Darkness gazed down at the sleeping couple with utter contempt. How could she love that boy so deeply over the immortal essence of Darkness. He wanted so much to hate Lily for not loving him, but despite his efforts, he could not. He loved her, he realized, with more power then he could hate. He roared at this realization and collapsed on the floor as he slowly began to calm. "Count your blessings boy, because I will get down there. I will have her and you will not be capable to do anything about it!" He roared once more and begun to throw himself against the walls of the planet beneath him. Then, he finally made a break in the sky. He looked at the planet below him and smiled a cruel twisted smile. "Lily dear, here I come!" He began to laugh with a meniacle cruely as he forced himself through the ever widening crack.

The sky above Lily and Jack turned black and stormy as they woke up to find themselves wet with rain. Jack stared up at the evil looking heavens with fear. "Lily! We have to get out of here! This is not natural! I can't risk you getting hurt, my love." Jack picked her up and began to run for the castle.

"Jack! I can walk you know!" She looked at him with shock.

"Not fast enough Lily!" Jack continued to run, but the city seemed to never get any closer. He looked around frantically as he looked for shelter. There was a cave, he saw, on the hill near by. He ran to it taking a wet and somewhat frazzled looking Lily inside. They huddled next to one another, cold and damp, as they heard a sickening crack come form the sky. Jacklistened in horror, "That wasn't thunder Lily..." the rest of his voice was drowned out by a booming roar followed by thundering laughter.

A shadow fell on the cave as two cloven feet appeared in front of the cave's entrance. Lily froze in terror as she thought to herself, 'It can't be, it can't be, it can't be!'

"Well, well, well, what do we have here boy? Ah, my dear sweet Lily!"

"I'm not your sweet anything!" Lily shouted, still clinging to Jack's chest for dear life,his arms holding her even tighter.

"Leave her alone!" Jack said as he gazed into the face of Darkness himself. Darkness looked at him and sent a hard punch to Jack's delicate human skull. Jack was out like a light. Lily began, frantically, to try to wake him, but no luck occured. She clung to his limp barely breathing body as Darkness took her around her waist and began to drag her away from her love.

"Noooo! Jack! Please wake up! Help me!" She screamed through the broken sobs coming through the voice that now sounded like a horrid lament begging for death herself to come and carry her off. Darkness turned the delicate form of Lily to face him and bent down in a kiss that made her shriek even louder and more terrible then before. Darkness was startled and made no move to continue.

He placed her over his shoulder and began to walk towards the old tree where he had taken residence years before. He carried her carfully to the shore line across the swamp in front of it. He took her, still screaming, to an old rarely used room that had once been used to house his many concubines before he was impisoned. They had long since deserted the place, but many of his goblins were still about. He tossed her onto the bed inside before turning and leving the room, locking the door behind him.

Jack walked down the aisle towards Lily in her long white dress. She looked beautiful. He made it up there and realized to his horror that the minister was Darkness. Darkness smiled cruelly as he picked up the now screaming Lily and stabbed Jack in the chest. Jack felt a crushing pain to his heart as if it had been torn away from him and his head now dripped with blood as it began to hurt him. He cried out after Lily but she couldn't hear him. He fell to the floor of the cathedral and woke to find himself in a cave, his head cut, her nail marks on his chest and Lily gone. He stared for a moment at the peice of linen he saw that had been ripped from Lily's dress and wept. "I'll find you Lily. I won't leave you. I promise."