A/N: Wow there hasn't been an update from me in such a long time. I had a bad case of writer's block. But not to worry; I've been cured...for the moment. I just wanted to say thank you to Angel Taisha, Anrixan, Ying Ying 54, Steel Balrog and lots of other people that I can't think of your screen names at the moment. Ok so I'm going to stop babbling and get on with the story.

Two Worlds Apart

Chapter 8: Marriage Vows Broken

Wakka woke up with a start. Groggily, he looked around before realizing where he was. He was still sitting in the red plastic hospital chair next to Rikku's bed. His beloved Al Bhed Angel lay there deathly pale in a coma. According to the doctors, Rikku's body was healing just fine; it was he soul that needed to heal the most. She was losing the will to live.

Getting up from the char Wakka stretched as the head nurse entered the room. "You should go home," she said. "Take a shower, change clothes, eat, maybe get a little sleep. When you come back we'll have a cot out just in case you'd like to stay the night with your friend."

Reluctantly, Wakka agreed. He would be no use to Rikku if he were a nervous wreck. So before heading out of the hospital he left his cell phone number at the nurses' station just in case there was a change in her condition. Then he headed home.

As Wakka arrived home he surveyed his yard looking for any sign of unusual. After all Rikku had only been shot a block from his home. He noticed that their small boat was not longer tied to its post on the modest dock just south of his house. Maybe Tidus and Yuna took it to go visit Besaid's ruins. Yuna always went there when she needed time to think, he rationalized. Still, he entered his house cautiously. He secured the downstairs before making his way up. In the guestroom on the right at the beginning of the hall Yuna and Tidus were fast asleep. Seeing this caused him to be suspicious because the boat was missing. Walking further down the hall he walked into Vidina's room. His soon lay curled up in the fetal position. He pulled up the pale blue blankets that had been kicked back and tucked them around the sleeping toddler. Placing a kiss on his son's forehead he turned to leave the room but something caught his eye. The light on the baby monitor. Lulu never forgot to turn it on, in fact she was obsessive about it. This caused seeds of worry to implant in his mind. Flipping on the monitor he headed to his own room.

When he opened the door to his bedroom he noticed Lulu wasn't in bed, so he checked the bathroom and the porch; but Lulu was nowhere to be found. Where could she be?" he thought as panic started to set in. Surely Tidus or Yuna would have heard something had their been a break in or a struggle. And Lulu was more than capable in defending herself. She was an ex-guardian for crying out loud. Wakka looked around the room searching for clues of where his wife could be. In the walk-in closet on the floor next to the hamper he saw Lulu's Sphere Pilot RX3000 blinking. Picking it up he pressed the emission button and a screen popped up. There was a recent message on the screen.

Need 2 See U. NOW. U know where. 11:30

Wakka plopped down on his bed dumbfounded. Who was she going to see this late at night? Why was their son's monitor off? Did Tidus and Yuna know that she had left? When was she coming back? Why had she left in a time like this? Didn't she know the dangers? Where was the boat? Had she taken it? All of these questions raced through his head as he sat there an absorbed the information from his recent discoveries. Please Yevon, he silently prayed, "Don't let this be what I think it is. Please let me be wrong."

The clock hit five and the lights on it began to flash and Wakka still sat in the same spot on the bed. Five hours had lapsed and still no Lulu. Shifting his position, a soft noise caught his attention. He heard footsteps. Lulu. She entered the room and when she saw him sitting there she had a look on her face that seem to be a mixture of horror and surprise. He was still holding the Sphere Pilot in his hands.

"Wakka, did you just get home? How is Rikku?" she asked softly.

"Actually I got home five hours ago. Where were you?" he questioned her calmly, ignoring the fact that she asked about Rikku. He didn't feel she had the right especially considering what she had more than likely been doing the night before.

Lulu faltered as he spoke. Her normally menacing look faded from her face. She was now standing a foot away from him. He could smell the cheap cologne on her pale translucent skin. In an instant his worse fears had been concerned. She had been with another man. He wondered how many other nights she had snuck out of bed and spread her legs for someone else. Lulu couldn't even look at him. Shame was etched into the features on the black mage's stony face. Wakka merely nodded as he let the Sphere Pilot fall from his hands and he stood up feeling his heart sink.

"Who is he?" he asked, his voice a hoarse whisper.

"Wakka, please. It doesn't matter. I swear it will never happen again," She insisted.

"It does matter, Lu. It matters to me who my wife has been spread her legs for in the middle of the night? So who have you been fucking Lu? Is it only one man or are there others?"

"It's not important. It doesn't matter who. Let's just talk about this for a second."

"You know what? Fuck it. I don't want to hear the who, the when, the where, or the how. I want to hear the why, Luanna. Was I just not enough for you? Was there something you didn't like? Not big enough for you? Not rough enough?"

"Oh Wakka," she said closing the gap between them. "It isn't you. It never has been. I don't have an excuse for my actions and I refuse to make one."

"I have an idea," he said thoughtfully. "Pack your shit and get the fuck out of my house. Go back to your piece of trash lover. And don't you dare try to take my son. Don't even go into his room. He doesn't need to be tainted because his mother is a whore and can't keep her legs clothes."

"Wakka-"

"LU, Get the fuck out now!"

"Please," she begged, tears welling up in her violet eyes.

"Luanna, you need to leave now before I do something I will later regret," he said through gritted teeth. With that he walked into the bathroom slamming the door. Stripping of his clothes he climbed in the shower and turned the nozzle. He let the sizzling hot water beat down on him at full force. As if so wash the pain away. When he came out the bathroom Lulu was gone again. He wrote a quick note to Yuna and Tidus and left for the hospital. Tears of despair fell with every step he took. So much for getting rest, he thought.