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Characters: Rosa and Cecil
Progress: Incomplete
Summary: Rosa finally gets to see Cecil again
Location: Troia
Date: BACKDATED LIKE CRAZY to when Cecil first arrived in Troia
Warnings: Uh... dunno, fluff and maybe maaaaybe a little baaaw?


It had been a long day for Rosa. Waiting was not something she did easily or well. When she'd heard that Cecil had returned to Gaia, she was simultaneously overjoyed and worried. She had no way of knowing how much he remembered and how much he didn't, but it seemed that Gaia wasn't part of his memories and that saddened her. Still, the important thing was that this was Cecil and no matter how many times he came and left Gaia, that didn't change the fact that he was the one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.

Now she just needed to tell him that.

For the first time in her life, Rosa had avoided a chance to spend time with her friends from home. She wanted to see Cecil alone first. There were things they both had to discuss together. So, she wandered the hallways later, hoping she could catch him before he started to really worry about her.

Comments

I fail at checking the community oh my god.

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There was no doubt that Rosa could probably hear him coming - or assumed it was someone - as his armor clanked quietly with each step. Cecil strode through the hallway, determined to find her and see that she was really all right. Deja vu - that was exactly it, when Rosa had been ill with the Desert Fever and he had worried for her.

As Cecil suddenly came around the corner, took a few steps forward, he stopped in his tracks at the sight her just feet away. "Rosa."

Relief filled him and he let out a long, heavy breath.

I didn't exactly tell you it was there, either |D /takes the blame

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Rosa had indeed heard someone coming and she'd hoped it was Cecil. Kain would have been all right to run into, but at the moment she just wanted to talk to Cecil again. She had missed him dearly.

"Cecil..."

The White Mage hesitated for only a second when he finally came into view before she started walking towards him, hoping to be able to embrace him, to be sure he was real.

"I'm glad you have returned."

XD But I should have checked.

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"As am I," he murmured, meeting her some of the way. Cecil didn't reach out for her, not at first. He took the moment to take in her appearance, and then smiled, stepping closer, a hand brushing along her upper arm.

"Are you all right..?"

Eh we both can take the blame then XD

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Rosa stopped when Cecil did, letting her gaze rest on his face and leaning into the gentle touch to her arm. A smile gently brushed itself across her lips. "I am. The illness seems to be leaving me." And not a moment too soon, it would seem.

"Cecil... How are you feeling?" She hesitated for a moment before she reached out to curl the fingers of her other hand over his resting on her arm. "What do you last remember... before you arrived here in Gaia?"

Admittedly, she hadn't looked to the responses on his Sky Phone post. She wasn't sure she could deal with the answer then, assuming someone else had asked him this question already. Now that she could see him, though, she knew she had to.

Whoo~

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"I feel relieved now that I know you're well again." Cecil pulled his hand out from under hers to grasp her hand gently. They were alone and it was a good thing too. He cared a great deal about Rosa and preferred to show his feelings without the audience.

He took a moment to think about her question.

"Zeromus. We had only just defeated Zeromus."

/takes a break from typing her paper as this log = most important

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Rosa smiled as her fingers subconsciously curled around Cecil's. Showing her affection for him was easier in private and she much preferred that, as well. Simply being near him was usually enough for her, but now she needed that extra touch.

"Further than my memory, yet not as far as the last time, nor as far as our friends'." She shook her head slowly at that, her fingers tightening around his hand. This brought up the question of how to break the news to him, news about her decision and their impending marriage. She was more than certain someone would mention it without knowing that he didn't remember her words, her request. She couldn't risk that happening. He needed to hear it from her, and she wanted to be the one to tell him.

"Cecil... much has happened here that you no longer remember." Rosa didn't blame him in the least, though, and her reassuring look said as much. "There is much that I must tell you. Did any of our companions from home tell you anything that has happened while we've been here or anything from home beyond what you remember?" Time to see what knowledge he had gained so far.

<3333

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"They spoke only of your illness, of an important man being assassinated, of pirates and a raid." Gently, Cecil cupped her cheek, thumb brushing along it. He could see the reassurance in her eyes. "What is it you feel I should know, Rosa? If there is much for me to know, then let us sit first."

/will get to the rest of her tags (read: the ball XD) after class

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So they'd only told him the necessities, then. That was probably a good thing, then. It left Rosa herself to inform him of her decision and the reasoning behind it.

She shook her head at the mention of sitting down, making sure she was facing him as she placed both of her hands over his.

"I remember little of home compared to our companions," she began, looking into his eyes as she spoke. "Before you returned to Gaia this time, you also remembered well past what we recall now. All of you told me something important that happens in our future. After some time, I came to a decision about it. We hadn't managed to do much past plan, but now that you've returned..." Well, now the opportunity had returned with him, including going through with the entire thing.

"I decided that I would take your name as my own, as I would have in the future at home."

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Cecil gazed down at her, silent, her words slow in registering. When it finally came to him, his brows lifted, eyes widening slightly. "You wish to take my name..?"

Was she.. proposing? To him? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?

"Rosa.." He leaned down, forehead resting against hers.

/stabs school in the face

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Rosa waited for Cecil's response, hoping that she wasn't being too forward. Giving him time to adjust probably would have been best, but with the way people talked here... She hadn't seen any other way.

His question received a nod and a wavering smile from her, an expression that strengthened as he rested his head against hers. "We were planning the wedding when you disappeared. I understand if it's too much so soon, but I thought it would be better for you to hear from me rather than to have someone ask you in town or over the Sky Phones."

/;ldglajg

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"I would wish to hear it from no other," he told her, nose brushing along hers. "From your lips only."

Lowering his head slightly, his lips found hers. It was a tender embrace, slow and tender.