'No Regrets'

She stands in front of me. My sword that is now dripping with blood. Her blood. My sword that had pierced through her body. I cry as she falls into my arms. I touch the side of her stomach and feel a warm liquid engulf my hand. I raise my hand to see what the smell of iron was and to see what that warm liquid was. I rose it to only see that it is now drenched in blood, in her blood. I was going to let out a cry, instead I hold it in and silently let what felt like tears fall from my eyes.

'What have I done?' I question myself.

'Why? Just why?' I repeat in my head.

I bring my forehead to hers. She slowly raises her hand up and reaches to touch the side of my face. Her mouth moves but I cannot hear anything that is coming out. Everything had fallen deathly silent around me. Her voice could not be heard, but I knew what she was saying, I just knew. She says something else, but I could no longer pay attention to her voice. I could only hear silence. I read the movements of her mouth. The words she slowly let out made my heart shatter into millions of pieces. And as soon as she says those last few words, her hand slowly loses its strength, the touch of her hand slowly disappearing, my skin now felt the cold air that was a war zone. But before her hand lands beside her, I quickly take hold of it and squeeze tightly. The warmth of her hand was now gone, there was no longer a sign of life in her. She had left me.

That was when I screamed out in agony. Eyes filled with tears that anyone would think could make a roaring river. Everything fell deathly silent. Not a single sound could be heard. I couldn't hear anything. Nothing. All of my attention fell on her, who laid still in my arms. Who I killed with my very own sword. Her last words ring in my head. And I cry.

'I don't regret anything. Not a thing. Dying by your hands, I do not regret. Meeting you I do not regret. Do not blame yourself. Don't regret meeting me. Because I definitely did not regret meeting you.'

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'I love you. Forever.'

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Her last words to me.

'No', I think to myself.

'I do not regret meeting you. The only thing I regret was not telling you that I love you.' So, I whisper to her ears, 'I love you.' Moments pass by, and my eyelids start to falter. And soon enough, I too fall into an eternal darkness, along with her.

THE END~

Just an edit for this story! I went to re-read it before I made an edit of this short story, and realized I needed to revise it a little. So I did just that.

~J