Welcome to volume three of Life, the Universe, and Everything! Eighty-fifth drabble in all!
A sequel to Link, from volume two! We were like -sniff- when We wrote this. xD Sort of inspired by Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Taking Over Me by Evanescence, if you pick up on it.
Pairing: RoyEd
Disclaimer: Don't own it!
pretend
He has amnesia now.
I think I saved him.
But I watch him, and when I see him smile, I want to cry. This is what you've lost... nothing I can pay can get it back.
I still remember the day. We fell, he and I, I and he, and as we tumbled I knew I had to do something. Save him or both of us would die. I don't know what compelled me, but I managed to get below him. Below us, at the bottom of the chasm was a vast river. I knew it was deep; as soon as I hit the water I began to sink. But I also knew that he couldn't swim. I don't know if he can now, but I still could, and I managed to paddle, sinking all the way, to someplace shallow.
I was swept away then.
That... is what happened, right? Sometimes I forget.
I look at him now, and I wonder what it would be like to be able to embrace him again. To touch that face, see that smirk. I haven't seen it for a year now. He's different now.
And he doesn't remember me, I know, but I remember him, and that's all that matters to me. I can pretend.