Besaid, The Beach, Monday Midday, Fandom Time (NFB-Distance)

[the_merriest]

Yuna was busy, most of the time now. It had taken a couple of days of missed calls and overlapping travel for her to find her cousin, just to pass along the simple message -- that she and Reno had taken care of the fiend in the Bikanel desert.

Of course, if it had just been that, she could have left a message, but there was more. She needed to talk to Yuna. Really talk to her. About ... about a lot of things she never said, before.

She sat by the edge of the water, watching the waves lap up at the shore, and waited for her cousin to arrive.

(just for the NPC High Summoner, played by the delightful weldedtomyspine. the couple of days delay is for legitimate IC reasons and not because I was running around IRL, serious >.> )

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"Everyone's feelings matter," Yuna objected. Except for her own.

But Rikku's mattered.

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"Then act like it," Rikku said, more pleading than accusatory. Although she couldn't deny there were strains of both, there. "You decided a long time ago that being a hero is the only thing that matters, to you, and you kind of act like it's the only thing that should matter, to anyone else. So it's okay to ask horrible things of people, so long as you're doing it for what you think is a good reason. Sometimes I ... sometimes I think you don't realize how much you're asking of me."

She was horrible, for saying any of this to Yuna. She was the worst Guardian ever. And yet, she couldn't stop herself from continuing.

"A-and that's still better than when ... I think you do know, and you just don't care."

... Yuna was going to hate her. Yuna couldn't possibly hate her more than she hated herself, right now.

The worst part was how relieved she felt, just to have those awful things hanging in the air like that.

[summoninghope.livejournal.com]

Yuna was not going to sniffle. She was not going to sniffle. She was not going to sniffle.

Okay. Maybe a tiny little sniffle.

"Maybe... maybe you're right," she managed to get out around the lump in my throat. "Maybe I ask too much of you..."

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"Don't," Rikku said forcefully. "Don't do the martyr thing, Yunie. It's not fair. I have every right to be upset right now."

She needed a few seconds not to say the one thing that had been on her mind for years, now. And then she realized she didn't care if she did say it.

"Did you think about what it would be like for me?" she asked. "An Al Bhed, on a Yevonite pilgrimage? Knowing how Wakka felt about the Al Bhed?"

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Yuna blinked rapidly, looking shocked (and a little bit hurt). Her mouth opened, then closed silently.

Which was an answer in and of itself, really.

Her eyes welled up. How could she have been so... blind?