Clearly aware of her situation, Kate lies awake at night reflecting on what her love's destined to.

"Forever." He exhaled heavily and their eyes locked. They both let their heads fall back and their eyes close, as a new world of kaleidoscopic and psychedelic colors appeared before them and the tourniquet fell to the ground. The syringe was still inside.

It made him freeze on the spot and slowly raise his head in her direction. His jaw fell down. One of his hand was resting on his stomach and the other was still in the air, where he had been moving it, his mouth agape. The shock she could see in his eyes and on his face made her question the impulsive choice she had just made.

"It is as a soldier that you make love and a lover that you make war." Set somewhere after 2x02 (big thanks to lakergirl4life for the support!).

'This is what dream are made of' had always felt like a cliché to Mike, until he was left to guard the valuable tangibility of a dream kept hidden in his inmost being.

A call from his mom brings Mike back to his hometown for Christmas and his thrown into a vortex of old, forgotten family dramas. But he's not left alone to face them: Paige is there, ready to support him and give him more than he'd expected. [ON HIATUS]

We meet and lose people all the time, but only a few leave their marks. The aftermath of losing a piece of what feels your own flesh in the eyes of the 4 left behind "I'm hurling little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down, it means:"What's the point?" "Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings."

Redemption is not an option for Paige... maybe.