This is an experiment, and is here mostly because I get tired of writin' porn all the damn time. XD It's gonna be a short chapter fic, but intense as all hell (heh, heh) and I've got everything all nice and neatly planned out for ya. This first part's a prologe, and very short. Next chapter'll come out soon as I find the time for the last few lines. Basically this is following after Zelos ACTUALLY betrays you and ends up all dead and stuff. Romance is in here, but...well...things are interesting to say the least. I'll say no more, the next chapter will explain a few things.

Hopefully you'll enjoy a wee bit of my take on Sheena perspective as Zelos lays there dying.

Disclaimer; I don't own Tales of Symphonia...but damn does it own me.

He laughed, and Sheena cursed her own stupidity at just now seeing the pain veiled in his eyes.

It wasn't meant to be, because what kind of friend, lover, was she to not have seen? So many years...and not once had she considered it. A life whose purpose was to breed or die, simply breed or die so everyone else would have an easier life. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, a mother whose death was on his hands as well...

Simply put, he was broken, and he was horribly good at hiding the fact.

She hadn't known, hadn't even guessed it. All those years, what the hell had she been doing with him all this time?

She could say she was broken too, but that was an excuse and she knew it. With everyone's help, she'd beaten her demons. He on the other hand...He had no one. And he should have, he should have had HER!

But he didn't, and now he was smiling with pain, so damn clear and obvious after all the years she should have noticed it sooner. He laughed, coughing out the blood he should have never had to shed, explaining to them things in words that she, his FRIEND, shouldn't have needed to hear in the first place.

And he was leaving her, leaving because she'd failed him. Just like Kuchinawa, just like Corrine.

He didn't even say anything to her in the end, though it was probably because they had an audience. Trust Zelos to get stage fright right before his own death. Or maybe... Maybe he just didn't think she deserved the consideration. Like how she'd ignored him, he might have finally given up on her.

He was gone though... Gone and broken, or broken before he was gone... Long before. All the tears in the world couldn't bring him back.

She would never forget the pain in his eyes, the pain it took her too damn long to see.

In the end, it was the pain that did her in.

"Hello Hunny." Said a phantom from her haunted past. "Nice of you to drop by."

She tried to see the pain in his eyes, but there was only shadow now... Shadow and blood and rage...

That last part's confusing as hell I know. It'll be explained.

I'd say review, but, eh, I haven't given you much to work with, yet, so no big. :P (returns to making more WYDK)