25 Feb 2000 The interlude now. Connection failure sure have some advantages as in productivity. Again, this is going to be a Bakuretsu Hunter/Gundam Wing crossover, but not this one, maybe the next part. Yaoish, ShounenAi-ish, whatever you might expect from JejeFish, really. Story planning by Vries, and development by JejeFish. You can't expect anything from Vries for a day or two, for she's drooling over our new client who looks like Zechs. I can't blame her, really. Nature's Call by: Vries and JejeFish ----------------------- Based on "Wind Song" by: Cynthia du Pontavie Interlude I: Noin -------------------- /Saw a silhouette Crossing flourescent Flowing overhead undoing his helmet/ I was alone in my bedroom, when I could feel a vision of thundering lights. Many beautiful criss-crossing lights fell around me. Yellow, Green, Red, Gold, Silver, Black. And in those light, there's a figure of a person I knew most well. Zechs. He was facing me but I could feel that he didn't even know me, or look at me. And with a slow manner, he start removing his mask. Something that he had never done before in his whole presence beside me. Something that I always fantasize him doing. Most female in the fleet would fantasize him being undressed, but me, looking at his unmasked face is better than anything in this whole wide world. Like seeing into something forbidden. /Through the murky beams of bluegreen sealight Saw him spinning towards the moonlight/ Then the multi-coloured lights dissolved into the colours of sea. The colours that Zechs adored, the colour of his eyes. And he smiled at me. Then he turned towards the horizon. A vision of the steady sea, the sparkle of those bluegreen waters, then came into view. The beautiful horizon, the sea. What Zechs felt his comfort. The colours of his eyes, the colours of Treize's eyes that he adored. He turned once more, one last time to face me, and he disappeared, like a sea god being engulfed, and disappeared into those depth. I stood there stunned, there on the warm sand of the sea, then the desert, like a limbo. Looking at the vast expanse of the sea that I could never reach. His sea, not mine. Then the wind seemed to carry his words, that voice that seemed to caress my every nerves, bidding them to relax. But the words strung my every sense of existance. "Goodbye Noin." it repeated again and again. As I looked into the setting sun, painting the world red and orange, red like his military jacket, painting the sea waves red, like that stained of blood. The rush of the waters against the sand. All red, all gloom. Then one last time, "Goodbye Noin." and the scene crumbles before me. All dark, I am encased in endless dark, no more sea, no more sun, just dark, and around my feet, thousands of dead pigeons. The peace that died. Somehow a voice still echoed, "wake up, and good bye." I jolted up from my sleep, as my dreamscape collapsed all together, as I heard the sharp sound of the gun being shot. There must be something wrong. ZECHS! I ran as fast as I could to the infirmary. I don't care at my appearance, I don't care where my heart is taking me to, my feet ran towards that cold steel door of the infirmary, and I flung it open. And I saw, the image in my dream. Silver hair, masses that fell like water, those sea blue eyes, tinged red. I screamed, as I stumble up to him. /I pulled him in he wasn't breathing His eyes were wide, And he, it struck to me there/ I craddled his lolling head, a gruelsome black hole graced his pale side. It ran red blood, it was singed black, the smell of ammunition, the dark side of the world. I felt my tears running down, splashing onto his skin, which's getting colder. I rocked his body, hoping a miracle would come. I needed him, Damn you, Zechs. I haven't said anything, I haven't even beaten you for once. Damn you. I love you. And I continued to cry, to move, to heave, all in worthless succession. I can do nothing, I achieve nothing. Death I could not fight, Fate I could not avoid. /there's an ugly buzz And hovers shouts to buy the cries Found a way to make it silent/ Then I could hear more people coming in. I could hear Treize, and Wufei, coming in. At usual terms I would shoot that Gundam pilot down, for he's an infiltrator, opponent of the Specials or OZ, and that I lost to him. But I could not care less. My mind was clouded, nothing else can I think but of Zechs. I could hear Relena, and Lady Une coming in. I could hear Relena's scream. A heart-ripping one. A helpless scream of a sister who lose her brother. I could see Treize's eyes started to cloud. And I could feel his hands hauling me from Zechs. /I am coming up for air I am coming up for air/ Zechs, Zechs, don't you know whoever missed you? Don't you know your presence will be missed. Relena, she loved you. You deprived her of a brother's love that she had just found? Me, I missed you. Even as you didn't pay any attention to me, I am contented with the glance of you everyday, you're a reason to live. Treize, how matter he didn't admit it, he needed you. If not a lover, a friend. Really, Zechs how could you be so selfish? Leaving us alone here? Don't you know we cared? /They hold my hand and asked me to pull through voices died, and says, Dear he probably can't hear you/ Relena sought me, and buried herself beneath the crook of my neck, sobbing furiously. I felt like I am going to burst as well, as I repeated his name, again and again, like a chant. I could feel Lady Une placing her hand on my shoulder. "Shh... Let things that are past to pass." "He probably can't hear you." /Coming up for air Coming up for air Am coming up for air/ I nodded, maybe, he can't hear me. Relena had moved to her brother's side, clutching those hands, and bathing it with her tears. I leaned to the headboard and closed his eyes. Those blue eyes will see no more, those blue eyes will enchant no more. He probably is happy now. I reminded myself. Then I froze. I could feel an ethereal warmth around me. Then for a second I could see him, his face inches away from me, smiling at me, hugging me tight. As I blinked, the warmth had gone, but as I looked out from the lone window to the moonlight, I could see traces of silver, and Zechs smiling at me. /I am truly happy, be happy with me./ I could hear him say. and I could only nod. /Be happy, Zechs, promise me you'll be happy and I'll be happy for you./ -- "Air" Song and Lyrics (c) Ben Folds Five to be continued to Interlude II. And please, please tell me what you think.