Author's Notes

I'm a huge Alex/Sandra fan who's been in LoM mood lately, so when I was browsing the site today, I just had the urge to try and write something, even if it's so short.

I barely ever write anything, because I'm just no good. So, if you read, please review, even if you don't like, so that I can try and get better. Thank you :D

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How long had it been, again? About 100 years, probably. She wouldn't know anymore. She wouldn't even remember how things were before. Sandra couldn't tell anymore for how long she had lived. For her, it seemed like it had always been like this.

One more. But there's still a long way to go.

After every core, she'd come back and visit Florina, but she never told the princess what she was really doing. Florina didn't like staying in the box, but she has to stay. She's safe there. Safe from the jewel thief, Sandra had told her. But she was really being protected from the truth.

It's for her sake; is what Sandra kept telling herself. Yes, because it's for her sake, Florina mustn't know. If she knew that that, that all that, was been done for her, she'd only suffer more. She'd say it's wrong. But it's not. She'd certainly say it's wrong to kill the others to save her. But, how is it different from what they did to you? It's not wrong. This is the right way. It's the only way.

I'll save you, even if I have to kill everyone else. It's fine if only you are alive. Because you're the only one worth saving.

Then Florina found out. But it's too late to turn back now. Way too late. Only two more now, two more and she'll be saved. If we stop now, everything will be wasted. I won't let it be wasted, I definitly won't. Please hang on a little, your Highness, It'll be over soon.

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999. But it's still not enough.

It doesn't matter. If you need one more, if it's only one more, then even this insignificant me can be worth something. If I can trade my own life for hers, I'll gladly give it up anytime. If my own heart can save hers, then I have a reason to be grateful I've lived this far.

"Then, please, take my core.", she says, as she pulls off her own heart from her chest, "In exchange, Master, please win. Win, and shed tears for Florina."

The last blood on her hands is her own. Her core shines, for the first and the last time, red and green at the same time. And then, it's finally over.

…Yes, it's fine if only you are alive. Because, you're really the only one who deserves to live.