A/N: The following two song-fics are what I found when I was cleaning out some of my old files on my computer. I decided to post them. Hope they're not too awful! I'll stop clogging up your achives now! (The song's from Lord of the Rings, in case you didn't get that :P)

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Out of the light and into the Darkness

(Gollum's Song)

Where once was light
Now darkness falls

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A tall figure dressed in black stood looking out at the stars; dreams and memories playing on his mind. They all seemed so distant now, as though he was looking back on someone else's life.

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Where once was love
Love is no more

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He could see her again; the woman that he would have given his life for. The woman he had tried to save, but had lost in the attempt; his heart still ached when he thought of her, of what he had lost.

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Don't say - goodbye
Don't say - I didn't try...

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Another person, a man this time floated through his mind; the man who had tried to teach him all he had known. The memories would have brought a smile to his face; if the man could smile.

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These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies
You told us
The hurt, the blame!

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But other memories soon clouded out the happy ones; other figures, the people he had looked up too, the people who had betrayed him. In his minds eye he could see the man from before turn and walk away…

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And we will weep
To be so alone
We are lost!
We can never go home

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As he contemplated these memories he felt something like regret grip him; he would never see some of those people again. He could never go back…

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So in the end
I will be - what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me

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Those people had caused him to become what he now was; then had sought to place the blame on him. No one would weep when he was gone, bitterness replaced the regret; no one would have anyway.

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Now we say - goodbye
We say - you didn't try

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If he had shed tears he would have wiped them away as he carefully selected his memories – particularly the happy ones or those connected with her; which were much the same thing – and filed them away. No one tried to 'save' him from what he had become; at least, not hard enough.

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These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame!

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Another man – the man from the memories – also stood looking out at the stars, and as he did so he, too, thought back over his life, about the figure in black. He wondered if there was any regret in the heart of the younger man; if there was all he had to do was reach out. For all the hurt and pain, he would have welcomed him back with all his heart; the younger man had been like the brother he had never had

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And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost!
You can never go home

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The second man sighed, and said a silent farewell to his one time friend, for in his heart he knew he was lost then he turned and returned to his home.

The first man was interrupted in his thoughts by another man in uniform, "Excuse me, Lord Vader, but we are ready," the figure in black turned and nodded in reply and, with one last look out of the window, followed the other man.