Disclaimer: Not mine, not my idea, just my words making a drabble.

Jessica01: Actually, it wouldn't. It's not a challenge where you can win or lose, it's just to see what different people would make of just one word. As for how much more… well, there are 40 themes and I'm hell bend on doing all of them.

Mz. Daydream: Yeah, glad you like it.

Isinha: I'll try to update as much as I can next to my running story.

Phantom Rogue: Always. I'll let you read what I've got for the next tomorrow (today).

Vespera: Thanks. I love Andros and Ashley… can't seem to write about any other paring, or at least… I'm not willing to even give it a try. I think our 'green-eyed-monster' ideas would be pretty much the same, but 'gift' I'm doing last, since I've got the perfect idea for that and I don't think it's what you had in mind.

Summary: Ars Amatoria's Ranger Romance Theme challenge; 35. Dream.

Dream

I used to dream. I dreamed about my life without it's flaws. A life where Karone was never taken from my side and Zhane fought with me always. KO-35, in my dream, did not fall, my parents were happy and never fought. I would have had the best girl on the colony and we would be engaged to be married.

The dream faded and blurred, slipping from mind and conscious thought. I lived my flaw-filled life and slowly the flaws ironed out.

My dream still forgotten, I lived a new life. Not as perfect as I had pictured it, but I got my sister back and Zhane woke up. Life gradually returned to my planet and eventually my parents were amongst a group of returning colonists. They had stopped fighting and were happy to have me and Karone back.

Without realising it, my dream was slowly coming true in a different way.

Last night the dream returned, but I found something terribly important was missing. There was a hole in my heart, an unexplainable longing.

When I woke up I knew what had been missing.

Just like in my dream, I found myself engaged, but not to the best girl on the whole colony. I had found a girl so much better, my very own angel.

I kissed my dream goodbye. Real life might not be as perfect or as curtain as my dream, but what I do know for sure is that my angel loves me unconditionally and in the end, that's all that really matters.

A/N: Hope you liked it. Working on the next one. Please review.