Chapter 14

Marlene was lying down on her bed while Rikku was reading her a story of Spira's fairytales. Marlene was listening but was just staring off into space images of her parents flashing in front of her eyes. There was someone else to but they were gone in the blink of an eye. "…The end." Rikku said as the story came to a stop. "Would you like to see Paine? She's here too. She arrived last night, when you were asleep."

"I don't mind." Marlene replied no emotion but sadness in her voice.

Rikku sighed and stood. Marlene watched as she walked out the room and Paine walked in. "Hi." Paine said sitting on the end of her bed. "What are you doing?" She asked trying to start a conversation.

"Thinking." She simply replied.

"About what?"

"Daddy, mommy, you, Rikku, and Yuna." She told her looking at her.

Paine smiled at her. "Why?"

"Mommy loved me, Rikku loves me, Daddy loves me, you love me, but no one else does…" She told her looking down tears glistening in her eyes threatening too spill over.

Paine quickly wrapped her arms around her. "We all love you. I admit what Yuna did was wrong and we're all angry at her for it. But your father, Seymour wants to use you in some way. And he'll use you to do terrible things." Paine told her.

"That's what Rikku said." Marlene started sniffing. "Why doesn't anyone want me?" She cried sobbing. "Yuna and Tidus sent me away on the day after my mommy died last year. Why can't someone stay?" She cried even more. "The only reason that everyone is being nice to me is because they feel guilty…"

"That's not why Marlene. Yuna might have acted this way because she's just given birth."

"Then I'm never going to have children." Marlene said.

"Why?" Paine asked her wiping her tears.

"So I won't forget other people."

Paine stood up and walked out the room. "Where's Yuna?" She asked Rikku dangerously.

"She's outside with Tidus." Rikku told her watching Paine storm outside.

Paine caught sight of Yuna sitting in Tidus's arms crying. "Yuna!" She called over to her. Yuna looked up at her with red puffy eyes. "Tidus, leave us alone for a minute please." Tidus nodded and left. "Yuna. Do you know what you're putting that girl through?"

"It's not my fault that she refuses to talk to me." Yuna said wiping her tears off her cheeks her voice still teary. "If I go anywhere near her, anything that I do…"

"This isn't about you Yuna!" Paine screamed at her. "That girl in there hasn't got anyone in the world. All that keeps her going is the thought of her mother. And even that's fading!" Yuna jumped at the tone in her voice. "As much as anyone says that they love Marlene she feels that no one does! Because no one brings it out into words or actions! No one except her mother and her father as much as you like to admit that he's just using her which I'm not saying he isn't, but they showed her love! Even you did at one time. And you loved her right up until you realised that Tidus, Jecht, and you would be the perfect fantasy family. And the only problem left in your way was Marlene and her needs for love… Maybe if you stopped feeling sorry for yourself and listened to what she's trying to say then you'd know! Most of it she might say in her sleep, but you just drug her!" Paine stopped her shouting when she heard Rikku calling her from inside about Marlene.

When Paine got inside Marlene was being held by Gippal while she cried. "What is it?" Paine asked her.

"Marlene heard everything that was being said. She keeps on crying for her mom." Rikku told her looking at Marlene. "She says that she wants to disappear and die, but also…" She lent closer so that she was whispering in Paine's ear. "That she hates Yunie."

Yuna went over to Marlene and knelt down in front of her. "What have I done" She asked herself.

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