Title: Requiem (Part 1/?)
Author: Erilo
Email: Ladyhellcat666@aol.com
Rating: 15
Based on: NW
Spoilers: NW
Disclaimers: The Night World and any other concepts from the books belong to L. J. Smith. The characters in the story however do.
Summary: Rae wants peace, the only way she can find it, but a knock on her door changes all of that...


Requiem (Part 1/?)

Rae was in pain. It wasn't a physical pain. It was in her heart. Six months had passed since the love of her life died in a freak accident. Even now just thinking about his beautifully innocent smile and the twinkle in his almond-shaped hazel eyes shot spears of searing hot anguish into the center of her being.

He was the light to her dark. He was the one that kept her from the dark thoughts that had wound their way into her soul and took root. Without him she was lost. Rae didn't kid herself and she wasn't one to live with half-truths. He had been her world and now that he was gone she had nothing to live for. Rae would be with him in the after life. Her mind was set; she would do it.

"We will be together again." Rae choked out with conviction as tears streaming down her face.

Rae retrieved a bottle of painkillers from her nightstand and emptied the contents directly into her mouth. A glass of water soon followed the pills, cementing her fate. It wouldn't be long and then--then there would be peace...

Time passed and she faded. Would oblivion be as nice as she imagined?

Thoughts would be a thing of the past and pain would be non-existent; she would be free. And most of all the knocking would stop--wait knocking? Knocking...someone was knocking on her door. That much registered through her drug-fogged brain. Someone was knocking and they wouldn't stop. Maybe if she answered it they'd go away.

Rae slowly stood and stumbled to the door. It was hard to believe she'd taken the pills only a short while ago. Once the knocking stopped, and the person who was knocking went away, then silence would soon follow. Rae leaned heavily on the door as she unlocked, then opened it.

Oh...

She was far-gone. It had to be a hallucination of some kind, right?

Before her stood, Alex...her dead boyfriend. But the--that--it was getting so hard to think. Alex couldn't possibly--how did he--oh god, she needed to lie down.

"Alex?" Came her slurred query. "It can't be, you /can't/ be here."

He seemed angry. His mouth was moving but all was still so quiet.

The numbness that had been taking over her body finally seeped into her brain. That was it! It had to be.

"Oh God." Rae moaned plunging forward into Alex's arms.

Then she was in his arms and he was carrying her to her room-their room. He was just as beautiful as he'd always been. Which was strange in itself considering he'd been in a car accident and his car had been totaled. She'd been the one to identify his body at the city mortuary. It'd been him, she'd bet her life on it, or what was left of it. But that didn't matter now, all that mattered was that he was here. Rae closed her eyes when he laid her against the bed.

Sweet. That's what she remembered about Alex. He was sweet and kind and he came back to her. But this time she would be the one that was leaving.

Alex, she thought before she surrendered to the void, I love you.


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