Finally got around to updating again…
I think this is prolly gonna be the last chapter. unless of course I decide to do an epilogue…
I must say, I apologize for how short this is... frankly, I just wanted to end this fic already.
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I awoke later that night to find myself alone in the bed. I turned over to my back and glanced down to see him in the chair with just his pants on. The dim moonlight refracted though the window, shimmering dully on his blade. I crawled out, dropping the sheet that had covered me slightly and took to his side. He looked away out the window as I sat on the armrest and ran my fingers through his hair.
"Auron," I whispered. I pulled his head to my chest and took his hand, entwining his fingers in my own. He kissed my breast and pulled away, standing up, and turning back to face me. I stood as well.
"Morgan…." He didn't know what to say. He had never simply stayed beside me while I slept. He always got up…
"Auron. Do you wish to take a walk?"
"No."
"Do you love me?"
He didn't answer for a few moments. He just searched for my eyes in the darkness. "You needn't ask me that, Morgan." He reached out his hand and took my own, pulling me forward.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I must leave in a bit, Morgan. To prepare."
I nodded and smiled up at him. "Of course. I dare not delay you…"
He kissed my forehead and pulled away again. "You should sleep a bit more."
"I'm not tired. Can we not just talk, Auron?"
"Of what? The future? That's pointless."
"No. No, just.. anything. Tell what you were like growing up, in the temple, whatever."
He shook his head. "It's not important. And I've told you everything about being a guardian."
"… Fine then. Very well." I stepped around the bed and gathered my clothes, dressing. "Then we are going for a walk whether you want to or not. It'll give us something to do." I took his hand, dragging him out of the room.
"You won't even let me dress?"
"Of course not. Come." His hand gripped tightly to mine as he followed me outdoors and out of Luca. We went off a side path through the foliage, careful not to wake any fiends and to hide from the nocturnal ones. After a few minutes of silence, I asked, "So tell me. How do you think this pilgrimage will go?"
"Better."
"Really? How? It always ends the same, as you've said."
"Yes. But Yuna is a strong girl. And the boy, Tidus, he will not let her die so easily."
"How do you know?"
"It's an advantage that he's not of this world, Morgan. His father is the enemy, and he'll find some way to stop him."
"You sound assured."
"I am."
"Well," I stopped and gazed out at the massive plain. "That's good. And when you are done guarding her - "
"I will go."
"And I can visit you?"
"By way of the Farplane, yes."
"Hmm. Then I shall." I was trying to think of a way that I could see him again after tonight. I wasn't about to ask if I could be a guardian. I have no experience. But perhaps if I traveled Spira by myself, I could bump into their group. Then, as if he could read my mind -
"Don't bother to try and find us, Morgan. Stay here in Luca and find work. You won't be able to go back home, so you might as well try to find a living here."
I turned around to him and dropped his hand. I nodded. "I will," I said, smiling. I looked beyond him, seeing a lone chocobo wandering in the night. Odd. Auron smiled at me, leaning backwards until he collapsed into the grass. Staring down at him, I smirked. "You seem happy about something?"
"I feel I'm going crazy."
"Why is this?"
"Honestly, why do you think? I did this once, I have no desire to do it again. I'm only keeping a promise to a friend."
Kneeling next to him, I nodded. "And so you do, Sir Auron."
Hours passed until we stood up silently and he nodded at me. The light had come and so, too, would the pilgrims soon. He left me along the path as he passed back down into Luca where he would meet the summoner and the son of Jecht.
I stayed in the grass, even after I heard in the distance the scream of fiends being cut down, I lay there. I didn't know what to do next. It would have been easier if I could have joined as a guardian, but what good would I do them? I had no great skills.
Thus I found a back way into the city so the summoner and her guardians would not see me. More so was the fact that I feared seeing him again before I was supposed to.
Slipping back into the inn from where I had come, I heard the keeper and the other patrons speak of Sir Auron, whom no one had seen for 10 years. I took to the room, gathering what little I had, and decided to make my own journey through Spira. I wanted to see everything, even if I had to do it independently from Auron and against his advice. I would do something, I had to. I refused to linger in the city, absorbing gossip. I boarded a passage to an island and so began my next life in Spira, although never forgetting what he had taught me as my sensei back in Zanarkand.
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"Lady Yuna!"
She and her guardians were slowly strolling around the center of the city. She had just given her final speech and seemed ready to retire.
I bowed as she turned towards me, the others eyeing me strangely.
"Yes?"
"Miss Yuna, if I may speak with you a moment."
"Of course." She nodded back at her comrades and took me aside near a bench.
"How may I help you?"
"A very small thing.. I knew Sir Auron when he was in Zanarkand. I came here the same time as Tidus," her eyes widened slightly. "Did you discover anything more about Zanarkand or if it is possible to return there."
She sighed, shaking her head. "No. The fayth have gone to sleep and, well, if you are who you say you are, then I do not understand why you are not in the Farplane. You should rest. You should go there. And tell Tidus I say hello."
I wasn't surprised, although I was a little shocked as to why I didn't.. disappear, I suppose. I bowed a thank you and took my leave.
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Diving off the edge, shattering into pyreflies, I disappeared. As do all the dead when they are sent. Though I needn't be sent. The energy from the Farplane was enough to destroy me. Auron walked in the distance with Jecht, and I flew off to greet them.
