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The song 'Haunted' belongs to Kelly Clarkson

This is just a little songfic to the words of 'Haunted' by Kelly Clarkson. I have never heard it, but saw the words and they wee meant for Elizabeth and Will. I wrote this immediately, in about 20 mins.

It is 6 months post AWE. Elizabeth and Will spent their 24 hours together, and then he returned to sea as Captain of the Flying Dutchman. This is Elizabeth's words to him.

Haunted

I'm locked in time. Suspended in a fissure of our making. Condemned to survive for the ultimate goal. One day every ten years. My mind plays with your words – did you turn out to be my lover or my jailer? Convicted of the crime of love my sentence is to wait, patiently unable to share thoughts or happenings, unable to love you as I need to. Physical contact denied us. This existence isn't heaven – it's a hell of our own making, a chasm of despair and longing.

Louder, louder,

The voices in my head

Whispers taunting

All the things yu said

Faster the days go by and I'm still

Stuck in this moment of wanting you here

Time

In the blink of an eye

You held my hand, you held me tight

Now you're gone

And I'm still crying

Shocked, broken

I'm dying inside.

I struggle on. My life a living nightmare. Locked in this time warp of longing, with no reassurance, no warm and loving arms to hold me. Silence is my constant companion. I can't live without you, without a sign that you are dying inside too, just like me.

Where are you?

I need you

Don't leave me here on my own

Speak to me

Be near me

I can't survive unless I know you're with me.

I know you're only alternative was death. In a way, it might have been easier had you slipped away. At least, then, I would have a place to grieve, to outpour my love, a focus for your presence, not this empty void, this desperate vaccumn of frustration, this living hell –

Shadows linger

Only to my eye

I see you, I feel you

Don't leave my side

It's not fair

Just when I found my world

They took you, they broke you, they tore out your heart.

You left me, aching and confused, believing this action was right. You didn't – it isn't, so please let me know that you hold the pieces of my broken heart, that bleeds for you as it bleeds for me, as I hold yours. I wonder where you are, why you're not beside me. Give me a sign that you visit me frequently. I'm dying inside, my life-blood flows freely.

I miss you, you hurt me

You left with a smile

Mistaken, your sadness

Was hiding inside

Now all that's left

Are the pieces to find

The mystery you kept

The soul behind a guise.

Where are you

I need you

Don't leave me here on my own

Speak to me

Be near me

I can't survive unless I know you're with me.

Many months have passed since I last saw your face, I'm crying without you – my soul has no mate. What if I should die here? Would you come to release, my soul up to heaven and leave me in peace? I'm dying without you – I don't understand why you left here without me, left me with no man. I can't do this without you, I need to be free. Poison's my release, my freedom the sea. And if I should meet you, perhaps we shall say that our souls be together – I'd like it that way.

Why did you go?

All these questions run through my mind.

I wish I couldn't feel at all

Let me be numb

I'm starting to fall.

Where are you?

I need you

Don't leave me here on my own

Speak to me

Be near me

I can't survive unless I know you're with me.

Well…that's it. Maybe now I have these words out of my head I can go back and do other things…!

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