Subject: [FFML] [spamfic] Re: [FFML][Fic][Rnma.5][Inu-Yasha][Marvel]
From: Adrian Tymes
Date: 9/6/2004, 11:48 PM
To: ffml@anifics.com


--- Gary Kleppe <gary@garykleppe.org> wrote:
The leader gulped and then forced on a 
show of bravado. "What�s a matter 
Tendou?

NABIKI: It's like an energy Tendou, but divided by
the speed of light
squared.

Which was, Nabiki realized, distressingly close to a
good description of herself.  In her youth, her real
youth, she had been full of energy and dreams and had
even met the man of those dreams.  Except she never
could restrain her temper, and as she drew into mature
age, she saw just how far she had pushed Ranma -
indeed, everyone she cared about - away from herself.
Thus, when she stumbled across a time machine, she had
eagerly taken the opportunity to leap back in time and
fix everything she had done wrong.

Except she couldn't.  She watched, helplessly, as she
made all the same mistakes and alienated people in
exactly the same way.  She did not even have the
bliss of a few years' grace between birth and first
memory, having timeported into her older sister.
Thus was Nabiki fully aware when she watched her
mother die for the first time, and watched her
previous incarnation Akane grow angry at the world.
This was too much for her, and she spent her second
childhood jaded to the world, making some profit off
of what she knew was going to happen (save when
failing memory or attempts not to look too perfect
intervened) but otherwise just going through the
motions.

It took many years, but Nabiki come to regret this new
attitude, too.  She had tried to stop Akane from
finding the time machine, but in hindsight might have
just lead her to it.  It did not matter; Akane was
now in the past, growing up as Nabiki.  But Nabiki of
the present wanted to do things right.  There was only
one way.

A moment later, only Kasumi remained.  She smiled a
sad smile as she shut down the time machine that
destiny had lead her to build and leave running this
night.  It was perhaps for the better that her
"sisters" would not be there when she finally married
the man whom all three of her selves had desired all
these years: the energy Tendo, the matter Tendo, and
the living Tendo - each one slower, but more real to
her mind, than the previous.

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