A/N: Time for Raine. Should definitely be interesting, and please note that while the last three chapters have been set chronologically after each other, this one is going back to Zelos' Mansion. Also, I would like to once again thank all of the people who have reviewed this, as well as my other, story. I also know that by updating so frequently, I am losing several reviews, but if I don't update this quickly I am afraid that I won't update at all.
Why did you do it Lloyd? Didn't you know that it would destroy her? Who am I trying to fool, of coarse you did. But yet you went ahead and did it anyways. Not that there is anyway that you could have stopped it, realistically at least. From the first time I saw you go to Sheena for support, I knew that you had fallen in love with her. I could see it in your eyes, in the way you held yourself around her, and also from the way that you so fiercely guarded her in battle. Let's also not forget the maddening, unstoppable rage you entered when you saw her fall to Shadow's onslaught. In that moment, I don't think I could ever recall a time when neither I, nor Genis had been that frightened. Were you even conscious of what you were doing? Or were you running purely on the instinct of extracting vengeance for the one you love. Well, whichever it was, watching you was horrific, but at the same time I found myself unable to do anything but watch. Watch as you mercilessly rained strike after strike against the dark Summon Spirit. Watch as you broke through his guard before he even got a chance to raise it. Watch as you turned one of the most powerful creatures on either world into a helpless beggar. I wonder what would have happened had Regal not called me to my senses and I had not revived her. Sadly, that is one curiosity that will never leave me, because Regal did call me out of my reverie and I did revive Sheena. I also wonder if, even now, did you know that not one of us will speak of that fight?
No matter, right now all that matters is the broken soul that weeps in my embrace. She hurts so much and I find myself, for all my knowledge, unable to do anything to make her pain go away. I, who, with my healing arts can even bring life back to the deceased, cannot heal the broken heart of one of my most beloved students. Only you, Lloyd, have the capacity to restore her. But you won't, because that would mean destroying not only your heart, but the heart of the woman that you love so deeply. Do you know that right now, part of me demands that you pay for the pain that you have raised on this innocent child? Do you know that part of me wants nothing more than to make you suffer? Do you know that all another part of me wants to do is embrace you and whisper how proud and happy I am that you have found love? I hope you do. I also hope that you never let go of her and that you never force her to go through what Collette is at this moment.
Oh Collette, it hurts, I know it does. But it will eventually get better, I promise. It may not happen this week, or this month, this year, or even this decade! But it will, and I promise that you will always have a shoulder to cry on, even if it isn't mine. Tell me Collette, you do know that he still loves you, don't you? It may not be the kind of love that you want from him, but he does. Take consolation in that fact, that he still does and always will have a place in his heart reserved solely for you. I know that alone won't stop all the pain, but it should help.
Poor Collette, you have cried yourself into slumber. I hope you have sweet, pleasant dreams, but I know you won't. I know exactly what you'll dream of, and I will once again find myself unable to help you. Oh Lloyd, my precious student, do you know that by breaking Collette's heart you have unintentionally broken mine as well? For a teacher like me, the pain of not being able to comfort her students is one of the greatest pains in the world. And, like Collette, the one person who could ease my pain cannot. Oh Kratos, why must we fight you?
A/N: Did I end that in a good place? Please let me know. If not, I will gladly write more to it. As always, reviews are greatly appreciated and the next chapter should be out tomorrow. Thanks