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Lyrics to "I Love You", by Sarah McLachlan

Later – many laters, actually – they lay curled around each other under something she had, in her post-bliss mumble, called a duvet. It looked like a blanket to him.

Holding her sleeping form in his arms, one of her legs lazily draped over him, Vash absentmindedly played with Meryl's hair.

What had he been going to say to her before she closed the door on him and this all started?

Oh, yes. That was it.

He sang softly in his mayfly's ear.

"And I forgot

To tell you,

I love you."