I do not own D. Gray-Man.

If you are reading this, you should know now that this could weigh on your mind or make you really sad. It might not, but it took a toll on me, and that's saying something. Please enjoy.

~Waltzing Alone~

Music plays softly

In the background. Like I am,

It's always alone.

Our lives last so long

But we are not eternal.

Make the most of love.

I'm waltzing alone,

Tonight, every night, each day

You're gone, I miss you.

-Arystar Krory III

Life is so unfair.

Why would someone even try?

I'm falling apart.

I envy your lives.

They're not good, but you're still human.

Can time be rewound?

I'm waltzing alone.

Can't take me the way I am,

Can't touch my cold heart.

-Yu Kanda

Stop playing around.

I'm one of the lucky ones,

Yet I'm cursed, like you.

Stop saying those things.

It will turn out, in the end.

Just hold strong for now.

I'm waltzing alone,

Too apart from all you

To be your savior.

-Lenalee Lee

Distancing myself,

I'll always walk alone; here

Is my chosen path.

Too late to rethink,

Too late to start over, say

"I think I'll leave now."

I'm waltzing alone,

Too afraid of my choice to

Give my heart away.

-Lavi

For all those times I've

Hurt you, hunted you, hoped

You might be gone soon…

Words are not enough,

I know that, now that I'm hated by

Friends that I can't meet.

I'm waltzing alone,

Deemed cruel and strange. Would you be

My friend? Could you be?

-Road Kamelot

Will you leave me be?

I told you once, I'll say it

Again, I'm with you.

Can't you believe me?

What I'm telling you is true!

Think about it, please.

I'm waltzing alone,

Cut off from the world by me

And my promises.

-Allen Walker

I'm very sorry.

I can only wish I was

Stronger, to help you.

I feel so lucky,

Compared to you, my life was

Royal, so easy.

I'm waltzing alone,

No-one to protect, nowhere

To call my true home.

-Miranda Lotto

Can you say goodbye

To your life, to your dreams, then

Pick them up again?

Can you say "I'm done,

Better luck next time", then leave

Breaking yourself free?

I'm waltzing alone,

Feeling so trapped in this life,

This hell I'm living.

-Tyki Mikk

I wish I could help.

I don't understand how this

Much darkness is here.

Can I save you, or

Simply help in any way?

Is it too late now?

I'm waltzing alone,

Wishing too hard for a world

We can call perfect.

-Noise Marie

Accept it, you're a

Puppet, held up by thin strings,

Above a dark hole.

Accept it, you're here

Because I want you to be.

Don't fight it, you're mine.

I'm waltzing around,

Dancing across rules I've made,

Skimming the surface.

-the Millennium Earl

~Author's Note~

I came up with this idea with the help of Kurisuten-chan, my dear friend and idea bouncer-offer. My main idea actually came from a Secret Santa-type thing my friends and I do. It was kind of typical no-one had given me anything yet; I never got one at the start of the day. But, as the day wore on, I began to wonder if my name had been drawn. Kuri and I were chatting about that and she made the comment of how that would be very Krory-ish. I added that if there was some form of party at the order, he would be the only one waltzing alone.

Then, I realized how each character waltzes alone in their own way, and how it is they've all kept themselves secluded from each other because of that. So I wrote this.

(About the Secret Santa thing, I ended up with a very pretty pair of blown-glass earrings in green. –happily admires tiny shiny articles of jewelry-)

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~please give a kiss to the hand you hold~