Love, me, a castle fanfic

Title: Love, Me

By: greygoose70

Summary: I'll be loving you. Love, me.

I unfolded the note grandpa handed me. The first thing I noticed is that it was from grandma dated June 26th, 1923. "I have been carrying that with me every day since I found it seventy years ago," he told me.

"Why did she write it," I asked

"Katie," he began; "you might not understand but a long, long time ago your grandma's daddy didn't like that I was dating his daughter. He even threatened me a couple of times, but I loved your grandma very much and wasn't about to stop seeing her. One night when her daddy had drunk too much, was asleep on the couch she snuck out and we went to our favorite spot, the large oak tree in neighbor Jones yard, where she proposed we run away together. She said the town of Blakley is only fifteen miles away, we could get the justice of the peace there to marry us then we could live our lives together, forever. We planned to meet at our spot the next night while her daddy was at work. When I got there, I expected to find your grandma but found that note instead."

I began to read what Grandma wrote, discovered it had a poetic ring to it, it said:

If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through.
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not going to let you down, darling wait and see.
So, between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.

I reread those words just hours before Grandma passed away. As we left the hospital we passed a church, Grandpa decided he wanted to stop and pray. I don't recall ever seeing Grandpa cry in all my fifteen years; but as he knelt there in front of the altar repeating the words grandma wrote all those years ago, I saw his eyes fill up with tears. I couldn't actually hear him, but I could read his lips as he spoke, saying:

ED OF SCENE

AN: Words in italic are from the Collin Raye song "Love, me."