Ticket to Hell
Okay everyone... here it is! The sequel! I know, I know, I said I wouldn't start it until I finished the Harvest Moon fic ... but I couldn't help myself. The prologue and chapter 1 are already typed up, so I figured I might as well post them and get it started. A couple more things: I probably won't update as fast as I did with Secrets That Kill, since I'm currently writing another fic and school will be starting soon. So... I think that's it! Oh yes, and remember, this is a prologue so please no comments on how short it was ... it's supposed to be that way. Thank you and enjoy.
Summary: Sequel to "Secrets That Kill". Three years after she ran away from home, Mei Li and Jiang Wei are finally engaged to be married. Unfortunate circumstances cause the young prophetess to doubt her love for her fiancé, not to mention evil Wei ruler Cao Pi has heard of Mei Li's gift and wants it for his own …
Prologue
"Mommy, mommy!" a little five year old boy said as he ran towards his mother.
"What is it, honey?" the pregnant woman asked as she busied herself writing a letter. The young three-year-old on her lap wiggled and bounced around. Was she crazy? She already had two little ones and here she was about to have a third one. The house would be chaos once this one was born. She was already up each night with her little three year old, getting her drinks of water, singing her to sleep. When the newborn came along, the crying would not only wake up her but the other little ones as well, and then she and her husband would be rocking them all to sleep at once. It was worth it, though, she thought to herself as she smiled with joy listening to her son speak.
"Daddy says that granma'n'grandpa are comin' over today. When are dey gonna get here?"
"I didn't know they were coming!" the boy's mother said. "It must be a surprise." She leaned in close to her son's face and looked him in the eye with mock seriousness. "Did your daddy tell you not to tell me?"
The little boy thought for a moment, then nodded vigorously. "Yeah I fink so. I can't really remember."
She laughed and tickled his stomach, causing him to buckle down with laughter. "Then we'll just have to act surprised when they show up, huh?" The little boy agreed and ran off before his mother could torture him with more tickling.
Just then the woman's husband walked in. He went over to where the woman sat at her desk, still holding the wriggling three-year-old, and he picked the toddler up off his wife's lap. He held her close to his face, rubbing his nose against the little girl's, causing her to giggle with delight.
"Shouldn't this little one be down for her nap?"
"Yes it's just about that time, isn't it?" his wife asked, looking out the window to see if she could see the position of the sun. "Just let me finish up this letter and then I'll put her to bed."
"You don't have to, dear, I'll do it." He said, leaning down to give her a loving kiss.
"Oh, thank you." She responded, looking at him fondly and getting back to writing her letter where she left off.
My husband just took my little daughter off to be put down for her nap. Sorry but that interruption made me forget where I was in my train of thought! Oh yes I remember now. I know the last letter I wrote you was many years ago, and I thought we should keep in touch so I started writing you this one. So much has happened over the last couple years. I know you already know the first half of the story, but that's just the beginning. My life has been so eventful you could almost make a book out of it! Well, I'm sure you remember what happened in the end of my last letter. This is where everything started getting difficult (as if the first half my life wasn't hard enough) and well, some of the actions I took could have earned me a one way ticket to hell. But this is my life, and this is my story …
