Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Escaflowne: Breach of Faith ❯ Chapter 5

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Vision of Escaflowne: Breach of Faith
Part 5
By: Amataru Arcus
Romance/Angst
Disclaimer: 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.
Warnings: 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. Read, Respond, and Enjoy!!
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'I wonder if Van went for me…' Hitomi asked her self as she started to get undressed for bed. 'What are you talking about, Hitomi…' she scolded her self while putting the white gown over her head. 'Don't think that once you get here everything is back to normal…' She slipped her hands through the sleeves. "Why does this have to be short sleeved…" she sighed as she looked at an old scar on the inside of her wrist. "Van…" forcing her eyes shut she decided she wasn't going to cry. She had enough of crying over Van. She had cried for him for thirteen years. "No! No more!!" she told the air around her. It didn't question.
Once she was satisfied with her clothes, hair, and bed sheets, she started to fall asleep. It was right before she fell into a deep sleep when she heard the fluttering of wings. She ignored it like always, so many times she had heard his wings in the middle of the night just to find it was her imagination. So she rolled over on her side, curling tightly into a ball. She heard the noise again, only this time at the foot of her bed. She chanced a peek just in case it was him.
For a second she thought it was Van, the moonlight distorted the figure's outline, but at second glance she found it not to be him. The features where too short and it was wearing a fluttering dress. But she couldn't help wondering if it was him… Those wings…
"So you are awake Foreigner."
Hitomi's skin crawled at the sound from the woman in front of her. The cold voice of Jennifer.
"You have distracted Van enough. I now will have to get rid of you." Jennifer walked around the bed and the light flowed around her showing more of her features as she walked.
"You-you…" she couldn't talk. She didn't know what to say or even more what to do. She just laid there in her bed, covers pulled tightly up under her chin.
"Frightened are you? Well you need not be. I will not kill you. I will just make sure you are not found and can not find your way. It will not be as if you are lost, no. You will not be able, physically, to find your way!!" her laugh rang inside Hitomi's ears.
"W-why?" she could see Jennifer's red eyes glimmering with hatred.
"Because he loves you. I need him you see. You are distracting him from me. It is important for him to want me. Only me."
"If you love him…. I'll leave!" Hitomi used her last bit of courage and shouted.
"Love him?! Love Van Fanel? No I do not love him, I need him. I will never love."
"Then why do you want him?!" Hitomi's strength grew. She still had a chance with Van.
"I do not need to explain my reasoning to you!" Jennifer spat as she leaned in and dragged Hitomi by her arm and out of the bed.
"Let me go!!" she cried desperately, struggling to get free of Jennifer's strong grip.
"If you struggle, you most certainly fall to your death," Jennifer flew to the open window and took off with Hitomi into the night.
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Van circled around and around again for Hitomi, but he couldn't find her any where. He checked where Merle said she was to wait for him, she wasn't there. He retraced the path to the family grave yard and through the gardens, she wasn't there either. He became severely worried. Van started to think that maybe he was too late to help her, maybe she had already fallen and was trapped beneath the ground and he couldn't see nor hear her. 'How could I have let her go like that?' He, too, scolded himself. 'I love her like I've never loved anything before. More then the land I walk on! Why did I just let her go like that?! How stupid could I have been?!' His arguments must have struck his subconscious mind because he answered himself back; 'Because you loved her. It was what she wanted. If you kept her on Gaea she certainly would have grown to hate this place…' Van sighed. He knew he was right. Hitomi would have then started to hate him for keeping her caged in like a bird… It was up to him now to make sure she knew that he still loved her. He was determined to. That is if he could find her.
He made one more round of the grave yard but still saw no signs of Hitomi. Again he flew in and out and up and around the maze through the garden, still no noise from her. Nothing.
"Hitomi!!" Van called into the night sky as he flew towards the stars. Once he was almost confident that she wasn't in those two places he headed back to the palace. The castle became close and Van flew lower. At least until something caught his attention. In the corner of his eye he saw a bird flying from a window in the East Wing of his palace. He shock it from his mind, thinking it was Allen's owl. But then… Eries's room, and many other royalty attending the wedding, was located in the South Wing.
Van spun around to look at it again and froze.
It had a human form and it was holding another human form in it's hands.
"What-?" Van's curiosity ran wild and he flew towards the figures to check it out. As he neared the two he could hear Hitomi's cry. "Hitomi!" He flapped harder to reach her faster and catch the culprit taking her away from him.
"Van!!" Hitomi spotted him before the draconian.
"Hitomi!!"
The draconian spun around in surprise.
But Van was more surprised. "Jennifer? What-"
"What are you doing out of your room?! I thought I charmed you?" Jennifer hissed unafraid to show who she really was.
"What are you doing with Hitomi?!" he demanded.
"I am getting rid of her. She is a distraction." she smiled and her eyes turned red, "Go back to your room, Van. You do not need to be here."
Van started to fall back into his mind again but he fought to stay conscious and in control of his body. "No! I finally have the one thing that I want, and you are not taking her from me!"
"What? Why is my charming not working?" her eyes changed to garnet as she tried harder to regain control of him.
"What do you want with me?" Van demanded ignoring her question
Jennifer narrowed her eyes so only thin traces of red where seen, "You want to know Van?"
"Yes!" he two narrowed his eyes challenging her.
"It will come at a price." She loosened her hold on Hitomi.
"No! Leave Hitomi out of this!"
"You leave Hitomi out of this. If you send her away, I will not harm her."
Hitomi looked at Van and he looked at her. They stared into each other souls knowing what hell the other had been though because they ignored their love for each other. They both did not want to go through that torched again.
"I will not ignore the love I have for Hitomi. You don't have to tell me anything, just leave and let Hitomi and I live in peace."
"I am sorry that is not an option," Jennifer knew that there was no way around killing Hitomi now. She let go.
Van watched as Jennifer's fingers released their tight grip on Hitomi's body, he even watched in disbelief as she started to fall. He had just accepted his love for Hitomi and here she was falling from him. Falling further and further from his reach. Van closed his wings a bit and descended after her only to find he couldn't go anywhere. Van turned his head around to find Jennifer holding him back.
"It is for our own good, Van. Just let her go," Jennifer smiled down at him as he started to struggle to get free from her grasp.
"Let me go! Hitomi will die!!" the more he struggled the more she dug her fingers into his wings.
"So? Is not that what you want? You want to be free from her hold on you. If you do not, your country will fail. All ready the people seek a better ruler. One who cares about his people, one who's heart is set on them."
"I love my people and my country!"
"Do you not love Hitomi more?"
"What?!"
"Your country comes first, Van. That is the fate [unmei] of a ruler. You must accept this. Marry one who is li-" Van struggled more and more not listening to anything she had said. All he could hear was Hitomi's cries, all he could see was Hitomi's fear. He had to get to her! He loved her more then his own life, more then his country, he would give it up for Hitomi. Give everything up for Hitomi! If she died… he didn't know what he would do, he wouldn't care about anything, he wouldn't have anything to live for. She was just feet from the ground and falling faster, if Van didn't find away to get free from Jennifer's grasp she would surely parish. Van's heart raced in his throat and he elbowed her and kicked, but she still wouldn't let go. Hitomi was only two feet away from the gravel ground…
"Hitomi!!!!!!!" he cried out as his hidden pendent emitted a red glow. It grew bigger and bigger till it hurled Jennifer off of Van and he was free. He didn't even care what happened to Jennifer, Hitomi was one foot from the ground. He wasn't going to let her go! He shut his wings and fell and then opened his wings again and closed them forcing his body to fall faster. He was too far from her, but her had to try! He knew he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he couldn't save her. He had to save her! He caused this! The wind forced into his eyes but he kept them open watering from desperation and irritation. Hitomi was inches from the ground now and she had her eyes closed holding on to her self.
And she hit.
Hitomi weakly opened her eyes to see Alan holding her trying to catch his breath but smiling trying to reassure Hitomi that she was okay. Hitomi started shaking and tears broke loose as she placed her head in his chest and broke down.
Van finally reached her.
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That part was dedicated to my critique, editor, and friend, Angie. Thanks to her, the spell of writers block was broken ^_^ Arigatou gozaimasu!!
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