The Event Entire

[deird_lj]

Here's another fanfic - which is sort of almost a poem. This is what happens when I watch You're Welcome and A Hole In The World back to back.

The prompt at still_grrr was "Tears Down My Cheeks".



The Event Entire

And yet it happens,
Over and again.
The sky is breaking open.
“Dawnie, I have to.”
The last march takes us,
One by one by another,
All we can do is watch.

We fall to duty,
Streets away, the ambush has begun.
“And you fall for it every single time!”
to prophecy,
It’s an urgent, desperate hope.
“There’s a shot – CPR.”
“You have to do it. I have no breath.”
to chance untimely,
Collapsed on a couch, one afternoon.
No chance for last goodbyes.
to heroic choice,
“Picture happy things,”
comes the suggestion. “A lake, candy canes, bunnies…”
“Bunnies. Floppy, hoppy, bunnies.”
to coincidental fate.
A puzzled look of concern.
“Your shirt.”

As each one falls
We gather yet again
And mourn for what we knew would come.
She holds him and asks,
“Would you like me to lie to you now?”
It is our only finish.
It is what we have chosen.
“I’m not asking you to follow me into hell.
Just help send me there.”
A small sob, and in goes the icepick.

Some of us leave to return once more.
“No you don’t,” is the gentle reply. “But thanks for saying it.”
Some of us may not.
“Too bad we’ll never know –
if this is a face you could learn to love.”
He turns, and jumps.
Some of us echo onward.
“This will do.”
Her blue-stained twin gets up and leaves.

But we do not see what will be
Only what is.
“One for the road?” she pulls him in.
A kiss, a ringing phone,
and there’s no-one in the room.
That being tragedy,
We mourn.
He snaps her neck, and sighs.
“I never get tired of doing that.”
We must.
“Close your eyes.”
And the sword goes cleanly through.
For we are the heroes,
And this is our final task.
Crumbling to dust in a rain soaked street.
“You make sure to tell him that.”

There are tears on our faces,
And we stand silent.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sniffle. Grabs a tissue as I go to work...

[deird1]

(Is it incredibly sick and wrong that my first reaction to this comment was "Sweet! I made someone cry!"?)

*hands you tissues*

[shapinglight]

Oh dear! Those were very sad. That last one especially is always a killer for me.

[deird1]

That last one especially is always a killer for me.

Isn't that one incredible?

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Beautifully done.

[deird1]

Thanks.

[dreamincolor.livejournal.com]

I think I probably just read that over 4 or 5 times -twice through, then once just the left side, then down the right, then together again- and it only got better every time.

Poignant and lovely. Very nice.

(Only one I couldn't figure out was “And you fall for it every single time!”)

[deird1]

Thanks!

twice through, then once just the left side, then down the right, then together again

Well, that's how I wrote it...
(Erm - as in, I wrote the entire left side, and then each of the bits on the right side. And then put them together.)

Only one I couldn't figure out was “And you fall for it every single time!”

That was Kendra.
Actually, the line quoted is from Angel to Buffy, but it's when he's busy distracting her while Drusilla attacks everyone in the library. And the quote is the last thing he says when she's already realised and is running back to school...

[dreamincolor.livejournal.com]

That was Kendra.

Ooo, got it..

[candylea.livejournal.com]

tears down my cheek? how appropriate.

“Too bad we’ll never know –
if this is a face you could learn to love.”
He turns, and jumps.

Oh this scene killed me when I first saw it, I think I was in mourning for Doyle for months after. Even now it still hurts.

I think the last line sent me over the edge. You've about killed me with this.

[deird1]

Thank you.

I loved writing this, but at the same time, I was a squishy mess by the time I finished...

[snowpuppies]

Beautifully done, honey.

[deird1]

Thanks!

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

How is it that I've never commented on this? Weird.

I'm kind of crazy about the format, and the brevity of words, and the tone/style/whatever you call it.

I feel like such a bad fan - but what's the icepick and the last one?

[deird1]

Ooh! Thanks!



(Icepick is Holtz and Justine, and the last one is Darla, pre-self-staking.)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I...can't say that I remember too much about the whole "Holtz storyline". Kind of...went by me.

Don't know how I missed Darla, though. O.O