It all started so long ago…How could it have ended this way they were in love….

Tidus woke up from his nightmare shaking and covered in sweat. He thought back on his almost nightly dreams always the same one…He was back in Zanarkand with his girlfriend they still loved each other so much, it was right before that last game she was getting repairs, KOS-MOS was a mercenary and because of that half machine, so for this game she watched on the television. This was the game that he had gone to another world. So he watched in horror as his imagination supplied various ways for her to die…

But it was all a dream she was gone now and he was with the ex-high summoner Yuna he had just come back from the dead a little over a year ago but since he had been back he had been having the same nightmare over and over again. Maybe it was just jitters after all he and Yuna were getting married in just two more months thinking of the past was normal right?

Probably not like this though he should talk to some one but whom? Yuna didn't know anything about his past love life in Zanarkand and it would probably just hurt her, Kimari wasn't here and he wasn't human somehow Tidus didn't think that was the right place to look, Wakka and Rikku couldn't keep secrets, and Lulu was way to loyal to Yuna not to tell her about this, but then there was Paine she seemed like she had some secrets of her own maybe she could help.

By now it was morning and he figured Paine was up she was always an early riser, she liked to go out into the jungle and do some treasure hunting (some habits died hard he guessed). So that was the direction he went. He found her after an hour hike in random directions (how was he supposed to know where she went) she was sitting by a small waterfall looking into the pool that had formed at the bottom of it. She looked up as he entered the clearing.

"Tidus what are you doing out here?"

"Hey Paine sorry to bug you but I was kind of hoping you could help me I have a bit of a problem."

"Well sit down and let me hear it then I'll see what I can do."

"Ok well see when I was in Zanarkand I was in love with this girl and she felt the same so we started dating and even had a wedding planed but she was hurt just before my last game there, she was a soldier, so she was getting fixed up while my last game went on and that's when Sin struck. I don't know what happened to her and lately I have been having nightmares about it, I'm not sure how to move on from this…"

Paine sat in silence for a bit thinking. "Well you love Yuna it's easy to see that and she feels the same if this is something that might interfere with your relationship then you need to find out what happened to her. Zanarkand is still there maybe we can find something to tell you what happened."