A/N: Time for Genis' chapter and I suddenly find myself at a loss for what to do. I mean, essentially this is just going to be a mixture of Raine's and Presea's reactions, set in a manner like Presea's. Alas, it must be done. No matter how unoriginal it might end up. And who knows, I might surprise myself. Enjoy.
Ugh, Lloyd, there you go making things much harder than they need to be; again. You couldn't have just been happy with Collette, could you? No, you had to go and do something stupid like fall in love with Sheena. Honestly, I really wonder sometimes if you care about Collette at all. Like when that priest came stumbling into our classroom in Iselia and told Collette about the Renegades attacking the Martel Temple. You were actually going to let Collette go there by herself!
No, I'm not being fair here. Especially since that whole priest in the room thing didn't happen. Though I suspect it would have if I had been able to curb your stupid curiosity, but that's beside the point. I'm the one being stupid now. I'm here blaming you for something that you can't help. You know though, that doesn't make it any easier for me to accept. And then when I see how happy you and Sheena look, and I think about how Collette is crying her eyes out right now, I lose any progress at taming my anger that my logic had made. Then, to top it off, I get even madder because I can't control it. Boy, I sure am well off.
It's been a few days since we found out about you and Sheena and I can gladly say that my initial anger has began to settle. Though it will probably be some time before it ever goes away. But seeing how content the two of you look together is beginning to have an opposite effect to what it had originally. Now it's actually starting to help me be happy for you.
A couple more days have gone by and…huh, Presea? You want to talk to me. All right Genis, cool it, what ever you do don't act like a blushing idiot. Sure Presea, what do you want to talk about? …You're having trouble with what you are feeling and you want my help in sorting it out. I wish I could help you Presea, I really do. But how am I supposed to help someone when I can't even help myself? I'm sorry Presea.
This royally sucks! Now, not only can I not get my feelings about Lloyd and Sheena under grips, I have to contend with the sadness of not being able to help Presea. You know, sometimes I really hate being young, cause for all of by intellect I have basically no life experience to go with it. But then I think about how much longer than everyone else I'm going to live, and I get even sadder. Knowing that I'm going to have to watch as all of my friends grow old and die while I stay young is enough to make me sick to my stomach. And then I think about how I'm going to have to live most of my life without the girl I've fallen in love with, and it makes me want to shrivel up and die.
About a thousand years have passed since we beat Mithos. Most of our friends died centuries ago. And Raine, somehow I always thought she would be here. She was so lively, even into her final days. We had to bury her last year, and it was beyond question the hardest thing I have ever done. I can only give thanks that will never have to go through burying Presea. That's right, even though she failed to convince Kratos and Yuan to teach her how to slow her aging, she's still here with me just as alive as I am. I can't thank Lloyd enough for that. He used the Eternal Sword to bind Presea's life to mine so that she would always be here with me. Our time is almost up though, and as much as we don't want to, we're going to have to leave them. Lloyd and Sheena, I mean. That's right, they're both still going strong and looking every bit as young as they were when Lloyd asked Origin and the Eternal Sword to make it so that they would always be around to safeguard the great tree Yggdrasill. I suspect that those two will live to see the implosion of our local star. Or maybe they won't. It could be that Origin will take them to his eternal home before that happens. Either way, those two are incredible. They've endured so much pain from losing children and grandchildren, only to have more and lose them as well. They don't have kids often though, one or two every three-or-so hundred years. Don't want too many people with Lloyd's genes running around acting all noble. Just one is more than enough. Even through it all, Lloyd has continued to be one of the best friends I could ever have had. And he's told me several times that all of the wonderful memories are worth the pain that they go through. But, then again, this is Lloyd I'm talking about; and he's never been the brightest of people. Presea seems to agree with him though, so if she does then he must be right.
A/N: Yep, I definitely surprised myself with that one. I had never even thought about having Lloyd do that with the Eternal Sword until I was typing it out. But it sounds like something he would do, so why not. Anyway, Collette's angst fest is next. I really don't know when you can expect it out. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Monday. But I will be finished with this fic by the end of next week. Hope you liked it, please R&R.