Disclaimer: Don’t own ‘em. Never have, never will. I only own Starr and Nav’ri. The speech belongs to Dr.King.
Title: ‘I have a Dream’ or What Happens When You Read Too Much GW Fanfiction
Author: StarrLilly
Email: [email protected]
Category: AU, Comedy
Pairings: mentions 3x4 and 1x2xOC
Warnings: POSSIBLY OFFENSIVE CONTENT AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Archives: None yet. Ya want it? Ask.
Comments: Sure! I really need ‘em, flames an’ all.
Authors Note: My AP English teacher made us HAND WRITE *grr* the ‘I Have A Dream’ speech one day in class. I got kinda pissed and this is what came of it.
Other Notes: ‘blah’ I’m writing
P: blah someone’s talking
‘Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice ß (underlined, starred, and capitalized).
Wufei: Hey! That’s MY line! *Glares*
SL (that’s me): Shut up Wufei! *whacks him on the head*
Wufei: ITAII!
‘It came as a joyous daybreak’
Ash: You mean the witch circle?
SL: No Ash! Beat it!
‘to end the long night of captivity.’
Aussie: Be very gentle with this one, she’s kinda testy today!
SL: OK, where did the croc guy come from? *Yells* DUO! STARR!
Duo & Starr: *run and hide*
‘But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free.’
ALL minus SL: *hold up random signs chanting "Free the Negroes"*
SL: Thanks a lot guys. You aren’t helping any.
ALL: But we love ya!
SL: Thanks. *Mutters* I guess that’s a good thing.
‘One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles’
Duo: *Gets a sexy grin* OOH, kinky! Hee-chan…
Heero: *Glares* NO.
Duo: *Pouts*
‘of segregation and the chains’
Starr: Damn, does he have a bondage fetish or what?
SL: No Starr, that’s just for you PSYCHOS!
Starr & Duo: Aww, you know you love it.
SL: Not the point.
‘One hundred years later’
ALL: WE GET THE POINT!
‘the Negro lives on a lonely island’
Duo: Ooh! Is it private?
SL: DUO!
Duo: Sorry.
‘of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.’
Duo: HUH?
Heero: It’s a metaphor, baka!
Duo: oh.
‘One hundred years’
Starr: How many frikken times is he gonna say that?
SL: This is the last one, I promise.
‘later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American’
Starr: Four corners. -Kewel!
SL: Wrong corners, Starr.
Duo: What kinda animal is a Negro anyway, Trowa?
Trowa: *shrugs* I don’t know. Never heard of it.
SL: *really pissed* You jerks! Negro=African AMERICAN! HELLO? HUMAN! Jeeze…1)
‘society and finds himself an exile in his own land.’
Quatre: Kind of like us and the colonies.
SL: That’s right Quatre.
‘So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.’
Starr: Hey Duo, did you run naked through the town again?
Duo: *blushes scarlet* Shut up Starr!
‘In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital’
Duo & Starr: Berlin?
SL: Ok, y’all are getting annoying.
ALL: Excuse US! It’s YOUR brain!
SL: *blushes* Oh yeah.
‘to cash a bad check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution’
Starr: All’s fair in love and war!
SL: No…*looks at Starr weirdly*
‘and the Declaration’
Duo: Of my love for Hee-chan!
SL: Can you guys let me write a little in peace, please?
ALL: *SILENCE*
SL: Thanx.
‘of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.’
Starr: Me an’ Duo too?
SL: Yeah, you guys too. You’re fellow Americans.
Starr & Duo: Wow…
‘This note was a promise that all men, yes black men as well as white men,’
Starr: Hey, what about the red man? He was here first!
SL: This is a black rights speech, not Native American, Starr.
Starr: Oh. Sorry.
‘would be granted the unalienable rights of life, liberty’
Starr & Duo: and bacon bits!
SL: err…
‘and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her’
Quatre: Her who?
SL: America.
Quatre: But that’s a COUNTRY!
SL: Some people give the name she to their homelands.
‘citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check’
Duo: Bounce wit’ it!
‘which has come back marked "insufficient funds."’
Starr: We could always have Hee-chan hack a bank for ‘em.
SL: can’t
Starr & Duo: Why not?
SL: You’re fake, we’re real, to start with.
Both: ‘Nam!
‘But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.’
Wufei: Damn straight!
SL: Chill out, Wu!
Wufei: Onna! My name is Wu-FEI!
SL: SO?
‘We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check’
Duo: Why? Ya know it’s bad already.
SL: Figure of speech. You know, metaphor?
Duo: I guess…
‘a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.’
SL: *glares* Say NOTHING, Wufei!
Wufei: *gulps*
‘We have also come to this hallowed’
Duo: Hollow?
Starr: No, silly, that’s hallowed, like sacred.
Duo: Oh.
‘spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.
Starr: Why? He gotta pee?
‘This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off’
All: *gets out of the pool*
‘or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation’
Duo: What’s that?
SL: You’ll see.
‘to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.’
Starr: Well, if now’s the time for all that
Duo: Then what’re ya standin’ there talking ‘bout it for?
Both: MOVE!
‘Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children.’
Wufei: This Dr. King is just.
SL: Yeah, he was, Wu. *sighs*2)
‘It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.’
Trowa: *nods* Never underestimate your opponents.
‘This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.’
DUO: Why’s it so full of similes for, SL?
SL: To make a better picture of the situation, Du-dear.
‘1963 is not an end, but a beginning.’
Starr: Beginning of what? Ancient history?
SL: For you guys, yeah.
‘Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off some steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.’
Heero, Duo & Wufei: *carol* WAR!
SL: Of course not! Dr. King was a pacifist.
ALL: Oh no! Not ANOTHER one! *scream in terror*
SL: *ignores them*
‘There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.’
Starr: I know those! *starts listing* The right to be horney, the right to be fucked senseless, the right to enjoy it…
SL: *yells* Stop already! You’ve completely contaminated my homework, so now I’m gonna hafta rewrite it.
Starr: Why not just start now?
SL: this is good fic material.
ALL: *mass groans*
‘The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.’
Duo: Damn, for all this justice stuff, you’d think it was Wufei talkin’.
SL: That’s an insult to Dr.King!
Wufei: *looks affronted*
‘But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.’
Duo: Don’t forget to wipe your feet!
ALL: *laugh hysterically*
SL: Hmmph.
‘In the process of gaining our rightful place we must’
Quatre: Click your heels three times saying, "There’s no place like home."’
SL: Quatre!
Quatre: Sorry.
SL: Great! Now Quatre’s in on this. Who’s next? Yuy?!
ALL: *silence*
‘not be guilty of wrongful deeds.’
Starr: *snickers* I guess that leaves you and Heero out, right Duo?
Duo: *blushes*
‘Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of’
Duo: Urine.
SL: Eww, Duo! That’s GROSS!
Duo: *bows* Sank you!
‘bitterness and hatred.’
SL: *yawns* This is BORING.
Starr: What, we don’t spice it up enough for ya?
SL: You’re not the one having to write this.
Starr: I know. *smirks* Ain’t that great?
SL: I dunno whether to be happy or scared.
Both: *sarcastic* Thanx a lot! NOT!!
‘We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow’
Wufei: Maxwell to dominate discussion from now on.
ALL: *nod in agreement*
Duo: Hey!
‘our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.’
Heero: Damn.
Eveyone, including me:
0.0‘Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights
Starr: insert random manhood joke here.
‘of meeting physical force with soul force’
Burtier: What kind of power you got?
Julien: I got soul power!
Burtier: What kind of power you got?
Julien: You know I got soul power! How strong are you?
Burtier: I’m too strong.
Julien: How strong are you?
Burtier: Too strong!
SL: Oh man… now I’m getting scenes from Remember the Titans. Good movie.
‘ The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people’
Random voice: Don’t go into the light!
‘for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence her today,’
Duo: My ma made me come.
SL: Shut up guys!
‘have come to realize their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. This offense we share mounted to storm the battlements of injustice must be carried forth by a biracial3) army. We cannot walk alone.
Duo: *sings* You are not alone, I am here with you, though we’re far apar-
<BANG>
Duo: *Drops*
SL: *blows on a smoking tranquilizer gun* It should be quiet for awhile now.
ALL: o_0;;
‘And so we must make a pledge’
Preacher: I now pronounce you man and husband.
Starr: Go Rabi!
SL: You got married? Why wasn’t I invited? WAHHHHH *cries*
‘that we shall always march ahead.’
Starr: *sings* The ants go marching one by one hurrah, hurrah.
SL: *glares*
Starr: What? Duo’s out, so somebody’s gotta keep this interesting.
SL: *sighs*
‘We cannot turn back.’
Heero: Hn. Must be a one way street.
SL: OHMYGOD! Did Heero just make a joke?
Heero: …
‘There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied?"’
Duo: When Hee-chan finally admits I’m a better pilot4) and that he loves me!
SL: Damn! I forgot your resilience to tranqs.
Duo: *smirks* HA!
‘We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.’
Duo: Cheap shots!
‘We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue’
Duo: From a long night of "exercise"!
SL: Hentai!
Duo: So?
‘of travel, cannot gain lodging in motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as’
Starr: Hee-chan denies being human!
‘the Negro basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their dignity by signs stating’
Starr: Under 12 oral sex?
SL: Now that’s just sick!
Starr: *shrugs* Your brain thought it up.
‘"for whites only," We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.’
Moses: *sings* Let my people go!
SL: Oh brother. Who invited Moses?
ALL: *avoid eye contact*
‘ I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of excessive trials and tribulations.’
Duo: Damn straight! Try an Oz cell. Yeech. *gags*
SL: That’s IT! *knocks everyone out, then binds and gags them* That should last for at least a whole paragraph.
‘Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering, continue to work with the faith that uneaarred suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of the northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can, and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. So I say to you, my friends,’
Duo: Let them eat cake, I’m busy!
SL: Hey! How’d you get out?
Starr: *points to a blue-haired elf girl*
SL: Nav’ri!
Nav’ri: Hey, it was getting boring.
SL: Good point.
‘that even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, ‘
Duo: And fighting Ozzies from dawn til dusk.
SL: Aww. Poor babies.
Starr & Duo: *sniffle* Yes we are.
‘I still have a dream.’
Starr: I wanna puppy!
‘It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream’
Duo: Pizza?
SL: No, to be rich and famous.
Duo: That’s nuts.
‘that one day this nation will rise up and lives out the true meaning of its creed-‘
Duo: Rule over all! *cackles madly*
SL: Uh huh. No sugar for you tonight.
Duo: *pouts*
‘we hold these truth to be self evident that all men are created equal.’
Starr: But what about the little guys? *glances in Wufei’s direction*
Starr & Wufei: *get in a fistfight, ‘til Starr KO’s him*
SL: -_-; that’s not what that means.
‘I have a dream’
Duo: We know!
Starr: He repeats himself a lot, don’t he?
SL: It’s for emphasis, you guys. Chill out.
‘that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream’
Starr: That you’d stop saying that.
‘ that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,’
Quatre: What? Is Mississippi a desert?
Nav’ri: No, it’s a swampy state.
SL: Thanx for ‘splaining Nav’ri.
Nav’ri: No prob.
‘sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be formed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children’
Starr: MY, he’s been a busy boy!
‘will one day live in an nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content if their character.’
Duo: I hereby judge Wufei of being characterless.
Wufei: MAXWELL! INJUSTICE!!
SL: Settle down boys.
‘I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day,’
All: This speech would be done.
SL: AMEN!
‘down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping’
Starr: With saliva. Didn’t you know? He’s a werewolf!
SL: *smirks* Amusing, Starr.
Starr: Danke!
‘with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day’
Heero: *mutters* Soon I hope. Can’t take much more of this.
SL: *nods*
‘right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls can join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough plains shall be made plain,’
Starr: Ya hear that Duo? Your nose’ll be plain.
Duo: Har, har.
‘and the crooked places shall be made straight’
Duo: You can smile now Starr, your teeth’ll be straight.
Starr: *winces slightly* Touché.
‘and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.’
Duo: *sarcastic* Whoopie. I see God. Yay.
Quatre: *pissed* Don’t mock Allah!
Duo: Sorry, Quat.
‘This is our hope. This is the faith I go back to the south with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.’
Starr: Priceless…
‘With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling chords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.’
Quatre: Brahms 5th, I hope.5)
‘With this faith’
Duo: I die.
SL: Huh?
‘we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together,’
Starr: Live together.
Duo: Have an orgy together.
Heero: Die together, if you two are any judge.
Both: HEY!
‘to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all Gods children will be able to sing with new meaning-
Everyone, including me: *sing* "My country tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing; land where my fathers died; land of the pilgrims pride; from every mountainside let freedom ring."
-and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.’
SL: Amen!
Starr: Hey! You spoke first!
Duo: No Fair!
SL: Ya snooze, ya loose.
‘So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.’
Duo and Starr: I hear it, you hear it?
SL: Whatever guys.
‘Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.’
Starr, Duo & Quatre: *sing* Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too; come on it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you!
SL: Err…
‘Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Starr, Duo & Quatre: *sing* Silver bells, silver bells, it’s Christmas time in the city…
SL: Hey guys, what’s up with the Christmas songs?
Starr: They’re the only ones with bells in ‘em.
SL: I get it!
Duo: *sarcastic* I’m proud.
SL: Shut up.
‘Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.’
Duo: *blankly* California?
Nav’ri: Ya know Katall?
Duo: Yeah.
Nav’ri: Well that used to be California before it separated from the present-day US.
Duo: Ohh…
‘But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountainside’
Everyone, including me: *chorus* Let freedom ring!
‘And when’
Duo: this is over, I’m getting me some Hee-chan.
Starr: Me too.
Heero: *deathglare* No more threesomes. You two are vicious.
Both: *pout*
‘we allow freedom to ring,’
Trowa: We get a headache from the echo. *rubs his temples*
‘when we let it ring from every village and hamlet’
Duo: * gets in a thinking pose* To be, or not to be, that is the question.
Starr: *fakes crying* Alas, poor Yorik, I knew him well.
SL: Get over it, drama queens.
‘from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children- black me and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants-‘
Duo: Gays and Straights.
‘will be able to join hands and to sing the words of the old Negro spiritual "free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!’
SL: WAHOO! IT’S OVER! I’M FREE!
All: *cheer with me*
Nav’ri: Hold it, chica.
SL: What?
Nav’ri: Ya still gotta write a clean copy.
SL: *slaps her forehead* D’oh!
End notes:
Hey guys! Did ya like it? Hate it? By the way, my teacher did NOT see this. I spent an extra TWO HOURS making a clean copy to turn in. and then she had the nerve to say "Just put it in your essay folder." She never even looked at them. Now is that pointless or what? *takes a deep, relaxing breath* Now to explain my numbers:
