Love is gently wiping an eyelash from your face
It’s knowing that this person is one you can’t replace
It’s understanding when to be there, and when to give them space
And when the space is needed being there for ‘just in case.’

Love is what you cling to when you have had a little fright
Love gives you a cuddle in the middle of the night
Love is something warming that makes the day seem bright
It gives the sun its sunshine, it gives the stars their light.

Love will give you courage when you just need to be bold
Love will buy you tissues when you have a frightful cold
When you’re flailing in the darkness it will give you a strong hold
It isn’t scared to tell you off when you need to be told.

Love doesn’t care when you look a big old state
Love believes in love, and often works with fate
Love will be your lover as well as your best mate
Love is so lovely is quite often makes you late.

Love cares above all things what it is you think
Love will pull you back when you feel you’re on the brink
Love is very handsome and has a cheeky wink
Love will keep you safe when you’ve had too much to drink.

Love understands if you need to be left alone
Love will listen when you want to have a moan
Its very good at knowing exactly when to phone
Love makes you feel like finally you’re home.

Love is not perfect but it is perfect for you
Though sometimes it can hurt like an uncomfortable shoe
But love only needs one thing, we all know that it’s true
That when it says ‘I love you’ it hears ‘I love you too!’

By the eyes of the moon and the stars and the sun
Met a boy and a girl just as dusk had begun
They were in it for love and for laughter and fun
Little  did they know that they’d both met the one.
By a glittering stream they lay under the sky
and she said to him ‘promise you’ll never lie’
He turned to her and gave a small sigh
and said’ I’ll love you ’til the day that I die’.
As night settled in in its midnight blue grace
and the whispers of trees in this magical place
meant they knew there was nothing that they could not face
and no one that the other could ever replace.
As the night danced on gently a gold light was cast
Flocks of bright yellow birds in the sky they amassed
The love for the pair was their first and their last
They were each other’s future and present and past.
The night turned to dawn, a new day had begun
Holding each other tight, to the stream they did run
They were in it for love, and for laughter and fun
By the eyes of the moon and the stars and the sun.

Deborah is 33 years old, her husband just left her, her  son is dead. With nothing left to live for she tries to take her own life, but fails. Seeking help Deborah ends up visiting the enigmatic Doctor Vanilla, a therapist who specialises in suicide cases. However Doctor Vanilla with his strange manner and terrible scar across his face, is not all that he seems. As part of her therapy he insists she keep a dream journal claiming that it will unlock her subconscious mind.

What Deborah doesn’t realise is that her soul, Grace, was catapulted out of her body the day she tried to take her own life, and has been left helplessly wandering the earth trying to find her way back to Deborah ever since. During her travels Grace meets Peter, another lost soul, and together they try to help each other find their way back to their bodies. It is only when Deborah sleeps, through the world of dreams that Grace can try to find her. While Deborah is awake, all she can do is wait.

Meanwhile with Doctor Vanilla’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic in their therapy sessions, Deborah begins to feel that he may have an ulterior motive for seeing her. She confides in another one of his patients, Luke, and they share experiences of his unorthodox methods and talk about how they can find out what he might be up to. However when Luke confesses to Deborah that she keeps appearing in his own dreams, Deborah becomes even more confused. As their relationship deepens they realise their dreams are becoming strangely similar, and when Doctor Vanilla prescribes them with the same medication they decide they must find out what is going on. They break into his office and learn the horrifying truth -that Doctor Vanilla is trying to steal their souls.

They learn that in fact Doctor Vanilla has been alive for centuries having discovered that if he can catch peoples souls before they find their way back to their bodies he will live all the years that they should have done. The process for doing this is  unbelievably cruel, the souls, having to live inside a foreign body, end up desperate and miserable, and the bodies who do not get their souls back will eventually become crazed and will try to kill themselves again.

It is then a race against time for Luke and Deborah to figure out how to find their souls before Doctor Vanilla does. Now they understand the existence of their souls they can only assume that the similarity of their dreams must mean that their souls are connected and are somehow working together. As the world of reality begins to collide with that of dreams they realise their time is running out. Will Luke and Deborah manage to find their souls before Doctor Vanilla captures them? If not the consequences are worse then anyone could have thought possible.

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Burden of Proof

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