Disclaimer:I do not own Tales of Legendia or any of the characters, places, or anything else but the plot.

AN:Well, just a drabble I thought up of while I went out today and saw the color of the trees had gone from green to red...

Title:Its Just Another Autumn

Character(s):Chloe, Senel

Pairing(s):Implied Chloe/Senel

I look outside my window in one of the hospital vacancy room, I can see the many trees in the small court yard from here. It's growing chilly these days, summer's almost over and the cold northern wind is starting to make it's way to Werites Beacon as well. It gets rather lonely here, being by myself and all, although Elsa is constantly begging me to play with her, it's mostly quiet in my room. Today, the sun shone through the autumn clouds, warming all that its gentle grasp can reach out to. I decided to go for a walk today, letting the cool wind blow my cape around. I walked towards the park to see the trees' many beautiful colors that nature brings.

As I watch each leaf fall, I sigh, I'm thinking of you again. Why can't you see that I love you? The feelings I have for you are so deep, it hurts just to see you with her, but I keep it all to myself. As long as I can stand by your side in battle, as long as I can be with you, you don't need to know about my love. But Stella's gone now, can't you see? You've said so yourself, that you'll leave the past behind you now. Isn't that what you told me? Shirley is now just your sister, someone who will stay with you forever as a sibling, but what about me? I am still here, am I not? Can't you love me instead? Everyone else knows my love for you, but you're just too dense to notice. Despicable. You tell me I've grown strong, physically, maybe, but emotionally, I haven't changed one bit. Besides, do you think a woman would want to be told such thing? We are more sensitive than men, but I guess I'm not the one to talk. I've left my dresses, my hair and everything I had as a girl, I've given my body to the path of the Knights to reclaim my family's name. I guess I can't be complaining about such things now can I?

I once again find myself taken into my daydream about you, wishing that you'd just stay by me as I do for you. Not as a partner in battle, but as a partner in life, I want to walk the rest of the path of life with you. I am now at the graveyard, I don't know how I got there, nor do I know how long I've been there. I find myself thinking about this and I didn't notice you walk up to me. I look up and see you looking at me with that same smile you showed me a long time ago. You seemed surprised to see the look on my face as you held me in an embrace. I was shocked you see, not by the embrace, but the tears that I felt against my cheek. The tears were not mine, but yours, I can see that you were at Stella's grave alone again. Something was different this time though, why are you smiling? You shed tears yet you smile at me, why? That question ran through my head a few times but I finally realized why, I realized it when you told me for yourself. The one and only thing that I've wanted to hear from you for the longest time ever.

I heard you say "I love you," and as I return your words, I think to myself, this season is kind of sad, it ends the life of all that had bloomed, but to me and all others, it's just another autumn day.

-Fin