SPOILERS! If you haven't read the ending, don't read this fanfic! Otherwise, please enjoy your stay

Disclaimer: Kaori Yuki owns Count Cain and I make no profit out of this story.

AMONG THE FLOWERS

..For these feelings inside me..

I can find no way to release them

You watch my determination with gratitude and awe but as well with some kind of solemnity- you are not going to let me die together with you.

For you have always protected me, as yourself, but even at the time when your wicked "second personality" took control over you, you never failed to shield me even against yourself.

I am aware that this is what you ought to do- to protect me at any time and at any cost.

But there is almost always a difference between what you want to do and what you should do, don't you think?

But then again, I suppose you want to protect me after all; I wouldn't even think that

you want me to disappear with you.

So, I'll follow my very own feelings and act as selfish as I am.. I've been always like that, haven't I?

I told you that I would never, ever let you go.. And I'm definitely going to keep that promise.

Don't you see?

Since that time when you had looked at me, you were the first one and the only one to truly..

…see me…

Because from all the people in the world, only you've accepted me knowing my sins, my scars, all of me.. You were like the air, surrounding me, always at my side.. You've fitted into me, your presence was just so obvious..

It was only natural for you to be near. Whenever I looked around I expected you to stand there, because a bit unconsciously, I let you fill that yearning hole in my heart. And since it was so needing and yet so empty, I've given to you huge amount of love I possessed that was aching to get out.

And from that moment on, you were ever so gentle, caring and helpful.. I'm not sure if you really know how much you mean to me.

Perhaps you believe that I keep you because you are useful and I once had a need for you.. Maybe you think you are just one of the others, and I forgot about you importance because I had learnt how to love.

That's not quite right anyways- it's not that I had learnt it- you've taught me.

You push me away, you're saying that you'd carry the punishment alone, without me.

Fool, don't look at me like this..

Don't say I have to move on for the sake of people who need me. I acknowledge what I'm doing, with full consequences.

And still I'm not able to deny it- I am not going to live without you. Everything goes completely wrong when you're not here.

This bound can't be described on matters of love, friendship, need, trust.. It contains them all, but it is something beyond that, something more.

I can find no words for that emotion, but I can show you, for the last time in a best way there is.

I really wasn't aware that there were such great amounts of.. warmth inside me.

Why do you look so scared?

Don't worry about me, I'm not afraid.

Because I feel that this moment is getting nearer..

'Because we need not continue wandering in search of anything anymore.'

…let's stay forever like this.. sleeping among the flowers..

The End

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