It's been so long and I'm sorry to make anyone wait. Here is the next to last chapter and I don't know If I'll keep going but I feel like I'm running low on ideas. So please if you want to see anything happen or just want to give input please please do. On with the show!

Chapter 6

"what is love to you" you ask with a dewy look in your eyes. Almost without a sound he slips his arm around you. "I have never known love, so I can not fathom it myself." He lets his head drop onto the sheets and looks into your eyes. "I can however tell you what it feels like to never have it."

You look at him with sorrow, "tell me what you feel now" you ask with hopes that he will smile. There's a change to his tone and it makes you tingle with warmth that comes from deep within your heart.

"This, my dear, is nothing I have ever known. This is more than love… this is every feeling I have ever felt all over the edge and into a dark romantic twilight. You have given me more than what could be love." He lets his fingers play with your hair and he pulls you into a soft and warm embrace. Cling to him and the moment you wish it would never come to an end. His eyes glow in the now darkened room. The TV had gone to sleep and the little light that was given off of it was now gone too. You both lay there close to one another, holding onto the damp warm skin of the other. "Well now I have gotten hungry, how about you?" You ask this with a smile that can only be heard.

"My how quickly you can bounce back" His deep rich voice makes the dark still air vibrate with warm laughter. "I could eat something" With a slight movement he lets go of you and lays flat on his back, but pulls you to him with his other arm. "But that would mean we would leave the sweet warm darkness we have made… "

You lay your head on him and listen to the beating of his heart and feel his chest rise and fall with his calm breathing. You can hear how loudly his heart pounds in the still silence. The feel of his skin, now that you have the chance to touch it and lay upon him, is soft and warm with little hills and valleys covering it. As if the scars had become part of the beautiful landscape that is his body. "If you don't want to leave..." He stops your words with his finger on your lips.

"I don't want to leave anything, not for a moment." You let him silence you and kiss his fingertip before saying okay. With the warmth of his embrace you drift into a deep sleep, only hoping this is not a dream.

Waking up with a start you sit straight up, only expecting that it all be a sweet lie of the mind. Looking around you see nothing, it is still too dark to see what surrounds you let alone a few inches in front of you. It the still of the room you hear nothing, just silence and your own voice in your mind saying it was all nothing. Just and erotic dream that meant nothing.

"Are you okay?" The voice that haunted the dreams you were just pulled from was there. The very same that yelled at you and whimpered your name. "My dear, answer me please what is wrong?" There… there it is again.

"Erik?" Your voice shook. "Could… could it be you?" asking more yourself than him. With a slight and sudden touch he reaches out to you and holds your arm "Yes, who else should it be?" You gasp and then let your breath out slowly. "I had forgotten you were here." As his arms close around you, you can feel the cool touch of his bare skin.

"I would never leave… You're shaking my love." He runs his hands over your arms and back, you can feel just how gentle he is with just him fingers. "Here, come lay with me again… We won't have to get up till you're warm again."

You let your arm unfold and take him in. "Thank you, You're just as cold as me… " you feel his back and heart had came to a slow beat again and his breathing was relaxed. "You're so handsome… " his eyes looked into yours, trying to find the lie in that. But there was no lie, he really was handsome. More than any man you had came across in real life. Real life...

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