Disclaimer: Tsubasa belongs to CLAMP. The song "Never Be The Same Again" belongs to Ms Melanie C (Melanie Jayne Chisholm) and maybe also someone else, not me anyway.
I didn't use the whole song, only parts, and even those parts are mixed, so for the original, full lyrics check elsewhere.
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/ Come on. Ooh, yeah.
Never be the same again. /
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- as they stood by each other, one praying the other wouldn't collapse, and sharing meek shadows of smiles covering untold truths which were the most genuine -
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/ I call you up whenever things go wrong.
You're always there. You are my shoulder to cry on. /
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- in spite of those misty recollections of childish dreams full of cheer fluttering around her like colourful butterflies, of wild grins and serene certainty of mutual secrets –
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/ Nothing ventured nothing gained.
(You are the one) /
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- and although in the world in which they finally found one another not even love was able to bring them joy, in fact joy itself would be out of place, a distortion to the solemnity of their reality –
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/ I can't believe it took me quite so long.
To take the forbidden step. /
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- still that love felt so very precious when they walked along rainy streets with their fingers intertwined and his eye rested on her face in that one special way -
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/ I'm hoping that you feel the same.
This is something that I can't forget. /
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- when he told her she was beautiful she wondered if they'd been both blind or maybe equally well concealed and how it was at all possible they'd been apart for so long -
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/ Now I know that we were close before.
I'm glad I realised I need you so much more. /
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- and how visible it eventually was at the moment, and why hadn't the others said anything by now and what, if anything, they were thinking, and then again what did that matter –
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/ And I don't care what everyone will say.
It's about you and me. /
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- though from time to time she did stop, hesitate, her thoughts torn, whether it was really okay the way it was, with everything else so totally wrong, were they mistaken and what would that change -
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/ But sometimes it seems completely forbidden.
To discover those feelings that we kept so well hidden. /
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- yet at the touch of his lips on her neck she could only gather his hands, surrounding her arms, to her heart and in a shaky voice ask for words of love -
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/ When you tell me the stories of your quest for me.
Picturesque is the picture you paint effortlessly. /
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- then, shutting her eyelids, she assured him she knew and she believed, and she tried to fight away the image of what those hands of his were going to commit not in so far away a future -
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/ So things will never be the same between you and I.
We intertwined our life forces and now we're unified. /
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- why, why did it have to be so harsh, couldn't a prince and a princess be granted their fairy tale in which she'd break any curse weighing upon him with a kiss -
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/ A fine line's between fate and destiny.
Do you believe in the things that were just meant to be? /
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- none the less she turned to say that she loved, too, she'd loved and she would love, and to kiss him, slowly and again and again because there was scarcely anything left while his lips were so sweet -
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/ Though improbable it's not impossible.
For a love that could be unstoppable. /
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- and she was aware just how much too late it was to call it off, but why would she in the first place, and so she pulled back a tiny little bit and that one time whispered his name like never before, and for a thump of her heart waited for him to answer -
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/ It's not a secret anymore.
We'll never be the same again. /
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- "Fai…"-
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/ Never be the same again. /
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-"…Sakura."-
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/ Never be the same again. /
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Author's Note: Yes, I do realise it is absolutely awful of me to ignore and leave unmentioned the great positive influence Mokona had on Sakura, on Fai, on everyone else, even on itself. I can apologise for that and for some other minor stuff, too.
Seriously though…. I know it was long. It was long because I wanted to write the second part of my mirror story first, which caused me considerable problems, but eventually I managed! (The mirror story hasn't been updated yet, that's right, and that's for a very good and fairly easily guessable reason, thank you.) So, this is the excuse ^^
More importantly: how do you like this? Please review! :)
But how did it happen I got stuck with so much of Past Perfect in the whole of this story?.. I hate that _
Dziwaczność, doprawdy xD A zresztą. Całkiem miło się pisało ^-^