Would You Go With Me (standard:romance, 1755 words)
Author: Lori	Added: Jun 27 2007	Views/Reads: 3022/2124	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A story idea from a song I heard. I hope everyone likes it.

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world, Doc. She's the reason I get up in the morning. I don't know what 
I'll do without her.” Jim hears the song start over.  He can't believe 
he's been out here this long. 

“I understand. I wish there was an easier way for you to deal with
this.” Thomas doesn't know what else to say. There's nothing else that 
can be said. “I'll be here if you need me. She doesn't have much 
longer. Say whatever you have to before it's too late. You'll regret 
not saying what needs to be said.” 

“Thanks, Doc.” Jim replies with tears pouring from his eyes. He takes a
minute to calm himself. He watches the doctor walk off and thinks to 
himself. “What does he know? He doesn't realize what it's like to tell 
the person you love to leave you alone. How could someone think I can 
endure without the love of you life next to me?” 

Jim lets go of the self pity and dries his face. Thinking along those
lines doesn't help the problem; it only makes it worse. Instead of 
being strong for Elizabeth he wants to climb in a hole and hide from 
the world. Elizabeth wouldn't do that to him and him isn't doing it to 
her. 

“Maybe if I don't believe in it, it doesn't exist.” Jim tells himself.
He reenters the room even though he longs to put it off. He listens as 
the singer comes to the chorus of the song. 

If I gave you my hand, Would you take it and make me? , The happiest man
in the world? If I told you my heart, Couldn't beat one more minute, 
Without your girl? Would you accompany me? , To the edge of the sea? 
Let me know, If you're really a dream. I love you so. So, would you go 
with me?” 

“I'm lying here recalling better times.” Elizabeth smiles as she
pronounces with pain in her voice. There isn't a moment without anguish 
anymore. “I think back to the old oak tree where you proposed to me. Do 
you remember?” 

“I'll remember always.  You looked like an angel that day.” Jim smiles
to hide his tears. “You still look like that to me.” He stops at the 
door to admire her beauty. Even this close to death, she is the most 
beautiful woman in the world to him. 

“Oh, go on with you.” Elizabeth tries to laugh but cringes instead. Jim
rushes to her side. “No, I'm okay.” She throws up her hand to stop him, 
but it's too late. “ It sucks not to laugh anymore.” 

“You'll laugh again soon, my love.” Jim tells her as he reaches her
side. 

“Yes, I have an impression I will too.” Elizabeth answers with glazed
eyes. 

Jim, observing the woman who he can't live without, understands he's
nothing without Elizabeth at his side. He realizes her dying will 
changes both their lives. The second verse plays. 

“Would you go with me, If we rode the clouds together? Could you not
look down forever, If you were lighter than a feather? Oh and if I set 
you free, Would you go with me? 

“Elizabeth, I love you.” Jim begins telling her everything in his heart.


“I know you do. I love you too.” Elizabeth, feeling afraid for him,
searches his eyes. Having a grasp of how connected they are, she 
foresees him having a  long row to hoe without her. She wishes things 
could be different for them, but life has a way of interrupting even 
the best-laid plans. 

“You've been there for me every day of our lives together. You're the
mother of my children, my saving grace, my everything.” Jim takes a 
breath. Not wanting her to see the tears in his eyes, he looks down at 
her hands. 

“You're all that to me as well. I realize how difficult this is for
you.” Elizabeth takes his hand. “But, everyone has to die, you know 
this. Just keep me in your heart and I'll be with you forever.” 

“I need you to know you can go.” Jim says with tears pouring from his
eyes. He doesn't stop them now, couldn't even if he tried. Jim plays 
with the fingers of her hands, loving the feel of them in his. “I'm 
setting you free. Go, my love, and fly all the way to the clouds. 
Become the bird you've always believed you were. Take my love and soar 
as high as you can and I'll be there with you.” 

“Thank you, my darling. That's what I've been waiting for.” Elizabeth's
breath becomes raspier. The chorus plays on in the background for them. 


If I gave you my hand, Would you take it and make me, The happiest man
in the world? If I told you my heart, Couldn't beat one more minute, 
Without you girl? Would you accompany me, To the edge of the sea? Help 
me tie up the ends of a dream? I gotta know, Would you go with me? I 
love you so. So, would you go with me? 

Jim observes serenity appear on Elizabeth's face. Once again, she's the
young woman he fell in love with. The torment is washed away. “How can 
I go on?” He exclaims to no one in general. 

Elizabeth glances over at him and with her last breath asks. “I love you
so. Would you go with me?” She without waiting for an answer. 

“Gladly!” Jim cries out as he lies down beside her. He takes her in his
arms for the last time. He kisses her cheek as the breath leave his 
body. Jim follows the woman he won't live without. 

The doctor walks in as Elizabeth is asking her question. He doesn't say
anything to disturb the loving and mournful scene. Tears form in his 
eyes as he looks at the two people in the bed. Burke can't explain it 
in medical terms. But, he knows that Jim's death is caused from a 
broken heart. There's no way he could have lived without Elizabeth. So, 
he did the only thing he knew to do, he went when she asked. 

December 11, 2006 

The lyrics are copyrights, 2005, by Sony/ATV Songs, LLC/All Mighty Dog
Music/Travelin' Arkansawyer Music, admin. By Sony/ATV Music Publishing; 
Sony/ATV Songs LLC/All Mighty Dog Music/City Wolf Music, admin. by 
Sony/ATV Music Publishing (BMI).


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