Well, well. Welcome back, everyone. It's good to see y'all. Thought I
stroll in a little late to see the digs. For those of you who remember a
little fic called Heart/Home, I'm still working on it, on my own slow time.
In the meantime, thought I humor you with a songfic or two. If you don't
mind registering your name at the site, you can get the song at TVT's
website
<http://www.tvtrecords.com>. Go to the "artists" section, scroll
down to XTC, then choose the Apple Venus Vol. 1 album. Have fun visualizing!
"I Can't Own Her" by LaShawn Wanak
Lyrics by XTC
Characters done by Rumiko Takahashi
Creativity cooked up by T-bone Corporations
[It is a warm summer night with a full moon. Crickets chirp then fall
silent as a large shape pushes through bushes and bracken. As it stumbles
into a clearing, the light from the full moon reveals it to be Ryoga,
toting a large backpack. He spins about, disoriented for a second, then
looks up at the moon and sighs. He removes his pack and rustles through it.]
Ryoga: (mumbling) I can't believe they went through with it after all.
[He pulls out several pictures and holds them up to the light. Various
shots of Akane, smiling, frowning, beating on Ranma, flash in the dimness.
He then pulls out what looks to be an congratulations card.]
Ryoga: I wonder if I should still give this to her.
[Faintly, a voice streams through the stillness of the air, filled with
longing...]
Voice: (singing) And I may as well wish for the moon in hand...
[Ryoga starts, turns his head trying to discern where the sound is coming
from. He grabs his pack and dives back into the undergrowth. After some
time of running, crashing, and cursing, he stumbles into a clearing where
he sees Kuno and Mousse. A scattering of sake bottles lay about their feet,
and both men seem to be sitting quietly, lost in their own thoughts rather
than beating up on each other. While Ryoga tries to make sense of this,
Kuno grabs one of the bottles and rises, swaying, to his feet. He pulls out
a bunch of pictures (a second later, Ryoga recognizes them as copies of the
ones he have, along with others of Ranma in his girl-form), take a long
pull from the bottle, and begins to sing.]
Kuno: (singing)
I own this river. I own this town. All of it climbers, and its vines all
sliding down.
But I can't own her, and I never will.
No, I can't own her, and that's a bitter pill,
taken with rain 'till the gutter shines like the swirling sky...
[Kuno throws the pictures into the air, where they eddy about him gently.]
Like the swirling sky...
[Mousse struggles to his feet with another bottle and lifts it as if to
toast the moon.]
Mousse: (singing)
I got all morning. I got all year.
It's here in my pocket, with the daylight folded there.
But I can't own her, and I never will.
No, I can't own her, and that's a bitter pill
taken with rain. How I'll wash her hair like the swirling sky...
[Mousse twirls around, and a sudden breeze catches his hair, spinning it
dramatically about his body.]
Like the swirling sky...
[Kuno nods at Mousse as if in agreement.]
Kuno: (singing)
And when I say I can't own her, I don't mean to buy her.
It's nothing at all to do with money.
[Mousse joins him.]
I simply want her in my arms. Forever more. Is that an odd request?
Is that something so funny?
[Ryoga, who's been silently watching, looks at the pictures in his hand,
then up to the moon.]
Ryoga: (singing)
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand.
As there's more chance of that coming true...
[He joins Kuno and Mousse in the clearing, singing.]
All: But I can't own her and I never will.
No, I can't own her, and that's a bitter pill.
So, I can't own her,
[Mousse breaks off and starts singing another line.]
(Of all the things you want, the thing you want the most is her,)
And I never will,
(And she's the one thing that you'll never have.)
No, I can't own her,
(Of all the things you want, the thing you want the most is her,)
And that's a bitter pill.
(And she's the one thing that you'll never have.)
Ryoga: (singing) Taken with rain, which I'll swallow down like the swirling
sky...
[He rips up his photos and throws them in the air.]
Like the swirling sky...
[The scattered pieces of pictures, with an occasional fragment of Akane's
face coming into view, swirl up into the air. Ryoga looks at them sadly.]
Ryoga: (singing) But I can't own her...
Kuno & Mousse: (singing just as mournfully) And I may as well wish for the
moon in hand.
Ryoga: No, I can't own her.
Kuno & Mousse: As there more chance of that coming true.
[The three young men watch silently as the pieces float away, backlit by
the yellow moon.]
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LaShawn M. Wanak (
tbone_m_jenkins@yahoo.com)
"All I know is I've gotta be where my heart says I oughta be.
It often makes no sense, in fact, I never understand these things I feel."
Ben Folds Five "Don't Change Your Plans"
T-bone Enterprises * In Touch With Yours Truly
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