Silent Wounds

Prologue – Lonely Nights, Morning Sun

"No one in this world needs me...no one ever will."--Erik Susan Kay's (Phantom)

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"I'm sorry Don but I don't want her."

Don stared in shock at the female before him. If a member of the Foot Clan had entered their home and suddenly ran him through with a sword it wouldn't, couldn't have hurt as much as those cold hollow words coming from his wife's mouth.

Well, almost ex-wife now.

Don and his wife Tamara had been separated for about six months now they had done their best to work things out with each other but it just wasn't possible.

There was just too many differences, and their destinies seemed to lie on separate paths now.

It was probably to be expected after all considering their marriage had not been one of love but rather convince.

Don often wondered why he had married Tammie, his pet name for his wife, he supposed it was due to the fact that at the time they had both been lonely and wanted someone.

Weather that person turned out to be good for them or not.

While he sort of been expecting this, he had also in some ways been dreading their final break up because he could not deny that he cared for Tammie. Yet he also knew somewhere in the deep regions of his being that he seemed to bring out the worst in her, unintentionally of course.

Then again maybe Tammie was just bent on a destructive path determined to ruin everything she came in contact with.

Still for the sake of their daughter he didn't know if he could just let her go.

"She is your child too. Don't you feel..." he started a feeble protest.

"No! I don't want to feel for her. I don't want anything to do with you, your family or her AGAIN. I never wanted to give birth to IT in the first place" Tammie hissed her eyes narrowing and her ears flattening against her head and her nose wrinkled with disgust as her fur bristled at the very idea.

Her long tail slashed about in angry irritation and Don knew it was better to back down now.

He winced at her harsh words but he well knew his wife's tendencies to wound in any way she could.

He watched in silence, knowing words could never hold her, as she stormed out of the lair once and for all.

He knew in his heart he wouldn't be seeing her again that part of his life was obviously over and done with and as final as the slamming door.

Still he couldn't help but feel that there had to be something he could have done to change the outcome somehow, there had to have been a way to do it if not for himself at least for their daughter.

Don lowered his head into his hands at the futility of it all.

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Lonely nights, I dream your there

Morning sun and you're gone

(Lonely nights, morning sun)

"Do Anything You Say" David Bowie