A/N -
There's at least one song quote or title in each chapter.
If you can guess it, well, there's no prize.
You're just awesome.
Oh, and the first few chapters might be slightly confusing.
If you have the brain power of my hamster.
You might surprise yourself.
The plot will clear up and be a little more coherent later on in the story.
I swear.
Oh, My Beautiful Woman, Your Sins Into Me - I Will Beg For Forgiveness : Sleepy Hollow
Chapter 1 : It feels like I've been dead for hours...not you.
"Paine!"
The scream died with her hope as the lithe Al Bhed saw the young woman get sliced, the enter wound too close to her heart for a breath to be taken by anyone to witness.
Her warrior's body tensed then spasmed, the last convulsion her nerves would ever control.
Rikku forced her numbed being to move forward, closer to the bloody mess of lost love.
Her vision blurred with tears, it became an unreal scene full of nightmares.
Though even her night terrors were negotiably more pleasant, her eyes were open for this.
Hands outstretched now, every part of her body leaned in to caress the nonexistent smirk she would miss more than the secretive bloody eyes that watched her more caringly than their owner would ever let on.
As if her thoughts controlled this surreal world, Paine's lips quirked open just the slightest bit as her last gasp was exhaled.
Now that smirk would live on till it rotted off her skull.
Tears seemed to be raining down on the warrior's cheeks, products of the mourning for her life by two swirling green eyes.
Like the fluttering of wings Rikku landed her eyelashes on Paine's countenance to erase the memories of sadness.
When she lifted her head up, voices were surrounding all around her.
"An old tragedy."
Faintly...
"They're going to get you."
Her head pounding now.
"I'm not afraid. I want to know." Her own voice crisper than their words.
"Tell me what I am to you, and I'll give you so much more."
Those words rang through until the pounding crushed them.