Love Her and Despair Remaster [45]

Title: Love Her and Despair
Chapter 45: "War in Abeyance"
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Characters: Auron/Lulu, Rikku/Wakka, Isaaru
Rating: R (Fade-to-black)
Word Count: 3100
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The Story So Far: Sin is defeated, Yu Yevon destroyed, and Yuna's old guardians assemble in the city of St. Bevelle for the Calm Festival.

There's your fireworks, Jecht.

The display was excessive. It appeared that Bevelle's stadium was intent on expending a season's worth of fireworks in a single night. Gaudy team colors erupted brazenly amidst Yevon's greens, whites and golds. Fountains and streamers leapt from every level of the city. They were far more colorful than those that had inaugurated Braska's Calm. Auron remembered them flaring above him as he lay in the roadway, rage seeping away with his blood. Perhaps Yevon had been trying to reconsecrate its heretic summoner with white's purity.

A caress on his forearm recalled him to the present. Success was so alien to him that it was hard to focus on its celebration. But he needed focus now more than ever. More, he needed... this.

Surrounded by old friends, Auron stood on a parapet along the ramparts behind Yuna's Cloister. The area was off-limits for safety, but that had not deterred the Al Bhed. Kitted with goggles and scarves across their faces, Rikku's family had found their own private box to observe the festival. Yuna's remaining guardians were and yet were not a part of it, since the summoner who had brought them together was not there.

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