AN: I should so NOT be getting myself involved with another story. Yet, here I am again. x.x

I swear I don't know why I do this to myself… Anywho, for those who are as addicted to the Sangheili as I am please, enjoy.

'Moretumee

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Even if I wanted to try and reflect, I couldn't explain how exactly it had come to this…

Glancing behind me I could see the shear drop of the cliff leading to the large body of water. The height could have easily been 500 feet… Not a very optimistic number…

Turning back to my captors I kept my face as blank as I could. The Sangheili General stared at me with what I could only describe as hatred. Looking around further, I saw the other Elites that watched me with, what seemed to be a mixture of curiosity and some other small mixes of emotions. It was still difficult to read their expressions.

All but hate.

I had learned to tell that emotion early on…

The General stepped closer to me, sword not quite in an attacking position but ready at any time to lunge and kill. I found myself only able to stare at it as he drew, slowly, closer. Maybe he was taunting me; maybe he just wanted to scare me before he ended my life, maybe both. All I could manage was a blank stare in his direction.

Even now I didn't hate them. I couldn't. I had seen the power of misunderstandings myself and had fallen to my silly emotions instead of thinking things through. Who was I to judge them on what they thought I deserved?

Maybe I did deserve this… Feeling those ever present tears threaten to leak from my eyes again, I turned toward the water and looked down at the waves crashing against the rocks below.

I had this coming. No question about it. I had made the worst mistake any human could make and I was about to pay for it.

Behind me, I could hear the plasma from the sword burning the air around it. Must've been only a few feet away now. I closed my eyes and let out a long breath.

Not all was bad. I may have made the mistake but maybe now I would get to be with him…

A silly thing of me to think but even the little comfort it gave me was enough to make me stop shaking. Hadn't even realized I was…

"Vermin…" The Generals voice hissed the word as if I were a cockroach in his food. I could only shutter as a shaky breath escaped my lips, bringing more tears with it.

Vermin… That's what Orna called me the first few weeks we had known each other. It felt like ages ago, though, thinking about it, I couldn't even remember exactly how long ago.

I felt a presence behind me, and shortly after, an odd buzzing sensation close to the back of my upper arm. I could feel the warmth of the sword as well. Not much time left now.

"Face me, human." The General rumbled in his deep growl of a voice. I paused for a while, continuing to stare at the rocks before finally turning toward my executioner. Craning my neck back I looked up into his eyes, the expression in them made me feel as guilty as he thought I was. "Any last words?" He asked deftly.

Did I have anything to say? Well, sure I didn't want to die but that was too overused to say now. Thinking on there were a few things I wanted to get off my chest, but I hardly wanted to share them with the General. I even considered spiting in his face just to spite him. But when it all came down to it, there was only one thing I needed to say.

I stared squarely in his eyes and spoke with no hesitation, "I regret: nothing." I said the word with power and finality. Not to mention it was true.

The look in his eye told me he understood exactly how I felt about the situation. His already angered expression turned into one of rage as his foot shot out and hit me square in the chest and I went hurtling over the side of the cliff and began falling.

The loud cracking I had heard when his foot connected to my chest told me he had probably broken a few of my ribs. Blood spilled out of my mouth and I watched it fly upward as its weight wasn't able to keep up with the speed I was falling. I watched as the cliff above me got smaller and smaller and then all too soon my falling came to a stop as I slammed into the water.

Due to the fact that the General kicked me over the edge I had managed to avoid the rocks. Only problem was that my broken ribs restricted my ability to swim considerably. I attempted to try and claw for the surface but the pain that flared in my chest was enough to cripple me. Between the burning in my lungs and the throbbing, white hot, pain in my ribs I simply stopped struggling and pried my eyes open.

I was able to see the sun shining through the water around me, pretty streaks of yellow dotted what I assumed was the surface as it got further away from me. Bubbles around me made their wobbly way to the surface as I watched them feeling a bit detached. The water filled my ears and I could faintly hear the waves above me but it was mostly quiet.

So this is what it felt like to die… It wasn't that bad really. My instincts were telling me to fight my way for some oxygen but I just couldn't find the resolve to do so. Now that I really thought about it I almost wished I had hit the rocks. At least I wouldn't have to wait for myself to drown. The burning in my lungs was becoming quite uncomfortable.

As I was sinking further and further into the depths of the water it began to get darker around me. I was scared and I really didn't want to die. I still needed to know what happened to Orna…

'I guess I lied to the General…' I mused silently. There were many things I regretted…

'I regret… Not telling Orna… That I loved him…' The words repeated themselves in my head over and over again. Despite how hard I had fought those feelings all that time I no longer wanted to hold them back…

I, a human, had fallen in love with Orna… A Sangheili…

It had felt so wrong at the time. Stupid really. There would be no were for us to go, nowhere we could be accepted. Not to mention that our very races were in the middle of a bloody war.

My eyes dropped a bit. He probably hadn't felt the same way about me anyway… But now, now that I was going to die, it didn't really matter how anyone felt. I could be honest now…

It was becoming harder to keep my eyes open, not only was it getting darker around me, my vision was beginning to grow white and fuzzy around the edges. I closed my eyes and finally allowed myself to think about Orna-

When I had first seen him there, bleeding and dying in the cave…

My eyes opened to slits and I could only faintly see the light shining on the water. I could feel warmth in the corners of my eyes; it vanished but quickly returned and repeated the process. It was apparently possible to cry underwater... Despite how it added pain to my heart, I continued to bask in my memories-

When I had run away, realizing I had feelings for a Sangheili…

Yeah, I hated myself for saving him, for letting myself relax around him, for trusting him, for falling in love with him…

But…

My eyes closed and the warmth continued to escape the corners of my eyes. My body went lax and my brain began shutting down from the lack of oxygen.

I didn't regret any of it.

My world went black.

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Story Fun Fact 1-

This story is going to be set in Forge World; the canyon to be precise. (I are so original. Herr...)