Note: Another from the drabble meme from years ago. the_dw requested: Gundam Wing, 13x5 in Treize's POV, in the moment when Tallgeese II was about to explode. (I've noticed, re-reading these, that I truly suck at writing Treize. Sorry. xD)
They say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. But I don't see my life as I die, I see only the face of Chang Wufei as he strikes me down. I see him angry and frustrated, a fierce heart for the fierce man who is not a soldier, only a scholar lost in the ways of this wicked war. I know I killed his wife. I know that is why he sought me, and I know that what I did to him was cruel... to fall in love with the man who made you a part of the war you never wanted to have, to fall in love with the man who killed your wife, a woman you didn't even care for until she was gone.
I have not been very kind to him. I hope he will forgive me.
I can feel the heat of the fuel lines as they spark, and the entire body of Tallgeese II mushrooms into a ball of fire. I can feel the agony of dying, I can feel my very skin burning off of my bones, and I can feel nothing. But I don't care, because I see his face and I smile.
He is the only one that understands me. Milliard, he will die in this war, and he will never understand. A great tragedy. And Lady Une, she is too much of me to understand me, and so she never will. But my Dragon... my fierce, strong, intelligent Dragon... he knows.
He screams something; I can still hear it even though the coms have died. I think he screams my name. My smile softens and I close my eyes. I die and then I know: this war is over. He will never have to fight again.
But I will watch over him into death, to make sure. Just in case.