In Her Eyes
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Tidus POV
The look in her eyes haunted me. I'd seen it in my own, every time I saw my own reflection. A look that said everything words couldn't at that moment.
Her heart was breaking a thousand times over. Every tear shed was another little piece finding it's way out. I was there, I recognized the pain. Every emotion that passed over her features hit me at my very core.
That look...
The same one Yuna had when I started to fade. The one I had when she said she loved me. The look of someone who's lost everything.
Auron sat in the Farplane Glen most days now, remembering. We kept our distance out of respect, but mostly because of the memory. The pyreflies here were having a field day with his mind. Myself, I couldn't bear seeing the memory much more. He replayed it in his mind all the time and we all saw it, felt everything he felt at that very moment. I couldn't take it much longer. It only magnified my losses, my anxiety that much more. It reminded of what had been left behind. My Yuna.
My old man wandered away from Auron, the feelings getting to him as well. I braced myself as I was assaulted with images yet again.
Hollow, swirling eyes, brimming with tears.
A trembling lip.
Hands clasped together over her heart.
A lock of blond hair blowing in the breeze.
Pyreflies leaving his body, the world around him fading. His last vision of that world was her.
I wondered what she was feeling now. Had the grief aged her? Was she still the same bubbly blond that I had considered a sister?
It seems that even the dead get no rest. All I did all day long was worry about Yuna, Rikku and Auron. He seemed to be taking this all so hard. It didn't make me feel any better about how the girls were dealing.
I paced the Glen, keeping a small distance between myself and the older guardian. I glanced his way, our eyes meeting and I saw my own pain, my worry, all of it, reflected back at me in his one brown orb.
I nodded sadly, looking away. He stood and walked to where I had stopped, placing a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him, this legendary man, the toughest person I had ever known.
He was crying.
But through his tears, he was also smiling. Trying to reassure me, even with his own turmoil.
I gave him a small smile in response. He squeezed my shoulder briefly before walking away.
I sighed as I followed his fading shadow into the mist of the waterfalls.
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A/N: Always kinda wanted to do something from a third party's POV. Tidus seemed to do well, I think. :D
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