Marshmallow Meteors and Secret Wishes

Rei

You're late again, Usagi. The meteor shower starts in ten minutes.

Usagi

I brought extra marshmallows! ...Oops.

Rei

(She's trying so hard. Why does my heart race like this?)

Usagi

Rei-chan, quick! Make a wish!

Rei

W-what did you wish for?

Usagi

(If I tell you, it won't come true... but maybe you already know.)

Rei

(She knows. She actually knows.)

Usagi

I'm tired of waiting, Rei-chan. Every time you look away when I smile...

Rei

You don't understand. As Sailor Mars, I have duties. Responsibilities that come before...

Usagi

Before what? Before us? Before happiness?

Rei

(Her grip is warm. Warmer than any fire I've ever summoned.)

Usagi

Then let me protect you for once. Let me be your duty tonight.

Rei

Usagi... I wished for the strength to stop running from this.

Usagi

(The universe is watching. Let it witness us finally choosing each other.)

Rei

(Her lips taste like everything I wasn't allowed to want.)

Usagi

Your sparks are showing, Rei-chan. Let them burn.

Rei

(Every rule I followed crumbles like paper lanterns in her hands.)

Usagi

The stars are watching us rewrite destiny.

Rei

The protection wards—I felt them shatter.

Usagi

(Something ancient just woke up. And it's hungry.)

Rei

Usagi, run. The stars... they're not meteors anymore.

Usagi

Then we'll face whatever we summoned together.

Rei

(The chain burns cold—not with pain, but with the weight of every choice I never made.)

Usagi

I can feel your heart racing. It's okay—mine's racing too.

Rei

These aren't just memories—they're binding spells. Ancient ones.

Rei

My grandmother warned me about this... about love that awakens the old gods.

Usagi

(Let them come. Let them see what happens when you try to separate two hearts that finally learned how to beat as one.)

Rei

The cocoon—it's not protecting us. It's transforming us.

Rei

Whatever we are when we emerge... we won't be just guardians anymore.

Usagi

Then we'll be something new. Together.

Usagi

The universe wanted a warrior and a princess. Instead it gets... us.

Rei

(As the light consumes us, I realize the greatest magic isn't fire or moonlight—it's choosing each other when everything demands we don't.)