Title: Isn't So Far Down
Rating: T
Genre: Drama, tragedy, hurt, comfort
Pairings: Normal pairing
Summary: It's a good a way to die as any other, I suppose. Wrapped in the arms of the one I love, more than the world itself, more than life itself. Something I proved today. Something I was paying for with my life.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

Preface

It's a good a way to die as any other, I suppose. Wrapped in the arms of the one I love, more than the world itself, more than life itself. Something I proved today. Something I was paying for with my life.

But I wasn't complaining. After all, what more could I ask for out of this world, this existence? Even if I was dying, I was content to just lie in his arms, staring into his eyes, wide with sorrow and pain.

That hurt me worse than the pain wracking my body. This was a happy occasion, he should be happy. He got to continue living, could go on in this world without me. He didn't have to die today. Only me, only little old me.

Nobody should be sad over little old me. Nobody should mourn over little old me.

"Shhh... don't c-cry..." I was stuttering now, raising one shaky finger to his lips, tears beginning to slide down my cheeks, even more ashen now than before. He smiled, but it didn't reach his eyes, didn't touch his heart the way it was supposed to. The way it should have.

He should be happy, not sad. He should be celebrating his own survival. Not mourning for little old me.

I gasped, another wave of fresh pain rushing through me, leaving it's presence in now tingling nerves, as if I were burning. Burning from the inside out.

But the flames were cold, like ice.

"I-I love you" His voice was pained, shaky and hoarse. It shouldn't be like that. It should be smooth and beautiful. Not pained. Never pained.

I managed a small smile, for his sake, despite the agony as the muscles stretched. "I know."

I could feel my eyes sliding shut, it was a constant battle with myself to keep them open, to keep going, to hang on as long as I could. To spend my last moments with him before the darkness enveloped me, forever.

Forever was an awfully long time.

Cold lips pressed against my forehead, my eyes sliding back open momentarily. I could see his smile again, but this time it was different.

A smile good bye.



"I love you."

And I was never more sure of anything as I was that moment, sliding down into the awaiting abyss, going limp in the arms of the one I loved, the one I was leaving behind.

Well that's the preface of my new story. Tragic, isn't it? I wasn't going to write it but te idea popped into my mind and just wouldn't go away. It may be a few days between updates, but I'll try to have the first chapter up in the next day or two. By the way the majority of the story will take place during New Moon's time, when Edward was away. Just so you know.

Lotsa Love

VR