A/N: The lyrics quoted and in italics are from "Holiday" by Green Day. I don't own those, nor do I own characters or previous events mentioned. They are all the property of their respective owners, because I'm too poor to even dream about owning them. But, I do however own this story, in relationship to the things I don't. Please don't use my story, or my ideas unless you ask and I give you permission.

Anyway, I've been wanting to use these lyrics for a while, but I couldn't think of how, so this struck me in the library the other day, and I had to write it down. Hope you enjoy!

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Dawning

ChibiJessity

"Hear the sound of the falling rain"

She sat at the window in the office, looking out the water streaked window.

"Coming down like an Armageddon flame"

Like the barrage of bullets, all aiming to kill... She truly thought the world was going to end. But flame, flame had saved her, coming from her left, burning bullets to ashes and molten lead, burning human flesh and cold steel alike. Indifferent.

"The shame, the ones who died without a name"

The shame, the pure torture of knowing the people she killed were not accounted for, they were not honored like her fallen comrades had been. Wives, children and relatives waited, not knowing that their loved ones had been killed, shot in cold blood hundreds of miles away.

"Hear the dogs howling out of key..."

The screaming she heard from the dying, the screaming that still haunted her at night. His silent crying, regretting the use of his white gloved hands, which she knew was much louder in his heart.

"... To a hymn calledFaith and Misery"

Faithful, as she ever was. Faithful, to something that brought them both so much pain.

"I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies"

They did. Dreamed of changing it all, staying by his side, to protect his dreams. She looked to her left, the Colonel asleep on the couch, another night spent working so late that it wasn't worth going home to sleep. Looking out the window again, she saw the clouds were clearing and the sun rising.

"This is the dawning of the rest of ourlives"

The rest of her life, staying by his right, being his protector, being his support, all the way to the top. To the end.