Darkness Within
Note: Well, here it is, chapter 15. I hope u like it! Review, please!
Chapter Fifteen: Kissing Away the Tears
"What do ya mean ya can't remember anything?"
"I mean… everything seems… distant. I know you, and I know when, where, and how we met, but before that… everything is a blur. And some of what comes in between, too."
"I don' understand… How can you not remember so much?"
"I think… that was the price for her life, Joey," a haunting voice, the voice of the departing spirit of Kirra, whispered. "You cannot have everything. She can't recall anything about the pharaoh, her past in Egypt, or the supernatural. Only the normal things have been left behind. She can start over, Joey. She will be alright."
"But… dat isn't fair! She never asked for anything! It was a selfless act!"
"No… it is not fair… but, Joey, there is a price to so many actions… I can't begin to tell you the horrors that the future holds for the two of you… just promise me that you will never let go."
"Of course not," he said.
"Then you will endure. Goodbye, Joey."
"Joey? Hello, earth to Joey Wheeler!"
"Sorry about dat, Fiacha."
"Well… thank you, I think… Whatever happened, I know that I owe you my life."
"Maybe. Let's just go home, alright?"
"Where is home, anyway. I don't live here, in Domino, do I?"
"Eh… you can live wit me for now, until we come up wit something better. Dat okay?"
She smiled and nodded, trying to sort through her few memories to find who she was. All that she knew was that she loved Joey, and that they had been through a lot together since her coming to Domino. But why she had come, and where she had been before, that was all a mystery. Who was she, really?
That night, she and Joey sat on the porch, in the calming moonlight.
"I... I'm really sorry dat you... well you can't..."
"Don't worry about it, Joey... It doesn't matter. I... well... we have each other, right?"
"Always."
"Good."
For a few seconds, Fiacha caught just a blur of something... a time long past by the standards of who she was now... when she had traveled somewhere dark and evil to save Joey... who had gone there to save her. It seemed that all was not quiet in her life, even now. If she spent the rest of her days haunted by half memories, it would be very painful indeed.
"Fiacha?"
"Yeah?"
She looked over at Joey, who was very close to her face. Without thinking, she let his lips meet her own and for the time that she was in his embrace, the past didn't matter. She saw only the future... years spent with Joey, her Joey. Getting her driver's license, getting a job... her first anniversary with a boy. Nothing could possibly go wrong. So why was she crying?
"What's wrong?"
"I... I don't know."
He sighed and pulled her closer, as if the circle of his arms could protect her from all the sadness in the world. "It's gonna be okay, Fiacha. Don't worry... I'll always be here for ya."
"How can you know that?"
"Well... I don't... but how can anything ever take me away from you? I care about you too much."
"I just... I'm not sure that... Never mind."
This time, she started the kiss.
End note: That's all, folks. I hope you liked it! Review, review, review!
