Finally Home
Diana Crescent
Chapter Forty-Three: The Flame
Hey!! I'm so happy you're not mad at me!! Thank you SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO much for reviewing. Talk about a bad case of too little time and writer's block!! Well, peeps, this is going out to suu-chan and Carla!! Girlfriends, you mean a lot to me!!
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Raye lay awake, staring out the window from her room. She was fighting both sleep and tears, but was loosing the battle.
"Wufei. . ." She whispered, finally breaking down and crying, tears streaming down her pale cheeks. A small sob escaped her throat before she buried her face into her pillow.
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Today was a notional holiday in the Sanq Kingdom. Raye watched the lake. She smiled a little, for the first time in a week. It seemed that the entire group of scouts and pilots always came to the park and straight to the lake. She thought of its name, _lune_ . Moon Lake. Maybe that was why, she didn't know and didn't care.
Her breath caught in her throat as a figure walked closer to the lake. It was a young Chinese man she knew so well. ~Well, thought I knew him~ she thought. In his hands were at least two-dozen roses, in honor of the holiday. It was National Remembrance Day, for those who had died in battle. He placed them on the water and bent down to pray.
Raye turned from the scene and sank down to lean against the bridge's railing. ~I'm not asking him to forget her. . .I'd never ask that. She deserves to be remembered. I'm just asking him to remember me and the future we.we.we once had together.~
She turned back to look at him. He was staring at the roses' petals float away from some of the flowers. Even from the distance she could see his sadness. Her breath caught in her throat for a second time as she watched him walk away with "Meilan. . ." whispering from his lips.
Raye felt her heart breaking again. She looked upwards to the sky, to the moon, which was out. This time, her heart caught in her throat. An image of Wufei and herself on Mars, holding each other closely, came to her heart and mind. Tears spilt down her face freely.
Her eyes caught movement to her right. A young woman smiled at her and kissed her forehead and then disappeared. "Meilan. . ." She whispered.
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Raye sat at her desk in her room and stared at the paper before her. She had been sitting there for hours. A light knock came from her door. She smiled, ~Serena.~ Serena had her own individual knock, though you hardly ever heard it.
"Come on in Serena."
Serena was smiling slightly as she walked in. "You know, sulking isn't good for you."
"I'm not sulking."
"No, worse, you're letting heartache fester."
Raye sighed dejectedly. "What do I do Serena?"
"Well, you can either talk to him about your feelings and his, or. . . "
"Or?"
"Or, you could break up with him, 1) letting him realize how much of a fool he is for letting you get away, 2) make him sulk for loosing another woman who meant something to him, or 3) let him realize how much he needs you and how much he needs to look to the future, not the past. You two are so beautiful together, and there aren't many beautiful things in this world at the moment. Don't destroy something beautiful just because you're hurt and afraid."
"I can't talk to him about it Serena. He'll think I'm trying to replace her and I'm not. I know I could never replace her and I would never try to. She was strong and brave and deserves so much more. But he deserves a chance at happiness and I know, if I could just get him out of the past for a little while, I could make him so happy."
Serena hugged her dearest friend to her. "Trista and Amara finished the Gundams. They're all ready for tryouts. Just whenever is fine they said, but before Chaos comes is preferable."
Raye laughed slightly. "Sure thing, just after Wufei has checked his. I'm not ready to face him yet."
Serena hugged her tighter. "I know."
Rini ran in, "There's an attack going on!!" She didn't want to break up Raye's comfort at the moment, but she knew she had to.
Serena and Raye jumped up and looked at her squarely. "Let's go!!" Raye said, determined. She would welcome this fight as well. Anything to get her mind off the pain.
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Raye faced off with Catsy. "What is it with these people and repeating history?" Amy asked, as she stared down Birdie.
"Don't know, but that might be a good thing." Raye said, focusing her energy on the upcoming fight.
~Here we go. . .~ She thought as Avery made the first move towards Mina. Mina deftly grabbed her hand and looked her in the eyes.
Avery's eyes clouded over and she sank down.
"Maybe this isn't so much like last time." Amy said.
"Catsy, it's us. Do you remember?"
Catsy looked at Raye with suspicion, which was clouding over quickly with something deeper, her long forgotten memories.
Prisma looked at them and especially at Jupiter. "Lita. . ." She whispered, before her mind too was covered with memories.
"Looks like that's one fight we won't have to deal with." Earth said, watching as the scouts rushed to help their friends.
"Don't be too sure." A deep male voice said from behind them.
Serena quickly turned around, only to be faced with Rubeus and Relena. ~Great, the spaz and the spazette.~
Raye sensed something very BIG coming near them at an alarming rate. She turned to face the west and felt heat like nothing before. ~Mars in Heaven!~ She thought as she saw the Gundams coming towards them. Raye guns were pointed at the four sisters, Relena, and Rubeus. Her eyes went wide as she sensed the boys aim at the four sisters first, seeing as they were the weakest targets.
Wufei fired first, seeing Catsy start up first. Raye let out a scream so loud that it shook the very corners of his heart.
"NO! CATSY!" Raye shouted running to her friend.
Everyone turned to look as Raye pushed Catsy out of the blast, getting herself hit instead.
"RAYE!!!!!!!" Serena screamed running towards her most precious friend and the blinding blast.
Wufei sat in horror. "Why?" He whispered.
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DUN DUN DUN Please remember to review!!
Just Kidding!!
I'm not that evil!!!!
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Raye sucked in air, surprised that she could still feel her heart beating. She opened her eyes, only to see the Earth in it's full glory. She looked towards a small bush towards her right. ~Moon flowers. . .I'm on the Moon.~
"Hello Sailor Mars." Queen Selenity said.
"Your highness." Raye said, rising slowly, only to go into a warrior's bow, with her right hand over her heart and left fist to the ground. Her right knee was on the ground, while her left one was up, touching her chest.
"No need to bow Princess Raye. Arise." Raye rose slowly at the Queen's command, only to be hugged by the Dowager Queen.
"So strong and wise. And beautiful. Most definitely beautiful." Selenity whispered in her ear. "You must get over the hurt Raye. Allow Wufei into your heart once more. He needs you as much and if not more than you need him. Meilan was his first love, but you are his true love. If it would be alright with you, there is someone here who wishes to speak with you."
Raye looked at her curiously. "Of course your highness."
Selenity smiled softly at her dear ward.
Meilan suddenly appeared beside them. Raye bowed her head.
Meilan came up to her and lifted her chin. "Do not mourn me, nor try to turn Wufei away to respect me and my memory. You would only cause him grief and that would hurt me. He loves you far beyond what he ever loved me. He's just to stubborn to see it. . .or he was. He might not be so now. Love him well Raye. Love him well. Let his happiness come through you, as it was meant to."
Raye looked at the girl and started crying. She hugged her tightly. "Thank you, Meilan. Thank you for your blessing."
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Serena dried Rini's tears. She had not cried, for she could feel her friend's aura on the Moon. Serena knew she would be back.
Rini hugged her mother tighter and began to cry harder. Raye had always been her favorite "Aunt", so to speak. She didn't see how Serena kept from crying, but knew there was a good reason behind it.
Wufei sat with everyone else in the girls' home. It didn't seem right without Raye. Nothing seemed right. Not even his own life. The four sisters were crying too, Catsy was crying the hardest. Malcolm was rocking her back and forth, trying to comfort her, but wasn't doing too good of a job at it.
Wufei had been thinking of her before the fight. He was so lost as to why she hadn't talked to him in two weeks. At first he thought she was still mad at him, but then he had begun to think it was something bigger than that. He didn't know what it was, until Meilan had visited him in a dream and told him to let her go and find his destiny, calling his true love the "Flame." Wufei had then cornered Lucretia into telling him what was bothering Raye. She had spilled everything, even about Meilan's grandfather.
A bright red light flashed and everyone had to shut their eyes from the heat of it. Raye stood there in the clothes she had been in before the attack.
Wufei's life suddenly brightened. "Raye." He whispered. She spun around quickly, but before she could say anything he was kissing her passionately.
Raye began to cry and hugged him closer to her.
Serena sighed and began to push everyone out of the room.
"I'm so sorry." Wufei muttered against her lips after everyone had left.
"I didn't know what to do. I should have talked to you about it, but I didn't want you to think that. . ." she faultered for words. ~He doesn't know.~
"That you were replacing Meilan?" At her surprise, he smiled and kissed her deeply again. "You could never replace her, and you would never try. But Raye, oh gods, Raye, you mean everything to me. I never want to loose you. Never. I want you Raye, only you. No one could ever replace you. You mean so much more to me than her. I hate to say that, but it's the truth."
Raye began to cry harder. She began kissing him with everything that she had. "Don't leave me. Please don't ever leave me." She begged, trying to get him closer to her, it it was possible.
"Never. I'll never leave you, my precious Flame."
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Okay. Please review. Thanks!!!
Diana Crescent
Chapter Forty-Three: The Flame
Hey!! I'm so happy you're not mad at me!! Thank you SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO much for reviewing. Talk about a bad case of too little time and writer's block!! Well, peeps, this is going out to suu-chan and Carla!! Girlfriends, you mean a lot to me!!
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Raye lay awake, staring out the window from her room. She was fighting both sleep and tears, but was loosing the battle.
"Wufei. . ." She whispered, finally breaking down and crying, tears streaming down her pale cheeks. A small sob escaped her throat before she buried her face into her pillow.
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Today was a notional holiday in the Sanq Kingdom. Raye watched the lake. She smiled a little, for the first time in a week. It seemed that the entire group of scouts and pilots always came to the park and straight to the lake. She thought of its name, _lune_ . Moon Lake. Maybe that was why, she didn't know and didn't care.
Her breath caught in her throat as a figure walked closer to the lake. It was a young Chinese man she knew so well. ~Well, thought I knew him~ she thought. In his hands were at least two-dozen roses, in honor of the holiday. It was National Remembrance Day, for those who had died in battle. He placed them on the water and bent down to pray.
Raye turned from the scene and sank down to lean against the bridge's railing. ~I'm not asking him to forget her. . .I'd never ask that. She deserves to be remembered. I'm just asking him to remember me and the future we.we.we once had together.~
She turned back to look at him. He was staring at the roses' petals float away from some of the flowers. Even from the distance she could see his sadness. Her breath caught in her throat for a second time as she watched him walk away with "Meilan. . ." whispering from his lips.
Raye felt her heart breaking again. She looked upwards to the sky, to the moon, which was out. This time, her heart caught in her throat. An image of Wufei and herself on Mars, holding each other closely, came to her heart and mind. Tears spilt down her face freely.
Her eyes caught movement to her right. A young woman smiled at her and kissed her forehead and then disappeared. "Meilan. . ." She whispered.
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Raye sat at her desk in her room and stared at the paper before her. She had been sitting there for hours. A light knock came from her door. She smiled, ~Serena.~ Serena had her own individual knock, though you hardly ever heard it.
"Come on in Serena."
Serena was smiling slightly as she walked in. "You know, sulking isn't good for you."
"I'm not sulking."
"No, worse, you're letting heartache fester."
Raye sighed dejectedly. "What do I do Serena?"
"Well, you can either talk to him about your feelings and his, or. . . "
"Or?"
"Or, you could break up with him, 1) letting him realize how much of a fool he is for letting you get away, 2) make him sulk for loosing another woman who meant something to him, or 3) let him realize how much he needs you and how much he needs to look to the future, not the past. You two are so beautiful together, and there aren't many beautiful things in this world at the moment. Don't destroy something beautiful just because you're hurt and afraid."
"I can't talk to him about it Serena. He'll think I'm trying to replace her and I'm not. I know I could never replace her and I would never try to. She was strong and brave and deserves so much more. But he deserves a chance at happiness and I know, if I could just get him out of the past for a little while, I could make him so happy."
Serena hugged her dearest friend to her. "Trista and Amara finished the Gundams. They're all ready for tryouts. Just whenever is fine they said, but before Chaos comes is preferable."
Raye laughed slightly. "Sure thing, just after Wufei has checked his. I'm not ready to face him yet."
Serena hugged her tighter. "I know."
Rini ran in, "There's an attack going on!!" She didn't want to break up Raye's comfort at the moment, but she knew she had to.
Serena and Raye jumped up and looked at her squarely. "Let's go!!" Raye said, determined. She would welcome this fight as well. Anything to get her mind off the pain.
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Raye faced off with Catsy. "What is it with these people and repeating history?" Amy asked, as she stared down Birdie.
"Don't know, but that might be a good thing." Raye said, focusing her energy on the upcoming fight.
~Here we go. . .~ She thought as Avery made the first move towards Mina. Mina deftly grabbed her hand and looked her in the eyes.
Avery's eyes clouded over and she sank down.
"Maybe this isn't so much like last time." Amy said.
"Catsy, it's us. Do you remember?"
Catsy looked at Raye with suspicion, which was clouding over quickly with something deeper, her long forgotten memories.
Prisma looked at them and especially at Jupiter. "Lita. . ." She whispered, before her mind too was covered with memories.
"Looks like that's one fight we won't have to deal with." Earth said, watching as the scouts rushed to help their friends.
"Don't be too sure." A deep male voice said from behind them.
Serena quickly turned around, only to be faced with Rubeus and Relena. ~Great, the spaz and the spazette.~
Raye sensed something very BIG coming near them at an alarming rate. She turned to face the west and felt heat like nothing before. ~Mars in Heaven!~ She thought as she saw the Gundams coming towards them. Raye guns were pointed at the four sisters, Relena, and Rubeus. Her eyes went wide as she sensed the boys aim at the four sisters first, seeing as they were the weakest targets.
Wufei fired first, seeing Catsy start up first. Raye let out a scream so loud that it shook the very corners of his heart.
"NO! CATSY!" Raye shouted running to her friend.
Everyone turned to look as Raye pushed Catsy out of the blast, getting herself hit instead.
"RAYE!!!!!!!" Serena screamed running towards her most precious friend and the blinding blast.
Wufei sat in horror. "Why?" He whispered.
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DUN DUN DUN Please remember to review!!
Just Kidding!!
I'm not that evil!!!!
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Raye sucked in air, surprised that she could still feel her heart beating. She opened her eyes, only to see the Earth in it's full glory. She looked towards a small bush towards her right. ~Moon flowers. . .I'm on the Moon.~
"Hello Sailor Mars." Queen Selenity said.
"Your highness." Raye said, rising slowly, only to go into a warrior's bow, with her right hand over her heart and left fist to the ground. Her right knee was on the ground, while her left one was up, touching her chest.
"No need to bow Princess Raye. Arise." Raye rose slowly at the Queen's command, only to be hugged by the Dowager Queen.
"So strong and wise. And beautiful. Most definitely beautiful." Selenity whispered in her ear. "You must get over the hurt Raye. Allow Wufei into your heart once more. He needs you as much and if not more than you need him. Meilan was his first love, but you are his true love. If it would be alright with you, there is someone here who wishes to speak with you."
Raye looked at her curiously. "Of course your highness."
Selenity smiled softly at her dear ward.
Meilan suddenly appeared beside them. Raye bowed her head.
Meilan came up to her and lifted her chin. "Do not mourn me, nor try to turn Wufei away to respect me and my memory. You would only cause him grief and that would hurt me. He loves you far beyond what he ever loved me. He's just to stubborn to see it. . .or he was. He might not be so now. Love him well Raye. Love him well. Let his happiness come through you, as it was meant to."
Raye looked at the girl and started crying. She hugged her tightly. "Thank you, Meilan. Thank you for your blessing."
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Serena dried Rini's tears. She had not cried, for she could feel her friend's aura on the Moon. Serena knew she would be back.
Rini hugged her mother tighter and began to cry harder. Raye had always been her favorite "Aunt", so to speak. She didn't see how Serena kept from crying, but knew there was a good reason behind it.
Wufei sat with everyone else in the girls' home. It didn't seem right without Raye. Nothing seemed right. Not even his own life. The four sisters were crying too, Catsy was crying the hardest. Malcolm was rocking her back and forth, trying to comfort her, but wasn't doing too good of a job at it.
Wufei had been thinking of her before the fight. He was so lost as to why she hadn't talked to him in two weeks. At first he thought she was still mad at him, but then he had begun to think it was something bigger than that. He didn't know what it was, until Meilan had visited him in a dream and told him to let her go and find his destiny, calling his true love the "Flame." Wufei had then cornered Lucretia into telling him what was bothering Raye. She had spilled everything, even about Meilan's grandfather.
A bright red light flashed and everyone had to shut their eyes from the heat of it. Raye stood there in the clothes she had been in before the attack.
Wufei's life suddenly brightened. "Raye." He whispered. She spun around quickly, but before she could say anything he was kissing her passionately.
Raye began to cry and hugged him closer to her.
Serena sighed and began to push everyone out of the room.
"I'm so sorry." Wufei muttered against her lips after everyone had left.
"I didn't know what to do. I should have talked to you about it, but I didn't want you to think that. . ." she faultered for words. ~He doesn't know.~
"That you were replacing Meilan?" At her surprise, he smiled and kissed her deeply again. "You could never replace her, and you would never try. But Raye, oh gods, Raye, you mean everything to me. I never want to loose you. Never. I want you Raye, only you. No one could ever replace you. You mean so much more to me than her. I hate to say that, but it's the truth."
Raye began to cry harder. She began kissing him with everything that she had. "Don't leave me. Please don't ever leave me." She begged, trying to get him closer to her, it it was possible.
"Never. I'll never leave you, my precious Flame."
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