Author's Notes: Come on, Reviews make me happy! Just a bit more and the fiction is over and I can go onto my next work… Works really. I'm going to do one of the game and pre/post game from Reeve's POV, and an AU world where things are like the game, but the positions are switched. But, enjoy this fic. Read below for a minor attached rant.

whatevergirl: You… You I love. Oh yeah… /rushes off to start up the next chapter of the mentality series/

moonwolf0: Don't you howl at me… Get it?

And now the rant:
To Forsaken-Friday. You know, I tried to be polite and e-mail you this little thing, but I got an automated reply saying you don't take e-mails from people not on a list. So here is your response in public. First, grow up and be a bit more appropriate in your reviews. Second, have you even READ this story, or just the last chapter? Because you seem to have NO knowledge of what is going on. Do me a favor and disappear.

Chapter 10: Ren'Ai

"How could they?" Rufus ranted, pacing back and forth, his rage barely restrained.

"Rufus, calm down!" Reeve said, annoyed and dizzy by the pacing.

"I can understand his frustration," Tseng said, looking up from his attempts to make me as comfortable as possible. "They condemn Rude to burning the day after his daughter is born, and schedule Reno to marry the day after that!"

"But, it was the only way I could get them to agree to letting Rudelynth live that long," I said mournfully, "He deserves to see her, and she deserves to be held by him, even if only once." Already, only a month in, my stomach was showing a bulge, but on my normally slender form, it only looked like I was putting on weight.

"They cut his wings today," the Priestess Tailye announced as she entered my rooms. The only reason she retained her power as High Priestess of Cytledorma was because Hhojyo had gone missing, presumably assassinated in Rudelynth's name, but we did not believe it. So for now the Priestess of Death served as High Priest. "Our race will fall soon," she said with a definite sight. "He was the Chosen, and he did fall in love with the last of the royal line… I have seen war and destruction. The final fate of Seyin's visions is upon us."

"Tailye…" I said softly, "When I marry, will you take my daughter, your niece, as far from here as possible? While our race may not survive, she must, for my sake. Go to the north. The remainders of the Cetra have a city there. You will be safe."

"I will my Prince. I will raise her like my own daughter."

"That is all that I could ask for. Tell her everything about my Rude…" I said before turning my attention onto Reeve and Rufus. "You two WILL flee if war comes, and my children you have, or I have with my betrothed, must go with you."

"But Reno," Rufus started.

"You will leave me behind brother. It is all that I ask. But I must stay behind. Here is where I belong, here is where I'll stay. Go to the Wuitasiyan region. The humans there will accept any hard workers. But gut your wings. That is behind us now."

Reeve grabbed his younger lover's hand, "It will be done Reno… I've always loved the sea there, and healers and builders are needed everywhere."

Now I struggled to my feet, the silver winged Tseng aiding me. "I must go to see Rudelynth."

"Reno," he gasped in shock, as if he had never expected to see me again.

"You sound surprised," I accused.

"I thought they would forbid you from me," he admitted. "But," he chuckled, "A herd of angry chocobos could not keep you away, right?"

I smiled in response, tears stinging my eyes as I kneeled outside of his cell. The 'convict' kneeled beside me, the bars keeping him away, but the gesture still bringing us closer. Though the chilly steel bars impeded us, he stretched his arms out to pull me into a loving embrace. In return I used the simple spell scroll Rufus had given me to heal the wound on his back from the cutting of his lovely wings. His hands brushed my hair from my neck and let his fingers play along the red mark on the flesh.

"You're really pregnant? A month in?" he questioned.

"She's gonna be beautiful. I hope she has your eyes," I said, trying not to cry.

Rudelynth's hand moved from my neck to my stomach, which he stroked lovingly. "I've heard everything. Tailye told me. Marry the woman, don't hurt her. Move on."

"I can't move on Rude. This is the end. You're the Chosen One, and I am your Prince. We are the last of our kinds. Plans are being made to protect our daughter. "

You aren't leaving too?" he asked.

"I'm staying with you and our home."

"Don't!"

"You aren't changing my mind Rude," I said, wrapping my arms around his neck and carefully kissing him between the bars.

"Stubborn fools," he teased gently, finally driving the tears from my eyes and onto their salty trails down my cheeks.

"Yeah, but I'm not the one who was afraid of his job, and his guard."

"No, but you were brave, always were. But it's time for you to go Reno. Stay too much longer and they will think we plot."

"We do plot love, just not in the way they think. Now go Renonalte, my Prince. Don't come back." His arms released me before he stood, looking sadly down on me. I stood soon after and bowed to him.

"Rudelynth…" I started, but could not finish.

"I love you too Reno."

"My Prince," Tseng's voice came, scaring me enough to make me jump, "We have to go."

One last look at the guard turned Priest, turned 'traitor' was all I had and I took it. A minute later I left, never to see him alone again.

Some Time Later

Six months. I had ticked out the days on the walls, so I was sure that it was the six months. Tailye had come whenever there was news and time to give it to me. My sweet sister told me of the King's poisoning, and how those loyal to Hhojyo, the Missing Priest, had said I had killed the King, even from prison. Rune, she had said, you won't be spared. They refuse to crown Renonalte until he is wed… until you are burned. Then she had come down an hour ago and told me the news. I was a father! Finally she told me I'd see her at sunset, and then, once Reno was crowned, she and the babe would disappear, safe from harm ever again. Now, I waited for her.

"Rudelynth?" he sweet voice called out.

"Here sister, where I always am."

Tailye came to my cell and Tseng, Reno's servant, kept back, but ever ready to defend my daughter. The tall woman pulled back her robe, her wings moving faintly in the darkest shadows, poised to fly off with child if need be. Still, she was close enough to the bars to show the burden she carried. I inhaled sharply, nearly dazzled by the fact that I really was a father, and this was my daughter.

"Rufus says she is very healthy… She looks like us Rude, but she has Reno's eyes."

True enough, the eyes of icy blue looked up at me, surrounded by a delicate shade of mocha.

"She is beautiful," I gasped in awe.

Tailye let me touch the babe's face, "She needs a name."

"Let her be called Ren'Ai," I whispered.

"You want to name her 'Passion'?" Obviously my sister was captivated by the use of our most ancient tongue.

"And 'Messenger', in human. That is what she is. The child of Seyin reborn. And like Seyin, I will only ever again see my love in death," I said.

Tailye hesitated a moment. She did that when she has had a vision that some people don't want to hear.

"Tell me Tailye!" I demanded.

"You…" she whispered, "Will hold your love again, but eons in the future, and in a human form. But, you will not know him for what he is now, nor will you remember him. And both will be hesitant to reveal your hearts, for you are trained to be a cruel, heartless being. You are murderers, and assassins… And in the end all will crumble around you.'

"But we'll be together?" I asked, something akin to joy in my voice.