Title: Goodbye

Author: kittyebony13

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Loveless. This is probably a good thing, or stuff like this would happen.

WARNING: Contains character death. No, I won't tell you who. Figure that out yourself. This could also be tissue-worthy-- I dunno.

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Blood—

Blood everywhere

It smears the walls and drips onto the floor—

Despite those fingers, those fingers that try to hold it back—

I can't move

I can't move fast enough

My limbs are frozen

My hand is reaching, fingers clawing at the air, muscles straining—

He's too far away—

He's too far away and I can't reach

His limbs slide out

His limbs slide out from under him—

He crumbles to the ground like sand—

Like sand running between my fingers—

I can move

I can move, finally, and I—

And I stumble to his side and try to stop it

I try to stop the bleeding—

Nothing

Nothing, no way—

No way to save him

The blood is undaunted by my efforts—

He looks up

He looks up at me and he smiles

He smiles through the blood on his lips—

The blood that flecks his lips, coughed from his lungs—

His eyes

His eyes don't accuse me

"I love you," he says—

"I've always loved you"

His fingers

His fingers fall limp—

Limp—

Lifeless—

His head tilts

His head tilts to the side

It lolls

His eyes are dead—

He's too far away—

He's too far away and I can't reach

I scream

I scream I think I scream—

Hot running down my face and searing my skin—

My heart lies ripped out on the ground—

They hear me

They hear me scream

Finally, they get the door open—

The door that kept them back, that let me make my mistake—

The mistake

The mistake that killed him—

My mistake—my murdering—

My killing my friend I killed my friend—

People

People are all around me

I can hear sobs

I can hear screams

I can't hear

I can't hear anything

There is nothing in my ears

There is nothing—I am nothing

White

White and waiting—

I can't hear the comfort of most

I can only feel that one pair of arms, the smallest—

Time passes

Time passes and I don't know how much

It is irrelevant

It is meaningless—

He's too far away—

He's too far away and I can't reach

That day

That day—that terrible day—

It is raining

The raindrops drip on the umbrellas

The mahogany coffin

The mahogany coffin sits so still—

Oblivious, it is, to the grief—

Senseless to the grief that surrounds it—

White petals flutter

White petals flutter in the soft breeze

I lay the flower on the coffin lid

I wish it were yellow—

Yellow

Yellow is a good color—a happy color

He didn't like white

White is too sad—a blank canvas—

Leaving

Leaving—the people are leaving

They say they're sorry

Some of them are crying—

They were

They were the true friends

I know their grief—

I know their grief and I let them comfort me—

One stays

One stays for me

He holds my heart steady

Without him I would be dead too

I touch

I touch the stone and trace the letters

K… I—

White noise

The small hand

The small hand takes mine—

It gently helps me up

I can stand—

We

We are leaving

I look back—

I look back once—

Goodbye

Goodbye Kio

Goodbye

Goodbye—

We walk

We walk out the gates

I lift my head

The sun peeks through the clouds—yellow

Distantly—

Distantly I smell lollipops.

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Okay, that's the end! I know the poem sucks (I'm not good a poetry and quite frankly most of it bores my stupid) but this piece wouldn't work as a short story. I wrote it in, like, fifteen minutes. Go ahead and flame me now. It'll help me write better.

Oh, and this is my first fan fic! Yay! (Dances) REVIEW PLEASE!