Pairing: Mai/Alex
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Angst
Summery: Mai remembers Alex and wishes she had done something to keep him with her. It's a pretty sad fic.
Disclaimer: This is my first Golden Sun fanfic. I plan to do a broader version of it, starting from the beginning of the first game and including various pairings, but I'll do that sometime later. I've always been a fan of Mai/Alex, and I hope you enjoy the story.
Mai watched the reflection of the grey clouds across the smooth, mirror-like surface of the pool. So, the adventure is over, Mai mused. We've won. Everyone survived, and now we are all living together in Vale. A happily ever after if there ever was one. Mai laughed shortly at the irony of it all.
Everyone was happy, and for a good reasons. The Light Houses were lit, and Isaac gained the power of the "Golden Sun", as Kraden called it. Everyone was together, happy and alive. Felix had Piers, Isaac had Jenna, Ivan had Sheba, and Garet switched back and forth between as many girls at once as possible. But Mai…
"I have lost my love," she whispered to the mist. "I have lost my Alex."
Alex. The Alex she grew up with. The boy who held her when she cried and always could make her smile; the teen who flirted and talked with her; the deep man who craved knowledge and power. She had grown up with him, she understood him, or at least she thought she did.
But suddenly, one day, he was gone. Gone to find the secret of the Light Houses.
Why didn't I just tell him how I felt? Mai thought for the thousandth time, torn apart by guilt and longing. I know he would have stayed if he knew. He wouldn't have become so obsessed. We could have been together.
"But I was afraid." Her eyes watered up. "I was afraid of rejection. So I ended up losing him for a year."
And when he came back, he was an enemy. She never had to fight him directly, but they were enemies. And even now that it was over, now that they didn't have to be enemies anymore, he was gone.
"Why, Alex? Why did you have to leave?"
Tears flowed down her cheeks. A wind blew through the clearing, sending ripples across the surface of the pool. It was a cold wind, but she didn't care. She was too empty to care. "I'm so cold without you. I'm so cold…"
Fin Fin
