Of all the things to come true

[notagiraffe]

Characters: Taiki and people
Setting: Graveyard
Format: Any you pick
Summary: Taiki comes back to himself after the event, to find that part of his future has come true
Warnings: Grief

And overnight he was eleven again, the memories of those fifty years faded though he still remembered what it felt like to have been here so long, how sad Zelda had been. What it had been like to be older and yet still trapped.

The first thing he did once he got dressed was leave his room and head downstairs, though he couldn't feel Gyousou's presence he had to see his things, see his name on the door. Remind himself that even though he wasn't here he was coming back.

Because he had to be.

A few moments later after looking at the name plate a worried looking child burst into room 3-20 and stared in silent disbelief at the empty trunk. He stood frozen for a few moments and then burst into tears and ran out of the room.

It couldn't be true, his things had been there, before last week. They had been there.

He reached the graveyard his tears still flowing and slowed down as he began to walk the rows of headstones looking for the name he hoped wouldn't be there.

But it was and Taiki's tears got faster as he fell to his knees in the light snow and curled up next to the stone, shaking with sobs.

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[notagiraffe]

"I tried to keep hoping..." He murmured between sobs. "But... it's all dark and..."

He broke off to cry some more, he felt like even if he cried all the tears inside him he would still want to cry more, like something inside him was being filled with sadness.

[warriorscribe]

And Enoch sat there patiently, holding the kirin as he cried. "Shh...it's all right. Hope falters sometimes. Especially in the face of loss. They'll try to bring him back. He isn't really dead..."

But he's alone...

Enoch hugged Taiki a little tighter. "Do you have a...mantra, some words, a habit, something you do or say to keep your hopes up?"

[notagiraffe]

"But Tai is gone..." Saying the words outloud seemed like a betrayal, but in the face of such darkness and pain Taiki couldn't imagine anything but the worst, "And he's all alone..." And may be alone forever, which was more than Taiki could bear.

He blinked at Enoch and shook his head slowly, he knew no such things.

[warriorscribe]

"Well-..."

...No. Not even he could say it, not in the face of someone else doomed to the awful loneliness he'd felt in Meridian.

"...It isn't the right situation for one. I'm sorry." Enoch's voice was only a whisper, the softness of his voice an attempt to keep his own tears at bay. "But what you can do is...have faith that he'll return one day. Or that the worlds can be restored."

[notagiraffe]

"Do you think they can be?" Taiki blinked because it wasn't like they were just destroyed by Youma, as far as he could tell even the gods were gone.

[warriorscribe]

"Perhaps. Places like these tend to be odd, in regards to space and time. And their technology is powerful. We don't know what they can do, and neither do we know what they cannot."

He patted Taiki's head a bit, trying to smile reassuringly.

[notagiraffe]

Taiki nodded and leaned on Enoch, hoping he was right. "I miss him so much."

[warriorscribe]

"I know."

Loss was one of the more painful things of life, one he'd experienced in too many ways. All he could do was keep comforting Taiki as best as he could.

[notagiraffe]

Taiki was silent a while longer, leaning on Enoch tears still falling, though his eyes were beginning to close, the exhaustion of grief taking over.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch wasn't going to abandon him. He still held the boy close, curled very slightly as if to protect him. He knows the pain of losing someone all too well. And of being the one lost. He couldn't help but imagine this was exactly how the sons and daughters of Hadraniel, of Midracshe, of Ozah reacted when their father vanished, with evidence planted to lead to the assumption of death. (It was that, or lead Azazel to them.)

[notagiraffe]

Enoch was safe and warm, and though he wasn't Gyousou, no one was Gyousou no one could replace him ever. The world was a dark, scary, cold place without him. But Enoch was kind and nice and safe and so Taiki let himself fall asleep in his arms, escaping from all the pain.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch knew better than to stay here where monsters could spawn. He gently lifted Taiki up to carry him upstairs and find his room, and if he reached it without waking the boy, he'd set him down and pull the covers over him, gently as he would with any of his own children.

[notagiraffe]

Taiki didn't wake, but would be very grateful when he learned what Enoch had done, and feel guilty for inconveniencing him.