kinkfest | Memories [FF10, Auron/Braska/Jecht, PG]

Title: Memories
Author: Akiko
Rating: PG
Warnings: spoilers - end of game
Word count: 330
Prompt: Final Fantasy X, Auron/Braska/Jecht: overcoming differences - Ten years ago, I looked up at Gagazet from where we stand now.
Summary: I hated Jecht, because he didn't know what I was preparing to sacrifice, or why I would do it.
A/n: Sorry this is late! Real life got in the way.

It's strange, what memories are triggered by a place, a sound, a smell. As Tidus lit the campfire, and Yuna sat with her head bowed beneath a tree, she reminded me so much of her father that it hurt. Ten years ago, when Braska made his pilgrimage, we didn't know it would be in vain. We didn't know the reason behind the futility of our quest. Now, I knew. And Tidus suspected.

He was so much like his father. He asked the same questions, made all the same grandiose gestures as Jecht did. When Jecht joined us, I hated him. I hated Jecht, because he didn't know what I was preparing to sacrifice, or why I would do it. He became Braska's second guardian for reasons I never understood, and I'm not sure Jecht did, either.

I missed him. Every step Tidus took, every time he laughed or raged against the cycle of sacrifices to keep Sin at bay, a shard of memory drove into my heart. I wanted him back. I didn't want to climb Gagazet and fight him. I didn't want to return to the place where a man we both loved killed us.

I forced my gaze away from the mountain. If I tried, I could see Jecht lighting the fire where Tidus stood, and Braska praying beneath the same tree Yuna sat under, while I set up the tent. I could almost hear Jecht's voice as he called me to bring food to cook on the fire. That had been our last night together. We'd made love, the three of us, grasping desperately at happiness, knowing it would be the last time.

I blinked away a tear and called Tidus over. It was time he knew.

"What is it, Auron?" he asked.

"Ten years ago, I looked up at Gagazet from where we stand now." It was my story, and his father's, and Yuna's father's. Out of love for them both, I couldn't let him find out the same way we did.