all i need is a miracle

Title: Last Midnight
Fandom/Pairing: Gungrave; Grave, Mika
Rating: ESRB Rating of E 10+ for Everybody Over Ten < depressing mood >
Summary: The night before Bear Walken challenges Grave to a duel, Mika does some midnight reading. Grave probably just wants her to shut up.
Notes: All excerpt's come from Jaroslav Seifert's poem, "Canal Gardens". Drabble title, by the way, comes from a musical number by Sondheim.

( His mind races to come up with answers, but he can find none. He does not think like a traumatized thirteen year old girl. )

1; breaking her own heart against his nature
2; Ah and alas, all my loves are dead but one
3; I remember blue skies
4; today and tomorrow and for a long, long time
5; I lay down on snow-covered sheets of loneliness
6; Alone I'm filled with emptiness / alone I call your name
7; In my nightmare we never last this night
8; The dead will walk the streets tonight