Welp this is chapter one of To the Beginning, the second installment of Silent Temptation. If you haven't read that please read ST then come here. To the Beginning is the cont. of what I believed the Finale book what have been (continuing my belief of Silence duh). Anyway I hope you enjoy this story as much as you guys loved ST because honestly I wouldn't have wrote this if it wasn't for the love you guys had for the first one.

Enjoy! ^.^ ~Liz


Dante leaned over the map of Coldwater, his eyes laser focused onto where the heir could be hiding. "I say we find Hank's daughters. One of them is his heir and will bring us to glory against the Fallen."

Scott leaned against the back wall, "Wait so you're not the heir?"

"No and I'd appreciate it if you didn't bring it up thank you very much." Dante scowled.

"Just a question, don't get your panties in a bunch." Scott replied. He was lucky Dante had no memory of the attack on the warehouse. Nobody saw Scott at the raid so if anybody is concerned he was never there. Vee as well, since she took no part in the raid period.

"So where would we find them?" Scott asked crossing his arms.

"Marcie is still with her mother, they're both ready to give their lives for our cause."

"And Nora?" Scott asked. His heart raced, Vee stood beside him holding his hand. He was glad she was there otherwise he would have lost his cool the second he saw Dante.

Dante shook his head "nothing. She just disappeared again, not even her mother knows. Her mother said she was on a camping trip but Marcie said there was no such thing." He sighed. "Wherever she is my guess is it's far away from Coldwater. After that fallen trash died I doubt she would stay. A true disgrace to the Black Hand's great legacy."

Scott clenched his free fist. "So you're giving up?"

"For now. We still need her though; while she was unconscious the Black Hand had us do a blood transfusion. She's full Nephil so we have to find her." Dante said quietly.

Scott narrowed his eyes, so Nora was right. They did experiment with her blood. Explains her strength. "Who's blood was it?"

"Who do you think? The Black Hand made her the direct heir not Marcie, she's just our placeholder token." He stood straight, "The real prize is finding Nora."

Nora lay in Patch's bed staring at the ratty baseball cap lay in her hand. Her hair sprawled around the mattress, the sheets crumpled and tossed all over. Patch was dead. A week had passed and Scott had found out from one of the Nephil that it was confirmed.

He wasn't coming back. Tears welt up in her eyes, it's been a week since he died. Usually he would have burst through the door after the first day. "So you really are dead?" she whispered to the cap.

Tears rolled over the bridge of her nose and dropped onto the sheets. She hasn't moved for days, Scott and Vee just rotated in and brought her food. Even so she rarely ate. She could only imagine this is what her mother felt when her dad died. Then again according to Hank's words she started off not even loving her dad. Maybe she and Nora were the same, they were destined to go through the circle of love alone. To hate and then love and then loose. More tears rolled quicker down her face, staring at the ratty baseball cap past a never ending ocean of tears.

"Oh Patch, are we just destined to never be together." she could see the idea of being reincarnated and just dancing around Patch's immortality, living and dying. Or maybe vise versa. It would be an endless cycle of love and death, live and lose.

What does it mean to love if it only means to loose them and be left with the shambles of your heart. Was this how Patch felt the first time?

Though sometimes she's glade he wasn't human, if he was human she would have lost all hope. Immortality and Hopeful must go hand in hand. If he wasn't immortal she wouldn't still have this looming hopefulness that he will still come and save her.

"Save me."

If you love someone they will bring your death. It's a line that Patch has constantly drilled into his own mind. Years of just going from girl to girl, dropping them the moment they become clingy. However Nora was different.

She showed no interest in him, which made him want her even more. Nora Grey was something else, she made him work to get their relationship to where it was today. And now he just threw it all away for the sole purpose to protect her.

If you love someone they will bring your death. If Patch didn't hurry to Coldwater Dante would find her and their love would bring her certain death. Please hold on a little longer Nora, I promise I'll return.