Jenny's POV

I looked around and saw them everywhere; the eyes, they scaled the walls and littered the ceiling scrutinizing me from every angle. They watched with unblinking black orbs that glistened with malice and swallowed all light. My breathing spiked, no matter how deep I buried the memories of the eyes they would always haunt me. I flicked my hair out of my face and dozens of pairs of eyes suddenly focused on me with heavy gazes.

I closed my eyes suppressing a shudder. Where was I? The question spun in my head looking for an answer that was not there, I knew the answer would be found in my surroundings but that meant opening my eyes and facing them – the Shadow Men. I wasn't ready to leave the comforting darkness. The question spun faster, pulling other thoughts out of their hiding places and to the front of my mind where the question had formed a tornado. Julian was suddenly in my forethoughts, the cruel mocking Shadow Man who hated everyone, the heart wrenchingly gentle one, the broken soul who wanted someone to light his darkness. I felt a tear slide down my face as I saw the last version of Julian, the one I had let down.

Guilt was welling up in a deep recess within me; I was seconds away from collapsing on the floor in a pool of my own tears and becoming the wretched person I had been on the night Julian died. I couldn't take it anymore; my eyes flew open of their own accord to face the hungry eyes.

But they weren't there; the walls they had covered were bare and in their place was only a small flickering light in the far corner of the room. I felt happiness rush up inside me; I had found the way out of this nightmare! I half ran to the light. I wasn't surprised I hadn't seen it earlier – it was partially hidden by the wall which jutted out in a sharp point, forcing me to slide into the bordering room sideways.

I stopped when I saw what was in the room. It wasn't what I had thought it was, light flickering through an open door, instead there was a stone font that looked as if it had once held water but now there were large flames leaping from the centre. Then my heart froze. Black moths were fluttering all over the place. I tried to swallow past the strange obstruction in my throat. I wanted to leave now and fast.

"You were supposed to be the light to my darkness, my flame," an emotionless voice said to my retreating back.

I stopped in my tracks and stared unseeing at the wall in front of me as if I was suddenly interested in its uneven curves and jagged points. After a few moments I turned and saw the face that had haunted my worst nightmares for the past few days. Julian was leaning against one of the four identical walls on the other side of the room, half of his face lit by the warm glow of the fire, the other in shadow.

Kind of like his soul, I thought abstractedly, half in the light, half in the dark.

His strange cat tilted eyes were missing their usual inner light, as he watched a moth fly towards the heart of the fire to its death.

'Like a moth to a flame,' he mused, before laughing quietly to himself. The laugh was completely different to how it used to be; before it was cunning, now it was self mocking and dejected.

Julian turned to face me fully so I could see the coldness he was harbouring there and then the fire in the room went out as if an icy gust of wind had ripped through the room. The room was plunged into darkness; I wouldn't have been able to see my fingers if I'd waved them right in front of my face. I spun around, taking that as my cue to leave and screamed when something grabbed my arm, preventing me from moving. I looked up and was caught in a stern gaze. Julian was staring down at me, his blue eyes, two shades darker and five shades more exotic than cobalt seemed to hold their own light and were the only thing I could see.

'I died for you,' he whispered his eyes suddenly looking terribly lost, 'what did you do for me?'

Audrey's POV

Where was she? I'd assumed Jenny had wanted to be alone, but it was nearly midnight and she still hadn't come back down. What if something had happened? Panic rushed through me as I considered all the possible things that could have happened. No one was up yet, I'd woken up half an hour ago because of Michael's snoring. I smiled as I thought of Michael. He was so perfect for me.

I tip toed through the living room, careful to avoid any of the creaky floorboards and then rushed upstairs. The sense of foreboding was too much now, the closer I got, the worse I felt. It increased when I saw the door to Tom's room wide open leading into the darkness. I cautiously entered the room and hissed in a breath. Tom was unconscious and Jenny was nowhere in sight. I crept through the room, feeling my way in the darkness and desperately trying to keep calm. The shadows slowly wrapped themselves around me as I moved further into the darkness making it harder and harder to see as I got closer to the bed.

It was like I was entering another land, the place in between the human world and the Shadow world, where nothing was in full control. Where the shadows could weave a cold web of despair around you while you were still in the comfort of your own home, or make the safest place you know transform into a living hell.

Suddenly there was a soft creak coming from behind me. I turned around sharply to see the door close with a soft click. I was definitely not fully in the human world anymore. I took a deep breath and stepped backwards when something came into contact with my leg. I screamed as I saw a Shadow Man grabbing me in my mind's eye. I tumbled to the floor with a hollow thud and saw the ceiling staring down at me. I turned quickly to see who or what I had tripped over.

I stared into the darkness trying to make out shapes or distinguishing features in the murky darkness. Staring back at me was a pair of green eyes. Jenny. I sighed in relief glad that I had found my friend and then stopped. Jenny was staring at me but not seeing me. She was lost in her own thoughts, her eyes glassy and far away, displaying an emotion I couldn't place. They were halfway between anguish and regret. She looked haunted.

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