Title: Goodbye Alex

Author: Kayarra Ali

E-mail: Kayarra00@yahoo.com

Category: UC, Alex/Maria

Rating: PG

Summary: As Maria sings her final goodbye; she remembers her secret Tuesday meetings with Alex…VERY SHORT.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.  The song is "Amazing Grace"

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Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind, but now, I see

Do you remember Alex?

Tuesday's…our days.  The days where we would sneak off to the Eraser Room and do things that we would never admit to other people.

We would kiss, and we would touch, we would love each other the way that no one else could.

Do you remember?

T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.

Even though I never told you, I was upset when we stopped our secret meetings.  When I got back together with Michael and you got back with Isabel. 

Don't get me wrong, I love Michael, but I love you too.  I loved you more than a best friend should. 

I think I even loved you more than Michael.

And now you're gone.

Through many dangers, toils and snares...
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home.

I wonder what you're doing up there Alex.  Are you watching us mourn?  We all loved you Alex.  Did you know that?

I even caught Max, Michael, and Kyle each shedding their tears of despair. 

Do you realize that today is Tuesday Alex?  Do they count days in Heaven?  I know you're up there.  You always were the perfect kind of guy.

Oh yes, today is also your funeral.  They day your body spends eternity withering away in dirt.

Can you tell that they're laying your casket in the ground now?

Depressing, really.

The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.

I place a single kiss on the mahogany casket before you leave me forever.  I never thought that I would have to say goodbye to you.  I always thought that you would never die.  That none of us would ever die.

Funny, isn't it?  Considering we spend our days battling evil aliens.

When we've been here a thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.

Don't worry Alex.  Never…. Never will I forget our special meaning of Tuesday.  I promise that every Tuesday morning I will wake up with you on my mind, and go to sleep with you in my dreams.

Goodbye Alex.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind, but now, I see.

--End