SOMEBODY TO LOVE

A/N: OK, sweethearts. I'm back on the writing board. Finally.

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Here's the next chapter! Sorry for the long delay. Can you believe it's been over two months since Valentine's Day?

AmeliaRivers: It's not a ring?

Read on. You'll see.

Thanks to all of you who have taken their time to read this.

I know when I go; I'll be on my way to you. The way that's true...

NOBODY'S POV:

He had been waiting for a while to give this to her. Had been waiting for this moment for a long time. A hundred and fifty years to be exact. Now that the moment is finally here, he knows that the waits been worth it. Any wait is worth for this girl in front of him, staring up at him with her big, beautiful emerald eyes. His Susannah. Staring up at him with love. And he was staring right back at her. Telling her I love you with his eyes.

All those years before he met her he had been wondering what held him back from moving on. Even when he was alive he felt this hollow ache in his chest. The ache that that didn't fade even after his death. But it began to ebb the moment she had come into his existence. As startled as he'd been at their first meeting –a hundred and fifty years spent alone does horrible things to a person's social etiquette- it wasn't until later when he found the hollowness slowly residing.

It is completely gone now.

Right after he had taken out the little velvet box, she had looked at it. Then up at him. At the box. Then at him.

Now she was gazing into his eyes as he held up the box to her. With a tentative smile she took the box from him.

Ah, that smile. How many times had it been his undoing? He had lost count. But damn, he could get used to it because every time she smiled at him his heart did a cartwheel in his chest. And each day he loved this brave girl more than before. Each day his amor for her grew more than the day before until he wondered if it was possible for his chest to blow up.

My love, leave yourself behind
Beat inside me, leave you blind

As she held the black velvet box in her hand, she wondered what might be inside. But she also knew that whatever is inside the box, she's going to love it. Her boyfriend has a way of reading her mind. And every day, every moment spent with him gives her more surprises, new ways to view life. And she loves every minute of it.

She can't find words to explain how happy it makes her that Jesse is alive. That he is here. With her. And that he loves her. Her. Of all the girls out there, he loves her. Good ol' Suze.

Her mind goes back to what they had to go through to get here. All those days, that pain that she felt when she thought he didn't love her. All those times living in fear that he might leave her. The times when she had to endure Paul's 'lessons' just so he doesn't exorcize Jesse. Their first kiss. When he got jealous of Tad and showed up in the back of the car. When she confessed in the graveyard what their first kiss had meant to her. Her going back in time and seeing him alive and well. His fight with Diego and her fear for him. And the moment when she almost lost him, in the hospital he was so pale, barely breathing. Then her dad had heard her silent plea's to see Jesse before she lost him forever. Jesse had come to her in an instant. Then they were going to share what they thought would be their last kiss.

But fate had other plans.

Thank god. Or else she would have had to become a nun. And those dresses would look so last century on her. And the thought of her becoming Sister Ernestine's copy one day…oh, the horror! She would rather jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and join him in the afterlife.

But then he had woken up and said one word that made everything alright again. One word. That's all it took. just one single word uttered from his lips and her heart went careening off the side of a cliff doing cartwheels and tap dancing. A weird feeling, yes, but she'll take it any day over feeling numb and empty.

But now, she had come back to the present –not quiet hard. It's not like she's stuck in the 19th century or something- and open the box already! She was thrumming with excitement. What new surprise is in it? Is it shiny? Is it a ring? Oh my god, what if it's a ring? Oh god!

Her hand lingered over the lid for a few seconds before she slowly opened it and instantly got robbed of breath.

Wow!

I wonder by the moon, I wonder by the night star

I seek our worlds together, near or far

The lark sings and time takes a new turn

Together, now we are to greet a thousand splendid suns

He had been holding his breath when she opened the box. Now he was smiling at the expression on her face that roughly translated to: wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, WOW!

Inside the box lay a locket on the most delicate silver chain. The locket, also silver, was shaped a lily. Its five petals curved perfectly. Serpentine lines curved out from the back of the lily and created spirals all around the flower. Right in the middle of the lily, a small emerald glittered in the sunlight.

He had to work overtime at the Carmel Historical Society and do lots of little jobs at the Mission, helping Father Dominic do modifications for the Spring Fest and make arrangements for the beachside bonfire that Susannah finally managed to convince her classmate Kelly to do instead of a dance. Of course he had to do it all secretly so that Susannah wouldn't find out. And surprising her was more than worth it.

He loved seeing the joyous expression on her face. Loved seeing her eyes light up.

That is one of the reason he had chosen the emerald instead of a ruby or a sapphire. The emerald brought out the color of her eyes. Emeralds are also the sacred stone of Venus, the Roman goddess of love. And what better way to show his love than give her this. The necklace was shaped like lily because it meant something very important to him. The name Susannah meant lily. So basically for him, lily meant Susannah.

"Jesse, I absolutely love it!" she said as she threw her arms around him. He clasped her in his arms and swung her around until they were both laughing hard and a little dizzy.

"Here, let me…" he said before taking the necklace from her hand. She got the gist and turned around so that he could place it around her neck. As he fastened it, he couldn't resist the urge to kiss her neck.

"You're so beautiful," he managed to say between kisses.

He just kissed my neck and told me I'm beautiful. She might as well be a puddle at his feet.

She turned around and met his lips with her own. And as the kiss grew more passionate, they didn't stop didn't particularly care about what happened as long as the moment would last.

And it would.

They would treasure each and every moment they had spent together because someone once said….Remember this moment because it is the beginning of always.

And for Susannah and Jesse, this is the beginning…of forever.

I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you…
…For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you

Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

So there it is. The end of this fic. I hope you all liked it.

Oh, how hard some love stories make me cry. *sniff*