Elephant

Author: perletwo
Summary: William The Bloody Awful Poet drabble
Rating: G
Spoilers: Lies My Parents Told Me
Disclaimers: Joss is God! Mutant Enemy *rocks*! Grr, arrgh! (please don't sue me, 'k?)

  
Mother is coughing again.

  
Every time she coughs, my heart sinks a little lower into my stomach. We both know that she is dying. But by mutual agreement, we pretend that she is not. That everything is just as before.

  
I want to scream. I want to weep. I want to rage and rend and tear the world asunder.

  
Instead I smile, and pour her tea, and make myself a figure of fun in my stories in hopes they might make her laugh. But every day she looks into the distance a little farther.

  
Whatever will I do without her?

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