Les Shaman Miserables
Tamanine looked up at Marioh, who was fretting over the obscene amount of blood upon his hands and Tamanine's body. For some reason, her heart knew exactly what to say.
"Don't you fret," Tamanine reassured the frazzled Marioh. Marioh cocked his head slightly as Enjolren breathed slowly, waiting for the girl to keep speaking. "M'sieur Marioh… I don't feel any pain. A little fall of rain… can hardly hurt me… now… you're here… that's all I need to know… and you will keep me safe… and you will keep me close… and rain will make… the flowers grow…"
Marioh was startled by the breathy quality of Tamanine's voice. It didn't sound at all like her normally playful tone. As he looked at her blood-splattered heart-shaped shoulder bag, he stammered, "But you will live, Tamanine, dear God above -! If I could heal your wounds with words of love!"
"Just… hold me now," Tamanine instructed, placing her hand upon her stomach, presumably above the wound. "And let it be… shelter me… comfort me…"
"You would live a hundred years if I could show you how!" Marioh cried, not wanting to believe that she was indeed dying. "I won't desert you now!"
Tamanine placed her other hand upon Marioh's gore-covered palm. "The rain can't hurt me now… this rain… will wash away what's past…! And you will keep me safe… and you will keep me close… I'll sleep in your embrace at last…!"
"The rain… that sends you here… is heaven-blessed!" Tamanine continued feebly. "The skies begin to clear… and I'm at rest… a breath away from where you are… I've come home… from so far… so don't you fret, M'sieur Marioh…"
"Hush-a-bye, dear Tamanine," Marioh exhorted her.
"Don't feel any pain…" Tamanine coughed, phlegm covering her contaminated hand.
"You won't feel any pain."
"A little fall of rain…"
"…Can hardly hurt you now."
"Can hardly hurt me now…"
"I'm here…"
Tamanine smiled before shuttering. "That's all I need… to know…"
"I will stay with you," Marioh vowed.
"And you will keep me safe…" Tamanine responded, her voice lowering considerably.
"Until you are sleeping…" Marioh comforted her.
"And you will keep me close…"
"And rain…" Tamanine carried on, her voice near a deadly whisper.
"And rain…" Marioh repeated, now an inch away from her face.
"Will make the flowers…" they both said before Tamanine breathed her last, closing her eyes and letting her arm fall to the side.
"…Grow…" Marioh finished as tears welled up in his eyes, mourning his departed friend. He kissed her cheek, and then put her down upon the cold bricks on the ground.
Enjolren looked at the dead Tamanine, then at her stomach wound. He ripped the bottom of her shirt open, revealing a gruesome hole in her flesh, still spewing blood and stomach acids.
"She is the first to fall," Enjolren whispered, not knowing what to say. "She is… the first of us to fall upon this barricade…"
"Her name was Tamanine," Marioh told Enjolren in a reverent tone. "Her life was cold and dark… yet she was unafraid…"
Kantferre looked at the lifeless form. "We fight here in her name…"
"She will not die in vain," Hitosa Prouvaire murmured, tears clouding her own eyes.
"She will not be betrayed," Chatgles vowed as Enjolren and Marioh picked her up, moving her to a suitable burial space.
A/N: You insensitive people, cry! This is one of three things in the movies/plays that has made me shed tears - ever. The other two you ask? Two instances in Pokemon 4Ever combined (when Serebii dies and when James, with a pained look on his face, murmurs, 'Poor Jessie…') and the part in Edward Scissorhands when Kim hugs Edward made me cry. I hope I did the play justice with this.
A/N 2: Sorry the update took so long.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Shaman King or Les Mis.