Disclaimer: Once again I have to (grudgingly!) admit that no-one mentioned here is mine. All hail Joss and his crack supply!!! If the storming of Whedon Towers is still on...COUNT ME IN! The lyrics are from the song ‘Like A Rose’ by A1.
Spoilers: None really -- you’re just paying a little visit to Shirlz’ Alternate Buffy Universe!
Rating: PG
Thanx: DB/SMG. The stock check for balancing and the tin in the kitchen that say’s ‘Farmer’s Finest Iowa Brand Flour’ for giving me a giggle every time I make tea!
Author’s Notes: Ok, apologies here! I have done the year end stock check and it actually balanced, so I am more than a little hyper right now. Please excuse anything funny and any typos. Lyrics in Italics.
She’s sleeping in my arms. Peaceful. I could watch her forever. No nightmares or prophetic dreams disturb her. I wish I could remove the shadow from her world, but I too am of shadow and I’m never letting her go again.
‘As I look into your eyes I see an angel in disguise
Sent from God above for me to love to hold and idolize
As I hold your body near I’ll see this month through to a year
And then forever on ‘til life is gone I’ll keep your loving near
And now I’ve finally found my way to lead me down this lonely road
All I have to do is follow you to lighten off my load’
Her body is warm against mine. I can hear her heart beating. Her skin is golden, her hair the colour of sunlight. The most perfect thing about her? Her soul. Her soul gives her strength, strength of character. I find it hard to comprehend that something so beautiful and pure could love the evil and darkness in me. But it does.
‘And when I feel like hope is gone you give me strength to carry on
Each time I look at you there’s something new to keep our love strong
I hear you whisper in my ear all the words I long to hear
Of how you’ll always be next to me to wipe away my tears’
I’ve waited over 200 years to find her. I didn’t believe in love. Women were there for my pleasure, even before I was turned. I was scum. A drunken lay about. But now there is her, my Beloved. My beautiful Buffy.
I’ll be here for her whatever. Loving her, comforting her, supporting her. Whatever she needs me to be I’ll become. I’ll stand side by side with her, fight with her. I’ll lay down my life for her and my dying words will be her name.
‘And though seasons change our love remains the same
You face the thunder when the sunshine turns to rain
Just like a rose’
She is everything. My love, my dreams, my fears, my comfort, my sustenance, my redemption.
‘You treat me like a rose, you give me room to grow
You shone the light of love on me and gave me air so I can breathe
You opened doors I closed, in a world where anything goes
You gave me strength so I stand tall within this bed of earth
Just like a rose’
The End