Chapter 15

That night Marlene woke up with a bad fever, Rikku was there trying to bring it down. She wasn't succeeding. "Please don't hate Yuna." Rikku begged her. "Hate is a powerful and dangerous thing." Marlene just stared into space. "I'll go get Paine in here now." Rikku stood up and walked out the room, leaving Marlene to herself. "Paine. Your better at this sort of stuff than I am. Can you go see Marlene?"

Paine looked at her. "Sure." Paine walked into the room where Marlene was and tried talking to her. "Tidus and Yuna have gone back to Besaid." She sighed. "Once you get better you can go back there if you want. If not then you can either stay here with Rikku, or come back to Bevelle with me. It's your choice."

To her surprise Marlene answered her question! But it wasn't the answer that she was hoping for. "I don't know where I want to anymore. Everyone keeps making me go to other places; I just want something to stay the same."

"Why do you hate Yuna?"

Marlene looked away. "She doesn't want me. So I don't want her. Everyone says that daddy is bad but Yuna's worse. Daddy helped me Yuna did help me but now she doesn't even love me. No one does."

"Yes we do, but we can't give you your mother back." Paine said looking at the bruises on her arms. "Tidus said that you told him about your mom's death. He felt sad about it." Marlene didn't say anything so Paine chose to change the subject. "Would you like a story?" She asked her. Marlene nodded and grabbed her new moogle doll that Lulu had made for her and sent down after she heard that her other one had been destroyed.

Half way through the story Marlene fell asleep. She was awoken about an hour later by the comsphere in her room going off. No one else was with her to answer it so she chose to answer it herself. She tried her hardest to sit up and turn on the button that let the image come on. "Hello?" She weakly said watching an image start to materialise.

"Marlene? Is that you?" Lulu's voice asked her.

"Yes."

"Are you feeling any better?"

"No."

"Can I speak to Paine please?"

Marlene nodded and got her. "What is it Lulu?"

"Wakka and I have been talking and… if Marlene wants to then she can come over here tomorrow and stay with us."

Marlene nodded and hugged her doll tighter. "I'd like that."

So the next morning Marlene was put on the airship and carried back to Besaid.

I no I leave it at strange places but my computers playing up again!