a/n: For alena-chan's challenge/contest. Hope you enjoy.

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Could you show me, dear, something I've not seen?
Something infinitely interesting?

-Incubus, Echo

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"Will you be here for all eternity?"

Her tone was so pleading and desperate he thought it might have hurt. The question sounded in his ears like a shattered melody, bright and shining pristinely as the moon, but dissipating like the glow of forever dead stars. Amethyst eyes gazed up at him, torn and confused, longing to brim with tears when he refused yet yearning for an agreement so that their owner can grasp onto that little burst of happiness that can be held only once and never again.

His hand traveled from her slender waist to her cheek, brushing against pale velvet skin, and onto her smooth, pastel cheek. She closed her eyes, much to his relief that strangely merged with disappointment, and felt his warmth as she leant into the vulnerable confines of his calloused palm. But still she waited, patiently, hopefully, willing to stay in this enchantment for how long it may last.

He acted charmingly, accordingly, to please, but his mind whirled in chaotic satisfaction. What was eternity anyway? Did it even exist? Wasn't everything supposed to have an end, a limit, a born death? What meaning did the permanence of time have to offer them? A deceivingly exquisite wish? A faraway dream that can never be lived? A flowering blossom of love whose enthralling scent will never fade?

But silence was safe, that much he knew, so he decided to abandon thought, and without further ado, brought his lips to hers, heartbreaking sweetness rushing from the kiss and into the evening air. He'd twirled her violet locks in his long fingers, he'd pulled her closer into his winning embrace without hesitation, and she shivered against him, sated and wanting.

"Eternity doesn't cut it--" He answered finally, voice determined and resolute, words cemented with shimmering certainty, dripping from a broken rueful smile.

"--but I do."

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