Title: No Time to Say Goodbye

Author: AngelicTorture.

Disclaimer: I own nothing and no one you recognise.

Rating: PG13

Pairing: Lita?

Spoilers: none.

Notes: Response to Kori's emotions theme challenge. I'm going the 10 separate one shots route. The theme for this one is Sad. I made myself cry writing this one.

Summery: She didn't get to say goodbye…

Never thought
This day would come so soon
We had no time to say goodbye
How can the world just carry on?
I feel so lost when you are not by my side
But there's nothing but silence now
Around the one I loved
Is this our farewell? – Our Farewell by Within Temptation.

Lita shivered as she stood watching what was happening around her. She couldn't take her eyes off the scene in front of her even though she wasn't really seeing it.

She didn't want to see it.

All the redhead saw was the rain; as though focusing hard enough on each separate raindrop would bring him back…he wouldn't really be gone.

She vaguely heard someone talking to her, whispering comforting words but not one single word made sense to her, nothing did anymore.

This wasn't the way things were supposed to happen; he was too young for this to happen to him. He should be with her, holding her hand. He shouldn't be gone.

The redhead felt a gentle hand on her back but didn't look to see who it was. She watched as people laid flowers for him, all of them crying.

They weren't supposed to be crying over him, they weren't supposed to miss him, only she was. They didn't know him the way she did, they didn't love him the way she did.

Lita felt someone take her hand, she knew it was Trish. The redhead pulled her hand away from the Canadian and took a few steps forward, closer to where the love of her life was now being laid to rest.

She didn't want her friends to comfort her. Almost all she had left of him was the tears she'd cried for him. For 7 days she'd cried and hoped and wished with all her heart that it was a lie.

He wasn't dead. He couldn't be.

A never ending stream of tears flowed from broken hazel eyes as she fought to remember the sound of his voice. It had only been a week and she was already forgetting the sound of his laugh. She couldn't remember the last words she'd said to him.

With every second, every beat of her heart he was slipping farther away from her. She'd never see his eyes sparkle when he smiled again.

The redhead's knees gave out on her and she fell to the ground as silent sobs shook her whole body. Her friends were at her side in a second but she screamed at them to leave. She didn't want them near her, all she wanted was him.

She let her hands sink into the muddy ground as she screamed at the top of her voice.

"You swore to me you'd always be here…till death do us part…"

xxxXXxxx

2 days later the redhead was back in the same cold cemetery and again she wasn't alone. She knelt on his grave, on hand reaching out to lightly trace the carved lettering on the newly laid headstone.

Randall Keith Orton

1980 – 2006

Beloved son, brother, husband

And father.

Lita sniffled and wiped her tears away before she stood up, her baby son Corey looking at her with blue eyes just like his fathers as she cradled him tightly in her arms.

sorry if i made anyone cry with that but i was feeling kinda down and so were the muses