Xenosaga: My Angel With Crimson Eyes
Part Two: I...I Don't UnderstandAnymore
Reluctently, I press the door release button. The doot slides through the floorslit under it. There before me sits my beloved, wraped in nothing more then a bedsheet, though I can see the outline of her leather garb. Her leggings are strown in a corner, as if having been hurled thein in a fit of rage. Her face is red, almost as if she has been crying for hours on end. Tearlines streak down her beautiful form. she looks up and our eyes meet for a few seconds, then she runs to me and buries her head in my shirt, crying softly. I gently lead her back to the sofa in the room and sit, pulling her down with me. Neither she nor I utter a single syllable for a while. Whe just sit there, holding each other. Finally, she speeks.
" I...I just don't understand human emotions well enough." she cries out." why, why, why do I feal like this?" she askes me between sobs." I though I was incapable of illogical human thought. Why, why amI like this right now!" she screams. She buries her head deeper.
I couldn't answer her. All that I could do was cradel her and cry as well.
Soon, I found her sound asleep against me. I felt so sorry for what happened earlier. I felt like it was my falt. I gently shook her awake.
"Her body," I thought. "It's, it's so warm." And although I woke her, I still cradeled her. She looked up at my eyes but, to my suprise, her eyes where no longer the shade of crimson they were once before. Instead, they where replaced by the most beautiful currillian blue that I had ever seen.
"Shion...I'm sorry." she gently whispers to me.
" No, I should be the one who is apologising. I shouldn't have hit you like that." I replied.
"But I think I hurt Momo when I said I didn't need help. Tell me, is she still crying?" She asked me.
"No." I replied, gently stroking her face "Jr. was able to chear her up, and relax, I don't think she will hold a grudge against you." .
"C..can I ask you a favor?" she asks me.
Of course." I reply as she moves and lays her head on my sholder.
"Can I just stay like this? It's...it's comfortable." she tells me.
"Of couse you can," I reply. "For as long as you wish."
"Thank you."she finally tells me and it is then that I notice that her voice has changed. Instead of the cold monotone voice she used before, It was replaced by a calm voice full of love and remorce for the way she had acted earlier that day.
"You don't have to feal sorry for yourself." I wisper in her ear.
"S..Shion?" she askes.
"Yes." I reply.
"I..I love you."she tells me in a soft wisper. "More then a child would love it's mother" "I... the truth is...when I am around you my heart, or what I want to believe is my heart, races. My stomach tightens, my breath comes in short gasps, and my face flushes with color. Tell me, Whats wrong with me? I need to know!" she askes me as she once again begins to weep.
"KOS-MOS," I start to say but am cut off when the ship is racked by an explosion. I bend down and kissed her on the cheak.
"I love you too, and I will explain everything to you later." I calmly tell her. She smiled sweatly at me and stood up. It was then that I noticed her eyes had returned to the shade of crimson they where before.
"Shion." she says in her monotone voice, "lets get to the bridge. Oh, and I am holding to your word."
"I will keep my promise." I reply to her. " But now is not the time. We need to move."
"Affirmative." she says back and then, her lips curl up intoa cockysmirk, "Lets go."
Soon after, we are racing twards the Elsa's bridge, side by side when suddenly, we run into Ziggy. He just nods at both of us and we continue onward, Ziggy in front and me bringing up the rear. Whe soon reach the bridge.
"Captain," whats going on?" I ask over all the commotion. But one look out the window makes one of my worst fear come true. Outside the ship is the Simion, or better yet, The corrupt U.R.T.V., Albedo.Instently, I can hear his manical loughter in my head as I stare. But what I see next renders me speachless, "gnosis."