On Your Shore
A/N: Another Enya song, another Martin/Rose fic. Or, as Evita would say, another suitcase in another hall. You know, I still can't believe my so-called friends signed me up for Don't Cry For Me, Argentina in a karaoke competition. Naturally, they didn't have the music for it, so I sang it solo in front of more than a hundred people, quite a few from my school, and others who had left. Not to mention my next teacher. And this was in the summer holidays!
I also got into trouble for having blue hair. OK, that's not strictly true…someone brought a blue hairspray into school and left it on their desk. Someone else pinched it and sprayed my hair. OK - I asked for it, making sure it would wash out of course. This is the last day of term, after all!
Dedication: Drakon Lass, partly because she dedicated The Love of a Rose to me, partly because that same fic is brilliant, lovely, and loads of other nice adjectives which I'd like to use but can't be bothered because it's nine o'clock at night. Oh yes, because her poems are brilliant, because she's got a couple of my stories on her favourites list, and many other things which would take too long to list. And this is just Drakon Lass.
Drakon Lass - in case my review got wiped (highly unlikely, of course) thanks again for dedicating that story to me.
Now, I think, on to the fic! (At last, finally!)
Strange how
My heart beats
To find myself on your shore
Strange how
I still feel
My loss of comfort gone before
So, I am here. On the shores of Mossflower. My heart was beating wildly. I still felt that strange loss…of dead comrades gone before us. But I was here…here to greet you at the gates of Dark Forest.
Cool waves wash over
And drift away with dreams of youth
So time is stolen
I cannot hold you long enough
Waves washed over me. It was cold…so cold! But I did not care. I was remembering the times we had spent together. When I was alive, on the journey to Noonvale especially. And then you were there. I don't know how long we spent just looking at each other. Then I rushed forward and hugged you. I couldn't hug you hard enough and I could have stayed like that forever.
And so
This is where I should be now
Days and nights falling by
I'm so happy…this is how is should be. Spending every minute of our time together, and we've got all the time in the world. It's like another lifetime…only it lasts forever.
Days and nights falling by me
I know
Of a dream I should be holding
Days and nights falling by
Days and nights falling by me
I watched Martin live out the rest of his life, trying and succeeding to find happiness. I think he was happy, and my death and that of his parents and Felldoh were his only sadness. It was painful, because I knew that I should be there. I watched him day and night; they went past in a flash. I was not aware of it.
Soft blue horizons
Reach far into my childhood days
As you are rising
To bring me my forgotten ways
I was watching the horizon. Its blueness helped me to see the faint outline of Noonvale. You were on your deathbed, I knew. But you weren't afraid, you never would be. You were coming, coming to me. To show me more of my young, alive days.
Strange how I falter
To find I'm standing in deep water
Strange how
My heart beats
To find I'm standing on your shore
I can't find words to say. I want to speak, to cry out, to tell you how much I love you. We're in deeper water now, sailing out to Dark Forest. But I'm there. I run towards you. The waves cannot hold me back now. My heart is beating wildly.
"I love you, Martin," I whisper, as I nestle into your arms again.
"I love you, too, Rose," he whispered back.
