I couldn't let yesterday's sobfest episode pass without a little drabble. V/K. Spoilers for SMC Episode 12.
Moment
Upon seeing him again, she'd repressed her feelings and memories, kept her emotions hidden, locked down. Echoes of a previous life warned her this time they would not be so lucky and her inner voice scolded her for even holding out hope.
And yet the stubborn optimist in her would not yield. Refused to back down. As she found promise among her newly awakened sisters, as she pulled the great sword from the stone, as she princess gained strength and confidence…she dared to dream that this life would allow a chance.
Persistent, she did not give up. Would not give up. Had to believe that if the situation was reversed, he would do the same for her.
In the final battle, as he and the generals struck again and again, the nagging fear spoke in the back of her mind – a curse from another life, "Your love will be hopeless for all eternity. Now you can go on living without having to torment yourself over the ultimate choice—- Your love or your duty. Your fate is to continue fighting."
Was he right? Was the bastard she had defeated correct?
And, with all of her being, as she willed him to remember – just beyond the point of all hope, he recalled.
"Venus…"
In those two syllables, she was undone. In his heartbroken quicksilver gaze an apology for all that had transpired. Had Serenity herself appeared in front of the Venusian senshi, she would have willingly ran into his arms and defied her role as protector.
And yet… A greater power loomed. In front of her eyes, her lover perished. Before they could be reunited, before they could even touch or embrace one last time.
Fate was cruel.
As she pulled herself together, wondering distantly how she would find the strength to do it again, she vowed that his life would not be in vain. She would destroy the great monster or die trying.