A/N- Hello readers!! So this is my first time writting a fan fic so I just ask that you be kind when reviewing (though i appreciate all the advice possable) No flames please. This story is dedicated to Jax who is supporting me in this endever and to my sister who is a better author than me and an amazing editor=] Thanks for looking into the story and I hope you will give it a chance =P -Butterfly

1925-

Evelyn searched frantically for anywhere to hide it, this one record of her life. She looked desperately for anything a loose floorboard, a hole in the wall; she was even willing to entertain the thought that there may be a hidden compartment in the bookshelves. Any where would be good as long as it kept it hidden from that woman. She knew that Astrid wanted her dead now that she knew the truth and was willing to expose Cooper for what he really was; ready to shatter the façade of a life like the painted glass that it was. She stood in the middle of the room her eyes frantically darting about, she knew that she had to calm down and think. There wasn't much time.

She was thankful that she had sent her beloved son Logan away to her sister Morgan months ago when she left Cooper and filed the papers for her divorce. Why couldn't Cooper of just signed the papers and let things be? Why did he have to think only of himself and take the coward's way out? Why did he have to destroy her life when he took his own? She hoped that he was rotting and suffering in hell for the sins that he had confessed to in his note. She couldn't believe that she had married him even if it was in desperation. But now she was desperate to survive and to make sure that some account of the truth survived if things did not go according to plan.

In one last desperate attempt she crawled under the desk and by some miracle was able to pry a floor board loose. She frantically stuffed her journal inside and slide the board back into place. It was as safe as the other important effects that she had hidden around the house, she just prayed that she would survive long enough to come back and retrieve them. She crawled out from under the desk and got to her feet.

"Evelyn, my dear girl," Astrid said breaking the panic charged silence like fine china and causing Evelyn to jump around in panic, "Child I have been looking for you." She stood spear straight with a cold and lifeless look to her eyes.

Evelyn nervously straightened her dress and raised her hand to fix her perfectly styled hair. "Mother," she was slightly breathless, "how may I help you?"

"Oh my dear you have helped quite enough as it is. You were the one who caused my son, my beloved Cooper, to go mad. You caused his demise," Astrid's voice was as lifeless and cold as an early winter death, "You, you infernal bitch, killed my son. But that is not enough for you is it, you whore. No you want to sully my son's memory with your deceitful lies." As spoke she walked around the desk causing Evelyn to walk towards a hasty retreat.

"I had nothing to do with Cooper's death. He took his own life," Evelyn was desperately looking for a way out. From the corner of her eye she spied the study doors and slowly started to back her way toward them.

"You have NO right to speak his name you WHORE, none. You have brought nothing but shame and deceit to our family name," Astrid stalked after Evelyn murder alight in her crazed eyes, "you killed my son with your nagging and constantly bothersome ways, but now it is time for you to die for your sins."

Evelyn knew as her back hit the study doors that she was going to die but her mind seemed to be detached from her body. She could feel her hands reaching behind her blindly looking for the handles. She felt her cold skin hit colder metal, her movements short and stressed as she tried to turn the handle. But it was to no avail, the doors were locked Astrid must of locked them when she came into the study. Evelyn was trapped; her only exit the second story balcony.

Astrid's eyes lit with triumph as she lunged at Evelyn's throat. Evelyn threw her self out of the way scrambling on her hands and knees her eyes desperately searching out anything that could be used as a weapon finally landing on the fire poker laying next to the hearth across the room, she rushed towards it. As she was scrambling across the floor Astrid reached out and grabbed Evelyn by her hair dragged her up and spun her around.

Evelyn fought with all she had, tearing her nails across Astrid's face but Astrid with her seemingly super human strength kept her hold on Evelyn as she wrapped her hands around her throat slowly backing her toward the open balcony doors and out onto the balcony.

"You Evelyn are going to die now, and I am going to make it look as if you could not handle the knowledge of being the cause of my poor son's death and took your own poor life," Astrid coolly stated as she tightened her hold on Evelyn's neck hardly pausing to peer down from the balcony to the ground below, "so my dear this is good bye."

Evelyn's sight was going grey but her last thoughts were of a fierce desire to survive and see her son. She could feel Astrid pushing her over the edge of the balcony towards her death. In a last attempt at life she grasped a hold of Astrid's wrists as she fell dragging Astrid over the edge of the balcony with her.

Both women felt a blinding pain as they hit the ground the world around them fading into a black nothing.

Summery for next chapter- Suze catches us up with the going on with the last seven years.

Thanks for reading- Butterfly