[Author's Note: Oo...Dot and someone other than Quatre! *gasp!* sacrilege...]
Everything You Want
by Vertical Horizon
Spring AC 196
Somewhere there's speaking
It's already coming in
Oh and it's rising at the back of your mind
Dorothy is wandering the outskirts of the former Sank Kingdom, having paid a brief visit to the memorial cemetery there. Her thoughts are being invaded by images of the boy she wounded only a few months ago...
You never could get it
Unless you were fed it
Now you're here and you don't know why
She met him at the Sank Kingdom but she never confronted him about his hypocritical beliefs in Pacifism and fighting -- one or the other, why didn't he just choose?!
But under skinned knees and skid marks
Past the places where you used to learn
She meanders into the half-repaired building that housed Relena's precious Pacifism school. Construction warnings are everywhere, but there is no one around to stop her and she has no fear of anything collapsing on her
You howl and listen
Listen and wait for the
Echoes of angels who won't return
She considers the emptiness, and realizes she actually sort of misses Relena and her pet gundam pilot.
He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why
Dorothy finds her way to her former room. Surprisingly it is much the same as she left it just before leaving with Relena when the kingdom collapsed. Photos are still tacked over the desk, upon which lay a few scattered encoded notes that no one ever bothered to wonder about. She wipes dust from the photos.
You're waiting for someone
To put you together
She smiles recalling how he had inspired a devious trap to come to mind for a fencing match.
You're waiting for someone to push you away
She had pondered if he would be too much a gentleman to decline her challenge.
There's always another wound to discover
She'd had to hold back a true smirk when he didn't even flinch when she scored a hit.
There's always something more you wish he'd say
He had seemed too proud to show more than a millisecond short glare in his impassive eyes. She had hoped he would go right out and accuse her of being a spy. He had such confidence with his knowledge...
He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why
She heads out of the complex, ignoring more danger warnings. She takes a quick tour of the remains of the gardens, sighing at the lack of roses, then makes her way back to her car.
But you'll just sit tight
And watch it unwind
It's only what you're asking for
And you'll be just fine
With all of your time
It's only what you're waiting for
She taps thoughtfully on the steering wheel and wonders what gundam pilots do when the war is over. She thinks of a certain one who is probably very bored...
Out of the island
Into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
She drives by the cemetery again, sorely tempted to visit Treize's grave. She misses one of the few men she knew who was fearless enough to take control of life and live it his way. Too many seemed willing to let themselves be dragged along in the dust of the changing times...
You never did notice
But you still hide away
The anger of angels who won't return
She glances skyward with a smirk, toward the stars where some would say a soul was lost but then found; which was also one of those few.
He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why
"I want your hope..."
"I want your resolve..."
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
"I want your strength."
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
"You could have owned the world!"
But I mean nothing to you and I don't know why
"Yet you had to go and disappear..."
"Foolish Heero Yuy."
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(c) 2000-2004 Autumn Loweck. This work may not be copied, distributed, or reprinted without the author's permission. Characters of Quatre and Dorothy belong to the creators of the GundamWing series, Sotsu Agency, Sunrise, Bandai, and whoever else in Japan involved in this most cool anime.
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