Disclaimer: All original characters from the House of Night books belong to P.C and Kristin Cast but the storyline and new characters belong to myself.

My Version of Burned
Prologue
Stark's POV

I couldn't believe she was gone.

All my hope and faith was destroyed.

She was the reason that I was here; that I was here and that I was good.

After her consort had collapsed, I just felt like my heart had shattered into millions of tiny pieces.

I'd failed her...I shuddered at the thought.

Why had I run away? It was just a stupid little fight and I had left her for that?

No.

I knew why I had left her.

I was scared.

Scared that she didn't love me the way I loved her.

Because I did love her.

Hell, I loved her more than I'd ever loved anyone, now that I thought about it.

But it was too late.

Too late to save the one thing that could of made my life worth living.

No!

I shouldn't have thought like that. She was probably still there, I just had to wake her up.

Yeah, that was it.

I reached down and cupped her pale, blank face.

"Zoey, I..." Suddenly I was too lost for words. But I knew what I was going to do next.

My arms held her securely as I locked my lips with hers. Tears streamed down my face and splashed off her silent features.

It was then that I knew: Zoey was gone.

And she was gone for good.

I held her empty shell tighter by the second, not wanting her life to slip away from her despite the fact that I knew it already had.

"I love you." I breathed into her fragile lips, staring at her unique beauty for the very last time.

"Stark...?"

A/N: I'M SORRY! I COULDN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW SO I DID IT NOW D: Yeah, so this is my re-doing of the prologue. I didn't change it much because I didn't really think it needed that much changing? I don't know. I hoped you liked it all the same and I have decided that I will update every day up until I get to where I got up to beforehand.

THIS IS THE RE-EDITING OF MY ORIGINAL BURNED, this is not a violation of copyright despite the fact that some of you might think it is as I've changed my username since the beginning of this story but all the original chapters will be going back up but better.

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