A Path of Destiny Chapter 6: On Wings of Love, a gundam wing/ac fanfic

Mistress-of-eternal-Darkness: Thanks a lot for your really kind and sweet review. I find it very encouraging, and it drags me out from my laziness, so as to write this new one. (laugh) Well, I hope that you'll enjoy it.

STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLIED: I do not own the characters they belonged to Gundam Wing. I do not own the song: "Because You Loved Me" is the property of Celine Dion.

Title: A path of destiny – On Wings of Love

Date written: 04/01/2005 (Tuesday)

Language: British English

Time zone of setting: At the end of the 49-episodes series

Notes: 1x3, yaoi, one-shot, Song lyrics are in italics.

(HEERO'S POV)

For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through through it all

Like the sunrise that signals the break of a new day, this calm and serene novelty proclaims to all the start of a new era; a newly founded one of fragile peace. I do not know how long this sweet tranquillity will last, and with all that I had came to witness over my short years of living, I do not have any doubts that there will always be some humans whose ambitious thirsts for world domination will drive them towards malicious blood-lusts that will threaten and unbalance the delicate nature of peace.

However, I am extremely thankful that I was even given this opportunity (one that I had never expected to get at all, since I had always thought before that I was going to die at war) to further my relationship with the one who had crept his way into my cold and stoic heart; a beautiful silent angel with the most enchanting emerald orbs. For now that the war has finally came to a close, the both of us could try to shake off at least some of our soul-wearying pains and sorrows, hence to allow us to be free enough to soar off together as one into the endless horizon of destiny and start our lives anew…

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

Trowa Barton… for as long as I have a breath within me, I can definitely promise you that I will remember the very first day that you had appeared into my life; the time when you, a mysterious angel had walked through the doorway of your trailer and into my life… For I am everything I am now, because you were generous enough to bestowed upon me your sweet and gentle love, thus pacifying my torture soul, and recusing it from drowning within the deepest and darkest hell of my innermost tormented self.

You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand I could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and I stood tall
I had your love I had it all
I'm grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe I don't know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was loved by you

Before you came along, I was a caged bird with a torn soul; my heart was locked up so deeply within myself that I could no longer feel anything but coldness and anger… as that was the only way that I could allow myself to live on, for my once gentle soul had been over the years callously ripped up to tiny shreds by the dark bleakness of the war. Yes, that was what I used to be: a caged bird with a broken pair of bloody wings; a bird who was entangled within a messy web of guilt and hidden grief and could not fly away…

But, when I was down and out, you patiently fixed me up, tenderly pulled me back on my feet and set me right again. Without asking for anything in return, like a guardian angel you had wordlessly followed me around so as to silently watch over and protect my injured shell. You had even fought for me the fight that was brought about because of our enemies' discovery of our location, due to my stubborn insistence to travel around and repent for my unforgivable mistake that had caused the deaths of all those pacifists. Furthermore, even though you had always hated the cold (and had therefore chosen to wear long-sleeved turtlenecks even in places where I had found to be blazingly hot), you had still went with me all the way to the inhumanly chilling Antarctica, just so that I could satiated my battle-hunger to fight against my worthy-opponent, Zechs Merquise.

It was you and you alone who had managed to wormed through my icy enclosure and thaw my frozen heart. Although, there are others (besides you, my angel) that had also tried before and after you to become my friend and be there for me, you were the only truly successful one. It was you and not the cheerful and outspoken Duo, the persistent and idealistic Relena or the empathetic and caring Quatre that had managed to win me over totally. Yes, I had to acknowledged that over the months that I had came to know them, I did start to accept them more and more into my life, but even then you were the only one that I could and had fully opened my heart and soul to, for you are my special angel, and always will be.

You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you

Somehow, you, the most quiet and lovely person that I had ever came across was the one who had the magical key that freed me from the tight and heavy shackles that had cruelly bound my heart and soul to sneering guilt and tormenting anguishes, and had brought along with you a glorious ray of light into my blacken soul.

It was you with your graceful ways and composed nature that had somehow unexpectedly earned my gratitude, respect, friendship and even my affection. In your inexpressive and noiseless manner, I had found a comradeship. I had found someone who was apparently similar to me; someone who would be able to truly comprehend my wordless doubts, guilt and pains. And with you around, the world just seemed so much nicer and much more fun. And with you around, I had learned to laugh and feel again.

I would admit that I was surprised to find myself dazzled by your beauty right from the very start, but at that time it was just plain lust and not love yet. It was your quiet persistence to care for me when and after my month-long coma that earned you my heart bit by bit… and finally when you threw yourself in front of the battle-damaged shell of Mercurious that I was piloting and used your Vayate to shield me from the fatal blast of the newly built Wing Zero, I realised right then and there that my whole heart was by that time yours… Nevertheless, it was too late, or so I had at that time thought...

Yes, you were a true angel with a most lovely and gentle soul… for without any hesitation you had determinedly tore down your glorious wings of life and had affixed them on my back, so that even if you were to bleed to death… I would get the chance to live on and fly…

I can't express how glad and excited I was when I had discovered that you had managed to survive that deadly blast, but I was soon sadden and disappointed when I had found out that you were no longer yourself… but had turned into an unknown doll that wore the face of my angel, but was nothing more than an empty vessel without any memories… of me…

However, as I was never one that was very good at expressing myself both verbally and otherwise, as I was trained at a young age to be the cold and tough Perfect Soldier, and so when I first saw you, I had managed to rapidly control and force down all those bubbling feelings that were threatening to break free from my calm façade, and thus to all that was around, I had appeared to be indifference towards you and your condition…

But, all is well now that your memory is back and your lovely heart is still mine to have…

I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

Regardless of how short or long this respite from war is, I am really grateful that finally at last Trowa and I are gifted with this chance to drift off with the new and soothing wind of freedom on our fledging but strong wings of love. For you, Trowa has become everything to me and I am everything that I am because of your presence, the angel of my heart. So, come with me my sweet and quiet angel and let us fly off together as one heart on our wings of love…

The End.

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