I was gone for two weeks in New York, without any internet access, so I couldn't update any fic. I was in a bad mood when I wrote this, and I hope that it will not darken anyone's mood...
Trivial Pursuit
He only had eyes for her.
Years passed, the seasons came and gone, but every harvest time, when the crops were aplenty, he was reminded of her.
But her heart lie elsewhere.
She loved his dear friend, the man who came from another world, but that love was impossible. It could never be fulfilled. Ginta had to return home.
But she could never stop fantasizing over him. Nanashi, Alviss, Alan, they all saw her wasting away, obsessed with the man who could never be hers. Even though they all tried to comfort her, even though she knew that it was impossible, and that her suffering also made all of her close friends suffer equally, that devotion she had towards him would never falter.
But unlike Alviss, Alan, and Nanashi, it broke Jack's heart to see her suffer.
Jack could hardly stand it. Here was Dorothy, the girl who could humble even the strongest of men in combat, crumbling before his eyes over a man she could never have.
But she never noticed him.
He was the monkey. Her laughable fool. The man she always ridiculed and never took seriously. To her, he meant little. At best, he was her persistent little admirerer, that annoying friend who would never stop following you. He meant so little to her, even though she meant the world to him, even though he would do anything to ease her pain, even if it meant his own death.
Nanashi gave Jack every trick in the book, but they did nothing. Alan told him to snap out of it, told him that there are other fish in the sea, and that he might find a girl who would appreciate him, but he couldn't stop thinking of her. Alviss tried to reason with her, tried to convince her that maybe she could find happiness with someone other than Ginta, but she was alarmed by his gesture and, finding it intrusive, asked him to go away.
Love... How cruel could it be? The one that unites souls. The force that inspires the creation and care of new life. The force that can ease the greatest of pain... Can also be so destructive.
She left the world as a broken woman, devastated without her Ginta.
He followed her, moaning her name with his last breath.
With hot tears, their close friends stood over their graves. Alviss dictated the epitaths as Alan stood by, his normally strong face broken with grief. Nanashi, the most chipper of the three, used his Griffin Lance to carve them on Jack and Dorothy's tombstones:
"Here lies Dorothy, the passionate soul who relentlessly pursued that what she could never have."
"Here lies Jack, who never left her side."
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Love, though beautiful, can be so cruel... Thanks for reading.
