Request from: None. Just me.
Pairing: Spirit X Kami (supposedly Maka's mum's name)
Story: Sleeping beauty
Story pairing: S.B X Prince
Notes: A few days ago I wrote a comedy ("Marriage is a sentence" I command you to Read it! Or I'll eat you whole! (As if…)), so now I'm writing a tragedy. I just need some variety, that's all…
The Story: She was cursed since her birth to die, but a fairy late entered and did everything to the curse unbind. "She would not die, she would sleep," said the winged hope, "if a prince kisses her in her dreams and loves."
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"Whatever his soul is made of, his and mine are of the same…
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte"
And so she slept.
By lafeedeslilas
"Please don't cry…"
At the sound of her sweet words, forcibly he tried to swallow his anger and his grief and force them to banish from his feelings. However, he did not succeed, and only ended up suffocating himself with inaudible sobs. His knees hurt from the pieces of glasses of the a vase that had held her favorite roses, which adorned dangerously, yet beautifully, the entire floor. The remaining of her battle… with death; She had smashed them out of desperation. He helplessly gasped for air.
The gentle female face kindled a smile at him, and reached up from the floor with her weak hands to his crimson hair.
"You are not supposed to cry… You promised me, that you wouldn't cry…."
It was torture. He almost let out a whimper expressing his inner pain, but this weakness, he did managed to repress. He knew with his head that she wanted him to be strong. Strong; to bear the loneliness that befell on his soul, alone, without her forever. In spite of wholly knowing that, his heart did not understand. The heart only kept him cruelly alive. But she was right, he reflected with anguish as he tried not to break the floor out of pure madness. He had promised the day he had met her, that he would not cry the day she would leave him. And now, she was leaving him… And was he supposed to only watch? He wiped off his tears with his hands repeatedly to the point that his eyes became sore.
"Hmm… good boy…" she said adding to her features another gentle tug of lips and passing once more her pale hands over and over his hair again in a consoling manner. "Good boy…"
"You knew…" He muttered the words slowly and with hardship. He tried to not meet her eyes; he could not bear the sight of her. "You knew.. that this day.. would come…"
Her smile faded with his voice. Suddenly afraid, she retired her hand from his head.
"I..I knew."
Inevitable fate. He mused.
A witch's curse since birth.
His teeth began gritting with resentment, his hands gripped his clothes in search of a support or restrain which he did not found. He wished this instant to lash his anger at heaven with his cries and shouts for the story he was chosen to live, but he didn't, he knew it was useless. She only watched sorrowfully how he suffered through her glassy eyes; time slipped from her fingers like a broken sand clock.
"You knew…" his voice hissed with hatred, "Yet you still….you… did this to..me…"
"I'm sorry…" were her only begging words, "I'm sorry…"
"I hate you."
The spiteful words cut her deeply. She felt as if the broken sand clock's shards of crystal were stabbing her heart as she tried to fix it back.
"I'm sorry…"
It hurt him, that she had still not shed a single tear. How could she not cry? He pondered painfully how could she be this strong. He knew it hurt more than hell itself. He wanted her to cry… It was easier to cry… But he knew she was doing this so he would weep no more.
"No… I didn't mean that… you know I didn't mean that." He said out of regret and held her dying hands together to his. The warmth of life had taken all its traces along it, leaving nothing. "Don't go. I beg you. Don't go…"
She really felt like she was drowning on her own tears. However, she did not now posses any more strength now to summon them out.
"I wont… I'll just sleep for a while."
He squeezed her hands harder and brought them closer to him. He did so, with such a painful force, that it hurt his own limbs at doing so, but she did not feel any of it, her body was already going numb.
"Really…?" His voice quivered with every letter he uttered. He knew the truth. In spite of that, he willingly believed the lie in order to survive the moment.
"Yes…" Although he was trembling so much, the woman he loved so much, the woman who lay dying on this despiteful death bed, had not cracked her voice even once.
"Goodnight, Kami." He whispered. At the loving sound of her name, she fluttered her eyes close with peaceful countenance.
"Goodnight, Spirit." She replied back softly. He felt his world crumble.
And so she slept.
The silence was deafening: There was no merry, miraculous heartbeat of her part. This was no fairy tale.
The emptiness was spreading: The only being who occupied his soul, was gone, leaving her memory in a small child she had left behind for him. She was not coming back, but he did not yet believed it.
He blankly watched her sleep as the hours passed. The damaged briar rose petals which were scattered on the floor, together with her golden hair, glittered magically as the sun began to rise mercilessly.
He gave her a kiss.
She was supposed to wake up.
She didn't.
He gave her another kiss.
She didn't.
He kissed her lips numerous times like a butterfly kisses it's flower.
She didn't wake up.
Although he knew already that even if he prayed, heavens would not give her back to him, he held her on his bosom and roared.
Heavens only listened his cry.
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"Papa, where is mama?" Spirit halted. As a sad gleam quickly passed his eyes, the father merely smiled at his child, crouched to obtain the same eye level as her, and held her small hands together within his own hands.
"Maka," the child perked innocently at the sound of her name, her father only squeezed her small hands tighter, "Mama is sleeping... Mama is sleeping a long dream…"
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End
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AN: How was it? I always loved this pair. For some reason.
I had heart aches all the time while writing this, but it had to be done. Hehe, Sorry guys.
Well, I hope you "enjoyed" the read in some way or another. XD
Review *sniff* please *sniff*