Chapter 2:
My Immortal
Off in the distance a flap of red, fading like the Sanubian sun. Voices calling. Shouts heard from far away. The cry of a gull on the sea air. Flickering lights fading…fading. Ripping apart. Tearing. Floating away. Never looking back. Shouts. Someone is screaming. Crying. Look back. Turn back! A whisper on the wind, soft and melancholy. Don't go….please….
"Don't leave me!"
Rikku shot up in bed, heaving gasps of air into her oxygen deprived body. Her lungs worked overtime as she tried to quell the shaking. Thick rivulets poured like lakes from her eyes, obscuring her vision. She watched as the fat droplets fell to the floor, creating patterns on the dusty ground.
Visions of red plagued her even now. No matter how many days or months had passed. No matter how many years, she was still haunted by the ghost of a man who had long since left her behind.
"Tysh. Tysh res. Fru tuac ra drehg ra ec?" She muttered, wiping furiously at her soaked eyelids.
Jumping off of her bed, Rikku quickly shed her clothes, throwing them into a messy pile on the floor before striding in to the bathroom. She hopped into the shower and immediately turned the knob up to its highest setting.
The pipe gurgled and sputtered before water blasted out from above and soaked her in heat. The water was scalding, and as she scrubbed her skin, it began to look raw. She didn't care. She just wanted to wash away the dream she had. The sticky resin of memory that still clung to her like a second skin even after all these years.
She was tired of crying. Tired of curling up alone in bed after a really bad nightmare and telling herself that it was just a dream.
Except, that it wasn't. And she couldn't, for the life of her, figure out how to let go of the memory. His memory. And it was tormenting her, tearing down her walls until there was nothing left but the soft, raw core of her sorrow. She no longer held onto hope as an escape. She was above believing in such painful and useless things. To hope was to hurt. And she no longer wanted it.
The only problem was, it still wanted her.
Another chapter update. Please R&R and let me know how I'm doing. Depending on how well this fic is received I may consider doing another short story for this pairing or doing a Sailor Moon Crossover with this game fandom. I'm not sure yet.