TITLE: Still Waters
CHAPTER: One
RATING: T or PG or
whatever
BETAed by: Brynna
SYNOPSIS: That which sustains
you.
COMMENTS: Spoilers (kind of) for 'Blind Spot'
In the stillness, the quiet, and the dark.
It is here I feel the safest; here I am at my sanest. The nothingness that this is a mere trick, a cheat to calm my soul. An illusion of a Peace and a Happiness that have always eluded me. It is here I am allowed linear thoughts, one channel to navigate, to relax into a simple flow of an idea. I can have the rest here I need,
In the stillness, the quiet, the dark.
It is good for my being, my mind, my soul. This, this is the lie I tell to myself. For it is like water to a thirsty man. He receives enough to sustain his body, yet it has no nourishment, it has no nurture. There is nothing in the water's emptiness of what he needs, what he craves to receive, that substance to save his soul, to make him want to go on, so that some day he might taste the sweet nectar of life. I come here to sustain myself, but I can not be nurtured here,
In the stillness, the quiet, and the dark.
The stillness is broken by the sudden movement of a body springing upright in bed. Clutching a sheet tightly, a balling of fists deeply into the upper chest. Breathing in rapid gulps of air, as if chased by unseen forces. With adrenalin so high its scent permeates the bedroom aura. She begins to shake in waves of tremors,
In the stillness, the quiet, and the dark.
The quiet is broken by his voice; her distress has ripped him from the melancholy of his thoughts. He wishes to sooth her fears, to steady her mind, to heal her soul. For the empty comfort he finds here, it is not enough, he craves more than can be found here,
In the stillness, the quiet, and the dark.
He reaches slowly to touch her, to feel the warmth of her skin, to connect to what he needs to drink in. It is her that he needs to fill his thirst and sustain his soul. For he has found the nectar of his life.
Looking into the deep pool of his soul, she has found him to be the elixir that justly sustains her. Together they can change the meaning of being
In the stillness, the quiet, and the dark.