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Here's To the Night

// If..........if..........if.........if! How I wish that word didn't exist. How I wish that night never happened. If only we had taken the subway. If he hadn't have wanted to walk beach. If he....if we had waited ten more minutes. If he hadn't have declared those three little words to the heavens. If he hadn't had been so heroic. If he didn't have that mouth of his. If he didn't have so much pride. If I didn't love him so much, than this would be easy. //

Two lonely tears cascaded down the cheeks of the living heart of Yagami Taichi. Those silent tears screamed out more on the events to come; than the black flower bruised eye, ever did. More than that still bleeding split lip. More than the extremely visible cuts on the furled brow, and more than the hand mark that marred the pale skin. Those two tears were confirming the worst of out comes.

Taichi was laying unnaturally still. The always constant energy was gone, taken away by ignorant bigots who could not see past their hate, to realize that love is love; and the medication from the hospital. He didn't seem to fit those bleached white sheets upon which he lay. His tanned skin - those parts untouched by hate - had faded from the olive perfection to a sickly peach color. His face was swollen from the beating, if you didn't know it was Tai, you would have never guessed. Two black flowers covered those beautiful chocolate eyes. His silken cheeks were swollen by the marks of golden knuckles. A large cut ran from his inquisitive left eyebrow to his soft, pink lips. His love couldn't see anything else but he face, but from what the doctor had told him, the rest of this fallen Greek deity was not much better. Broken left rib cage, seven broken ribs on the right. Broken spinal cored. Kidney swelling. Two more tears followed the suit of their brothers. //If only you had never met me, none of this would have happened//

A nurse entered the overly sterile room, to check the heart monitor of the patient. She inwardly broke. The patient had been here for over a week, and his soul mate never left his side. She had hoped that he would make it. His other half needed him to survive, but when she saw the tears stream down the pale lover's face, she knew that all her praying , and the praying of the other nurses' had gone unanswered. This was the first time that Taichi's heart had cried. She knew that it would be over soon. She silently said a thank you to God. Taichi would suffer no longer, and she asked him that he keep the couple separated for only a short time. //Call them both home.// She left just as silently as she entered, her white uniform slippers making no sound on the fake marble tile.

Taichi's lover gently grasped his hand, their song's intro was just beginning. //How does your hand still feel the same when everything else had changed?// His tears spilled unto the sheets. Two lone crystals hit Taichi's hand. His breathing had became labored earlier that day. When his eyes had fluttered opened, the younger lover thought that they would soon be going home, but unfortunately the fates had a different plan in mind.

Here's to the nights we felt alive.

Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry.

Here's to goodbye.

Tomorrow's gonna come to soon.

He had struggled for along time trying to get the strength to speak that afternoon. The other had tried to talk him out of it, but Taichi knew his fate then, and would have none of it. "Hey what did I say to you about crying?". The younger lover had to swallow hard, to get past the lump in his throat. "You s..said 'You...you're gorgeous when...hen you cry, it make's your ocean eye..eye..eyes have crashing waves, but..ut when you sm..smile, even the God..s...Gods are jealous'." Yama stuttered. "That's right so give me that smile." A smile that lit up Taichi's dying eyes, spread across a face, reopening the cut on the lip. When Yama's smiled faded, he could taste the bitter blood. " I love you, Yama. -Taichi's fatigue was beginning to show- never forget that." "I love you too tenshi." Yama was amazed then at how powerful, and clear that had come out. Tai smiled once more, his eyes sparked one last time. He closed his eyes, and Yama knew then, that this was the last day for his heart, for his soul. When Taichi would die, and when they'd bury him, they'd bury his heart as well. //It's not right. We never had chance.// Yama looked down at the small silver band that was on his left pale ring finger. "It was my grandmother's. Yama -Yamato had found his breath was hard to find when Tai bent down on one knee- if you accept this ring, than you will be agreeing to marry me, but accept it only if your heart has no doubts." Yamato didn't even need a second to accept. This was Taichi asking him to be with him forever. //Oh Tai, how I wanted to see that day. How I wanted you to be my first.// Two tears fell that afternoon for the first time since that night. Yamato knew and he could only hope that he would join him soon. He turned to look at the digital clock on the wall. It flashed a green 3:30pm in Yamato's eyes. All he could do now was be there.

Here's to the nights we felt alive

Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry.

Here's to goodbye.

Tomorrow's gonna come to soon.

Yama's shoulders began to shake, as the sobs that were trying escape intensified. He turned to the clock on the wall. 11:59 pm. //Tomorrow's gonna come to soon. Why God, why does the world have to be like this? Why did they have to hate us because of a difference?// Yamato's sob struggled to be released and this time it could not be with held. The pain radiated from that sob to everyone in the hospital. The nurse from earlier, who was sitting in the chapel had tears glistening in her green eyes. All the nurses at the station outside the ICU unit, just parallel to the room, could not with hold their sobs, and they leaned upon one another for support; while their hearts broke for the young men, whose lives were about to leave.

12:00. When the constant beep started, Yamato just simply stood and unhooked the machine, like the doctor had told him. Like Taichi had wanted. The room fell unearthly silent, but that noise that ended everything to Yamato, the sun, the moon, the stars; echoed painfully in his head. "Please Yama, don't leave my breathing up to machines. Just let me go." //That was three days ago, I had been so sure he'd come home.// Yamato sat down once more, and took Taichi's hand in his smaller one. //I'll see you real soon Tai. Aishiteru, koi// He gently lifted the hand to his lips, his fallen tears had made Tai's hand taste salty. He stood and bent down to kiss his love on the lips. Salty crystals constantly fell.

Tomorrow's gonna come too soon.





There is a second chapter, but I'm not going to bother to upload unless people want me to. No point in wasting space on FFN on stories people don't like, when there are good authors out there that need the space.



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