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~ X ~

What's that sound?

Astrid was attracted to him from the moment she first saw him. I know, I read her mind. That little smile on his face that day said he read it too. They saved each other's lives. When you save someone's life, it makes a bond that can't be broken. I know that too.

She wears her heart as openly and proudly as she wears his jacket. Her mind shouts her love for him. Her admiration. Even the knowledge of their impending death can't overcome the joy she feels as his arms wrap around her and hold her close. She feels cherished.

His face says it all. He loves her.

My body is stiff. My face is frozen on the outside, but hot scalding tears burn the inside of my eye lids. I've lost him.

He used to cradle me in his arms until I was leader and couldn't allow myself that luxury. How could I deny him that one small pleasure knowing how much he loved to hold me? Knowing how much he craved that closeness after a lifetime of rejection. So afraid that to give in to the temptation to be held in his arms was to show weakness. To lie with him was to somehow not be impartial. To not be the leader I was expected to be. I thought being strong was denying myself the feeling of his body against mine, his lips on my skin. Now that feeling is forever lost to me.

I was a fool.

Stephen said that he was just trying to get out of my way. Is that how I made him feel? That he was in my way! Why would Stephen say it, if it wasn't so?

I started my life caged inside my mind. Always battering against an unbreakable wall pleading to get out, to be heard. And then my powers came, and I burst free. Free to express myself. Now I've gone full circle, but the cage is around his mind, and I rattle the bars trying to get in, but I can't.

I'm locked out. He can't hear me. Can't hear my crying. My begging. Can't hear that he is my family, and I don't know how I can go on without him by my side.

Is this justice then? When he could hear me I couldn't force myself to share, and now that he hears no more I want to tell him everything.

I want to tell him he is my hero. My life. My love.

What's that sound?

Oh yeah. It's my heart breaking.

~ FIN ~