Who are you? Its no surprise I can hear you, I can hear many things I would never tell anyone. Comes from living on Terra and revisiting it. Voices seemed to get stuck in head when I returned to Gaia. And also there was Kuja always talking to me in my head. What do you want anyway? You want to talk about Garnet? Well, that's no surprise, everyone does...
...You're not a reporter are you? Ok, I suppose I'll tell you my side.
Where to start, at the beginning? Where does it begin? I'll just start with the kidnapping, the promise. I don't care what Dagger thought. But I meant that promise; I meant it more that I have ever meant anything. I will never know why I meant it so much but I did. Just be happy with that.
So we kidnapped her, and her 'mummy' wants her back, we don't yield and get outta there...and then I loose her in the god forsaken forest and I know, I just know, I have to do everything it takes to get her back. You saw me making my mind up, well; you know how dead set I was on that then.
I want to skip this all now, skip all of the stuff we went through.
At the end, when I said goodbye to her. I had realised that she wouldn't be able to stay with me. She was a princess, I was a thief. I was surprised by when she asked me to come back, that I had to bow my head, I had to let some tears fall, from happiness or sadness, I don't know, but tears came anyway.
So Dagger left me, they all left me, even that son-of-a-bitch Kuja, who I stayed behind to keep with me, left. I was alone, but that thought, that promise came to me so strong that I knew I would get out of there one day, I would get Dagger back.
I won't tell you how I got out, that's my one greatest trick I ever did and a magician doesn't reveal his tricks. I will tell you how I became in the play.
So, I got out and I found the Tantalus crew, I persuaded them to let me in this one play, (they are no fools, money, lots of it, was exchanged at this point) and then I contacted Steiner, who was shocked, to say the least but he agreed to let me in the castle, even though I was not on the guest list etc.
So I appear on stage, and Dagger throws herself at me, literally throws herself. And I know that despite the rules, despite the image, we'll be together again.
The wedding, don't know how Dagger did that. But we got married, loads of diamonds and sapphires and god knows what else on one day, but Dagger looked beautiful, she would have looked beautiful in rags, but that look in her eye, the small spark of excitement and love that she held just for me, was the most beautiful thing I have and will ever see.
Yes, I know, I'm a romantic.
But the press, everything I have despised when I was living as a thief because they made us out to be people with no souls, with no happiness, came around me again but this time, if I was talking to Ruby, it was my new 'secret love affair' or any girl for that matter. They knew my history, and they loved to tease me and Dagger about it. If that got Dagger down, you should have seen her when they started on her. 'How I was dragging her down', 'How I can't rule over Alexandria'. If only they would leave us alone...
Dagger cries at night sometimes, small shallow breaths that break my heart. I try to comfort her but it doesn't work for she sees my kindness and cries even more. Those bastards of the press pull her down so much. She knows me, and then she sees the press about me and cries for they are so wrong about me.
If she could start over, with just me, no one knowing who we were, no one caring who we were, I know she would. But I won't let her. She has such an important place in the world, and I won't be selfish and take it away from her. Besides, if she wasn't a queen to Alexandria, she wouldn't be the girl I love and never want to let go.
She sings our song out the window each night, like a lullaby to the whole of Alexandria and Alexander herself. I hum along now and then, and she never hears me but I do sing some of the words very quietly behind her. She just had a tear in her eye so I held her hand and she leant on me, together, we looked out over the whole of Alexandria... We, She shall live on in the role she was born into, I don't care if it breaks my heart and she has to leave me, I will not let her choose me over the whole of Alexandria.