Author’s Notes: A songficcie!  Wheee!  This one’s to Sheryl Crow’s “I Shall Believe” and can either a) take place right before the end of “C’Etait Toi,” or b) can be a stand-alone fic.  Reader’s choice.  ^_^*  I hope I got the lyrics right…o.O;;  Enjoy!

 

Note: Masa’s in VIOLET and Gackt’s in BLUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come to me now

 

I barely hear him enter the room, still recovering as I was from yesterday…and the sleeping pills You slipped me.  I don’t want to talk to him.  I don’t want to see him.  And yet…when I smell him as he entered the room, that damned Platinum Egöiste, a momentous wave of relief sweeps over me.  He’s back.  He’s home. 

 

Lay your hands over me

Even if it’s a lie

Saying we’ll be alright

I shall believe

 

Stepping to the bed, he runs his hands, open-palmed, down my arm, my side, to rest on my hip, making me shiver.  The hand disappears briefly before winding around my waist as he slips into bed behind me, burying his eyes in my shoulder.  The hair at the back of my neck prickles as he sighs and a dampness I can only assume are tears caresses my chilled skin.  Why is he crying…?

 

I’m broken in two

 

I bite back sobs and hold him close.  I don’t dare speak.  Not after what happened yesterday…or this morning.  I don’t trust my own voice.  I don’t want him to see me weak and am exceedingly relieved to have found him facing the room’s window and not the door.

 

And I know you’re on to me

That I only come home

When I’m so alone

I do believe

 

I’m so wrong…so vile.  I truly hate myself at times – for all the wrongs done to him, to the others.  Sometimes I wonder, if I don’t go off and disappear and drown myself in liquor because I’d be proving my father right.  He always said I was useless.  I pray I’m not…Kami-sama, I try so hard to be good, to be worthy of the company I keep.  But I’m not, am I, Masa?  No…no, of course not.  I could never be worthy of you.

 

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be

It seems like every time I try to make it right, it all comes down on me

Please say honestly

That you won’t give up on me

Then I shall believe

And I shall believe

 

Oh Masa…how could you love me?  After all of this heartbreak I’ve put you through?  I hurt everyone I love so dearly, it seems…Please don’t hate me, love…I don’t think my heart could take it if you abandoned me here…if you got up and left…if you shoved me away…

 

Open the door

Show me your face tonight

 

I roll over and take his shaking form in my arms.  Part of me wants to kick him off of my bed and curl up in a corner and die, I must admit.  But the ruling part, the compassionate part, would never forgive me.  I run my hands through his hair and along his back.  He sobs silently, lamenting the Hell we’ve gone through together these past twenty-four hours. 

 

And I know it’s true

No one heals me like you

You hold the key

 

He takes my face in his hands and lifts my eyes up to meet his.  I find the air choked in my lungs, his eyes…so dark…so beautiful… “Masa…?” I ask, my voice shaking as much as my body.

 

Never again

Will I turn away from you

I’m so happy tonight

That your love is alright

And I do believe

 

“I…”  He shakes his head and presses his fingers to my lips.  As I stare into his eyes, I watch them glisten in the moonlight.  At the sudden movement, strands of dark hair fall in front of his eyes and behind the curtain, he smiles, tentative. 

 

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be

It seems like every time I try to make it right, it all comes down on me

Please say honestly

That you won’t give up on me

Then I shall believe

And I shall believe

I shall believe

 

I struggle to control my own grief and realize that I’m fighting a losing battle.  He reaches up with hesitant hands and brushes away strands of dark hair, which obscure my face.  As he pulls away, his fingers encounter the tears I was trying so desperately to hide.  Yes, Gaku, I’m crying.  I’m crying for all the things gone wrong and all the broken promises and all the hopes and dreams crushed.  But…I’m crying because your presence has given me more solace in these past few minutes than I could hope to find in a lifetime.

 

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be

It seems like every time I try to make it right, it all comes down on me

Please say honestly

You won’t give up on me

Then I shall believe

I shall believe

 

Don’t cry anymore, Love.  Not anymore.  You’ve cried enough these past few years.  I don’t want you to cry anymore…no more tears, no more grief, no more pain…Only happiness, only hope for tomorrow.  And if I can give it to you, if you’ll take it from me, I’ll give you all the love I have left in this damned shell of a body…

 

I shall believe

I shall believe

 

He shifts and wraps his arms around me, pulling me into his embrace.  I lose myself in the warmth of his body, the chill of his fingers on my skin, the comfort of his lips as they caress my face as if I were made of glass…  Why are you so delicate with me now, Gaku?  Are you so desperate for love?  Or are you so desperate for forgiveness?

 

I shall believe

And I shall believe

 

Oh Masa, forgive my sins.  Hold me until the end of time.  Walk down this path with me so I won’t be alone anymore…

 

Please say honestly that you won’t give up on me…

 

Gaku, I forgive you with my heart, my mind, my soul, my body…If you’ll take that much, and give me the same in return, I’ll never leave your side – I’ll stay with you forever and ever.  It will take something greater than death do us part, if you swear never to abandon me, never to leave me alone, never to send me out to the cold.

 

And I shall believe

I shall believe

 

I love you.  Believe me, I beg of you, believe me when I say I love you…

 

And I shall believe

I shall believe

I shall believe…

 

I love you…