Title: Letting Go
Author: Susan Frankovich
E-mail: susanf@ticnet.com
Classification: VA, third person POV
Spoilers: Sein und Zeit
Archive: Anywhere, just ask first please.
Disclaimer: These characters aren't mine.
If they were, I wouldn't put them through
so much pain.

Summary: It's time to let go...
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Letting Go
by Susan Frankovich
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I've been watching them tonight.

For the past several hours, I've been watching
them try to sort through the mess I've made.

And now in the darkness of night, I watch them
still.

He put up a fight at first, refusing to close
his eyes, refusing to let his body and his mind
rest, but she calmly pulled him into her arms
and placed his head on her lap.

She ran her fingers through his hair and rubbed
his back and whispered in his ear until finally,
he let his eyes flutter shut and his fists
unclench.

And then he let himself sleep.

And she let herself cry.

For awhile, her tears quietly slipped down her
cheeks, but then they started coming faster and
she began to lose control.

Tightly squeezing her eyes, she bit her bottom
lip and continued to stroke his hair until finally
she had no more tears left.

And then finally she slept too.

It's almost morning now, and as I watch her wake
up and look at him with such love in her eyes, I
am more certain than ever that my son's going to
be all right.

And that it's time for me to let him move on.

And so I say my final goodbye and set him free,
kissing his cheek, then whispering the only thing
I've ever really wanted for him,

"Be happy, Fox..."


~end~

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