See you on Mars

12

"Goodbye Iwa Chan" Oikawa squeezed the ace's hand before letting go and walking out of the room.
"Goodbye.... Oikawa...." Iwaizumi reached his arm out before lowering it back on his lap. He heard the door close before he let go of the locket too.
Oikawa stood alone in an unfamiliar place. He didn't know where he was and looked around desperately looking for something familiar.
"Oikawa" Iwaizumi's voice called out, but there was something different.Iwaizumi's voice had lost the rasp it had and sounded stronger than it was before. Oikawa looked around at all the stars and the red dust that covered his feet. Iwaizumi had gained his color back and built up some muscle. His hair had grown back while his eye bags had left his face.
"We're.. on.. mars" Oikawa said in disbelief, "How.... How do you feel?"
"I feel amazing.... all of my pain is gone and my eyesight is back...." Iwaizumi smiled. Oikawa looked down and saw that his skin was still beige.
"Why am I not an alien like you?" Oikawa asked
"Because you're not here yet" Iwaizumi said as his image faded into the red dust. The rest of the scenery faded as Oikawa shifted back into reality.
Oikawa shot out of bed. He ripped the covers off of his body. He looked outside, it was still dark out and he'd surely be scolded, but he didn't care. He slipped his slippers on and started running for the door.
He ran through the long empty hallway of the hospital towards Iwaizumi's room. His shoes slipped as he turned the corner but he kept running. He found his way to Iwaizumi's room and desperately tried to open the door. He pushed the door open and there was an empty bed. All of Iwaizumi's belongings were still in the room but the ace was nowhere to be found.
Oikawa noticed a paper left on the bedside table addressed to the setter's name. Oikawa opened the note written in braille and immediately knew that Iwaizumi had left it there.
'Dear Oikawa,
If you're reading this that means it's Christmas day, crazy how the time flies huh? Anyways, I was probably too scared to tell you what today was so you're looking for me, am I right? Today I have a surgery scheduled, it's all or nothing for this surgery. It's my only hope for survival, but there's only a three percent chance that I survive it. I'm taking this chance as my Christmas gift to you, so I hope it works out. In case I die I just wanted to tell you a few things, I wanted to thank you for letting me open up to you. I also wanted to say thank you for giving me the will to live, you gave me hope for the future. It's thanks to you that I'm going through with this surgery and not just giving up. Hey You're the first person I could truly rely on and I knew you'd always be there. The fact that you were never going away was settling because I knew that if you were to leave me I'd have nothing. You also taught me how to verbalize my emotions.
I know this sounds cheesy but I wanted to keep my promise to you, I promised that I would never give up hope, and I didn't. You are hope itself, I don't think you realized that the first day we met, you saved my life. I really wanted to start a life with you and make it out of here alive. I hate how things ended, yet at the same time I'm happy. All of my pain will finally end, and I know deep down that even if you're not physically with me, you'll never leave my side. Thank you for the past four months, can't wait to see you on mars.

Goodnight Sleeping beauty
Love Hajimine, Iwaizumi'
Oikawa clenched the paper in his fist. His tears stained the paper as his hands began to tremble. He collapsed onto Iwaizumi's bed. The bed still smelled like Iwaizumi and his presence still lingered in some small way. They only were together for 113 days but the time felt so short yet somehow so long at the same time.
Oikawa was crushed but he was relieved at the same time. He was happy that Iwaizumi could finally be freed from all the pain he endured. He was happy that Iwaizumi could finally live a pain free life on mars. He was happy that when they met again Iwaizumi would be able to see everything beautiful again.
Oikawa was able to smile through his tears, while this Christmas may not be ideal, the person he loved the most could finally break free. Oikawa didn't want to see Iwaizumi, he wanted to remember Iwaizumi being alive. He wanted his last memory to be Iwaizumi knowing how much Oikawa loved him.