" Thomas said over the Com. Link.

"Yeah? What's BEEK say?"

"Sending data now."

She looked at the monitor and exhaled slowly. "Uh-huh."

"BEEK says that once Hiltz uses the shield you should use the three shot method."

"Roger." She said, opening a link to Reese. "Ree?"

"Yes?"

"Change in plans. On my command fire the beam, so begin charging it now."

"Gotcha."

Meara looked through the scope again, paying extreme attention to the Death Stinger's every movement.

"All charged, Prepared to fire the Charged Particle Beam on command."

"Good." She said, watching it half turn, leaving an exposed shot to the Zoid core. "NOW!"

The beam sped toward the enemy Zoid, causing an explosion.

/Ah! Shield's up!/ She quickly fired. /One …two …three … and four for good luck./

"What the--?!" She heard Hiltz yell.

"Now, Thomas! Reese, recharge and fire again!" She ordered as she and the Dibison unleashed a carpet bombing on him.

"I-I think we got him!" Reese said excitedly as the Death Stinger deployed it's AZ 12o mm laser beam gun at the sniper's position.

Meara screamed as the Geno-Sniper crashed to the ground and she smacked her head against the scope.

"Meara! Meara!" Thomas yelled unleashing another Megalomax on the Death Stinger.

"Uhn…" She groaned, pushing herself up, crawling from the cockpit. The enemy Zoid opened it's canopy, Thomas moving the Dibison to the downed pilot.

He got out and helped Meara to her feet as she glared smugly at Hiltz.

"What is the meaning of this!?" He bellowed as Reese's Geno-Saurer entered the premises.

"Hn! Don't play dumb, Hiltz." she hissed as he narrowed his black eyes.

"Mutiny…worthless fools."

"You thought you could kill Shadow? Well you're wrong."

"Hn, I did what was necessary to keep Raven going. He'd gone soft!"

"Soft?! So you killed his Organoid?! I was wrong Hiltz!" Meara fumed, standing assertively without Thomas' help. "Yes! I was wrong about you, you're not just low , you're disgraceful!"

The red haired man let out a quiet laugh, standing taller on the Death Stinger. "I'm glad you think of me so. Low or not, your rebellion doesn't sit well with me, and I will not allow you to act this way."

"Hiltz, we have proven ourselves, we have defeated you, now let us go!" The brunette said pleadingly.

"Let you go?" He seemed amused by the concept.

"Yes! We're free now, Hiltz, as Raven had been before you used his pride against him." She growled as he laughed.

"Never, will I release you, not even when I die, you all belong to me." He gave a feral grin and stared hard down on them.

[To be continued…]

(1/4/03) So I got to see the final 4. Whee. Wrote a Yaoi (thomvRav) ending, will be posted tomorrow most likely. Mata:

Cliffhanger! Gomen Nasai, but I'm typing up Eight when I finish this. *dances around to Tori Amos' new CD* Ah! I almost forgot! I'm going to be adding a new character, he approached me with the idea, but I'm not sayin' who until he makes his debut. *giggles evilly*

Mata ne, Minna-san!

-Naomi Hun†er.

Disc: The title is c/o a lain preview and I do not own either lain or Zoids. I wish I owned lain, she's so cute!!! ^_^ That and there would be more Lain-x-Arisu. And as for Zoids, we all know the chaos I'd ensue. ^_-