Desiree felt sick.

Yes, sick was exactly the word to describe this thing that she felt.

This was torture, and guilt, and hatred.

It made her ill.

She'd granted so many evil wishes in the last thousand years...never before had she granted one of this degree.

She'd granted wealth, and power, and love. She'd given food, and bliss, and eternal joy.

She'd even killed. "I wish for you to kill…" and then a name. They'd say the name, she'd snap her fingers, and the recipient of the wish would die.

Never, not once, had anyone wished something like this upon her. It was selfless, and selfish, and filthy. It made her feel filthy and wrong to grant such a wish.

She hadn't had a choice. The boy had spoken those awful words, and she'd granted them.

She wished that she hadn't heard him. She wished that she were deaf, and could never hear such an awful thing again.

She wished that he'd wished for anything else, anything other than what he had. Money, love, power, Anything.

This was the one wish that she hadn't been prepared to grant.

It was a wish of death, but not in the same way as the others.

"I wish for you to kill me."

And then she's said it.

"So you've wished it, so it shall be."

It had come out strangled, and in reflex. She'd spoken those words, words she'd said a thousand times before, and she'd granted that awful, awful wish to that boy.

And then he'd smiled. And he was smiling as he turned paler, and his life drained away from him. He was smiling as a woman found his body the next morning, and screamed.

He was probably still smiling now.

He'd handed her a note before he said it, said that awful request.

She was still holding the note now, with her steady, ghostly hands.

It was written beautifully in ink on a piece of diary paper.

It had said "Thank you".

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...I'M BACK! Sorry about the long space between updates: My sister was sick; I was sick; I have writer's block.

I get sick a lot. If I do get ill, from now on I'll post it on my profile page, and update when I'm feeling better again.

Prompt was "Thank you". If you have any prompts, or have comments you'd like to share, please put them in the comment section, or PM me!

If you notice any grammatical errors, please notify me of them, and I'll fix them as soon as possible!

Sorry about the wait,

-Asphodel Gray :)