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Dry eyes. No emotion left. Her body screamed with pain and Rikku collapsed.
"We found her." ……… "Is she…" ……… "We're not moving her, she chose Zanarkand. It's not our decision."
Opening. Light, too intense. Closed. Rikku's eyes repeated the movement until she could see properly. Brother and Paine abruptly fell silent, but it was obvious the pain they were in. (A/N no pun intended!) Tear streaked faces and puffy eyes, as well as the tremors wracking Paine's frame.
Rikku opened her mouth and both of the others held their breath. She looked towards Shinra and saw him curled up sobbing uncontrollably. Shutting her mouth with a snap, she stood and almost ran to the lift, going up to the deck of the airship.
There she fell onto all fours and silently cried her heart out. Yuna, Yunie. She was… dead. And now Paine had that thing, but Yunie hadn't had, she was, had been healthy. It wasn't fair, would never be.
"It's a toxin, poisoning as far as I can tell. But how it is caught is a mystery."
Stupid doctor, stupid, stupid! Anger coursed through her, giving her the strength to sit herself up and lean against the frame of the lift. Vidina… Only after him, his death. He was the first, then all Besaid, anyone who had had contact with them Horrified, Rikku touched a small scar on her neck. Yunie had had one too. From that creature in Besaid, before the deaths…
"Rikku, get it's right. I'll get it's left. Paine, it's back." Seconds later they'd been flung back, Yuna and Rikku. Paine got it though. It'd exploded, they'd got scars, identical except on different sides of their neck, making the two cousins…
"Immune?" Rikku's first word since Vidina's death shocked her. She wept silently once again at this thought. The thought that she'd had some kind of cure all along. Maybe Yunie had known, so she'd ended it, afraid of being left alone… Maybe she'd gone because of them, complaining, dying. Maybe.
Hey Rikku?" Yuna looked at her, hugging her knees. "You think that it'll stay on Besaid? I mean, you don't think it'll spread do you?"
After a pause, Yuna continued. "'Cause although they're gone, or going… we all have to think some, sometime… He's in Luca. I've tried to stop him coming home, but I'm not sure he will. I can't lose him again, Rikku, I just can't."
Tears dropped from her cheeks and she sighed deeply.
"Him…" She croaked. Standing angrily, Rikku shook a fist at the sky, "It's your fault she's gone! All yours…" Coughing loudly, she was forced to sit again.
She couldn't leave because of it. But Paine was going to. This made her anger and pain worse.
"Rikku…?" the once strong voice of a warrior caught Rikku by surprise.
"Paine? I got a hunch…"
"A hunch?"
"Yeah!" Rikku started to smile, remembering.
"A hunch it is then…" came the also smiled reply.
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