Even In Death
Chapter Synopsis: No bonds can hold Oliver from his Noelle, not even death.
Buildings burn, people die but real love is forever. – The Crow. It fits this story quite well.
Dedicated to miss AthenaKyle (author on READ HER STORIES), a Oliver & Draco addict through and through. I KID!
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Dammit, shit, fuck.
The cold winter air gushes past me, bites at my unprotected face and it hurts but I don't care, just grit my teeth and force my legs to move faster, longer strides and how could I be so stupid? How could I miss this?
The moon is high tonight, full and sickeningly pale in the muggy dark sky, its rays shimmer down, guide my path lead me to you. You were always my light weren't you? Guiding me through it all…
I come to an immediate halt, chest heaving and breath gone but it doesn't matter cause I'm here, I'm here…
"Sorry, I'm late." I murmur in a gasping tone, my voice wafting throughout the empty graveyard, bouncing off gravestones, off to the deceased who have long since seen visitors.
You don't respond.
…but you wouldn't, would you?
It's been six years and I still expect you to reply. I laugh, a bitter forced one, so eerie in a cemetery. If you were…if you were here, you'd probably hit me upside my head and tell me to stop being so rude.
'This isn't the time or place, Oli.'
And I jerk around, wide eyes scanning desperately at my bearings; looking for them…those brilliant amber brown eyes…I could've sworn it was your voice…
Give me a reason to believe that you're gone
I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay
They took you away from me but now I'm taking you home
"Fred and George pulled another stunt today. Put exploding snap cards in Percy's duffle bag, whole thing ended up bursting half way through!" I pause, smiling slightly as your laugh floats to my ears…
…where are you? I know you're here…you never left me, you never did. You promised you wouldn't… just come out, please? God please, please, please…a pathetic sob rolls into my throat. And-and I can't stand it anymore; staring at that damned epitaph…your name shouldn't BE there. It fucking shouldn't cause your not…your not…gone. You're here...somewhere, waiting for me to find you, save you…
I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on
I wonder if sometimes…sometimes that you can hear me, my rambling of how Puddlemere won yet another game or perhaps how Filch's cat nearly clawed my broomstick to shreds, the damned devil in disguise…but…but can you hear me?
Cause I can hear you. Your voice…wafting in the air, telling me to stop being such a drama queen, to eat my carrots before the chocolate cake…
People say I'm crazy though, I've lost it. But they don't know…they don't know you're still here. They can't see…can't see those bright amber orbs…but I can, I can. They're the only thing that's had be going all these years…they guide me.
Some say I'm crazy for my love, Oh my love
But no bonds can hold me from your side, Oh my love
They don't know you can't leave me
They don't hear you singing to me
I listened to Soluna today, that band you like so much…granted yes, my Spanish isn't exactly the best, in translation and pronunciation.
…alright so I'd have better luck ending world hunger then translating one line of it correctly.
But listening to it…I remember, remember you singing in the shower…don't you remember? I'd laugh and tell you to stop before the glass ended up shattering with you in the stall. And you'd end up pulling a string of that espon..espa..Spanish on me.
I laugh now, fondly remembering how you chucked our rubber ducky at my head. Still have the bruises to prove it too.
…I don't use that shower anymore.
I..I just can't…it's so hard…without your singing, as off key as it may have been…it always perfect in my ears. You were always perfect in my eyes.
Sing to me again…please…my Spanish lullaby, your warmth enshrouds me, scent saturates my clothing, my skin..myself…
…how'd it go? Ni'ele, how'd it go?
I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on
How is it that you can leave, yet I remain here? You damned to eternal slumber, yet I remain wide awake?
This isn't how it's supposed to go, this isn't fair…we're meant; supposed, destined to be together…our souls aren't complete without the other. Mine wanders helplessly, searching for its other half…screaming silently in the shadows for you…
And I can't love you, anymore than I do
My eyes shut as a particularly soft breeze wisps by, sifting through my hair…scouring my scalp, playing havoc with its long strands…just like you do…cools the warm flesh of my neck…your scent invades me…
And I smile, releasing a pleasurable sigh cause you're here, you're here…
You never left me, I knew you wouldn't! So foolish of me to even think so…forgive me Noelle, forgive me for doubting you even once?
And just then another wind wafts by…and I can't help but to think its you.
People die, but real love is forever.
Gaining to my feet, head bowed, my blurry vision peers down at your epitaph.
Noelle Chiba
1981-2005
A Star on Earth, Star in Heaven.
Her light still shines.
And it does, it always will…I take a deep breath, its time to go. For now my love, I shall return.
…and I won't be late next time.
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It's quite odd that the person I dedicate this to is dead in the story…but yeah. I'm weird. Well I hope you enjoyed it and yes, I DO know it's totally irrelevant to the first chapter of this. I was just too lazy to redo a whole knew story for it. :P