Simple Pleasures
Title: Simple Pleasures
Series: Trigun
Pairing/Characters: Millie/Wolfwood (Characters by Yasuhiro Nightow)
Warnings: Spoilers for the anime
Notes: For
ldydragon7, who asked for Trigun, Millie/Wolfwood, 'Simple pleasures'. All I can say is that this didn't take the direction I initially thought it would.
Summary/Excerpt: When you’ve been wandering in this state for as long as he has - in other words, forever: the only thing to save you was a beacon, guiding you, not showing you the path, maybe, but the destination.
It wasn’t just that he wanted her… it was that he wanted to believe like she did. There is nothing like finding the person who lives the way you wish with all your heart that you yourself could - and there is nothing like realizing that your nature will never permit you to do so.
There are those who would say the only person who can make you change is yourself…who say that if you can’t find happiness within, you will never find it without.
These are people who have never been as lost as he has been.
Lost in choices, in decisions and questions of morality, lost in conflicting feelings and questions of humanity and what makes it. Lost in pain, lost in red.
When you’ve been wandering in this state for as long as he has - in other words, forever: the only thing to save you was a beacon, guiding you, not showing you the path, maybe, but the destination.
He’d thought, at first, it would be Vash…but it wasn’t. The man was unbelievable, sometimes admirable…but he could never live like him, make the same choices he did. No.
It was her…it was Millie.
At first, it was just comfort in her, of leaning into arms that would open and welcome him without question.
But then it was more. It came over him all of a sudden, confusing and frustrating, but undeniable. Even when he deliberately turned his back, tried to ignore it…she was there, proof that there was a way.
If it hadn’t been for her, he would not have met his end in some empty church, long bereft of worshippers. If it hadn’t been for her, he would not have felt any measure of happiness or regret at the end of his life.
But he did. He remembered all the small moments he’d had with her, the simple pleasures that had proved there was more to life than he’d believed.
His last wish was to somehow find more of these moments, to live the way he finally realized he wanted to.
With her.
Series: Trigun
Pairing/Characters: Millie/Wolfwood (Characters by Yasuhiro Nightow)
Warnings: Spoilers for the anime
Notes: For
ldydragon7, who asked for Trigun, Millie/Wolfwood, 'Simple pleasures'. All I can say is that this didn't take the direction I initially thought it would.
Summary/Excerpt: When you’ve been wandering in this state for as long as he has - in other words, forever: the only thing to save you was a beacon, guiding you, not showing you the path, maybe, but the destination.
It wasn’t just that he wanted her… it was that he wanted to believe like she did. There is nothing like finding the person who lives the way you wish with all your heart that you yourself could - and there is nothing like realizing that your nature will never permit you to do so.
There are those who would say the only person who can make you change is yourself…who say that if you can’t find happiness within, you will never find it without.
These are people who have never been as lost as he has been.
Lost in choices, in decisions and questions of morality, lost in conflicting feelings and questions of humanity and what makes it. Lost in pain, lost in red.
When you’ve been wandering in this state for as long as he has - in other words, forever: the only thing to save you was a beacon, guiding you, not showing you the path, maybe, but the destination.
He’d thought, at first, it would be Vash…but it wasn’t. The man was unbelievable, sometimes admirable…but he could never live like him, make the same choices he did. No.
It was her…it was Millie.
At first, it was just comfort in her, of leaning into arms that would open and welcome him without question.
But then it was more. It came over him all of a sudden, confusing and frustrating, but undeniable. Even when he deliberately turned his back, tried to ignore it…she was there, proof that there was a way.
If it hadn’t been for her, he would not have met his end in some empty church, long bereft of worshippers. If it hadn’t been for her, he would not have felt any measure of happiness or regret at the end of his life.
But he did. He remembered all the small moments he’d had with her, the simple pleasures that had proved there was more to life than he’d believed.
His last wish was to somehow find more of these moments, to live the way he finally realized he wanted to.
With her.