Love Letter to Sarah (PG) Love Endures Challenge #146
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:58 am
Disclaimer: I do not own Moonlight or any of its characters.
Characters: Josef and Sarah
Rated: PG
A/N: Did anyone lose their mushy Josef muse? Because he showed up here and kept me from falling asleep last night. And I know it's neither a drabble or poetry but...Oh well.
Thanks to PNWgal for the once over!
And FYI, I teared up writing this... 
Love Letter to Sarah
Josef opened the door and walked into the sitting room turned hospital room carrying a single red rose. “You can take your break now Polly,” he said to the nurse. She nodded deferentially and slipped out the door, closing it silently behind her.
Josef put the rose in a bud vase on the nightstand. Leaning over the sleeping form of the young woman, he plumped her pillows and smoothed the sheet covering her before sitting down on the edge of the bed. Reaching into his suit coat pocket he withdrew a small velvet pouch and opened the drawstrings. He tipped the heart necklace into his palm and set the velvet bag on the nightstand. Then he gently clasped it around the woman’s neck and delicately rearranged her hair.
He sat back and admired her for a minute before he reached inside his coat front and pulled out an envelope. “February 14, 2013,” he said, reading the date on the front of the envelope. Turning it over, he removed the letter inside and began to read out loud the flowing script he had learned in another century.
My Dearest Sarah,
It is Valentine’s Day again and you are still as beautiful as you were when we first met. I wish we could go dancing. With you in a silk evening gown and me in my tuxedo, we would be the loveliest couple there. Even the stars shining above would be jealous of your beauty.
We would twirl the night away and when dawn broke, I would lift you up in my arms and carry you to my bed where we would make sweet, passionate love and fall asleep holding each other close.
I hope you can dream of this and find peace, wherever you are. And remember: ‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’
Happy Valentine’s Day, Beloved.
With all my love forever,
Charles
The name seldom used hung in the air. Josef refolded the letter and put it back in the envelope, tucking in the flap. Raising Sarah’s hand to his lips he bestowed a tender kiss and then laid her hand across her stomach, inserting the letter between her thumb and fingers. He hoped in some way it would bring her comfort. Slowly he rose from the bed and walked towards the door. He knew that tomorrow Polly will have put the letter in the drawer of her nightstand with all the others and the necklace would again be in its velvet pouch waiting for him. At the door he turned and looked back at his Sleeping Beauty one more time. He smiled, blew her a kiss, and walked out the door.
The End
Characters: Josef and Sarah
Rated: PG
A/N: Did anyone lose their mushy Josef muse? Because he showed up here and kept me from falling asleep last night. And I know it's neither a drabble or poetry but...Oh well.
Thanks to PNWgal for the once over!
And FYI, I teared up writing this... Love Letter to Sarah
Josef opened the door and walked into the sitting room turned hospital room carrying a single red rose. “You can take your break now Polly,” he said to the nurse. She nodded deferentially and slipped out the door, closing it silently behind her.
Josef put the rose in a bud vase on the nightstand. Leaning over the sleeping form of the young woman, he plumped her pillows and smoothed the sheet covering her before sitting down on the edge of the bed. Reaching into his suit coat pocket he withdrew a small velvet pouch and opened the drawstrings. He tipped the heart necklace into his palm and set the velvet bag on the nightstand. Then he gently clasped it around the woman’s neck and delicately rearranged her hair.
He sat back and admired her for a minute before he reached inside his coat front and pulled out an envelope. “February 14, 2013,” he said, reading the date on the front of the envelope. Turning it over, he removed the letter inside and began to read out loud the flowing script he had learned in another century.
My Dearest Sarah,
It is Valentine’s Day again and you are still as beautiful as you were when we first met. I wish we could go dancing. With you in a silk evening gown and me in my tuxedo, we would be the loveliest couple there. Even the stars shining above would be jealous of your beauty.
We would twirl the night away and when dawn broke, I would lift you up in my arms and carry you to my bed where we would make sweet, passionate love and fall asleep holding each other close.
I hope you can dream of this and find peace, wherever you are. And remember: ‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’
Happy Valentine’s Day, Beloved.
With all my love forever,
Charles
The name seldom used hung in the air. Josef refolded the letter and put it back in the envelope, tucking in the flap. Raising Sarah’s hand to his lips he bestowed a tender kiss and then laid her hand across her stomach, inserting the letter between her thumb and fingers. He hoped in some way it would bring her comfort. Slowly he rose from the bed and walked towards the door. He knew that tomorrow Polly will have put the letter in the drawer of her nightstand with all the others and the necklace would again be in its velvet pouch waiting for him. At the door he turned and looked back at his Sleeping Beauty one more time. He smiled, blew her a kiss, and walked out the door.
The End
Your muse really tugs on the old heartstrings with this one. 
