Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Escaflowne: Breach of Faith ❯ Chapter 4

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Vision of Escaflowne: Breach of Faith
Part 4
By: Amataru Arcus
Romance/Angst
Warnings: I do not own Escaflowne or the characters. I just use them in the way I want. If you don't like the way I use `em, tell me. I'll take it into thought. I cannot spell. You have been warned.
Author Note: This takes place thirteen years after the last episode. If you haven't watched the whole series, I warn you there are spoilers. I suggest watching them all first, or at least learning what happens in the end. *I will never ever watch the last ep again... It's soooooo saaaad!! Every time I watch it I cry...* Read, Respond, and Enjoy!!
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Jennifer stepped into the dark cool room alone. She dragged her long green dress along the marble floor, her shoes clanking with every step. As she reached a lamp she turned the knob with her long slender fingers and the flame inside intensified. The yellow glow danced upon her pale skin and accented her blonde hair. "Van is almost ours brother." she spoke into a round looking glass on her vanity. What was one Jennifer's face transformed into a man's face about the same age as Van. He, like Jennifer, had blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Dear sister. I have been waiting for your report for hours. I hope nothing is wrong."
"Nothing that cannot be handled. Just a little competition," her thin lips formed into a wicked smile.
"Who is this competition?" he obviously didn't share her confidence.
"A foreigner named Hito-somthing. She arrived today, most likely thinking she could stop the wedding. When Van saw her I could tell there had been something between them. Not to worry though. I charmed him so he will not think of her." her smile widened.
"I've heard about Van's former affair. I think to be absolutely safe, you have to kill her."
"What?! Do you not think I can handle the girl?" She snapped, smile now gone from her face.
"Do you want a child? Is he not the only one who can give you what you want?!" he matched her volume.
"Yes... But I have him under control-"
"Do you not doubt the ability of love. It is a strong but can be powerful."
"So is depression," she hissed under her breath. "I understand."
"Do it Jennifer."
"I will not fail," she bowed her head as her brother's image faded and was replaced by her own. "Damn it..." she slammed a fist down. `I can have Van. Why does he not see that? I am more beautiful and dignified then she... It is an insult for him to think anyone compares to me, or even can beat me. I will show him I can get what I want with out killing someone... I'll just make sure she is out of commission.'
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Merle had been waiting for Van for ten minutes before he opened his bedroom door.
"Van-sama!!" she jumped off his bed and glommed him.
"Merle, what are you doing here?" he placed her down.
"I've got a surprise for you." she smiled brightly and hid her hands behind her back.
"Can it wait till tomorrow?" Van didn't seem to notice her and walked to his bed.
"No Van-sama, you have to come with me. It's waiting for you down by Escaflowne-"
Van spun around and glared at her.
"What? What's wrong?" Merle was confused and worried that she had said something she shouldn't.
"Where's Hitomi?"
Merle twisted her feet ashamed, "By Escaflowne."
Van studied her, "Why is she there? The woods are dangerous." Van walked to the door again.
"What's wrong Van?" she followed after.
"Hitomi... She's..." he reached for the door handle but froze.
"Van-sama?" she reached him and looked into his eyes, they where lifeless.
"I can not leave my room" he said stiffly.
"Van-sama...?" she looked at his trembling hands barely even touching the door. "Van-sama, snap out of it!!"
Van couldn't move, he tried but his body wouldn't listen. He could hear Hitomi's cries, he saw the terror in her eyes, yet he couldn't do anything to help her. He was trapped inside his body screaming and fighting to gain control. With no way to tell Merle what was wrong. Every time he tried forcing a noise out he heard Jennifer's voice telling him to stay in his room. "But I can't! Hitomi's in danger!" he called out to her "Let me out of my mind!!" No response, only her voice echoing and her eyes piercing his.
Chains curled around him locking him into place like snakes. They squeezed him so tightly it hurt to breath. He fought against them but the more he tried the more that came at him. He could barely hear Merle calling his name and he couldn't speak. They entwined around his head and he could no longer see. He had to be free, he had to save Hitomi. She was endanger... "I have to save Hitomi!!" he hollered at the voices ringing in his ear. "I have too!!" The chains clanked and screeched -WHY?- "I love her!! -WHY THEN WOULD YOU MARRY ANOTHER?- "I-" he knew there was an answer. There had to have been. The chains repeated again -WHY MARRY ANOTHER?- "I-I don't know!!" he screamed at them. "I must be free to save Hitomi!! She needs me!!" -YOU NEED HER?- "I need her!! I need her... Let me free! I'd rather be dead then be with out Hitomi!" he strained harder and harder to free himself, he could feel his warm blood trickling down his skin but he twisted and jerked even more. "Let me go!!" -YOU'VE TRAPPED YOUR SELF.- Van realized it was his own voice questioning him. "How?" -YOU'VE BEEN SUPPRESSING YOUR FEELINGS FROM THE START YOU NEVER TOLD HITOMI HOW YOU FEEL.- "But she knew!" -SHE DID NOT. YOU ASSUMED. YOU'VE TRAPPED YOUR OWN FEELINGS VAN. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE HER, AND YET YOU DO NOTHING TO SHOW IT. FREE YOUR SELF!- "How?!" he called back and clenched his teeth, the pain became unbearable. -LET IT ALL OUT...- "Let what out??!!" The voice didn't reply. "I love Hitomi! Please she needs my help! She..." A vision faded into his head:
//Hitomi was in her room laying on her bed. Her feet entwined in her quilt he some how knew her grandmother made. She was crying into her pillow silently but he could tell she was stifling it. Her tendons in her fingers popped out as she gripped at the pillow. She had been holding a stuffed dragon she had won at a carnival that day. He knew all of this. He could hear her thoughts, though not specific. She had been asking her self why she keeps holding on. Why she still loved him. Why she kept doing things that reminded her of Van. Van saw her hurl the dragon across the room and it knocked a picture off the wall and the glass shattered on the floor causing Hitomi to look at it. What Van saw in her eyes frightened him more then anything he had ever seen before. More then seeing a dead body for the first time, more then Fanelia burning, even more then Hitomi kissing Allen. What he saw was the look of desperation for an end. She stood up as if in a trance, arms limp at her sides. She started forward to the shards of glass. Van couldn't take it. At her darkest hour he couldn't be with her. Have a chance to hold her like... like... Van couldn't recall a time when he just held her... Van couldn't even remember a time when he kissed her. He realized he never even told her he loved her... She had picked up one of the large pieces of the broken glass and held it firmly. Her blood trickled from between her fingers. Van tried to reach out to hold her, to tell her everything was fine, that he was there... "I must go to her..." he stretched out his hand breaking free from the chains that bound them. "She needs me... She needs my love." He grew closer and closer to her.//
He stumbled into the hallway.
"Van-sama! Are you okay?! You looked..." Merle ran up besides him and helped him to his fee.
"Yes, I'm fine but... Hitomi... I don't think she is..." he trailed off as he started to run down the hall with Merle following.
"Why? What's wrong Van-sama?"
"When I came into my room and saw you there I had a vision..." Van jumped a flight of stairs, skidded and made a left down another corridor.
"Matte Van-sama!! What do you mean a vision?" she called after.
"Hitomi... she was falling..." he jumped down the main stair case and tore off his shirt and his white wings emerged like a ray of light and he soared out the entrance doors of the palace; leaving a trail of feathers as he flew.
"Van-sama where are you going?" she watched as he flew higher as he exited the palace and head for the gardens.
"You said she was by Escaflowne..." and she could hear him no longer.