Sustain Me

Disclaimer: Not Mine

Pairing: Robert & Holly

Rating: PG

Holly glanced down at Robert and Luke who were fast asleep on the floor. Since meeting up with them she had slept sitting up in a jail cell and in a sleeping bag in the middle of the jungle but she refused to sleep on the floor of her decaying villa. She picked up one of the candles off the table and made her way down the hallway and up the stairs. She prepared herself for the worst as she opened the door to what was once her bedroom and was greatly relieved to find the bed still standing.

Several moments later Robert was awoken by Luke's uncontrollable snoring, he threw the blanket off and quickly got to his feet, he made his way over to the couch where he assumed Holly would be. When he found it empty he grabbed a candle off the dining table and headed for the stairs. He passed the first few doors and went directly to the first door on the right.

"Holly?" he called out as he opened the door. There was no one on the newly made bed but there was but warm, glowing candle light flickering across the room. Robert careful closed the door behind him and sat his candle down on the dresser. He found her standing against he open french doors. "Holly?" he asked again. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." she answered softly.

He walked over to where she was. "What's wrong?" he asked as he gently tilted her chin up. Tears filled her beautiful dark eyes. "I always hated it when you cried." he told her, gently wiping away her tears.

Holly looked up at him, smiling briefly as she remembered some of the better times of their life together. "But the difference is you can't make it all better this time."

"I could try." he replied, cupping her face in his hands. "The last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt the people that I loved and yet it seems to be all that I've accomplished. I owe you an explanation about what happened way back when. Why I did what I did."

"Robert, you don't owe me anything." she told him.

"But I do." he insisted. "I hurt the two most important people to me in the entire world and I did it because I thought it was the right thing to do at the time."

Holly brought her hands up to his forearms and gently pushed him away. "We all do things that we regret." she said as she turned her back to him. "Things that we'd like to erase."

"Like holding the antidote for ransom?"

"Yes." she answered honestly. "I was hurt and angry and devastated. I felt betrayed and I lashed out without thinking or considering the consequences to any of my actions. And I am sorry. I'm truly sorry about everything that happened. You were always my entire world Robert and when you died a big part of me died with you. I knew that I could never find anyone that would even come close to taking your place. When I saw you on the news something inside me snapped, something I couldn't control and now I can't take any of it back."

Robert placed his hands on her shoulders. "Life would be so much easier with a rewind button, but what's done is done Holly and we can't spend what's left of our lives living in the past."

"Why not?" she asked. "Things were so much easier back then, so much better."

"I know."

"I've missed you so much." she confessed as the tears fell rapidly. "There were some days where I didn't feel like I could go on living without you."

He drew her backwards and into his arms, wrapping his arms her waist. "I'm sorry." he whispered in her ear. "For everything."

She relaxed against him. "You plagued my dreams and my nightmares for the longest time, Robert. I thought that I'd lost my last chance to tell you how much I loved you and how much I wanted to be with you." she said softly. "I never stopped loving you."

"I'm so glad to hear that." he said as he turned her around to face him., wanting to look into her eyes. "Because I never stopped loving you either. My memories of you, of us, carried me through some of the darkest, longest, loneliest days and nights of my life." he told her as he drew her into his strong arms.

Holly melted into his warm embrace finally feeling safe and loved. He held her tightly wanting to never let her go. They were exactly where they belong, where they were always meant to be, in each other's arms. Holly pulled back so that she could look into his eyes. "I love you, Robert."

"I love you, Holly." he said softly. He brushed his fingertips delicately over her face, drawing her closer to him, allowing his lips to make full contact with hers.

"Say it again."

Robert smiled. "I love you."

Holly leaned in and kissed him but what was meant be a soft kiss quickly turned heated and passionate. Robert held her closer to him, savagely invading her mouth, their tongues dancing together like satin intertwining with silk, he pulled her closer and closer as their kiss grew wildly and fiercely out of control. They were completely lost in each other. Robert's hands moved from her face and glided slowly down her back, holding her to him.

Robert guided her backwards and slowly lowered them down onto the bed never breaking their exquisite kiss. Holly pulled away in a moment of sanity. It didn't last very long and her lips once again began to seek out his. Their mouths danced together in perfect sync as Robert's left hand slid up her exposed thigh, caressing the soft skin that he found there.

"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Robert asked. "Are you sure you want me?"

"Yes." she whispered. "Oh, yes I want you."

"I believe I've heard those words before."

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Sweetest words I've ever heard."

TBC...?

I could end it here or I could continue with another chapter. What do you think?