I'm still trying to get over not doing a bubble bath scene. *sniffle* That
would have been PERFECT. You know, dress up all the macabre scenes with a
little humour. hehehe. Actually, it would have been sick. Here's chapter
four.
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CHAPTER FOUR: THIS CLAIM OF FATE
Lady lay her hands on the cold grey stone, wishing she had not been so enticed to do this. "Good-bye, Treize," she whispered, and took notice of Marie and Leah saying their final good-byes as well. "May you rest in peace now that we have chosen to let you go." With a sigh of forbearance, all three of them together, they turned around and left their years of grief to remain behind in the frigid stone.
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June 8, 205 AC
The sound of police cars and an ambulance was all Lady could hear, and her vision was blurred by a bloody haze. There were people outside, screaming, but she did not know why. Her mind was slipping silently, but the faint memory of what was happening somehow drifted back to her. They had been driving, she, Marie, and Leah, taking Marie back to the campus after a Saturday out along the beach. Something crossed the road in their path. The car swerved off to the side. The sound of metal crushing, glass shattering, and her children's screams, followed by the voices of other people, calling out, but she could not answer. Fate.
By the time the rescuers took Lady from the car, she was unconscious. Marie was alive, but hardly breathing, her eyes wide open but unable to respond to those around her. Leah was dead. The two survivors were rushed to the hospital, but sadly, only one would live. Mariemaia, two days after, gave up the fight to join her father, leaving Lady all alone, but she did not realize it just yet, because she, too, was so close to giving up her fight. But fate would not take her so easily.
As the coma bound her, memories of her two children passed though her head. They were drenched with their own blood, their screams echoing in her ears. "Marie, Leah," she whispered, and slowly, she drifted from the coma into a deep sleep.
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A group of people sat around a dining table, chatting amiably amongst themselves as they watched over a young girl, playing with a dollhouse nearby. A faint memory of who they were floated like a blessing into Lady's mind, and soon, she was able to recognize them all.
"Lady!" called Noin's voice. "We were wondering when you'd be back." Zechs, sitting beside Lucy, greeted her with a smile as well, only adding his remarks after Lady had taken her seat beside Mr. Treize.
"My old buddy here was getting worried.He'd have to sleep alone tonight." he said, giving Treize a friendly punch to the shoulder. He missed the first time, but was close enough the second, and Lady could tell he was already slightly drunk. So typical, she thought, before Marie's voice greeted her has well.
"Mother, would you like a cream cone?" she asked, strikingly polite for a girl of eighteen. But then, she always had her father's charm. Lady quietly declined the tempting vanilla desserts, and her attention turned to Treize. He smiled at her.
"Well, Zechs was telling some truth in his drunkenness. You were worrying me for a moment. But I knew you'd never let me down..." Never let me down, the words struck her with a familiarity, but the memory of when he had said them before danced just beyond her grasp. It didn't really matter, she thought, shaking her head. Without any considerable warning, Zechs started to sing. Damn the effects of alcohol, she thought.
"Ok, enough drinking for you," Noin chided, helping Zechs to his feet. She took him up the stairs to one of the guest bedrooms before returning with a smile. "Sleeps like an angel, but only when he's drunk," she laughed, then turned her attention to her little daughter, Leah. There was something wrong in this scenario, but Lady just couldn't manage to pick it out. "Come now, little one, and Marie as well, let us be off somewhere and leave Lady and Treize in peace." And they were gone before Lady could say anything in protest. Not that it mattered, for Lady was still bound to her thoughts, asking herself what could possibly be wrong here, of all places. Her features furrowed in discontent.
"Lady, what's wrong?" Treize asked, slightly concerned.
"I don't know," she whispered back, disliking it whenever she could not understand something. Treize reached to put his hand on top of hers.
"Are you feeling alright?" Lady looked away, her eyes widening at the sight of smoke, drifting like heavy fog across the floor. Frozen, she watched as it crept around the table, rising around her chair as if it were some type of silent, preying animal. She looked back at Treize, but he did not seem to see the smoke himself. "You look pale, Lady, maybe you should lie down." She shook her head and turned her gaze to the smoke that was now creeping up the stairs as well. "What do you see, Lady?" came that icy voice, as Treize's hand closed around hers tightly, the bony fingers pressing deep into her skin. Lady whirled herself around to see the blood, the broken flesh, that she knew was there.
"Why the panic, Lady?" Noin's voice came from the doorway. Zechs smiled at Une from his place beside her. Marie stepped from the shadows as well, holding Leah by the hand. Both oozed blood from there grey-stained skin, and - Oh, God, there were worms. White and yellow maggots that crawled over and through the flesh around her daughter's mouth.
"Is something the matter, Mother?" Lady looked at Leah, hoping there might be a way to save the young child, but the girl could not be helped. Lady swallowed back the sickness that threatened to overcome her, as she saw the little girl's heart, beating raggedly behind her ribs, and realized the great wound that punctured her chest. Lady could bear it no longer, and she screamed.
"Lady," Treize whispered. "They are all here. We all want you to join us. We can be a family.We can be together, Lady." She was choking back tears.
"No! Please, just leave me alone! I don't want to go with you!!"
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Her eyes opened and slowly adjusted to her surroundings. The white ceiling, the fluorescent lights, the strong, sanitary smell of a hospital. "So you are awake now?" A nurse said, approaching her with a gentle smile. Lady tried to sit up. "No, don't move. You're still tired. It's better to rest," the young woman said. "You were very lucky to have survived." Lady remembered her dream, and immediately, she called her children's names.
"Leah! Marie!" The nurse turned to face her again, a solemn look spread across her face. She placed a hand on Lady's shoulder and whispered softly.
"Both your children are dead. I'm sorry." Tears blurred Lady's vision as memories of her two daughters washed like waves over her. Marie had not even made it through college. Neither of them would get to experience the joys of growing into wonderful young adults.
"My little angels," she whispered weakly. "But I guess they're happy." The nurse looked at her questioningly. "They can be with their real parents, now." She closed her eyes, missing the apologetic look the nurse gave her before leaving the room. "My little angels."
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Lady placed her hands on the cold grey stones once again, noticing how this line of tombstones grew so quickly from just one, to five in a neat row below the mausoleum chapel. "I told you I was never to return here," she told Treize, Zechs, and Noin, although she knew it was not possible for them to hear her.anymore. "But fate wanted otherwise... And I had to return to bury your children along side you. I'm sorry. Now again, I vow, I will never come back. May you all rest in peace." And she walked away, not daring once to look back.
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Lady stood out on the balcony of her apartments, looking out at the endless forests that filled the horizon. The sun shone brightly, but Lady still refused to smile. "Now, what would be troubling such a lovely young woman on a day like this?" came Treize's voice from behind her. She spun around to face him, surprised. Treize just smiled. "Should you not wish intruders entering your apartments, you should think to lock the door," he teased gently.
"It's quite alright, Sir. It doesn't matter. I wasn't expecting you, Excellency-" Treize raised a gloved hand and placed an index finger over her lips. "Enough of those tiresome honorifics. Just Treize will suffice."
Une began to protest. "But it's not proper-"
"I don't see anyone around to report it." She sighed in defeat.
"Very well, Treize..." Lady trailed, turning back to stare into the sky. A single cloud floated over the sun, and Lady watched, perplexed at how it got there all alone.
"Fate took it there," Treize said, as if he had read her mind. She laughed.
"Come now, do you really believe in such things?"
"And why would you not?"
"Things just happen. There is no such thing as fate..." Une replied quietly.
"Oh, really? What of the things that cannot be explained? What of-"
"I just do not believe in fate. That is all." Treize smiled silently to himself, feeling lucky she had not turned around to face him. She really was stubborn, he thought. "Well, I do. And fate can choose to bless people. Do you think I do not thank fate for bringing you into my life?" he added, and Lady looked at him, her cheeks turning red when she realized what he meant. "Fate controls what happens, and what won't, Lady." He's mad, Lady thought for a second, and then looked up at the sky. He's mad, but then again, so am I... And for the first time since she returned to Lake Victoria, she smiled... "Lady, look at me."
She spun around quickly and there he was. Those sapphire eyes glowing with an evil incomprehensible to the living world. Those bony hands reaching out to her, beckoning her to him. "Please, no."
"Fate calls upon you. I call upon you. Come with me, and we can be together again. Just say yes, Lady, say yes." Lady had lost everything. Her lover, her closest friends, her children. Maybe now was the right time to surrender... Maybe now.
"No!" she cried. "You are not Treize! I will not go with you! Treize would never want me to die! Treize loved me!" She paused, "And I loved him."
That single admission seemed to vanquish the evil that surrounded her, and the image of the man who longed to take her into the shadows disappeared. It was gone. Her dream faded into sleep, and she knew peace for the remainder of the night.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Well, not much can be said for that. Only a few more chapters, I
PROMISE!!! If this story hasn't confused and disturbed you beyond all
reason yet. is anyone here human??? Hehehe. I'm just kidding. ^____^
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CHAPTER FOUR: THIS CLAIM OF FATE
Lady lay her hands on the cold grey stone, wishing she had not been so enticed to do this. "Good-bye, Treize," she whispered, and took notice of Marie and Leah saying their final good-byes as well. "May you rest in peace now that we have chosen to let you go." With a sigh of forbearance, all three of them together, they turned around and left their years of grief to remain behind in the frigid stone.
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June 8, 205 AC
The sound of police cars and an ambulance was all Lady could hear, and her vision was blurred by a bloody haze. There were people outside, screaming, but she did not know why. Her mind was slipping silently, but the faint memory of what was happening somehow drifted back to her. They had been driving, she, Marie, and Leah, taking Marie back to the campus after a Saturday out along the beach. Something crossed the road in their path. The car swerved off to the side. The sound of metal crushing, glass shattering, and her children's screams, followed by the voices of other people, calling out, but she could not answer. Fate.
By the time the rescuers took Lady from the car, she was unconscious. Marie was alive, but hardly breathing, her eyes wide open but unable to respond to those around her. Leah was dead. The two survivors were rushed to the hospital, but sadly, only one would live. Mariemaia, two days after, gave up the fight to join her father, leaving Lady all alone, but she did not realize it just yet, because she, too, was so close to giving up her fight. But fate would not take her so easily.
As the coma bound her, memories of her two children passed though her head. They were drenched with their own blood, their screams echoing in her ears. "Marie, Leah," she whispered, and slowly, she drifted from the coma into a deep sleep.
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A group of people sat around a dining table, chatting amiably amongst themselves as they watched over a young girl, playing with a dollhouse nearby. A faint memory of who they were floated like a blessing into Lady's mind, and soon, she was able to recognize them all.
"Lady!" called Noin's voice. "We were wondering when you'd be back." Zechs, sitting beside Lucy, greeted her with a smile as well, only adding his remarks after Lady had taken her seat beside Mr. Treize.
"My old buddy here was getting worried.He'd have to sleep alone tonight." he said, giving Treize a friendly punch to the shoulder. He missed the first time, but was close enough the second, and Lady could tell he was already slightly drunk. So typical, she thought, before Marie's voice greeted her has well.
"Mother, would you like a cream cone?" she asked, strikingly polite for a girl of eighteen. But then, she always had her father's charm. Lady quietly declined the tempting vanilla desserts, and her attention turned to Treize. He smiled at her.
"Well, Zechs was telling some truth in his drunkenness. You were worrying me for a moment. But I knew you'd never let me down..." Never let me down, the words struck her with a familiarity, but the memory of when he had said them before danced just beyond her grasp. It didn't really matter, she thought, shaking her head. Without any considerable warning, Zechs started to sing. Damn the effects of alcohol, she thought.
"Ok, enough drinking for you," Noin chided, helping Zechs to his feet. She took him up the stairs to one of the guest bedrooms before returning with a smile. "Sleeps like an angel, but only when he's drunk," she laughed, then turned her attention to her little daughter, Leah. There was something wrong in this scenario, but Lady just couldn't manage to pick it out. "Come now, little one, and Marie as well, let us be off somewhere and leave Lady and Treize in peace." And they were gone before Lady could say anything in protest. Not that it mattered, for Lady was still bound to her thoughts, asking herself what could possibly be wrong here, of all places. Her features furrowed in discontent.
"Lady, what's wrong?" Treize asked, slightly concerned.
"I don't know," she whispered back, disliking it whenever she could not understand something. Treize reached to put his hand on top of hers.
"Are you feeling alright?" Lady looked away, her eyes widening at the sight of smoke, drifting like heavy fog across the floor. Frozen, she watched as it crept around the table, rising around her chair as if it were some type of silent, preying animal. She looked back at Treize, but he did not seem to see the smoke himself. "You look pale, Lady, maybe you should lie down." She shook her head and turned her gaze to the smoke that was now creeping up the stairs as well. "What do you see, Lady?" came that icy voice, as Treize's hand closed around hers tightly, the bony fingers pressing deep into her skin. Lady whirled herself around to see the blood, the broken flesh, that she knew was there.
"Why the panic, Lady?" Noin's voice came from the doorway. Zechs smiled at Une from his place beside her. Marie stepped from the shadows as well, holding Leah by the hand. Both oozed blood from there grey-stained skin, and - Oh, God, there were worms. White and yellow maggots that crawled over and through the flesh around her daughter's mouth.
"Is something the matter, Mother?" Lady looked at Leah, hoping there might be a way to save the young child, but the girl could not be helped. Lady swallowed back the sickness that threatened to overcome her, as she saw the little girl's heart, beating raggedly behind her ribs, and realized the great wound that punctured her chest. Lady could bear it no longer, and she screamed.
"Lady," Treize whispered. "They are all here. We all want you to join us. We can be a family.We can be together, Lady." She was choking back tears.
"No! Please, just leave me alone! I don't want to go with you!!"
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Her eyes opened and slowly adjusted to her surroundings. The white ceiling, the fluorescent lights, the strong, sanitary smell of a hospital. "So you are awake now?" A nurse said, approaching her with a gentle smile. Lady tried to sit up. "No, don't move. You're still tired. It's better to rest," the young woman said. "You were very lucky to have survived." Lady remembered her dream, and immediately, she called her children's names.
"Leah! Marie!" The nurse turned to face her again, a solemn look spread across her face. She placed a hand on Lady's shoulder and whispered softly.
"Both your children are dead. I'm sorry." Tears blurred Lady's vision as memories of her two daughters washed like waves over her. Marie had not even made it through college. Neither of them would get to experience the joys of growing into wonderful young adults.
"My little angels," she whispered weakly. "But I guess they're happy." The nurse looked at her questioningly. "They can be with their real parents, now." She closed her eyes, missing the apologetic look the nurse gave her before leaving the room. "My little angels."
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Lady placed her hands on the cold grey stones once again, noticing how this line of tombstones grew so quickly from just one, to five in a neat row below the mausoleum chapel. "I told you I was never to return here," she told Treize, Zechs, and Noin, although she knew it was not possible for them to hear her.anymore. "But fate wanted otherwise... And I had to return to bury your children along side you. I'm sorry. Now again, I vow, I will never come back. May you all rest in peace." And she walked away, not daring once to look back.
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Lady stood out on the balcony of her apartments, looking out at the endless forests that filled the horizon. The sun shone brightly, but Lady still refused to smile. "Now, what would be troubling such a lovely young woman on a day like this?" came Treize's voice from behind her. She spun around to face him, surprised. Treize just smiled. "Should you not wish intruders entering your apartments, you should think to lock the door," he teased gently.
"It's quite alright, Sir. It doesn't matter. I wasn't expecting you, Excellency-" Treize raised a gloved hand and placed an index finger over her lips. "Enough of those tiresome honorifics. Just Treize will suffice."
Une began to protest. "But it's not proper-"
"I don't see anyone around to report it." She sighed in defeat.
"Very well, Treize..." Lady trailed, turning back to stare into the sky. A single cloud floated over the sun, and Lady watched, perplexed at how it got there all alone.
"Fate took it there," Treize said, as if he had read her mind. She laughed.
"Come now, do you really believe in such things?"
"And why would you not?"
"Things just happen. There is no such thing as fate..." Une replied quietly.
"Oh, really? What of the things that cannot be explained? What of-"
"I just do not believe in fate. That is all." Treize smiled silently to himself, feeling lucky she had not turned around to face him. She really was stubborn, he thought. "Well, I do. And fate can choose to bless people. Do you think I do not thank fate for bringing you into my life?" he added, and Lady looked at him, her cheeks turning red when she realized what he meant. "Fate controls what happens, and what won't, Lady." He's mad, Lady thought for a second, and then looked up at the sky. He's mad, but then again, so am I... And for the first time since she returned to Lake Victoria, she smiled... "Lady, look at me."
She spun around quickly and there he was. Those sapphire eyes glowing with an evil incomprehensible to the living world. Those bony hands reaching out to her, beckoning her to him. "Please, no."
"Fate calls upon you. I call upon you. Come with me, and we can be together again. Just say yes, Lady, say yes." Lady had lost everything. Her lover, her closest friends, her children. Maybe now was the right time to surrender... Maybe now.
"No!" she cried. "You are not Treize! I will not go with you! Treize would never want me to die! Treize loved me!" She paused, "And I loved him."
That single admission seemed to vanquish the evil that surrounded her, and the image of the man who longed to take her into the shadows disappeared. It was gone. Her dream faded into sleep, and she knew peace for the remainder of the night.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Well, not much can be said for that. Only a few more chapters, I
PROMISE!!! If this story hasn't confused and disturbed you beyond all
reason yet. is anyone here human??? Hehehe. I'm just kidding. ^____^