Feb 23, 2011 00:27
[Fast asleep, a blonde little girl starts to dream of insane things... a narrator that looks surprisingly like her, but older (perhaps her mother?) appears, smiling]
Once, a long time ago, there was a pretty little princess named Camilla Eleanor Louise Adelaide Theodora Ashford. Well, not really a princess, but a lady. she was a noble woman, and wished terribly to be the wife of a young prince named Lelouch vi Britannia~
[the woman laughs, and pulls out a wand, waving away the images of her story]
Even in her dreams, she's in love with him~
[then two men, one older than the other (hey! that her father and her grandaddy!) appear, both surrounded by mist, laughing too]
Don't forget the other people who she fell in love with--
Or the boys and girls who fell in love with her.
[There's flashes of her high school career, long and full of vibrancy and colour, a film on fast forward, where she's running a meeting, holding onto her two best friends in the dark of a terrorist attack, laughing with her friends in the bath house, protecting her students even when there are guns pointed at her, being shoved off again onto Lord Asplund, stalking Lelouch with Rolo and Rivalz, attending the Empress Tianzi's wedding, her last day of school, Shirley's funeral, breaking off her engagement, reporting Lelouch's ascend to power, and then his death...]
[But there were three prominent male faces... Lelouch, Rivalz, and Suzaku. And then, all of the men she's now met on the Thor-- Atem, Kakashi, Hope, Pip, Eros, Fai-- start to join them, along with Shirley smiling sweetly, and Stocking laughing. Milly's now stuck in a wedding dress, a dirty one, and is being held by large, burly men, standing where Lelouch was when he was stabbed, and all of those people, from home, from the Thor, her family... waiting where the prisoners were before. Is this what Lelouch felt like?]
Camilla, you're too emotional. How could you let yourself get attached to so many people? This will never do anything for our name--
You can't marry for love, or even date someone you like! You're our only daughter. you have to be a proper lady and do what's right by--
Let her do what she wants! She's young and idealistic! Don't make her as cynical as you two--
But what do we have left? she has to--
There is no option for her, Reuben, she must--
Let her choose! you're her parents! don't you want--
[And it continues on between them, the only thing audible is their voices fighting over her life, telling her what she must do, and who she can never love and wish to marry. Sinking to her knees, she cries, trying to block it out, then suddenly-- It stops. she looks up, and sees Lelouch, as handsome as ever, smiling, holding her face.]
Don't ever change, Milly~
[He leans in for a kiss, and right before their lips touch--
She awakens, nervous, distressed, her hair mussed. It's 3am. And then, everything falls into place, and she start crying. Sobbing even. The homesickness has finally taken hold of her, and she clutches to her pillow, crying until she falls back asleep...]
milly ashford