white as snow(แปลเอาเองนะเอาของเขามาแต่ขออณุญาตแล้ว)

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"White as Snow"

By: Chibi Ciel AKA Nyago (FF.net)

      Snow gently fell on Ciel's window, landing on the harsh concrete side of her front door. The sky was a deep gray tint as the clouds huddled together against the very cold they were creating.  No one dare to walk outside, as they all stay in their comfortable houses with their families next to a nice warm fire.  Ciel sighed and peered out of a window, thinking of the many hardships she gone through all these years alone, and some times with her friends.  She lend down my head against the window, it was rather comfortable with its plush pillows she sat on.  A desk stood in the middle of the room and a comfortable couch rested against the left side of the wall, which opened up in to a bed if she ever felt like sleeping there.  Almost all around the room, there were cabinets filled with many important documents of the many years of research she has done so far, and near the couch was a fire place for visitors.

      Ciel sighed again, looking out at the empty street.  "It's so dark and quiet…" Ciel muttered.  "It's like the entire neighborhood had fallen asleep...," Ciel sighed again. "I wish it wasn't winter...although I love snow, but these kinds of nights make me think of how lonely I am..." Ciel blinked as a thought cross her mind.  "If...If...only Zero was here..." Ciel blushed, just at the thought of having the red hunter in her room. The thought itself was scary enough. Ciel blinked again and leaned back against the hard wall near the windows.  Her eyes often betrayed her, and just thinking of Zero made her eyes shine with joy.  Yes it's true; she must agree in one thing although she did have a crush on him, he was sometimes too arrogant for his own good.  'What are you saying?  You know whenever Zero was near you felt everything was going to be alright, so why complain about him now?'  As much to her displeasure, Ciel thoughts had a mind of its own.  She constantly argued for hours with herself, just so at the end she would end up with tears in her eyes.

     "Sometimes I wonder what he feels about me…" Ciel wondered.  With an irritated scowl, she stood up. Slowly, she threw wooden logs in to the fireplace and set them ablaze. Sitting down once again, this time on the couch, she wrapped a thick pink blanket tightly around herself.  Ciel stared into the fire, a few small sparks danced as they went up the chimney.  "I remember when father used to make his favorite chicken soup during the cold days," Ciel said to herself.  Believe it or not, Ciel's father was an excellent cook; he could make all sorts of things from small dinner dishes to a huge family feast.  Those were the days of happiness for Ciel...Until one night, a Maverick group calling themselves the "DNA Killers" had come to her town and destroyed everything along their path, from human to reploids; it didn't matter which as long as the town was destroyed.

      "Father…" Tears slid down Ciel's face.  Her father had done everything in his power to protect her, even after they had brutally hit his back, and smashed his head against the wall.  It was such a horrible event that Ciel dare not to think of it.  With her father's last ounce of strength, He covered his daughter with his arm; not letting the Maverick hurt her too much.  That's until he showed up…"You saved me..." Ciel sobbed.  "X," the legendary reploid, showed his face during the town crisis. It didn't take him long; he was able to get rid of every Maverick that had stepped into that little town.  Finally, after so much damage was done, he gave those who lost their lives a proper funeral, until he found her...

~~Flash Back~~

     X looked seriously worried, but another part of him didn't even feel anything.  Endlessly he walked around, picking up every human that was either dead, or worse yet, blown to pieces.  Right until he saw her: a small little girl with blonde hair and huge blue eyes, her poor clothes torn apart from the attack, leaving her with blood marks all over her small body.  "Hmm..." X muttered, walking closer to the small child.  He was surprised to find her alive; however, her father did not make it.  Strangely enough, she showed no tears, no hit of sadness, as if they taken her emotion away. 

     "Hey..." X spoke softly to her, walking over to the poor girl.  With her huge blue eyes and her dirty hair on her face, she turned to face X.  At that moment in time, all she could do was start to break out in tears.  "Come here..." X whispered.

     Ciel turned around slowly, showing her tears which now fell like water droplets.  How X hated to see a human cry, especially just a child. "Come on..." X kneeled down, opening his arms to welcome the poor crying girl into a warm hug.  She ran to him putting her small arms tightly around his neck.  X hugged her back and lifted himself up from the ground, carrying her along with him.  "It's ok..." X whispered softly into her ear, "I'm sorry..." was all X could say, softly touching the top of Ciel's dirty hair.

     "Papa..." she cried until her tired eyes drifted closed, and she drifted into the dream world.  X continued to support her, taking her with him.

     "Don't worry...I will protect you..." were X final words before the sun set.

~~End Flash Back~~

     Ciel sighed and began to cry.  Although she was a strong woman, her past was too painful to forget.  As hard as she tried, her tears wouldn't stop, and rubbing her nose into her napkin, she saw an image of X play on her mind.  X was always there for her, no matter what happened…until the rumors began to spread.  At first she couldn't believe the rumors, but it all soon came to reality: X was gone.  There was not a single clue to where he was at.  Ciel thought he was too busy with other things, or maybe creating new kinds of Reploids for Neo Arcadia, but no matter what she thought or what she knew, wasn't going to change the fact that he was gone…but she still wanted to know: "Where did he go?  Why did he go?"  That still puzzles Ciel to this very day.  Burying her face into her knees, she tried to get away from the cold that was still around the room.  Again her mind wondered, and she couldn't quite get away from that fact.  She sat there in a trace, until a pair of firms hands rested upon her small shoulders. Scared almost half to death, she looked quickly over her shoulder, only to see Zero standing behind her, a puzzled look on his face.  Ciel took a deep breath, thankful it was only him. 

     "Ze- Zero!" Ciel said almost choking

     "Hey Ciel..." Zero smiled. "You seemed kind of out of it.  Are you ok?" Zero asked, moving around to observe Ciel carefully. 

     "Yeah, I'm fine..." Ciel replied, trying to regain her pulse. She once again covered her face against the fabric of the blanket, ashamed of the redness in her cheeks.

     "You were so peaceful, I was beginning to wonder if you were sick or something; but apparently not, since you're so active." Zero whispered in Ciel ear.

     "You don't know what you do to me Zero..." She said quietly to herself.

      Zero looked down worried about Ciel once again. "Is something wrong?" Zero asked again, curling his fingers around the fiber of the blanket and slowly pulled it off of Ciel's head. 

     "It's nothing!" Ciel yelled, surprised to see Zero shocked at her reaction. "Sorry..." Ciel blushed bright red, turning her head the other way: That way she didn't have to see Zero's face.  She waited for a bit to see if Zero left the room, but against what she had hoped, Zero was still there. 

     "Ciel…" Zero said in his usual cold tone, Ciel's eyes wide in shock and fear.  Was he planning to yell at her?  Ciel knew that Zero was the object of many girls' desires, and sadly enough, men's as well.  Many would slit one another's throats just so they could catch Zero's attention. Ciel knew with dread and jealousy that if she ever returned those feelings, she would either get rejected by Zero or have every girl in the base turn against her.

     Ciel closed her eyes, waiting to see what Zero was planning to do.  Fear striking every part of her body, Zero was getting closer and closer each second, until...

Zero put his arms around her for a nice warm hug.

     Ciel opened her eyes, half in shock, and half thankful. Zero's long blonde hair and hers almost covered both of their bodies. "Zero…" She smiled and hugged him back, thankful that he wasn't as violent as he was in the battlefield.  Actually, he was kind and gentle…but who would have ever thought of him been so calm while at the same time being so ruthless?  Right now, though, she didn't care.  Zero was hugging her, and that's all she needed.  Slowly she began to forget about the cold that once existed in that room as Zero's arms protected her from the bitter cold.  

     "Zero...thank you..." Ciel whispered sleepily into his ear.

     "Huh?"  Zero wondered what she meant, but it was too late to ask.  Ciel was asleep in his arms, and wouldn't be woken up anytime soon.  He took the time to lift her sleeping form and carry her to the sofa near the desk.  Putting her body down on the couch, he grabbed a blanket and wrapped her in it, along with himself, as he spoke to himself, "I don't know what I did...but I'm just glad I'm here.  I should thank you Ciel..." Zero took his right hand and moved some hair strands that were covering Ciel's beautiful face.  With one move, his lips softly touched her forehead, kissing it very softly and carefully. "Thanks..." were Zero final words before he, too, felt into the world of dreams.  One thing was for sure, for once during a white Christmas night; neither of the two felt alone any more.