Hello fellow 'Long Corridor of Lies' fans and readers ^^. I introduce to you the sequel to that nine chapter short story (or more if my memory is correct) and would like for you guys to read this prologue first to get you into the feel of this new environment I created for Sally, Aiden, Alex, Bishop, and a couple of newbies (non-OC's) and oldies (for those that are believed to have passed on already). Anyway, on to the prologue of this tragedy, or bad-romance..whatever you wanna call it.

Prologue

I Wouldn't Want To Be King

It was cold here in this plane..and Sally could feel it throughout her whole being. She didn't know if she had a body or not, she couldn't establish her existence long enough in her mind to call herself alive...or 'there' at all.

She was death—is death. Is this how they were suppose to feel? Cold and alone? Forever looming in a world with nothing coming into it or pouring out of it. Just a floating void. Her limbs felt chained down to what felt like the bottom of the pit, her skin or flesh, pressed against the dark cold bitingly so. Her wings, big and black, were losing their feathers..immobile and unable to set her free from the binds that held her.

She wondered if this was what is was like for Aiden. A world without her..a place without her constant breathing to remind him that she was next to him, and alive. She wondered...if Aiden felt like this right now, if he's seeing what she's seeing and feeling what she's feeling, if he's looking up into the world and seeing absolutely nothing as she was right now.

There was no ounce in her that regretted anything, she excepted her fate as it was right then. It wasn't hell, for reapers such as herself, had no place there. No room.

Was this death? Was she dying? Tears flowed down her cheeks as she listened to Alex sobbing above her, what she wouldn't give to just touch him and tell him that this was for a good cause, that this was the price for loving him and showing mercy to souls that were already meant to die..even going as far as bringing some back.

There was struggle going on above her, they were taking Alex away. He wasn't allowed to grieve for his lost love encased forever in a plane he could not touch, he couldn't even see her. She closed her eyes as she drifted off to a motion-less sense of feeling, concluding it as sleep.

Her mind wondered right before her eyes shut. Would she sleep longer and longer for however many centuries she was down here? Longer until she feels nothing and disappears? Eternal sleep?...darkness...loneliness...cold...the embodiment of death.

Aiden laid still in the same house he committed his sins in. He hadn't cleaned himself up ever since the last time he spoke to Sally. It was because she showed him the last bit of love she still had for him, that he was still alive...still breathing...and with the decision whether or not to live on his own from now on. Start anew.

But how could he?

Again Sally sacrificed her all for him, including her life after death.

'I'm doing this because I love you' her breath still tingled his neck and ears. 'I will never forgive you for what you did...but you were my best friend before becoming what you are now, I want to keep the last one I have left'

Her smile disappeared into his memory and he couldn't help ,but cry. The agony in his sobs echoed through Alex's as he wept in front of the gates he was not allowed entrance into.

Aiden felt dead, more dead than he felt after regaining his humanity and soul. He was given a second chance, but he couldn't understand why...he was the thief that stole away his own happiness and love. But why did Sally have to suffer even more because of his faults? He would give anything to trade places with Sally, after what he saw...nothing could've broken him up more.

'It's because I love you'

Her words never ceased to echoe through his mind and seemed to echoe more through the floor boards he laid on top of. He didn't know what to do next..so he laid there in the house he called home with his friends, and the love nest in which he shared with his lover. Until he turned to dust, bits of him breaking away with every second that went by.

A/N: well. You know how this is gonna turn out so be prepared for some crying...:"(