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Post by Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison on Jul 23, 2004 2:37:09 GMT -5
"NO!" Maya's scream cut through me more than Joshua's had, for no other reason than the pure emotion behind them.
"If anything I've ever done," I whispered. "If anything means anything, let him keep his promise."
It was strange. As I said those words, I thought back on some of the things I've done, the events that made me who I am. I'm not entirely happy with some of it. A lot of it, actually. There's been times when my entire life looked pretty much up the crapper.
Times like right now.
The biggest moment was when I found Jacquiline blood eagled in her grandfather's Dojo. That was the choice that led me to Des, when I became Francois, when...
I stopped. Everything had led to this. I was able to help Maya now because of what I'd been through.
Cause and effect. Wants and needs.
Consequences.
((Probably not what you were looking for, but it sounded good in my head.))
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Post by Maya on Jul 23, 2004 14:57:49 GMT -5
The sheets now wet from tears, i lay myself beside his limp form, and stroked a strand of hair from his face,
"Goddess i love you." I murmured. "Mother Isis, please guide him, please dont...." I choked on my own tears, but forged on, "Please show him the way... please..."
At that moment, my mind was running over everything that had lead up to this moment, from the very first time we met...
...I walked up to a group of my friends in the graveyard, and there was a new guys, who'd just cracked an appalling joke... i asked who he was, and he replied that he was Joshua, a timewizard and a friend of Docs... i knew immediately that he had affected time during a fight with Drusilla- i had been rather pissed off...
to when i had refused to allow Joshua to go alone to help Tpot... if i hadnt done that, then he might not have been dying now. Although if i hadn't then he might have died that night, who knows? Everything we do has consequences, sometimes theyre good, sometimes they're bad, really bad... and sometimes there is nothing we can do to change them.
"I love you." I sobbed once more, kissing his forehead with shaking lips. Then i held him close to me, Doc standing by, and i didn't open my eyes again until long after i felt his heart stop beating. I didn't want to move, or speak, because that would mean admitting he was gone. So i held fast, and silently cried.
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Post by Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison on Jul 26, 2004 3:39:21 GMT -5
"Gant him passage," I whispered, my voice breaking. It was hard, but I had to be strong.
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Post by Maya on Aug 8, 2004 17:22:52 GMT -5
I dont know how long it was before i felt Doc's hands on my shoulders, gently trying to pry me away from my dead love.
"Come on, Maya." He said quietly.
"No."I said desperately, "I cant leave him- he needs me- i cant."
"He's gone, Mai." Doc said, trying to keep the tremor from his voice. "You can let go- you have to let go."
"No..." My fingers hurt for holding on- they were cramped in the position, and i wasnt sure i even could move them.
"Come on." Doc said again, gently prising my fingers away. I didnt cry out at the pain of the movement, for i couldnt really feel it- i felt nothing but emptiness and guilt. "Its ok." Doc said "Hes ok. Hes ok now, you can come away."
My lip trembled, and i suddenly felt like a small child. I looked up at Doc, my eyes red, my cheeks tear stained.
"Oh Goddess, Doc." I gasped. He sat beside me, and wrapped his arms around me "Oh goddess..." I breathed, "Oh goddess..."
I sobbed into his shoulder, grateful for the warmth of his brotherly embrace.
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Post by Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison on Aug 9, 2004 7:18:30 GMT -5
"Shh," I whispered. "It's alright," my mind was nub. Joshua always seemed invincible. Kinda confused at times, but he always seemed to come back from danger. Now he was gone.
That didn't seem right for some reason.
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