Title : One Must Be Broken
Author : sKiTzO sHy VioLeT
Summary : What if Will hadn't broken the knife?
Author's Note : Yay! I finally finished "The Amber Spyglass"!!! I got it like a year after it came out! I was like "Dude... I wanna read that...." but my mom never got it till just recently... grrrr.... But at least I've read it now!! :)

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William Parry studied himself in the mirror meticulously, nervously adjusting this and straightening that. He sighed and turned once, twice, completing the ritual. It wasn't that he was terribly vain, or that he worried about his appearance. What he wanted was to remember.

And she lifted the fruit gently to his mouth.....

Will put his hand to his mouth, reminiscing on the night he first kissed Lyra. It had been fifteen years ago and not a day went by that his lips didn't tingle in its delicious memory.

He looked down at Kirjava and nodded. "Fifteen years." He whispered, unable to keep the excitement out of his tone. "That's enough time. Enough has been done I think. Enough Dust. It's time."

"It's time." Kirjava echoed in a distant dreamy voice. Her paws longed for Pantailamon's fur, and time had been unkind in its torture.

"It's time."

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To be continued....