Rating: PG (?)
Disclaimer: Characters are not mine.
Genre: Angsty (and it's short...)
Credit: The poemy lines scattered between my narratives are from an Emily Dickinson poem.
Summary: Gil's POV talking to Catherine.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;

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I see the futlity in your eyes. The way you look at me as if to say, "What's the point?" Life was never easy for you and I daresay it isn't going to start getting easier now and I'm sorry. If I could do something to heal every rip and tear in your broken heart, I would. If I could straighten that broken smile, I would. If I could kiss you and make you realize everything will be fine, I'd kiss you all over until everything will be great.

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If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,

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If I could make you surrender to the basicity of early life, to let you start anew, if I could make you forget, I would. If there were a way to give it all back, a way to erase every bad memory that stains your psyche I would spend all day and night erasing every last one until they were nothing but a fading whisp of a nightmare that is over. If I could replace all those years of aching with just minutes of pleasure with me, I would spend hours making you forget.

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Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,

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If I could wipe the tears from your cheeks, and replace each one of them with kisses, I would. If I could shield you from all the evils in the world I would take you in my arms and make you never have to face anything you didn't want to. If I could replace the years of physical and verbal abuse with gentle caresses and those three little words I've been dying to whisper in your ear, I would tell you I love you until the day I die. If I could replace all the lies you've been told with the truths that have been withheld I would spend eternity telling you how beautiful, smart and perfect you are. If I could spend my life just holding you in my arms I would close my eyes and hope it's not a dream. If I could taste those lips just once I could die a happy man. If I could make you forget about everybody else I would drown out all the voices. And if you wanted to end it all, I would..

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-la fin-