AN: Greenfield's again – she's spoiling me! George Boleyn/Elizabeth Hollington to You're All I Have by Snow Patrol.

Strain this chaos turn it into light
I've got to see you one last night
Before the lions take their share
Leave us in pieces, scattered everywhere

"George? George, where are you going? George!" Anne shrieked, clinging onto her brother's arm. Her eyes were wide with an unspoken fear, "Where are you going? You can't leave me here waiting like this"

George's face softened; he patted her cheek gently, "Go to sleep, Mademoiselle. In the morning everything will be better"

Anne couldn't resist a smile at the childhood nickname, "But why did he leave? Why did he just go without a word?"

"I don't know" George looked tired, sick and tired of everything that Anne's rise had bought with it, "In the morning we'll know. Aurora's going to stay with you, isn't she?"

Anne nodded, "Yes. Yes, you're right. Go, then" a smile for her younger brother, the smile she reserved for him alone, "But wait. Where are you going?"

"To Elizabeth" George replied, turning back in the doorway, "Before everything goes to Hell, I need my Elizabeth"

Just give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

He was practically running to her room, because the voices in his head were starting to scare him; the voices that told him everything was going to end with the end of Henry's love for Anne, and there would be no way out of it.

Elizabeth is the only thing you have when things get bad, the voice told him, Your Elizabeth.

And he knew, all of a sudden, that the voice was right. Elizabeth was his world, and it was only when he was with her that he felt safe. Only when he was with her did he feel like the rest of the world didn't matter, because when they were alone he could laugh and sing to her and make her his own. Elizabeth was everything.

He ran faster.

You're cinematic razor sharp
A welcome arrow through the heart
Under your skin feels like home
Electric shocks on aching bones

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

She was waiting for him. He expected her to look worried, but of course, she didn't. She was hiding her worry for his sake, to make him stronger. She was good at doing that, when it really mattered. And that day – well, that day it mattered more than ever before.

"I've been waiting" she told him, smiling, "Are you alright?"

George wanted to tell her about the fear that was choking him, binding him, but when he looked in her beautiful blue eyes the fear suddenly left him. And a smile grew on his face, a smile that he had not expected nor one that she had anticipated. She moved towards him and took his hands.

"Tell me, tell me truthfully. Are you alright?" it was only then that he saw the anxiety in her eyes, hidden behind the glow of her loving smile.

There were no words to answer her, no words that could quite express how he felt. Instead, he pulled her to him, hard, and kissed her. He thought that she might, laughingly, push him away and get him to talk about what had happened at the joust that day, but she did not. She pulled him closer, twined her fingers through his hair.

And that was when he knew that she was as terrified as he was.

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

There is a darkness deep in you
A frightening magic I cling to

They lay in front of the fire, Elizabeth's fingertips still dancing through his hair, her eyes fixed on his face with a frightening earnestness.

"You always make me forget" he told her softly, "Every time something happens, something I don't want to think about, you make me forget. How do you do it?"

She laughed, a slow, lazy laugh, and stretched somewhat distractingly, throwing a pretty silhouette against the open orange flames, "I don't know. Maybe it's magic"

He laughed too, and kissed her again, "Somehow I don't think I'm going to be able to brush it off and forget about it this time"

The smile fell from her face; teeth caught at her lip, "I don't think you are either"

"Don't say that" he urged, the fear beginning to rise again, "If you're scared then I get scared. Let me pretend, just for a little longer, that all of this is going to go away"

Elizabeth's eyes burned for a moment, as if she was angry with the fact that anything could be allowed to scare him. She'd kill off the whole world to keep him safe, if she had to. They both knew it.

"Okay" she said slowly, "You're all I have. If it takes forgetting to keep you safe and sane, then I'll make you forget. I'll help you"

She pressed her lips to his one more time.

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have