Laura: I didn't think I would be uploading anything so soon before Xmas but this wouldn't stop niggling in my mind when I found this lurking in my book. I almost forgot I had it here. Anyway the song is by Enrique Iglesias and if I haven't put the lyrics in right I seriously suggest that you should hear the song.

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Song Lyrics

Cold hard ground. That's where she now lay. Her spirit casted away from the human world and it was all his fault. Greed took over him. He'd lost everything.

Funny how the years

They just pass us by

Seems like yesterday

You were in my life

You always wanted

To start a family

I was way too young

I was running free

Guilt. Guilt for her death. Guilt for all the chaos he had caused. But guilt couldn't turn back time. Guilt couldn't heal broken promises.

It'd been 10 years since her death - 10 years! – yet this was his first visit to her resting place. Clay said he'd never be capable of change. Whether that was true or just to get under his skin, Raimundo was keen to deface it. He didn't want to let her down, like he did before.

If only you could see me now

You'd realise

I'm not the boy who

Made you cry

You gave yourself

I didn't see it

You died in me

I should've saved you

Oh

Wish you were here with me…

How and why you ask? It started when greed shrouded this young monk into betraying his life and all the people in it who cared for him. Little did he know at the time that he was betraying himself. He believed at the time was that if helped the sources of evil that he would be repaid, largely. It wouldn't be so bad then, wouldn't it?

I thought I knew it all

How stupid could I be?

Wrong. Selfish deeds always had their consequences and little did he realise how greatly this would backfire. Though he never kept his promise to stop pure evil, there was always someone else to replace him. To change destiny. Kimiko. She was prepared to sacrifice her life for others, to stop Wuya's evil schemes.
(Insert imaginary fight scene where Wuya is dead and Kimiko wins. I'm lazy. :P )

I think of what I had

And it makes me weak

Turning round, she smiled to him in relief. Embracing him in a hug she quietly whispered, 'You can return now Rai. We can pretend you killed her. They'll accept you then. We can-'

Cut off by a small moan, she stepped back nearly collapsing but caught in his arms she managed to look him in the eye and murmur her last words as tears stung her eyes. 'Bastard. I believed in you, I guess I was wrong…'

Grabbing the dagger from her back, he ran, leaving her to die.

If you could only see me now

You'd realise

I'm not the boy who

Made you cry

Looking back to that memory in shame, he only shed a single tear. He'd took her love for granted. For greed. There was no denying it – she loved him – he thought love was weak. He wasn't cold hearted just immature. Playing pranks was his way of showing how he felt. Only he'd taken it too far. If only he tried to reach more, caring less of what people thought of him. Then she'd be here. Everything would be right.

You gave yourself

I didn't see it

You died in me

I should've saved you

Oh

Wish you were here with me

But it wasn't. It wasn't fair. Nothing was fair. I mean, what happened to the old gang? The answer, gone. They'd all gone their separate ways.

Clay had gone back to Texas to become head of the family ranch.

Sometimes

You hurt the ones you love the most

Omi gave up training as a monk after Kimiko's death and fled to the only other place he knew, the city. He'd set up a training school with Jamal but deep down he knew that the temple was where he truly belonged.

Sometimes

You hold the ones who leave you lost

And where was Raimundo? Stuck in a dead-end lifestyle, travelling with the circus again in Brazil. He was wed to some woman his parents had set him up with and was soon to have a child. Shouldn't he be happy?

And sometimes

You learn but its too late

It's too late

Well how could he be? He betrayed the best opportunity that came to him because he was selfish.

You gave yourself

I didn't see it

You died in me

I should've saved you

Some say its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. But if they had seen his cruelty to her love maybe they were wrong. Maybe they were both better off without each other.

You gave yourself

Why did you give yourself to me?

You died in me

Why was I so blind to see?

Oh

Oh

Oh

Wish you were here with me

Wiping that single tear, he left murmuring, ' I'm sorry. I know that means nothing to you now but you know that I'd do anything to change everything back then. But we both know I can't…'

Funny how the years

They just pass us by…