This isn't even good, I know…but it fits in with the previous one-shot and was written about Dani. I don't know who's POV it's from, most likely Paul's.

And it's not perfectly fitting in with Flashlight, but I don't want this to be a spoiler.

This is just about Dani in general.

Meh.

Lolly.

- 8 -

ROSE

A rose stood in my garden,

A beauty through and through.

With petals rich and crimson.

A floral dream come true.


I adored the rose's splendour,

In her blooming scarlet glory.

With enchanting, tempting fragrance,

Is where begins her story.


She shadowed all the blossoms.

She owned the garden bed.

All bowed before her beauty,

Her majestic hair of red.


The other flowers cowered.

The rose had them dull and scorned.

Most destructive of her structure,

Were her pricking, deadly thorns.


She sliced the buds around her.

They did not stand a chance.

They withered, and were forgotten,

From this bloody red advance.


But ah, this life's great circle,

Began to take its toll:

Her petals drooped; she hung her head,

No surrender of a soul.


Why, such a thing of beauty,

Had drowned in her own vanity.

Beyond the petals ruby red,

Her heart held mere profanity.


A fool I was to not see beyond,

A façade as cunning as sin.

For petals are not everything;

The beauty lies within.