Another Webgott, I think I can be deemed clinically obsessed…
"Would you want to know what I've been through?
(Through all this time... all this time)
Would you want to know I have missed you too
(And I have you on my mind)
And you've been and you will be a part of me
(That I can't find)
And you've been forgiven for your silence
All this time when I would have said
Wait, and please stay"
Elisa: Lyrics to "Stay"
Never the Same:
They stood alone. Face to face for the first time since Web's return. The darkness encased them making their faces almost invisible to the other though they were only a few feet apart. The silence was as thick and impenetrable as the dark clouds above their heads.
Joe continued to stare at the face that had plagued his memories for so many frozen months in that forest. The face that inspired such love and hate.
He wanted to tell Web exactly what it had been like. To tell him how he had felt every minute without him.
He wanted to tell him how much it hurt, that it still hurts. To make him feel the pain he felt. To make him understand all that he had been through without him and how much easier it would have been there, by his side.
But he couldn't say a word of it.
He just looked back into those eyes and knew that things couldn't go back to the way they were before.
That was a time that felt so long ago.
A time when Joe would have said "Wait. Please stay, just stay", in toning it will all the longing he was struggling to hold down. A time when he would have –could have- let his guard down to the only man he had ever loved.
A time before, but not now.
Now he just kept it to himself–-deep inside.
He kept his mouth shut, and let him turn.
Let the only real love he had ever known walk away.
It could never be the same.
