Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ As the Tears Come Down ❯ Ice's Flashback ( Chapter 3 )

Ice's Flashback

 

This is the edited version.

She dropped the rose and watched it fall to the floor.

How can he be here? Why would he come back? Did he some how find a way to get away from Beryl's evil grasp? Does he even love me anymore? Is he still the same person? Is he still in the palace?

"Ami." I guess so

She continued to look at the rose, and did not look up until he was in front of her. "Why have you come back to me?" She said looking up into the eyes of the man that made her fall in love with him, but also broke her heart.

"Because it is part of my duty." He said as his hand slowly moved to the handle of his sword.

"I don't understand. Is it your duty to love me?" She turned away from him and started to walk to the window at the end of the aisle.

"Ami, I really thought you would have figured out by now…I don't love you. I never have." He said as he turned to follow her.

There was silence for a long time before she said, "Why? Have you just lied to me all this time? All the gifts and flowers were just some way to make me fall in love with you more? If you don't love me Zoisite then why have you come back? I just can't understand it. Did you just decide to change your mind?" She turned around to look at him again. "There are just so many questions and not enough answers." She said without raising her voice.

He looked directly into her blue eyes and tried to find an answer for one of her questions. But no answers came. "I don't know what to say. I don't have any answers for you." He turned away from her to look out the window.

"Please come back to me Zoisite. I need you. I need you here with me," She walked over to him. "Please." It felt like her heart was breaking all over again.

He looked down at her and saw a sea of emotions in her eyes. Love, anger, betrayal, fear, and most of all sadness. Something in the back of his mind was telling him to reach out to her, show her that she was the most important thing in his life. He felt hypnotized by her gaze and suddenly everything went black.

Flashback

Silence. That was the way it had been for the last thirty minutes.

"Why does it have to be this way?" She finally said. They were in the Fountain Hall, one of Ami's favorite places on the moon. There were millions of fountains in here, and not one was the same as another.

"What do you mean?" He said looking over to her.

"I mean right when things were getting perfect and everyone was happy, something horrible has to happen. I don't understand why is had to happen now. Or ever." She walked over to the nearest fountain and sat down on the edge of it, then looked up into his loving green eyes.

"Ami I would give or do anything to find a place where no one could find us and we would be forever together and happy. But we both know that I will never find that place and right now I don't know what to do. This is the first time I don't have an answer to one of your questions. Ami you are the first and last thing I think about every day. You are the person that I breathe each breath for, and you are the first person I have ever truly loved. Just tell me Ami, tell me something to do to make you smile once more, let me hear a laugh in your voice, I want to see the spark of happiness once more in your eyes. Tell me what to do, tell me anything." He said as he walked over to her and got down on his knees.

Tears fell down her face as it broke into a beautiful smile. She kneeled down into front of him and said, "Just come back to me Zoisite and you will make me eternally happy."

He looked into her eyes and saw the glimmer of happiness. He pulled her into his embrace and whispered to her. "Thank you for making my life go above and beyond my dreams."

End Flashback

He woke up on the floor with her kneeling beside him. Tears were falling down her face and he remembered what he just saw, every emotion he was feeling that moment and every emotion he wanted her to feel.

"Why are you crying?" He said kneeling in front of her. He brought up one of his hands to wipe the tears away from her face but she got up from the floor and looked away from him.

"Don't do that." She said as she pushed his hand away and wiping her own tears off her face.

He got up and said again, "Why are you crying?" He walked closer to her.

"Because I love Zoisite and I know that you are never going to be that man again. I just miss him." She walked away from him and back to the chessboard.

"Do you know what I have to do then?" He said as he watched her walk. His mind was screaming tell him he couldn't do was his duty was telling me he had to. It felt like something else was trying to take control of his mind, something that was supposed to be there.

"Yes, we have to fight...until the death." She looked back to him as he pulled out his sword.

"Exactly." He walked toward her and put the sword to her heart. "Are you really going to let me win that easily?"

She looked into the eyes of the man in front of her and saw nothing of the man she loved. "No." She backed away from the sword, reached up her hand and yelled, "Mercury Moon Power!" There was a flash of blue and where Princess Ami once stood there was now Sailor Mercury.

He looked over at the equally matched warrior in front of him and said, "Let the battle begin."