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Dream Snippet 3
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Vigilance awoke.
He'd been startled back into his world after a truly pleasant dream. Vigilance didn't dream all the time. In fact, it was less than half the times he slept. The times he dreamt about her were even less. When he did have the pleasure of dreaming about her and her smile - or even more ordinary things like her habits – he'd just lay back in bed and stare up at the bright skies that constituted the Heavens. In those dreams, Gig looked so happy being by her side. Then again, he always had been. He just had trouble expressing it.
There were times when Vigilance would have a nightmare or a memory from his time as Gig, but there were also those times like now when his imagine would conjure up a downright altered image. As if they were from a different time completely. So foreign that they must've been from an entirely different cycle of life. A luckier cycle. Filled with light. Where he didn't drown in self-doubt and Gig lived happily.
A cycle he couldn't be a part of.
Instead, he had snippets. He wondered if his counterparts also had them. Or was he the only one? If he was the only one allowed then were these dreams just some sort of reward that could allow him to find brief respite in his dreams? Or was this eternal punishment that showed him things he could never have, but could have gotten?
Vigilance neither knew, nor cared.
If it was punishment then it was only befitting. Somewhere in him, slept a monster. No, not a monster. A lonely overlord with too much power and too much time on his hands. Screwed over enough times that his mind eventually twisted.
Gig lingered in the back of Vigilance's head. If he paid enough attention then sometimes he could hear him whispering things. They weren't for his ears though. They were for Gig's soul mate that slept just as he did. Tucked away in her sword. Vigilance often played with the thought of somehow dispelling Gig from his person and allowing them both eternity to slumber in that sword. Together. Just as they'd always been. Since the moment Revya grasped that hilt to the moment of the final battle, before his memories returned and Gig lost himself. It was always just Gig and Revya. Revya and Gig.
The world eater and her commander. The nomadic soul and his host. The lost. The found. Soul mates.
Vigilance would admit that he was a bit jealous. They were two parts of a whole. They came in a package. Two beings that when thought of, were never separated. To think of Gig was to think of Revya, and vice versa. They were one idea. While Gig was twisted, so was his counterpart. Both were fueled by the same fire. It was a rare connection. Perhaps too rare. Their alike personalities and inability to show compassion eventually became their downfall.
No.
He was their downfall.
There was just a part of Vigilance that felt guilty admitting it.
He saved the world, so that was a nice bonus to regaining his memories. It softened the sting of guilt he felt when he'd close his eyes and allow himself to think of Gig. When he visited that back room to see that pulsing black sword. When he'd wake up, and in that brief state between reality and dreams, he'd call out 'kid' in an unfamiliar voice. But still one that undoubtedly belonged to him.
'You saved the world.' He mentally reassured himself. 'It was the right thing to do.'
So why did he feel like the monster?
'Hah!' A voice in the back of his mind exclaimed. 'What makes you think you aren't?'
A/N: This fic will always follow Redemption Path Gig Ending and the Demon Path Good Ending. All subsequent updates will only be snippets as I don't want to write out a complete story for this pairing. I love them to death, but that much effort into a dead fandom is kinda… off putting. This fic will remain on Completed status, despite updates because I don't know when I'll stop randomly adding snippets to this. I might never stop. As I like to come back to this pairing every now and again whenever the mood strikes or when I have a writing block for my other fics. Writing Gigya helps clear my head of excess thoughts.
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