Tempted by a stranger
Prologue – My last
This will be my last. Never again will I sit down, take my quill and write in this diary, never again will I tell you all my thoughts, thoughts that I haven't even told my husband. I will admit that I am scared. I am scared of what I have to do and what is to come. I am scared at leaving my son. I am scared at leaving my friends. I am scared of all the pain that my loved ones will have to face. I am scared because this is the only way.
James and Sirius are making plans to flee, run from him, hide from him, they don't understand, they haven't seen what I have seen; they haven't heard what I have heard. I've tried to tell them, but still they will not listen, they want to run, they want to hide. They don't understand. We can not run. We can not hide. He will catch us. He will find us. And then he will kill us.
I know what I must do, I know what James must do, I know what Sirius must go through, I know the pain that my son will go through, I know this all, but I also know that this is what we must do. What I must do. There is no other way. This is the only way. But I also know that one day he will be gone and the scars left will begin to heal, will begin to mend, and one day they will truly have gone and then people can move on with their lives, begin to live, or begin to live again.
This is my last. I want those who know me to know that fought all the way, that I never gave up, that I never stopped fighting, that I never stopped believing. The time has come. Today will be my last day. The hours are slipping away like water in my hands, I want to stop time, I want to go back, relive everything, start at the beginning, and work my way forwards. This is my last. I haven't done the things that I always wanted to do, I have done things that I never wanted, and they were better. I have done things that I shouldn't have, and I haven't done things that I should have. I'm sorry about that, I wish I could change that, but I can't. Time has run out. This is it. This is the end. This is my last…