Title: Atlas

A/N: None. Enjoy.

She shifts from foot to foot with the weight of the world on her shoulders. She is too young to be like Atlas, and this thought increases the weight. She struggles to stand straight, to keep her chin up. She struggles to look Him in the eye. So He helps her. He places two fingers under her chin and brings her gaze up to His own.

"That's too heavy for you..." He began.

"It's mine though. Not yours." she replied softly.

"You are mine. You told me so long ago..."

"You...you remember?"

"I remember everything you have ever said and done. Every little detail..."

The weight is more and more with every word He speaks. Guilt, Pain, Anger, Sorrow, they all ride her shoulders now. An even heavy sigh and she nods.

"I know you do, I know..."

"Then I will be here, ready to take all the weight from you. You are mine and I do not like seeing you in such pain."

Hesitation overtook her features swiftly. Eyebrows knitted and the crease in her forehead deepened. The very edge of her pencil rested against a plump bottom lip as her eyes stared down in an absent manner. Occasionally it was lowered from her lip and she would allow the very apex of granite to hover over an expanse of white. The essence of erased emotion marred the once smooth sheet of paper.

And for five minutes that seemed undying, she felt she was completely misplaced in life.

She sensed it, just then, slight ache bellow her ribs that was rising fast. It pushed and forced its way up and brought her heart along for the ride. It was rushed and the words that flowed from her pencil were like hieroglyphics, only she would be able to decipher them. Her eyes did not lift until the ache died down to a dull hum of butterflies in her stomach.

Her eyes lowered once more and her heart was flooded with those words that even she had trouble making out.


"I am HIS and HE is mine"

Five minutes later the very core of her was still pulsating with exhilaration from the simple statement. These five minutes stretched an eternity and she felt she was suddenly... very much in place in life