(CODE X) 5500 Rebellion

CODE 76 Fragile

At that moment, conscience left him. His body stopped trembling, he looked straight into her eyes, "I've come here to kill you," She said.
"But I didn't come here to die,"
"But now you will, your time here is done,"
"It's done when I say it's done,"

'Seduce and destroy,'

Her eyes were cold and pacified, "You have no idea who I am, do you?"
He reached out his hand towards her face and she flinched, ready to attack him back. But his was a gentle touch, he wiped off the blood on her face and lightly brushed the hair out of her eyes. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

He smiled, "Your hair is soft,"

She looked at him and burst into a laugh, "You are crazy,"
He looked at her with a grin and flirtatious eyes, he was trying his best to be seductive, "Aren't you too?"
She stopped laughing and looked at him, "I will invert your ribcage,"

He burst into a laugh next, "I believe a gun cannot do that unless you control it really well,"
"Oh, we have gun control. All we need is an idiot control,"
Lupin laughed, "You know how to control idiots?"
"I do," She smiled.

'She's different from what I expected, kinda...

Bubbly?'

He smiled back at her, "You are really pretty,"
"I don't get that a lot. Mostly, I hear, "Oh, you are terrifying," And I'm like, you haven't seen me without a gun,"
"So, what are you like without a gun?"
"I love skateboarding,"
"Oh God, me too!" Lupin lied.

'They should've sent Slaine, it'd be easier for him,'

"Really?"
"Yes, but I can't do it that well, I'm still learning,"
"I can teach you. I also
Her grip over her gun was loosening, her shoulders less tense, her eyes grew mellow, her lips had a gentle smile.

"I once went to the past," She sat as she sat beside him and looked at the dark night sky. There were no stars in the sky. Just a lonely moon, shining through the smog.
"YOU DID? WHO DID YOU KILL THERE?" Lupin asked.
"You talk as if all I do is kill people,"
"You don't?"
"No! I went there to see the stars and did some skateboarding while I was at it,"

"Stargazing?"
"Yes, I love looking at stars. However, the oceans here are dirty now, full of mud and plastic, the sky is covered with dust and smoke, and people have no time to appreciate art anymore. There are three healing forces in the universe. Music, ocean, stars. When we talk about music, about stars, about the ocean, I feel like it heals something inside us.

And I think that it's beautiful how a star's light travels the universe long after it dies. It's funny how you and I look up at stars and talk about how beautiful they are, even though they're already dead. I guess it just means that the beauty in everything is eternalLike just look at them, they are the same stars as last week, or month, or year.

Same when we were kids
Or when we weren't even born
And in a hundred years
No one will know who we are
But they'll know those same stars"

She spoke as she looked at the stars,
Lupin looked at her. She looked at him,

"So, what brings you to the future?"
"You opened up faster than I expected," Lupin said and immediately regretted saying that. The smile of her face was still there, but there was an explainable sadness in her eyes.

"I know, right? I hate that side of me. I trust people too easily and all I am left is regrets after they backstab me. I just want someone who likes to look at the stars just as much I do,"

'Why do I feel like...
I'm drowning myself in a huge mess?'

She smiled at the stars like they knew all his secrets.

"Tell me everything about you," He was afraid, she'd know what he really was after.
"I can speak for hours, but in the end, it's all pointless," She took a deep breath as the blood on his skin dried and her warm mouth gave out fog,

"You'll forget me too,"

-To be continued

Veronique
5500 Rebellion