[2003 New Year's Challenge] Who Needs A Reason? - Esca, V/H

[angelic1090]

Who needs a reason? by Angelic1090

AN: An entry for the New Year's Kiss challenge on BI (I am OBVIOUSLY taking Esca here, what else do I write?) Side note: not my best writing, but felt like answering the challenge (any more detail and wouldn't have been 800 words or less!)

Pairing: Van x Hitomi (of course)

Word Count (after this line): 524 -.-; I'm a bit short? oh well.

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She'd been on Gaea for nearly a year now, and sometimes she just had to sit back and marvel at all she had gone through.

The war. The engagement. Allen apologising, and Van looking ready to eviscerate him for daring to even speak to his then-fianc?e (Van had apparently not forgotten the fact that Allen had kissed Hitomi? even if they had been manipulated).

But that was all over now. She was a happily married queen (QUEEN? She still wasn't used to it), forever on a serene world with the man of her dreams. Her *literal* dreams. Perhaps no one else knew, but she had dreamed of Van long before she had seen him, had mistaken his identity but still longed for him. Although in hindsight, Hitomi would often laugh at herself and wonder how she had thought the dark, shorthaired angel in her visions had even been Allen. Wishful thinking, perhaps.

Thinking these things, Hitomi Kanzaki de Fanel lay back onto the bed, exhausted from Council meetings, and a trifle annoyed that her husband had been too busy to even steal a moment with the entire day. Her dearest wish at the very moment was to feel the familiar texture of his feathers, as he would catch her attention with one, or surprise her by flying up to their window, and sneaking in.

The thought of Van doing that brought a smile to her face. He had done it during their wedding preparations, when Merle had explicitly forbidden them to see each other, making the poor couple desperate to see each other. He nearly scared her off the ledge coming up behind her, but it had been worth it to just see him for a moment. At least, until Merle appeared before BOTH of them and Van was forced to spread his wings lest he wanted a flattened bride.

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An odd noise broke Hitomi away from her train of though, reminiscing about their shared past, and coming to the conclusion that *nothing* was supposed to beep like that on Gaea, began to search the room trying to find the noise.

And this is how her husband found her, entering the room after a short conversation with one of his generals.

"Hitomi? What are you doing?"

"Looking for something," she replied. Turning away from Van, who was still looking at her as if she was a demon possessed, she startled him by suddenly going "AH-HA!"

"What is it love?"

"My watch, I had no idea I still had it. It's New Year's on Earth?"

"The start of a new rotation?"

"That's the basic idea Van. Some places it's tradition to kiss someone at midnight, but I've never done it."

Van smiled, slightly, as Hitomi continued to look down at her watch. "Really? Well what time is it now?"

"It's?" she never got a chance to answer, as the Draconian pulled his wife to him and kissed her.

"? Van it wasn't midnight!"

He grinned, and held her close. "Why do I need a reason to kiss the love of my life?"

She stopped questioning him, and they kissed again.