Title: Homeward Angel
Day/Theme: July 3 - to hear you breathe
Series: Tales of Symphonia
Character/Pairing: Lloyd, Colette
Rating: PG
Note: Trying to write out other pairings I like. Even though I've done this one before, lmao.


Lloyd missed Colette. He missed the way her smile would lift up his spirits. He missed the way her gentle laugh could catch his attention. The way her touch could soothe any worry out of his mind. She had always been around him, for most of his life. He had grown used to her near constant companionship and comfort.

So, to see her still and silent before him shook him to the core.

He realized why people often spoke of not realizing what was important until you lost it - he had learned it the hard way. After all that fighting he had done for her, after realizing what was really happening to her, to see her still shattered before him broke his heart. He longed to hear her voice, her laughter, her soft singing. He'd pay anything to have her happy and whole again, not lifeless and cold like she was.

It was after he lost her during that that he realized just how close he wanted her. How much he wanted her. He wanted to hear her breathing beside him in the morning, a smile on her face as she laughed at his sleepy face. He missed her so badly, he felt his heart ache. He wanted to let her know that he really did, after all this time, love her. She was his strength, his reason for fighting, and he wanted to protect her. To see that her wish for a beautiful world would have her in it.

And he would do anything to make that wish come true.