The Good, the Bad, and the Didact

Passionate

As I clung onto the edge of the wide light bridge with one hand, awaiting the moment of whether I would fall or be saved, I glanced up at the Composer's beam firing down on Earth. All was lost. I had tried, but the Didact seemed to have left me to fall to my death. I don't know what happened. If he really wanted me to fall, then he would have loosened my grip to allow me to drop into the void and end right there. I would rather be dead than live without him.

A moment ago I had heard him scream, as if fighting inner demons while I had tried to pull myself up, but slipped back down to once again to be dangling on the edge with one hand. He must have been having visions, one being the Gravemind, and possibly the other one being me, but that could only be certain if he realized how he felt about me.

He wasn't coming, which made me realize that I guess he had chosen to let me die. Tears fell as I felt my fingers slowly losing grip of the edge. This was it, if I was going to die, it had to be now.

"Didact..........goodbye..." I whispered and looked up at Earth one last time, and to my surprise the beam had vanished. Had the Composer run out of power or did he turn it off? I could only guess, but it was too late to figure out. My hand slipped even more and I closed my eyes readying myself for death, until suddenly I heard the Didact's voice once again.

"Emily! Give me your hand, now!" I opened my eyes and saw him kneeling down toward me, his hand open and ready. My heart leaped so high as if it would burst out of happiness. My tears turned to joy, and I grabbed his hand with my free one.

"Didact....." I cried happily.

"I've got you."

He began to pull me up, and I gathered my strength inside me again to help myself back onto the bridge. I sat in the centre to see him kneeling in front of me. I was overcome with joy so much that I could no longer hold it in.

The Didact smiled, and I crawled closer to him knowing now was the time to thank him. I cupped both my hands on his cheeks and placed my lips on his, right between those two fangs. It was a short kiss, and the Didact was startled; his eyes open and his face red. After I let the kiss go and sat before him, he looked at me for a moment, enamored.

"You came back," He said.

I slowly stroked his ancient face, it felt smooth on my palm, not what I was expecting.

"I love you, Shadow of Sundered Star."

The Didact was not surprised to hear me call him by his real name. I moved my hand away from his face and then he took it.

"So....that is why you are also different from most humans. You love me,"

I smiled. "Yes. Since the moment I met you, I thought you could be my chance to escape, and you were. You gave me all I ever wanted in life, and my heart beats for you every time. Now, that I hope you have finally broken free of your evil ways,"

"Aya, to think I would have almost killed you Emily," The Didact said, giving my hand a gentle squeeze which made my heart squeeze a little and then it began to beat fast.

"I know, and I know my feelings for you are real and strong. I don't know if you could ever love me, and if you don't, at least I tried," I told him.

"You needn't say that, for perhaps you should hear what is in my heart,"

"Tell me,"

The Didact gazed into my emerald eyes as if ready to say something he wanted to say for a long time. Then he took my other hand into his own.

"You are the only human that saw through me, through every vile thing I have done to your kind, and have been doing to myself. You are strong, determined and caring. I confess I've come to care for you as well, knowing that someone can stand by my side once more,"