Black Rose
Song: Without You or When You're Gone
(A/N: My 70th chapter! You guys have been with me through all of it, and you've seen my good chapters and bad, and still you keep reading. You are all amazing and I'm glad to have every reader that I do.)
Max
It's been a long time... I'm married to Fang, and we have two winged children, Aero and Shadow. Aero is a brunette with black wings and eyes, and she acts just like me, I'm told. Shadow, our boy, looks like me more, but acts just as silent as Fang most of the time, with sudden bursts of leadership. But there was a third child, once, a memory not ever to be forgotten.
"She's beautiful." Fang whispered to me. There she was, our Windflower. Little blond, curly-headed Windflower. She opened her eyes slowly. They were coal black, shining and framed by long, thick black lashes. Fang smiled. She was only minutes old, but already we loved her. One thing was different; she was more fragile, delicate. We watched her for hours; every breath that she took was a miracle. Aero and Shadow entered and stroked the ivory cheek of their baby sister. Shadow even laughed when she gave a little yawn. Time passed, and I was all alone with my second girl.
"Hello, Windflower." I said. Her eyes widened and she smiled.
Then her tiny body gave a shudder, and it was stilled.
" Fang!" I called out in a panic, the warmth of my baby girl fading. He rushed to my side.
"She's not breathing, Maximum." he said. I blinked, a tear chased by pain skirted my face.
"No."
We buried her that weekend. The rest of the Flock never got to see her. They came, all the same, placing little flowers on her grave. Shadow's gift touched me the most:
A single black rose, set to remember the little girl that never spoke, never flew. After he laid the rose on her little gravel headstone, he knealt and cried a few tears for her. Then his huge black wings extended from his back, and he flew away into the night sky. She may have never spoke to him, or experienced many things in life.
But one thing is for certain:
She was loved.