Challenge; Hurt

[Kirayoshi@xxxxxxxxxx]

When's the last time we've had a good songfic challenge out there?

Here's one for you angst writers. The following song was originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails, and later by Johnny Cash(yeah, the same guy who recorded 'A Boy Named Sue' and 'Ring of Fire'). I challenge you to write a season six fic, where Willow doesn't give up on Buffy(y'know, the way the characters would have behaved, not the way Joss and crew wrote them, ::BEG::), with the following song in the background.

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear my crown of thorns
on my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stain of time
the feeling disappears
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

(For the record, I'm using the Johnny Cash version. He replaced the line 'crown of shit' with 'crown of thorns'.)

Ladies and gentlemen, start your word processors!

Kirayoshi


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