I Can't Love You
Title: I Can't Love You
Author: SnoopyScenester
Pairing; Billie/Mike
Rating: PG
Disclaimer; I own nothing but the words, which I don't really own anyways since I didn't invent the English language.
Summary: An angsty drabble I thought of at 7 this morning. I hadn't yet slept.
Wind whipping through his hair and almost cold enough to freeze the tears drying on his pallid face, Mike stands so close to the edge that the tips of his sneakers seem to fade into that darkness.
He clenches his fists, draws his strength and edges forward until finally, he’s falling-
-And Billie wakes, screaming in the darkness; tearing himself from sheets wrapped around his sweaty skin; stirring his wife from beside him; his two, young sons from down the hall.
Because Mike is gone; he’s been gone for four years and no arms around him, no soft voice whispering, “It’s okay…it’s okay…” will ever change that.
When Billie dreams, he dreams of his Mikey; of the man leaving him in a thousand different ways, but the words he whispers over his shoulder before he disappears forever are always the same. They always make Billie cry.
I can’t love you.