Listen to the Rain

I don't own C 009 or the songs, the songs belong to Evanescence

Chapter Five

As the car went up in flames, a thriteen year old wimpered.

"Tou-san.Kaa-san.Imouto-chan."

Silent tears fell from eyes, but she ignored them, wiping them away would just be saying that she was crying.

Sabrina shot up, eyes wide.

"Even now, those images continue to haunt me."

It was just a whisper, but enough to wake Albert, who just went back to sleep, seeing that she was fine. She stood up, pulled a shirt on and sat down on the windowsill.

'I don't want to do this, but I have to, if I stay, I'm putting them all in danger....'

She looked back over at Albert.

'No, I have to stay here, whatever comes, we'll get through togather.'

~*~

Kage sighed, leaning againt the wall, she had 'that' nightmare again, the memory of her mother's death. And she had heard Sabrina get up and hour ago, at four.

"This isn't normal."

She whispered, laying back down on the bed as the girl passed her door.

~*~

Sabrina sat down on the top step, pulling her headphones on she turned the CD to track six. She shook her head and started to sing as the song started.

"I tryed to kill the pain

But only brought more

I lay dying,

And I'm pooring crimson reget and betryal

I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming

Am I to lost to be saved

Am I to lost?

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

Do you remember me

Lost for so long

Will you be on the other side

Or will you forget me

I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming

Am I to lost to be saved

Am I to lost?

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

-I want to die-

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

My god my tourniquet

Return to me salvation

My wounds cry for the grave

My soul crys for deliverance

Will I be denied Christ

Tourniquet

My suicide"

She sighed, the memories of her training hit her full force as the smell of death reached her nose.

'She let out a scream of pain as the older woman's leg hit her right ankel, the already weak muscles screaming.

"Sensai."

She wimpered, waiting for the last blow to come, but as she always did, Miko stopped before she could do the girl any real harm.

"Let's see it."

She said, sighing.'

"Iie."

She whispered, turning the CD back to the first track, it was just a wolf getting breakfast for it's mate and off springs. She picked up a stick and let her hand do whatever as she followed the words out loud, tripping over silent ones.

"Now I will tell you what I've done for you

50 thousand tears I've cried

Screaming deciving and bleeding for you

And you still won't hear me

Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself

Maybe I'll wake up for once

Not tormented daily defeated by you

Just when I thought I'd reached the bottem

I'm dying again.

I'm going under

Drowning in you

I'm falling forever

I've got to break though

I'm going under

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies

So I don't know what's real and what's not

Always confussing the thoughts in my head

So I can't trust myself anymore

I'm dying again

I'm going under

Drowning in you

I'm falling forever

I've got to break though

I'm going under

So go on and scream

Scream at me I'm so far away

I won't be broken again

I've got to breathe I can't keep going under"

"You always do that?"

She looked up and grinned.

"No."

Albert slid an arm around her waist as he sat down, Ivan in his other arm, wide awake.

"He started screaming when you didn't come in there."

She smiled.

"Like any other baby."

"Yeah, what where you doing up at four o'clock?"

She looked down, eyes shadowed as a howl came from the woods, a demon catching it's breakfast, the same wolf she had heard before.

"I had another nightmare."

She took Ivan and stood up, walking into the dojo as he stared after her.

"And Death strikes again."

He said as another howl came, closer to the dojo this time, and a crow landed on the tree next to him.

~*~

Miko here, again, the next chapter of Listen to the Rain is Souls