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The view of the dark grey sky was enough to take my mind to a place I didn't expect it to go after so long. Thoughts of Athena flooded my mind, her voice plagued my mind like a catchy song played on repeat, her smile was the image I imagined against the reflective glass of the window. I remembered the look she had in her eyes whenever she looked into mine. "Falling in love will kill you" that was the phrase I lived by. Love was nothing more than weakness. Love was the very thing enemies uses when plans were abandoned after first attempt failures, well that is if it wasn't the first thought. "You okay?" My eyes met with the dark intent eyes that stared at me from across the cold room. The sound of clinking glasses and liquids splashing at the meeting within test tubes. I nodded in response, wasn't much but at the moment it was all I could offer as I watched her work. Her focus, her soft voice, her whole demeanor elicited the same warmth inside me I wished had never existed after I had lost Athena. What was this feeling? Was this just me replacing Athena as Fay had replaced my non-beating heart long ago? I started to feel crazy as the thoughts continued to circle through my brain. "Shut up you fool, you're falling in love again." I froze as Athena's voice sounded loud in my thoughts. I jerked around to clear my surrounding view of any haunting beings or spirits. Nothing. Fay looked over at me with a quirked brow as I circled my stance and looked around with a strange sense of paranoia to the voice that clearly only I had heard. Was it true? "Falling in love will kill you." If that's truly the case... My end was near.