The darkness didn't seem to end and I matter how many times my brain told my feet to stop walking they continued to step into the inky blackness. I couldn't seem to stop. I felt so tired but I also felt like I had to just keep walking. It felt like it had been hours before my tired feet finally slowed and then stopped. I had just stopped moving when I collapsed to the ground.

My head was spinning and I felt like throwing up. I rested my head in my hands and waited for my body to feel normal again. When I finally looked up all I could see was the darkness but as I looked out into the darkness there seemed to be a light at the end of the tunnel. The light seemed to grow and suddenly Sam was standing there in front of me.

"Welcome back Claire," he held his and out and helped me up.

"Am I dying again?" I asked knowing full well where I was.

"Sadly yes, but this time you aren't alone," Sam smile and snapped his fingers. The darkness shifted to the white I remembered from the last time I'd been here but he was right. This time Eve, Michael and Shane all stood in the room as well.

"Sam?" Eve said looking towards us. "I thought you were dead!" She yelled and ran over to hug him.

"I am," he said setting her down. Shane had come over and wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

"What do you mean you're dead? You can't be, you're standing right in front of me," Eve said confused.

"Eve. I'm sorry, but all of you are in Limbo, waiting for judgment."

"What sort of judgment?" Michael asked.

"Whether we get to live or not," I supplied.

"What?" Shane said quietly.

"Nikki and Grant did something to us. Something that killed, or that might kill us. This is where people in comas go. We're waiting for judgment from an invisible force," I continued sitting down on a couch that had just appeared.

"Don't worry Claire, I don't think you'll have to wait long," Sam said, and almost at the signal the bell rang. The same table appeared but this time it held four sheets of paper. "Like I said, you won't have to wait long." He went over and glanced at all four sheets.

"Have fun in the human world, try not to die again," he waved us away and he started to fade into blackness but at the last second his face contorted. "What are you doing here?" He said but my eyes closed before I could see or hear anything else.

Much like last time I felt like I had the hangover of the century, well what I assumed a hangover would feel like. Every noise was magnified by 100, even my own uneven breathing sounded like a plane taking off.

"Claire's coming to first," Nikki said from a distance.

"What do you think she'll be?" Grant asked. My muscles started to twitch as the medicine started to leak out of my system.

"I don't know, I think she'll be Pride," Nikki said closer this time.

"But I'm Pride,"

"You were sweetie, but once we absorbed everything and split it again between us there is a possibility that neither of us will be the same," this time her voice was right next to me. I felt a hand close on my arm and I was being lifted up. Luckily my feet had come back to their senses and I could stand easily.

"Wake up, Claire," Nikki whispered in my ear. This time her voice was like a wake-up call and my eyes snapped open. She was less than a foot away and her smile was ecstatic. "You survived."

"There was a chance I wouldn't?"

"There was a chance that none of you would, but don't worry they are all going to pull through. We took very good care of all of you."

"How long…were we out?" My throat was dry and I swayed for a second before her grip tightened.

"Seven days. Enough time for the sins to grow," Grant said mixing some chemicals.

"Sins?"

"Come on Claire, you had to have figured it out by now. We don't have the power to close the door. It took all seven sins to open and close the door last time. It will take the same amount this time," Nikki helped me over to a chair before heading over to Eve who was starting to move.

In time it took Shane and Michael to wake up and be moved to the couch I was fully awake and I didn't like it. I had so many things I wanted to ask, but I couldn't my body felt like it was humming and I wanted to know what was happening but I didn't want to give them the upper hand of knowing that I didn't know.

"You were right Nikki she's Pride. You can practically see her bursting with questions she wants to ask," Grant said coming over and looking me in the eye.

"So I'd rather not test them all. Just flare." Nikki said. Grant nodded and grabbed the flashlight that had died on me. He turned it on and shined it into Grant's eyes.

"Sloth, look at that dull gray. Lazy bum."

"Hey, who are you calling lazy," Shane yelled but made no mood to get up.

Next he shined the light at Michael and this time I could clearly see the black hole that took over his irises.

"Gluttony, the black hole for food."

"Makes sense," Nikki said looking at Grant. "I mean he was a vampire wanting only blood. So glutton suits him."

"Now what about you little miss?" Grant shone his light at Eve. I looked over to see her eyes flash a dangerous hard emerald green.

"Envy?" Grant said slightly confused.

"Or greed. Those two look a lot a like." Nikki said leaning back.

"Stay the hell away from my boyfriend!" Eve yelled and knocked the flashlight from Grant's hand.

"Envy it is," Grant said sitting on the arm of Nikki's chair

"Which means that you are Greed," Nikki said patting his knee.

"How do you know I'm not wrath?" He countered.

Before I could see she grabbed the flashlight from his hand and held it shining right in her eyes making it very clear that that molten lava red was the color of the true Wrath.

"Couldn't he be Lust?" Shane asked lazily.

"No," they said in unison.

"But there is only six of us. Who's going to act as the seventh sin?" I asked my Pride finally taking the wound of asking.

"Oh we already have the perfect person for Lust. She woke up two days ago. In fact she should be here at any moment," Nikki practically purred. My body seemed to warm up and I was getting turned on which I shouldn't be considering the fact that Shane was two people away from me.

"Is she doing this?" Michael asked.

"She can't control her power, just like you can't, which is why she isn't allowed out during the day. We can't have people stopping to make-out and do other indecent things in the middle of the street." Grant smiled and looked up the stairs as an outside light source lit them up briefly.

"So who is this perfect person?" Eve said holding tightly to Michael.

"That would be me."

My body turned involuntarily because I knew that voice but my eyes needed to confirm it and the second I turned I regretted it. Because standing in the little Halo of light stood the perfectly dress Monica Morrell.

So I know I haven't updated in forever and that's becoming a really bad habit, but my hard drive crashed with everything I had on it and I just lost heart to write for a long time, but I just found it again so hopefully I'll crank out a few more chapters soon. Now for all my fellow readers I'm hoping you can do me a favor. Besides reviewing this I would be grateful if you could take this survey for me because it's for my summer course and I would be eternally grateful if I could have your input. Here is the link:

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