For the Oh Christmas Tree 25 drabble collection on NGF, yet I've managed to use them here, in MV, with permission from Listen & Visa.

For Maddie (Maddichin) because she's a Micamelie gal, even though it's not entirely these.

X – 10th December
AmelieMichael (Micamelie)
bells; vivacious; cursed; morning.

~x~

Bells ring out as the day changes, as the twenty fourth of December becomes the twenty fifth – Christmas Day.

And all Amelie can do is sit by Sam's grave and wish, pray with all her heart, that he'll come back to her, that God will listen to her deepest desires and allow her this one thing back into her life.

She's focusing so hard that she doesn't hear Michael approaching behind her, coming to pay his respects to his Grandfather on this day as well as to maybe see Amelie again, not until he's right behind her.

As she turns, her brain tricks her into thinking that Michael's blond hair is Sam's bright red hair, his bright, vibrant coloured hair; it tricks her into thinking that maybe, just maybe, this morning is going to be the most magical of her life.

She stands up and faces him, her appearance more fresh and vivacious than downcast and depressed, her lips pressing to his without thinking. As far as she is concerned, this is her Sam back from the dead because she's been punished enough; why shouldn't she react?

Then it all comes crashing down.

She can tell that it's not him, that it's Michael, because he tastes differently. Sam tasted of cinnamon and coffee, grass and apples, so many things that are indescribable because they were so him.

This just tastes wrong.

She wrenches herself away and feels more cursed than ever because she's lost Sam forever; if he's not coming back today, when would he come back?

Michael doesn't stay; he disappears and she's thankful for that because, through the tears that stream down her face, she's embarrassed.

Yet she's not embarrassed enough to stop herself slipping the silver coins into the cuts at her wrists to try and be with Sam.

Even though she knows it will fail.

~x~

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