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Failure. Homura Akemi had seen it countless times over almost 100 attempts, over 135 months. Over 11 years. And 11 more of stopped time.
So much time spent in an unchanging cycle of inevitable failure.
She had had a good run. But time had run out. It was time to meet failure again.
Homura woke up
"What?"
She wasn't in the hospital. Why wasn't she back in the hospital? Why-?!
She took a deep breath.
No need to panic, she was in her own room, so everything was probably okay. Why was she even expecting to wake up in the hospital, it's not like that happened until after Walpurgisnacht, except...
She remembered fighting it yesterday. She should have been in the hospital
Homura Akemi looked over to her calender.
May 1st
"What the fu-"
The only reason she didn't faint was because she was unable to as a Magical Girl. Her brain did stop receiving thoughts for several moments though, like the signal from her soul gem to her body had been disrupted. The information in front of her just couldn't connect, like a memetic flashbang had gone off directly in front of her. It was impossible almost. She should have been happy, something in the back of her mind told her that, though she could not recall why, or what this even meant, other than that it was some kind of insane miracle.
"No. Yes. Wait." She muttered under her breath, slowly starting to regain control of herself, and remember what she had done last night.
"Did I?"
Tears she didn't know she had been holding began to spill across her face, and a tension she had held for over half of her existence finally released. The feelings of satisfaction, elation, relief, and joy overwhelmed her, the intensity far more than her mind could handle. It was incomprehensible. She let out a laugh, grinning ear to ear in a matter utterly alien to the existence known as Homura Akemi. She had done it.
"I've... I've saved her."