Story inspired by "My Never" by Blue October.
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“Rain?” His voice echoed all around. It sounded empty, hollow. “I’m coming for you. Rain!” Cris ran and ran, but there was nowhere to run to. Then, there was laughter. Cris turned and saw a female in white passing by in the darkness. “Rain! Wait!” Cris ran after her, but he didn’t seem to reach her. She turned around and smiled at him. He stopped and smiled back at her. It was her smile that captured his heart since day one. It was her smile that lit up his heart. Her arms reached out to him and he began to run toward her, but she never seemed to get closer. Instead, a man, a dark haired elf, passed him and reached her first.
“She’s mine,” Cris tried to scream out, but it wasn’t loud enough. “Stay away from her! She’s mine!” The little elf boy tried to run again. “Stay away from her! She’s my mom! She’s mine!” He looked at the two figures in an embrace. The woman leaned from behind the dark haired man. Her long flowing auburn hair framed her like a cascade. She smiled at the boy and reached out for him. The human turned and frowned, reaching to kiss the woman again. “No! She’s mine!”
“She’s mine!” The echo got louder as Rain peeked from behind the dark haired elf.
“I love him, Cristianno.” Her voice was angelic. It was a blessing. It was what he had always wanted to hear, but not those words.
“You love me, Rain. You told me. You swore to me. It was me, not him.”
“I love him.”
He drew his pistol and pointed it at the elf’s head. “No!” The loud bang echoed viciously around him and he dropped the pistol to cover his ears and eyes. When he looked up, the darkness was gone. He looked around and noticed he was on his ship. He took a few steps and saw two figures running past him. Children…on a ship? He stared at them, noticing their auburn hair and green eyes. He looked up and noticed Rain at the cabin door. She smiled at him, extending her arms to him.
“Is… is this real?” Cristianno walked toward her and she wrapped her arms around him, holding him close. He closed his eyes, the sound of the ocean surrounding him, the children’s laughter getting closer. “I dreamed you left me, Rain.” She tilted her head and looked at him, a look of concern on her face. “You left me…for another. You lied to me. You betrayed me.” He held her again, feeling her warmth, enveloped in her scent.
“I did, Cristianno.” He opened his eyes once he heard her speak, and pulled away. She was still smiling. Cris looked at her lips and back at her.
“You...you can’t speak.”
“I left you. I love him.”
Cris turned around and saw him again with his dark hair. “I belong to him. Forever.”
Cris shook his head before he fell through the ship, into an ocean. “Rain!” The man looked down at him and extended his arm toward Cris. At first, he doubted the man’s help, but anything for Rain. He lived for her. He reached out for the man and as he lifted Cris out, he reached for the shark tooth and pulled it off.
“Now you’ll never take her away from me,” he said. Rain stood beside him, smiling at Cris as he sank to the bottom of the ocean.
“Joo gonna die, Cristianno!”
“Tia! Rain! Help!”
“Joo is damned! He knew too much.”
“NO!” Cris hit the ground, once more surrounded in darkness. His heart beating fast as Rain walked up to him once more. She handed him the tooth back. “Rain, will you think of me in time?” She shook her head and kissed his cheek, the same way she did when she first met him. With a smile, she simply turned around and walked away.
“Rain…”
He didn’t open his eye even though he knew he was awake. They quickly filled in tears as he held his pillow close. It still held her scent. He only had a few more days before that was gone as well. “It’s never my luck,” he whispered. He took a deep breath. Once more, Cristianno D’Avros, not Wolf, nor the captain, but Cristianno the elf, had lost the home he had dreamed of. The love of someone who loved him in return. And this time, he knew it wasn’t his fault, which pained him even more. He buried his face in the pillow, not wanting to sleep because if he did, she would be there and nothing would change.
She was still gone.
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