faythly: (all_creation-18)
yuna ([personal profile] faythly) wrote in [community profile] memepatheias 2019-12-26 12:35 am (UTC)

The swatches of familiar color flit in and out of the crowd as Yuna struggles against both hope and desperation. Some of the people close ranks around her, like they're trying to get away from someone or something, before a gap appears in front of her. She pushes towards it, murmuring platitudes and "Excuse me" as she goes, until suddenly a blond head fights its way into view. For a moment as the crowd parts and he gazes straight at her, looking for all the world like he wants to hug her, she hesitates. She knows what she wants him to do next: wrap his arms around her and never let her go again.

But the thing is that she remembers the last time she tried to hug him. Back on the airship, after the final fight with Yevon, after sending all of her aeons and Auron as well, after Sin's finally lifeless shell fell from the sky for the final time... she remembers watching him start to fade away in front of her very eyes. She had thrown herself at him, run so hard towards him that she thought she might fly, and that momentum had carried her right through him.

He had lifted his arms then, too, like he was trying to catch her, but he couldn't. It looks so similar to how he had looked back then that she is genuinely afraid to try again.

And she honestly doesn't know if she'll be able to survive losing him a second time.

So, she stops short with tears still in her eyes and hesitation in her body, but all of that flies straight out of her as soon as he wraps his arms around her. He's solid and firm and real and the tears come again as she flings her arms around him in turn. Fingers wrap around the fabric of his jumpsuit, like her will and strength alone will keep him solid and here.

"You're here," she whispers, voice wavering with the weight of her emotions. "You're really here."

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