paixaorpg | Tonight and the Rest of My Life (Active / Closed)

Character(s): Yuna and Tidus
Content: Nightmares and a talk
Setting: Iriela Apartments
Time: Late night, Week 36
Warnings: Nightmares D8

Yuna had never experienced nightmares like this before. First she'd dreamed of all the times she'd had to destroy her aeons, her friends, sending the human one and killing the aeon ones... and now she was experiencing the loss of something else, something far more dear to her. He was there, right there, and yet she could do nothing but watch.

"After this fight... I'll disappear!"

His words rang in her ears as she threw herself forward, trying to touch him and assure herself that he wasn't going anywhere. But instead of holding onto him, she went right through him, collapsing on the airship's deck with a thump that made their friends gasp in horror. When she stood up, tears were flowing down her cheeks. This couldn't be happening. She'd destroyed Sin so no one would have to be sacrificed ever again for the peace of Spira.

And in doing so, she'd sacrificed the life of the person who meant the most to her.

She wasn't aware of waking up, or how much she was crying. All Yuna knew was the pain she felt and the worry that she would lose him a third time.

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He had never been the type to have nightmares. Weird dreams, sure...but nothing like the dreams he had been having the last few nights. Nothing like this.

They were in Zanarkand again, in the dome. Everything was just like it had been before, when Yunalesca told Yuna to choose one of her guardians. To choose her Final Aeon. But when he spoke, trying to tell his friends that it would be pointless, that Yuna's death wasn't worth it...no one listened.

It was as if he wasn't even there.

But he kept trying. He yelled and screamed, tried to find the right words, tried to hold them back. But no one heard him, and he couldn't move. Not fast enough, at least. It was the worst-case scenario. He couldn't stop it, any of it. He couldn't stop the the Final Summoning, or Sin, or save...

"Yuna!"

When he opened his eyes, she was right there. For a second, he couldn't breathe - not until he fully realized that it had just been a bad dream, and that none of it had happened. No way. They never would have let that happen.

"...Yuna?" he said again, more calmly. She was awake...and she was crying. His initial panic faded into worry. What had happened?

Tidus didn't know what to say, for now. He just reached over, trying to hold her as well as he could, to remind himself that she was there as much as to comfort her.

Yuna heard her name. The sound of his voice woke her and for a moment she didn't respond. But then it sank in that he was there, right beside her. Blinking as she wiped away her tears, she rolled over so she could see him. It looked like he'd had something similar.

"Tidus?" she murmured, reaching a hand up to his cheek. "Did you have a bad dream, too?"

It seemed everyone was having them lately and she didn't like that. She wanted that to end.

"Yeah." he said, nodding just a little. "It...I don't think I'm going to go back to sleep for awhile."

Right now, that was all he could say. He didn't want to talk about it, because he didn't want to think about it anymore. The whole thing felt so weird. It was just a dream, right? But that didn't explain why he was so shaken up by it - why that nightmare had felt so real.

But right now, he probably couldn't explain much of anything. The best thing to do was stay awake. Stay with Yuna, until they had both calmed down.

"Me, either," Yuna admitted softly. She was torn. Part of her didn't want to talk about it because it was too hard, but if she couldn't be honest with Tidus, then who could she be honest with?

"Even if it... was close to memories, it was still just a dream."

That was the important part. Memories, dreams... they were part of the past. They weren't the reality of that moment. Tidus was her reality now, one of the only parts that made this city bearable.

"We're wide awake now, right?" he replied, doing his best to force a smile. "Even if they're weird, dreams aren't that big of a deal." Of course, those words were ironic for more then one reason. He wasn't exactly shrugging off the nightmare, either, even though he probably should have been. He wanted to, anyway.

Not to mention that the dream was more then just weird. Like Yuna said, it was close to memories...a little too close for comfort.

"Guess I'm the last one who should be saying that, though, huh?" he joked, trying to laugh at least a little on top of his already-forced smile. Maybe that's all they needed to shake this off - a good joke or two.

If only that was easier to believe.

The irony of that statement wasn't lost on Yuna, either, and through her tears, she managed to give him a look. But it didn't last.

"I just wish it would be easier to sleep..." Which she really, really did. It was... hard not to be able to sleep well, to remember things like this every single day and relive it all during the night.

Maybe it was because he'd mentioned dreams and connected it to himself... but Yuna couldn't help wondering something else. She reached up to his cheek, tentatively, caressing his face as though she was afraid he would disappear on her again.

"You.. won't go away, will you?"

Just like she'd asked him two years ago. And this time, something in her expected the bad ending.

He closed his eyes, just for a second, and let himself focus on the feel of her hand on his face. It felt real...just as real as anything else ever had.

For a moment, he wondered if he felt that real to her.

Then he opened his eyes, trying to smile again.

"I'm not going anywhere. Not if I can help it." And every part of him desperately wanted to omit that second sentence, but he couldn't. Try as he might to convince himself otherwise, he couldn't be sure of anything.

More importantly, even if he did disappear again, he just hoped that Yuna would be safe. After everything that had happened, she deserved the chance to live a happy life. That dream just made him grateful that she was there and okay.

But right now, thinking about that stuff didn't do him any good. He still had to worry about helping her feel better.

"I mean...I seem real enough, right?" Though it was meant to be more of a reassurance then a question, he still wondered what she would say.

Tonight and the Rest of My Life (Active / Closed)

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