I'll keep your secrets

[Chris Strongheart]

OOC: tags, the specialists, various Winx Club members, Tash and Kev - and a surprise guest

"Lost in your dark, I see you there. What do you see beyond your stare? And you believe that no one else can know? What is this thing you keep inside? Out of the light and wrapped in pride? Always afraid that one day it will show?

I'll keep your secrets, I'll hold our ground and when the darkness starts to fall... I'll be around there waiting when dreams are fading and friends are distant and few... Know at that moment I'll be there with you..." Christine sang, her voice mellow, her blue eyes watching the crowd as she sang.

"What are these voices that you hear? Are they too far or far too near? What are these things that echo from the past? Who are these ghosts you see at night? There in the shadows of your life, they only live in the light you cast.

I'll keep your secrets, I'll hold our ground and when the darkness starts to fall... I'll be around there waiting when dreams are fading and friends are distant and few... Know at that moment I'll be there with you...

I'll be around when there's no reason left to carry on and every dream you've ever had is gone and the dark is deep and black without a sound. And every star has been dragged to the ground. Know that at that moment I will be around. Know at that moment I will be around," she sang, her voice growing more expressive, more vibrant as she sang.

Her voice slowly became more mellow once again as she slid into her second song. "Time, only time, could never take me away from you. And why should it try? Time never cares just what we do. It just sits on a star and gazes down, dropping its moments all around. And if I could wish upon that star, I would find what you dream and then ask God to grant it," she sang before her voice exploded into a more vibrant tone.

"I wanted to say this long before this dark would fall. At night I would pray this then wonder if God heard at all. For the chances I've had are now long ago and that star is no longer wished upon, for on this night it seems too far away," she sang before mellowing again. "Try, I have tried to pretend that I don't care. But then sleep arrives and in every dream I find you there. But I don't want the past to be my life.

And I don't want to live inside this night, but I don't want to see your shadow fade so I sleep and I dream though I don't understand it," she sang before her voice exploded into a more vibrant tone.

"I wanted to say this long before this dark would fall. At night I would pray this then wonder if God heard at all. For the chances I've had are now long ago and that star is no longer wished upon, for on this night it seems too far away.

You can live your life in a thousand ways but it all comes down to that single day when you realize what you regret. What you can't reclaim, but you can't forget. If you could just fall back into my life and find you there insides this night and let eternity just drift away..."

She sighed softly, her blue eyes watching the crowd, trying to pick out who was watching. Something about this night filled her with sheer dread. Someone, something was there that shouldn't be there.

[Baltor]

A gentleman with long golden brown hair and a purple trenchcoat sat towards the back, watching the assorted people listen to that singer on the stage. A small smirk appeared on his lips as he watched - there were quite a number of people of interest attending this concert. After being imprisoned for seventeen years, seventeen long years, years were he had been very much awake, very much alert, he needed something to amuse himself.

Once again he cursed the wretched king and queen of Sparx, may their souls rot wherever they were hiding. He would get vengeance for that imprisonment - and destroying the thing they held most dear would be just the ticket. Of course, he had to find that wench.

But, he thought, an evil grin curving upwards, a little bit of fun with the ladies wouldn't be too bad. Some of them were quite attractive - very attractive.

[tashii]

Tash leaned back in her chair, as her gaze skimmed the crowd watching her cousin. Christine did have a way of making the crowd focus on her, and that gave Tash ample time to study those around her to see what was making Chris worry. "So what do you think?" Tash asked Kevyn as she took a sip from her drink.

[kevyn]

"About?" Kevyn turned her attention from the stage.

[tashii]

"The difference in Chris when she performs. Think we could get to be more open in real life as well?"

[kevyn]

Keyvn shrugged, "Who knows," she giggled, "would be fun to try." Before her attention was snapped to someone off to the side. "Hey Tash." she elbowed her friend pointing to the stranger. "Check out Good Looking over there."

[tashii]

"You know some days I wonder if you think every male with a heart beat is cute. Going to buy him a drink or just admire from afar?" Tash asked, wondering just which of Kevyn's two main plots she was in for that night. Tash knew that Kevyn was smitten with her brother but liked to look at some of the other males.

[Chris Strongheart]

"What child is this, who laid to rest, that I now find here sleeping? Do angels keep the dreams we seek while our hearts lie bleeding...?

Could this be Christ the King, whose every breath the angels bring? Could this be the face of God, this child, the son I once carried?

What child is this, who is so blessed he changes all tomorrows? Replacing tears with reborn years in hearts once dark and hollow

Could this be Christ the King, whose every breath the angels bring? Could this be the face of God, this child, the son I once carried?

In the dead of the night as his life slips away, as he reads by the light of a star faraway...

Holding on, holding off, holding out, holding in... Could you be this old and have your life just begin?

Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day... It begins... Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day...

Tell me how many times can this story be told? After all of these years, it should all sound so old, but somehow it rings true in the back of my mind, as I search for a dream that words can no longer define...

Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day... And the time... Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day...

And the time and the years, and the tears and the cost, and the hopes and the dreams of each that is lost. And the whisper of wings in the cold winter's air as the snow it comes down and visions appear everywhere.

Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day... In the air... Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day...

In the dead of the night as his life slips away, as he reads by the light of a star faraway

Holding on, holding off, holding out, holding in... Could you be this old and have your life just begin?

Reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day, it begins, reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day, it begins, reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day, it begins, reading by the light of a lost Christmas Day, It begins," Christine sang, her voice full of emotion.

[kevyn]

Kevyn grinned widely waving the waitress. "Do me a favor," she told her handing over some cash. "Give that hunk over there another round of whatever he's drinking." At Tash's look she laughed, "What?"

[tashii]

"I was kidding about the drink. He's old enough to be your father. Just what are you going to do if he comes over here?" Tash asked, and then thought better of it. "You know what, with what your mind could come up with I don't want to know."

[kevyn]

Kevyn laughed out loud. "No you probably don't." she teased, eyeing the man out of the corner of her eye.

[Baltor]

Baltor had been carefully studying his surroundings, watching everything when the waitress came over with another large glass of whatever he had ordered. His eyes closed part way when the waitress said a young woman ordered it for him. He turned partway in his seat and looked for the young woman, spotting a pair near the stage - one of which was watching the charming singer.

He offered the young woman who was looking at him a lazy seductive smile.

[tashii]

Tash just rolled her eyes when Kevyn grinned at the responce she got.

[kevyn]

Kevyn grinned, cat-like, giving the man a small wave before turning her attention to Chris.

[tashii]

"You know it's a very good thing that Kae isn't jealous by nature." Tash teased her friend. "That might have set him off." Tash knew that her brother would have just laughed and probably encouraged it simply because it was amusing.