I need to learn to think things through.
*sigh* How do i get myself into these things? By being greedy. I don't even think 15 people here care.
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taken from inevitabilityy.
The first fifteen commenters who give me awesome prompts get to request a drabble from me. In return, they have to post this meme in their journal. Post all fandoms you’re willing to write for. OK, so just request, ok? Because y'all ( Read more... )
As general background, wikipedia entry on GW.
Dore dake aruite kitandarou. Furimuitara namida no ato.
Zechs knew the secret fears in his heart were true. He couldn't protect them. He couldn't protect anyone. Not anyone; not even her*. All his tears, all the tears in the world would never bring a single person back.
Kizutuke kizutuki tadorituita basho.
Zechs knew the secret fears in his heart were true. All the blood covering his hands. All the people he killed trying to grow stronger, strong enough to save all those innocent people, all the beautiful pacifists who couldn't protect themselves. For that lofty goal, Zechs had abandoned all his morals and ideals, all his hope for himself--to protect, to save.
But he knew--now, too late--that it was all hopeless. He couldn't protect anyone and anywhere he went, everywhere he went, all he brought was pointless death and destruction. He couldn't save anyone. All he could do was cause pain. These were the truths he feared, the truths hated the most, because they meant all he'd sacrificed, all the pain he'd experienced and shaken off as worthy sacrifice for others, all of it was in vain.
Ima koko ni kimi ga iru.
I can't protect you either. I can't.
Zechs whispered the words under his breath, but no less desperately for all that. Noin knew she wasn't supposed to have heard. But of course she did. She was a little ashamed to admit it, but she heard every word that ever fell from Zechs' lips. She couldn't help it.
I'm here, she whispered back, under her own breath. I'm here anyway.
Ai nante kimi dake sa itsudemo motomesugite.
Noin knew she always asked too much of him. She knew she always pressed a little bit too far, always wanted more, something, too much, things he didn't have to give. Please rely on me, and I always want to be by your side. She knew she asked for too much because she wanted everything.
Ai nante kimi nashi ja imi nai yo. Ikirarenai.
Don't leave me, and I love you, and Life without you is meaningless. Noin didn't say things like that; it wasn't in her nature.
I don't need you to protect me. I'll be waiting for you. And then she walked away, leaving Zechs to stare after her
Hontou ni kokoro de aiseteiru no? Imademo fuan da yo.
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Did he remember any of hers?
Hitorikiri yume no naka tadorituita basho, furueteru kimi ga iru yo.
Zechs sometimes felt like he was stumbling through a dream, wandering through a nightmare alone. The way behind him was closed with thorns and blood, and none of his options forward were good ones. He didn't know which way to go. All the paths open to him twisted farther and farther into impenetrable night.
But he had no choice but to go forward. And Noin was waiting at the end of every one, so he pressed on.
Nakanaide, hanasanai yo, subete wo nagesutetemo. Mirai nante kimi nashi ja mienai yo. Iranai yo.
Even if she lost everything. Even if she had to sacrifice everything, she wouldn't let go of him. Zechs would be the one thing she held onto. All of her family was dead, killed in falling rubble years ago; nearly all her friends were too, casualties of not being quite fast enough, not being quite good enough and the cruelty of a soldier's existence. That was all past, past and present.
She wouldn't give up Zechs. She couldn't see a future without him. She didn't want any part in a future without him.
Asa no hizashi no kimi no negao to tereta egao de ureshiku nareru kara. Sonna hibi wo kanjita ai yo.
"Are you still waiting?" Zechs asked Noin a few minutes before boarding the Mars terra-forming project shuttle.
She looked at his face, into his eyes which were no longer covered by a mask. She smiled. "No, not anymore."
The early morning sun playing across Noin's sleeping face.
Zech's shy smile, unburdened for the first time in years.
"Let's go, then." Stepping through the hatch, Zechs reached back and caught Noin's hand.
Eien ni. Eien ni.
*since you don't know the series at all, this 'her' is referring to his little sister.
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