A/N: Hello, all! As promised, here is the next update. Please expect reglar updates from here on out until the rest of the fic is finished! This was one of the sadder chaphters, and unfortunatly it pretty much just gets worse from here on out...*whispers* my babies...Anyhow, lemme respond and we'll get this show on the road!

Lapis Kagamine: It's one of the worst feelings in the world, rest assured. Thank you very much for the good wishes, it means more than you know. 3

Allright, guys. Get your tissues at the ready and let's get this started.

It was a long time before Rin saw him again, a week in fact. Her pains ket rushing back, leaving her bed-ridden and ill for days at a time. She had been used to dealing with this, back before they had found the right medicine. She remembered all too well the nights spend retching and dry heaving over an empty bowl until she felt that her guts had to come spilling out next. Every single day, now, she felt exausted, unable to even walk well to do something as simple as cross to her hospital room window. But there was a difference this time. A finality that she could almost taste in the air. Dispite her Papa's reassurance and the Nurses kind smiles, Rin knew what they were trying to conceal. This would be her last time getting sick. She was almost thankfull that she would never have to go through such an awfull thing again, but there was something that held her tied to earth as strong as a metal cable.

Well, one thing in particular, actually. One person in particular.

And she hadn't seen him in weeks.

She felt so guilty for leaving him there in that hellish place, unnanounced and without any clues. But try as she might to get up out of her bed, her frail body couldn't even begin to handle walking that far. And so, she had waited, hoping that the rough stages would fade. But they hadn't so far, and she wasn't about to let her life continue on without seeing him again. She knew how important she was to Len, he'd told her so himself in sharp scribbles of charcoal, scentance after scentance crossed out in hasty frustration. His handwriting had never been the best, but she found it endearing more than annoying. She could never help but laugh softly at his little quirky mistakes, spelling future like futur, or dotting his i's a foot above where one would normally.

But now as she thought of him, a feeling of deep sorrow entered her heart, an unwanted aquantince of the fondness and warmth tht generated from his name. Because Rin knew something now, something she had suspected for the longest time. She knew that the next time she saw Len Kagamine would be her very last. She refused to let him see her suffer this way, it would hurt both of them far too much and most likely he would be angry with her for hiding her secret. She deemed it a little selfish, but she didn't want that. She wanted him to be happy.

Her eyes stung with unshed tears as she drafted what she knew was going to be her very last message to him. It was funny, she could now sympathise with her old classmates back when she was able to attend school. Each year, her class was made to draft a final essay about what they planned to do over the holidays. And each year, her students grumbled and complained, begrudginly sharpening their pencils and staring off into space when they ought to be working. Rin had always quite liked essays, along with writing in general. But now, she agreed with her peers.

Writing was hard.

Several times she outright broke down while writing, turning her face away from the paper as to not stain it with her tears. But always, she returned, restating phrases again and again until she came out with her final product. Her last letter.

Len,

I have bad news. My Father has to move far away for his work, and I have to go, too. This will most likely be the last letter that you receive from me. I have so much that I want to say to you, but so little room in which to say it...

You see, my dearest Len, I'm not like you. I can't put things into words so easily the way you can, and I can't be strong and smile I the face of dispair like you can. You're braver than me, so much braver. I'm weak, and scared for you, and angry. I am a coward, and I am sorry. Please say you'll remember me. You don't have to promise. Just say that you will and I might be able to smile once again, because I know that I will never forget you. I know it sounds crazy, but I feel like I've known you forever. Every time you smile and laugh, or write little jokes onto your paper plane, my heart sings. And whenever you smile at me, Len, then I feel like I'm home again. Like both of us are home, far away from everything.

I love you. I always will. Whenever I see a bird's nest, or an apple core, or hear someone sing, I will think of you. Everything makes me think of you. It's just unavoidable. You'll be in my heart forever, Len, and I never want that to go away.

Do you remember when I first saw you, and I asked you why you were crying? I know now. You don't have to tell me. You don't have to say anything at all. I know. But please, please don't shed any tears now. I want to always keep a picture of your smile in my head and the memory of your voice in my heart for the rest of my life. You're stronger than me. You'll survive, I know you will. You are Len Kagamine, and you don't give up, I know it. You have to hope. Besides, I've shed enough tears for both of us already.

Please, please forgive me.

-Rin.

It was without speaking that Rin sent this over the high fence. She turned away, then, not able to bear seeing his face crumble as his eyes scanned her words. She swallowed with some difficulty, already feeling the sting of tears in her eyes as she struggled to hold them back, begenning to walk away.

Then, she heard a voice. Len's voice.

"Please, wait! The two of us are partners after all this! You're really not going to come back..? If that's so, I'll just wait her for you. I'll wait here for you forever, okay?"

She couldn't even understand what he was saying to her. This was their last moments together, and she couldn't even understand what he was telling her.

It was so unfair. Everything was.

Tears fell, thick and fast down Rin's face as she walked away quickly, sobbing and hardly even able to see through her tears. She couldn't let him see her cry, he didn't deserve that. Not now. She allowed herself one moment of hesitation as she turned back and looked at the Concentration camp. She had walked so far that she could only see the fence, no longer the people within it.

"Goodbye, Len." She whispered. Then, she forced herself to turn away.