For You
By: Dreiser
No matter where I go people always ask me the same
thing. Why did I do it? How did I find the strength?
And I always tell them that it was for them. That my
actions were done for everyone's sake.
But that's a lie, truly it is. Because deep down in my
heart I know the real reason why I did what I did.
It was for you.
My own life didn't matter if yours didn't go on so
risking it on your behalf hardly seemed anything to me. I
wonder if you've ever realized that?
I don't think you understood why I did it. If you did,
then why did you come to save me?
Save me... it was too late to save me at that point but
still you tried. Just thinking of it is enough to make my heart
burst from the emotion.
Only you love me that much. Love me enough to
sacrifice your own life in order to save my own. And yet,
they're not the same. The emotions that you feel for me.
I love you like you love him. And you?
You love me like a sister, like a friend, like a comrade.
I used to think that would be enough. That as long as I
had some measure of your love I could somehow deal with
your love for him and feel happy for you both.
Unfortunately, things didn't turn out that way. Only a
month had passed after my recovery when I found myself
unable to take just being near you when he was there.
It would be so much simpler if I could hate him.
I can't bring myself to do even that. He loves you as I
do and I can hardly blame him for that. I can hardly blame him
for being the one that you're in love with.
A woman came to me the other day. Her name is
Cecilia Knight and she wants my permission to write a book
about me. About me and my adventures. And she wants me
to help her with it... to tell her my thoughts on my life.
An extraordinary life is how she described it.
Today she asked me that question that everyone asks
me. The question that I've heard more often in my life than any
other. And today I finally answered it honestly.
When she asked me why I did it, why I risked my life
and almost died to save Terra II, my reply was simple.
I simply said that it was for you.
That it was for Lime.
-End-
The character of Marine is from Saber Marionette J Again.
I've always wanted to write a one shot dealing with Marine
and her feelings for Lime so here it is. I hope any and all SMJ
fans enjoyed this fic. There aren't enough fics for the series out
there and I encourage anyone who likes the Anime to please
write some. We SMJ fans need them!
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"It's not for some shattered dream I once knew. It's for you."
-Melissa Etheridge-