It hurts. It hurts so much.

"This isn't working," you said softly. "I think we should-"

"Don't," I remember saying, cutting you off.

Don't what exactly? You didn't want to be with me. You didn't want there to be an us anymore. Why would I force you to stay if you didn't want to? It wouldn't be fair.

It hurts so fucking much.

I just... look at you. My chest is tight, my eyes sting, my throat burning from the emotion of it all.

I had seen this coming. I had. You are an overly affectionate person. You love to touch people. You crave it. You hadn't been lately. You had started pulling away. But only with me. Not with the others.

"I want a family," you whispered. "We can't..."

We is what you said. You is what you meant. As in, "You can't give me children."

You are right, of course. Both of us being women, I can't give you children. None of our own.

But that wasn't all of it. You had a problem with us in public. Almost ashamed we were together. It had strained the relationship. I wanted to sing about us on the tallest structure in Tokyo; you had wanted to hide.

You look at me and I just want to cry. Your heart is breaking as much as mine. Doesn't make this any easier, though.

I don't know how long we stood in the entry way of my apartment. Time seemed to dilate. Time seemed to contract.

And then you were gone, shutting my apartment door softly.

No angry words.

No shouting.

We ended just as softly as we had begun.

AN: Working off a prompt list for this. There are 60 of these. Let's see how far I get...

ALSO. I'm over on tumblr if you guys wanna pester me (please pester me, I'm lonely). I don't make many of my own posts but I reblog Sailor Moon, Gelphie, Mass Effect, She-Ra and other gay shit y'all might enjoy. Screen name is (what else?) Songficcer!

Also...haven't forgotten about 'That Summer.' I'm just kinda... stuck. Hence the prompts. And a delicious tidbit about this chapter: it's based on a story that I will not write where Mako and Ami date and well...this would have been the ending to the story. The short version of it anyway. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THAT.