Chess moves in the dark, a starsky and hutch fanfic

Chess moves in the dark

Another SR snippet; following on from 'Sounds in the dark'.

No more hiss.

No more suck.

They took the thing out of my mouth and I breathed on my own.

That thing was clamped between my teeth for so long that now they all feel sore and loose. I have good teeth. And I've left a few hickeys to prove it in my time.

'All the better to bite you with, my dear.'

Shouldn't try to laugh.

Would they hear me if I did?

I'm almost beginning to miss that old rhythm.

Hiss

Suck.

But the other one is still there

Beep, beep, beep; the proof that I'm alive.

Beep

I am the king of the darkness.

I am alone in my kingdom.

I am the dark knight.

I am in the dark night.

"Do not go gentle into that dark night."

I never really understood that one…is he saying you should fight it or is he saying you shouldn't go there?

Sometimes that dark night looks like a good place to be.

I am the dark knight; the knight of darkness.

I am dark in the night.

The night is so dark.

When I was kid I was afraid of the dark and the Golem under the bed.

I'm not afraid now.

Beep

The white knight comes.

He makes his move.

He comes to sit by the bed; but he can't come in a straight line.

He is the white knight.

Two steps forward and one to the side.

He stops to look at the tubes.

I can't see him but I know he is there.

Two steps forward. "Starsky I'm sorry"

No make that two steps back….why does he always have to apologize?

Two steps to the side. He doesn't want to talk about it; he doesn't want to admit that I should be dead.

Beep

I am the dark knight – the knight in the dark.

The night is my fief.

A thief in the night; come to steal my life.

I could steal my life; steal away.

But the white knight won't let me go that easily.

He'll side-step me and block me off.

He's sitting by my bed now.

So silent, my white knight.

My knight in shining armor.

He's trying not to cry.

Beep

I want to reach out my hand to him

I want to touch him.

"Reach and touch somebody's hand…."

He tried to touch me but my armor is strong.

I learned to gird my loins and buckle my shield when I was a kid.

Self defense is the best defense.

He sits there waiting for my blessing

My white knight waits for me to tell him that it is OK to cry.

Two steps forward and one to the side.

"Reach out and touch…."

Beep

I can touch his heart.

I can touch his soul

But until the dark knight can leave the dark night he will never know.

I'm going to reach out and touch his hand.

It isn't easy.

The darkness is around me.

And my heart?

It's getting darker.

The white knight is fading.

The dark knight is weakening

Reach out and touch………….

Reach out and……….

Reach out………

Reach……

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

(To be continued)