Extra: Saving you…
Author: XxArtemisxX
Editor: lady sovereign
A/N: This is a faixsakura fic. Read and review.
Rei: Disclaimer- Artemis and I do not own TRC or any of its characters. The song in the fic is 'Save you' by Simple Plan.
/ Take a breath /
I pull myself together
Just another step till I reach the door
You'll never know the way it tears me up inside to see you
I wish that I could tell you something
/ To take it all away /
"Sakura-chan!" with a strangled cry, Fai rushed to catch the falling figure. She landed on the ground with a soft thump. He knelt down and covered her with his cloak to protect her from the acid rain. He didn't care if the water burned him. She was hurt, that was all he knew, all he cared about.
She lifted her head and stared up at him. He winced when he saw her face; bruised and cut. Her emerald eyes, now red, soaked with blood from a wound in her forehead glimmered as they met his gaze. Her strained breath fogged up around her.
"…I'm so…rry…" her voice was just a soft whisper.
No… no! This was wrong. She shouldn't be sorry. It was his fault. She shouldn't have paid for it. It was because of him that she had to go get the payment for the water. It was because of his weakness…
/ Sometimes I wish I could save you /
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I won't give up till it's over
/ If it takes you forever I want you to know /
"Fai-san, when you were in pain," Sakura said in a broken whisper that rang aloud in the silence of the night with only the light patter of the rain to accompany it, "I couldn't do anything…I'm sorry."
Even in her pain, all she could think of was about him. This was wrong. So horribly wrong. This little angel was bleeding…she was bleeding for him.
The one she cherished the most was gone, she was broken and hurt and yet, she still worried about the mage, she still cared about him…
/ When I hear your voice /
It's drowning in a whisper
It's just skin and bones
There's nothing left to take
And no matter what I do I can't make you feel better
If only I could find the answer
/ To help me understand /
"Sakura-chan…"
How could he make her understand? He wasn't worth it. He didn't deserve this, her kindness, her concern, her love…
He didn't deserve any of it.
/ Sometimes I wish I could save you /
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I won't give up till it's over
/ If it takes you forever I want you to know /
He had wanted to be there for her when she first woke up in Tokyo. He had wanted to be there for her, each step. To help her, to guide her, to comfort her…
But he hadn't been there. Instead he had been drowning in his own pain, wishing to die, to leave everything behind him, to escape his pain.
He had been a coward. And she was paying for it.
"…but…I'm glad…that you're still alive."
/ If you fall, stumble down /
I'll pick you up off the ground
If you lose faith in you
I'll give you strength to pull through
Tell me you won't give up cause I'll be waiting if you fall
/ Oh you know I'll be there for you /
He wouldn't be a coward anymore. He'd face his life, he'd stop running. For her…he'd live.
He'd be there for her whenever she needed him to be. He'd catch her if she ever fell; he'd give her the strength she needed to pull through every obstacle. He wouldn't let her give up. He'd give her hope, a reason to live, so that he could live. He'd always protect her; always love her, forever…
/ Sometimes I wish I could save you /
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I won't give up till it's over
/ If it takes you forever I want you to know /
But he couldn't do the one thing that he wished more than all else; he couldn't save her. He couldn't save her from this life, these sorrows, this pain…
All he could do was watch as she struggled to live with a broken, incomplete heart, in search of the one whom she loved.
"I'm sorry…"
/ I wish I could save you /
/ I want you to know /
He bent down and hugged the fragile figure. No one knew that he cried as his tears became one with the acidic rain that clouds poured as they mourned for the two broken souls who couldn't be saved.
/ I wish I could save you /
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