A Darker Dream

Pairing: SebastianxCiel

Rating: M

Story originally by Amanda Ashley.

PROLOGUE

Heart of Darkness

In the darkness of the full moon,

His spirit has wandered for centuries,

Lost and alone,

Never sharing the light

Of a new day,

Always in the midnight hours

He has walked.

Darkness claims his troubled soul,

the past haunts his waking hours;

The, like a glimmer of sunlight,

he came to claim him,

touching places long dead,

reviving hope, promising love.

If only he dared to believe,

if only he dared reach out,

and take that which he needs.

Within the sadness, the emptiness,

If just for tonight,

his warm hand and gentle ways

could dispel the endless night.

Could love break this darkness he lives in?

Believe, me Lord Sebastian, only believe

and love, happiness, and peace will find you.

He had always loved the night. His favorite pastimes – drinking, gambling, and the pursuit of a beautiful man – were best accomplished in the hours of darkness.

The best times of his life had been spent in dimly lit saloons and smoky gambling dens, or in lush candlelit bedrooms. But that had been long ago.

Only now did he fully understand what he had lost when the light had been taken from him. Because he was like the sunlight – bright, warm, beautiful.

And, like the sun, he could never be his.