"I'm sorry."

I feel her hugging me, and the contact is too much. She says it's real, as if she took the words straight from my mouth. I return the affectionate gesture, awkwardly, but I'm grateful to have at least one of my friends back.

"It's Riku… Riku's here…"

I tried not to, but the tears fell anyway. I looked for him, everywhere! I found him, we're all together in this world of nothing.

The sky.

The land.

The sea.

Together, at last.

"Why didn't you let me know you were okay?"

Those endless nights and days that I would spend thinking of him, worrying about Kairi. He could have said something, anything, just to let me know he was alright. I wouldn't expect a promise to come home, but that would've been nice too.

I told you so.

You.

Yes, me.

Why are you here, in my heart?

You'll know soon enough. But thank me before you cuss me out.

Thanks, I guess.

"Roxas… I wish I could meet him too."

You already did.

Really? When, where, how—

I'm Roxas, smart one.

Oh.

Between the sky, the land, and the sea, there's always room for one more.

"I guess I'm okay the way I am."

Broken, but thankful. The sky isn't whole, but it's not broken, not anymore.

Not anymore.

I want to thank the reviewers (Pomegranata and Flightfoot) for making the story special. All it takes is one word and you've made my day. Thanks for reading, s k y is at its end. I used their name meanings to express some of Sora's feelings. Example: "The sky. The land. The sea. Together, at last." Means "Sora, Riku, and Kairi, together at last." Roxas was there to help Sora (inspired by his line "Look sharp!" in KH2), and I thought about Namine making an entrance but too many characters. Have to keep it simple but deep. By the way, these oneshots (forever, XIII, fire, sky) were inspired by listening to Evanescence, and also by my past. (hence the one-wing guardian angel thing). Read below if you want to know.

I was always nice to everybody (like Xion, uber-friendly), but people exploited my niceness (sorta like Sora). I invited this one girl to my house for a sleepover. That was my first time as an accessory to shoplifting, being blackmailed, and constantly tortured and gossiped about. I would always be crying myself to sleep at night, thinking about suicide, too. (take your pick of the super angsty characters Riku or Roxas? Xion? Namine?) Those bitches never got what they deserved, but they did get no love. So it feels really great to vent out my feelings through angst and tragedy.