Its been a long time coming, but here's the 3rd chapter. I've kinda taken a couple of the ideas that were given me for continuation, because for a long while I had no idea what to do with this story, but now I have a good idea where I'm going with it. This chapter is a little different from the rest, as its not from Auron's P.O.V. In fact, this chapter is basically all 3rd person. Hope that doesn't spoil the chapter, but its the only way I could write it, as you will soon see... :oS

Thank you everyone who reviewed for the first 2 chapters, and thank you for being so patient with me, now I have ideas the next chapters should be up every couple of days or so :o)

So here goes, hope you all enjoy!

3. A Dramatic Occurrance

(Next morning)

"Auron? Auron! Please, wake up… please… Wakka! Lulu! Come quickly!" Yuna shouted dramatically. She had found Auron lying on the floor in his hut the next morning, and he wasn't breathing.

"Eh? What's the fuss all about eh?" Wakka pulled the cloth covering away from the doorway of Auron's hut. Looking down, he saw Yuna, cradling Auron's head in her arms, tears streaming down her now red cheeks. "Oh… Oh man, Lu'! Come quick, Lu'!" He turned and ran out of the hut, trying desperately to find Lulu.

Time had seemed to stand still, and the length of time before Lulu arrived at the hut seemed to Yuna to have been an eternity.

"Yuna?" Lulu entered the hut. "Oh dear, um… Yuna? Please, give me some space… I can't help him if you're crowding me." She finished in a calming voice.

Yuna just sat there, staring into blank space. It seemed as though she hadn't heard a word of what Lulu had been saying.

"Okay, Wakka? Please help Yuna out of the hut. I'll do what I can." Lulu suggested.

"Okay Lu', but… what makes you think you can help him? Yuna is a healer ya? Surely she could do something?" He asked in return, a little confused.

"Wakka, it seems she's gone into shock, she is no good to me here if she can't act quickly." Lulu took hold of Wakka's hand and looked lovingly into his eyes, a look of desperation becoming increasingly more apparent. "Now please, do this for me."

"…Okay, is there anything you need?" He asked, desperate to help in some way.

"Just do this for me, I have all I need here." She replied calmly, trying desperately within her mind to think of what to do next.

(Within Besaid Temple – 10 minutes later)

"Please Yuna, speak to me… ya? Give me some kinda sign that you're okay?" Wakka pleaded with Yuna. He had taken her straight to the temple, hoping that he could care for her more competently with the Priests of Yevon doing what they could for her.

"It seems to be doing little good Wakka, she is evidently in a huge state of shock… only time can heal this kind of wound." The Priest could see the hurt in Wakka's eyes… he needed to find some way of consoling him, but what? This was quite a tricky situation do deal with.

"WHY? What good is this for, eh? What is the purpose of him coming back, if THIS is gonna be the outcome? He dies, leaving her like this? Who did this? Why did this have to happen?" Wakka shouted as he collapsed to his knees, sweat pouring from his forehead. "Why? We were just recovering from all of the loss… and now he returns? Why now? Why not sooner… and, what good is his coming back, only to die now?" His voice starting to weaken, the toll this situation had on him was becoming ever more apparent.

"Come, sit down and rest. This isn't only hard for her you know." The Priest pointed towards Yuna, whose head instinctively turned, now staring right into the Priests eyes.

"You know, sometimes people just die… so that I can hurt more… but they've taken every last part of me, what happens when there isn't any more hurt left within me? Do I vanish, like he did?"

Yuna was speaking so clearly, it took the Priest by surprise, but she had begun sounding confused… as if she actually believed she might vanish. Suddenly tears started pouring from her eyes, and she began to shout emotionally,

"Why won't they stop? They keep telling me I'm dying, but they're already dead… WHY WON'T THEY STOP?"

Finally she fell from the bed she was resting on, landing on her side. The healers rushed to her aid, and pulling her back up to her feet, placed her back into bed.

Just then, Lulu entered the room, holding onto a pair of dark sunglasses, with silver frames. Dropping them to the floor, she looked over to Wakka, her eyes glazed. "He's… dead." She couldn't believe the words that she herself had spoken, but they were true.

(Wakka & Lulu's Hut – Several hours later)

"It just… doesn't make sense. Why would they send him back, only to die again so soon? Its as if he had no purpose here… but then, why would they send him back with no purpose?" Lulu began.

Her and Wakka had been sitting alone in their hut for ten minutes… and Lulu had broken the deadly silence. Wakka looked up at her, lifting his head from between his knees.

"… I dunno, maybe… they just wanted him to have a second chance. I mean, if he died of a heart attack like you said… maybe that was his second chance. Just, this time he died of natural causes… ya know?" He replied… taking deep breaths between each group of words.

"It just doesn't seem like them… there must have been a bigger purpose to his being here…" Lulu began grasping at straws. She couldn't think of another reason, but she wanted there to be one… as if she couldn't bare the thought of him being gone forever. "Maybe, because of what happened… they'll bring him back again? In order to fulfil the purpose he was sent for in the first place."

"Come on Lu'… I want him back as much as you do, but what are the chances, eh? They brought Tidus back too, remember? But what happened? After a year of happiness he just vanishes again, breaking Yuna's heart… again. After the other things I've seen the Fayth do… this is no big surprise ya?"

"It would be nice, just for once if you let me have hope…" Lulu said softly, the words Wakka spoke hitting hard into her mind.

"I'm sorry Lu'… but it's the truth, and you know it. I just don't want you to get hurt like Yuna was, she thought they'd bring him back again… but a year later and no sign. Maybe its not best to get your hopes up… ya?" Wakka had now stood up, and started pacing around.

"Okay… well… I suppose I ought to thank you. Maybe, I'll be able to someday…" Lulu stood up, and left the hut, not stopping to explain herself when Wakka called after her. Today had been just too much for her, she couldn't endure another of Wakka's speeches about life not being the perfect picnic that everyone had expected.

"I'm sorry Lu'…" Wakka spoke aloud to himself, knowing she couldn't hear him. He sat back down on his bad, and proceeded bury his head in between his knees again.

"Hmm… just a thought, but… maybe I could get my glasses back?"

Wakka looked up again, both his eyes and mouth wide open in pure shock and amazement.

"Wha…? LUUUUUUU!"

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Hmm. Maybe I had some explaining to do myself.

Right, hopefully now you understand why I had to write the first 99 percent of this chapter in 3rd person, that will be because Auron was 'dead' for most of the chapter and only actually spoke 9 words (lol).

Believe it or not this chapter was incredibly hard to write, and I'm not entirely happy with it now, so please review and let me know what you think. Next chapter will be up within the next few days, I've already started working on it.

Next chapter will (finally) give you a clue as to what the hell has been happening in these last two chapters lol :o)

Thank you everyone, be back soon!