This is in tribute and dedicated to everyone who lost lives, lost love ones, or 
was affected in any way by the terrorist disaster on September 11, 2001. I was 
deeply affected by this as although I did not lose any loved ones, I did lose a 
part of me forever. I, as well as everyone in this world, am changed 
dramatically from that morning. I realized my vulnerability as a person, and 
that horrible people exist, and are capable of doing so much irrevocable damage. 
I just wish that this won't kill us as people, or as a nation...that we can move 
on and maybe reclaim what was lost before losing even more. 

The screen said everything. Fredrick was sitting straight on the couch, ears 
crimson from nervousness as he saw the replays, again, and again, and again. It 
was almost like he was completely desensitized to the carnage, yet he was seeing 
it for the first time. 

"Why?" 

"WHY?" 

"I just don't understand it...this is just so incredibly dehumanizing. It's like 
my soul is...I don't know it's there...so many people...so much..." 

His blank expression bounced off of the screen and returned a destroyed city. 

"I...I wish...I wish I had a chance in this life, as well as all the victims...but 
from here, it seems like my life, as well as everyone else's will be shortened 
anyway...all the talks of World War III...why did others not get their chance to 
live their lives...why do I have to hate people...why do I have to fear living?" 

"You don't..." Quatre said, hugging him tightly from behind. 

"I'm so scared...I'm so...empty...deep inside..." The cold hug began to warm 
some as knew he had someone that he would live and die with, no matter what. 

"Fredrick...please...we can survive through this..." 

"How...?" 

"...Love will survive through so many things...wars, peace, triumph, and tragedy...through 
every portion of time love will exist...and our love will also exist...no matter 
what." 

Tears fell from Fredrick's cheeks for the first time, sobbing as he held tightly 
to Quatre, so tightly that he would never let go... 

"As long as we're together...nothing can separate us, my love...we are one...as 
we will forever be..." 

Quatre also broke down in sobs for his distraught love, holding him close, so 
that nothing could approach them, nothing could touch them. 

"Quatre...stay with me..." 

"Oh, Fredrick...I'll never leave you..." 

Quatre wrapped his wings around Fredrick, and warmed him to his soul. The 
emptiness inside his soul was no more...and replaced with something better... 

Love.