"He has come home."
"It's about time!" Meiran exclaimed, punching the air excitedly with one fist. She had thought she might never find her wayward husband. For all that the Gundams were often in the news, they were remarkably hard to find. That undoubtedly made them safer but it also made Meiran extremely frustrated. Now though...now she could finally catch up with WuFei, tell him she was alive, and fight by his side.
Maybe he wouldn't want her to fight by him. She was, after all, a woman and had been beaten by him before. But she could learn. She was learning. There was a cause worth fighting for out there and, even if she wasn't strong, she wanted to fight for justice with him. She knew she could do it.
But first... Meiran looked down at her outfit and smirked. She would need to change her clothes. She definitely wanted to surprise WuFei when she arrived. After all, it wasn't every day that someone's dead wife returns and she wanted him to know that she really had missed him and that he really hadn't missed her enough.
She grinned again and set in a course for the colony.
She had taken a short nap so she would be fresh and it was a beeping from the console that woke her. Worried that something was wrong she hurried to the cockpit expecting to find a navigational glitch or that the coffee maker was broken or something else equally nominal in importance.
Instead she stared out the window at the wreck of a colony. There would be no life there, no family, no field of flowers, no hidden Gundam, no WuFei.
Desperately she flew at the controls to the shuttle, somehow thinking if she believed it hard enough that she would have accidentally gone to some other colony, some other sector, some other waking nightmare that didn't really belong to her. That it was an accident. That her home wasn't really destroyed.
But the colony stayed there past the shuttle's bubble of warmth and air, stuck in the cold heartlessness of space. Its own broken, shattered pieces floated about it. The numbers and letters on the shuttle's controls confirmed what she didn't want to believe.
And Meiran fell to the floor of the shuttle, missing the pilot's seat entirely. The floor was cold and the little designs in it built for traction bit into her skin but she didn't care. Her eyes swimming with tears, they remained fixed on the broken twisted pieces of metal where the people she knew had died.
WuFei had escaped her again.
Obviously WuFei isn't dead and she'll figure that out eventually. I'm so excited that people seem to be liking this! It makes me so happy. Anyway, please review!