Subject: [FFML] [R1/2] [Songfic] "Torn"
From: Carly
Date: 10/10/1998, 9:13 AM
To: FFML

Hi everyone!  Just thought of this little idea while listening to Torn
on my playlist :P  C&C's welcome!

To the song "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia

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[A pan shot of Ukyou, standing on the edge of a building, tears running
down her face.  Her feet inch closer towards the open space leading to
the ground]


[She smiles as she thinks back to when her and Ranma were young.]
 I thought I saw a man more to life

[Ranma helps her out of a fight between her and a bunch of young thugs.]

 He was warm, he came around and he was dignified

[Ranma cheers her up after the fight and tells her not to give up and
he'll always be there for her.]
 He showed me what it was to cry

[Ukyou thinks to the Ranma she knows now and how much he's grown.  She
wishes she could go back to when they were young.]
 You couldn't be that man that I adored

[Ranma and Akane are sitting at a booth at "Ucchan's" while she's
cooking.  He seems so alive when he's around Akane]
 You don't seem to know, seem to care, what your heart is for

[Ukyou stares shocked as Akane and Ranma share their first kiss when
they think no ones around.]
 I don't know him anymore

[Ukyou starts to run away as fast as she can, crying hard and
stummbling.]
 There's nothing where he used to lie

[The next time Ranma is in "Ucchan's", Ukyou finds it hard to talk to
him.]
 Conversation has run dry

[Ukyou ends up kicking Ranma out when he says that he has to marry
Akane.]
 That's what's goin on

[Ukyou again is on the edge of the building, edging ever more close to
falling.]
 Nothing's right, I'm torn
 I'm all outta faith
 This is how I feel
 I'm cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor

[She thinks of the many times she imagined herself marrying Ranma.  She
smiled when he finally asks her to marry him.]
 Delusion never changed, into something real

[She shakes her head and knows it will never happen.  Bitter tears spill
down her face]
 I'm wide awake, and I can see the perfect sky is torn
 You're a little late, I'm already torn

[Her anger grows as she spots a couple pass beneeth her.  They look so
happy and in love.  She wonders why she thought Ranma would ever pick
her.]
 So I guess the fortune teller's right
 I should have seen just what was there and not some holy light

[She thinks again of all the times Ranma has saved her, the first time
they met, when she first came to Nerima and he called her cute]
 But you've crawled beneeth my veins and now

[She violently shakes her head of the memories and reassures herself it
will never happen]
 I don't care, I have no luck, I don't miss it all the much
 There's just so many things that I can't touch, I'm torn

[Ukyou stretches out her arms to her side like she's flying and feels
some rain fall again her face, mingling with her tears and she smiled.]
 I'm all outta faith, this is how I feel
 I'm cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor
 Illusion never changed, into something real
 I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
 You're a little late, I'm already torn
 Torn

[She thinks again of how she told him never to come back, and how empty
her restaurant is without him]
 There's nothing where he used to lie

[Ukyou cooks an Okonomiyaki, but burns it.  She throws it onto a pile of
ones she's already messed up.  It's getting quite big.]
 My insipration has run dry
 That's what's goin on

[Ukyou looks to the street below her and finally realizes what she's
doing.]
 Nothing's right, I'm torn
 I'm all outta faith
 This is how I feel

[She falls into a heap on the roof and buries her head into her hands]
 I'm cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor
 Illlusion never changed, into something real

[More rain falls onto her already soaked body]
 I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
 I'm all outta faith
 This is how I feel

[She picks herself up form off the ground and hugs herself tight
whispering Ranma's name as she trudges back into the building]
 I'm cold and I'm ashamed, bound and broken on the floor

[Ranma runs into "Ucchan's" to talk to his best friend but the place is
all packed up, except for a white piece of paper, folded, on the
ground.]
 You're a little late, I'm already torn

[He picks it up and read's what's on it,]
 Torn...

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