Livin' for You

By: Sinead

Lyrics Transcribed on: 9 September 2004

Date Written: 5 July 2005

Author’s Note: Final installment of the wonderfully patient Miss Specials’ series! *sighs, yawns* And dear merciful heavens, after the week and month I’ve been through, it’s nothing short of a miracle that I can write ANYTHING at this point, non-Beast Wars stories included. But hey, whatever. I hope that you all have enjoyed reading it, and again, thank you everyone for voting this as “Best Romance” series in the 2004 Fanfiction Awards! Therefore, the disclaimer: I don’t own Miss Special, Amadeo, Boston, or the song “Livin’ For You.”

Livin’ without you could never be so wrong

Don’t need to say it, I never waited so long

“So you left her all on her own?!” Starath exploded, getting to her feet and starting towards the door. “Some caring leader you are!”

Sinead and Sapphire turned Starath around, plopping her in a seat with a hardly-touched dinner resting there. Sapphire was the one who spoke. “Stay and eat. We’ve been practically breathing down Miss Spesh’s neck the entire time we’ve been here. She needs the time on her own to get some tears out. And she hates showing any negative emotions around others.”

“Does a ‘duh’ strike a bell to any of you?” Hacker grumbled from her place on the couch beside Damien. “We all needed our time alone when we first found out that our . . . our . . . crap. What do we call them, anyway? Whatever. When we found out that they ‘died,’ we needed our time alone to work things out in our own way. Star, listen. If she needs us, all she has to do is walk back in, and she has all the support she could ever wish for and then some.”

Thinking about you in everything I do

Love is for givin’, I know I’m livin’ for you

“What are they talking about?”

“Me needing time on my own,” Miss Special replied. “And how I’ve desperately needed it, too.”

“Huh. Well, should we go in yet?”

“No, wait. I want to see where this is going.”

Black eyes nodded once solemnly, smiling quietly in their dark depths.

And I, I never needed to lie

Can’t you see I believe in my heart when I’m saying

“But what if something happens to her?”

“Don’t worry. We’ll be all over that person before they could even blink,” Donovan replied, folding his arms over his chest. “She’s one of you authors, and a good friend to you all. You think we’d let someone hurt a friend of ours?”

“And not t’ mention dat we’d make dem pay for anythin’ dat dey would try,” Ajax added, grinning evilly and popping his knuckles.

“Didn’t I tell you to stop doing that?” Sapphire demanded.

It’s love that you see

You’re just the one for me

I’m prayin’

Up for mischief, Inferno looked at Miss Special, who nodded once. She hopped in to the shadows, but he followed her, kissing her cheek before springing back over to knock on the screen door, calling, “Sara! Miss Special, are you in there?!”

Said author could hardly contain her laughter as she heard the wild clamber to open the door and to look out upon the red-haired, black-eyed stranger. Micheal literally shoved everyone aside as he stepped to the front. Inferno put a show on of his “relief.” “Megatron! Good. You’ll know where she is.”

“It is you–”

“Inferno, yes,” the new human interrupted. “Now where is Miss Special?”

Maybe I’m dreaming, don’t want to wake up now

Baby, I love you, I always knew it somehow

All of them followed Micheal as he led Inferno at a run back to the clearing. Miss Special counted the amount of people leaving her house, then nodded. One left inside. Two, actually. Hacker and Damien walked calmly out, and the female switched a flashlight on, aiming it unerringly into Miss Special’s face once before turning it off. “So what’s this about?”

“We wanted to cause trouble,” came the answer as Miss Special walked into her kitchen, picking Chinese food out of the containers and putting it onto a plate, eating it calmly. “And he wanted to show them all that I can take care of myself. Why didn’t you two fall for it?”

“I figured that something wasn’t quite right when he came up out of nowhere like that. So we self-elected ourselves to keep put and watch the house,” Damien said, sitting back at his own food and chowing down. He shrugged, moving his chopsticks around so that he could get a better grip upon the spicy, dribbly chicken. “That, and I’m not up for chasing shadows. I’ve had enough of that with Rampage.”

Happened so easy, don’t need to think it through

It’s not so amazing I’m going crazy for you

“She was right here!” Micheal roared over the outrage that the clearing was now deserted.

“Well, she obviously ain’t anymore!” Ajax snapped back. He turned to Donovan, calling, “Check dat side over . . . hey!”

Everything stopped. Rattrap pointed to a helplessly laughing Inferno. The moment the red-headed youth saw them watching him, he laughed harder for a moment. “Ahh, forgive me. She wanted to finish her food in relative peace. How can I not but indulge her?”

“Boys,” Starath said quietly, dangerously. “Sic ’im.”

Dreaming and hoping, hoping that dreams come true

You’re my religion, girl, I’ve been living for you

A laughing yell hit Miss Special’s ears the moment she swallowed the last of her food. Nodding, she stood, shoved the chairs in, and smiled to Hacker. “Told you he’d time it well.”

Inferno burst into the kitchen and hid behind the author, trying to catch his breath through bales of laughter. Megatron and Starath were still yelling at him, while the rest were starting to see the humor in the joke. Specifically, Donovan was the most vocal. “Sinead, will you stop laughing like that?! It wasn’t funny!”

“You were . . . you were so worried!” she managed to get out while she held her stomach. “Your face–” Losing it again, she just shook her head and found a seat, her snickers and chuckles holding her captive.

Hacker looked at Donovan. “Oh, knock it off, you overprotective scale-faced freak. They had everything under control and you know it.”

Donovan made a face at her before sitting next to his fiancé.

Don’t want to fight it, tried everything I know

I won’t deny it, you’ve everywhere I try to go

Once things had calmed down again, and once most of the guys were passed out on the floor, a couch, or with their head supported upon their gal’s lap in Donovan’s case, Sapphire asked, “So you had been deposited right in the clearing?”

Nodding, Inferno replied, “Exactly where Miss Special had shown me the stars. Almost precisely.”

“Did you have any inkling upon who’s mirror was about to start up next?” Starath asked softly. “There are a few people who I’m starting to get worried about.”

And I, I never needed to lie

Can’t you see I believe in my heart when I’m saying

Remembering with a new sort of clarity, Inferno paused, replaying his final days. “Yes.”

“Yes there was another mirror starting up?”

“Correct.” His voice was soft, and his hand found Miss Special’s under the table, letting her lean into his shoulder.

Her voice was tired, the sound of it being that she was almost asleep. “D’you know who it was?”

It’s love that you see

You mean the world to me

I’m prayin’ for you

He brushed hair away from her face, causing the other girls to smile at each other, knowing how sappy their guys could get when they really wanted to be sweet. His voice was soft. “I do know. I do not know, however, if it is time to tell who it was. They were not ready to have one of the girls from this world come and upturn their world.”

Sinead caught something in his voice, glancing at Hacker and Sapphire. Hacker spoke. “You’re not talking about the usual him-or-her meaning of the word ‘they’ that’s used when someone doesn’t want to give away the gender of an individual, are you.”

Knew it so easy, don’t have to think it through

Love is for givin’

I know I’m livin’ for you

Inferno shook his head. Miss Special sat up. “Then that means that two are going to activate.”

“Correct again.”

“Oh my gosh,” Starath breathed. “Then . . . the two on this end . . .”

“They could only be . . .” Sinead breathed.

Love is for givin’

I know I’m livin’ for you

“Nurannoniel and Lady Venom.”