My First Fanfic

Yep, here it is. My first ever fan fiction.

Enjoy!

Vanishing
(Forever Knight Fiction based on Mariah Carey's song "Vanishing")
By Becky Burns

If I could recapture
All of the memories
And bring them to life
Surely I would

Hear the distant laughter
Wasn't it you and me
Surviving the night
You're fading out of my sight
Swiftly

He sat at the bar. Glass in hand. Half full. He stared at the contorted
reflection of himself in the glass and remembered her. How he
longed to have her with him. Her love of life, her love of knowledge,
and her love of him. How he wanted those memories alive again.

He remembered the first time he saw her.  Her olive skin, flowing
blond hair, and her innocent blue eyes looking down compassionately at
him as he weakened to his knees with fatigue.  The touch of her warm
skin to his as she helped him rise.  He recalled the following evening
looking up at the stars with her.  She spoke of how she wanted to learn
about the wonders of it all.  He wanted so much to teach her.  He
presented her with a single rose to show his love for her.  As the music
in the bar lingered as closing hour approached, so did his memories of
her warm smile.

You're vanishing
Drifting away
You're vanishing

I was so enraptured
No sensibility
To open my eyes
I misunderstood

//Maybe it was his words.//  He thought to himself as he poured
himself another glass.  //Why did I listen?  You would be with me had
I not listened.  I wouldn't be tormenting myself like this.  At the time,
I thought he was right.  You're innocence was what drew me to you
and was what made me want you all the more.  I was so wrong to
have listened to him.  Damn him for it.//

Now you're fading faster
It's suddenly hard to see
You're taking the light
Letting the shadows inside
Swiftly

With each year that goes by, a small piece of her fades away into
the recesses of his memory.  It became difficult to remember the
delicate features of her face and how smooth her skin was as he
caressed her. The light that she had brought into his life was beginning
to fade.  The darkness was returning as quickly as the morning sun
rose above the skyline.

You're vanishing
Drifting away
You're vanishing

Reaching out into the distance
Searching for spirits of the past
Just a trace of your existence To grasp

//I have searched across the ages.// He thought aloud as he paced
around the now empty bar.  All the party animals had gone to slumber.
But he remained.  Alone.  //I have found no one who has compared to
your innocence or beauty.  The only remainder of your life I have is
either the memories I have of you or the man who kept us apart.//

And if somehow I could recapture
All of the memories
Lord knows I would
And now you're fading faster
Getting so hard to see
Taking the light
Letting the darkness inside
Swiftly

The glass he held tightly in his grasp suddenly was thrusted across
the room, smashing against the wall behind the bar.  //Oh how I wish
I could bring you back to me!  We were meant to be together.  I don't
want to forget you.  But that part of me that you captured so quickly
is dying to the point of minuscule proportions.  The light that you
brought into my world is now growing dim and it will not be
rekindled again.

I love you, Fleur and I shall always keep a part of you with me.
No matter how minute the memory is, you will be a part or me forever.

You're vanishing`       `
                         Drifting away` `
                                                      You're vanishing`                 Away