Why is TCAM attempting to write sad stuff? Who knows.
Warning: Um… dead Eliwood? It's really short too.
Pairings: EliwoodxNinian.
Disclaimer: TCAM does not own Fire Emblem, which is probably for the best so lets all thank Elimine for it.
My body shakes, the few tears that are still left to fall after all this time are trickling down my face. The sky is dark and snow is falling all around me, all around us. It's freezing, but I will not go to find the others. I will not leave you. Your body is cold. I clutch it to me; I will never let you go. My dress is stained red with blood, your blood, but I don't care. Another tear lands on your pale face.
'Ninian, I love you. That will not change, no matter what may come.'
How could you die? I had so much faith in you, everyone did. Mark, Lady Lyndis, Lord Hector, everyone. Another tear falls down my face and dampens your cheek. I never expected this, when Hector returned from where you two had been fighting without you and said nothing I knew something was wrong. I hurried to find you, to see what had happened; and I desperately hoped I had got the wrong idea. I hadn't.
'I don't care what your secret is -- I will still feel the same.'
When I saw your body lying cold and limp on the ground I felt tears gathering in my eyes. Your body was covered with blood. I knelt beside you and sobbed into your crimson hair. I refused to believe that you were truly gone. You couldn't go, not yet. You promised that you would take me back to Pharae and we would dance to the festival songs. That after this war was over you would make me your wife.
'If something troubles you, let me sweep it away.'
They will come soon. They will tell me I have to come with them to an inn or I will freeze. All I want is to stay with you, no, all I want is for you to open your sapphire eyes and tell me that everything's going to be ok, like you used to not so long ago. I can hear footsteps behind me, I will have to leave you soon, and I will never see you again. Mark places his hand on my shoulder and looks at me sympathetically. I have to go.
'Please don't cry anymore. I would do anything to see you smile again.'
I close my eyes and rest my head on your chest for one last time. I try to tell myself that this is all just a dream, that you'll wake up and embrace me and everything will be fine. As I begin to follow Mark back to the others I look back to you and keep telling myself that we will speak again, we will laugh together. And someday we will dance again.
-Fin