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Date Posted: 07:12:18 01/03/04 Sat
Author: J.T. Magnus
Subject: Chapter 54: "Little Moments"

With all the risks and blows I've taken in my life, I should be long dead, but I'm not. At times I wished I was dead, but no longer. Not just for my classic reason of not giving all the pricks I've encountered in my existance the satisfaction, but because I have to...

**==Flash==**

I know this place, I'm non-denominational, but this is my mom's church. It's an old-fashioned in-the-pastor's-living-room-type church, two windows at the 'back', pulpit in front of the entertainment center, stairs to the facing-left rear of the pulpit...

Renee, the pastor's wife began playing a tune that anyone who's lived a year on earth knows, and I've lived more than one here.

And Jessica began to descend the stairs in a dress that... Well, as if she actually NEEDED any help to make me speechless. It was a light purple off-shoulder number that hugged her curves, close, but not too closely until it reached her waist where a sash was wrapped around, pinned with a rose. Once the dress was past the sash, it suddenly loosened and billowed and flowed as she walked, and it took my breath away.

**==Flash==**

I'm starting to hate it...

**==Flash==**

"Do you, Jessica Kella Parker..."

**==Flash==**

...when these...

**==Flash==**

"Do you, J.T. Magnus, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife..."

**==Flash==**

...flashes happen.

**==Flash==**

"Once you've confessed it to yourselves and God, for all intents and purposes you're married, the rest is just legalities."

"And have we ever worried about legalities?"

**==Flash==**

Past, present, future, and too many possibilites, they all blend together.

**==Flash==**

"...Kid..."

"Call me that again and I'm not talking to you until July."

**==Flash==**

"You okay, kid?"

"As good as you are, 'Old man.'"

"No, the 'Old Man' is my father."

**==Flash==**

With my right arm holding her as close to me as her arms were holding me to her, the tips of the first two fingers on my left hand traced the scar along the right side of her jawline then curled so that the second knuckle of my first finger was right under her chin. As I had hundreds of times before in dreams and daydreams, both regular and erotic, I gently lifted her face to meet mine and pressed my lips to her's.

**==Flash==**

"She needs a transfusion."

"I'm O-posititve."

"Get over here."

**==Flash==**

"What's black, grey, purple, and pissed?"

The mugger glared at me, "What?"

I pointed at the completion of Kay's project that was standing behind the mugger, "That."

Ravage snarled and lunged...

**==Flash==**

"I now pronounce you..."

**==Flash==**

"If the two of you keep this up, I'm STAYING in my workshop."

**==Flash==**

I crumpled to the ground as the slug hit me...

**==Flash==**

She crumpled to the ground as the slug hit her...

**==Flash==**

"You know you like it."

"You know I do."

**==Flash==**

What's real? I can't TELL!

**==Flash==**

The three of us crossed our swords.

"Till all is won."

"Till all is won."

"Till all is won."

**==Flash==**

Turning slightly, I raised my right arm and let Athena step in close and lean against me slightly, held there by my arm resting across her shoulders. Without asking, Blaze dropped his right arm over my left and smirked when I glared at him.

**==Flash==**

"I'm your brother, it's my job to save your ass, no matter how far up it your head is."

**==Flash==**

Cloud-Attack. Braver. Cross-slash. Climbhazzard. Omnislash. Squall-Attack. Zidane-Attack. Tidus-Attack. Auron-Attack. Sephiroth-Attack. Seifer-attack. Fire Cross. Repeat. Again. Again. Freestyle. Again. Pattern. Again.

**==Flash==**

"Watch your six, Turbo, not mine."

"But Athena, your's is SO much better looking..."

**==Flash==**

I quietly walked over to her, not wanting to wake her. When I reached the couch I knelt beside it and brushed my hand through her hair and down the back of her neck. For a moment I wanted to whisper something, anything, but nothing came to mind that could fully express how I felt towards her... So I said nothing and I let her lie.

**==Flash==**

"I do."

**==Flash==**

"You may now..."

**==Flash==**

I stood and turned to face her, putting my hands on her shoulders, "Don't get me wrong, that is part of my future plans for us... But not today, maybe not for a while. Not with this war going on."

Kay blanched, "That's it, I'm getting out of here before all this sap makes me invert myself..."

And with that, he spun on his heels and stomped back into the workshop.

"What now?"

I stepped over and got my van keys off the hook, "I have some extra cash and 'The Last Samurai' is playing at the Carmike."

"Well, what are you waiting for, let's go!"

**==Flash==**

Have to focus, can't let myself be lost in the flow...

**==Flash==**

"I was wrong when I said I shouldn't propose until this is over, we're both soldiers, it's never over."

"Dammit, Magnus, if you're gonna ask me, ask me!"

I knelt, drew the ring from my pocket, and held it out to her, "Jessica Kella Parker, will you do me the greatest honor and marry me?"

**==Flash==**

I winced as the shrimp in my arms began crying, "Someone take this kid!"

**==Flash==**

With only moments to go before the ball dropped, I walked over and slipped my arm around Jessica's waist. When the ball did drop, we kissed. We kissed with hope and happiness, saddness and pain, with all our hearts we kissed. When we broke apart I stared in wonder at the baby in her arms...

"Would you look at that..."

"Look at what?"

"Brook, she's not crying around me......"

**==Flash==**

As if we didn't need further proof that you're a loser, you can't even keep a girl...
Masata, one of these days it shall come down to me and you, and then but one of us will be here.
Don't count on it being you.
Don't play poker, you know jack about hole-cards.
That stupid dream of your's? HAH!
Reality begins as the dreams of those who say "to hell with the rules."

**==Flash==**

"No more waiting."

**==Flash==**

With all the risks and blows I've taken in my life, I should be long dead, but I'm not. At times I wished I was dead, but no longer. Not just for my classic reason of not giving all the pricks I've encountered in my existance the satisfaction, but because I have to, I'm needed.

Kay needs someone to harness what he has to offer and direct it to a goal, without that he becomes destructive of himself and others.
Jessica needs someone to love and to love her, otherwise the rose in her heart will wither and die.
Bahamut ZERO needs someone to guard this Earth, simply because old lizard-puss has developed a soft spot towards it.

And freedom and reality... They need their heros, and I'm always willing take a swing at things, after all, if I don't do it, who will?

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