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Updated 6/4/11

And When She Wakes...

One Year Later….

" So we partying or what?" Joel asked lifting is arms up in a fist pump. I smiled.

" Good luck getting Mom and Dad to go for it, ever since last year I barely get the mail by myself much less party."

Joel's smile faded. I glanced down at my boots. " Two months huh?"

" What are you talking about?"

" That car must have hit me pretty hard," I mumbled.

" Oh," Joel sighed. He pressed his large hand on my head and pushed down.

" Geez stop worrying about it. That's what I'm here for, to piece all the puzzle pieces back into place."

" Oh really," I hissed, " then why do I feel like I'm missing something?"

He gave me his innocent face.

" Baka!" I yelled punching his arm. He mocked hurt, I turned away from him holding both my arms close together. It was currently winter, but the chill had nothing to do with the cold I felt inside.

Just six months before this I was hit by a car on the way to a house party with Joel, hit so hard in fact that I was put in a coma for two months, and when I awoke I had no memories what so ever of anything afterwards. No memory and the complete sense of emptiness, like someone had taken an important part of me.

I see places, peoples things that remind me of something important I should remember, but when I try to think back on it nothing but an black screen comes to mind. Joel has been helping me piece things back together, but there is not much he can do to fill what I fell is empty, if he doesn't even know himself.

" You cold?" He asked, I shook my head but he wrapped his leather jacket around me anyway. " Hey Molly."

" W-wha…?" He put his forehead against mine, I blushed despite myself.

" I wished for you to wake up in a perfect world while you were asleep."

" A perfect world…why?"

He shrugged. " Then I realized you didn't need it a least not yet, because you woken up yet. You don't realize just how many people are watching you" He grinned. The humanity of our breaths mangled. " There's always someone," he said brushing my cheeks with his thumb. " Even if you can't remember or see."

" Yeah right," I whispered.

He pulled my cheeks, I winched.

" There are," he said pulling away. " They all have different jobs, different purposes, but they are there." He grinned again. " Luckily I got the easiest job."

" And what's that?"

" Keeping you happy," he finished pushing his hands in his pockets and walking ahead.

Perfect World? I thought twirling around in a complete circle, glazing the air, searching for those guardian angels, before following behind him.

My purpose…Ulquiorra thought as he watched the girl twirl in a full circle before following behind the boy. Raising his hands he glanced warily at them. From the moment he discovered the girl was alive he knew his time with her was all but done. He'd recovered all his power and she had lost hers, that and her memory of every event that had occurred between them.

Her parents while they believed the lies told to them by Joel, still demanded that Ulquiorra no longer be a part of her life when she awoke. They simply wanted him to disappear. They believed that a tragic blow from a car that taken away her memory, while Ulquiorra knew the truth. Still knowing either way she would not remember made it easier to deal with.

" It hurts," Rin said from her corner. " She remembers nothing. The Soul Society wanted it this way. Everyone got their wish."

It was an unsettling notion. Ulquiorra did not love her, he could not. The frailty of that emotion was long lost to him, taken the moment he became an Arrancar. He only had despair, and purpose.

" I will watch her nonetheless." Ulquiorra replied. " Until I lose purpose."

" And you Grimmjow?" Rin called.

" Fuck that shit. I'm only here cause that bastard owes me a fight, and the bitch owes me a lay. All this shit about purpose or whatever, you can shove it, I'm getting what I want then I'm leaving."

" Grimmjow, your excuses are meaningless." Ulquiorra replied following behind Joel and Molly.

" Fuck you," he barked. " Bitch can't play stupid forever. When she remembers that ass is mine."

" And when she wakes…" Rin whispered pushing back her hair, then smiling into the air. Hope settled in her heart, so deep Rin knew there could be no denying it.

" When I finally wake up…" I whispered opening my front door and stepping inside where Mom, Dad, and Grandma were waiting for me. I closed my eyes and envisioned a group of people I know I'd met before, but didn't remember knowing." ….then I can wish for a perfect world….right Ul-qu-io-rra?"

Cold spread up the base of my neck, I turned grinning, it felt so familiar my heart ached. Tears sprang to my eyes, and before I could think better of it I was crying,tears like rain spreading down my cheeks.

My perfect world…I will wake up and find it.

It was very fun writing and editing and coming up with ideas for this fanfiction, and I hope in the future I will be able to start on a new addition of it. I would like to thank all that have read and reviewed and Favorited , or just looked over this piece of work, it has been a long year and some, and I'm happy to say this addition is over.

So with all the love and care of a writing, I would like to say Asalamalakum ( peace be upon you). Until next time. -Tytue

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