Well, it's been a while, but I managed to write another story. "Sorry" is by Buckcherry. I love that song. It made me want to cry.
Prologue: Sorry
"You know that thing we put on the pin? Well, it's time to take it off the pin," Carol said, patting Ross' hand.
Ken and Pearl Dulcibella Ceinwen Love Sayen Dawn Reid were crying on the sofa.
"That's so sad!" Sayen sobbed.
"Ross must be feeling so awful!"
"I meant the fact that the show portrays homosexuality like it's some sort of disease. But I guess the scene is sad too. I mean, the music makes me want to cry," Sayen went off on a political tangent and stopped crying immediately to do so.
"It doesn't make you want to cry," Ken said, mostly to shut her up. "It has made you cry."
"You're so brave," Sayen said suddenly, half an hour later.
"Why?" Ken looked away.
"You take action subtly so that you don't step on toes while you're getting a job done. And I've gotta give you the intro to my friends soon. I'm kinda high on sugar right now. I probably shouldn't have ingested so much caffeine. I wonder why I'm so random. Are you thinking the same thing? I like guys who get things. Sorry, I usually don't use so many words to say so little, you know what I mean?" Sayen shoved a fistful of popcorn into her mouth to stop herself from saying something even more embarrassing.
"I understand," Ken patted Sayen's back firmly, but not hard. "I am."
"What?" Sayen looked at him incredulously.
"Yours. As long as you'll have me."
They kissed.
"Where the hell is he!" Sayen shrieked.
"He's here," Mara wheeled the boy to her. "I know how close you two were, so get it done quickly before Jaunie comes up with the death certificate. She's already gone for it, but you still have time before she comes back and you can come up with a lie in that time, I hope!"
Sayen didn't know how to initiate a spell, so she just aimed the Light scepter at him and thought as hard as she could about bringing Ken back to life. She succeeded right before her eyes rolled back into her head and the floor was suddenly next to her ear. Mara would have to come up with the lie this time. ****
Sayen's eyelids fluttered open. When she saw Callia's disapproving form in front of her, she slowly sat up and realized she was on a hospital bed with a blanket draped over her. Varda was standing next to Callia, looking at her nervously.
"You brought Ken back to life," Callia said accusingly.
"Yes I did," Sayen held her head up high. She didn't particularly care what Callia thought.
"Congratulations. You've successfully bought about the single-handed destruction of the universe," Callia glared.
"What?" Sayen stood up, no longer trying to be funny. She just wanted to make everything right again.
"You went against nature. The energy should've killed you! Instead, you get off scot-free and Ken just ends up in pain," Callia sounded like she was disappointed. "That's just great. Real selfless there, Sayen."
"What do you mean, in pain? He's hurting? How badly?"
"Pretty badly," Callia nodded to emphasize her words.
"I didn't mean to," Sayen shook her head as if that would make it all better. "I just wanted-"
"Oh, you wanted something! Newsflash, Sayen! You don't often get everything you want in life!" Callia practically snarled.
"I never have gotten anything I really wanted! Every time I go to a party wanting to have fun, it turns out to be a complete disaster! Every time I want to do something, some other thing always comes up and I can't do that thing anymore!" Sayen was nearly screaming.
Callia blinked. "You need to work on controlling your temper," she said evenly.
Varda turned heel and walked out, unable to stand the fighting. She opened it to find a badly burned body in a room with a huge tower-like thing in the middle and lights coming from the floor, which made odd beeping sounds like it welcomed the stranger. "Oh, hell," she muttered. "It's started already anyway." She banged her hand on the rails that extended to either side of the ramp that led up to level ground around the tower. A faint groan kept her from going out, and she went toward the sound with a look of curiosity. What she saw made her heart stop.
Dear Sayen's Diary,
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated, as you may have heard by now. There's this sort of throbbing all over my body. Callia was in earlier and said that that was because Sayen was both the Light and the Wind, and that means that she has two conflicting elements inside her. I'm still the Light, in some respects, so I guess that means I feel the split. Anyway, there's a boy outside my room whom everyone seems to recognize (Varda is swooning over him) except me, as usual.
They're saying they have to kill me, that Sayen may have killed herself bringing me back. If I have to die so that she lives, I'm perfectly fine with that. But Callia's saying it's too late. If Sayen were alive, she would have visited me by now, right? Gosh, I feel terrible for having killed her. I'll never do it again, that's for sure!
At least I sill have Sayen's diary. Varda's saying that I should record my last thoughts to calm myself down before I die, and to basically write goodbyes for everyone else so that they calm down before I die. Sayen, you've been a lovely girl. If you hadn't rescued me so many years ago, I wouldn't even have live this long. Varda, you're amazing, always knowing what to do. Callia, you're the strongest woman I know, and don t lose that! Mara, you are a great leader and you have a lot of courage. Calix, you aren't as narcissistic as before. I think you have a real chance of scoring (so to speak) with Sayen now. Eddie, you gave me enough inspirational ideas to give Varda a run for her money! And Sam, you were a great best friend. If you forget about me, I will haunt you until you die! Alright, they're calling me, so goodbye!
Next time on Tesseraction:
"Can I call you 'Bela,' since you're not gonna tell me your name?" Varda asked.
The man looked at her in surprise. "Are you a psychiatrist?"
"Didn't take long for you to catch on, did it? And yes, I am. Don't freak about my age, okay, Bela?" she looked at him as if afraid she offended him somehow.
"I'm alright," Bela said lightly.
"We both know that's gonna be the understatement of the century. I may not know what just happened very well, but I know what it means when someone reacts like you are right now to everything. And I know it well," Varda said. "You need a distraction. Unfortunately, there are very few things we can do if we can't go through a door."