Title: Something Worth Living For

Summary: Btvs s6/Ats s3 that infamous off screen meeting

Prompt: Still_my_girl “Something worth living for”

 

 

The breeze off the ocean blows her hair back, a golden beacon calling him home. He slips up behind her, his arms encircling her wasted frame. He pulls her against him, into him, aching with the need to wrap her up in himself and protect her. She rests the back of her head against a heart that beat only for her.

 

“Tell me there’s something worth living for. Show me this isn’t Hell.”

 

The wind whips her words away before he hears them. He doesn’t need to hear them. They are carved upon her bones, etched into her soul. He bows his head, his lips next to her ear, prepared to give her pretty words. His voice catches before he can make a sound. He knows he should tell her of sunsets and sunrises, laughing children and loving couples. He can not tell her of things he doesn’t know himself. Instead he tells her about chocolate and peanut butter, ice cream on warm skin, a heart beat and a tomorrow that keeps him from giving up despite the fact that it may never come.

 

She watches him leave, tail lights a beacon bidding her goodbye for now. She knows he can’t stay regardless of how much either of them wishes he could. Her world doesn’t consist of wishes, wants or dreams. It’s made up of have to, duty and blood. She watches the tail lights disappear, pretty words never spoken. He hasn’t given her false promises or declarations of love. They never needed either. They have always been more than words, more than promises. They always will be and that in itself is something worth living for.