Fanfic Name / Nombre del Fanfic: one song for two hearts

Chapter / Capitulo: chapter 15

Author / Autor: clo

Rating / Clasificacion: AP15 (For Teenagers = Para Adolescentes)

Romance

Fanfic: Chapter 15 – Time to Say Goodbye (Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli) 
 
A solitary figure walks the streets of Macross, she is not still quite sure of what she is about to do, despite the fact that when she leaves the base it was the obvious next steep, Claudia confirmed it. 
 
FLASHBACK 
 
– So your first Command, congratulation Commander Hayes 
 
– Thanks Claudia  
 
– I think this is the perfect solution for your current situation  
 
– Is the following steep in my military career, but I never thought it will be so soon 
 
– You know that is not what I’m talking about 
 
– Oh… my other situation  
 
– Yeah silly the other, at least you get rid of that stupid idea of leaving the army, but… 
 
– Why is there always a but 
 
– Don’t you think he should know it 
 
– He’ll find out soon or later  
 
– You are thinking to send a goodbye card or are maybe to call him once you are in the SFD2 at a safe distance to say goodbye  
 
– It worked last time 
 
– Yes, but if I recall well you were only friends in that occasion  
 
– Claudia, what do you want me to do  
 
– To behave as you should and go and said goodbye as normal people, that for once and for all tell him about your feelings  
 
– Do you really think it’s worthy  
 
– At least you won’t have to stay to see his reaction, if it is as you think and he doesn’t feel the same, you won’t be in the planet to bear the awkward situation of him treating you politely to avoid hurting you, and you seeing him leave to be with someone else.  
 
– Believe I rather the everlasting doubt 
 
– If you do, I’ll assure you that you won’t be able to be happy with someone else, you’ll have the doubt, the “maybe”, come’n you have nothing to lose and much to win  
 
– I’m leaving tomorrow morning to the factory satellite, I have tons of packing to do  
 
– It won’t be more than 5 minutes… hi, I’m leaving by the way I love you and I think you needed to know it.  
 
– That simple  
 
– You don’t need a grand declaration, you could recite a poem or sing him a song, but I don’t think that’s your style, just go and say whatever is in your heart  
 
– Minmei will be there 
 
– Of course she will, let her listen too, let her realize that her knight in shiny armor is not as faithful and she thought 
 
– So I’ll end up making her understand that she doesn’t have to leave him alone for so long because she can lose him  
 
– The last sacrifice for love, don’t you think  
 
– Well if at least I can do that for him, it would be worthy  
 
– Holy Lisa Hayes of Broken Hearts  
 
– Holy Saint of women with shitty luck in love matters  
 
– And interplanetary expeditions…  
 
– Anyway, have you packed yet? 
 
– A week ago I finished packing  
 
– You knew  
 
– Yeah, when I haven’t known something about your life before you, I asked Global my assignment, you can leave without me  
 
– I’ll never think about it, wherever I’ll go I need by my side  
 
– And there I’ll be sister  
 
They hugged each other, trying to show all the care they have, promising to be there in their need moments, it doesn’t matter which.  
 
They would never survived the last years without the other, they survive war and nearby extermination of human race, they wept together the lost of love ones and overcome the horror of how many lives wasted for the lack of tolerance and understanding.  
 
Lisa cried over Claudia’s shoulder after being rescued from Sara Base, she was there in her room not being really there, Claudia went because Rick asked her to – “she is not alright” – it was all he said, and there she was still wearing her flight suit holding a picture of she and Karl, she only approached and hold her, let her cry as long as she needed. Also was there when her father died, the feeling was to different they both were happy of surviving, but when Lisa told her about how she was the only one alive in Grand Canyon and how she saw her father blew up in front of her eyes, and finally how she was rescued and kissed by Rick… silly Rick you are pushing Lisa to leave away – “you are going to miss her, you are going to regret all you life I you leave her go”.  
 
Lisa was there for Claudia when Roy died, she can still remembered her… her uniform covered in his blood crying over his dead body, asking him to take her with him, asking her not to leave her alone, they had so many plans… Lisa felt her heart broke along with her friend’s – “you cannot leave her Roy, you have to come back with her” – after trying to be the strong one for the very first time, holding her as Claudia did with her in some many occasions, Claudia hold as she was the only thing that could bring her sanity back – “he was playing the guitar, he was alright… why I didn’t notice it, a minutes early and maybe, he could survived the wound” – it was all she kept repeating over and over, since that day she only prepares pineapple salad in three occasions… Roy’s birthday, the day he died and the day they became a couple.  
 
Yeah they both had their share of rough moments, but also happy ones… Claudia happily screaming in the sightseeing spot in old Macross City that he loved her and asked her to live together, Lisa happy for her but envying her happiness. Lisa telling Claudia that she and Rick slept together and that he didn’t stop holding her for a second. So many shared advices, so many moments, they couldn’t survive without the other, and now they are leaving together towards an uncertain future in the starts.  
 
– Well I don’t keep you anymore, I’ll still have a lot of work here in the base and you have a date with your destiny  
 
– A date to have to heart broken, that’s a new one  
 
– We’ll meet at your place after my shift, unless things are not as you think they will  
 
– Bring a bottle of red wine, I want to remember old stories and they taste so good with a cup of red wine 
 
– Whatever you said - “maybe without love Lisa, but at least we are leaving together” 
 
END OF THE FLASHBACK  
 
This is the first time it took her so much to get to Ricks, she is walking as if the time was at the same beat that her – “how many times I run through this streets as a school girl because I was going to see him, those days seam so distant” – she is listening to her IPOD, she wants the music to dumb her mind, she doesn’t want to work in a speech, she just wants to say what she is really feeling, well what she has felt for so many years now.  
 
Quando sono sola,  
sogno all'orizzonte e mancan le parole, 
si lo so che non 
c'è luce in una stanza  
quando manca il sole, 
se non ci sei tu con me, con me. 
 
Su le finestre mostra a tutti il mio cuore 
che hai accesso, chiudi dentro me 
la luce che 
hai incontrato per strada. 
 
“Well, I’m alone, dreaming of distant horizons, just thinking that I won’t be with you anymore, leave speechless, oh Rick… me, the one so in love with the sound of her voice is just without words, what I’m going to tell… I’m leaving for ever, I’ve been promoted, now I’m a Capitan, where I’m going I don’t know but wish me luck, by the way I’ve always been in love with you, I’m going to sound like a Jane Champion Heroine.  
 
She stays a few minutes on the street parallel to the lake and sees the SDF1, peaceful in its landing spot, it has been one of her favorite places not just because the view because it was the right spot where Rick landing after rescuing her and kissed for the very first time without an order, the place where she gave him her heart and he just put it in his pocket… now the happiness feeling is confusing with the sorry of remembering that also there she spoke with him for the last time – “we were only fooling around” – the memory is so painful, that she rather just to watch in the water the reflex of the winter sun beams.  
 
“This could be the last time I see this picture, there won’t be sun in my life anymore... I’m leaving and you are going to stay behind with her, the Ice Queen will return and Lisa will have to leave again, Karl broke by heart, but you’re keeping it, after all you earn it by bringing light into my life once again, even if it only were a few instants. You bring me back; you made Hayes and Lisa to be just one person”. 
 
Time to say goodbye. -- Con te partirò. 
Paesi che non ho mai  
veduto e vissuto con te, 
adesso sì li vivrò. 
Con te partirò su navi  
per mari che, io lo so, 
no, no, non esistono più, 
it's time to say goodbye. -- con te io li vivrò. 
 
Continues walking, she is walking so slowly not only in as an trying to delay her conversation with Rick as much as she can, no she also wants to say goodbye to her home town, Macross, the place holding so many memories, both sad and wonderful.  
 
“it’s time to say goodbye, to all those place where we shared so many things, even to those where we are not going to be, I’m leaving, I have to follow my path so distant from you, I have to discover new frontiers, treasuring all that reminds me my dear Rick Hunter… it’s time to say goodbye to you”.  
 
Quando sei lontana  
sogno all'orizzonte 
e mancan le parole, 
e io si lo so 
che sei con me, con me, 
tu mia luna tu sei qui con me, 
mio sole tu sei qui con me, 
con me, con me, con me. 
 
She feels like in a music video, walking at the music rhythm, the song is playing over and over, she sights while stops in front of the café where they shared all kind of conversations over a cup of coffee, they alone or with the Stearlings while she carried little Dana, hoping to have her own baby with Rick. It is also the place where she waited for him for hours while he was with Minmei – “not all can be honey”.  
 
“While I’m away, I’ll think about you and in a way you’ll be there, Roy is always with Claudia, in her memories in her spirit, I’ll do the same, you’ll be my guiding star, you’ll be the horizon even you are not really there”. 
 
Time to say goodbye. -- Con te partirò. 
Paesi che non ho mai 
veduto e vissuto con te, 
adesso sì li vivrò. 
Con te partirò 
su navi per mari 
che, io lo so, 
no, no, non esistono più, 
 
con te io li rivivrò. 
Con te partirò 
su navi per mari 
che, io lo so, 
no, no, non esistono più, 
con te io li rivivrò. 
Con te partirò 
 
Io con te. 
 
Finally she can delays it more, she stands in front of the door, and in a glance sees him next to the window so thoughtful – “probably making plans with her” – she can hear her in the kitchen and for a few seconds her will weakens – “why do I have to listen to Claudia, I should send him an e-mail” – admires his face and can’t avoid to adore him, she is just observing him as trying to learn his features by hard, as trying to tattoo them in her being.  
 
“It’s time to say goodbye Lisa… I know Hayes, give just one more minute, I want to capture him in my memory, I want to be able to remember everything about him, to relive all those wonderful moments together, even across the universe, he’ll be so faraway so close in memory”. 
 
The knocks the door and it passes a few seconds, then she hears Minmei’s voice and then his.  
 
– Rick don’t you listen the doorbell  
 
– Who could it be  
 
“they sound as a couple already” – thinks just to give herself an answer – “well that’s what they are silly” – she fixes the uniform while waits – “Showtime, think about Ingrid Bergman, in Liza Minelli, think in Audrey Hepburn and Meryl Streep… you have to give the performance of your life, you’ll have plenty of time for tears… you’ll have the whole universe to cry over this”. 
 
Finally the door opens, she feels like if everything is happening in slow motion – “I have to stop watching so many old movies” – thinks, while just stands there, looking as martial as she can, there standing opposite to her is Rick 
 
– Lisa… Commandant Hayes  
 
“Rick… silly with a stone for brain, I love so much” 

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