A/N: Merry Christmas, Rachel! (no heroes allowed) I'm so sorry this is so late, but I hope you had a great Christmas, and that you'll like this.

Also written for the Cityslicker Challenge over at the NGF forum, a challenge held by Coffee (coffe-stained lips). I got the pairing, the city which is mentioned, and two prompts (charismatic and gravity).

Many thanks to mew-tsubaki for betareading!

Personal Gravity

I just wanted to say
thanks

thanksthanksthanks

you don't know how much you've done for me
you don't know how happy I am
you followed me

followed and followed and followed
every time and every time and every time

and I

ran and ran and ran
faster quicker HARDER

but you didn't let me go
and if you hadn't
what would I've done then

? ? ?

I wouldn't have been me
I would have been pulled down in the
depths
epth
pt

and never gotten up
((((surrounded)))) by the usual

DARKness
[[[[suffocated]]]] by the usual

BLACKness

but you were my !torch!
you fought the evils
with a shining sword
and won

it was easy for you
just a ~smile~
a ^joke^
a LlaughterL

and I would smile, too
wouldn't I
? ? ?

because that was just the way you were
and I tended to take after you

do you remember that time in
San Juan, Puerto Rico

[as the taxi driver explicitly stated it should be called]

where I had
r u n

(to h i d e to be a l o n e to n e v e r f e e l)

again
but you found me
that time when we DaNcEd on a roof

swirled & twirled & laughed & glittered

and the music was so loud
beatbeatbeat

it was amazing

Was

It

Not

?

I swear I'll never forget
because that was when I realized
that you
and I
belonged
together

I didn't tell
I didn't dare

(cowardcowardcoward they yelled)

but you knew already

didn't you

?

[of course you did]

I think it was g r a v i t y that kept us
together
something
-pushing- at us
~~~pulling~~~ at us

because you seemed to float around me
like my own s a t e l l i t e

and I seemed to be mirroring [gnirorrim] myself
in the shine of your
reflections
[snoitcelfer]

and it made me feel at
home
that I had someone
there
next to me

holding my hand
(tight)

another nice {{{wonderful}}} thing
was
that you so easily charmed
everyone's judging away

they were like

Dear, what about you and Scor?

and you were like

I'm loads better

and we laughed
and they didn't get it
and and and and and
I loved you
LOVED LOVED LOVED you

and they still didn't get it
but we didn't care

you were the ^^charismatic^^ one
and I was the ##dramatic## one
and we outdid each other
and everyone else stood looking at us

(stunned amazed petrified)

I heard their whispers
I'll admit that now

how they rose their eyebrows
Rose finally settled down?

how they betted on how long it'd take until it

B R O K E

but you just held me tighter
and I pretended to be deaf
because you had caught up with me
and I had let you do so

(so maybe that meant something)

Lysander
I love you
forever and always
did you know that

?