A pair of V-day fics and a repost. A day or so late perhaps, but better late
than never.
Pluto's comment: The silver millenium, just a few days after Serenity was
caught sneaking off
to earth again.
True
����� Venus hid in the corner at the ball, silently on duty even
then, and though the Queen had ordered her to relax, no one would
approach the leader of the Senshi.�� She gazed hopelessly out over
the dance floor and all the couples...a joy denied to the leaders
who were always on guard.�� It was a price Kunzite knew to well.
����� Jupiter had tried to shake her out of her funk, but her reply
had been short and a little sad.�� Kunzite caught only a kind order
to go and enjoy herself without further ruining her evening by
consoling the loveless.
����� Something broke in him then - it couldn�t have been the wine
that made him so forward, he�d scarcely touched it.
����� So when he glided up to her and breathed,� "May I have this
dance?" He could only wonder if he�d gone mad. When she looked up
in startlement and something gleamed in her eyes as she said, "You
....Yes.� I'd be glad.", he knew that he would never be sane again.
����� The Crystal palace seemed to fade around them as the spun out
onto the dance floor, lost in a whirl of glittering silver and gold.
����� Neither danced as a courtesan, but both moved with the grace
of a fighter - it would be impossible to find a more graceful couple
that night, but neither noticed the stares they gathered, lost in
their own movement.
����� When the songs changed, they drifted to a less populated room,
to be heard, and he whispered to her softly smiling face, "You looked
lost, little goddess."
����� She turned half-away, sudden shields half raised in her eyes at
the question, and it was a long moment before she answered, "I...was
feeling so alone...thank you - even if it's pity, I needed some time
off my watch..."
����� "It isn't pity.� You're beautiful, you know."� Kunzite didn�t
have to exaggerate.� She was without a doubt the most exquisite
creature he�d ever seen - on any world.��� Silently he cursed whomever
had made her think herself plain, or unwanted.� A thousand deaths
would be too good for them.
����� "I...thank you..."� It had become so quiet that only the two of
them could be heard, and he belatedly realized that they were outside,
in the gardens when she whispered that.
����� "You still look lost, little goddess." She trembled in their
embrace, and distantly he realized he was shaking too.��
����� She should never have to look like that. "I'm scared."� Blue
eyes bored into his, searing links of chain into his heart.�
They were anything but afraid�fearless.� Perfect.� The eyes of this
Senshi would never be less.
����� "Scared?"� It was like looking at a mirror to his own eyes.��
Eyes that were windows to the soul, blocked and shuttered for all
time, never to reveal the feelings beneath.�� Only her voice gave
her away when she answered.��
����� "Yes." Her voice shouldn�t sound like that.� Ever.� It was
too horrible to hear the stress in her voice, to know just how
close to broken she had come.�
����� "You should never need to be afraid of anything...tell me what
it is that frightens you so, and I'll make it go away."� It was
almost a desperate plea from Kunzite, soft as the jokingly phrased
request was.� �Let me help.�, It said.� �Let me into your heart
the way you have taken mine.�
����� "You.� I�m afraid of you."� Time Stopped for him then.� It
was as if a sword had been driven through his heart.
����� "I'm sorry I scared you, little goddess. "� He looked suddenly
stricken..."I guess I should leave.." Kunzite tried to disengage
from her without thought.�� Thought would be impossible with this
much pain.
����� Pain he saw mirrored on her face as she clutched to him before
he could go.
����� "Don't go.� Stay.�� Please?"� He would never have thought that
she would beg.�� Ever.�� It hurt that her plea was caused somehow by
him, and the pain hung between them like a weight.
����� "Yes." Kunzite couldn�t have refused if he�d been ordered to.
����� "It's not you I'm afraid of but when you're near...I'm
terrified..." Venus whispered softly into his ear, as they sat
near the arbor of roses under the light of the earth.
����� "Why?"� He knew, then, how she must feel - the weight of
his existence hung on her reply, and he was petrified with fear
that she would send him away.��
����� And then he would be alone again.�� Every prayer he could
think of he offered to Selene, �Moon Goddess - don�t let me be alone
after meeting her.�� I could never bear it.�
����� "You...something in you calls out to something in me, and I'm
afraid....I want to answer that call, but I don't know if I dare."
Selene heard, perhaps, or maybe..
����� He kissed her then, softly as he answered.
����� "Then I'll hope that there is nothing you wouldn't dare...
because I see you, and... I'm so afraid I'll never see you again
when you go away...I...it's....Listen, I feel it to. "�� They
were held so tightly together as to seem one person in the
earthglow, then, and she asked -
����� "Scared?"
����� Kunzite answered, "Terrified."
����� "Then..could you stay?� Even if it was a long time?� Even
if it� was a thousand years?"
����� "I'd stay if it were forever."
����� "Could you though?� Could you live forever?"
����� "If it ment being with you, I could outlive the stars, little
goddess."
����� ��We won�t always be in the same place.�� We both have duties.�
����� �Yes.� Neither of us�could give up what we are.��� We will
not fall apart.�� I swear to you - no matter what it may cost me,
I will always return to you..�
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Sheldon Burnham gamlain@airmail.net��
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