Who Wants To Live Forever is a Queen song taken from the album It's A Kind of Magic, first released in 1986.
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome
Genre: Tragedy/romance
Universe: AU
Warnings: None
Word count: 849
Who Wants To Live Forever?
There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away
From us
He lay on the starched sheets. She sat bonelessly on the chair next to him, saying it was the smell of disinfectant that made her cry. She couldn't tell him. No. She didn't want to tell him.
She had pleaded with the doctor for some time. "Just a day. One more. Outside. Please." Her normal eloquence gone; her face showed her distress - how she was starting to collapse.
The doctor paused. He knew the patient would die soon; but it would be painless. It was against his better judgement to let the patient leave the sterile confines of the hospital. But the days he had left were so few. "One day only. And soon." She shivered at those last words.
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever....?
Theres no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us
She told the man in the bed, the man she loved, that it wasn't really serious as he could go out for the day. She said to pick some place special to celebrate his health, and she thought to herself that it wasn't a lie. But they were only celebrating his remaining health. She didn't have any desire to tell him the truth. Didn't have the desire to take away his good cheer, his beautiful smile and his silly, silly, rude optimism. And his promise. He'd promised to be there, with her always, that he would protect her – he wouldn't be able to keep that. So she would protect him, not tell him the truth even if it broke her inside. There was no way in hell that she'd take any of those things away from him! Not now or ever!
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever?
When love must die
They walked through the city looking at the sites, buying trinkets and talking nothings, somethings, maybe and impossibilities. She kept her smile up the whole time even as her heart cracked a little every time she laughed or smiled. Several times she walked away from him to cry a little cry. And she came back each time with a new oddity, or a book. And lots of food, especially his beloved ramen.
He didn't suspect anything. And the stress pulled at her all the time.
But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today
The stress pulled at her all the time. They were in a park and he'd just spoke lovingly of his future hopes. Breached the idea of something so perfect she broke and cried. Crystals of fear and sadness fled her eyes. And he leant in and kissed them. Asked her if it was wrong of his to ask her the question. How could she tell him the truth? She shook her head and smiled through her teeth.
He reached out a shaking finger and brushed away her last few tears. She said, "Yes." He burst into one of his rare, but impossibly handsome smiles and for a minute - just one - all was fine. He wasn't dying and they were on a sublime date. She had been recording every moment. For her eternity. Her eternity without him. She would make sure that today would last forever for the both of them.
Who waits forever anyway?
He lay on the starched sheets. She sat bonelessly on the chair next to him, saying it was the smell of disinfectant that made her cry. Telling him as she grasped his cool, limp hand. "It's just the bleach. Honest."She cried harder, faster and breathlessly as she stopped lying to him and herself. "I lied to you." she burst out. "You, you, you, you were ill. Really ill and I didn't want you to know because I wanted you to be happy. I just wanted you to smile. And you lasted longer than they thought and I guess it's because you didn't want to leave me. I kind of hope it was.
"And now you're just sleeping and still holding on even though it must hurt you to stay when you know you need to go.
"I'm telling you now.
"As someone who loves you with every fibre of her being that it's time to go. I can't love you any more than I do know and it's because of this that I want you - need you to go.
"It's okay. I'll be okay I promise. And I'll wait for you."
Who waits forever anyway?
He let go. The steady life - counting rhythm slowed, slowed and stopped. Unbelievably she smiled through the storm of tears and thanked him. She would wait forever. She hoped he would.
Who waits forever anyway?
