"And So Goes Heart Break…and HeartAche"

Who: Two NPC's

When: FlashBack or FlashForward (depends whom you're asking), picks up after "Escape From the Ringer"

Her cloudy gray-blue eyes watched the sky silently from her perch on the edge of the roof. The sun had set a blaze across the sky and was now arching it's way halfway through another day. Just one more day in the endless repetitive cycle it would cast on life. On her life.

Her heart was the million shards of a broken mirror, lying on the ground, proposing it's self to be ignored, and forgotten. But she couldn't. That was like telling the sun not to fall, so the Empress Moon would not take her place in the sky, and be inspiration, be savior to all those who were creature of the night, damned and forgotten by life.

A sigh of multicolored emotion left her lips, as she pulled her knees to her chest under the large shirt, and let the emotions flood her again, like an off and on switch. The rough fabric felt odd against her skin. It wasn't silk or leather or velvet. It was some poly-cotton blend she would have been used to if this had been her path in life. Well, this and spandex.

He'd come, if she was important, wouldn't he? He said he loved her. Understood her like no one ever tried to or did, and that nothing she said or did could turn his heart. That she didn't have to fear him, fear loving him. He'd come then wouldn't he? He'd know where to find her. He had always known how to find her!!!!

"As much as any of us could find you."

Casse looked up to meet a familiar face, walking along the main tiles on the roof behind her. He must had looked outrageous, though no more than she. Atleast he had decent clothing, right? He was wearing an incredibly light

gray suite, perfect blend of white and black it seemed, with a perfect red rose in the lapel. It almost made her smile, but the water beginning to cloud her eyes stopped it as she looked away and clenched her eyes closed, refusing to cry and balled her fists.

She'd failed him before, just like her lover. Failed him so many times, in so many-

"Stop torturing yourself, chiisai tsuki."

A shuddering breath racked her chest and was strangled in her throat, as tears started a new, only helping the clawing inside her heart. She sniffled and leaned into her arms not responding to his words. It wasn't long before

she felt the arms wrap around her shoulders and pull her back into the body behind her. She moved willingly, less strength of action that a new born kitten, loosing herself again.

~*~*~

The day faded away in someway, but she never realized it till her eyelashes flickered and she stirred. A soft mumble left her lips, only a sound, but the person holding her shifted, and brushed her loose hair from her face.

"You're awake?"

She blinked a few times, trying to piece it back together as she looked up to find stars and a bright moon in the sky, but looking back into his face she couldn't help but smile at him, even as tears swelled again. His hand

raised to her cheek, as it dried away the first tear to fall from her eyes, blue as a newborn child's. Blue as the ones that haunted his dreams nightly.

"Shhhh. It's okay, Cassidy-Angel."

Casse laughed barely as she moved to sit, realizing she still only had one shirt on and a pair of black thong underwear, all in a fabric she didn't like, on. Reaching up to wipe away her own second and third tear, she nodded. Then she leaned forward and hugged him, glad for the simple acceptance of everything. Glad to find her savior again, even as more tears fell.

They weren't for hate, or hurt, nor pain anymore. It was about love, all of the love.

They stayed in each other's arms for hours longer into the night, just holding each other, denying the world any interruption from call of any kind, combadge, mental statement, or the intercom. They were together, and they completed things together. After a while, they settled again. Him sitting on the side edge and her still curled into his lap, with her head on his shoulder.

"The moon still looks the same as it did," she said softly, letting her eyes trace the star ways, as a strand of her long black hair was twisted between her fingers.

"Aye." He replied quiet as was possible with his baritone, leaning down to place a kiss on her forward looking at her. "She does."

Casse grinned silently and just snuggled into his arms closer, and was rewarded with a hug of warmth she hadn't felt in years, because no one could hug her like he could. No one could hug every part of her at once, inside

and out.

"So, what was this time? SpellSong?"

Casse stiffened and shook her head immediately. That names was - had been hers for almost a year, only because he nicknamed her it. "No." Her voice was clouded but chilly. "No, no."

"Riven, again?"

She shook her head against the fabric of his shoulder. Riven was long gone. She was a different person, no and then. "No."

"Going for a no codename years?" He asked a chuckle touching his voice, so warm and close to her ear, before placing another kiss against her temple. His joy was an out pouring to have her close to him again, and hers was

mirrored very faintly with the pain.

"No….don't have anything but heart ache, now." Casse said quiet whisper and he pulled her close, held her close, even though she couldn't get in closer. Trying to shoosh her as she repeated quietly. "Just heart ache….only heart

ache. Maybe HeartAche."

"Heart Ache." She shivered, having turned the word over in her mouth and mine and tired to cuddle closer into his arms and his jacket, leaning her forehead against his neck, trying to cast the face that evaded her mind from

her memory. To cast away his kisses or caresses. No one understood that.

"I love you, Casse."

The voice fell over her gently, like a trickle of water. He looked up at the sky and she knew he was sad, happy and angry all at once. Her eyes followed the line of his jaw bone unable to see up any further than the side of his

chin. She leaned up partly and placed a kiss in the hollow of his throat with a chaste and yet somehow overwhelmingly intimate touch and nodded, wrapping her arms back around her shoulders and curling up a little more into his shivering, but not because of the night.

"I love you, too, Patty-Patch."