Title: Until I Sleep Again

Author: Rebecca

Archiving Permission: My web page, my DJ, and HMFF�anyone else please ask

Pairings: James/Cliff

Ratings: PG

Disclaimer: While Cliff dying under the bus is sadly true, the rest of my snippet is not.

Summary: The day after �The Accident�.

Notes: Macky gave me the following words and pairing: liquid, truth, and dream; James/Cliff

James sat there staring at the wall with the events of the past twenty-four hours raced though his mind. There was no clear line of thought anymore, just flashes of images that seemed to flow like a thick poisonous liquid through his weary mind.

He slowly crawled over his bed and curled up; facing the pillow that Cliff would normally be sleeping on. There was no familiar wild red hair flung across the pillow. No smell of smoked cigarettes. No jean jacket on the nearby chair.

There was nothing because Cliff wasn�t there. He was dead, crushed from the bus.

Truth be told, Cliff was lying on a slab at the morgue with a sheet covering him.

James screamed into his pillow as new burning tears rolled out of his eyes.

No no no this had to be a dream. A horrible nightmare that he would wake up from and Cliff would be holding him tight.

But in his heart he knew there was no waking up.

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