Wish
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight; Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer.
The garden was quiet, with the blonde haired Didyme gazing into the depths of the sky. The sky faded into a spectrum of colors as it would only at sunset; the normally blue, plain-like stretch was a canvas for light purple, rosy pink, a deep red, and orange, with a glow of yellow about it. Wispy clouds seemed to soak up their color.
She sparkled lightly on the bench she lounged on; the sparkles were fading, and she smiled slightly. She had been doing that a lot lately; although she had an aura of happiness, it did not seem to work on her; Marcus made her feel the delight she made others feel. In her distant thoughts of glee, she missed the light thud that humans would not be able to hear, ignorant of her surroundings.
Almost instantly, a raven haired vampire was behind her. Had she looked behind her, she would have seen that the unusually stoic cast of his face was marred by the slightest hint of regret, but she didn't have to look. She knew Aro had come for her, recognizing the pattern of his steps and familiar raven hair she glimpsed in her peripheral vision.
'The price I pay for my negligence,' she thought with a trace of bitterness.
"I did not think you would do this to me, brother." she said gently, still not turning about to come face to face with the vampire who would be her murderer, soprano voice softer than its usual timbre; the word brother left an unpleasant aftertaste in her mouth.
"Albeit I did not think you would, I should have known and anticipated this event." Tears might have rimmed her red eyes if she were human at the ultimate betrayal that she instinctively knew would result in her demise, but the expression on her face was that of a disappointed parent's, with a barely detectable undertone of wistful sorrow, seemingly permanently etched into her unnaturally seraphic features.
Her brother, who had fallen uncharacteristically silent, finally spoke. "Forgive me, Didyme," he responded frostily to her words, bland of their usual giddiness; his sister's powers subtly rid the voice of whatever regret it might have held in its deceptive depths, but she couldn't doubt the half demand, half apology was sincere.
One moment passed; one awkward, tense moment full of realization and regret, and in that moment, the world around them seemed to stand still. Clouds drifted across the sky, serene and peaceful, as if nothing in the world was amiss; birds were in mid-flight, wings flapping, chirping sparrows alarmed by Aro's sudden appearance. The foam lined, dark cerulean waves of the ocean – seemingly carved, so perfect they seemed in those few seconds – rose with the grace of a swan.
But what Didyme focused on – her brother – was the source of astonishment. On a day filled with revelations, when she thought she could be surprised no more, she was still stunned speechless in that single cluster of seconds when she leveled her gaze to Aro's. Within his eyes flared something that cued pangs of grief to squeeze her dead heart.
The unchanging world around them gave her time for an epiphany which would be her last whilst on the brink of her death.
Her brother was a monster.
A/N: Hindsight is 20/20… Reviews are appreciated so I can hear you out. =)
Revised 9/03/09. Revision A/N:
- Well, I improved this. I'm bored again and felt that I really should rewrite 'Wish', so I got around to it.
- I also cut out the very end, but I feel it makes the story better, no?
- 'Wish' now seems to be an irrelevant title...
- I'm also considering making v1 a separate fic by itself… It seems unnecessary, but I'm just going to put that out there.