A/N: Another update this soon? Why yes! Somehow I got this idea for this prompt sooner than I excepted. Also, fuck you summer reading! The test are tomorrow and I didn't read any of the books and look how much I care. xD

Just a warning, spoilers towards the end of the series.

030. Conversation

He desperately misses his sight, being able to see her. She couldn't speak as the doctors had told her not to for now and he wants to know so very badly how she's feeling, but he doesn't ask, can't ask because how can she respond? Besides, he can no longer see her. He can't see the slightest upturn of her lips to know that she's happy and okay. He can't see if her eyes are glazed over from her withholding tears. The thought of her silently crying in the bed beside him and he not being able to see those tears, makes him hate himself.

"...Sir?" He almost jumps when he hears her voice. It's raspy and weak, but it's there. He's never been so grateful for it's tone.

"You shouldn't be talking. The doctors said - " He begins to protest. He doesn't want her to hurt, not anymore. He's caused her enough damage.

"I know," She whispers and he can hear her sighing. If he wasn't blind and confined to his hospital bed, he would have walked over to her beside, just to be near her, let her know that he loves her (he always has) and that she didn't do anything wrong (he has a feeling she's beating herself up over his loss of sight). For a second he feels like he should be apologizing to her for her injuries and being useless at a time like this.

"I - Are you feeling alright?" The apology almost comes tumbling out, but he's getting better at catching his tongue and changes his words, almost choking on them.

"Yes," Her saying that hurts him because he just knows she lying, but he can't see her eyes or her lips or her so he can't be sure, " . . . Are you alright?" She asks him after the silence she left.

"I will be," He says and he hopes she knows what he means. He hopes she over analyzes every single word he just said. He will be alright. More than, in fact. Maroch is going to let him use the stone in exactly two days. He'll see again in two days. Two days and then he will finally, finally, be able to read her lips, see the crow's feet in the corner of her eyes when she smiles (something she only rarely does in front of him, but it's something he treasures). Yes, he thinks he'll be alright.

note: I'm not sure how I feel about this. -mumble grumble-