Dark Side (Songfic)



This is part of the Songfic Series.

OA is Kelly Clarkson.

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Dark Side
There's a place that I know

It's not pretty there and few have ever gone

If I show it to you now

Will it make you run away

The image of her tawny-colored pelt was glued to my eyelids, her confused and terrified blue eyes attached to my mind. Her darker ears and tail - I can picture the exact places where her markings end, where they begin, and it's driving me crazy. I'm in love.

But she doesn't know what I've done.

And I don't want her to.

I couldn't know what she would think - how she would react to my plans. It's not every day you find out your almost-mate is an evil, criminal mastermind who's plotting to destroy and take over the whole forest. I don't know what I'd do if I was confronted with that knowledge. Then again, I would be - I am - the evil one, so that...it cancels out.

Would she leave?

Or will you stay

Even if it hurts

Even if I try to push you out

Will you return?

Or would she stay?

I couldn't know what she would think - but maybe....maybe she loves me enough to return to me, to see past all of this...this bad exterior, and into my heart, where everything is pure, and--

But my heart isn't pure, so that wouldn't make a difference.

"Go away, Sasha," I hissed. "We don't need you here."

I could see the hurt flashing in her eyes, I could imagine it clearly. I would push her out, so she wouldn't have to be a part of this. So she wouldn't have to be the mate of some infamous, traitorous, rogue who half-destroyed the forest home of the Clans.

And remind me who I really am

Please remind me who I really am

Everybody's got a dark side

Do you love me?

When I met her again, I was totally unprepared. I didn't know what to think, but the look on her face was enough to tell me that she had overheard me talking about my plans - and that she knew what I was going to do.

There go my plans for slowly revealing the truth to her. She was practically drowning in the truth, I could see it in those lovely, clear, beautiful blue eyes of hers--

"Tigerstar?"

"I'm sorry!" I burst out. "I didn't mean to--I mean, I love you, and--"

Sasha let a small smile escape her lips, and she brushed my ear with her soft-tipped tail. "Hush," she says, and her eyes are loving. My heart swells.

She does love me.

Can you love mine?

Nobody's a picture perfect

But we're worth it

You know that we're worth it

"Nobody's perfect, after all," she says later, our eyes on the stars. I look over and see the moonlight and the starlight reflected off of her glassy blue eyes, and suppress a smile. Nobody's perfect, she had said.

And she was right.

"I knew coming back to you was worth it," Sasha purrs as we get ready to depart.

"I knew accepting you was worth it," I reply, letting her nuzzle me on the neck. I twin my tail with hers, and then let my eyes stray to the horizon, where hints of pink are just beginning to appear, heralding the coming dawn.

"I'd better go. See you!"

Will you love me?

Even with my dark side?

Like a diamond

From black dust

Would she continue to love me, though, when she knew the full extent of what I was going to do? Sure, she knew what I had done....but what of what was to come? What would she think of me then?

Would she still love me?

It's hard to know

What can become

If you give up

So don't give up on me

"I know you can change," Sasha whispers at our next meeting. "I won't give up on you."

She touched my ear with her nose, stretching up on her toes. Our tails touched, and she purred, a deep rumbling in the back of her throat.

"I love you," she whispers.

"I love you too."

Please remind me who I really am

Everybody's got a dark side

Do you love me?

Can you love mine?

Nobody's a picture perfect

But we're worth it

You know that we're worth it

Will you love me?

Even with my dark side?

Don't run away

Don't run away

Just tell me that you will stay

Promise me you will stay

Don't run away

Don't run away

Just promise me you will stay

Promise me you will stay

'''Will you love me? ohh'''

Everybody's got a dark side

Do you love me?

Can you love mine?

Nobody's a picture perfect

But we're worth it

You know that we're worth it

Will you love me?

Even with my dark side?

Don't run away

Don't run away

Don't run away

Promise you'll stay