Ok, here we are Chapter Two! Thank you EVERYONE Who's commented you guys rock to say the least Please comment to me if this is to cough Mushy, I have a tendency to get that way when I write stories like this :-/ Please tell me if you want me to continue on with the story!
She fell to her knees upon the metallic surface of the airship. Her tears flowing freely upon her skin, small whimpers could be heard coming out of her...her breathing was ragged between them, almost forced. Rikku and Lulu kneeled beside her, offering their comforting hands of reassurance and love...But she did not feel those hands, instead she sat there numb...she didn't even notice her hair being scattered in the wind...or it's harshness against her exposed flesh. She kept replaying the image over and over in her head, remembering the feel of his skin against hers for the last time. She couldn't stop the tears as they spilled over her eyes...she couldn't stop the sobs as the memory unforgivingly replayed ever detail in her head...Him holding her...his leap from the Airship, he was almost gone when he lept from the ship...nothing more than a translucent image...
Wakka slowly walked over to Lulu and Rikku, whispering to them silently, "I think we should give her some time alone...ya?" They both nodded and gave Yuna a reassuring squeeze on the shoulder before standing and walking back towards the bridge of the Airship. Cid was silent, watching the entire scene unfold on the monitor inside the bridge...his heart was heavy seeing such sorrow his niece was enduring...but he knew now more than ever she needed time to figure this out...to heal...He turned around hearing the door leading to the deck open with a loud sound of metal against metal. Lulu, Rikku, and Wakka walked through, the sadness portrayed not only on their face but in their movements as well.
Rikku just ran over to Cid hugging tight against her father...her usually bubbly nature masked by sorrow and pain...Wakka and Lulu sat down beside each other, and not even realizing or caring, they wrapped their arms around each other, giving the other a well needed shoulder, not caring what emotions might be there or might not be there...they just took comfort in soothing the other's sorrows. Normally this would be a suprising thing to see from Lulu...but at that moment, no one really cared...everything was just so messed up, no one cared about the how's or whys...all they knew was that they lost a dear friend, and one of the people they cared most about, was in more pain then they could know...Lulu knew all to well the feeling of losing something so precious...this only helping to add onto the memories of her own pain...the lose of her own love so many years ago...making the agony all that more real...
Yuna laid on the metallic ground, her knees tightly wrapped against her chest, her arms wrapped tightly around them...her face was red from weeping, her beautiful green and blue eyes hidden behind bloodshot globes...The air had grown cold...but she hadn't really noticed it...she could never be as cold as she was at that moment...she felt numb...sick...His face before he jumped kept replaying in her mind...such a look of sadness, she could see the hint of tears upon that handsome face...She had told him she loved him...but he never had the chance to return the words, if he even did...No...she knew his feelings, she knew it just as easily as she could take a breath...But she would never hear those words uttered from his lips...he would never hold her close...never make her laugh as he always did...she said that she wanted her journey to be full of laughter...and he did that...he gave her so many things...It was his help and all the others that helped her get through this...to break the cycle and bring the endless calm...He should be here with her...standing beside her as she addressed Spira...he was her guardian...her friend...her..."love"...
New tears began to flow as she remembered what seemed to be only yesterday...their encounter in Macalania Woods...he told her he would Show her his Zanarkand...the city that never sleeps...she would watch him play Blitzball and cheer and cheer. As much as she loved the idea...she had to follow her heart...she had to bring the calm for all of Spira...even if it ment her life...and while she wept, sorry for not being able to share those things with him...sorry for bringing him such sorrow...He comforted her...held her...loved her...and that night they displayed their feelings...their fears...their love...he didn't have to say it...She knew that he loved her...she knew they were ment together as they floated along that lake...hands entwined within each other...She knew this more than she had none anything else in her life...
But now...he was gone...She had given everything for Spira, protected Spira, gave her self completely to Spira...and the Fayth took the one thing she had loved more than Spira itself...now she was alone...She knew "they" would be there for her...Rikku, Wakka, Lulu...they would all be there for her...but it wouldn't stop the pain...the bleeding of her heart...this would forever be a wound that never healed...
And as the tears overtook her once more...she tried with all that she had...
...to cry herself to sleep...
I'll try in the next chapter to try to get into more of the "meat" of the story then just the emotions and thoughts of the characters, of course that will still be in there, but I just felt that yeah, everyone knew that Yuna and everyone was sad...but I mean how did she Truly feel, how would YOU truly feel if you lost someone more precious than your very life?
