Author: Tuesday Dube
Rating: PG
Coupling: M/L
Summary: Set after EotW. Just what I think may have gone on in they'redreams cause of their connection.
AN: This is my first fic. Please tell me what you think.
Muse #4 - cerulean - sand - nightfall - warning
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Max and Liz walked hand in hand across the white sand beach. They stopped to watch the golden sun sink into the ocean. The normally cerulean sky was fading into a soft violet, and the stars began twinkling, whispering the promise of nightfall.
Max wrapped his arms around Liz's waist and pulled her to his chest frombehind. A gentle breeze caressed her hair, and sent the soft locks flowing around her face. Max let his hands revel in the feel of her silky skin as he placed his hand over the spot that first brought them together. Where he marked her as his own.
He would always remember this moment. It would haunt him in his dreams. He wished they could stay this way forever, but he knew it wasn't real. He knew nothing this perfect could ever happen to him. Holding his Liz in his arms, free from all the worries of his life. Free to love her without consequences, without worrying about Destiny.
Liz turned and slid her arms around his neck. He pulled her body to his, as her fingers caressed the soft curls of hair at the nape of his neck. It sent a shiver through him. He looked down into her loving eyes and lost himself once again. She had a way of capturing him with her eyes, he couldn't tear his gaze away... He didn't want to.
He felt her pulling him down for a kiss with agonizing slowness. He watched her lips part and couldn't restrain the moan that escaped him at seeing her full lips begging for his touch. He could feel her warm breath on his skin as his lips slowly came down to hers. Sadness filled his heart, because he knew what was to come. But he was powerless to stop it. He hadn't the will to put an end to his torture. He couldn't resist the temptation of his Elizabeth.
Just as their lips were to touch Max was torn from his dream world and thrown back into his harsh reality. The loss of her presence was agony. The feel of her in his arms, gone. Left in it's place was an empty coldness in his heart. "Why", he screamed as tears poured from his eyes.
Every night it was the same. He would fall asleep hoping to dream of her and she would come to him, then as always he would be torn away from her finding himself back in his cold, empty bed, alone.
He lay there sobbing, his tears flowing from his eyes and prayed for sleep to take him, because the agony of a life without her was to much to bear.
"Why did you leave me Liz?", he whispered into the air. "I don't care about destiny. I don't want anyone else. I need you, only you." He just needed to see her again, to hold her again. "Sleep… I just want to go back to sleep",he told himself.
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Across town Elizabeth lay in her bed softly crying into her pillow. Everynight it was the same. She would fall asleep hoping to dream of him and he would come, only to be ripped from her again and again. Future Max's warning of what would come if she gave in to her heart playing again in her mind.
"I miss you Max," she whispered and prayed for sleep to claim her again.
The End
