A/N: From the bottom of my heart...
Requiem
by Waterfall
He is dead.
My best friend, my worst enemy.
Dead.
May the gods have mercy on him, may he find his peace at last. Heavens know he's been looking for it long enough, even though he's strayed far from his original path.
Some people just can't let go of the past... neither him nor I could ever manage that. He was too scarred by the atrocities he saw when he was a child, and I... I could never let go of our friendship.
I still love him.
Even though he tried to kill me, I still love him.
My best friend.
We were so young then, so naive and ambitious. Together we would conquer the world! We would make it a better place to live, put it right. But neither of us ever managed.
Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been like without him. Would it have been a different world? Certainly. A better world? I'm not so sure. But oh, if we had only worked together..!
He tried so hard to be good, to redeem himself. And he has never been truly evil, that I refuse to believe. Just too full of pain to let go. To bound by his own ideals, twisted as they might have been in the end.
I know too well how he felt.
Maybe that was why I never could bring myself to kill him.
He is dead.
Accept it.
It has been too long... too long a fight, too long being trapped in the same pattern. Too much hatred. Too much love? Would it have been better if we'd fought it out till the end, if I hadn't held back?
Once I didn't hold back.
The result was disastrous.
For a while, I hated him.
My thoughts are going in circles now, following the same patterns as they have followed for years. It doesn't matter anymore; it is too late for that.
I am relieved.
I am sad.
I am ashamed.
There wasn't even a body to bury. Nothing left at all. What if... no. I am hoping, fearing, searching for a way out. I have to let go.
Magnus, I love you.
I miss you.
Rest in peace, my dear friend, my honoured enemy. I will remember you
always.
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Ok, for those of you who didn't notice, this was Charles
Xavier mourning the death of Magneto. *sob* I miss him! Ah, well, enough
of that. Please review!
Shade and sweet water,
Waterfall