This Time Imperfect
ShadowFyre Yagami

Disclaimer: I do not own the Dragon Knights, any of the characters in this story, or the song. The song belongs to AFI, and the comic Dragon Knights belongs to Mineko Ohkami. There! I said it! Happy now?!

A/N Okay, okay, so I went a little psycho on this one, you don't have to read it if you don't want to! Of course, if you didn't, you may make me get all sad and then I would have to extract revenge...It's just a little angsty fic about Rath, even though I've only read up to #7, I tried! I think there's something wrong with me...Why can't I just shut up? Anyways, I like reviews very very much so if you could please please give me one then I may be inclined to write more and stuff. (Or write less if I get bad reviews, so either way we both win, k?)

I cannot leave here, I cannot stay...
(Why won't they let me leave? I hate them! Hate them!)
Forever haunted, more than afraid...
(Did I have to tell her that? Did she have to help me? Why do they all act like they care?! Don't they see I hate them? All of them!)
Asphyxiate on words I would say...
(But I can't tell them that. I'll just leave anyway, whether they like it or not. Why would they care anyway, no one really cares.)
I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue...
(Wait, why can't I kill her? Maybe because she's important to the lord. But why would I care about that? Something inside me's stopping me, but what is it?)
There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines...
(I want to die)
Just these stark words I find...
(Let me die, someone kill me...where are the demons?)
I'd show a smile, but I'm too weak. I'd share with you could I only speak...
(And why am I afraid to tell them who I really am?)
Just how much this hurts me. I cannot stay here, I cannot leave...
(It hurts...So bad...Let me die here...Wait...)
Just like all I loved, I'm make-believe...
(I hate them...Go away! Stop caring about me! You don't know who I really am!!)
Imagine heart, I disappear. Seems no one will appear here and make me real...
(No...Don't leave...I don't hate you...But I do...I don't know anymore...)
There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just theses stark words I find. I'd show a smile, but I'm too weak. I'd share with you could I only speak, just how much this hurts me.
(Why now!? Where is she? Why do I care? But I do care...I do care...)
You don't know that it haunts me...
(But it does)
Cuts into my day and sinks into my dreams...
(It hurts...Blood everywhere...Why did I save you? You were going to kill the lord, but why should that matter to me...I hate him anyways...)
You don't care that it haunts me...
(Then why did I save you?)
There are no flowers, no not this time, there will be no angels gracing the lines. I'd show a smile, but I'm too weak. I'd share with you could I only speak, just how much this hurts me...
(Do I...love you?)
Just how much this haunts me...
(Can I love you?)
Just how much you...
~*End*~

In case you couldn't figure it out, the parts in the parenthesis were Rath's thoughts, and the other unnamed person was Cesia...Just letting you know...
~Author