Disclaimer: I own nothing but plot bunnies. This is just for fun. This is based more on the DiC version, but other versions may also have influence. Please, no flames.

Memories, a thousand years gone, flitted through her sleeping mind. Times of simplicity and of happiness, gossamer thin and utterly delicate. Laughter and sisterhood, training and responsibility. There was a strange sense of duality to these dream like memories. Calling to a time and place that no longer existed, reaching back through time and space connecting so many lives in a way that can never be untangled. They were all bonded now and forever, hurtling into the future, wrapping their bonds ever tighter.

Each of those souls had been paired off so long ago. Each one a protector, each one a fighter. Element to element, power to power, duty to duty. Together they made a formidable alliance. But even the power of love sometimes can't be enough to overcome the evil that is light's shadow. Slowly and steadily the darkness creeps in when the light isn't looking, stealing souls along the way.

Pain twisted the young woman's features as she tossed and turned in bed. The dreams were not new, having re-lived them from time to time once her memories of the past had been restored. A person could almost say it was terribly cruel to have one so young burdened with so much purpose. To have so much power in one person was unnatural. What is done is done, there is no changing it. So she suffers.

Suffers through remembered fear and heartache. Through determination and duty. Through love and betrayal. Through death and forgiveness.

In the thin memories, her voice whispers with her last breaths,

"I forgive you and will always love you."

Pain blooms again, but this time there is peace as well.

"Thank you, my love." His deep voice cracks and begins to die. "I love you my Lita."

"We'll be together again Nephrite." She stroked his face, streaking their blood across his bloodless skin. "This love doesn't run."

The memories fade as the young woman jerks awake.

Outside the night is dark and the moon is just a thin sliver. Stars can been seen twinkling merrily in the silken sky. Moonlight and starlight touch the woman but can't comfort her. Not the way the arms of her lover once could. Green eyes full of tears, Lita hugs the pillow next to her. As she cries silently she whispers brokenly,

"Nephrite, where are you?"