Day 30

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Thank you for the reviews. This is what these stories are about, a different look at different themes within the Merlin universe.

Title: Life and Death

Characters: Merlin, Morgana

Paring: Mergana

Word Count: 703

Summary: Life and Death have been in love for longer than we have the words to describe. Life sends countless presents to Death and Death keeps them forever. (2 Parts)

He was life. He was joyful and worked hard to pour his love into everything that he made. He smiled as everything began and wondered off into their life. He watched them grow and learn and explore. He would smile at their successes and give them the means to start new life. It was the way. Everything had the chance of a beginning.

There were times when things didn't go right for the things he created and he was sadden by it. He would watch as the weakest were picked off by the stronger ones. The circle of life was shorter for them. He wished it didn't have to be that way. He wished that everything he made had many years in front of them. He wished that some people saw the gift that they were given. They could do anything they wanted to.

Everyone had there opposite and their equal and she was his. They only saw each other on occasions. It would only be for a few seconds but for those few seconds, it felt like an eternity for him. The circle of life would always be completed. The creatures that he made would either give themselves up willing to her or would fight her with their last breath, fighting for their chance of life.

He made them all for her. He admired her from a far. They could never met which saddened him. Death was as beautiful as the creatures and plants he made. Even in the destruction she cause, he knew that he would always love her. The wars where she would just wait patiently for it all to die down before taking the souls of those who had died bravely facing their enemy. Or when she would take a mother when he had made sure that she would have a child.

She was his opposite. She was darkness, he was light. She was hatred, he was love. He was the beginning and she was the end. That was why they never met. They were too different. There was nothing that they could do to change that.

She rarely saw him but she made sure that she took in every moment when she did. He was handsome and she loved it more when she saw him smile. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. His smile as he created a new life for her to take in the future. He was this magnificent being. He fascinated her. She loved him from afar. They were never to meet. It was just the way of the world.

She enjoyed the gifts that he gave her. His works were what she took. She would smile as they would give themselves over to her. She preferred it when they struggled. Not because she was mean like that but because it meant that they had lived their life to the fullest and they wanted it to continue. The life would become a ball of memories. She stored them careful. Life had put a lot of thought into each and everyone of them for her. It was all there for her to watch. It was all there for her to look after. He trusted her with them and she made sure she proved that he could trust her.

She wondered if he felt the same way. She wondered if he thought that he was the only one giving. She wondered if he hated her for taking his creations. He was the one to put all the work into it. He was the one to make them for her. He was the one that smiled at their successes and frown at their failures, hoping that they would learn from it. But she was giving as well. She was making the room so that his creations could live. She was giving them the room to thrive. If she let everyone who had ever lived, live then the world that he had created would be over populated. She knew one day she would take that off him as well. His greatest creation would one day be hers.

They would never met but they loved each other. They were their opposite and their equal.