An Uncertain End by Lord Archive Characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, etc..., and are used without permission. I'm only borrowing them. I'll return them. I can't afford the overdue charge Nabiki insists on. ------------------------- Akane stared at the clock from her bed. It read five o'clock in the afternoon. She sighed. She sighed again. Akane heard some noises from downstairs. Akane shut her eyes. Akane sighed. Akane opened her eyes and looked at the odd reflection in the mirror. Akane heard another noise from downstairs. A tear rolled down from Akane's eye. She sighed. Akane sighed. "It's the end of the world as I know it, and I feel fine," Akane muttered in English, quoting a gaijin song. She closed her eyes. The bed shifter slightly. Akane heard a knock on the door and saw the door open slightly and Kasumi stick her head into the room. "Akane, dinner is almost read...dy... Oh, My!!! Akane?!" Akane sighed. "Be down in a couple minutes." Kasumi stared in wide eyed shock, and nodded. She shut the door as she left. Akane slipped out of her bed, and stretched. "Ite! I don't think I'll be able to walk normally for days." She turned towards the bed and kicked it. "Wake up!" "Wha... What?!" The guy in her bed sat up with a start. "Dinner is almost ready," Akane replied with a slight growl. "Um... Akane, about what we, ah, did?" "What about it, Ranma?" The pig-tailed martial artist gulped. "You're not happy about it are you? You didn't want to do it." Akane sighed. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to make love to you, but I wanted to wait to be married first. I don’t like it that I lost my virginity because we started kissing and didn’t stop. THAT is why I'm not happy." "Sorry, I didn't mean to push anything that you didn't want to..." Akane interrupted him with a kiss. "You didn't push me into having sex. Everyone else did. The constant tug-of-war over who gets who, pushed us together and apart. It made a growing tension between us, and it was going to end in one of three ways: we do what we did, we break up, or we endure all the pressure until we got married. I really wanted option three, but option one wasn't that bad." "So, you don't regret it?" Ranma asked. "For now, no. Don't make me ever regret it or you'll be a girl in both your forms." Ranma shuddered. "Um... How would I make you regret it?" "If you marry someone else." "Oh." ----------------------------- Author's Note: After reading 'Wedding Night' where Ranma and Akane start kissing, and almost didn't stop. This story came from the thought of what would Akane feel about it if after having her first real kiss, they didn't stop until they had had sex. She certainly wouldn't be gleeful.