Eternal Tale I: The Beginning
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London, Hellmouth, 1984
Silence.
Thump-Thump...
Thump-Thump...
Thump-Thump...
My heart beat slowly, too slowly, as I laid on the ground.
Pain.
Everywhere.
I'm broken, I'm far too gone and it's too late. I feel darkness coming to get me, opening its jaws to swallow me whole and I lay still. I don't fight. It hurts too much.
I can't open my eyes, they feel heavy and I'm so tired, so very tired. So I keep them close, not wanting to see my surroundings, not wanting to truly realize that I'm dying surrounded by what once was a Hellmouth. Another one closed, I thought dazedly. But how many were there?
Blood.
I'm bleeding everywhere, I feel the metallic taste in my lips, I taste it in my lips every time I cough. Wounds in my body bleed too, too slowly and perhaps too fast at the same time. It's all dazed to me, like a fog.
Love.
My babies. Are they safe? They have to be safe, right? Richard, my Watcher, my father, he has them, right? My little angels...
Death.
I don't want to go, yet. They are too tiny, too tiny for me to let go of. I need them, they need me. Its too soon, too soon.
Sebastian!
Please, save me. Don't leave me here. Don't let me die. I love you...forgive me.
Breathe.
It's so hard to breathe. It hurts ever time I do, I feel something sink into my lug and prob my side and I know it's a broken rib, one of the many I now had broken. It becomes harder to breathe. More blood reaches my mouth as I cough furiously. This is it. I'm dying and no one ism going to save me. It's all over.
Then, thankfully, everything stops. No pain, no blood, no worries. I'm numb..
Ashes to Ashes...
...The darkness if finally here...
...Dust to Dust.
...And I, Victoria Giles, the Slayer, am gone.