Song: "The Scientist" Coldplay
Story: Guardian Angel (Part 2)
Characters: Terry and Max
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Terry strode the outer edges of the lake, hands stuffed in his pockets, head up, teary eyes raised to the rainy sky. "Be here, Max. Be here." He whispered, the rain drops rolling over his lips and into his mouth, dripping off his chin and fusing into his sopping clothing. He felt a coin in his pocket, and he absent-mindedly pulled it out. Feeling a little of Max's humor slipping into him, he smirked and muttered, "Heads you'll come, tails you won't." He tossed it up. It glinted as it tumbled in the air. Terry's squinting eyes momentarily lost it amidst the rainy glitter. It fell back into his palm. Heads.
Nobody said it was easy
Oh its such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said that it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Max knelt in the muddy grass. The Headquarters were behind her. She couldn't get far. But at least, for a moment she could be alone, beside the huge lake. Gotham, the place she had left, was on the other side. Wildly, she thought of trying to steal a boat and paddle back across. But for what? Nothing waited for her there. The tears wouldn't come. Her insides felt turned to ash. But the sky cried enough for her, putting the tears on her face. She knew she had felt pulled to be out here for a reason. It was unnatural not to cry. Here, at least, she could pretend she was. She looked down and a glint caught her eye…a coin. "He can't be dead," she thought, and reached for the shiny object. "Heads you are, tails you're not." She slapped it onto the back of her hand. Tails.
Nobody said it was easy
Oh its such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
"Max," Terry moaned, his fist closing hard around the little coin till it hurt. He bowed his head and waited. She never came.
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh ohh
Max threw the coin into the water. Despite her anger, she didn't throw it far enough. It sat at the shallow, sandy bottom at the water's edge. The rain on the water obscured the image, but it was still tails up.