Word count: 222
Summary: Post SEED. Sai reflects on the happy endings, and lack of them, around him.
Note: won second place at seedfictest for the drabble theme 'Happy Ending'.
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Happy Endings
There was Kira, disappearing to live a happy life with Lacus.
There was Cagalli, the girl he barely knew but admired anyway, rising to take her place as leader of Orb with Athrun Zala, former Zaft soldier.
It was a happy end to a long and terrible war. After all, those four were right in the midst of it, weren't they? They had suffered the most.
But Sai watched from afar as those around him laboured to rebuild their lives anew. Natarle was dead. Mwu was dead. Miriallia tried to forget.
Fllay was dead.
Where were their happy endings? Sai sat hunched over his textbook, pale sunlight seeping in and pooling on his back. He couldn't escape. And constantly, Sai struggled to keep his boiling emotions in check.
Epic war tales were written by fools. Happiness was nothing. An end to all suffering and pain? What a joke. Sai swallowed and coughed, squeezing his eyes shut, pushing the anger and despair back, back.
He was close enough to feel, but not enough to understand. Would he ever? Probably not.
The great stories always forgot about the minor characters. They may have suffered as much, maybe even more than the hero, but it didn't matter.
They weren't, after all, deserving of a happy ending. Because they didn't, and probably couldn't, save the world.