guiltyred (guiltyred) wrote in areyougame, @ 2008-10-03 17:40:00 |
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Entry tags: | *final fantasy vii: doc, author: guiltyred |
Unbearable Light, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus (Weiss/Nero)
Title: Unbearable Light
Author: GuiltyRed
Rating: G
Warnings: If it’s a spoiler, you haven’t finished the game.
Word count: 454
Prompt: Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus, Weiss/Nero: Reflection/Recalling the past At Endgame - "I know we're going down, but we're going to do it fighting!"
Summary: Nero finds his greatest strength in his brother’s darkest hour.
A/N: For some reason, I seem to be channeling a hella-lot of stream-of-consciousness things lately… It doesn’t help that iTunes gave me “Forsaken” by VNV Nation on this one.
The usurper has shown himself at last, my brother. I knew you could never bring your hand to strike me.
It still hurts.
He wears your flesh, though not your smile. Never that. His smile was the grin of a carnivore contemplating the fresh kill still bleeding.
But your smile, brother, oh how you brought me the sun with your smile! The first time I saw it, I thought you were a god, and I in heaven. You weren’t so certain then, the shackles not yet forged that could hold either of us, and neither of us suspecting that all too soon they would be. You wondered at finding a brother, as did I, and marveled at the different.
I could spend hours tracing nothing across your fair skin with my fingertips. I did spend hours…and moments dreaming, when you were not there.
You taught me to fear nothing, even when their restraints burned against my skin. I would fall into the darkness and find you waiting there, your spirit brighter than the stars. Together we found comfort, and we dreamed.
Together we were no man’s slaves.
You gave everything to win our freedom, Weiss. You never expected to come through this with your life. Did you know that I knew? I tried everything to cheat for you, to steal your life back from the fate you had selected.
My efforts only secured the deal.
You look so fragile. You who held me up when there was no strength left within me, you who reforged my spirit when others tried to break it. You who cupped my face in his hands and promised me forever.
How dare you try to leave me now? How dare the god to fall?
I am not so weak, my brother. See how I come to join you? There is no brave new world for me. Not without you.
Never without you.
Can that fool not tell? I am speaking with my brother!
I don’t know what awaits, dearest Weiss, beautiful Weiss. We have fought to the end of our story. Now all must change. Your spirit is ash, as is my body. I will rebuild you, my brother. My heart is strong for you have made it so.
Come, let me lead for a time. I will take you to the dark and quiet places, sacred spaces where time no longer measures itself and the heart no longer bleeds. Perhaps we will find him, the one who knows the blessings of the Goddess, and our tale will go on.
Can you hear?
Can you hear the singing?
But why must it be so bright?