What Kind of Love

By: De Engi

Disclaimer: They're not mine, cause if they were, I'd've put this AU on TV for real.

ATF AU created by Mog.

Date: June 7, 2003

Author's note: This is my first songfic. I never expected to do one, but this one hit me upside the head this morning while my husband was gone for the weekend computer gaming at a friend's house. (Yes, sweetheart, I do think of you!) Not beta'd or anything.


What Kind of Love

sung by Rodney Crowell

I'll give you the best I can give you baby,
that's all I can give.
And we'll live it the best we can live it baby,
as long as we live.
What kind of love
never turns you down?
What kind of love
lifts you off the ground?
Turns your life around?

What kind of love
makes you go out in the wind and the driving rain?
What kind of love
runs through your heart with a pleasure so close to pain?
What kind of love?
Only this love that I have.

I'll show you the best I can show you baby,
that's all I can show you.
And I'll know you the best I can know you baby,
as long as I know you.
What kind of love
never turns away?
What kind of love
never makes you pay?
Hears you when you pray?

What kind of love
makes you go out in the wind and the driving rain?
What kind of love
runs through your heart with a pleasure so close to pain?
What kind of love?
Only this love that I have.

This love, I know,
is all I have.
(All I have)
This love I have
is all I know.
So I won't let go!

What kind of love
makes you go out in the wind and the driving rain?
What kind of love
runs through your heart with a pleasure so close to pain?
What kind of love?
Only this love that I have.
What kind of love?
Only this love that I have.


The driver, mindful of the rain-slicked pavement that the car was not well adapted to, carefully pulled the vehicle under the hospital's covered entranceway.

The large man stiffly eased into the passenger seat, keeping the casted arm pressed close to his body.

"You didn't have to do this, you know." Josiah rumbled. "I could have called a cab. Just because Chris and the others are out camping doesn't mean you have to put yourself out so much, Son, I just didn't realize how badly it was raining or how late it was when I called you. Guess that knock on the head's got me a little disoriented." He finished sheepishly.

"Which is precisely why Ah'm heah". Ezra answered. "I could not, in good conscience, leave you alone with that concussion. That is why Ah'm out heah, at three o'clock in the moahnin, in what Ah would not be exaggeratin' in callin' The Storm of the Century, and why you will be staying at my abode for the rest of the weekend."

"Thank you, son." Josiah told him with heartfelt gratitude. He patted Ezra's arm gently with his good arm, trying to convey without words just how grateful he was to his young friend. Ezra flashed his gold tooth in a grin.

"Anytime, Josiah." Ezra said softly, allowing his habitual emotional mask to slip for just one instant. Then the moment was gone, and Ezra was Ezra again, instead of a worried friend.

"Howevah, there will be no, Ah repeat no more tree-climbing! The damn kitten can stay there for the rest of it's life for all Ah care!"


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