Who Can Hold a Memory?
By Deathswings
When I look at you, what I always see,
Is the face of someone else who once belonged to me.
Still I can hear him laugh, and even though that memory plays on...
He's gone...
[Serena, in her school clothes, passes Darien on the street. He walks right past her, not even seeing she is there. She stops and turns, watching him walk away, biting her lip against sudden tears. She shakes her head and turns away, her step a little slower, her eyes a little less bright.]
When I look at you, he is standing there.
I can almost breathe him in like summer in the air...
Why do you smile his smile?
That heaven I'd forgotten eases though
In you.
[Flashback scene to when they were playing the VR game, and they were running through the maze blasting monsters. For a moment, he looks back at her, and there is a light almost like the one he used to have in his eyes... but it is quickly gone.]
If you could look at me once more,
With all the love we felt before...
[Picture of Darien smiling, the sun shining in the background]
If you and I could disappear into the past,
And find that love we knew,
I'd never take my eyes away from you.
[Princess Serena and Prince Darien embrace on a balcony, and share a tender kiss... but as soon as Princess Serena closes her eyes, she trips and falls down, becoming just plain Serena again, clumsy and all alone]
When I look at you, he is touching me.
I would reach for him, but who can hold a memory?
And love isn't everything.
That moonlight on the bed will melt away
Someday...
[Serena watches Ann hang all over Darien mournfully. She turns around, so she won't have to watch, and her eye falls on the Moonlight Knight. He holds out a white rose to her, and she takes it, placing the petals against her cheek. The rose suddenly wilts, and the blossom falls off. She looks up towards the Moonlight Knight questioningly, but he is already walking off]
Oh, you were once that someone who I followed like a star.
Then suddenly you changed, and now I don't know who you are.
Or could it be, that I never really knew you from the start?
[Montage of things, showing Serena first bumping into Darien, her first meeting with Tuxedo Mask, several shots of Tuxedo Mask fighting and saving the scouts, Darien talking about his past in the elevator, Darien transforming into Tuxedo Mask right in front of her, his "death" and capture by the Negaverse, him kneeling beside Queen Beryl, and finally, him reaching for the locket, their love for each other overriding even the queen's evil spell]
Did I create a dream?
[Shot of Darien shaking her off, his memories of her gone]
Was he a fantasy?
[Shot of Tuxedo Mask, holding a rose in his hand]
Even the memory is paradise for all the fools like me...
[Princess Serena dances with Prince Darien right before the final battle]
Now remembering is all that I can do,
[The memory fades, and a PJ-clad Serena sits on her bed, gazing up at the moon. In her hand, she holds their locket. As the song ends, she closes her eyes, pressing the locket to her heart, and a single tear spills out of her eye]
Because I miss him so...
When I look at you.