Mwahahahahahahaaaaaa!! In record time, Xtine the pirate brings you chapter 3!!
Xtine's damnably logical voice: Could that be because you've already written the story, you just needed to type it??
Xtine the Pirate: ahhh.. good point....
Disclaimer: Why am I still doing these? I do own it! I DO!
Future Xtine: Careful, or I'll have to sue you... er, me.
Xtine the Pirate: Bloody law school.
...er, moving right along....
Again, I must protest that I have nothing against Duo at all!!! eyes rabid, knife wielding Duo fans ((cough JEN cough)) with trepidation I mean, look! I LOVE Zechs, he's my koi, and I killed him!! goes into shock again
....wait. That argument wasn't exactly in my favour, was it.... Nevermind.
This one's for Kagirinai!! [[hugs]]
Chapter 3: Death
I had hated that day, still hated the memory of that day. So few people were there...so few who had cared enough to attend.
Quatre hadn't....
Trowa hadn't....
Even Wufei was there only for the sake of duty; Zechs being a fellow Preventer.
I could see the uneasiness in the eye of the handful of his cowrkers who had been bullied into going. They knew that they didn't belong there. I could see it in their wandering, restless eyes, hear it in the whispering rustle of their clothing as they shifted uncomfortably.
And in their eyes.... uneasiness, yes...
...and relief.
Zechs wasn't an easy person to get along with; he was caustic, arrogant, and short-tempered. He was likeable enough, unless he thought someone was a complete idiot, but even those he liked could never completely be relaxed around him. He was too intense. Only another former Gundam Pilot could really understand that.
After all; everyone knew that Zechs had tried to destroy the Earth Sphere when he had been the Leader of White Fang. Everyone knew he was the "Lightning Count" of Oz infamy. Everyone knew he was violent, how he had beaten a man half to death before killing himself.
No one knew him, except for Treize....
The others were merely glad he was gone.
The only other face that held a shadow of sincerity on that somber, black shrouded day was Lady Une. She had never approved of Zechs when in Oz, but they had been friends, after a fashion, later on. She understood about Treize. If they didn't agree, at least there was no lies between them. Unlike Noin, who hovered on the fringes of the crowd, tears and rain streaking her mascara, though I saw the new diamond ring on the chain about her neck.
She was there to be comforted, to be granted some sort of closure.
It made me laugh.
((Death could grant you your absolution, but Shinigami hates liars....))
The memory of the Oz pilot was discarded by the rest of the world, save us three. Two would remember him with fondness. One with fear; if Death had his way. Poor Lucrezia would be terrified by the whispering sound of her former lover's voice in the night, sounds of footsteps on the stairs to keep her awake.
A final apology from the God of Death to a fallen Angel of the Dawn.
He had been forgotten, save for the grim echo of past transgressions. His was a name with which to threaten unruly children --- "Go to bed now, or the Demon King Zechs Merquise will take you down to hell on his red dragon" --- the name endured. Perhaps it would have made him smile.
Even Lucifer was an angel before he fell.
Zechs had been forgotten. Just like me.
::I won't be ignored::
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OWARI!!!
Hee hee, the plot thickens! What did Duo have to apologize for, that he would take his spare time to rig Noin's house and thus torment the evil woman?? What will he do next????
...good question.
((sorry this chapter was so short! Will make it up to you!!))
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