Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part One

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Characters: open to those trapped in cells
Setting: the cells
Format: any
Summary: Those left abandoned in the Tower have some time to speak to each other. In the middle of the room, a clock counts down...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

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[attheclocktower]

Xion shook her head. With everything that had been going on, the blackness of the atmosphere and the low lighting... she must have just missed him in all of the commotion. That didn't make her feel any better though.

His compliments of her didn't comfort her any, though. If anything, they ended up upsetting her even more.

"Shion, we don't know how many more chances we have left. She might not bring you back next time. She might not be able to bring anybody back next time," she cried, "You can't die anymore, please. I can't lose you."

Pot, meet kettle, after what nearly happened on the ground floor. But Xion didn't care. That had been different.

[savedbyasong]

"I'm sorry!" His voice was choked as he continued to hate himself for upsetting her. "I'm trying, I didn't mean to. I'm just... I'm not as strong as you or Reno and I can't..."

He took a deep breath, darkness threatening again, "I can't lose you either, I won't let anything bad happen to you."

[attheclocktower]

She was upsetting him too. She knew it and just... she couldn't. She couldn't lose him. Not the person who'd stood by her all this time.

Carefully she lifted her hand up and placed it back on the wall of her cell.

"Let's make a promise then," she said, her voice much gentler now, "Let's make a promise that, no matter what happens, we won't die from now on. Okay?"

She doesn't even mention the possibility of dying if they lose entirely. Because that's not an option she'll consider.

[savedbyasong]

Shion blinked and put his hand back on the glass. "Okay... a promise." Was making a promise when you weren't sure you were even capable of keeping it a lie?

He didn't want to die, but if it came to it... if he could save her and Reno...

"No more dying, either of us."

He smiled at her, "Now will you lie back down, you need to rest your leg."