I’m so going to be burnt at the stake for this one. I wrote it and I even think that the pairing is odd. I think I ate way too many peeps and this is all a result of a sugar coated marshmallow overdose. ------------------------------------------------------------ Eventually you will remember and I wonder what you’ll think of me. How you will react to our past is a mystery even to me. The threads of time won’t reveal this secret. They guard it as closely as I guard the gate. Will you be shocked, revolted, or angry? If I were to hazard a guess I’d say angry, but the path is clouded over and even I, the Guardian of Time, can not discern the way. Occasionally, I think that perhaps you won’t remember. Things would be easier that way. You could continue your present life as you wished without having to be tied down by the past, and I could go on as always with my new family. My family, I love them so much. Haruka, Michiru, and little Hotaru have filled the emptiness that had grown inside me since you left. Well, not completely filled. How could they when my heart still aches when I think of your strong arms? How could they when I lay awake at night thinking of the way you move in battle? I’ve watched you grow over the years. I’ve relished your triumphs and I’ve wept with you at your losses. I am not foolish enough to believe that you are the same person as the one I loved all those lifetimes ago. While you share the same spirit, you are your own individual. Surprisingly enough, I believe that I love you more in this lifetime than I did back in the Silver Millenium. There’s a certain fragile nature that you carry with you in this life, because of all that you’ve been through, that increases your character tenfold over your past self. The time is coming; I feel it, when all of you will remember the past. It is essential to the future that you do so. Yet I tremble at the thought of having to face you. The others would laugh to see me, the unflappable Sailor Pluto, actually afraid of something. Gods, I wish I knew how you will react. I do know that in the future that you visited, we were not together. I don’t believe that you even knew of our past. However, so much has been done to change that future, that the need to remember has arisen in everyone, and now that future is yet another in an endless line of failed possibilities. Now in whatever future arises, good or bad, you will remember. Haruka and Michiru remember the most. They’re older of course. Sometimes I think they remember more than they’re letting on. Too many of Haruka’s comments on my sex life have hit too close to home. I know Michiru has picked up on my feelings, has caught the glances I’ve thrown your way. Nothing escapes that mirror of hers after all. But they respect my privacy for the most part and do not intrude. I know they worry about me, and about you. Haruka may not show it but she respects you. The two of you were close in your past lives. The bond between you still exists. It makes me more than a little jealous at times, the fact that a part of you remembers your friendship with Uranus but remains blind to our bond. Is it that you don’t want to remember? I wouldn’t blame you if that were the case. Your life is probably far easier without me in it. I see what Haruka and Michiru go through every day, and I realize how difficult a life together would be for us. Perhaps I should simply be content with the memories that I have and leave things at that. I should be content with the ghost of your arms around me as we danced in the palace ballroom long after the others had gone home for the night. I should be content with the memory of your sleeping form next to mine in the cool gray light of dawn. I should be content with the last kiss we shared in front of the gate the day you died for our princess. I have these memories, and I should be happy with them. A flash of auburn catches my eye. I watch as you walk past the café where I sit. You notice me and wave, before continuing on your way. I should be happy with the memory of you… But then again the memories only make me want you more…
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