Title: Remembrance
Author: Jenn
Rating: PG-13
Summary: if you don't know by now, i'm not gonna tell you

6::: Almost

Looking at the picture had filled him with a wonder that he couldn't explain; he could see the peace apparent on their faces. The glow...

There were no words.

There were no words to describe the wonder at seeing two human beings fit so perfectly like that... almost as if they were puzzle pieces, lost for so long, searching for an eternity...

... and now, finally, complete.

He looked at that frozen moment in time, saw how the sheets outlined their bodies, saw the bump where their hands lay intertwined under the thin blanket, the expressions of love- visible even in the stupor of sleep- that was almost tangible.

He had to remind himself to breathe.

And then remembered that the woman of the picture, the woman who he longed to find with a need that was almost painful, was standing right beside him.

Putting the picture softly on top of the bed, the soft red hues muted and framed by the white of the sheets, he turned around and looked at her.

Tears pooling in her eyes, pain etched in her features, longing encasing her entire being, she was even more beautiful than he remembered.

He ran a thumb over her cheek, taking a step closer to her, watching intently as a slow tear dropped over the lid of her eye and began its descent. Feeling unsure and yet at the same time, more secure than any other time, he bent down and kissed the tear away.

"Syd..."

He couldn't finish.

It was too hard.


The dust seemed to clear slower than anything else as his eyes strained to see the one person he was looking for.

And when they found her, he couldn't believe that this was real. That they were here. That SD-6 was gone.

A feeling of empowerment surged through his system and he began walking towards her, watching as she did the same. The gap between them lessened until she was in front of him, ready to pause, ready to say something.

But nothing needed to be said.

And so they kissed, the emotion of it all being unbelievable to him.

I can't believe I'm allowed to hold her
That it's her body against mine
Her arms around my neck
my fingers in her hair
she's
so
beautiful


His tears matched hers. "You're so beautiful," he said, his words coming out as a haggard whisper.

Those words threw her over the edge and into the now-familiar emotional abyss she was flung into every day and she grabbed him to her, burying her face in his shoulder, her tears falling hot and fast on the skin of his neck as the full force of her pain and her warmth and just... all of her collided into him.

He didn't know what to say, how to make it better.

All he knew was that he never wanted to make her cry again.

Which made it so much worse knowing that he would.






tbc...

more?


-jenn

R/R please becuase ya'll know that it rocks my world

i know that it was on the short side but it's got me rollin' so i shoul dbe updating more frequently now