I wont say Goodbye

[Jeremy Hunter]

Alex had no clue how she ended up with sharing a bed with Elyssa. The girl, maybe a year younger, had checked her wounds. Changing her dressings, Elyssa, or Lyssa, had forced her to share the bed. Lyssa was as stubborn as she was kind.

Alex woke and stretched. She looked over at Lyssa, who was awake, propped up on one arm, watching her.

"I'm that intresting?"
"Yes...you have amnesia, the fighter skills to take on three Mantas, and you have the patch from the Espada de Fuego."
"So?"
"You must be a very special person."

Alex smiled and sat up. Climbing out of bed, she went into the shower. Fifteen minutes later, she surrendered the bathroom to Lyssa, who had given her clothes that...

"Lyssa, these look like what I had worn back on Isis."

Lyssa just winked and hugged Alex.

"Goodbye Alex."
Alex took a moment. "No. I won't say goodbye."
"Why?" Lyssa asked.
"Goodbye is final...I never want this to be forever."
Lyssa hugged her again and kissed her cheek. "Yeah. It shouldn't." Lyssa removed something from her pocket. "You...were a kind roommate, kinder than any other I let stay with me when they had no money. And...you were the most stubborn ever."
Alex giggled. "Thanks."

Alex looked at what she had been given. It was a locket.

"Place all your pictures on it, and it wil make a holographic slideshow."
"Thanks...wait, why is there already pictures on here?"

Lyssa only smiled michevously in return.

Freeport Nine Hanger

Alex ran a hand along the fighter. "Why is there two fins?"
"Well, eh...we kinda switched your's with this..."
"Why?"
Yeah..." The mecahnic scratched his head. "Your Nephthys was a complete writeoff...so...we took the cash to completely restore this. It's a Bastet. We were given this in return for s Roc bomber. Our compemsation."
"For what?"
"Hiding the carrier Son'Ra and giving a Roc."
"Son'Ra?"

The man just smiled.

Alex climbed in. Everything was the same as the Nephthys. The techs had even renamed this Bastet Ocean of Memory . How appropriate.

"What will happen to my old craft?"
"We'll send it to Isis."

Alex nodded and powered up the Bastet.

"My luck is going to change so drastically, it won't be funny. At. All.

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May you ever walk in the Light, Shizune.