It had been six weeks since it happened.
She was sitting at her window fiddling with her fingers unconsciously think about him. Her very red lips sat without peace on a pale face. She bit one of them. She bit the other one. She suddenly felt restless and stood up. She paced the room. She thrust her arms this way and that trying to get out the energy.
'I-' She stopped her thoughts. 'I won't say it.'
'You do though.'
"I don't."
'Yes, you do.'
"But I shouldn't!"'But you do.'
"But-"'Face it!'
"No!"'Fine!'
"Fine!"
Rei sat back down at the dark windowsill. She bit her lip.
"I want to see him again!" She heaved. "Is that enough for you?!" She finished the argument. Her mind didn't say anything anymore. From here on out she spoke her thoughts allowed. "So what? How long has been? Almost six weeks. But you'd think that after all this time I would have forgotten him."
She covered her face with her hands. "I don't even know who he is."
He couldn't resist staying out the next few night after it had happened. He had questions he wanted to ask her. But she did not come the next night nor the next night after that. She did not come the week after that nor the week after that. Now so much time had gone by he had stopped going outside. But he had always stayed up as late as he could. He always watched his window. And scanned the ground with his eyes one last time before retiring to bed. He would always sigh and try to remember what she looked like. Her fuku was red and it had purple bows that matched her eyes. The fire in her words and the passion of her character made him remember those eyes.
It was turning into spring again.
Tonight he was looking up at the stars. He could see the moon (as usual) but the planet Mars could be seen tonight as well. He tried not to look at it.
After much wrestling with his soul, he spoke.
"I'm thinking about you." He paused, "I've tried not to but you just keep coming back to me. Tonight it's terribly bad. I'm not sure why." He ran his masculine hand through his wavy blonde currents. "And the worst part is, I don't know who you are." He accidentally looked up and saw the planet. He tried to take his eyes away but only his head moved. An idea struck him. His blue eyes were stopped solidly on the red planet.
"I-" He stopped. "I have an idea." He laughed to himself and smiled shaking his head from side to side. He looked over his shoulder to make sure no one was there or had heard him.
'Well why not?' He thought and carefully he began to weave a plot.
"Ridiculous. There is no way she could be hear. What did I expect? She's just going to be walking around? What a fool trip. But still. I would have hated myself had I not come." He spoke to himself to keep from going insane. He had gone to Mars of course. Of course, he had been walking around for most of the night. I had the feeling the sun would rise soon. He sighed and looked up to the thick stone walls of the Phobos-Demos Castle.
"Ridiculous."
There was no noise that started it. There was no motion that drew his attention so suddenly. More like a feeling. He felt, as well as it can be described, that his destiny was hanging above him. More than he could have possibly know just then, she was.
A black frame cut the picture of a thousand of stars on an ebony sky. A deep red fuku fluttered in the unfelt wind.
"What are you doing here?" Her voice was sharp and if he didn't know better, slightly afraid.
He did not speak. He didn't know why: perhaps with joy, perhaps with fear, or perhaps with the greatest of wonder at really seeing the one who had been in his dreams for weeks. (Yeah, that might be it.)
She came down from the branch of the tree and landed neatly in front of him. He failed to notice the open window above and behind her from the castle.
She looked like he felt, completely flabbergasted. Almost speechless. Almost.
"What are you doing here?" she repeated gaining back her confidence every moment that passed.
"I came to see-" he stopped short. Suddenly it sounded foolish. Although his heart was racing he couldn't tell her the truth out loud. But by the amorous look in his eyes, she guessed what he was thinking.
"Well, that's…stupid. You could be caught."
"Yes, but-"
"If you are they will send you to jail-"
"I didn't-"
"-and you'll have to face the severe law of Mars." She crossed her arms and glared at him with those pointed eyes.
"I know the consequences." He too, was getting frustrated. She wouldn't let him speak!
"Then what-"
"How are you?" He just cut her short.
The question was so sudden she could not speak for a moment.
"Why didn't you come back to see me?" He was hurt and she could see it.
Her reflexes kicked in. "You're such a baby."
He was offended but not too much. He was much more startled than hurt.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"You are too!" Outside she was cross, her fists were thrust strait down towards her hips. Inside she was smiling.
"Well I came all the way here. How much of a baby am I?"
"Well you didn't have to."
"But I wanted to."
"Well who's fault is that?"
She bit her lip after saying it. She meant it as an insult. The look he gave her told her exactly who's fault it was. It seemed to say, "You really need to ask?" He blushed and averted his eyes. She blushed clenched her fists even tighter into her gloves looking at the ground as if it should break open for her at any moment.
The wind blew around them. It was very cold and he became suddenly aware that she was not very well covered for the spring breeze. He scanned her for a moment. He liked being so close to her.
They were very close now. With his head bent they were not a foot from one another. Even in this dead cold night he felt warm to be near her. Her face was hidden in the shadows. She looked, to him, like himself. He couldn't help but smirk. She seemed to understand him so well.
"I am glad to see you again." His voice was deep and round. It was sincere as any she had ever heard. She could not gain the courage to look at him. She was still looking at the ground. She thought for a moment. Her heart was pounding; her hair felt light as it whipped through the air. Her fists were clenched.
She felt like a child but she also felt like a woman; grown, strong and beautiful. Not just the way most people saw her, a firm beautiful body with perfect, princess-like manners. He liked her for who she was. Even when she spat on him and told him to go, still he would stay by her side. She couldn't tell why but something inside her told her that for whatever reason, he (at least) liked her. To make matters worse, she could smell his sweet fragrance. She liked it so much. What was that shampoo?
She nodded, her eyes still on the ground, her face motionless and un-showing of he emotions pounding through her heart.
She could tell he was trying to read her body language.
"I should go." He looked back at the ground.
"But-" She began and looked up at his youthful face. It made her stop.
He raised his blond eyebrows at her. She guessed that he could be as sarcastic as her. Such strong features in that face: a pointed chin and broad shoulders. It reminded her of that first trip to Earth so long ago.
"Who are you? What's your name?"
He smiled. It gave her shivers.
"General Jedite. King of the East upon the country of Earth."
She nodded.
He laughed. "Will we never have a conversation longer than these short forbidden stopovers?"
Oh but her face was so firm and lovely. Even in that harsh nod she gave him there was passion.
"I don't know."
"I know." He drew in a breath feeling the cold air starting to fill him. "Good bye Sailor Mars."
"Good bye-" She considered for a moment swiftly shifting her eyes to the right once and then slowly blinking having come to a decision. Then soft spoke, "General Jedite."
Her hand twitched backwards at her side. He was already reaching for it. He saw her twitch and he stopped in mid motion. She cursed to herself. But she did not move. This, he obviously took as an excuse to continue. He, once again took her fingers into his own, horizontally pulled her glove this time and pressed his warm lips to the back of her hand.
While his eyes were closed this time, she blushed and hid a look of blissful yearning.
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