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As Long As The Fires of Memory
by Meana
meana_fic@yahoo.ca
No matter how much he tries to push it away, it keeps eating away at him. Day by day, hour by hour, the memory just keeps trying to fill his head.
The way she'd smiled, the sound of her laugh, the way she had looked as she'd entered the fight. Each of her movements had always been graceful and sure, beautiful just like her.
Scowling he takes another swig from the bottle of alcohol in his hand. He doesn't seem to notice the dozens of other bottles littering the ground around him. Maybe if he drinks enough, he can drown the memory - drown himself.
But it never seems to work. Hundreds of times he's tried, and each and every single time the memory comes roaring back, pounding into him with a forcefulness he cannot stand against.
A sob falls from his lips as he remembers her last moments. Fighting, desperate to keep them alive, giving them all time to escape. In the end, giving her life to keep them alive - to keep him alive. He'd watched from the Maru in agony as she burned - his ship, his life, his Shining Path. Only then had he realized how much he'd loved Rommie - how much he'd been in love with her. But as was often the case in life, the realization had come too little, too late.
The memory burns?
The End
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