Shuyin's Interlude
Origonally Published 8.08.2005

AUTHOR'S NOTE, EDIT: personally, i still dont' have much to say about this one. i still don't like the ending, but no one's told me what's wrong with it yet. i was very surprised by the amout of positive feedback i got on it, tho.

ORIGONAL AUTHOR'S NOTE:

A/N: its short and i don't like it much. something about the ending doesn't work for me, but i'm having trouble pinning it down. please be dears and TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT! itemize! explain! don't just say "the end sucks" cause i know that! help me out, huh guys?
eerian

DISCLAIMER: don't own any of the characters from ffx-2, or any other ff games.

We had our first fight the night Lenne got her orders to ship out to Gagazet. I had enough problems with the fact that—as a Summoner—she was part of the army. But actually going off to fight in the war was much much worse. But she thought of it as her calling. I thought she should just dropt the whole idea.

Going off to fight this war was suicide, I told her. She didn't agree. She actually thought Zanarkand had a chance to win. She told me that going out and bringing peace and victory back to the city was the destiny of the Summoners.

Her destiny. When the day before she'd said I was her destiny.

I told her it was stupid. The war, the fighting, Zanarkand thinking it could stand up to Bevelle, all of it. When she tried to explain it to me, I said I was stupid to think that she loved me more than her work.

She slapped me. And I deserved it. I knew that she loved me. I knew it. But she loved Zanarkand too, and had to help defend it.

I understood after she stormed out. But it was too late then.

She didn't even say goodbye.

I knew I'd never see her again unless I did something. Never be near her again, or get to say I was sorry.

I loved her so much that I would have faced every battle machine in Bevelle to say I was sorry to her.

In my whole life I've never done anything I was more sorry for. Nothing else has made me feel so hopeless. And there's never been another circumstance that made me pray.

That night, I prayed with my entire being for a way to keep Lenne safe.

And this morning, I heard rumors of something that I think will work. I've found a way to stop the war. I've found a way to save Lenne.