Title: NEEDED
Author: searingidolatryRating: Suitable for all (boring!)
Summary: Andrew muses his relationship with Warren, post Grave, whilst travelling away from Sunnydale
Disclaimers: Not mine, Ask Joss and he'll tell you the same
Distribution: You want it? Take it (but email me to let me know)
Feedback: Yes please!
NEEDEDI did everything I was supposed to.
I laughed at your jokes, agreed with your ideas, sat patiently, quietly, just listening to you when that was all you needed.
And when you wanted more, when you put your arms around me and pulled me close, I ignored the smell of alcohol on your hot breath. I told myself this was love, not induced by Jack Daniels.
It made it easier that way, easier to love you, easier to love myself, because if someone out there, anyone, cared about me then maybe I wasn't so messed up after all.
And you let me believe that, even after the night was over, because you had reasons of your own, reasons I could only guess at.
That was our relationship, and yes, I call it a relationship not a tryst, a fling, most certainly not a mistake. Because I looked into your eyes and I saw what I wanted to.
I saw love and no one can tell me differently.
