"High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life.. Fight fear for the selfish pain it was worth it every time."
This was it, he was diving into her icy blues, their history suddenly alive all around him, his memories of them clear and crisp, in total HD. He felt fear rise in his throat, he wanted to puke, but he shoved the feeling down, because then she'd feel guilty too and that was selfish of him. He leaned in and kissed her, and the whole world just melted into background noise and nameless colored blurs because she was worth it and perfect and deserved it.
"Hold still right before we crash, 'cause we both know how this ends. A clock ticks till it breaks your glass and I drown in you again."
She didn't move to lean closer to him, nor he to her, because they were about to crash and they both knew how it would end. She hears the ticking of a clock, which chimes midnight, and she broke her stillness, melting into him and drowning in him as they fell to the bed in the rush of passion. They were crashing again, and they both knew all that they would deny in the morning.
"Leo." she mutters, he kisses her forehead gently.
"Michelle." he groans as she presses to him.
"'Cause you are, the piece of me, I wish I didn't need. Chasing, relentlessly. Still fight and I don't know why."
They lay next to each other silently in the pure darkness, Michelle breaks the silence.
"I wish I didn't need you."
"I wish I didn't need you, either." Leo comments back, his voice sleepy and his eyes shut.
"Why do we keep fighting for and chasing each other?" the twenty-something woman asks, "We should've made up our minds by now."
"I don't know." the twenty-something man responds, suddenly turning to her and looking into the icy orbs he loves so much. Her eyes gaze into his fiery red-brown orbs in return, opening her mouth to respond, but he seizes it and presses his mouth to hers.
"If our love, is tragedy why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity why are you my clarity?"
She yanks away not nearly as quickly as she would've liked, her reflexes losing to her heart, it seemed. "This is such a tragedy!" she exclaims, throwing herself away from him and staring at the ceiling. "Forget Romeo & Juliet, we're the real tragedy! And insane! Don't forget how insane we are!"
Leo sighs and throws himself on his back, gazing at the ceiling himself, "And somehow, you're my remedy. You fix everything. Even when we don't want to do this, you fix that with the bat of an eyelash, babe. And insanity? Princess, you make everything clearer. You're my clarity, babydoll."
"Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends. It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense.."
They lay awake, the clock chimes two in the morning, Michelle is thinking over what he said about being his "clarity"...
"What does that even mean?" she asks, her half-lidded eyes still gazing at the ceiling.
"Clarity-the quality of coherence and intelligibility. It means you're super smart and make sense."
She whips the pillow from behind her head and smacks him in the face with it before nestling her head in it again, "I know what it means, Sozen." she sneers, "I wanted to know what you meant by that."
Leo rubs his face after being beaten with the pillow and sighs again, turning to her once more, "I meant that you make everything make sense, you make everything smart-sounding."
Michelle still won't look at him, refuses to forgive him for those years long ago, and it drives him crazy. He pulls her to him, kissing her deeply, pulling her as close to his body as the sheet she's wrapped around herself with allow him.
She loses her common sense for a moment, melting into him again and deepening the kiss as she pulls herself closer to him.
"Don't speak as I try to leave, 'cause we both know what we'll choose. If you pull, then I'll push too deep, and I'll fall right back to you."
Michelle breaks away, her common sense finally awakening, she rolls over and pulls herself from the bed, dressing quickly, and starting for the door.
Leo watches her, her franticity in leaving, and calls to her as she reaches for the doorknob, "Hang on!" He bolts up in the bed, his eyes meeting hers immediately.
She turns, icy eyes almost furious, "Don't stop me from leaving, you know what happens when you do. When either of us do! Trying to stop the other only makes things worse!"
He hops from the bed, having put on his boxers earlier and walks to her side, taking her hand. "I don't want this to stop! I want you! I need you! For the love of God, Ice Queen! I love you!" He pulls her to him and kisses her deeply.
She kisses him back, wrapping her arms up and around his neck, digging her fingers into his curls and yanking him closer. They pull apart, gasping for air, and she allows her eyes to meet his.
"I love you too."
So, it's kinda short...SORRY! ^.^ I think I won't post "Save" unless someone asks, so tomorrow I will begin spiesareawesome's request and try to have that posted, then work on Eliz's. ^.^
I also apologize that it's kinda lime-y, but it was all I could think to do for this song. Also, it's AU so no gods or Calypso or quests. The thing "all those years ago" was him breaking up with her for an AU Calypso counterpart, but that's only slightly mentioned. :D
Drop a review and lemme know if this was too much or if you want more stuff like this or what.
AND IF I GET TO FINISH ELIZ'S TOMORROW ALONG WITH THE LOYALL I MIGHT START ON THE CONNIK! *squeals* Hope to post more tomorrow, faithful readers. ^.^
-Chelle