Sorry this is not a Chapter. I just wanted to address a Reviewer who was not brave enough to face me herself. So she wrote me a scathing review anonymously. Thank you by the way because even though it was a negative review it is still a review and adds one more number to the tally.
The review:
Guest chapter 2 . Apr 15
There was nothing to like about this little thing you wrote, it reeked of death. Drama? family my ass. more like ANGST...TRAGEDY. Who the hell wants to read this shit, someone who likes depressing ass shit. So Dimitri and Rose die and they are heros, big fucking whoop. Nobody wants to read about some ghosts or other characters getting a life of happiness and to make your story worse you kill two babies in it to. Did you wake up one day and thought " I think i will write a depressing emo ass story about death"
First of all if you didn't like it Stop Reading! I admit that Angst/Tragedy might have been a better category than Family/Drama. I will see if I can change that and add a tissue warning.
As for writing depressing things. Art imitates life. Bad things do happen to good people. Just a few weeks ago there was a horrific bus crash in northern California and on that bus was a bunch of high school kids with their whole lives in front of them. They were on that bus to go look at the University of Humboldt. On that bus chaperoning them was a young man and his fiancé.
The point of this story is that even though tragedy happens and we don't understand why it happens, good things can come from it. I guess it is a matter of prospective.
Most of my stories contain angst that will get resolved and end happy and to some extent I did try to give Rose and Dimitri their happily ever after. They are together with the babies, in heaven with God and they will never suffer or lose one another again.
As for killing two babies. What should I have done? Leave Rose on life support till the babies can be delivered safely then have them raised by a Depressed and crippled Dimitri. Or perhaps Orphaned left to be raised by Adrian and Sydney? I chose to let Rose and Dimitri have their family be complete.
This all came from a dream that confused me. It wasn't even Rose and Dimitri or even Yeva, in my dream. It was some young couple on a bus. They were so in love and so happy that I (the third party observer) couldn't help but watch them. A crazy woman got on the bus and pulled out a gun and shot the young woman point blank in the heart. Then turned the gun on others at random. The next part of my dream had the young man sitting with Jesus in a café and again I was a silent observer. I heard the man pleading with Jesus to take him sooner than later so he could be with her as he couldn't live without her. Jesus embraced him and they disappeared.
I didn't know what to make of the dream then and I still don't. I don't have dreams about people I don't know. The dream kept bothering me and rolling around in my head and so I decided to try to do something with it. Sometimes a plot bunny just will not be ignored and I think I did a good job of giving meaning to the otherwise senseless act of violence I had originally dreamed about.
In my epilogue I tried to show all the good that came from the lives and to some extent even the death of Rose and Dimitri. The first real test of the vaccine was during the attack and because of its success all Moroi and Dhampir began getting vaccinated.
But as I said earlier if you don't like it Stop Reading! I write for myself and my own creativity. If others read and like it then yes it makes me happy but ultimately I write for me.
For those of you who are too cowardly to give a Signed review so I can perhaps help clarify what I was thinking or perhaps you could help me figure out what I could improve then thank you for wasting your time yet adding to my review tally.