Brave Enough

by PeachDestroyer

"In past, present, and future, I love you."/She loved a boy doomed to die. He loved a girl for whom he should have never fallen. She could heal him. He could strengthen her. They could be each other's anchor in their seas of tears, lies, and death. But a wall keeps separating them, and, slowly, they are losing each other in the wide sea of their hearts.

5. Track 7: Prism (Elizabeth and Ciel)

Hi! Long time no see/read ^^'

I am really sorry that I haven't uploaded anything in such a long time... I wrote all fragments based on instrumental-only tracks one after the other, but I got stuck when I went to write the ones based on the songs with lyrics... And here I am, still stuck after one and a half year. ^^'

As I don't know when I will be able to tackle the remaining fragments, I decided to just post everything I already have throughout the next weeks, even if it means to break the CD track listing.

Anyway, I hope you like this chapter. (I hope it's any good; I wrote it such a long time ago and have no idea what I even wrote anymore XD And if I reread it, this FF would really be forever abandoned.)

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Track 7:

Prism

(Elizabeth and Ciel)

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"Each of us is self-created and self-projecting. What you believe yourself to be is who you ultimately are."

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I stood in front of the mirror and saw these eyes, this hair, this face but I could not see me.

I closed my eyes and saw me, the real me – sickly, shy. Weak. But when I opened them again, all I could see was the ghost I wanted to be. The shell I wanted to be. The light I had lost.

What I had left behind had gone out in flames.

What I had left behind had been me – in the flames the weak me had breathed in the smoke; and the new me had stepped outside, breathing in air.

Time was ticking, hours were running away from me.

No time to be weak, no time to be sick.

I wore a mask with my face.

I walked with unknown confidence, with a strength which was not mine.

What I was once was now only an echo in the night.

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I stood in front of the mirror and you whispered behind me.

I could hear your words in my ears, feel your breath on my skin.

You were the ghost who had haunted me and who haunted me still.

In light I had wandered, from light I stepped away and into colours. Into brokenness.

In colours, I had broken like the light I had come from but I looked beautiful still.

Like the rainbow you adored, like the light you shunned.

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I was Ciel Phantomhive, the Earl of Phantomhive, the Watchdog of the Queen.

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I was Elizabeth Midford, fiancée to the Earl of Phantomhive, a girl of nursery rhymes.

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And nobody else.

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And nobody else.