Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Witness Reposted ❯ Prologue: Schuldich's Reflections ( Prologue )

Title: Witness
Author: Ryoko 03
Fandom: Weiß Kreuz
Warnings: AU - Angst - Implied Shounen-ai - Oracle/Prodigy Bastardization - Death
Rating: R for language and implied violence

Disclaimer: The only thing I own is the fic; hell, if I was the creator I can promise that the new designs (http://www.marine-e.co.jp/weib/weib-anime02.htm) would NOT exist!! God, I can only imagine wtf they could do to the Schwarz boys should they pop up in the new season....

Summary: Sometimes realization comes a little too late....

~+ Witness +~

Will we burn in heaven like we do down here? - Sarah McLachlan, "Witness"

Prologue

I think it was the tears that did me in.

I know; how can seeing someone cry possibly change your entire opinion of him? People cry every day, for joy and in pain, out of fear and grief and sometimes even in anger.

But you never, ever cried.

At least, that's what I thought.

You were the perfect killing machine-cold, cruel, heartless, and forget about trying to hurt you in retaliation! You can't touch someone who doesn't feel pain, after all.

Oh, not that people didn't try. They hit and cut and stabbed, and you never faltered in your duties. The kill could be clean, or incredibly violent and bloody, but the target always fell when you stepped into the picture.

No one could touch you; no one could hurt you.

But someone did.

Fuck, we hurt you!

We were a team, yet you were all but ignored. You were ridiculed, treated as a fool and an idiot, locked away when we didn't wish to deal with you, and yet you still sought us out. You weren't immune to loneliness, but none of us wanted to see that. We just wanted you to remain the insane one who didn't care for people and merely tolerated the rest of us, never realizing just how much the isolation truly hurt you.

And then one night my eyes were opened.

Once again you sought us out, and once again you were dismissed in a rather inhumane manner. The boy glared at you for a moment before tuning your presence out entirely and returning his attention to the computer, and our illustrious leader-would you think poorly of me if I say I want to kick his ass right about now? -all but ordered you back to the cell we oh-so-casually referred to as your room. For once I kept my mouth shut-in retrospect I should have made some wise ass remark as you left to avoid seeing what I did.

As you turned to leave, face the same expressionless mask as always, I saw the look in your eye. Pain, pure emotional despair and loneliness that had I taken that moment to peek into your mind, would have overwhelmed my mental shields. There was wetness there, also, something that had never been there in all the time that I'd known you.

It took me a moment to recognize the wetness as tears, and even then it took one slipping free for me to know for sure.

One moment, one shed tear, and my perception of you changed. You were human, just like Nagi, just like Crawford, just like me. You were capable of laughter, of tears, of joy and of sorrow. You could hate, you could love, you were capable of being loved.

And still you walked the world alone, believing yourself to be abandoned by God and by the world He created, never knowing that I was now watching in silence, looking for more signs of humanity and the intelligence that I'd begun to realize were hidden from us all.

Had I known you were going to leave us shortly, I would have told you I was there if you ever needed someone to turn to. I would have opened my mind and my heart to you, given of myself willingly, in hopes of making you smile.

But now it's too late.

And as you lie bleeding in my arms, I can't help but remember what brought us here tonight....

~+ Owari Prologue +~