#he's not pulling any punches i'm so sorry Aigis...

[fatexbound]

She was still living in the past. It's clear that it was haunting her day and night, and he was here to make it worse. The air around him was cool, showing how angry he was with her.

"How pathetic."

He spat, venom lacing his words with I'll intent. Feet tapped on the floor as they headed towards the terrified android. Her eyes were on the floor, as if she were about to burst into tears.

A delight to see.

"You think that waiting around and crying will do something to bring me back? To turn back time? That's not possible and you know it."

He chuckled darkly.

"Like Ryoji said, time waits for no one. My time on this earth has ended. There's nothing you can do about it except die if you're so desperate to see me again... Do you think you have the courage to do that? Aren't you tired of it all?" He tilted his head.

The sight awakens something inside her again, unnamed feelings and questions swirling unspoken as she takes an almost defensive stance. Aigis doesn't get a chance to greet or ask anything of him, though, as his own question catches her off guard. Her promise. The turmoil in her core gives way to sheer guilt, swallowing her like a pool of water.

Makoto was angry. Of course he was, he should be with all things considered. But that form before her... Such anger didn't belong to that voice. He'd never used such a tone with her either, and it shook Aigis deeply. "I..."

"There was nothing more I could do. I wanted to help you, then you..." She casts her eyes down in shame. 'Fotgotten'? What use were her previous words, when there was nothing left to protect? So little left to live for? Surely he understood, he always understood before. "I was too late... It...hurts. It would be better if everything was the way it was before this year. So... What else am I supposed to do?!" Her honest outburst seems to echo in her ears as she never found the answer to such a question, unwilling to ask it until now. Even if Makoto was angry with her, he always had the answers.