Seeing you again was a blessing to me. I hugged you as hard as I could, letting go of all of my troubles that had ever come over me. They didn't matter now. Inside, I thanked the Fayth. But even though we were together again, questions never seemed to stop running through my head- What if you weren't real? What if you left me as you did before? That, I thought, would be worse than the first time you left. People watched us and jeered; but their words were almost inaudible compared to the crashing of the waves below us and the Celsius roaring overhead. I opened my mouth to talk but no words came out; only more joy and happiness tumbled from my lips.

We ran back to the beach you had seen only once before- Besaid beach. The sun seemed to beam down on us, the water splashing you as I ran on ahead. You hadn't changed at all; the blue eyes I had gazed upon so long ago seemed to look at me once more.

"You've changed." Your voice hadn't changed either.

I knew I had changed. I never thought you would come back, but when I saw that sphere of 'you', I knew I had to try. I had to leave Besaid and travel Spira, anything to find you and see your face again. Spira had been so flooded with memories, sometimes I found it hard to carry on; The Spring in Macalania woods was fading away, our memories with it. Zanarkand Ruins was being destroyed by tourists, and so was my memory of how we spent our last moments together before. The Calm Lands were being turned into a theme park, and the respect we had shared for fallen Summoners was changing too.

It almost seemed that time was flying by now that you were here with me- yet it felt that now I had all the time in my life to tell you all the things I wanted to say, to visit all the places that we never visited.

How wrong I was.

When we had explained to all the visitors- Wakka, Lulu and nearly all of Besaid Village, how you had just come back after you had left me so suddenly, and we had told them it was not your fault, words from deep down in my heart echoed inside me, words I had said many times before but never with as much meaning as this moment.

"Let's go home."

You smiled at me, a warm smile that I had forgotten for so long. Watching the Celsius land on Besaid Cliffs, I started to walk across the beach.

"Tell me everything." You whispered softly in my ear.

My heart poured everything to you. Not even the darkest corners of my past were left behind on that day, when we sat on the beach. We sat for hours, whilst I told you about everything we had done. Meeting Paine, Gippal, Nooj and Baralai, Lenne and Shuyin, and even what happened on the Farplane. I remembered how I saw you for a moment, and how you held me in the comforting embrace that you had held me with over two years ago.

We boarded the Celsius together, and I showed you Rikku, Paine, Brother, Barkeep and Buddy. You didn't even recognize them anymore. That made me smile inside, you must have been confused.

I hoped and prayed that you would come home for so long, and now you were with me again. It seemed so magical for us to be together once more; I just prayed this moment would last forever with you beside me. Then, when we had decided to sit upon the deck and gaze at the stars; the same stars upon which I was saved, and you vanished, the Fayth appeared once more. It was a meeting I would have enjoyed and embraced when I was alone, but now you were with me, I dreaded it. The moon hung low upon the sky as the pyreflies from the fayth danced around us. After they had been sent so long ago, no hymns rung out from the temples anymore. Instead, a dark silence hung low around them, shrouding yet more secrets that had been hidden for so many years.

The fayth seemed to grow ever more impatient, so I decided to let them speak. News from the Fayth directly to you was never good news, yet they may be able to have answers. Were you real? Why did you disappear anyway?

"As you know, Tidus has returned." I smiled at tidus, who was sitting next to me. Yes, he had miraculously returned to me and I would have given anything to bring him back. The Fayth continued.

"However, when Tidus was returned to you, as he was a dream, there were conditions that had to be made."

My stomach began to churn. Tidus looked worried. I tried to calm myself down- nobody would take Tidus away, would they? Not after all that's happened between us? After all I have done for the Fayth?

Tidus obviously wanted answers too. "What do you mean, conditions?"

The fayth looked towards the floor of the Celsius. "When Tidus was brought back to you, it was obvious to us that we could not sustain such a life form forever. We were able to summon all our remaining strength to bring him back to you for a month. When the next moon arises, our power will wane once more, and he will be no longer."

The Fayth vanished.