"We are not permitted to choose
the frame of our destiny.
But what we put into it is ours."
Dag Hammarskjold
Title: Eternal Nightmare
Author: Sage
Rating: 18
Spoilers: Secret Circle and The Night World
Disclaimers: The Secret Circle and The Night World characters belong to L.J. Smith. The Characters from the movie Deeply: Claire is the only character I'll be using; belong to the director. Sera, Brae, and any others that you don't recognize are mine.
Spoilers: The Secret Circle, The Night World, and The movie 'Deeply'
Summary: Love seeketh not itself to please/Nor for itself hath any care/But for another gives its ease/And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ~William Blake; a.k.a. a classic love story.
Part one: What Happened Before…
"I love you," said Sera as she kissed her boyfriend Josh on the lips.
"I love you too," he said smiling down at her.
It was quiet for a while. The fresh lilac scented air whipping through their hair. Josh's arms were around Sera's waist as they snuggled beneath the starlit sky. Sera looked around. They were on a blanket in the middle of a flowered meadow, sitting diagonal from the North Star.
"Sera? We better go," said Josh as he unwrapped his arms from her waist.
"Umm, just a little while longer," she said re-wrapping them around her.
He grinned against her neck.
"You were suppose to be home an hour ago," he said holding her tightly.
"My mom trusts you, she'll understand," she said.
"Lets hope you're right huh? That's the last thing I need is your mom to hate," He said.
"She loves you! She says you're the best thing that ever happened to me," she said.
" Well I don't want to start hating me now for having you late, especially now because I'm going to ask you to come…" he started to stay then caught himself.
"Going to what?" Sera asked smiling.
Josh turned Sera around so that she was facing him.
"I want you to go to away with me for the summer," he said trying to look Sera in the eyes.
"Josh you know my family doesn't have the money for that," she said looking at him.
"That's okay you don't need the money. I'm paying for you. I have tons of money," he said.
"Josh you're parents gave you that money for college, buy your books, get a house when you graduated from UCLA…. You already got excepted."
"Sera 6 million is more than enough for me to go to college, buy my books, get five houses, raise my children, and their children's children and to go around the world a few hundred times. Please Sera. I won't go without you," he said looking determined.
"You spoil me to much. Yes I'll go," she said shaking her head.
"Yes," he said jumping to his feet, lifting her up and swinging her in the air, her arms flaying in the air.
He slowly slide her down his body. Blushing, she put her head down. He put his hand under her chin and slowly lifted her head up and brought his mouth down to her.
"Well, well, well what do we have here," said raunchy voice from behind a tree.
"Young lovers," said an equally rotten voice.
The rest jumped down from the trees and surrounded them. They were really young and all of them had an un-natural beauty to them. They were all dressed in black.
Josh guarded Sera from them as much as he could.
"How do you guys like vanilla ice cream, hot or cold?" said the leader eyeing Sera.
"Come on guys you don't want to do this," Josh said pulling out his wallet he added "I have a thousand dollars in my wallet, you can have it, if you just let us go, at least let her go."
"How sweet willing to give up his wallet and his life for her. Sorry it's not going to help. I'm too hungry," said the guy as his face changed.
"Hey what's wrong with your face man?" said Josh looking in shock.
That's when they pounced. Sera screamed. Josh fought them off, using his level in karate to his best advantage.
"Sera get out of here," he yelled as he did a roundhouse kick on one of the guys.
"I'm not leaving you!" she screamed as she jumped from a guy that was trying to attack her.
"Damnit," Josh said as he ran to yank the guy off.
"SOMEBODY HELP!!!!!!" Sera yelled.
"Hey honey are you ready to see lover boy die?" said the raunchy voice.
Sirens rang in the air. The guy snarled and sunk his fang like teeth into Josh's neck. He screamed in pain, a kind of scream that Sera had never heard. She watched in horror as Josh started to turn a tint of blue. The guy pulled his head back. A door slammed and the sound of people's footsteps pounded on the cement.
"I love you Sera," said Josh weakly.
The guy in black snapped his neck just as the police officers told him to freeze.
"Noooooooooooo. JOSH!!!" Sera screamed as the guys ran off into the night with a few police officers chasing them.
Sera got up and ran to Josh.
"Josh? Get up. You can't leave me!! I need you," she yelled trying to shake Josh awake.
One of the police officers that was left behind to tend to Sera stood and watched as young love was shattered so that only slivers were left to stap at the tender heart of the one who lost.