LYDIA DEETZ AND FULLMETAL PANIC
Capítulo 7: Forgive me my love
Tessa's heart rate began to rise strongly when the ship's neural link accessed her memories from two years ago, memories that she suppressed for some reason.
“You looks bored, Captain Testarossa," Utis said to the short-haired young Tessa.
“I had to take this vacation so that no one could report this meeting with you," Tessa said in a cold voice, "it is very important that no one knows your true identity and that you work for me. Now all that's left is to vegetate like a retiree until all this vacation crap is over.”
“Hey, that's bad," Utis said, "don't tell me you're that kind of person who's addicted to work.”
“Is there anything else?”
“Of course, captain. I have an idea, let me be your guide in the city, I know my way around.”
The young Tessa looked at the man coldly from head to toe as if evaluating him, but in the end she accepted.
Granulated scenes of a monochromatic color followed one another, this time sepia in color.
Tessa and Utis wandered quietly through various touristic and romantic parts of the beautiful city, dressed in warm clothes because they were in the middle of winter and the threat of a snowfall was omnipresent.
Utis spoke to Tessa using her rank, but new images this time in light fuchsia appeared and as the pleasant days passed, the captain's title was replaced by her surname Testarossa, and then her first name was used.
Tessa looked at the images absorbed, a friendship developed before her that little by little became a precious romantic relationship.
“I don't understand," said the current Tessa, "why didn't Utis tell me something about all this, I have to see it through to the end, there must be an explanation.”
New blue images appeared, this time it was a discussion of the two friends in a luxurious hotel room, just before the end of the dream vacation.
“You've got to be kidding me! Utis shouted to her, as he ran his hand through his hair in a sign of exasperation.
“I'm serious, I'll even change my appearance. Just take a hair growth solution and I'll have it long by the time the TDD-1 is launched.”
“That's not the change I'm talking about! You'll even change your brain wave pattern! That's the same as changing your personality.”
“When you want something, it costs you something," said Tessa, who didn't even look at Utis, who was standing in front of her, as she took the opportunity to review some important papers. “Besides, I thought you liked my sweet side.”
“You're cruel.”
“I'm pragmatic, dear, according to these latest reports, all the mechas used in the TDD-1 will have technology provided by our enemy, it doesn't matter, I don't care about Mithril or his humanitarian mission, the only thing that interests me is knowing where my brother is.”
“But by changing your personality, you will also suppress your memories, you will forget about me.”
Tessa put the papers aside and lit a cigarette, looking at Utis with disgust.
“So this is the famous men's commitment, huh? You said you'd do whatever it takes for me.”
Utis lunged at Tessa and held her thin neck in his hands, but far from intimidated, Tessa smiled mockingly.
“Come on, do it... I dare you.”
Utis backed down defeated.
“You're right," Utis replied, abandoning that warm look to adopt the hard look with which he was known today, "I promised you that I would be there for you no matter what, if I had to go to hell so that you could go to heaven, that's what I'll do. But let me tell you something, Tessa, when I find your brother, I'll take him to jail myself.”
“You mustn't do that, it's my right to see him suffer," Tessa cut off his face in anger.
“What did Leonard do to you?”
“He didn't do anything to me, that's what I hate most about him. Leonard... always so good, so perfect, it disgusts me, I'll show everyone that I'm Tessa Testarossa better than that mannequin. And now that my perfect big brother is involved in shady business, I have the perfect excuse to crush him.”
The couple said goodbye and Utis turned his face to Tessa before leaving the room.
“Goodbye Tessa, I hope that somehow your actions will not turn against you... and I will always love you.”
“...Enough, enough, enough!” shouted the current Tessa as she cut the ship's neural link.
“...So, it was me, it was always me... and to think that I hated Utis for abandoning me, when I was the one who abandoned him! Poor Utis, it must have been very painful for you. It's me who's the worst.”
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After a few weeks in Winter River, Lydia and Percy were worried about the TV as the TDD-1 sank into the ocean after activating its self-destruct system, when the doorbell rang.
Lydia went to open the door when she met Tessa face to face.
“Thank you for calling me Lydia," said Tessa, who wore civilian clothes and had dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
“...Percy found him in an alley, he was drunk and sleeping on a pile of garbage bags, it looked like he had fought.”
Tessa moaned and Lydia hugged her.
“I don't know what happened, I didn't want to ask him anything so he wouldn't run away.”
“Where is he?”
“In the guest room, up the steps to the left and the back.”
“I'm so sorry about this, Lydia. I'm sorry I caused you trouble.”
“Don't worry Tessa, my parents are absent for work and don't know about Utis' presence.”
The girls entered the living room and Percy led Tessa into the guest room.
Since no one answered the door, Tessa decided to come in. There, sitting in a chair and holding a bottle of beer was Utis, just like Tessa had tremendous dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
“...Utis.”
The man turned his face and a cold smile furrowed across his face.
“Now I am finished, or I see visions or it is the beautiful angel of death who is coming to take me...”
Tessa didn't say anything anymore, she ran to Utis at the same time she was crying.
“Utis, Utis!... I'm so sorry. “
The man released the beer bottle and his arms shyly surrounded Tessa's figure.
“...Is it you, is it really you?”
“I'm sorry Utis, I was the cause of your suffering, these two years must have been hell for you... And you must have suffered more when we met again, I'm so sorry!”
“Don't say that, I knew what I was getting myself into, not one day did I regret my decision. That's what a real man who's in love does.”
“After all I've done to you, I'm not even the same person you fell in love with.”
“Don't worry, Tessa, don't you remember, I fell in love with your sweet side after all.”
“I'm afraid Utis, what if I go back to being the horrible person I was before?”
“That will only happen if you access the ship's neural link and ask to return to your old personality.”
Tessa breathed a sigh of relief and tears streamed down her cheeks.
“I'm sorry I was a weak man, I should have told you everything from the beginning, even if you didn't believe me. These weeks must have been really hard for you.”
“They were the atonement for my sins, in the end Mithril disappeared because of me, I always knew it would disappear, now I realize why I was never surprised that I formed Mithril, being that I would confront the interests of so many groups, it was only a matter of time before it all ended, and in the end that was what happened, Mithril and the TDD-1 only lasted two years. All because of my obsession with my brother.”
“Now what are you gonna do, Tessa?”
“The feelings of admiration for my brother were false, it doesn't matter, Leonard is acting badly and I intend to bring him to justice, not as a personal wish of a horrible girl, but as something to be done.”
“But the TDD-1 no longer exists, nor does Mithril.”
“It is true, Mithril no longer exists, but Mardukas, Kalinin, Melissa, Sousuke and Weber are still with me, together we will go after Leonard and stop his plans in Spain, it will be the last mission I have. Don't worry, Utis, I'm not planning on dying.”
“Let me help you.”
“I would like to, but I didn't come here for that purpose, I just came to ask your forgiveness and that you continue to love me, as I love you too, forgive me my love.”
“The important thing is to recognize that we have made mistakes and to try to correct them. Tessa, I was wrong from the beginning, I should have insisted that you leave your plans against your brother, but the past is the past and I just want to be by your side forever... If you'll allow me.”
“Of course!” cried Tessa tearfully and then kissed Utis passionately, who kissed him back with all her love.
The lips of the lovers separated and the red thread of fate joined their annulars, and thus their once-healed broken hearts.
FIN
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