Author�s notes: Set in Mercury32�s Bitter Wine universe, sometime after Stephanie left Chris. *sniff* Anyway, super corny and extremely sappy. (To Merc: Sorry if it totally sucks � and blows, as you like to say � but well, I had to do it. Sorry for mutilating your wonderful fic!)
Because You Loved Me
For all those times you stood by me
Six months. If I died tomorrow, my entire life would be defined by those six months I spent with the most amazing, the most wonderful, the most beautiful person alive.
Six very short months.
For all the truth that you made me see
I learnt more about honesty, and integrity, and truth, in those six months that I ever had in the rest of my life. For as long as I could remember, my life was always tainted by lies and half-truths.
I learnt that truth can hurt. But it can also be wonderful.
For all the joy you brought to my life
Six months of absolute bliss. Living from day to day in a small, run-down apartment with barely enough money to live. But I was happier than I had ever been in all my years living in some three story mansion without having to worry about where the next night�s dinner was going to come from.
I was truly happy.
For all the wrong that you made right
With the most privileged upbringing, I was given the wrong impression of what makes a person. It wasn�t money. I had always thought that money would buy me everything and anything I ever wanted and needed.
I was wrong.
For every dream you made come true
Life wasn�t about earning as much money as possible, having as many friends as possible, being as powerful as possible.
Life was about being with the one you love, having close, intimate friends, and being happy. I learnt that such a life was simple paradise.
For all the love I found in you
I�ll be forever thankful baby
For every day of those six months I felt loved. It was the most awe-inspiring, the most humbling experience in the world.
I will forever be grateful to him for having taught me that lesson.
You�re the one who held me up
Never let me fall
He stood by me through everything. Mood swings. Depression. He refused to leave my side, refused to let me feel sorry for myself.
Nightmares in the middle of the night. He held my hand, soothed my fears.
You�re the one who saw me through
Through it all
In less than six months he knew more about me than even my own parents know about me. Not my money, not the influence that came with my name.
Me.
You gave me wings and made me fly
Six months. That was all it took me realise that there were such things in the world as �soulmates�, �destiny�, �fate�. True love.
Love that enabled a man�s heart to soar.
You touched my hand I could touch the sky
She was all that I wanted and needed. A simple smile, a tender kiss, and my day would already feel complete. A gentle touch and my life had meaning.
All I had to do was look at her.
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
Love.
She taught me that it was much more than a four letter word. It was genuine. It was real. It was attainable.
And I had it.
You said no star was out of reach
She made me believe that anything was possible. That, together, we would conquer all. We would survive everything that life threw at us.
She made me believe in hope.
You stood by me and I stood tall
Her support for me never waned. Not once. If anything, it grew. She believed in me, in what I could achieve.
Time and again, I was knocked down, told I didn�t have that certain �something� that would give me my big break. But she nudged me forward, tiny step by tiny step.
I had your love, I had it all
The most perfect woman in the world, and she was with me. She loved me. She loved me.
I wanted nothing more from the world.
I�m grateful for each day you gave me
Six months.
One hundred and ninety days. My entire life is dictated by one hundred and ninety days of pure joy, of true happiness.
Of real love.
Maybe I don�t know that much
But I know this much is true
If I never accomplish anything else in my life, if I never attain my goal, I still have those one hundred and ninety days. I still have the lessons she taught me, the beliefs she proved to me. The simple truth she made me see.
I was blessed because I was loved by you
Love can be wonderful. The most beautiful thing in the world.
But it can also hurt.
You were always there for me
He had known absolutely nothing about me, yet he took me into his home. He introduced me to his friends. He invited me to be with his family.
He warmed me with his heart.
The tender wind that carried me
She was special, I had known almost instantly. Having looked into her eyes for the first time, I saw something in them that cried desperately for something. Anything.
I had wanted to save her.
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
He had been the sole blinding light in my dreary life. I had no family, no friends, no money. No nothing. I was frantic for something, anything, to help me, and I hadn�t even known it.
Not until he saved me.
You�ve been my inspiration
I remember stories of my father always telling all of us that my mother was his muse. My mother was the reason he got out of bed in the morning, and that he lived for each day. I had always rolled my eyes, shaken my head, embarrassed that someone I knew had been taken in by misleading sentimentality.
Until I found my muse.
Through the lies you were the truth
The one true, genuine thing in my life was my love for him. It made each day positive, upbeat. I didn�t care about not having a single penny to my name.
To me, truth lay in love, and mine was boundless.
My world is a better place because of you
Just knowing that she exists is enough for me. Knowing that her beauty and that her radiance was somewhere in the world gave me hope, because it meant that I can still find her.
I will find her.
You were my strength when I was weak
He is one half of me.
You were my voice when I couldn�t speak
Without her, I�m incomplete.
You were my eyes when I couldn�t see
He is my soulmate.
You saw the best there was in me
She is my soulmate.
Lifted me up when I couldn�t reach
I will love him. Always.
You gave me faith �cos you believed
I will never stop loving her.
I�m everything I am
Truth � I exist because of his love.
Because you loved me
Love�is her.