Ask me to stay (when the lights go out) "So... where do you wanna go? Not that there's much of anything around, really, but -" He pauses, glances to his right. Cas is staring out the window with a strange, closed-off expression on his face. His voice is quiet when he answers. "I don't care."

2 Thousands of voices His brother's silence, the silence of the world, is as heavy as the darkness weighing down on him from all sides. He knows that Knives has heard him – they cannot close each other off, not even with thousands of miles between them.

3 Games Without Frontiers Everything about his posture screams defeat, utter compliance. He's slumped against the dark wall, surrounded on all sides.

19A Promise of Salvation makes me stay » series of drabbles. focuses on VxW but also features other characters.

3 Tell Me About Eternity The sand feels wrong beneath your fingers and blurs before your eyes. It's endless hours before you manage to let go.

5 You stay a stranger As long as this wasn't over, that would be all he'd ever get, half-smiles and half-truths.

1 Smother Why did everything between them always have to be obscured and hidden, and by their own doing at that?

2 Fragments of Hope You hold the gaze of his mismatched eyes and, in silence, make a wish yourself.

1 a last lie before silence takes my voice Whisper, no don't speak, tell me what you know in silence...

1Paradise Knives never dreams about the past. There is only so much as one dream now, to him more like a vision, a prophecy.