When You and I Collide

30) The Broken Hearted

~Fang's POV~

I can't move, and everything is black. Such a wonderful combination. Where am I?

"Hello Fang," I hear a sweet voice say.

"Serah?" I squint into the darkness. She steps forward with a smile, giggling.

"Of course, silly!"

"Where am I?" I frown.

"In your head," she cocks he read to the side.

"Never knew I had no brain," I mutter. She giggles again and then crosses her arms, a frown settling onto her face.

"Fang, very soon, someone you love will leave. You can't stop them, it's just the way your life was meant to be."

"Mind telling me who it is?"

"I can't," she looks down. "It'll hurt more when you can't stop then from going."

"Does that mean I'm not dead?"

"Yep," she looks up with a smile.

"What about you?"

"I'm dead," she shrugs. Strange girl. "Now open your eyes, someone's practically killing themselves over you."

"Well that sounds nice," I shut my eyes. Open open open open... "Hey Vince." Vincent jumps and lifts his eyes to look at me incredulously.

"Fang..?"

"Yes, that's my name. Why? Did you get your memory wiped or something?" The first thing I notice is how dejected he looked before I spoke. The second is that he has both of his hands wrapped around one of mine. Aw.
"No," he shakes his head. "I just... Didn't expect you to wake up."

"Thought I was a goner, hmm? Dang it, my dramatic deaths peach was all for nothing." He smiles the tiniest bit at my words and I scowl at him. "It's not funny! Besides, my stomach feels like crap, so don't make me want to laugh." His smile falls and he looks away.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?" I frown. Then it all comes back to me.and I give him a dismissive wave of my hand. "Don't worry about it. I tried to strangle you."

"And I nearly killed you," he says softly.

"... Did you not just hear what I said?"

"Fang," he says slowly. "I cannot continue to put you in danger."

"Eh, I attract it." I'm trying so hard not to look deeper into his words because I'm scared of what I'll find.

"There are sins I have not yet atoned for, and this is another I must carry with me for eternity."

"W.. What are you saying?" I frown, trying to catch his eye. It works, but the regret and sadness in them is so overwhelming that I nearly break away.

"... I'm leaving." What...

"Where?" I furrow my eyebrows

"I have not yet decided," he avoids eye contact again. "But I may never return."

"Oh I get it," I narrow my eyes in him. "This is one of your stupid brooding sessions where you think about that Lucrecia woman and compare me to her." Instead of protesting, his shoulders hunch slightly, dejectedly. "You're just gonna leave? You realize that I live forever too, right? How do you think I'm going to deal with feeling this... Betrayal forever?"

"You will move on," he sighs. "Perhaps you will even fall in love with another man." He stands and heads for the door.

"No I won't," I say quietly, not even recognizing my own voice. So weak, hurt. Heartbroken, something I told myself I'd never let me be. "You're probably the only person I'd ever associate with love for the rest of my life."