His fingers left her lips and brushed her cheeck, and he smoothed back her wet hair, damply glistening in the sun, and soon his hand was cupping the back of her head, and their lips met. Her hands braced themselves on his shoulders, and he tried to convince himself that the hot wetness he felt from her face wasn't tears, but he could taste salt, and feel her shudder, fighting against sobs.
Methos wanted to believe this would make it right, but perhaps nothing would. He kept kissing her, and lay her back against the ground, and her hands no longer gripped his shoulders, but she was pulling him closer to her, and he covered her. She broke off their lips' embrace, and nestled her head against his neck. And he could still feel her tears.
He caressed her hair. "Shhh," he whispered trying to soothe her. And his hand cupped one of her breasts, and she seemed to lean harder against him. Her arms held him tighter, and she moved her legs that he might rest more comfortably--but then...
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Her breath was coming in gasps, almost gasps of pleasure--how could he know that as he moved against her she looked up at the sky, and it seemed to go on for miles, and she felt small and powerless? She looked at the clouds and felt she was seeing the emptiness of the heavens--the absence of gods and the indifference of fate. The warmth of Methos against her skin was all that tied her to reality, and then it struck her, a strange thing--
He was all she had. She had nothing. He had *saved* her...and she knew what that meant, and she breathed,
"Methos...stop....I beg you..."
"Anna," he responded, and his lips were against hers again, and was pushing him, trying to stop him. "Just let me..." But he couldn't finish what he was saying...and then he shuddered against her, and it was over.
He rested his head on her shoulder.
"Methos...I...want to go back..."
"Anath-Sin, you know better than anyone that you can not. You have nothing to go back to. You are dead."
She looked up at the sky again. So endless. So empty. She relaxed, accepting her situation, and then he continued,
"You have nothing but me."
Posted on Aug 31, 1999, 7:40 PM from IP address 216.164.192.17