Rating: Suitable for all ages

Pairing: Max's POV

Spoiler/Notes: Destiny

Title from the song "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas because it just happened to be on the radio when I was thinking that I could turn these words into a Destiny fic.

MUSE #4 – Nightfall; Sand; Cerulean; Warning

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A Whisper on My Lips

I'm still sitting in the spot where she left me hours ago. The others went home at nightfall but I don't see myself moving for a long, long time.

The events of the day keep playing in my mind over and over again. I've learned more about myself in the last 48 hours than in the 11 years I've been on this planet. But there's only one thing on my mind right now.

The love of my life walking away from me.

I don't care that Tess was my bride in a former life. I don't care that I have this so-called destiny. In this life I am Max Evans, and my destiny includes Liz Parker, whether the heavens agree or not.

"You'll have to go home eventually," Tess said before they all left. To me, it almost sounded like a warning. Like unspeakable things would befall me if I held on to Liz and didn't embrace this destiny. Like Tess would make sure of that herself. But I don't care. There is nothing Tess can do to me that can touch me, or hurt me, more than what happened this afternoon.

Seeing the love of my life running under the bright cerulean sky as if she couldn't get away from me fast enough... that image will forever be burned into my brain.

I know that she was not trying to get away because she doesn't care about me. She loves me. I know it. She ran away because she honestly thinks that it is what is best for me.

And even though I know that, know it with every fiber of my being, it still hurt like hell to see her leave like that.

How can she still not understand that *she* is what's best for me? That without her, destiny doesn't matter, family doesn't matter... life doesn't matter.

"Liz..." I whisper through my tears. It's the only thing I can do now. As the sun was slowly setting over the desert sand, I was screaming her name. As the moon rose over the stark landscape, I was crying it. And now that the stars are out, that my home planet is mocking me from the V-constellation, I can only whisper it.

I don't believe that she is gone for good. There must be a way around this destiny crap. Liz and I will be together again. We'll marry and grow old together like I know we are meant to do.

But until then she's only a whisper on my lips.

The end