Inori: 100
Thematic Drabbles
By: MistyWing, Word Count: 333, Theme: Love Follows
Loyalty, Character POV:
Francisco
I am forever loyal to the Capulets and forever loyal to you.
One thing I regret not telling you was this: though my mind denies it, my heart tells it, that I will never be more in love with another woman. Oh, Juliet, fair, graceful, valiant, temperate Juliet, your life was only a bud before it was cut short off its stem.
I vouch the love between Juliet and Romeo, yet I cannot deny never loving wholly Juliet.
You laughed at me when I was my philandering self. You did not know how I stomped my foot at the fact that I never caught your eye the way I caught the eye of many other maidens—none of them as fair as you. None of them could be compared to you.
All those fourteen years that I had watched you grow were the best years to bear witness. Juliet, you never once looked my way. Your eyes went from dresses, swords, townsfolk, irises, and then to Romeo.
The only time I stole those love filled eyes, even for a moment, were in those final seconds of your life. I wondered if you knew how you looked to me.
You cradled your lover to your heart and still never once glanced at me, but I saw what I had wished to see.
Let me attempt to describe the indescribable to you.
Your eyes, in those final moments, stole my breath away. If there was enough love to fill the world they were in those eyes.
Your hands caressed a stranger's face, which I wished was mine. The heart that belonged to him in life or death I had wished to be mine. Anyone who looked upon the injustice done to you would have ached as I had.
I just wanted you to know, I was always behind you in every decision you made; even your final wish I revere.
I send you this message with my farewell.
My loyalty to you, Juliet, is always.
