Mini Mars – Lady Marie Wufei
"One… Two… Two and a half…" Rei counted as her daughter sat up in a tree glaring at her mother.
'Young lady get down here right this moment! Don't make me get your father; you know he doesn't like to be interrupted while he's meditating." Rei sighed as Marie climbed even higher into the oak tree that lay in the garden of the Mars kingdom.
"No mama I won't come down! Not until you make my visions go away!" Marie yelled from the top of the tree.
Rei sighed again and rubbed her temples then turned to her lady in waiting and said, "Mary could you please go fetch Lord Chang for me?"
"Yes my Lady." With that the maid was off.
Rei turned back to Marie and shouted out, "Marie I have already explained this to you! Your visions are apart of whom you are, there is no changing it!" She could her Marie crying even though they were about 20 feet apart.
"Darling, I'm sorry that you have the visions but someday it will be easier to have them."
"Rei?" Rei turned around to see her husband walking up to her from the garden entrance.
"Chang. Marie climbed the oak and now refuses to come down." Chang looked stern and was about to yell but Rei stopped him, "My love, it's about her visions again."
Chang looked up in the tree with understanding, "What are you going to do then woman? She is never going to get rid of her visions."
Rei's eyes watered up, she looked toward the top of the tree, "Marie! I know what you are feeling right now, but running away from this won't change anything! The visions will always be there, just like you I hated them but I had to learn to live with them and so will you!"
Rei heard the sobs subside for a moment, then she heard a sniff when a shaky voice replied, "Mommy, I know that I will never live a day without seeing things before they happen."
"I just wish that they wouldn't all be so sad," Her sobs increased again; "I had to see Abby die and uncle Quatre! Then, then I had to hear that they did die and we had to go to the funeral!"
Rei's eyes welled with more tears, "I don't want to have to see people die anymore! All the crying! Please I don't know what to do!"
"Stop being so weak Marie!" Rei looked at her husband in shock as he started yelling at their distraught daughter.
"People die; it's a fact of life! Even if you didn't see it before it happened, that wouldn't change the destiny! I had to see death first hand; do you think I got a warning when Meilan died? Do you think I cried when all the people I cared about died?" Chang shook with anger and sorrow.
Marie stopped crying completely, she peeked over the side of the tree, "When you are done feeling sorry for your self come down and maybe we will talk. Until then you can stay up there."
Chang started to walk away, "Chang!"
Chang ignored her and continued to walk. Marie stared at her father, she felt the shame seep through her entire body and she could no longer keep up the stubborn façade.
"Daddy wait! I'm so-whoa!" Marie's grip slipped on the tree and she started to fall.
"Marie!" Rei screamed.
Chang turned and saw his daughter fall, she looked too stunned to scream, but her mother seemed to be doing the screaming for her.
Everything happened so slowly, Chang ran back toward the tree, Rei had fell trying to get to the tree and Marie fell head first to the ground.
Before anyone knew it Marie was in Chang's arms and everyone was crying… including Chang.
"Daddy… I'm sorry, I won't be weak anymore." Marie said as she shifted to look at her father.
"Oh Marie, you aren't weak! You are the bravest brat I know! Please forgive me for being a bad father!" Chang said crying into his daughter's hair.
Rei watched the scene play before her and smiled through the adrenaline and tears.
"I love you daddy."
"I love you too, my little sparrow."