Chapter 1

Everything was dark. The last thing i could remember was...wait...what was the last thing I could remember? I couldn't remember anything. I opened my eyes trying not to panic and saw only more darkness before me. I started going over what i did know about myself. My name was Abby Mills, my best friend Henry Dunn had come back to Harpers island with me and his fiancee and all the other guest members of their wedding. Then came the horrific truth, everyone had been killed. Everyone except me and Henry. In the end he had killed John Wakefield, I remembered seeing him push me out of the way to kill him. The knife plunged into his body and then everything beyong that went blank. But after realization comes sadness. Everyone was dead, sure i still had Henry but Trish was dead, how was he coping? Worse then that even Jimmy was dead. My head started to spin and I felt horribly nauscious. My breathing became unbearrably hard and I had to sit up. The motion only made things worse. Jimmy was gone, forever. What would I do? I didn't even get to say goodbye. I had finally realized that i loved him more then anything else and he hadn't even heard the words come out of my mouth. I made a sound of trying to breathe and her footsteps coming near.

"Sshhh it's ok Abby, I'm here."

The voice, I recognized that soft caring voice as Henry's. He came and held me in his arms, trying to calm me. He rubbed my back and let me cry into his shoulder and cling on to his arms until I thought I would squeeze the life right out of him.

"...Jimmy...ahh...he...oh god!"

The breathing was still hard but I had Henry there for me. The pain in my heart was so intense that my world slowly shut down again. The last thing I remember was being laid back down and having Henry's dark eyes looking deeply in to mine, and soft words being spoken in my ear.

"I'm sorry."

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When I awoke again it was daylight. The sun and the sound of birds woke me up. Where was I anyways? Last night came back in a flash and I closed my eyes trying hard not to cry again. I had done alot of crying in these past few weeks. I had lost almost everyone important to me and had come to some painfull realizations, just before those I loved most dearly had died nearly before my eyes. I listened to the birds outside and realized that there were other sounds around me. I pushed aside the thoughts of Jimmy and the others as hard as possible. Even though they stayed close to the front of my mind I still had enough energy to sit up. I could hear sounds coming from somewhere downstairs. I slowly stood on my shaky feet and made my way downstairs. I knew who it would be and i was greatfull when I came to the bottom of the stairs and saw Henry's back to me making breakfast. I took the time to look around and walked to towards the door to open it up. He turned around at the sound of my feet and saw me walking like the dead towards the door fresh air awaiting me just beyond that glass door. Before I could reach it however he ran and grabbed me by the shoulders as lightly as possible and stopped me from taking another step. He stood between me and the door and bent his head to look me in the face.

"Look Abby I understand this is hard for you..but, I'll explain everything I promise. Everything will be alright! You should eat something first though."

I looked into his worried brown eyes and tried to give him a little smile. I nodded and said: "Yea...ok. Sure."

I started walking towards the kitchen area hoping to keep myself busy with something when he grabbed my hand. I looked back at him wrapping my shirt around me.

"Really?"

I nodded again and he spoke, trying to supress his surprise but doing a very bad job at it.

"Yea of course, ok. I'll make you something, anything. What do you want?"

I shrugged and followed him to the kitchen. After he was done making breakfast we sat down together at a small table big enough for two, near an open window. We ate mostly in silence and when we were done we spent some more time in silence. Henry took our plates to the kitchen sink and I stood up and walked towards the nearest open window and stared out into the sunlight. I didn't even notice Henry till he was right beside me looking at me in curiosity. He went to speak but hesitated and tried again.

"Do...do you remember anything?"

I slowly shook my head then looked down and retook that.

"Well I mean I remember the worst of it...everything that happened just before...John...uh...before he was killed."

He looked at me in surprise and then smiled and said.

"Well let's try and put it all in the past. We have each other now and should be greatfull we can live together in peace without fear of him anymore."

I thought that statement was odd but nevertheless I smiled and gave him a hug and tried as hard as I could to put everything that had happened on the island behind me.