Title: Limiter Removal
Characters: Guess.
Word Count: 320
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Someone who should know better buys a certain '57 Corvette Roadster.
A/N: This one-shot only came about because I wanted to write the third paragraph yet somehow make it believable.

She enters the used car lot, excitement running through her veins. The purchase will be her first car bought with her own hard-earned money. Most of the cars are broken-down, old things - only good enough for the desperate. She almost leaves. But then she feels something—that nameless feeling that she has always longed for—coming from the corner of the lot. There awaits a nearly new, red, 1957 Corvette Roadster. She doesn't question it (or the sensation of déjà-vu tickling the back of her mind). Why would she question it? She has experienced stranger things without batting an eyelash.

After a month, she wants to do reckless things. She wants to speed. She wants to party. She wants to bed that handsome man with a wedding ring. Mostly, she ignores these wrong, immoral desires. Except, when she speeds, when she parties, when she tempts a married man, that nameless feeling begins to fill her.

She'll kill herself, she thinks as she drives down the empty road at ninety miles per hour. She'll die a painful death. She'll crash and burn. Yet she tries to do the flip anyway. She slides out of her seat, her muscles tense, she springs into the air and...roars with deep, dark laughter when she realizes that, no, despite her fear and doubt, she isn't dead. How can she possibly be dead when that nameless feeling fills her very being? when that nameless feeling finally drenches her soul? when she feels truly alive for the first time in her life?

The next day, she does crash and burn (metaphorically; the car's unscathed). Instead of that nameless feeling, she receives a memory. How she forgot it, she doesn't know. It'll take her months to get such a horrible image out of her mind. And car's back in that corner of the dealer's lot within the week.

Now, the mere thought of feeling special makes Wakaba cringe.