Disclaimer: Nope.

Author's Note: I wanted to write something, but couldn't get my current ideas onto paper, so I went and looked through some old plot bunnies. And I found this. But I couldn't get prose to agree with me, so I decided to make it into a fail!poem. Did I mention I have a headache?

Warnings: Let's pretend for a minute that season II doesn't exist, shall we?

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Goodbye

X

"Well then, young master…"

X

He had thought
That hand
And the death that it wrought
Would be swift
And cold
And violent

His nightmare:
Of hell
And the devil's dark lair
Long replaced
By want
Of silence

The order
The bow
Rough stone on his shoulder
The flurry
Of cloth
By his feet

Then a kiss
A breath
Like a warm morning mist
That veils and
Ensnares
And entreats

Long fingers
A touch
That grips and that lingers
That holds him
And won't
Let him leave

Eyes flutter
Confused
When his demon mutters
But doesn't
—not once—
move to feed

With a pull
He says
"This was to be painful"
And glares
When he's
Re-caught

But his death
Butler
Into his ear whispers:
"Who says,
My lord,
That it's not?"

X

He had thought
That hand
And the death that it wrought
Would be swift
And cold
And violent…

XXX