Second to last chapter. I can't believe it!
Disclaimers: What I always say. Cameo! Cameo!
Warning: Um, death. And the usual...but no blood. And no shounen-ai...Starting POV is Marth's.
Chapter 15
One thing that I noticed about Roy.
The kid's really crazy.
Yeah, sure, going through all that may be pretty bad.
But you don't laugh when you're killing someone.
And then you act sorry when you've completed your dastardly deed.
Maybe Roy's too young to understand.
No, he's 16.
Roy held me in his embrace for a few more minutes before letting go.
He looked at his bed sheets and started to think.
"What's up?"
"I'm thinking."
"I can obviously see that." I cracked my fingers. "Hey, Roy? When was the last time you smiled?"
Roy stared at me, probably thinking I was retarded. "Um, I don't know...?"
I nodded.
"Yeah, exactly Roy! You need to have some fun!" Roy gave me a sour look.
"Yeah, right, whatever. Fun. I haven't had any since, since I was like a child."
I snapped my fingers.
"Exactly!"
"What type of 'fun', are you implying?" Roy asked, giving me a suspicious look. I put my hands up.
"Hey! You don't have to give me that look, man. I was just suggesting clean, fun, fun!" Roy shook his head.
"No, I don't want to do anything. Especially with you." Roy had a hint of laughter in his voice.
I smirked.
"Aha! You can laugh! Come on, it's just us! You can laugh."
Roy rolled his eyes.
"There is no reason for me to laugh." He nodded his head.
"Yes there is!" I put my arm around his neck and started to squeeze. "If you don't, I'll put you to sleep."
"As if!" Roy slapped my face and I loosened my grip on him. He pushed me to the floor and laughed. "You think you're so strong." He pointed down at me, walking forward. I put my leg out and tripped him.
Roy landed on me and groaned.
"You loser." He said, laying his head on my chest. I laughed.
"Uh-huh." I tapped his head with my finger and he looked up at me. "So, Roy? Are you still going to, you know?"
Roy put his head back down, stared out the window, and said nothing.
"Roy?"
He sat up.
"I don't know."
I put my arm around his shoulder and grinned. "Yeah, but let's just hope you change your mind."
Roy didn't answer, he just kept staring out at the blue, cloudless sky...
/Lilina's POV/
I looked down at the address I got.
I looked up and looked back down.
I nodded.
This was the place.
I tied my white steed on one of the surrounding trees and walked up the long stairs, holding my long, blue dress in my hands.
When I reached the doors, I knocked on them. In a few minutes, a short man came door the door.
I was repulsed, what a big nose he had!
"Why, hello, blue hair."
"Hello, my good sir. Um, may I come in?"
He nodded and I walked in.
Everyone seemed to stop talking when they saw me.
My beauty must've rendered them speechless.
A handsome, blond came up to me.
"Hello, and who are you?"
"My name is Lilina. And yours?"
"Link."
I smiled, he was cute. But that's when I noticed his ears, but I shrugged.
"So, what brings you here?"
Another blond haired girl asked.
"That's Princess Peach..." Link whispered, sliding away.
I didn't like her.
"Answer me, you peasant."
"Erm, my lady, but I am no peasant. But I do not wish to speak to you. I have come here to look for someone."
"Listen to her accent. She's so old-school!"
Princess Peach scoffed.
"And who might that be?"
I narrowed my eyes.
"I dare not utter his name, I will go look for myself."
"Oh, she must really hate this guy!"
Who keeps saying this?
"No, you'll get lost."
A little kid walked up to me.
He had such a big head...
"Oh, and what is your name?"
"Ness. Just explain to us what he looks like."
I thought, it has been so long.
"Um, he has red hair. Medium sized blue eyes. He is really mean, and he has a slender body."
"Roy!"
They all yelled. I covered my ears.
"Yes, yes, that accursed, little boy. I then take it that he is here?"
Everyone stared.
"Little? Slender?" They all thought out loud.
Princess Peach smiled evilly.
"Oh, so you must be his little girlfriend. Let me tell you, that kid's trouble."
"Believe me, my lady, I know he is. So, where is he?"
"I'll go get him!" Mario cried, zooming up the stairs.
While he was gone, I got acquainted to everyone.
The one who kept on saying things in the background was Fox, a fox...
Ironic.
In a few minutes, Mario had come back down, with a huge grin on.
"Here is Roy."
Everyone snickered.
Roy walked up to me and stopped around five feet away.
"Lilina?"
"Is that how you greet me?"
Roy nodded frantically.
"Confrontation!"
"Shut-up, Falco." Roy yelled, rolling his eyes.
I was about ready to explode.
"Roy, it pains me just to say your name. You coward!"
"Embarrassment city! Now, everyone, let us leave them. And afterwards, we will all laugh at Roy's humiliation!" Mario screamed, everyone ran away.
"Lilina, I take it that you know, already." I nodded.
"You may be wondering how I figured it out. The servant was very loyal to my father. He would never do something like that. At the time, I didn't notice that. I was too heartbroken. But why, if he was the one who killed my father, why was he clean, and you were all bloody?"
Roy looked at the ground. I stomped up to him.
"You better have an explanation for this." Roy moved back.
"I do. I was just angry." I pounced on him.
"That's not any reason!" I started pounding my fists on his chest. "I was so lonely. And then you just left. I should have known it was you! You were the one who killed my fiancé after all. You were the one who killed your father."
Roy pushed me away.
"How did you know that?"
My head boiled. "I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!"
I wanted to kill him.
Roy frowned. "Lilina..."
"Don't you dare say my name!"
"Then why did you come here?" He yelled back at me.
"I wanted to see if it was true." I replied calmly.
"True! Or did you just really come here to make me angry?" He screamed, pointing at me.
"Calm down, or you are going to do something you are really going to regret!"
I really hated when Roy got angry, he never thinks at all.
"Are you trying to mock me?"
"No, what is wrong with you. Quit trying to twist my words."
"Hey, what's going on down here?"
A blue haired man asked, putting his hands on Roy's shoulders.
"Calm down, man." He said. "You must be Lilina, pleased to meet you. I am Marth."
I nodded. "Are you his friend?"
Roy looked away. "You want to know the reason why I killed your father?"
Of course I wanted to know.
Roy sat down on the steps and put his chin in his hands.
"It was because he wanted me to leave, and I couldn't."
"That is a pathetic reason, Roy."
Roy sighed and laid his head on his knees.
"I couldn't leave. He had found out about the things that I did over at Pherae, and my father's condition. But I still couldn't leave."
I rolled my eyes, I remembered those fake notes I sent him. "And why couldn't you leave?"
Roy raised his head a little.
"I couldn't leave, because of you."
Me? What did he mean by that? "Roy? I do not understand you."
"Forgive me." He sighed and walked upstairs.
I laughed. "Never, not in a million years."
Marth stared at me.
"What?" I responded.
"You don't know that Roy loves you?"
I cleared my throat. "If he does, he has a weird way of showing it."
"Yeah, you're right. But that time he attacked your fiancé and killed him...it was because he was jealous."
"Jealous of what?"
"That someone else would have you. And that it wasn't him."
My face softened.
"Really?"
Marth nodded. "And now, he wants to kill himself."
"Really?"
"Yeah." Marth stared at the staircase. "He was just lonely."
"Lonely?"
"Yeah, he told me that his father would usually leave him alone all the time. And that he would always spend time with your father, or with the villagers."
I began to cry. "Yes, yes. That is the same with me. My father would always leave somewhere and not come back until the next day. He was usually drunk, and he would tell me to make his food or he would throw me out. He never took back those words, because he never knew he had said them. But he did notice that I was more withdrawn from him, or anybody else. I always ate by myself. When Roy killed my fiancé, I wanted to kill myself. But I did not have the will to. But when he was sent over to our place, I was so happy. But then..."
"He killed your father." Marth interrupted.
"He left soon after, and I was alone again. For two years." Marth put his arms around me.
"You've both been through a lot. Maybe you should go and see him."
I nodded.
/Marth's POV/
I felt bad for both of them.
They had good parents, but they cared more for the peasants than their own children.
I found that ironic.
Roy wasn't in my room, he was in his own.
I knocked and went in.
Roy was sitting on his bed, holding something in his hands. His body was slouched a little.
I squinted, the windows were closed.
"Roy!" Lilina let go of me and rushed over to Roy, throwing herself on him.
"Lilina...?"
What was he holding in his hands?
I went over to the windowsill and opened the blinds.
A gun?
Lilina, obviously, knew what it was too.
"Roy?"
He smiled kindly at her.
His eyes were soft.
"Lilina, I'm so sorry."
"What are you going to do with that?" She asked.
"What do you think."
Lilina smiled. "Roy, just forget it. I forgive you. Marth explained to me what you were going through. My father was doing the same to me."
"You may forgive me, Lilina, but the others I killed sure don't." Roy stood up and took a step back.
"Roy! Just stop this nonsense. I never realized it, until this very moment, that I love you."
Roy stared at her, it was an eerie gaze. But that didn't stop her.
Lilina threw herself on him again and kissed him.
The look on Roy's surprised face was priceless.
"He was no good for me, Roy. But you are, regardless of your past sins." She whispered.
Roy's face was pale. "Lilina?" He pushed her away and lifted the gun to his head. "I'm sorry."
I just stood there.
"Roy! Don't! Just forget everything, and come live a happy life with me!"
Roy shook his head and smiled again. "Lilina, I would love to live with you. But, I'm sorry. I can't. I've done to much that I the only way I can repent for there their souls is to kill myself."
Lilina began to cry again. "Roy! Roy, don't be stupid!"
Roy gave her a wide grin. "Don't cry. There's no other way."
"Yes there is!" Lilina screamed, running over to him.
Roy pulled the trigger and...
/Roy POV/
Now I will be able to see you again...
Father...
Hm, I wanted to make Roy say: 'Redemption still eludes me.' Regal from Tales of Symphonia said that, I think. That would've been a cool last line. That's nasty. Seeing someone shoot themselves. Uh-huh. I don't have Fire Emblem 6, so was Lilina a little OOC? Because, in FE7, she seemed shy...
Au revoir, mon amis!
