Bring Me To Life

Author: PaulenaK ~ toukalah@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: Song used is 'Bring Me to Life' by 'Evanescence'.

Rating: PG

Pairing: Buffy and Spike

Feedback: Please... it keeps me motivated.

~Denotes Song Lyrics~

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Bring Me To Life

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~How can you see into my eyes like open doors?~

~Leading you down into my core~

~Where I’ve become so numb~

He saw, she knew he saw... his body so strong and so young yet a house for eyes so old and so full of wisdom. The intensity of his gaze all seeing as they delved where others could not. Why? Because like her he had known true peace and had had it ripped away from him like a hungry baby being weaned off the breast... bringing him back the empty shell that stood before her now. Not of the living and not of the dead... but somewhere in between.

~Without a soul~

~My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold~

~Until you find it there and lead it back home~

Lost to this world, the hunter turned hunted... at first being what one of his 'turning' deemed as the ultimate hell, seeing, smelling, sensing... yet not being allowed the taste. And now... now it had all been altered... and he had welcomed the change, willed it and embraced it. She was like the other half of him... the missing piece. Not of the living and not of the dead... but somewhere in between.

~[wake me up] Wake me up inside~

~[I can’t wake up] Wake me up inside~

~[Save me] Call my name and save me from the dark~

~[Wake me up] Bid my blood to run~

~[I can’t wake up] Before I come undone~

~[Save me] Save me from the nothing I’ve become~

Their lips sought out each others. Hungry, forceful... craving what the other offered... the ability to feel. Pulling them out of the depths from whence they came... into the light where they longed to be. Neither wanting to pull away least they lose the quality and ambience of each others influence. Knowing that in each other they would find what they struggled everyday to find... a saviour.

~Now that I know what I’m without~

~You can’t just leave me~

~Breathe into me and {make me real}~

~Bring me~

~To life~

She felt herself hurling down giving of herself to save the ones she loved... she didn’t know then what she had in fact given up until from with in herself she screamed for him from behind the walls that held her capture, pleading for the life source that had left her, her body and her soul now two separate entities.

~Frozen inside without your touch~

~Without your love, darling~

~Only you are the life among the dead~

He broke down then, amongst the brick and rubble... reality pulling him back to the now, tears of blood clouding his eyes to stream down his pale cheeks. What hope was there for him now? There was nothing left for an un-dead being to live for... not in this world.

~[Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul]~

~{Don’t let me die here} Bring me to life~

All I need is what you have to offer... life.

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