I love you, Alviss.
He heard these words, once, long ago, a faint whisper upon his ears. Who had it been that said it? Alas, he had been asleep when it was confessed.
The smallest of breaths stroking his slumber, the slightest of fingertips brushing, caressing the skin of his cheek, as if crying for a love that would never be.
A one-sided feeling he couldn't possibly return. Not to a someone he hadn't seen. Not to an invisible apparition in a past he didn't want to turn back to. Not to a figment of his imagination.
It could have been real.
He wanted it to be.
But he couldn't grasp the idea. His mind had played many tricks on him before; enough that he could hardly trust himself anymore. His judgement was faulty and inaccurate. His memories were tainted and twisted, hard to remember clearly, though he was thankful for this fact. But yet, he continued to strain his mind for the smallest details of the incident; a special, significant little vision he wanted to keep, close to the icy emptiness that was now his heart.
He could remember stirring slightly, that once upon a time, his eyes cracking foggily open to a blur of a room. Only tiny slits of blue, his gaze, and he had closed them again, returning to the terrifyingly tempting hands of slumber.
Who had it been?
A sheer fluttering of light just outside of his vision, teasing him with the anonymity of the prescence. He would've growled in frustration at this fragment, but he had already accepted that he could never again have what he wanted. What monster could be happy? What monster could be loved?
At this, he knew.
It could've been a dream, after all.
It was all just another tormenting figment of his imagination; a nightmare, mocking his fake wants and needs, laughing coldly at the humane thoughts that destroyed themselves as the spilled over the edge. He could not be satisfied. He could not be undisturbed. He could not be loved.
Only a dream, he heard himself whisper. Only another cruel dream.
A/N: Alright. So, I think I've made it rather obvious that this is Bell being referred to in Alviss' "dream". Let me just mention that I, personally, am not a fan of Bell, let alone the Alviss x Bell pairing. However, I do believe she is important in the storyline at one point, if not only for just the beginning.
I'll leave it up to the readers to decide whether the whole thing really was a dream or not. As a matter of fact, for those of you avid Bell haters out there, feel free to imagine someone else in Bell's place, be it your OC or Mary-Sue or whatever floats your boat. Meh.