GUILT

She stares at the man in front of her with disbelief, the tension in the room could be cut with a knife , she tries to focus on his face but her eyes keep on sliding to the strait jacket that he's been put into. A reminder of what he was.

"Seth…" she whispers , her heart aching with sadness, tears welling up in her eyes, he makes a movement as if to reach up to wipe her tears away, like he had done all the those times before. She resists the urge to flinch, simultaneously wanting to cry into his chest, and hear the reassuring beat of his heart.

He's dreading the next words.

She doesn't want to do this, but she can't cope with it anymore. She can't cope with seeing him like this.

She loathes herself for doing this to him, but her hatred doesn't stop the words that come out of her mouth.

"Seth…I'm breaking up with you" the words leave a bitter sensation in her mouth, they pierce his heart like arrows. He looks calmly at her, his face impassive, his stance tense, he says nothing. One part of him wants to scream at her for leaving him yet one part of him understand why she's leaving, and just sobs. He stares at her intently, committing everything about her to memory, her eyes , her nose, her hair, the way she smiled at him.

She can hear babbling and crying, she shouldn't be here still, she thinks, it's not right to stay too long. She wants to cry because she knows she has wounded him but the strait jacket gleams brightly under the powerful lighting. She mutters a goodbye and she walks out.

Out of the hospital

Out of his life.

One year later…

"Mr Lance, Dr Waters will see you now" the receptionist said, giving a small smile to the man sitting opposite her, he neatly folds the newspaper up , gets out of his seat and starts walking towards the door. A painting catches his eye, it wasn't a Picasso, granted, but that wasn't what had caught his eye.

It was turquoise.

He walks quickly on, and opens the door. He stands there, shocked , the door creaking shut behind him.

The girl smiles at him.

"Hello Seth"....

A/N; Reviews and constructive criticism is appreciated very much.

I will be putting up the next part very soon! Since I couldn't leave it there!

I know nothing was explained in the piece so I'll explain it here: Seth once accidentally murdered a person and Eirika looks like the person he murdered on accident [speeding], and his guilt was so great that he kept on claiming that he was being followed around everywhere., so he was sick of it and tried to kill himself.