Title: Decision
Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Characters: Lulu/Wakka/Luzzu
Word Count: Appx. 700
Challenge: Choices
Content notes: No community notes apply. Established poly relationship. Post-FFX.
Summary: Luzzu wants to leave Besaid. Breaking the news to Wakka isn't easy.

Luzzu and Wakka had been talking for almost an hour. Lulu could hear them, Wakka’s voice rising and falling as Luzzu’s stayed quiet and calm.

She had expected this, in truth. For the most part she had thought he was content, but there was something in his face, a distance in his eyes. He had been guarding Besaid for so many years, but now that Sin was gone and the Fiends were weakened, she could see that he was lost. Not as lost as the Summoners and Acolytes, perhaps, but lost all the same.

He’d asked her for advice with this, but she hadn’t had much to tell him that he didn’t already know. He needed to be honest, she’d said, and to expect that this would not be an easy decision for Wakka to accept.

Her husband came out of the small room - no stomping or storming, no anger on his face, just a confusion she remembered well from when they’d finally learned the truth about Yevon. “Lu,” he said as he looked at her, keeping his voice low. “You knew about this, right?”

She looked him in the eyes. “Yes,” she admitted. “He’d mentioned it to me first. He’d said he was going to tell you tonight.”

“Heh.” He sat down heavily. “Well, he did. But you probably figured that out.”

She sat down next to him, taking his hand. “He’s lost his purpose,” she said gently. “This is only his way of finding it again.”

“I know. I know, but...” He stopped, shaking his head.

The curtain swished again, and Luzzu ducked through the doorway; he’d always been the slightest bit too tall for it. He wasn’t angry either, from what Lulu could see, but he was most certainly worried. “Wakka... should I go? We can talk about this later, if -“

He sighed. “No, look, I’m sorry. It’s hard for me to talk about this, ya know? I mean, Yevon lied to all of us, and I don’t wanna see anybody getting dragged into that. ‘Specially nobody in my family.”

“I understand that,” he said, voice as low and calm as ever. “That’s why I want to go, though. I need to see this New Yevon movement for myself.”

“To gauge their sincerity, I suppose?” Lulu asked, pushing herself up. It wouldn’t be long, the older women had said, before that would become much harder. Babies always grow more quickly than you can imagine, they’d said.

“Not just that. I need to know what it is that they’re trying to do. I know there are a lot of good people following them, but there were a lot of good people following Yevon, too.” He looked down at Wakka.

“I’d like to think so,” he said, smiling the slightest bit - the first smile Lulu had noticed since this discussion had started, before the sun had set. He pushed himself up as well, grunting a bit and patting his gut absent-mindedly. “Luzzu, look, I just... I don’t wanna see anybody else get hurt.”

“Neither do I,” he said quietly, putting one hand on Wakka’s shoulder. “I’m not leaving because I want to leave you two behind, Wakka. I’m leaving because I have to know if this is something people need protection from.”

“And then you’ll come back, ya?” Wakka looked over at him. “I might need some help with this little guy, if what the elders are saying is right.”

“Don’t worry. The sooner I leave, the sooner I can come back home.”

“Heh. Can’t argue with that.” Wakka turned around and pulled Luzzu into a tight hug. “Just be careful. Don’t get yourself lost.”

Lulu had to smile as she saw the way they both relaxed, how the tension seemed to disappear. She couldn’t resist; she joined them, rubbing her husband’s back and lightly patting Luzzu on the shoulder.

“That was... less painful than I expected,” Luzzu said as he pulled away, catching Lulu’s gaze.

Wakka laughed a bit as Lulu shook her head. “We both knew that you were looking for something,” she admitted. “And as you said, the sooner you travel to Beville, the sooner you can return to us.”