Disclaimer: None of this is mine. All hail Joss Whedon, the posse and Breathe
Rating: PG
Spoilers: The Prom/G 1 & 2
Summary: The end of S3 MY WAY!
Author's Notes: A short angsty fic; Lyrics in italics
Dedication: My beautiful inspirations…you know who you are…I love you

You look so beautiful tonight, a wraithlike goddess, the moon casting it's light into the room, giving your skin a mystical luminosity.

Your bare feet move almost silently on the cool marble floor, the linen of your dress whispering previously untold secrets. Your hair falls over your shoulders like a golden waterfall, I am mesmerized as it ripples and flows over your honey skin.

You are in front of me now; this is so hard. I want nothing more than to lose myself in your fiery depths, to drown in the ocean of your love, but that can never be.

As I watch you move, across the moonlit room
There's so much tenderness in your loving
Tomorrow I must leave, the dawn knows no reprieve
God give me strength when I am leaving

I stand and crush you to me, drinking in your very essence, trying not to think that tonight is all we have. Your lips find mine; it is as though you are trying to draw me into you, our souls to co-exist as one. Wetness caresses me and I realize that you are silently crying. I fight against my tears; it is a war I will not win.

As we move to embrace, tears run down your face
I whisper words of love, so softly
I can't believe this pain, it's driving me insane
Without your touch, life will be lonely

It is so unfair that I have to leave, that I have to make this sacrifice. Over and over I whisper to you, words of love, words of comfort, words of reassurance; but they ring hollow in my ears, as I am sure they do in yours. You collapse against me; I sweep you into my arms and carry you to the bed, never once breaking off my tender ministrations.

Your arms pull me closer, skin meets skin but we know the boundary we must not cross. I bury my head in your breasts and you cradle me there, your heart beating, and your breathing a strangled staccato rhythm.

Tonight, I need your sweet caress
Hold me in the darkness Before long dawn will break and you will leave my side. For once the night is too short; morning will come and take you from me, leaving me a gaping, weeping wound where a heart should be.

Morning has come, another day
I must pack my bags and say goodbye, goodbye

If there is a God then this will not be the end. If there is any justice in the world then, when all the battles are fought, when redemption is won, we will be together. Until that time we just have to believe.

So raise your hands to heaven and pray
That we'll be back together someday

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