As soon as Ami’s transport touched ground, she was out the door and running towards the main door of the palace. She burst through the door, sending it crashing against the wall as she ran down the corridor.
“David? David where are you? Please answer me!” she called, running from room to room. The palace was almost deserted, because most of her servants had gone home for the weekend. Usually David took care of everything while they were gone, but things looked in disarray in every room, as if nothing had been touched since the rush to leave in the morning.
“From the look of things he hasn’t done anything since I left…….oh David where are you?” she thought desperately. Then it hit her. “His bedchamber, of course!” she said to herself, and took off running down the corridor towards the familiar room in the far corner of the palace. As she rounded a corner she saw the door ahead of her, and as she reached it she pressed her ear against it for a moment, listening. From within she could hear the sound of soft, strangled weeping. Stepping back, looking at the door with wide eyes, she gathered her courage and knocked hesitantly on the door.
“Please, just leave me be…….” came the muffled voice, heavy with grief.
“David……David please let me in…….”Ami called, pressing her hands against the familiar wood panels of the door. “I just want to speak with you……..please it is important!”
At first there was only silence, then the sound of a chair being scrped back on the flor and slow footsteps towards the door. Ami stepped back as she heard his hand on the latch, throwing the bolt back and just barely opening it. When the door didn’t open any further, Ami pressed gently on it and it swung open easily. She took a step inside, and stopped when she saw David standing his back turned to her, leaning on one hand on his desk, the other covering his face. She hesitated, almost able to feel the pain radiating from him.
“Well……….what is it……….” He said weakly, his voice betraying his sorrow. “Say what you have to say and then let me alone….”
“David, I………..” Ami began, then stopped herself. She walked over to him and placed her hands on his shoulders, turning him around to face her. He shrank away from her and covered his face with his hands, trying to hide the anguish written on his face. She bit her lip slightly, then reached up and took his hands in her own, lowering them. He remained looking at the floor, his shoulders beginning to shake with silent sobs. A single tear fell sparkling to the ground, followed by another, then another. Ami’s felt her heart ripped in two at the sight of her friend in such pain. What could be causing this?
“David……won’t you tell me why you suffer so?” she pleaded softly. She touched two fingers beneath his chin and raised his face so that she could meet his eyes, and gasped. The pain she saw there was unimaginable. “Oh David what is it that is hurting you?”
He was silent, gazing desperately into her eyes for some trace of the love he wanted, needed, so badly. At first, all he could see was pain and sadness, and great concern. Then, for an instant, he thought he saw it. ‘Could it be?’ he thought, a ray of hope breaking through his grief. ‘Is it possible?’
Then, in the next instant, it was gone, and he fell into despair.
‘It is impossible…….I must have imagined it……I know who her heart is with and…….it isn’t me……what a fool I am, to think she would ever love me……’
“I…….I cannot tell you, princess…..” he said aloud, turning away. “I wish I could…….”
“Why can’t you????” Ami asked desperately. “You’ve always told me everything, why won’t you tell me this?” “You don’t understand Ami…..” he said, anger creeping into his voice. “This is different.”
“How is it different?” she asked, shouting now. “Do not press me!” he shouted back, whirling around. His eyes were blazing, but when he saw the hurt in hers, the fires died. He sank back wearily against the wall, covering his eyes with his hand. “Forgive me princess……..please, forgive me…..” he took his hand away and looked at her earnestly. “I knew not what I was saying, what I was doing……..I was not thinking…..” Ami turned away, trembling. “I……..it is of no matter David. I will not force you to tell me if you feel you cannot….” She said, her heart aching as she said the words. Suddenly she whirled around and looked him in the eyes, her own desperate. “Only tell me this……..is it true what Queen Serenity said? Am I a senshi?”
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