Freedom Lies Beneath Reality:

Prologue:

When They're All Dead And Gone

Disclaimer: Okay I don't own any of these characters, places, etc as you already know, and even if you tried to take me to court, I only have ten pounds in my account so you're welcome to it, it's worth it!

Authors notes: Inspired by the song 'how to be dead' by Snow patrol... Ah yes, my first ever fanfic I've started and completed. I wrote this one in June and I'm sorry if it gets a bit weird in the middle, but I moved house half way through writing it so yeah....Whatever. Does anyone ever actually bother to read the authors notes anyway? Meh. RR to

Darkness. Total darkness. That's all I could feel that day. Empty and alone...The newly re-built Home had been destroyed, along with old friends and family. Yevon... That name... Still makes me... So angry! It all happened so fast. I should have been there to help protect Home really, but I was being my usual selfish self, out hunting for spheres for my own personal gain. I always thought that there was nothing Pops couldn't handle, but now I know that to assume is... to make an ass out of you and me. I'd never prepared for something like that. Death. Destruction. I'd assumed that I'd be a little girl forever, going on adventures, like being Yuma's guardian or hunting spheres forever and that I'd always have a home to come back to and a father to look after me between adventures... More fool me. I didn't know how to look after myself back then... I'd never had reason to learn, I'd always had people to hide behind. I needed someone to teach me. No, that's a lie, I just wanted someone near me I guess, but that's what a situation like mine does to you... Well, in my opinion anyway but... I thought I didn't have anyone to turn to at the time. Cid was gone dead... cold lying next to me in the sand... Yuna had married some jerk and had god knows how many of his children. That thought still makes me shudder... She could do so much better. Auron had been... Sent and Kimarih was busy returning the Ronso tribe to it's former glory, while Wakka was returning to Blitzball glory, the Besaid Aurochs were the world champions, but were more pleased about the fact that they had their old Captain back. Paine was gone... Nobody was quite sure where, but there were some very varied rumours going about at the time... That only left Lulu... Lulu, Lulu, Lulu... The angel from my nightmares... My heart still skips a beat just thinking about her... I remember just burying my face in the harsh Bikanel sand and just whispering her name over and over again after realising that she was the only person I had left to turn to... We were close in a way... I told her almost everything while we were guarding Yunie together... I told her absolutely everything about myself... Well, except for my undying love for her I guess... I think I was just lying in the sand after that, memories of Lulu and all the time we shared flooding back to me, relentlessly assaulting my mind... I thought I was going to die out there... Die and never get a chance to tell her how I really felt... I guess I passed out from de-hydration after that... I don't know it gets a little fuzzy, but the rest is crystal clear. The rest is my story.