Disclaimer: Not mine. I own nothing. If you didn't already know.
Dear Katherine
I never thought I'd be writing these words to you. All these years we've been together and all I've ever done has been fighting for you. I was convinced that one day I'd lose you and I never wanted that to happen. I didn't know what I could have done with you gone. Without you in my life I don't feel alive.
What about me though. I never considered your effect on me. All that time working harder and harder to please you, to keep you around, what was I doing? You could have left at any moment and there was nothing I would have been able to do to stop you. That's real love. Me and you forever.
At least that's what it should have been. Before the doctors found out I was dying. I never wanted you to see me as anything other than a fighter. So this letter is going to make your life simple. I'll be gone soon and you have to move on. I never thought that it would ever have been this way round, me leaving you. I guess when we come down to it, I am losing you and there's nothing anybody can do to stop it.
I hope you remember me as I was and not how I'm about to become. I love you, more than you may ever realise.
Yours
Richard x
AN: Comments and review very welcome. Still desperately looking for a Beta. Drop me a line if you want to help out.