FFX-2: Process
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
Pairing: Gippal/Baralai
Warnings: Angst, deathfic
Rating: PG
Summary: Getting better is just like breaking down. Response to cupcakemonster's Over Before You Know It.
Baralai doesn't want him to go, but he goes anyway, and maybe he's crying when he looks out over the sky, but he probably isn't, it's just the wind and the salt-sting from the splash of water. He stays there on the shore for a minute, or two, or three, and it becomes an hour before he knows it, and then he walks away.
And he goes back to Bevelle, and Baralai, and he cries, and misses her, but he knows that whatever chance they had, they fucked up, and whatever there was left of the Rikku he loved upped and left a while ago.
And Baralai thinks Gippal regrets it, but he doesn't, not a bit of it, not a minute of it, because no one can ruin you if you won't accept it, and maybe he started the whole stupid process but Rikku carried it on.
And he takes Baralai to all their places, and he wins the desert back, and his machina, and he knows he could've let Rikku break him, just like he broke her, but he'll live with it all; it's a process just like breaking down.
And Baralai always listens.
Pairing: Gippal/Baralai
Warnings: Angst, deathfic
Rating: PG
Summary: Getting better is just like breaking down. Response to cupcakemonster's Over Before You Know It.
Baralai doesn't want him to go, but he goes anyway, and maybe he's crying when he looks out over the sky, but he probably isn't, it's just the wind and the salt-sting from the splash of water. He stays there on the shore for a minute, or two, or three, and it becomes an hour before he knows it, and then he walks away.
And he goes back to Bevelle, and Baralai, and he cries, and misses her, but he knows that whatever chance they had, they fucked up, and whatever there was left of the Rikku he loved upped and left a while ago.
And Baralai thinks Gippal regrets it, but he doesn't, not a bit of it, not a minute of it, because no one can ruin you if you won't accept it, and maybe he started the whole stupid process but Rikku carried it on.
And he takes Baralai to all their places, and he wins the desert back, and his machina, and he knows he could've let Rikku break him, just like he broke her, but he'll live with it all; it's a process just like breaking down.
And Baralai always listens.