Kain's Interlude
Origonally Published 8.31.2005
AUTHOR'S NOTE EDIT: going back and reading this, all i can say is, "damn, some of my reviers made a good point about the content of this one." I may have liked it then, but i definatly don't now.
ORIGONAL AUTHOR'S NOTE:
huh. i think i can honestly say that this is the shortest of all my interludes. hand written, its not even both sides of a sheet of notebook paper. but i dont' think its lacking in depth because of that. aack! takebacks! reno's interlude is shorter! (Forgot that, but there's no handwritten copy to compare to)
anyway, here's my first foray into FFIV writing. would've gotten here sooner, but my brain got fixated on this FFVII thing, as anyone who's reading stories can tell you.
enjoy!
eerian
Even now, I can't tell you why I did it.
I don't mean betraying my adopted brother and siding with the most evil man on the planet. I know why I did that. I was jealous of him.
Cecil was the good son. The golden child who could do no wrong. He could always run a little farther, climb a little higher, sing a little better. Everyone loved him.
Even the woman I was in love with.
That's what I can't explain—hurting her the way I did.
Golbez didn't even need to use much in the way of mind control magic on me to make me help him. I wanted to help him—just to hurt Cecil. Everything I did, I did to hurt my goody-two-shoes brother.
I was too stupid to see how my betrayal hurt her, though.
When we took her captive, she wept for days. Not for Cecil she told me. She'd wept for me. She'd wept because I'd betrayed everything I held dear to give in to a moment's petty jealousy.
Everyone loves you as much as they love Cecil, she told me.
But I watch them together and I know it's not true.
No matter what I do, Rosa will never love me as much as Cecil.
Maybe I do know why I did it, after all.