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[keepyourrevolution]

You really just need to let it go. I look how I look and there's nothing either of us can do about it for now.

I'm more worried about finding Anthy again.

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A-Anthy?!

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Utena-sama...I [she frowns, looking for the words.]

It has been a while, hasn't it?

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A while...

Anthy it's been--

How are you?

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I'm...fine.

[Her voice cracks a little with the sheer joy of this reunion. Before she can catch herself, tears fall.]

I'm fine, Utena.

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[They don't get a 'fine' even if she still has hopes that one day they will.]

Maybe I shouldn't say this. Maybe it shouldn't matter but--

It's been weird without you, you know?

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[A quick nod and a practiced wiping of tears commences.]

I don't-

[She feels her cheeks flush and she looks down feeling her eyes water again.]

Utena...

[She reaches out then, barely a tentative brush of fingertips for her Prince. Her eyes remain downcast.]

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[Her mouth opens because, let's face it, seeing Anthy doing anything but smile guts her.]

Anthy--

[She leans into the soft fingers against her cheek, smiling down at the bridge of the smaller girl's nose.]

It's going to be all right now.

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[There is rush of fabric and suddenly Anthy is clutching to Utena, like she is salvation. Her sobbing is so quiet but she can feel it wrack her body]

I-

I thought I lost you. I couldn't lose you too.

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[Rocking back for a moment, Utena actually slides her foot behind her ever so slightly to keep her balance. She'd not been expecting that. It takes a moment more to lift her arms and embrace the other girl.]

I thought I failed you. You fell.

[Hatred. The wound in her back. The portcullis-- There had been a lot of strangeness and pain in those few moments to really pay attention to everything.]

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I didn't think think it was possible. But then you came along and you showed me.

[She sounds delirious, lost in the wave of emotion.]

Even after all that I've been and all that I've done, you saved me.

[Traitor. Whore. Witch. Even now the swords run her through - but that doesn't matter. She's free of him and free with Utena.]

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I promised you.

[It just took her a long time to remember it. She promised and she tried to keep her promises. Even to people who hurt her..or threatened to poison her...or shoved swords into her back. She still didn't understand that one but she didn't want to ask.]

What sort of prince would I be if I didn't keep my promises?

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[Fear creeps into her eyes, adding to her sudden desperation.]

Please don't say that. You're not a prince or a knight or anything else from that awful nightmare of a place.

[Cradling her face, Anthy continued.]

You are amazing and you are the best friend I've ever had. You are the best person I've ever known.

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[But...but she was a prince. Didn't she deserve that much?]

I don't-- Anthy, I don't understand.

[People forgot her. She knew that. Someone that had shone so bright was easily cast aside.]

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[He was nothing to aspire to, not even at his greatest.]

Princes are like stars, Utena. They are brilliant and amazing and they burn out.

[The others could rot in that coffin, the only one who mattered anymore was here.]

But here you are. Still shining.

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[Taking caramel skinned hands in her own, Utena might squeeze just a little too hard.]

But-- But only because you found me. I don't know what I would have done if...

[It was so hard to speak, there was too much to say and not enough ways to get the words out.]

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[She was moving before realized, pulled as if stuck in Utena's gravitation. Anthy's eyes flicked from Utena's lips to meet her gaze, heavy lidded and hazy.]

I-I...

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[Oh, she wasn't trying to back away, she was just dumb struck. They both seemed to be. Utena pulled the other girl's fingers to her face and lightly kissed the tips before shaking her head. Why bother talking? None of it matters any more.]

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[If there was nothing to be said, then the only thing she could do was act. As Utena lowered their hands, Anthy leaned into the kiss - chaste, but no less loving for it.]

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[It was difficult to hold back the flood of emotion after that. It wasn't Anthy's fault. Whatever Utena didn't understand no longer mattered. Anthy's lips were soft and Utena didn't let go.]

OOC:

[flowershrine]

I just showed this to a friend of mine and he went 'wow', You are such a good Utena!

Re: OOC:

[keepyourrevolution]

(well thank you! It's a character I've been meaning to pick up for awhile.)