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Chapter 7: To end it, or not to end it

Dante felt like he hadn't been to Mother's Hill in a while and it made him feel almost incomplete, it had been a week since the first meeting with Karen on Mother's Hill, but he didn't expect her to be there though, he knew she wouldn't be.

Dante did the days chores of weeding and taking care of Night and went up to Mother's Hill Peak. Just as Dante had suspected, Karen had not been there, but he sat and played anyway. Fable had followed him up the hill of coarse and was lying with her head rested in her paws as she dozed.

Dante could hear his notes echoing through the valley below, through the forests he had left Fable in. The music sounded beautiful as it danced on the wind that passed over the mountain.

Footsteps came closer, the footsteps of a decent climber. Dante could swear they were…

Karen emerged from the bushes, her face a hot fury. She strode right up to Dante and began screaming at him about anything and everything. She was blaming him for Rick, she was blaming him for the chickens, and she was blaming him for almost everything that had gone wrong in her life. Dante was so fixed on trying to understand her he only just noticed that she had begun crying. Karen had thought that so much had gone wrong in her life; she said it had to stop, it had to end.

Karen stepped backwards towards the edge of the peak, repeating the words 'it has to end, I will end it, it has to end'

"No Karen, STOP! You can't do this, you can't, you will hurt too many people because of it" Dante pleaded with her to stop, she only pulled some wine out of her pocket and drank it as she took her last step back.

Dante was up and over to the edge in the blink of an eye, he caught her hand just as she fell. She was dangling over the side of the cliff screaming…

"You have to let go, you have to let me end it" Tears were covering her face by now and she was wriggling so that he would lose his grip.

"I won't let you go, I can't let you go…" He trailed off as he tightened his grip, he didn't attempt to pull her up because that would cause her to try to jump again, instead he let her jangle there and decided to try to talk to her to calm her down first.

"Karen, why do you want to end you life, you have so much to live for, I would give anything to be like you. You know your parents, you know your life story, you know your relatives, and you know where you came from. I don't, I don't know any of it, I know the farm, Fable, Night and I know you Karen, that's it, that's all I know, and that is all I want to know, because it is those things that make the emptiness of not knowing your past seem to drift away, it is those things that, given the chance, I want to have to make my life complete, to create my future; my farm, my wolf, my horse and you." Dante had no idea where the words were coming from, they spiled from his thoughts to his tongue and he spoke every one, he knew exactly how he felt and now she knew every word as well.

"Me…you want me in your future, you want to have anything to do with me after how I have treated you?" Karen said between sobs.

"That's the first time, since I can remember, that I have told my feelings from the heart to any person. I meant every word of what I said to you Karen, and I mean everyone of it. I am love struck by you whether you feel the same way or not, I can't change it, but maybe if I pull you up I can help you to create your future as much as you might help me to create mine" Dante said smiling warmly as he pulled her up slowly.

"I am so sorry, for everything" Karen said sobbing into his chest while she clutched him in a warm hug.

"And I am sorry that you felt how you did, we can change it together if you'll give me the chance" He said into her hair.

"Of course" She said as she burst into tears again, but this time tears of joy.

They remained silently in each other's arms as they watched the sunset together. At night the Fireworks display began and Karen insisted on watching the fireworks from there, where they were alone and happy. As the Fireworks Display went on Dante smiling and watched while Karen snuggled into his arms. At 8pm when it was all over Dante and Fable escorted Karen home. She snuck into her house and quickly and quietly found her way to her bedroom and bed.

Dante and Fable walked home, Dante cheerfully whistling a tune. When they reached the farmhouse they both went inside and went to sleep. Dante was too happy to care about cleaning up the shack, now he had to extend his house so that it was more impressive. Oh, the things he had to do now that he wasn't alone anymore. Nothing could ruin his life now, nothing could hurt him anymore. He didn't need a past to have a future. He needed Karen, Fable, Night and his farm to have a future and be happy, and he had them.