Moon tossed herself over— spinning Strawberry over with his face and body pointed up at the night sky. Celestia rocketed up closer and closer. Moon made a sudden shift. The white alicorn shot past them with a massive ‘whoosh’— almost taking Strawberry’s mane right off.

Moon beat her wings over. She curled around to the left. Celestia ran through the air in a gigantic loop, aiming straight for them again. Moon shot her wings out fully— her black wingspan lined up right in front of the shimmering moon behind her.

“TIA! IT’S— IT’S— CHANGED!” Moon shouted, to no avail. She couldn’t sum up whole evenings emotional turmoil and change of heart in one speech. Celestia blasted towards her faster and faster. That alicorn’s body blended into a glowing white trail across the inky black sky. BUT I’VE CHANGED!

Celestia charged right into them. She fluttered into a huge black cloud. Her hooves came up empty. She sailed towards the moon— then she flew through a tremendous somersault.

“You can’t hide from me. Not anymore. Not when your tyranny is at its end,” Celestia declared. She twirled around the air currents like a celestial ballerina. She eyed some commotion in the batch of maple trees below her. In a split-second, she flew down at full speed.

She’s holding back. She sees something is different. Moon zigzagged through trees— heading almost by instinct back to the Canterlot castle. She’s… Got to Know. The forest lit up behind her. Got to! The heat from Celestia’s light behind her almost burned the edge of her tail— the leaves cinged all around her.

Moon careened down a huge drop towards a shimmering lake. She blasted down the edge, and then she rocketed at full speed straight across the water. The splashes shot up across her hooves and along her back like an endless fountain. No! PLEASE! NO!

Half the lake erupted right in front of her. Walls of solid water flowed up as if a meteor had hit. Moon sped up in a ninety degree angle. “TIA!” Moon screamed once again. The bright white blur followed just inches behind her.

Moon thrust her wings to the side. She paralleled through the wall of water. Strawberry let out a deep moan as the scalding hot water poured over him. Celestia followed right behind them. Yet she immediately stopped in thin air— the inky black teleportation cloud fluttering around her.

“DO YOU WANT ME TO TORCH THE WHOLE FOREST?” Celestia hollered, her mane pulsing with rage. Her eyes darted about every which way. She suddenly detected rustling in the little field far off to her right. She bucked back into the thin air. He horn glowed so bright that it lit up part of the whole forest— just like the night had ended.

Moon sped over the ground— branch after branch whacking Strawberry her and on the side. Another solid wall of something bluish-white and pulsing appeared right in front of her. She kicked over to the side— beating her wings at full strength— and ran right alongside.

Strawberry screamed. Moon forced down her tears. Hot. Hot. HOT. She found herself slowing down by instinct. HOT. HOT! Her vision narrowed.

“Your tyranny is over!” Celestia screamed again. She moved through the air yards and yards above the forest— aiming her hooves straight down. Her face twisted in an insane looking smile. Block of block of trees burst into full flame. Fires rocketed through the trails of bushes straight to Moon.

It can’t… It can’t… The fires flew down from the horizon across the field— torching it entirely in a matter of seconds. It can’t end like this! The pulsing blue wall of solid energy closed in on her. Moon’s eyes jittered about in all directions— searching for a way out from the endless flames.

The black alicorn screamed. She concentrated with her own magic, but the inky darkness about her evaporated. The edges of her mane looked like they were melting strand by strand.

“You’re not going, anywhere, sister,” Celestia’s voice boomed. Strawberry and Moon felt the intense yet sickly sweet sound going through their minds— as if Celestia stood right there on Moon’s back. The pain was unbelievable. The blinding hot fury of the sun scarred Strawberry’s eyes— like the concentrated fury of a thousand migraines at one.

“NO!” Moon shouted. Strawberry felt a hot knife slicking through his eyeballs. He felt his white flesh spitting as Celestia’s light severed every last nerve— blood pouring through like tears. Moon clutched herself with her wings. The two of them disappeared with a gigantic black poof.

“Siiiiiiiiiiiiiisterrrrrrr…” Celestia moaned, flying down to the burnt crater in the middle of the field. Her eyes focused like little beady doll’s eyes. She curled her head, sensing the magic going through the whole area. “Or, should I say, what once was my sister…”

Strawberry felt himself going through a total vacuum. He wondered for a second if that was it— if his life has ended. He felt a lingering tinge of pain, and then he rubbed all over his face and eyes frantically.

“Strawberry,” Moon whispered. He looked around and saw the familiar spires and windows of the alicorn’s new castle. Moon’s loving, caring embrace immediately wiped out all of the lingering sensations of Celestia’s magic. “You have to…”

The alicorn dropped him down atop a small balcony. He landed down on a patch of hay, but his front hooves still clutched Moon’s legs tightly. The alicorn cried a little as she half-pretended to fly away. Strawberry held onto her closer— the little patches of blood below his eyes washing away with his own tears.

“Strawberry…” Moon moaned, and her teary eyes looked back up at the night sky above them, “Celestia will be back any second now. I have to let you go.”

“I’m not leaving you. I’m never leaving you,” Strawberry declared through gritted teeth, his eyes flowing waterfall tears, “Never. Ever. You go, I go.” The alicorn lifted up inch by inch, and the unicorn felt his grip slipping. Oh, please, Strawberry!

“I don’t know if… if I can… I don’t even want to… fight her, not anymore,” Moon muttered, forcing down her own tears.

Strawberry rubbed his face and mane into her hoof. She beat her wings harder to escape him, but her heart wasn’t in it. His frizzy hair danced around on her skin— feeling so soft and fluffy like cotton candy. His warm skin just seemed to soothe every inch of her body.

“I don’t care what happens,” he murmured, “I’ll still be with you.”

“She’ll banish me to the moon again.”

“Take me with you.”

“It would be… longer than a thousand years.”

“I’ll stay for eternity with you.”

“Strawberry… she might… You felt it. I’m afraid that she might even… kill me.”

“Then she’ll…” His voice clogged up. He clearly wanted to say ‘kill me too’.

Moon let out a low whine. No. I… I love you too much to see you hurt. She gave a little kick. The unicorn tumbled off of her onto the pile of hay. Strawberry’s eyes shot upwards, and he saw the alicorn soar into the sky above.

“Well, that was… touching…” a venomous voice muttered from off above Strawberry’s right. He spun around. Celestia jumped up atop a castle spire. Her mane waved across her body like a battle cap— the colors glowing bright as ever. The tip of her horn shone so intensely that it hurt his eyes.

Moon sped down from the open air onto another spire. She narrowed her eyes and rippled her wings up— the feathers pointed like daggers. She burst out an angry moan. Her own horn glowed with an intense darkness as she faced directly across from her sister.

“Tia, you don’t understand,” she called out. She curled herself down, ready to strike, but her face betrayed the war going on in her heart. It’s over! It’s different!

“Oh, my dear… former sister,” Celestia groused, and her eyes narrowed into tiny spots— burning with intense magic, “I understand too well. I hoped it wasn’t the end. I hoped that you could be saved. I hoped that there would something I could do… even after the elements of harmony failed…”

“They didn’t fail!” Moon screamed. One of her eyes looked back at Strawberry. The unicorn looked as if he was about to have a heart attack. Her other focused on Celestia. The sun goddess’ rage seemed to grow by the second. “Please, sister!”

“My… sister… is…” Celestia said, conviction building with every word, “Dead.”

Moon’s face shrunk. Her skin faded into a paler grey. NO! NO! NO! HOW CAN YOU SAY THESE THINGS! “Please, Tia, I still… love…”

“I hoped you could be saved,” Celestia said, and her magic blazed across her body. The spire glowed with white hot heat below her. “And then… I saw what you did to them after you thought that you defeated me.” Moon’s heart sank, and he couldn’t keep from tearing. “The shock as I finally made it out of the sun…”

“Please, please, please… I’ve… Ive…” Moon stammered. I’m not that same mare, not anymore! Tia!

“I STILL HEAR THEIR SCREAMS!” Celestia hollered— her voice shooting through every inch of the castle. She stamped her hooves down upon the spire, cracking it into pieces. “I STILL TASTE THEIR BLOOD! I STILL FEEL THEIR PAIN— TORTURED DEEP INSIDE YOUR VERY BODY RIGHT NOW!”

Moon recoiled from Celestia’s venom. Strawberry poured sob upon sob onto the hay below him. The black alicon steeled herself. She’s… not going to hold back anymore. She did before, but… But… But… If she defeats me now, she’ll… kill…

“It’s time,” Celestia declared. She thrust her wings out into the air— stretching farther and wider than ever before. Her every breath burst out with flowing white magical sparks. “It’s time for me to preserve my sister’s memory. Time for me to destroy this… this… husk that used to…” Celestia’s fury couldn’t keep out the sadness that had built up inside. Her own tears began to flow. The drops burst instantly at the boiling magical heat going from her hooves.

“NO!” Strawberry shouted as loud as he could. Celestia glanced down at him. The unicorn recoiled— hoping that he wouldn’t be fried from existence on the spot. Although he shivered from his head to the very tips of his hooves, he went on. Tears flowed uncontrollably. “It’s… It’s…”

“Strawberry…” Moon moaned. Her battle stance faded. She wanted nothing more than to jump down and cradle the unicorn like a wife to her crying husband.

“It’s Moon that’s dead,” he declared. He saw that Celestia hung on his every word, and he went on. “The hate. The rage. The anger. The fear. It’s gone, or almost all gone… She’s changed.” The white alicorn shook her head, but Strawberry could see the confusion flowing through her wind. “She’s… different. It’s all different now.”

“YOU!” Celestia screamed at Strawberry. She then paused, and her rage subsided as she searched for what to say. The sun goddess clearly wasn’t used what it was like to be at a loss for words. “P-p-prove i-it…” She thrust out her front hooves— white smoke pouring from the tips.

“I’ll… prove it… I’LL PROVE IT ONCE AND FOR ALL!” Moon hollered, and she flung herself down across the castle wall.

“NO! TAKE ME WITH YOU!” Strawberry called out at her. His mind a blur, he threw himself forward. He kicked with his hooves. He saw the trees and castle windows flying beside him. In a split-second— as the ground grew yard by yard towards his face— he shut his eyes tightly.

Strawberry! Moon cartwheeled across the air— wings flapping like mad. She ripped through a castle banner and smacked right into the unicorn’s side. Celestia sailed right alongside. The unicorn and alicorn flew through the air towards Everfree Forest.

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The tree tops blurred. Strawberry felt Celestia’s magic coursing up his skin once again. She clearly didn’t feel that pure, intense anger— not anymore. It was a different kind of rage. Fear. Worry. Despair. Everything else… She doesn’t know what to do. The thoughts almost seemed to tickle him. The magical pulses rippled up his skin like a thousand little ants.

“Righting the wrongs,” Celestia called out. Her mind couldn’t even put her emotions into words anymore. She flew closer. Strawberry and her went face to face. She… She hates me. It’s a special kind of hatred. I’ve gotten between her and… Moon. Between her and Luna… Celestia’s horn aimed right at him the whole time— ready to saw Strawberry’s head off at the soonest moment of foul play.

“Tia,” Moon moaned. She slowed down, and she fluttered straight up in the air. She twirled about through a sudden current. She beat with her right wing, and she flew down at an angle towards a familiar looking stone window. Oh, oh… It’s… She’s… She can’t think that… NO!

Celestia finally had enough. She thrust a hoof forwards. Some kind of flurry of bright white sparks burst across Strawberry’s body. He coiled around in vain— the tingly torture playing with his senses.

The unicorn tumbled down through the air once again. The stars in the night sky flew past him. He waved all of his hooves at branch after branch and leaf after leaf.

*Smack*

A gigantic branch rammed straight into Strawberry’s chest. Spit and blood flew from his mouth. The wind totally knocked out of him, he struggled to nudge himself over. He managed to pull himself a few feet up, but then he slinked back down again. He his bottom hooves dangled— kicking like mad in the empty air. He heard a huge commotion somewhere far below him, but he could barely think anymore.

“And now you’ll see, Tia.”

“I can hardly wait.”

“It’s— It’s not an easy spell to undo.”

“GET TO IT.”

Strawberry’s mind wandered. His own blood poured down his throat. The noxious taste seemed to burn. He struggled with his hooves to get himself up on the branch. It pressed down against his side, and he moaned in pain.

“It’s— It’ll work, I promise!”

“Lies! You will pay for this, you monster!”

“WAIT!”

The unicorn tried to shut his ears. He forced down all of the thoughts coursing through his mind. He stared straight up at the branch. I’m not… dying here. Not like this… He curled over his right hoof.

“I promise! It will work! I just need to concentrate!”

“I have had enough of this!”

“Wait, please! It’s working! See!”

“IT’S ALL OVER!”

Strawberry felt his breathing going out. A fire built up from inside his chest where he had been hit. He managed to get his right side over on the branch. Yet the fire went on and on. He could just feel his insides being destroyed.

“Just… Look at this! The light! The power!”

“What! What are you doing to them! Restore the elements of harmony NOW!”

“Please, Tia!”

“NO! NOW!”

Strawberry reached up with his left hoof. He grasped at the empty air above him. Please… Please… The fire coursed through his veins. The pain built up. He suddenly felt as if a knife went straight through his chest. He screamed… and he let go.

“TIA!”

A solid wall of white light surged through the air besides Strawberry. He seemed to fall for ages. His body made a stark silhouette upon the pure energy. Finally, another far softer set of tiny branched dinged him one after the other. His eyes burned as he looked into the shimmering wall of magical energy, and it incredibly seemed to move step by step closer to him.

Screams filled his ears. Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Moon, Celestia, and all these other ponies all blended together into a horrible, solid noise. He almost through his eyes and ears would bleed. He didn’t even seem to be falling anymore. The gigantic white explosion sailed right into him… and then through him. He tumbled through the air aimlessly— white wave after white wave flowing all around.

He finally landed. He forced himself up. Every inch of his hooves cried out to him in pain. He felt some horrible mixture of gravel and blood going all up his skin. He closed his eyes, and his horn shone brightly in determination. He stood up. Moon’s magic pulsed all around him.

A sea of blobs and splotches flew across the air. His vision caved in on him— worse than his worst migrance. He stumbled about— knowing that his glasses had to be long gone. He knew with every fiber of his being that he stood in the same forest clearing as before.

The elements of… harmony… He heard loud, angry voices around him as well, but they didn’t connect in his mind. He might as well have been the only pony in all of Equestria. Strawberry wandered forward. He knew that he was retracing his steps from before. Someone in front of him, he had once seen Fluttershy.

He tripped against a hunk of rock. Strawberry landed on his side. He called out in pain. He then forced himself back up. He suddenly spotted something soft and yellow in the distance.

He sped over. “Fluttershy…” Strawberry eked out. She… she gave you back your essence… but Moon hadn’t… I didn’t save her yet. Moon was still Moon, and so you were still cursed… Oh, please, oh please… Fluttershy… I failed. I failed you. I ruined everything.

He came upon the blob. He took a deep breath, and then he closed his eyes. He focused his magic. I’m… I’m going to see… I’m going to see everything. He tried to recall some kind of enhancement spell that he used when he lost his glasses around the house. Strawberry flared himself up with his magic. He then opened his eyes and looked down at the yellow pegasus.

Black and blue blotches ran all along every single hoof. Strawberry could barely even see her own skin through all of the bruises. Strawberry traced his own hoof across her body. Her legs twisted in a way that had to have broken bone after bone. He rubbed down across gash after bloody gash down her back. He nestled his hoof into her right wing, and the feathers fell out at his every move. He rubbed down a few inches, and something hard and bloody bumped against him. The whole wing would snap off if I just touched it again…

Strawberry delicately turned her body over. You're complete now. You’ve got your… your… soul back…. your essence. Can’t I just… talk to Nurse Tenderheart… And… please… PLEASE! TALK TO ME FLUTTERSHY! The slash along her neck went down even deeper than before. He moved his hoof down, and blackish-red scabs quickly rubbed along it. He froze to the point that he could barely even breathe. Then, he leaned down to see her face to face.

“F-f-fluttershy?” he whispered.

Those huge, open eyes stared back at him blankly.

“Please…” he cried out. He went to cry, and then he realized that he seemed… empty. He couldn’t even feel anymore. He couldn’t think. “Please, Fluttershy…” He reached out with his hooves along the sides of her face.

She nudged forward a little at her touch. He stopped, and then she stopped. She’s… never going to move again…

“Fluttershy…” Strawberry moaned— so quiet that he could barely even hear himself. He reached over, and then he softly pulled her eyelids down. He curled his body down, and then he cradled her head against his chest.

More screaming went on around him. He didn’t care in the slightest. He leaned down, and he buried himself in the yellow pegasus’ soft mane.

“I… I love you,” he muttered. He finfally managed to cry. The tears flowed out until her mane was soaking. “Not the way I love Moon. But… I love you. I always loved you. You… You we’re the only one that got it. That was… so kind to me. That… saw me for who I am. It doesn't matter if you were only a friend. You were the greatest friend anypony could ever have.” He wanted to go on, but he couldn’t.

Strawberry stepped up, and he stood over the corpse. He looked out into the clearing around him. And… Rarity? Twilight? I… No. NO. I don’t want to know what I’ll find. He glanced around in all directions, but he also had no sight or sound of Moon.

“YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!” Celestia screamed above him. Strawberry threw himself back. He saw the alicorn bursting out with solid white beam after beam from her horn. She spun around in the air, and then she bounced up. She rocketed straight up.

Trails of inky black sparks trailed the air behind Celestia. She suddenly crashed into a solid black cloud. Moon appeared and gave her a buck straight into the side. Celestia hollered in pain.

As the battle went on, Strawberry stepped away from the clearing. He didn’t know what to think, what to do, or what to say. He had somewhere, somehow… An impulse went through him to return to the Castle. He marched on— moving like a toy solider. The sky lit up above him with black magical blast after white magical blast over and over again.

He suddenly found himself deep within the forest path. He snapped back into consciousness. He hesitated, and he glanced up to see the celestial bodies at war. They had thrown themselves far above him. The two specks in the distant sky hurled themselves against each other time and time again— like fireflies swinging about a light.

Strawberry gulped, and then he finally found the strength to run. He came up to the castle. Horses darted about him side to side. He paid absolutely no attention. He had to get into the ballroom. Somehow… he knew the alicorns would lead themselves there.

Dazzling Marks barreled into Strawberry, and then the golden stallion pestered him with question after question. Strawberry shoved a hoof into Marks’ face and hurled him upon the ground. The unicorn then burst open the ballroom doors.

“YOU WILL… PAY…” Celestia shouted.

“Please, please, please…” Moon murmured back.

The white alicorn poised down on top of her sister— or what she considered her ‘former sister’. Celestia’s wings rammed down onto the floor at either side to keep her trapped in place. He mane blazed in the air behind her— every last strand seemed hard as metal. Her mouth curled with her teeth sticking out almost like fangs.

“Now!” Celestia yelled. Her face contorted in rage. Her eyes focused until Strawberry couldn’t even see them. The burning bright light from her body lit up the room. “GOODBYE!”

Moon turned her head over to Strawberry for a second. The unicorn wanted to jump over. He wanted to use every last bit of his magical energy. He couldn’t. Moon's magic— for whatever reason— left him totally paralyzed. His heart raced as he realized that he couldn’t even breathe. Every little second felt like an eternity.

His eyes traced across Moon’s body. Huge red bruises littered all across her hooves and down her body. Searing gashes crisscrossed her back. He locked eyes with her face. Her horn had… been halfway broken off— ugly black globs dripping off from the torn end.

“Moon,” he mouthed. He didn’t hear sound come off, but he saw from her face that she understood. “I…” The millions upon millions of thoughts flashing through his mind stopped at just one. “I love you.”

“Prince,” she mouthed back. Celestia’s white light started to blind his sight.

“I… I do…” he mouthed. Moon titled her head a little, and she gazed at him with her deep eyes in a way that meant she understood. Every Princess deserves a Prince… It doesn’t matter the circumstances…

The light flashed through so strongly that he could barely see a thing. He focused his eyes, and then he tried to scream. Celestia’s horn moved down inch by inch, and then…

It stabbed straight into Moon’s neck.

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All in all, it had felt like a pretty crummy day. “Sure,” Strawberry whispered under his breath to himself, “Everypony likes a good celebration. But it’s not really a ‘celebration’ if it doesn’t end… If it drags on and on and… ooonnn…” He had finished the last of the cupcake orders, at least.

The unicorn had a fleeting moment to lean out the window and relax— until Mrs. Cake screeched at him again. He glanced about at the other ponies going about on the main street. None of them paid any attention to him. Story of my life… He crinkled up his empty cup and hurled it into the trash can below.

He leaned up at the fading daylight. Of course, the celebrations were worse than bittersweet for anypony with a personal connection a certain six group of friends. Sure, most ponies bought the story of a heroic battle to exterminate the worst evil Equestria had ever known. A battle that ended up suicidal… Most horses would jump out head first off of a cliff if Celestia told them there were cupcakes at the bottom.

He went to head back to the kitchen, but then a soft voice came out from outside the window. The unicorn popped out. He saw a familiar looking white mare with a pink and red striped mane.

She shifted back a little at Strawberry’s stare, which he hadn’t intended to look so intense. “Oh… ah… I didn’t want to bother you at work and all, and I know you’re busy,” Roseluck said. Strawberry put on a small smile, although it looked pretty fake. “I just… I wanted to ask you something about those Evening Stars that Diamond Tiara just ordered.”

“Bite me,” he groused at Roseluck. She titled her head in surprise.

“Oh, I… I…” she squeaked. She opened her mouth to say something else, but then she sped back away towards the town square. The unicorn chased after her with his eyes, and then he leaned back out of the window.

Ugh… I can’t believe I snapped at her like that. But… Well… What’s the point in hiding it? He looked up at the midnight sky coming into view. Somewhere up there… Celestia is pushing the Moon along, alone… He felt like spewing a bunch of curses for the umpteenth time, but he didn’t feel angry. He felt… defeated. He sighed.

He made the same familiar path down the corridor towards the stairwell. He heard some commotion behind the side door behind him. Strawberry paused, and then he popped the door open. He didn’t see a thing except the empty street. He then took a look straight down, and he noticed a large package.

“Hey, Mrs. Ca—” he shouted, and then he suddenly stopped. Hey, it’s for me! “Oh, nevermind!” He picked the package back up and walked over to the sitting room. Hmm… there’s no return address…

Strawberry stepped in, took a seat on the gigantic couch, and he opened it up. He saw a familiar looking little satchel. Oh… Wow, when and where did I ever leave this? He pulled out the flowerpot filled with Evening Stars from the satchel. He stuck his nose in and inhaled the beautiful aroma. They also had gone into full bloom, and he gazed at the layers of petals upon petals.

He got up— glancing around for a perpetually dark spot to place the delicate flowers. On his second step, he heard something flutter off of his lap onto the floor. He picked it up with his magic.

“From her majesty Celestia’s official royal office,” the unicorn read aloud. He flipped it around, and he didn’t see anything else— no stamp, no nothing. He carefully slid the envelope open with his horn. For a moment, his heart raced, but then he realized that he looked at a routine, mechanical-style form letter. “We must offer our sincere apologies for misplacing your items during your last visit. Enclosed is A: One guitar, B: One flowerpot with flowers, and C: Two metal cases with unknown internal contents. If these are not the items you requested, please let us now. We shall get back to you in a few months or so.”

He bucked up on his hind hooves. He threw the letter with every last ounce of his strength straight out the nearby window. He watched as it sailed through the air and crashed into a window on somepony’s roof.

Strawberry grabbed the satchel with his front hooves. He wanted to cry so badly. He kept it down… or he at least tried to. She’d… she’d want me to… to… Go on. He looked out through the window again. The gigantic moon flowed across the sky— the night darkening moment by moment.

Strawberry nudged himself closer and closer. He leaned himself over the window ledge, and then he pulled up his guitar. The moon filled his eyes. He felt the smooth, cold sensation trickling down every inch of his body. He took off his glasses, and he clutched the guitar tighter. He then took a gulp.

"Looking..." he began. He went ahead and cried— holding the guitar right up wood to skin. "F-f-from a window above... It's like a story of l-l-love..."

A shooting star scattered across the sky above the moon.

"C-c-an you heeeeeeeeear me..."

His eyes traced the shooting star alongside the constellations.

"Came back only y-y-yesterday... I'm moving further away-y… Want you neeeeeear me..."

His eyes danced up along the lunar seas.

"All I needed was the love you gave..."

He gazed up even further at the blanket of stars along the Milky Way.

"All I needed for another day…”

He couldn’t see any further. The tears clogged every bit of his eyes and rained down his cheeks.

"And all... I ever knew..."

He shut his eyes.

"Only you…”

The End

P.S. If you've read all of the endings up to this one, then... THANK YOU! It means so much to me that you like my writing. If you have any comments, thoughts, concerns, or anything like that, please leave a post here or message me at [email protected] Thanks once again, and happy reading! - SwiperTheFox

Song credits:
Part IV -> "The Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, and Marvin Tarplin (First performed by the Miracles)
Part V & Ending IV, Part B -> "Only You" by Vince Clarke (First performed by Yazoo)
Part X -> "When You're Young and in Love" by Van McCoy (First performed by Ruby & the Romantics)
Ending III -> "Watching You" by Doug Fieger, Berton Averre, James Ash, and Melinda Appleby (First performed by the Rogue Traders)

Thanks again to Liquid_Rainbows and SilentAuthor for inspiration!