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A Snipers Magic Bullet
~Chapter Three: Kisses and Questions~
Cloy awoke to a shifting beside her. She had just realized where she was at the moment. And realized that Schwarz was sleeping beside her. She rolled over to look at him and saw his tearstained mask. She didn't quite understand why he would cry. She closed her eyes, though, before he could look down and see her looking up at him.
Soon, he turned his head away again, and she sat up next to him and sat her hand across his. His head immediately snapped back to look at her and their eyes caught each other. Schwarz found that he couldn't turn away from the eyes he knew so well.
It startled him when she brought a finger up to his cheek and caught a tear and when she asked "why are you crying?"
He turned away then and said "It's complicated. You wouldn't understand."
"Try me." She said as she turned his head back to her and looked him in the eye again.
Schwarz actually thought about telling her the truth now. But then questions started flooding his mind. "What if she tells Domon?; What if she wants nothing to do with me after I tell her?; what if she doesn't love me anymore?" He asked himself. Mainly the last two questions troubled him. If she were to tell Domon he could deal with it. But if she didn't love him and want nothing to do with him after was something he didn't want to deal with. Something he couldn't deal with.
"I'd rather not talk about it." He replied and turned away again.
"It's always better to talk about it." She said with kinder eyes then he'd ever seen in his life.
"I'd still rather not." He assured.
She sat up closer and got a cloth out of her pocket. Schwarz watched her out the corner of his eye, but still didn't move.
She started to wipe up the still wet tears on his cheeks but his hands came up to hers and steadied them. He softly kissed the back of her hand and said "it's alright. I'll be alright." he put her hands down in his lap with his. "Just knowing you care is enough for me."
She hadn't noticed up until then that he was wearing a half-mask. It was a mask that only covered part of his face. But enough to obscure his identity. She slowly brought her lips closer and he followed the flow at the same pace as her and brought his closer too.
They kissed, and when they kissed it felt very familiar to her. She knew she had been kissed like this before. "But it isn't possible is it? I've only known Schwarz since the beginning of the gundam fights, right?" she thought. But at that point, being reminded of things she hadn't thought about in a long time, she wasn't so sure.
She felt his damp mask brush against her check and remembered that he had cried some, and then pulled away asking "Why were you crying? I really want to know."
Her eyes, he noticed, showed innocence and he was reminded of the young girl she once was. When he looked at her again, he saw that young, innocent girl that he remembered, and wanted to just take her in his arms and hold her protecting her from everything, and to tell her everything.
"Something from my past." He replied, and looked away a little. She put her hand on the side of his face, and felt the salt from his tears. Then, with her lips, she felt each tear stain on his cheeks and soothed each spot with a kiss. Schwarz felt a slight tingle where her warm, soft lips touched him, and then felt better with each little kiss. She was doing her best to sooth his soul, and make him feel better.
"What kind of something?" she asked between each kiss.
Schwarz let out a sigh, a deep sigh that came when you were either out of breath, or recalling memories you never wanted to recall. "A faint memory, of what I use to be." He took a moment to dwell on the words he just said, then pulled away saying "it's getting late; I believe we should get to bed."
"You're avoiding something, I know it." Cloy said, looking him right in the eye.
Schwarz shot her a slight glare but squelched it saying "we can talk more in the morning." Even Cloy had to admit his eyes showed a little exhaustion, so she decided not to pursue the subject anymore that night, and laid back down beside him.
Schwarz nodded when she laid down and laid down himself, away from her. But she sat up again, rolled him over to her asking "you're changing before my eyes, what's wrong, really?"
He sighed, knowing she needed some kind of answer without actually telling her so he said "overwhelming guilt of what I've done." He wasn't far from the truth in fact. He was feeling overwhelming guilt from the crimes he had committed. But she didn't need to know it was as Kyoji it all happened.
"Guilt, what do you mean guilt?" she asked. To ever answer he gave, she always had a question. He noticed. But he was too tired to stay awake any longer. He fell to sleep like that, seeing her pretty face as the last thing before his eyes closed tight.
She smiled at the innocence of his sleeping face. Even if it was masked. She sighed thinking she would get the answers from him in the morning and promptly fell to sleep beside him.
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Ok, very short I know. But the next one will be longer I promise. I was so pressed for time when I wrote this that I don't know how good it is, so R+R for me, please. Thanks. See you next chapter.