I atually submitted this for D2, but I never posted it in the main forums because I was afraid you guys wouldn't like it. As I said, I don't really read lemons (lime is pretty much as explicit as I like to go), and so I guess there were also some embarrassment issues, about posting something so limey. I've written limes before... but the one in this story just seemed so much more intimate. I can't really explain it.
This ends the series more fully, on a much more light-hearted note... I suppose. When this scene played itself out in my mind, I had to laugh. I just felt like this really captured the essence of the series itself. I also think this chapter is the most true to the actual GW characters. That's why this is my favorite part, because of the closure it brings. I tried desperately to keep them in character, but the situation in this story vs. the original anime is so disparate-- I tried my best, and I hope I didn't mutilate their personalities too severely.
Thanks again, and enjoy this brief, final installment.
Disclaimer: I don't own GW or "Brother and Sister."
Epilogue
I awoke to find myself asleep in my sister?s bed-- Fingers curled over the hem of the sheets. Fingers. Hands. Hands that I held up to the sunlight to bask in its warmth, its beams reflecting from my fingertips as the glow washed my skin in gold, my platinum hair illumined.
Heero stood silently at the window with his back turned to me, looking out at my sister as she rode her pale-colored mare around the corral, mother trying to evoke an amused smile from the child. Lucretzia waited beside the horse with the prince in her arms, all three laughing as the animal?s face brushed against the baby?s toes. But he soon took his gaze from her and his son to rest on me.
"Milliardo."
"Heero."
We both said nothing for the moment, just staring at each other. We had been sharing this girl for over two years, but because of the curse, the amount of verbal contact that we ever had was limited to grunts and groans. And so there existed a sense of awkwardness in the room as we both realized that we would now be living under the same roof, competing for Relena?s attention.
"Relena?"
"She?s safe."
"How?" He didn?t answer me at first, simply turned his eyes back to my sister as her laughter whistled on the morning?s breeze. No longer seductive to him, it seemed. Just... the laughter of his wife.
"A desire to love... and to be loved." He placed his hand upon the window ledge, the sun?s light blinding me to the expression in his eyes... if there was any. "A promise from a while ago fulfilled."
I understood. He didn?t want to give me details surrounding the confrontation that he?d had with Lady Une. He didn?t need to. I didn?t help defeat her, and so it wasn?t my place to ask for answers.
And yet could I forgive him for what he?d done to her all those nights? For taking my revenge from me, what I so rightfully deserved after what I suffered with Relena all those years before? Brooding in silence as I was witness to their former molestation?
No.
But I had to be grateful for his sacrifice. I had to allow him that.
"And the girl that appeared to be Relena?"
"There was a daughter involved, and she and the witch used their sorcery to make her look like Relena. One of the daughter?s eyes disappeared at night, and their magic wasn?t strong enough to replace it. That?s why she wouldn?t lie with me. She didn?t want me to notice and become suspicious."
"Which is why she couldn?t nurse my nephew." Heero nodded. "Where is she now?"
"Taken care of," the brown-haired man responded curtly, warning me not to press him for an explanation. Again, it wasn?t my place to know.
Bastard.
The room was dampened in silence for a few moments following his answer, leaving us there to reflect on the past... to think towards the days to come. It was a compromise that seemed to form between ourselves, sympathy for the hardships endured by each other that made us more willing to share her love than I think was originally prone to our characters.
She loved him. He made her happy. As a beast I could understand why she turned to him for companionship, since I couldn?t give her the same love we had when I was human. She needed someone who could hold her and touch her. Something I as a roe couldn't give. But now that I could resume that former love, I wasn?t so willing to let him hold her... to let him touch her... let him kiss her. I did that for her, eighteen years before he even knew Relena walked the earth. It was my privilege? And she gave it away... to another man.
But it was her gift to give, and if she chose to grant it to him, then I would have to learn to accept it. I would come to accept it.
I extended my right palm out for him to take, lifting myself from the pillow as I said the words my heart denied but made me utter regardless. "We are brothers now."
He grasped my hand, glancing one last time out the window at my sister before he gave his approval to our kinship. He understood. "Yeah. For Relena?s sake."
"Yes... only for Relena."
Also, I'm speechless 
