Everybody’s Fool
By: Sinead
Author’s Note: I do not own Beast Wars, nor Evanescence, nor their songs, beautiful though they are. I can only hope that I can get their album soon . . .
Perfect
by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Rhinox
looked in on the sleeping Raptor, though a camera that he had Rattrap place in
his room once, while Dinobot had been out on patrol. Somehow, when he knew that
the girl, whoever she was, had been there, the camera all-too conveniently
malfunctioned. It was odd, because while Dinobot had confided in the technician,
he never told him what this human looked like.
Just
what we all need
More lies about a world that . . .
Sinead
walked into her room, with a friend there. She had been practicing a few moves,
and her friend knew the counter-moves. A quick glance to the mirror confirmed
that there wasn’t anything to be seen through it. She blinked, her face
holding a question, as her friend asked again, “So . . . who’s the guy?”
Never
was and never will be
Have you no shame don't you see me
You know you’ve got everybody fooled
Dinobot
awoke, and Rhinox peered closer, activating the microphone on the camera. Faint
voices, those of females, were wafting through . . . upwards . . . from the
mirror. It panned slowly, and the rhinoceros rubbed at his optics, clearly not
believing them.
Two
girls were there, to all appearances, in the mirror itself.
Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
“What
guy?” Sinead asked.
“That’s
not fooling me,” her friend replied. “I know that you’re seeing someone,
but I don’t know who, and I’d like to know.”
Sinead
remembered the sword that she had carefully hidden in her closet. She didn’t
answer for a moment.
Oh
how we love you
No flaws when you’re pretending
But now I know she . . .
Dinobot
watched the two interact. What if she denied that she lo-- BACK UP!!!
The
raptor stood, and paced, his mind reeling. What had he just thought?! She
couldn’t possibly love someone as himself! He was coarse where she was pure .
. . why would she let herself love one as himself?
The
voice of her friends reached his audio circuits. “Are you denying that you
like someone?”
“I
never said that.”
Never was and never will be
You don’t know how you’ve betrayed me
And somehow you’ve got everybody fooled
Sinead had seen the shadow within the mirror, and was glad that her friend had
her back to it. She didn’t need her to see it . . . him . . . the one . . .
“I
know that you hate how I ask about your romantic excursions. Why shouldn’t I
be defensive about those who I like?”
“Because
while I talk about this boy I’m with, you never say a word, and you
always decline the offer of guys who want to dance with you. I know that you
like to dance, so why?”
Without
the mask where will you hide
Can’t find yourself lost in your lie
Rhinox
was listening to the defensive voice. It had to be the one that Dinobot had been
talking about. He had said that her voice was smooth, exactly the opposite of
his own, with the tones of her emotions seeping though, melding them together,
sounding as if she were almost singing the words, instead of speaking them. Her
tone, was now one of a staccato, almost rapping, but underneath her words lay a
deathly threat.
“I’m
not dancing with the guys, because they’re pigs, the lot of them. All they
want is my body, not who I am, or who I will be. I don’t appreciate your tone,
and the way that you’re referring to me. Get out. Go home. And when you’re
ready to treat me like the human I am, then you come back and apologize to me.
Leave. Now.”
I
know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don’t love you anymore
The
girl struck out at Sinead, who dodged it in a fluid movement, then grabbed the
other girl, putting her into a pin, but moveable, and dragged her out of the
room, and out of her house. Rhinox watched silently, and then sighed, turning
his attention to Dinobot, who had been watching silently. Before he could walk
down, and ask him what he had seen, when a girl, holding Dinobot’s sword, ran
through the mirror, and into his arms.
Dinobot
opened his mouth, to say something, but Sinead said, “I could never tell her,
because you’ve protected me before, and I wanted to protect you.”
“Sinead
. . . all I had wanted to say, was that I was proud of the way you reacted to
her attack.”
It
never was and never will be
You’re not real and you can’t save me
Somehow now you’re everybody’s fool
Rhinox chuckled, and turned the camera off.