These scenes are only connected by the picture that inspired them, not in the actual content. I created them on separate occasions while gazing at this dark and heart-breaking image. I'll let you be the judges...

Dedication: To one of my newest reviewers, aliasfan. She's kind of an all-around writer,but this picture made me cry, pulling up emotions that I forgot I had. aliasfan has caused this on occasion, especially in her review for 'CWtI'. Thanks.

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The closer I come, the harder he pushes... Like the cousin, water, of his sorrowed emotions... Eventually, I'm going to break... Will I regret it?

Don't Extinguish my Fading Light...

His arms close around his chest tighter as he angles his head downwards. His silvered strands fall brokenly over his murky aquamarine gaze and cast anything above his nose into shadow. He had taken off his blindfold earlier to prove the violent damage of his beautiful aqua vision to me, but now it is like the fabric had re-appeared and expanded. He turns away from me and faces the dark horizon, the sky's tears continuing to spatter off his saddened metallic hair. My lips separate and whisper his name painfully, my cheeks starting to burn from the emotion that is building there. It's like the sound pains him to hear, a jerking cringe leaving his entity as the name drifts into the cataclysmic night.

"You can't help me…" My body seems to detach from my brain, my actions seeming strange and unexplainable. I walk behind him and place my back to his, the two wet fabrics seeming to sigh as they come together. He flinches a little, but doesn't pull away; he straightens now, his vision likely to be level again. My arms hang at my sides loosely rather than cross like his, feeling helpless and useless towards this tormented boy. My heart sighs brokenly and I tilt my head back to rest on the nape of his neck and the upper region between his shoulder blades. My eyes shut dejectedly as the emotion finally breaks free and loses itself in the sky's tears.

"No…But I…want to…" I can feel his arms fall, mimicking mine as I sense the emotion on his face as well. "…But…I can't even attempt if you won't trust me… if you don't give me a chance…" I want to grip his hands, but I fight it back…I can't chase him anymore…A pointless effort if he doesn't want it…

To be honest, my heart stops when those gloved fingers intertwine with mine…

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"You know that I'll probably never be able to love you... The darkness... It's consumed too much..." He turns his face away from me, his silvered bangs shadowing his faltering aquamarine eyes. I can hear the tears lacing his sorrowed breath and he apologizes again.

My emotion trails down my drenched cheeks as I permit a solemn smile to grace my lips. My hand lies upon the respective cheek and guides his vision to once again find mine.

"I didn't ask you to care for me... I didn't ask you to love me... I asked you to let me stay by your side. No amount of darkness will keep you from my thoughts..."