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Return to Damnation

Thanks you to both my editors!!!!

Just to clarify.

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Darien woke up with the strange feeling that someone had been watching him. He sat up on Serena's couch to stretch when he noticed the note in his own palm. He looked at it quizzically for a moment and then uncrumpled the paper and read the words written there.

Darien,

I've got one last thing to settle and then I'm coming back to you. That is if you still want me.

Love,

Serena

She's back. She came in here when I was sleeping, saw me lying on her couch, put this note in my palm and walked out again. But she's back. She's back in Tokyo, and she wants to be mine!'

Darien jumped up from the couch in a hurry. He hadn't felt this good since he was alive. Serena was back in Tokyo and soon she'd be back with him. For good this time, there was no way he'd let her leave him to solve her problems again.

I'll follow her this time. I'll tell her I can help her with this. I love you still Serena, and I'm coming for you.' *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Serena found herself standing outside Ray's temple. She looked wistfully at the place where she'd spent many late nights. Talking with the girls, giggling about crushes, doing other teenage things, at least for a little while. Serena's eyes welled up with tears. She'd been robbed of her teenage years. She'd first been cheated by her parents' death, then by her own.

She didn't blame Darien for what he'd done, she'd come to terms with it, even liked what she was. But the solitude of this life, it was wearing on her. It was one of the reasons she needed Darien. She needed someone to see her. Someone to tell her that she was still real, that she wasn't just a ghost walking this world and seeing things everyone else has got to live through.

"Serena?"

Serena quickly turned with horror on her face. She'd let herself be caught, now she couldn't make them believe she was gone. They'd know She'd have to tell them the truth, she could no longer leave them behind.

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