When Violet awoke that morning, she wondered what had awoken her, she was
tired and knew that she could have done with a couple more hours of sleep,
she opened her eyes with a groan, it was then that she realised what it was
exactly which had awoken her.
Standing on the bed looking down on her was Aria, she was giggling and tickling the older girl in order to try and wake her up, violet couldn't help but grin and said,
"So you think that's funny do you, missy?"
And with that she grabbed at Aria's legs and pulled her back down onto the bed lying her down and leaning over her tickling her tummy and her feet, until the little girl when red with laughter.
"I think it's about time that we got up, so what do you feel like for breakfast."
Aria sat up the minute she heard the word breakfast, she wasn't a greedy child but she loved pancakes, she wasn't allowed them often, her mommy didn't make them for her at all when they were at home so it was only when they came to stay with Uncle Oz, Aunty Willow and Violet that she had them.
Violet knew what Aria would want and was not surprised when she heard the little girl say "Pancakes, Pancakes!"
As Violet got up out of bed and walked over to the dresser where she picked up a hair bobble and used it to tie her hair up in a high bun on the top of her head, and then walked over to the door to pull off her bath robe, Aria had taken to jumping up and down on the bed singing a little song which went something like
"Pancakes, pancakes, I love pancakes."
Violet smiled at her and said "Well you had better come over here and put your bath robe and slippers on or you'll catch your death of cold, and won't need any pancakes."
Aria jumped off the bed at this and grabbed her pink bathrobe and fluffy sheep and was standing next to violet waiting to go downstairs basically before Violet had finished talking.
Violet laughed and picked her up and carried her down the stairs and into the kitchen as they walked through the hall she saw that Giles was lying spread out on the coach and had a nasty bruise across his head, she also saw burn marks on the wall of the hall but she didn't care, she just walked past them all. She put her down on one of the chairs by the table before walking across to the fridge getting the eggs and milk out, grabbing the flour and a bowl out of cupboard, she turned the radio on and started to make the mixture up for the pancakes, a song came on that seemed to perfectly capture the mood she was feeling
Hold on to me love.
You know I can't stay long.
All I wanted to say was I love you,
And I'm not afraid (Ahhh)
Can you hear me ?
Can you feel me in your arms ?
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
I'll miss the winter.
A world of fragile things.
Look for me in the white forest,
Hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
I know you hear me.
I can taste it in your tears.
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
Closing your eyes to disappear.
You pray your dreams will leave you here
But still you wake and know the truth
No one's there!
Say goodnight
Don't be afraid.
Calling me,
Calling me,
As you fade to black.
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
Holding My Last Breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
It was last day and she new it, but as she started to spoon the mixture into the frying pan to make the waffles she realised that she would make the most of her last day.
Spike walked into the kitchen just in time to catch the last couple of lines of the song which was on the radio, he looked at violet she had a smile kind of plastered onto her face, it didn't look real it looked strained if anything.
"Hey babes how are you this morning?"
"Hey dad, I'm good. Thank you, just planning with Aria what we're going to do today that's all," she took a look at Aria to make sure that she wasn't listening and carried on by saying,
"Just planning my last day, you know the usual think a 17 year old girl has to do the day before her birthday."
He took a step towards her and hugged her.
Then turning to Aria he sat down next to her and said "So what are you and my baby going to be up to today, then sweet pea?"
She looked at him for a moment and said, "We're gonna have pancakes, and then Violet said that she'd take me to the park to play on the swings. And then we're gonna have ice cream."
"Well that sounds like you have a nice day planned their pet." He said smiling at Violet at she placed a plate of pancakes in front of him and Aria.
"Yeah, I thought that it would be good for us to get out of the house so that everything can be arranged and so we don't get in the way or anything."
"Sounds like a good idea, expect that Giles, wouldn't want his precious hearing all bout the big bad." Spike said taking a mouthful of pancakes.
Aria had finished her's and smiled at spike.
"Well pet, since your all finished up how bout you go up stairs and have a think about what your gonna wear today then, want to look your best after all don't you,"
Spike said smiling at her.
Aria nodded and jumped off her chair and ran up the stairs, thankfully she didn't see Giles lying on the sofa unconscious since she didn't say anything or go and see him so it was either that she hadn't seen him or that she was just so used to seeing her father strewn out unconscious that it didn't bother her, spike assumed that it was probably the first reason.
He looked over at violet, who was playing with her pancakes,
"Make sure your back by dusk I want to show you something later ok."
Violet looked at him suddenly when he said that,
"What?"
"That would be telling pet, just make sure that your back in time ok pet, it's important, ok?"
"OK dad." Violet said as she stood up, "I better go and get dressed up for my big day out with Aria."
She walked out of the room and spike stared after her. He knew that this would be her last day, for all their hard work throughout the night none of them had been able to find another way to stop Angkara, they were willing to let the world end but he knew Violet wasn't, she had decided herself, what she was going to do last night, he guessed like her he had realised then that there was not gonna be another easier way out of it, that she was going to have go through with the ritual.
He turned back to his pancakes and carried on eating them.
Violet walked up stairs and straight past her room without even looking to see how Erin was, she knew it was selfish of her but she wanted to get away from all that, until the inevitability of that night.
She went into the room she was sharing with Aria and grabbed a pair of black jeans, a orange off the shoulder top, and knee high stripy socks, Aria was sitting on the bed dressed in denim dungarees and baby blue t- shirt she was waiting for someone to do her hair.
"Hey Aria, you look lovely, Just let me get dressed and then I'll do your hair ok."
Aria nodded and sang a little song, as Violet got dressed. Once she was dressed she walked over to the bed and sat the girl on her knee as she pulled the comb through the tresses of silky hair,
"What do you want me to do to your hair then Aria?" Violet asked her once she had worked all the knots out of it.
"Um plats, please." She said with a grin on her face as Violet divided her hair into two sections and started to braid each one before putting a bobble at the end of it.
When she had finished braiding the hair she slipped Aria off her lap and pointed towards the mirror saying, "Is that ok?"
Aria padded towards the mirror and said "Yeah, you do your hair the same, we'll look like sisters then." She shyly.
Violet smiled and said, "sure, wanna find me two bobbles to tie it with?" as she began to braid her hair.
When they had finished, they left the room and went downstairs where violet sat on the bottom step and put on her knee high black boots and grabbed her three quarter length coat she then turned round to help Aria to help her tie up her shoes.
Clara came walking down the stairs yawning
"Morning mommy."
"Morning baby."
Clara said looking them both over before saying "so what are you two up to then."
"Violet said she'd take me out for the day." Aria answered smiling.
Violet looked at Clara for a moment "That is ok isn't it, sorry I should have asked but I thought that since everything was the way it is that it would probably be good if we went out but if you want we can stay."
Clara smiled at the nervous girl and said "No it's great I was going to ask you if you would any way, I don't mind have fun baby." She said as she bent down and kissed Aria on the cheek
"Bye."
She said as she watched the two figures walking out the door.
A/n song
|My Last Breathe | |by Evanescence |
Not mine so don't sue!!!!
Standing on the bed looking down on her was Aria, she was giggling and tickling the older girl in order to try and wake her up, violet couldn't help but grin and said,
"So you think that's funny do you, missy?"
And with that she grabbed at Aria's legs and pulled her back down onto the bed lying her down and leaning over her tickling her tummy and her feet, until the little girl when red with laughter.
"I think it's about time that we got up, so what do you feel like for breakfast."
Aria sat up the minute she heard the word breakfast, she wasn't a greedy child but she loved pancakes, she wasn't allowed them often, her mommy didn't make them for her at all when they were at home so it was only when they came to stay with Uncle Oz, Aunty Willow and Violet that she had them.
Violet knew what Aria would want and was not surprised when she heard the little girl say "Pancakes, Pancakes!"
As Violet got up out of bed and walked over to the dresser where she picked up a hair bobble and used it to tie her hair up in a high bun on the top of her head, and then walked over to the door to pull off her bath robe, Aria had taken to jumping up and down on the bed singing a little song which went something like
"Pancakes, pancakes, I love pancakes."
Violet smiled at her and said "Well you had better come over here and put your bath robe and slippers on or you'll catch your death of cold, and won't need any pancakes."
Aria jumped off the bed at this and grabbed her pink bathrobe and fluffy sheep and was standing next to violet waiting to go downstairs basically before Violet had finished talking.
Violet laughed and picked her up and carried her down the stairs and into the kitchen as they walked through the hall she saw that Giles was lying spread out on the coach and had a nasty bruise across his head, she also saw burn marks on the wall of the hall but she didn't care, she just walked past them all. She put her down on one of the chairs by the table before walking across to the fridge getting the eggs and milk out, grabbing the flour and a bowl out of cupboard, she turned the radio on and started to make the mixture up for the pancakes, a song came on that seemed to perfectly capture the mood she was feeling
Hold on to me love.
You know I can't stay long.
All I wanted to say was I love you,
And I'm not afraid (Ahhh)
Can you hear me ?
Can you feel me in your arms ?
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
I'll miss the winter.
A world of fragile things.
Look for me in the white forest,
Hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
I know you hear me.
I can taste it in your tears.
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
Closing your eyes to disappear.
You pray your dreams will leave you here
But still you wake and know the truth
No one's there!
Say goodnight
Don't be afraid.
Calling me,
Calling me,
As you fade to black.
(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
Holding My Last Breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.
It was last day and she new it, but as she started to spoon the mixture into the frying pan to make the waffles she realised that she would make the most of her last day.
Spike walked into the kitchen just in time to catch the last couple of lines of the song which was on the radio, he looked at violet she had a smile kind of plastered onto her face, it didn't look real it looked strained if anything.
"Hey babes how are you this morning?"
"Hey dad, I'm good. Thank you, just planning with Aria what we're going to do today that's all," she took a look at Aria to make sure that she wasn't listening and carried on by saying,
"Just planning my last day, you know the usual think a 17 year old girl has to do the day before her birthday."
He took a step towards her and hugged her.
Then turning to Aria he sat down next to her and said "So what are you and my baby going to be up to today, then sweet pea?"
She looked at him for a moment and said, "We're gonna have pancakes, and then Violet said that she'd take me to the park to play on the swings. And then we're gonna have ice cream."
"Well that sounds like you have a nice day planned their pet." He said smiling at Violet at she placed a plate of pancakes in front of him and Aria.
"Yeah, I thought that it would be good for us to get out of the house so that everything can be arranged and so we don't get in the way or anything."
"Sounds like a good idea, expect that Giles, wouldn't want his precious hearing all bout the big bad." Spike said taking a mouthful of pancakes.
Aria had finished her's and smiled at spike.
"Well pet, since your all finished up how bout you go up stairs and have a think about what your gonna wear today then, want to look your best after all don't you,"
Spike said smiling at her.
Aria nodded and jumped off her chair and ran up the stairs, thankfully she didn't see Giles lying on the sofa unconscious since she didn't say anything or go and see him so it was either that she hadn't seen him or that she was just so used to seeing her father strewn out unconscious that it didn't bother her, spike assumed that it was probably the first reason.
He looked over at violet, who was playing with her pancakes,
"Make sure your back by dusk I want to show you something later ok."
Violet looked at him suddenly when he said that,
"What?"
"That would be telling pet, just make sure that your back in time ok pet, it's important, ok?"
"OK dad." Violet said as she stood up, "I better go and get dressed up for my big day out with Aria."
She walked out of the room and spike stared after her. He knew that this would be her last day, for all their hard work throughout the night none of them had been able to find another way to stop Angkara, they were willing to let the world end but he knew Violet wasn't, she had decided herself, what she was going to do last night, he guessed like her he had realised then that there was not gonna be another easier way out of it, that she was going to have go through with the ritual.
He turned back to his pancakes and carried on eating them.
Violet walked up stairs and straight past her room without even looking to see how Erin was, she knew it was selfish of her but she wanted to get away from all that, until the inevitability of that night.
She went into the room she was sharing with Aria and grabbed a pair of black jeans, a orange off the shoulder top, and knee high stripy socks, Aria was sitting on the bed dressed in denim dungarees and baby blue t- shirt she was waiting for someone to do her hair.
"Hey Aria, you look lovely, Just let me get dressed and then I'll do your hair ok."
Aria nodded and sang a little song, as Violet got dressed. Once she was dressed she walked over to the bed and sat the girl on her knee as she pulled the comb through the tresses of silky hair,
"What do you want me to do to your hair then Aria?" Violet asked her once she had worked all the knots out of it.
"Um plats, please." She said with a grin on her face as Violet divided her hair into two sections and started to braid each one before putting a bobble at the end of it.
When she had finished braiding the hair she slipped Aria off her lap and pointed towards the mirror saying, "Is that ok?"
Aria padded towards the mirror and said "Yeah, you do your hair the same, we'll look like sisters then." She shyly.
Violet smiled and said, "sure, wanna find me two bobbles to tie it with?" as she began to braid her hair.
When they had finished, they left the room and went downstairs where violet sat on the bottom step and put on her knee high black boots and grabbed her three quarter length coat she then turned round to help Aria to help her tie up her shoes.
Clara came walking down the stairs yawning
"Morning mommy."
"Morning baby."
Clara said looking them both over before saying "so what are you two up to then."
"Violet said she'd take me out for the day." Aria answered smiling.
Violet looked at Clara for a moment "That is ok isn't it, sorry I should have asked but I thought that since everything was the way it is that it would probably be good if we went out but if you want we can stay."
Clara smiled at the nervous girl and said "No it's great I was going to ask you if you would any way, I don't mind have fun baby." She said as she bent down and kissed Aria on the cheek
"Bye."
She said as she watched the two figures walking out the door.
A/n song
|My Last Breathe | |by Evanescence |
Not mine so don't sue!!!!