A/N: For Goddessmoon.
Karma
There is Karma, and there is Destiny.
There are futures decided by choices and lives controlled by fate.
There are people who are free to make their own choices, and others who are puppets to play out the existence lain before them.
Chiba Mamoru was destined to love a gossamer girl in an ethereal dream, and Tsukino Usagi was destined to allow a thousand-year-old spirit swallow her own character and share her soul.
Chiba Mamoru was fated to love a girl with a porcelain face and broken smiles, her joy dimmed and gone as she ascended a crystal throne, and Tsukino Usagi was fated to lose her soul's own essence.
For the destined queen and the fated king, there was no Karma; upon them Fate had laid her worn hand on their brows and claimed them as her daughter and son.
There was doubt, sometimes, when the other was galaxies away and even when one took a dance with a visiting lord or lady… that he, or she, would have seen her or him in the same light had fate not woven their lives as she had.
But they both knew they could love none other but each other, though they continued to wonder, she smiling broken smiles, he guarding her shattered soul with delicate care.
Tsukino Usagi loved, loves and will continue to love Chiba Mamoru desperately.
Chiba Mamoru loved, loves and will continue to love Tsukino Usagi unwaveringly.
Together, they wove a future for the people who had choices, and allowed themselves to think that maybe, just maybe, not everything about them was a performance of marionettes and puppets, and that maybe, just maybe, the curtain would fall at their choice and by their reckoning.