Title: Belief

Author: Bree

Rating: PG

He frightened her now, more often than not she would find herself bathed in

the shadows of irreparable evil and she would consider him lost forever.

But, from time to time, the black she saw now so often would soften and his

eyes would grow closer to those she knew and loved.

And she, with his head buried in her stomach and his hands clutching her

hips, would find herself forgiving him for the roughness of that night, for

the insults which had passed so callously through his lips, for

his...indiscretions - No, she'd brush that thought aside, wouldn't think of

Celeste or the others, wouldn't think about the madness she saw coloring his

gaze or that which could soon be coloring her own, but would instead stroke

his hair and whisper words of forgiveness, feeling her belief return, and

would think of nothing but the shining kingdome on the hill for their child

to inherit.