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Embracing Eternity
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Threedaysunrise
Prologue
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"I want to live together with Kai, Hagi, and everyone else. I want to live together with everyone."
"From now on, you can live the way you want."
"Love today, and smile tomorrow."
"Farewell Diva. My other self."
"Nankurunaisa. I love you."
"HAGI!"
"I really didn't like him at first. But like me, he cares about you very much. He might suddenly show up one of these days…
"If you call, he will come."
"Take me to the place where I began."
"Saya, you taught me about the tomorrow that I'm living for. That's why you've been fighting. It wasn't just for your own happiness but for every one else's happiness as well. That's all you were thinking about.
"I promise to make them happy so…sleep well, Saya."
The self-induced sleep didn't feel like any of the others. With the others, there was nothing. She would simply fall asleep one moment and wake up the within the next, thirty years having passed. But this time…this time was different. Voices, words, images of people and their presence in her previous life continued to haunt (or remind; having yet to decide which) her normally dreamless sleep.
Feelings and emotions had also absent in prior sleeps, but were undoubtedly present in this one. She felt frightened of waking up—of seeing all the people around her fade with age while she stayed eternally young. She was afraid of seeing them die. Even greater, she was afraid to face an eternity without the one who promised to be there for her. How could she even begin to journey through the eras without Hagi by her side?
Maybe she was cursed to live this existence by herself…
The image of Hagi being buried underneath the rubble at the Met played and replayed like an old-fashioned film through her mind. She hated revisiting that memory and yet clung to it so dearly.
Shortly after the destruction, when life had fell back into its normal pattern, Kai had told her to simply call for him and he would come. But she had been afraid. And she still was afraid. What if she called for him and he didn't come? That would only be confirming her fears of his death. No, she would handle that when she awoke. Maybe…just maybe, he would be there, waiting for her and they could start off the new life together.
But fear was still her constant companion.
She was being foolish, Saya knew. In all possibilities, Julia could be close to finding a cure to keep her awake permanently. Her nieces could already be dating, and Kai…how was Kai faring after all these years?
Why couldn't she just stop thinking!? Why couldn't she just stop dreaming!?
Suddenly, her subconscious summoned up an image of Diva. But this wasn't the crazed woman that had been her sister. Diva's hair was shoulder length and her crystalline blue eyes calm—serene, almost. In her hands, Saya's baby nieces cooed and gurgled happily.
"You took this away from me."
Diva's voice didn't match the image she looked upon. Instead it was dripping heavily with a malice and hate. Guilt rose within her nonetheless. 'I had to. You were costing humanity of its life.'
"So I was the one to die while you get to live happily with your little Chevalier? How righteous of you, Saya. But did you forget we share the same blood? I was the same as you and you are the same as me. That will never change."
Diva's image abruptly disappeared and was quickly replaced by Riku's smiling countenance.
"We'll be a family, won't we, Saya?"
Tears slipped down the face of her dream-self. 'Yes, Riku. We're a family.'
Riku's imaged faded even faster that Diva's and suddenly Hagi stood before her. His hand was still that of a chiropteran and his clothes seemed worn and tattered. He held out his good hand; beautiful eyes at peace.
"Wake up Saya. It's time."
I really don't know when I'll be updating this, so consider this a test run to see how everyone likes the beginning. Chapter one will make up for this one in length.
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