Title: Our Time
Rating: PG
Warnings: Unbeta-ed, non-canon, spoilers France Arc
Genre: Angst
Main Character(s): Haji, Saya, Riku
Ship(s): Hinted HajixSaya
Summary: Saya wonders if Haji and Riku hate her for stopping their time. One shot.
Disclaimer: Blood+ is copyright to Production IG and Aniplex.
Author's Notes: I wanted to write this for a while now but waited until sub 27 comes out. This was written in longhand in an old notebook, before bed. I made some minor changes to the original draft here and there. I apologize if my grammar is all over the place.

Was it fair for her? To have stopped their time? To snatch away death's chance. Twice. She had done it twice. Prolonging someone's life, someone she loved and cared. Giving them another chance at life, to live instead of passing on to the land of dead. Yet, was this the kind of life they wanted?

To live on for all times and seasons, never aging, never changing. Time is but a tiny speck and a flicker to them, insignificant. What is a lifetime to the people around them is nothing but a short span to them. Time has no meaning to them. Doesn't affect them. She had given them a new lease in life, a blessing but essentially, she had condemned them as well. They were neither living nor dead, suspended in between, continue to live. Just for her.

She wanted to know, if they hate her for it. For cursing them this life, forcing them to live instead of allowing death to embrace them. She wanted to ask them but she was afraid to; to know the answer. She needed to know as well. The burning need to know, the guilt that settled around her heart.

"Do you hate me, the two of you?" she asked, looking up at the blue sky.

"Eh? Why are you asking that, Saya-neechan?" Her brother looked surprised. He lowered his hands to his sides; he had been trying to catch the leaves in the air.

"It's... you had so many things to do, things that you won't be able to do now," she said, her voice holding a slight tremor. "And I took that all away from you. From Haji as well."

"It doesn't matter anymore," her brother said, shaking his head. "If there is a chance to change things, I'd rather it remain the same. Because I can stay with you, Niichan, Haji and everyone."

"Riku..." She wanted to protest. How can he be so willing to accept it?

"What is in the past is in the past," her Chevalier spoke up. "There is nothing that can be undone. I don't hate you. Should I, for allowing me a second chance at life again? You returned our lives to us and allowed us another chance to live. In repayment, we will stay with you always."

"Besides, Saya-neechan needs someone to cheer her up when she's down," her brother said, smiling. "You're terrible at it."

She found herself smiling as well. They always knew what to say to her. To comfort her and cheer her up.

She had given them another chance, stopping their time and letting them live. Perhaps it might not be fair of her and selfish of her to subject them to this life but it was done. She did it because she wanted to save them. She did it because she loved and cared for them.

She would not regret stopping their time. Instead, she will look forward to the time with them.

Owari.