CARBY CARBY CARBY

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She watched him sleeping, propped in the corner of the room.
He looked so tired - he almost didn't look alive. She wanted to open her mouth and wake him, but she couldn't. She just didn't have the energy she
needed.
So she just laid there, prone, tears slowly making there way down her face as she breathed ... in ...out ... in .... out.

He opened his eyes slightly, squinting against the sunlight coming through the window. He glanced quickly at the figure on the bed, readjusting himself
to the fact that everything had gone horribly wrong. Recovering from the split second after he'd woken up when he expected her to be in his arms, the
split second when he thought that everything was ok ... and then he heard the heart monitor, and it registered ... hitting him like the horrible feeling when you know you've forgotten something really important.  And then he spent mintues, just working up the courage to open his eyes, and look at her.

He looked at her again .... her eyes were open.
He wasn't sure at first, blinking and then looking again.
She was awake, just lying, her head turned to one side, watching him.

He didn't move at first, neither of them moved ... just watching each other.
And then he could make out the tears, making paths down her cheek, over the bridge of her nose and mingling with the tears from her other eye.
He could feel his own heart breaking as he watched her.

He stood up, moving to the chair next to the bed. She didn't move, but her eyes followed him.
He brought one hand to the side of her face, and reaching over wrapped the other one around her chest and under her shoulder.
And he held her.
Leaning down, resting his face against her shoulder, he broke down into tears.

She lifted her hand to the back of his head.
She could feel his tears on her shoulder, feel his short sobs in her chest.
With her other hand, she lifted the mask from her face, whispering into his hair
"I'm sorry......I'm sorry"

He stayed there, feeling her chest rise slightly and fall, closing his eyes as her fingers moved through his hair, soothing him.

"I'm sorry too" he whispered.

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more to come I promise - no more heart ache!

even though I think the bad stuff makes it all the better when you finally
reach the fluff ;)

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