Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy IX.... SquareSoft© owns it all, nor do I own any of the lyrics used in this fanfiction; Sarah McLachlan does... (I Will Remember you....)
Dedication: To Taemyr.... and the others.....
~**~Angels of Love And Innocence~**~
Part 2.....
**I will remember you...**
Zidane blinked as Dr. Tot brushed past him to disappear into the bathroom, " What did you mean when you shook your head? She isn't gone! I won't let her go... I won't let her down. Now... tell me... ", he ordered, shouting as he followed the doctor, making sure his towel didn't fall off.
Dr. Tot grabbed a pot from the stove and shoved into Zidane's chest, " Here! Take this... we're going to try what you did again... if it works, then she will live. If it doesn't... well... death will take her... ", his last words came out soft.
Zidane clutched the pot to his chest and then followed Dr. Tot as he brushed past him again to disappear into the bedroom, " Hey, Rusty! Here... catch! ", he cried as he chucked the pot over his shoulder at the older man who caught it easily.
" What do you want me to do with this? ", he demanded.
" Go fill it with water and then bring it back up here so we can put it on the fire. ", Dr. Tot replied calmly as he pulled a chair up to Garnet's bedside and reached out to press the back of his hand to her forehead.
Zidane swallowed the lump of tears and anger that was building up inside. These people didn't know what it was like to have to lose someone that they loved with their entire being, their very soul, their life. Garnet's pain was his pain, her love was his love, her hate was his hate. Everything that she felt, he felt that too.
**Will you remember me?**
He watched from behind as Dr. Tot felt her neck for a pulse, nodding to himself and mumbling something about it going to have to take time. Steiner had just left the room, leaving Beatrix to walk up to Zidane and place a gentle hand on his bare shoulder that was tense.
Zidane glanced over his shoulder at her and smile lightly, " Hey... ", he murmured, turning his attention fully to Garnet who continued to tremble.
Dr. Tot turned and looked at Zidane, " My boy... go put some clothes on while General Beatrix does the same to our Queen. If we can bring up her body temperature to be exactly ninty-six degrees, then we're fine and all we'll have to worry about is making sure that her heart isn't bruised and internally damaged from the cold. "
Zidane nodded, " Alright... I do hope nothing happens to her.. ", he replied as he turned and left the room.
Dr. Tot went into the bathroom, leaving Beatrix to place some warm clothes on Garnet. Zidane quickly went down the hall to his room. As soon as he was inside, he closed the door and leaned back against it. He closed his eyes and tried to swallow his tears again, but he couldn't do that, not with his Dagger just down the hall, probably loosing life with every passing second.
Zidane slowly slid down the length of the door. As soon as his butt touched the ground, his placed his palms to his eyes, lowered his head. His shoulders began to tremble as his entire body was racked with sobs that wouldn't stop. He was going to loose her, he just knew it. And why?
All because he had decided to say that one thing about her mother! All because he had to slip into coma and leave her to sit by his bedside crying, sobbing, begging him to come back to her. Oh yes... he heard everything she had sobbed to him. He didn't think she was an idiot, he could admit sometimes that she was a bit childish at times, but that was alright with him. As long as she stayed with him and didn't leave him, he would be fine...
**Don't let your life pass you by...**
Zidane slowly managed to pick himself off the ground to half drag himself to his closet where he pulled out a thick black robe. Screw the clothes! He slipped the towel from his waist and slipped his arms into the arms of the robe and then tied the sash around his waist tightly.
He then turned around and walked from the room to make his way down the hall to Garnet's room where Steiner and Beatrix were found standing in front of the doorway. A bunch of servants stood behind them, some trying to see into the room to see if their Queen was alright. But... she wasn't. Zidane could clearly hear Dr. Tot cursing loudly as he counted out the beats.
Zidane ran down the rest of the hall and pushed his way into the room, throwing Steiner off him as he tried to pull him back. He rushed into the room and stopped as he spotted his Dagger laying on the bed, Dr. Tot bent over her as he pushed down onto her heart with all his might.
" What's going on!? ", Zidane demanded as he ran to the bedside, watching Garnet's pale face the whole time, trying not sudden explode on Dr. Tot for letting this happen to her as her body jerked up and down from the jerky, sure pushes of the Dr.
" Her heart... ", he murmured, too caught in his work to even notice Zidane.
Zidane pursed his lips and shook his head hard, " I'm not letting her go, Dr... ", he whispered under his breath as he reached over, shoved Dr. Tot's hands away and replaced them with his own strong, large ones.
Dr. Tot stared at Zidane, completely startled, " What are you doing? "
" Like I said earlier this morning to two maids, I'm saving her life! Now... tell me how it's done... ", Zidane grounded out through clenched teeth as he licked his lips waiting for the Dr.
" Oh... just push down in time with your own heartbeat, Zidane! Quickly.. start now before it's too late.. "
**Weep not for the memories....**
" Come on, Dagger... don't give up now! Stay with me.... please! ", Zidane begged her under his breath as he began to push down with his heartbeat which was pounding against his chest quickly and so loudly he could hear it in his ears.
" Zidane... ", Dr. Tot murmured sadly as he placed a hand onto his shoulder.
Zidane shook his head head, " No! I won't and I will NOT let her go. Do you hear me?! She IS going to to live and I don't care if I have to give up my very own life to make it that way! ", he hissed as he continued to push down.
After five minutes of trying to pump her heart, tears of frustration and heartache claimed Zidane, causing him to stop pushing down and just collapse on top of her, burying his face into the valley between her breasts as he wept softly, whispering her name over and over.
Dr. Tot quietly slipped from the room murmuring his condolences, ushering everyone else who had gathered behind Zidane as well. Zidane turned his face to the side and looked at her, watching her face for a few moments before he reached out to gently trace her lips with a trembling finger.
" D-dagger... oh, Dagger! ", Zidane wailed. " Why couldn't you just stay inside where it was warm? Where it was safe? Why'd you have to go out into that damned blizzard in the first place? I swore to you that I was going to not let you go, Dagger.... I'm going to always keep my promises... "
Zidane slowly and silently pushed himself off of her chest and gazed down at her peaceful looking expression. He flashed her a meek smile and then nodded, " I will be right back... please don't leave me behind... ", he whispered to her as he slipped from the room to rush down the hall to his bedroom.
**I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...**
He quickly ran his bag that was laying at the foot of the bed and yanked it open as he thrusted his hand into it and began to fish around for something. When his fingers slid over the smooth glass, he wrapped his hand around it and brought it out to see if it was the right one.
It was....
Zidane quickly left his room and went to Garnet's. As soon as he was inside, he locked the door behind him and slowly walked over to the bed, to where his beloved Dagger was laying still, looking as if she were asleep. It made him smile at the thought of her only being asleep and not dead... not leaving him to grieve greatly over her death.
He knelt down beside the bed and reached out to caress the side of her face, then run his fingers over her closed eyes, her chapped lips, her peeling cheeks everything. Zidane's chin dimpled in and out as he fought from sobbing again. He stood up slowly and then bent over to press his lips to hers, planting many kisses to the lips that he would never ever get to touch, caress, love.
" I-I'm sorry that it had to turn out this way. I'm sorry that none of this went the w-way that you had hoped and d-dreamed for it. I'm sorry that I didn't propose e-earlier. I'm sorry for not making your life w-wonderful, h-happy, beautiful.... but... I'm not sorry for have met you, D-dagger.
Oh, My beloved Dagger.... to part now is such sweet s-sorrow. I'll never be able to hear you say my name... I'll never ever get to gaze down into those soft brown eyes of yours... I'll never ever get to k-kiss you again. I'll never even be able to grow o-old with you... ", he whispered to her, his voice breaking completely.
**Standing on the edge
of something much too deep...**
Garnet remained silent. She just laid there. Zidane sighed heavily as he quickly unwrapped his hand from the small vial laying in his palm. He gazed down at it and then glanced up at Garnet, who remained the same, dead, dead, and more dead.
He silently reached down to uncock it, the only sounds echoing through the room were of his sobs and hiccups as he brought the vial to his face so he could examine it. He had remembered that he still had it. Kuja had been the one to give it to him before he had killed him. Kuja had explained to him that with upon touch, you're dead in the blink of an eye.
Zidane licked his lips and then slowly brought the vial to his lips, inching it closer and closer with each passing second. It was only centimeters from his lips when he heard a loud moan from in front of him. Then came the touch. Perhaps it had been the touch of death perhaps the touch of a loved one. Who knows...
Garnet's eyes slowly opened and she looked up to find Zidane lifting something to his lips. She blinked and then moaned in pain as she lifted an arm up slowly to grasp his forearm and then bring it down to rest on the bed beside her body.
**Funny how I feel so much
But cannot say a word... **
Zidane gasped loudly as the vial slipped from his fingers just as it touched his lips. With the deadly poison resting on his lips, it slid down his chin and then fell to the ground, landing with a loud shatter of glass.
" Z-z-zidane... ", a light moan came out from Garnet as she tried to understand what was going on before her.
Zidane looked down at Garnet with wide eyes. She was alive! She was going to be alright. But... what about him? He felt a burning sensation on his bottom lips and on his chin.
" Z-z-zidane...?! ", she called out again, her voice more desperate.
Zidane reached out and grasped her hand tightly in his, telling her that he was still here with her. Garnet blinked and then began to cry softly as he brought his lips to hers, silently offering her the poison which she immediately took by caressing her tongue to his bottom lip, spreading soft, and frightened kissed down his chin, kissing up the poison there as well.
Zidane felt his heart constrict painfully against his chest as he climbed onto the bed with his Dagger, never breaking their kiss as they continued kiss each other to death. Garnet moaned in pain and then cried out loudly as her heart was being squeezed of all life. Zidane quickly tried to muffle her cries with his lips, but instead he joined her.
**We are screaming inside
Oh...but we can't be heard! **
Together their cries of agony echoed throughout the entire castle, leaving an eerie sound to fill the hallways, the guestrooms, even floating out into the courtyard which caused some people to scream in fear that the castle was haunted... but no... it was only two lovers crying out to each other, telling them that they were in unbearable pain.
Zidane's cries died down quickly and he rested beside Garnet, his arms wrapped around her waist tightly as she rested her head against Zidane's chest, listening to the painful sounds that his heart made as the poison attacked it quickly.
**So afraid to love you
More afraid to lose...**
" Love you, D-dagger.... ", Zidane whispered painfully against her hair as he suddenly went still and limp, still holding his Dagger close.
" L-love you, Z-zidane... ", Garnet whispered back tearfully as she pressed herself to him, her eyes closing slowly, her heart taking it's last beat of life, her lungs inhaling their last bout of fresh air.
**But once there was a darkness,
A deep and endless night.
Gave me everything you had
Oh...you gave me light...**
In the end... it hadn't been the touch of death.... it had been the touch of a loved one and the kiss of death as well that had ended their lives sadly and yet peacefully....
**I will remember you.
Will you remember me? ***
Author's Note: Well... there it is! My shortest fic ever known to mankind on FF.Net. *chuckles* It was bad in the ending and nicely done in the beginning [I think.... :p]! What'dcha think of it ALL? Hmmm...? Part 1 was tooo long.. I know that... Part 2 was just.... perhaps the same as Part 1 only not as long...
*waves* Well.... I'm going to thank you all for the reviews.. [ If I get any.... :p ] and now I'm off to go grab some cereal... MMmmMmmm... Fruity Loops!
~Leia~
Dedication: To Taemyr.... and the others.....
~**~Angels of Love And Innocence~**~
Part 2.....
**I will remember you...**
Zidane blinked as Dr. Tot brushed past him to disappear into the bathroom, " What did you mean when you shook your head? She isn't gone! I won't let her go... I won't let her down. Now... tell me... ", he ordered, shouting as he followed the doctor, making sure his towel didn't fall off.
Dr. Tot grabbed a pot from the stove and shoved into Zidane's chest, " Here! Take this... we're going to try what you did again... if it works, then she will live. If it doesn't... well... death will take her... ", his last words came out soft.
Zidane clutched the pot to his chest and then followed Dr. Tot as he brushed past him again to disappear into the bedroom, " Hey, Rusty! Here... catch! ", he cried as he chucked the pot over his shoulder at the older man who caught it easily.
" What do you want me to do with this? ", he demanded.
" Go fill it with water and then bring it back up here so we can put it on the fire. ", Dr. Tot replied calmly as he pulled a chair up to Garnet's bedside and reached out to press the back of his hand to her forehead.
Zidane swallowed the lump of tears and anger that was building up inside. These people didn't know what it was like to have to lose someone that they loved with their entire being, their very soul, their life. Garnet's pain was his pain, her love was his love, her hate was his hate. Everything that she felt, he felt that too.
**Will you remember me?**
He watched from behind as Dr. Tot felt her neck for a pulse, nodding to himself and mumbling something about it going to have to take time. Steiner had just left the room, leaving Beatrix to walk up to Zidane and place a gentle hand on his bare shoulder that was tense.
Zidane glanced over his shoulder at her and smile lightly, " Hey... ", he murmured, turning his attention fully to Garnet who continued to tremble.
Dr. Tot turned and looked at Zidane, " My boy... go put some clothes on while General Beatrix does the same to our Queen. If we can bring up her body temperature to be exactly ninty-six degrees, then we're fine and all we'll have to worry about is making sure that her heart isn't bruised and internally damaged from the cold. "
Zidane nodded, " Alright... I do hope nothing happens to her.. ", he replied as he turned and left the room.
Dr. Tot went into the bathroom, leaving Beatrix to place some warm clothes on Garnet. Zidane quickly went down the hall to his room. As soon as he was inside, he closed the door and leaned back against it. He closed his eyes and tried to swallow his tears again, but he couldn't do that, not with his Dagger just down the hall, probably loosing life with every passing second.
Zidane slowly slid down the length of the door. As soon as his butt touched the ground, his placed his palms to his eyes, lowered his head. His shoulders began to tremble as his entire body was racked with sobs that wouldn't stop. He was going to loose her, he just knew it. And why?
All because he had decided to say that one thing about her mother! All because he had to slip into coma and leave her to sit by his bedside crying, sobbing, begging him to come back to her. Oh yes... he heard everything she had sobbed to him. He didn't think she was an idiot, he could admit sometimes that she was a bit childish at times, but that was alright with him. As long as she stayed with him and didn't leave him, he would be fine...
**Don't let your life pass you by...**
Zidane slowly managed to pick himself off the ground to half drag himself to his closet where he pulled out a thick black robe. Screw the clothes! He slipped the towel from his waist and slipped his arms into the arms of the robe and then tied the sash around his waist tightly.
He then turned around and walked from the room to make his way down the hall to Garnet's room where Steiner and Beatrix were found standing in front of the doorway. A bunch of servants stood behind them, some trying to see into the room to see if their Queen was alright. But... she wasn't. Zidane could clearly hear Dr. Tot cursing loudly as he counted out the beats.
Zidane ran down the rest of the hall and pushed his way into the room, throwing Steiner off him as he tried to pull him back. He rushed into the room and stopped as he spotted his Dagger laying on the bed, Dr. Tot bent over her as he pushed down onto her heart with all his might.
" What's going on!? ", Zidane demanded as he ran to the bedside, watching Garnet's pale face the whole time, trying not sudden explode on Dr. Tot for letting this happen to her as her body jerked up and down from the jerky, sure pushes of the Dr.
" Her heart... ", he murmured, too caught in his work to even notice Zidane.
Zidane pursed his lips and shook his head hard, " I'm not letting her go, Dr... ", he whispered under his breath as he reached over, shoved Dr. Tot's hands away and replaced them with his own strong, large ones.
Dr. Tot stared at Zidane, completely startled, " What are you doing? "
" Like I said earlier this morning to two maids, I'm saving her life! Now... tell me how it's done... ", Zidane grounded out through clenched teeth as he licked his lips waiting for the Dr.
" Oh... just push down in time with your own heartbeat, Zidane! Quickly.. start now before it's too late.. "
**Weep not for the memories....**
" Come on, Dagger... don't give up now! Stay with me.... please! ", Zidane begged her under his breath as he began to push down with his heartbeat which was pounding against his chest quickly and so loudly he could hear it in his ears.
" Zidane... ", Dr. Tot murmured sadly as he placed a hand onto his shoulder.
Zidane shook his head head, " No! I won't and I will NOT let her go. Do you hear me?! She IS going to to live and I don't care if I have to give up my very own life to make it that way! ", he hissed as he continued to push down.
After five minutes of trying to pump her heart, tears of frustration and heartache claimed Zidane, causing him to stop pushing down and just collapse on top of her, burying his face into the valley between her breasts as he wept softly, whispering her name over and over.
Dr. Tot quietly slipped from the room murmuring his condolences, ushering everyone else who had gathered behind Zidane as well. Zidane turned his face to the side and looked at her, watching her face for a few moments before he reached out to gently trace her lips with a trembling finger.
" D-dagger... oh, Dagger! ", Zidane wailed. " Why couldn't you just stay inside where it was warm? Where it was safe? Why'd you have to go out into that damned blizzard in the first place? I swore to you that I was going to not let you go, Dagger.... I'm going to always keep my promises... "
Zidane slowly and silently pushed himself off of her chest and gazed down at her peaceful looking expression. He flashed her a meek smile and then nodded, " I will be right back... please don't leave me behind... ", he whispered to her as he slipped from the room to rush down the hall to his bedroom.
**I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...**
He quickly ran his bag that was laying at the foot of the bed and yanked it open as he thrusted his hand into it and began to fish around for something. When his fingers slid over the smooth glass, he wrapped his hand around it and brought it out to see if it was the right one.
It was....
Zidane quickly left his room and went to Garnet's. As soon as he was inside, he locked the door behind him and slowly walked over to the bed, to where his beloved Dagger was laying still, looking as if she were asleep. It made him smile at the thought of her only being asleep and not dead... not leaving him to grieve greatly over her death.
He knelt down beside the bed and reached out to caress the side of her face, then run his fingers over her closed eyes, her chapped lips, her peeling cheeks everything. Zidane's chin dimpled in and out as he fought from sobbing again. He stood up slowly and then bent over to press his lips to hers, planting many kisses to the lips that he would never ever get to touch, caress, love.
" I-I'm sorry that it had to turn out this way. I'm sorry that none of this went the w-way that you had hoped and d-dreamed for it. I'm sorry that I didn't propose e-earlier. I'm sorry for not making your life w-wonderful, h-happy, beautiful.... but... I'm not sorry for have met you, D-dagger.
Oh, My beloved Dagger.... to part now is such sweet s-sorrow. I'll never be able to hear you say my name... I'll never ever get to gaze down into those soft brown eyes of yours... I'll never ever get to k-kiss you again. I'll never even be able to grow o-old with you... ", he whispered to her, his voice breaking completely.
**Standing on the edge
of something much too deep...**
Garnet remained silent. She just laid there. Zidane sighed heavily as he quickly unwrapped his hand from the small vial laying in his palm. He gazed down at it and then glanced up at Garnet, who remained the same, dead, dead, and more dead.
He silently reached down to uncock it, the only sounds echoing through the room were of his sobs and hiccups as he brought the vial to his face so he could examine it. He had remembered that he still had it. Kuja had been the one to give it to him before he had killed him. Kuja had explained to him that with upon touch, you're dead in the blink of an eye.
Zidane licked his lips and then slowly brought the vial to his lips, inching it closer and closer with each passing second. It was only centimeters from his lips when he heard a loud moan from in front of him. Then came the touch. Perhaps it had been the touch of death perhaps the touch of a loved one. Who knows...
Garnet's eyes slowly opened and she looked up to find Zidane lifting something to his lips. She blinked and then moaned in pain as she lifted an arm up slowly to grasp his forearm and then bring it down to rest on the bed beside her body.
**Funny how I feel so much
But cannot say a word... **
Zidane gasped loudly as the vial slipped from his fingers just as it touched his lips. With the deadly poison resting on his lips, it slid down his chin and then fell to the ground, landing with a loud shatter of glass.
" Z-z-zidane... ", a light moan came out from Garnet as she tried to understand what was going on before her.
Zidane looked down at Garnet with wide eyes. She was alive! She was going to be alright. But... what about him? He felt a burning sensation on his bottom lips and on his chin.
" Z-z-zidane...?! ", she called out again, her voice more desperate.
Zidane reached out and grasped her hand tightly in his, telling her that he was still here with her. Garnet blinked and then began to cry softly as he brought his lips to hers, silently offering her the poison which she immediately took by caressing her tongue to his bottom lip, spreading soft, and frightened kissed down his chin, kissing up the poison there as well.
Zidane felt his heart constrict painfully against his chest as he climbed onto the bed with his Dagger, never breaking their kiss as they continued kiss each other to death. Garnet moaned in pain and then cried out loudly as her heart was being squeezed of all life. Zidane quickly tried to muffle her cries with his lips, but instead he joined her.
**We are screaming inside
Oh...but we can't be heard! **
Together their cries of agony echoed throughout the entire castle, leaving an eerie sound to fill the hallways, the guestrooms, even floating out into the courtyard which caused some people to scream in fear that the castle was haunted... but no... it was only two lovers crying out to each other, telling them that they were in unbearable pain.
Zidane's cries died down quickly and he rested beside Garnet, his arms wrapped around her waist tightly as she rested her head against Zidane's chest, listening to the painful sounds that his heart made as the poison attacked it quickly.
**So afraid to love you
More afraid to lose...**
" Love you, D-dagger.... ", Zidane whispered painfully against her hair as he suddenly went still and limp, still holding his Dagger close.
" L-love you, Z-zidane... ", Garnet whispered back tearfully as she pressed herself to him, her eyes closing slowly, her heart taking it's last beat of life, her lungs inhaling their last bout of fresh air.
**But once there was a darkness,
A deep and endless night.
Gave me everything you had
Oh...you gave me light...**
In the end... it hadn't been the touch of death.... it had been the touch of a loved one and the kiss of death as well that had ended their lives sadly and yet peacefully....
**I will remember you.
Will you remember me? ***
Author's Note: Well... there it is! My shortest fic ever known to mankind on FF.Net. *chuckles* It was bad in the ending and nicely done in the beginning [I think.... :p]! What'dcha think of it ALL? Hmmm...? Part 1 was tooo long.. I know that... Part 2 was just.... perhaps the same as Part 1 only not as long...
*waves* Well.... I'm going to thank you all for the reviews.. [ If I get any.... :p ] and now I'm off to go grab some cereal... MMmmMmmm... Fruity Loops!
~Leia~
