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 Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:08 am
She squeezed his hand, finding comfort in not only the warmth, but the connection she felt with him. She had always thought of him as someone she could confide in, which now rather made sense now that they knew he had been with her since she was a baby in their previous life.
"Yes." She choked out, and just leaned forward to rest her head on his chest, tears now flowing. She had tried so hard to not think about it, to assure herself that he would come back one day, tried to be strong like Aries was. But in the end, Serenade still longed for someone to cry on, and this was Zue. It had always been him, and it would always remain that way. She was sobbing now, blubbering, letting it all out. "I forgot him. In Barren Pines. I didn't know what love was; I was confused. I kept asking questions. And now, I've found the answer, but it hurts. It hurts so much, Zue, to forget someone who was everything to you."
And he still was everything to her. Of course, there were the Zodiacs and Zue, but Eon... Alistair McGill had been her one true love.
She had never truly believed in fairy tales of princes and princesses being so perfectly in love with each other now. Except that her love wasn't perfect.
Not when he was gone.
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:37 pm
To forget someone who was everything to you....
Sue didn't know how to respond. Not in a single way. She was leaning against him; all he could do was stand stiff, pray not to disturb her. She was looking to him for comfort - but words? He never had the right words. Not in this lifetime, anyway. The way she was reacting to him, leaning on him, depending on something in him; Sue was lost for understanding.
Because Chronos had meant everything to him once. But he couldn't quite remember how.
But when she leaned on him like that... he really wished he remembered. Because even where the events and thoughts of memories wouldn't come, there was still hard-wiring. Urges to protect, urges to care. This green-haired thing that was weeping over the front of his shirt, it needed him; it had always needed him; he had to be there for it. Even if he couldn't quite find that key of empathy between Zue, who had first laid eyes on Chronos as a baby and guarded her zealously ever since, and Sue, who had barely met this young lady Serenade, who was fumbling to make sense of an additional life's baggage stuck onto his own.
The first step, strangely enough, was to stop caring how Zue should have acted. Because in a moment like this - just one human seeking comfort from another - there was always some instinct to fall back on.
And he softened at last.
Sue's hands wrapped around the princess; gentle but sure, with an almost possessive touch that promised he would keep her close, just as long as she needed it. He leaned back against her, just a touch - enough to make it a shared embrace, not one person crying against a human wall. Sound came from his lips, but it was meaningless. Just gentle murmurs, soft assertions of noise to smooth over the silence between her sobs.
Sue didn't know if he was holding Chronos or Serenade at that moment. Luckily, he didn't care. Either one of them was free to have him, take in what pitiful warmth he could give and use his shirt as a tissue, until the tears were all gone.
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