Writer's Note: This is my first Jack & Renee fan fiction and I am very nervous because I do not see my self as a writer! I just wanted to give writing a fan fiction a shot! Please review in order to help me write a better story! I would like to send a huge thanks to Tiffany for reviewing and editing my story and also a huge thanks to Lisa for the amazing title! You guys rock! I hope you enjoy reading this! P.S. - I know there is a change in narrative! I did that on purpose! Feedback is very much appreciated! Thanks! :)

What Lies Beneath

Chapter One

She was a monster. A monster that no one would want, or even look at. She either physically or mentally destroyed every relationship. Not to mention the horrible acts of violence she had committed to get justice, if not for others, for herself.

She had lost both her parents in a car accident when she was only six and was then raised by her grandmother, who passed away seven years ago. Her sister was alive and well, but wanted nothing to do with her, which was easy to understand considering what she had done to her. She lost her Sister, she had lost Larry and she had lost…Jack.

Jack…the one man who truly understood her, she had pushed away. Ever since the day she had worked with Jack and found out he would die a painful death, she never spoke or returned any of his calls. By the time she found out Jack was alive and well, she had self destructed into a dark place. A place that she did not want to expose to Jack's happiness. A place where she could not come back from.

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I have nothing left to live for. Nobody would want me, nobody would want what thing I have become. Nobody could ever love this monster. The mirror reflection of myself is afraid of who I have become. Nothing…I have nothing.

I stared at myself, I stared at the dead, lifeless body I had become. I was nothing but pale, powder shaded skin. There was no life, no emotion, no hope left in a single blood vessel in my body.

Before I could stop myself I grabbed a glass cup and smashed it against the mirror, smashing it into a thousand pieces. The glass shards were like a puzzle of a thousand pieces, impossible to put back together. At the given moment those glass shards were the solution to my lifeless puzzle.

All I could feel was a numbness, a pain that almost felt peaceful. Finally my pain was sucked away, into a black hole I hoped would never come back. I felt free…Free to release myself…to the point where I could let go and never come back.

Darkness.

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