Masterlist: 30_nights

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Community: 30_nights
Completed: 26 Dec 06
Words: 100 per theme
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Claim: Eriol/Sakura

Theme: 1. You are never mine to begin with [link]
Excerpt: He lies awake at night, wearing his glasses as though he can see an answer in the darkness.

Theme: 2. I'm willing to sacrifice anything just for you [link]
Excerpt: I feel drawn to her, drawn as a moth to a flame, but that girl could easily destroy me.

Theme: 3. Find me in the dark [link]
Excerpt: Some nights he dreams that she knows, and he wakes in the cold sweats and Spinel says that he's been screaming in his sleep.

Theme: 4. Darkness in my heart [link]
Excerpt: Today I used a smile, a carefully crafted compliment, a kiss on the hand. I heard what Daidouji-san said about me.

Theme: 5. Release my darkness; bring me warmth [link]
Excerpt: But I touch the light, and Eriol likes to hide in the dark.

Theme: 6. Stolen heart [link]
Excerpt: She took my heart with a smile; I gave it to her without hesitation.

Theme: 7. First sunlight after the darkness [link]
Excerpt: My cards could have someone to love-- someone without the awful power of creation, someone who loved them as friends.

Theme: 8. One last date... [link]
Excerpt: I went to prom with Eriol, one last date before he went back to England.

Theme: 9. When all hope is lost [link]
Excerpt: Am I not just a shell of he who was?

Theme: 10. Together itsumo (Together always) [link]
Excerpt: "How long will I live?" she asked that night. She held his hand like she feared he'd leave.

Theme: 11. You will never look at me [link]
Excerpt: You will never look at me again without thinking about who I was, what I did to you.

Theme: 12. Your love is suffocating me [link]
Excerpt: Your light is suffocating my darkness, and who am I without the dark?

Theme: 13. Paint the night with stars [link]
Excerpt: She lay awake, wondering, like she sometimes did, about Li Syaoran and how things could have been, what they could have been, if only...

Theme: 14. Guardian angel [link]
Excerpt: I am a classmate with impeccable manners, the one who kissed your hand and left you with a million questions.

Theme: 15. Telling you the truth [link]
Excerpt: But he had never been normal, and he brought her a lot of worry, so he had to reveal himself.

Theme: 16. You don't know what you have done to me [link]
Excerpt: I fear I may soon make it difficult for you, Sakura, he (I) told you in a dream.

Theme: 17. Black wings; wings [link]
Excerpt: A fairy princess, he thought, and that was the moment he was lost to her.

Theme: 18. Listen to the music at night [link]
Excerpt: I lay there at night alone when he is feeling out of place, listening to the piano.

Theme: 19. Crying all night for you [link]
Excerpt: I dreamt that she had lost, that the Cards became mere paper.

Theme: 20. Never leave me again [link]
Excerpt: "Never leave me again," she said when he came back, her fingers clutched to his coat like she was drowning.

Theme: 21. Seeking for you [link]
Excerpt: I've spent my entire life seeking his heir, by night dreaming of a child's laughter and jewel-green eyes.

Theme: 22. Love you till the very end [link]
Excerpt: Even as the darkness fell and the future became uncertain, she loved me for helping her to grow and save those dear to her.

Theme: 23. Like an art piece [link]
Excerpt: Each of my nightly quests for her is an art piece.

Theme: 24. My heart is bleeding for you... [link]
Excerpt: My heart bleeds for you, her eyes say, because you are a boy pretending to be Clow.

Theme: 25. Release of the evils [link]
Excerpt: Are you my savior from my past, or am I your savior from the future?

Theme: 26. Frozen moment at the first sight [link]
Excerpt: Time stopped for Sakura when he looked at her and she saw night and space in his dark eyes.

Theme: 27. I'm soulless without you [link]
Excerpt: It had been a joke gift from Yuuko to Clow long ago, a book of sappy poetry.

Theme: 28. I feel safe with you by my side [link]
Excerpt: I don't know why I feel so safe with him.

Theme: 29. I will never hurt you [link]
Excerpt: Time is of the essence, yes, but isn't it always?

Theme: 30. It hurt to see you cry [link]
Excerpt: "For a girl with an invincible spell, you sure cry a lot," I taunted, wearing a Cheshire grin.

Theme: 31. Finally together [link]
Excerpt: It was perhaps a chance meeting, but there is no chance, only hitsuzen.

Theme: 32. I hate to love, but for you I'm willing to... [link]
Excerpt: I hate to love, but for her I think I'm willing to lose my heart again.

Theme: 33. I feel peace at night [link]
Excerpt: Perhaps I should say that Kero has peace at night, and Yue and the others.

Theme: 34. It's hard not to love you[link]
Excerpt: A wise witch once said that destiny can try to lead you somewhere you don't need to be.

Theme: 35. I'm poisoned from the very moment [link]
Excerpt: He saw deep into my soul and when he smiled he pulled all the wrong I've ever done to the surface, all my failures.

Theme: 36. Don't worry I'll always be by your side [link]
Excerpt: I will always be by your side, but you will never know.

Theme: 37. Threads of fate [link]
Excerpt: The threads of fate that bind us together are hopelessly skewed.

Theme: 38. Alone at night [link]
Excerpt: It is a big lonely house, but when she comes to visit I become extravagant: lighting candles, throwing a party.

Theme: 39. Hear the thunder roar and the lightning flash [link]
Excerpt: Clow and I have an affinity for the darkness a storm makes; she should love the bright lightning, but she does not.

Theme: 40. It's just a nightmare [link]
Excerpt: She wakes with the beginning of a scream on her lips; she stifles it so not to wake Kero-chan.