DISCLAIMER: All things Final Fantasy belong to Square Enix. The song "She Had The World" and all its lyrics belong to Panic! At The Disco.
A/N: This fic was inspired by Lassarina Aoibhell's fics "Aufer Calorem Noxium" and "Chill". (Read them, they're awesome.) Also inspired by the song itself, of course.
-- She Had The World --
The archfiend of fire approached the dragoon.
"Kain, do you love Valvalicia?" Rubicante asked, sounding grim and serious as usual but also genuinely curious.
Kain sighed. "When I look in her eyes, I just see the sky."
In bed one night, the wind fiend informed her lover, "I don't love you, I'm just passing the time."
Wrapping his arm around her waist, Kain pressed his face to the back of Valvalicia's neck and sighed into her hair, "You could love me if I knew how to lie."
If only he could lie to himself convincingly enough to forget that she wasn't Rosa...
And then the day came that Cecil's party rescued Rosa at the Tower of Zot and Kain was freed from Golbez's control.
Valvalicia appeared to thwart their escape. They fought and she perished, dissolving into the wind.
Kain was surprised to realize that the wind fiend had felt nothing for him after all, certainly not love. Somewhere in his heart he had hoped that he would not have to fight her, that he would not have to choose between killing her and being killed by her. Because he had developed a kind of affection for her, one that might even have grown into love if he'd had time to properly nurture it. And now he'd never have a chance to find out if she might have loved him back.
And Rosa... Rosa had Cecil. She would never love Kain, not that way...
But who could love me?
I am out of my mind.
Throwing a line out to sea,
To see if I can catch a dream.
-end-
A/N: "When I look in her eyes, I just see the sky." and the dialogue in the second section are lines from the song, and so is the verse in italics at the end.
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