Post by The Pantheon Dragon on Jun 15, 2006 16:12:34 GMT -5
I've seen you hanging 'round
This darkness where I'm bound
And this black hole I've dug for me
And silently within with hands touching skin
The shock breaks my disease
And I can breathe.
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
Your faith like the pain
Draws me in again
She washes all my wounds for me
The darkness in my veins
I never could explain
And I wonder if you ever see
Will you still believe?
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
Am I that strong
To carry on
I might change my life
I might save our world
Would you save me?
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
It was nearly midnight,as a figure hurried through the deep and secluded Jersey woods.Panting and dodging trees that could barely be made out in the shawled darkness.The only source of light that provided any means to travel by was the luminous moon that hung in the center of a pitch black night-time sky.But the figure didn't seem to care,as two bundled blankets were securely pressed againist the person's chest.The sounds of rapid fire brawling and grunting weren't far behind,as it stopped at the top of the hill they had been ascending and placing it's back to a large flat stone lying againist a medium-sized boulder,inhaled and exhaled in small breaths,before turning to look down at her very much prized packages.
"You know,little ones.The more I think about it day-after-day,the more I begin to realise how much better life was all those years ago."The young woman spoke to them softly,although she could hardly make out their disticnt facial features.But she needn't,she knew them by heart now.
"Thorn."
Came just one of the voices she had come to dread,one of the voices that had belonged once to someone she would have considered a complete waste of time and energy but now feared.Feared because she knew she it was either fight or flee and she hated to fight anymore.But clearly being aware that she couldn't escape without acknowleding him...she turned her head skyward and with the moon's white beams silhouetting the image of a young man,whirled around and away from her resting place like she had so many others.With the fire of passion to engage in taking someone on still residing within her and flaring,the former Huntsgirl had to resist by all means by keeping her charges close to the warmth of her chest and her heart,which was thumping inside her rib cages,her mind racing frantically for something to say...anything to keep him away as long as she could.All of a sudden,her combative nature seemed to surface slightly.
"Just leave us be."she warned him intrepidly."I don't want to fight you."
"Hmph!What makes you think you can convince me you still have it in you to fight,anyways,Thorn?"He scoffed confidently,his brown eyes filling with amusement at her apocryphal threat."It's been over a year now."
"Don't push me.Besides,you're one to talk.When we first met and battled, you two were useless.Just because I choose not to resort to violence at every given opportunity anymore,doesn't mean I still don't have it in me."
"We could call it a draw,Mrs. Long."Alan went on as if she hadn't even spoken,as if she wasn't even worth his time to so much as taunt now that she had become who she was."You could surrender the child and let it be done.The Amercian Dragon and you could be free to leave.Also,you-"
"That's one of the reasons I abandoned my destiney in the first place,that completely lack of remorse we gain when we get sucked into the stupid world of hunting and selling magical creatures."Rose cut him short,taking a few steps back to get ready to run,as she continued strongly."This...this world you all are wrapped up in is going to one day turn on you.If you think I am the first...just you wait.More will lead by my past examples."
By now she was feeling as though he was heeding her words as though if they were completely factual based.Taking them in and realising that it would be immoral to separate a small infant from his or her mother.But just as that calming thought crossed her mind and was starting to relieve her deepest fear in the world,she sensed a second presence behind her.
"How's life been treatin' ya so far,sweetheart?"
The taunting voice of the second Huntsboy reached her ears and sent an instant rush of renewed terror through her veins,causing her back to tense up and become stiff.Shadows entirely consumed the area from behind her and she felt the unwelcomed feeling of helplessness rise up againist in her throat and chest,clogged with other assortments of raw desires,despises and despairs.She had sworn off fighting but not because of just her obtaining twins,no,it was because she had had enough of it.Fighting had once been apart of her life but she had seen it as ruining other's life and now it was putting not only her and her husband in danger,but her childern.Only two mere options were before the eighteen-year-old and a half mother...she could give in and be overtaken...or she could place her flesh and blood down to ward off those who threatened her life and that of her families.The two Huntsboys had become more advanced only within the last year,as Jake had informed her from battling them when he had to in order to protect them...she was afraid now but only when she allowed her alter ego,her more quick-witted and sinister self out...was she in control.Thorn had been concealed for nearly six years and she was the only part of Rose that could save them,the only part of her brave and ruthless enough.She was there just not yet summoned.
"I hope you both have missed me..."A dark and sophistical voice forced it's way from the hidden depths of her soul,somehow not surprising her in the least bit."Because..."she continued to speak as she went over to very gently lay the two slumbering babies in the confines of partially extirpated roots cording from a large oak tree,forunately being cushioned by the dry leaves that had fallen for the last several weeks."...Heh,I've missed you."
Meanwhile...
Jake could make out the Huntsman perfectly,as the two were once again engaged in hand-to-claw combat relentlessly.The heat seekingness of his dragon vision also allowed him to detect objects and people in the dark and tonight it was especially useful.But the nineteen-year-old's mind was farther from that thought and as always,focused on Rose's well being and not only that...but that of his childerns.By surprise,the young couple had been captured as they had been going home to resume a life in New York...the last place they hadn't been for over a year since High School had ended and they had decided on taking off to escape the Huntsclan's search for them.Occasionally they met up again but this was the first time they had been targeted as a whole family...the first time his wife and his childern were in danger.He knew he couldn't quit and look for them with the Huntsman himself dead on their trail...they wanted either Jake slain or their marked son as payment for Rose's complete and disgraceful treason in which they had only gotten more serious with the last few years.
"We could continue fighting like this for how ever long the two of us can stand on our own two feet."The Huntsman declared in a breathy voice as he caught Jake by the wrist in the midst of an underhanded swing with his fist."Or..."he twisted it back and nearly out of it's socket as if doing it was like breathing air,his grip and gaze unforgiving."You can just give up and turn yourself over to us.Sacrifice yourself over to save you're gifted young son,my ungrateful wretch of a niece and you're other pathetic child."
Jake turned abrasive,ripping his claw away and seizing the older man by his shirt collar in one swift move,as he spat to him in a dangerously low voice."I'm gonna make you eat those words and wish you had never even formed them in that twisted brain of yours.You can insult me all you want but you leave the rest of us out of it.Got it?"he thrusted him back and to his surprise,the Huntsman stumbled back some and then holding a sort of indecisive position for a few moments,collasped onto the ground."What the huh...?Okay,this is definitely not what I pictured you doing.Get up!"
But the large,built body of the middle-aged man cladded in his Huntsclan Academy uniform didn't so much as flinch.Even as Jake socked his head curiously and started to shift over to the left side a bit,his poor eyes were getting strained from exhausting their usage so long and he thought he was picking up the sounds of blows and crys from high above on the mountain crestwhere Rose was.The sudden feeling that she had been caught and her being taken in also leading to their two childern being tooken in as well caused a surge of rage through Jake and it took him everything he had to resist striking the Huntsman as he was still in his sedentary state.
"Listen up and listen good,Huntsy.We've been at this for a good long time and if I do give myself up for the sake of my family,it's you who will also be goin' down with me.I've been the American Dragon for five years and if at all possible,I'm going to go back to it when were back in the NYC again...there's nothing you can do,no matter how many times you try that is going to stop us.We've stopped you before all those years ago and we've been stoppin' you since then.So you give it up.It's over,Huntsman."
The next events were only flashes to him,as heard two people jump down on either side of him and when he reached out to grab them both,a third person came down,dropped a net on him and stuck a perfect landing as the young adult dragon started to thrash around,the power of the only substance that rendered him without power took it's quick but painless toll on him.Breathing hard and heavy from the anger starting to well up in his lungs,making it difficult to look up but he willed himself enough to see the craving in his nemesis's eyes,the absolute hatred this older man had for him.But it didn't phase Jake,as his mind was centered on thoughts of only his family.Had he failed them?Had he not lived up to his name?
"You're time has come,American Dragon."Huntsmaster told him as he got to his feet and assumed standing in front of the unwillfully passive dragon with the other members standing on either side of him,his voice now was pratically thickened with anticipation for the long-awaited moment of a most gloriest and trimphuant moment."Though the years of chasing you down have been wearisome,it is nearly worth it all to see you in this state as we have battled tirelessly,countless times."he accepted his retrievened staff from one of the Huntsmembers when it had been dropped over a few yards away,as he whipped it front center and powered up with it's emerald glow illuminating the area around."It's over dragon,finally..."
"NOOOO!"
Jake screamed in a blood-curling manner at the top of his firey lungs,so loud and forceful that it made his eardrums explode and his heart pound out of his chest.For in one instant,Rose came sprinting over on her long and lean legs,leaping into the face of the attack and directly tossed one of the infants at him for him to recieve in his languishing arms.Then he witnessed in slow,heart-stopping motion,as the attack and his wife made contact and she was thrown back by it's great intensity.Shifting the child to one arm,his right arm strengthend rapidly in that one instant and he was able to catch the fallen young woman in his arm,though it was like a twist of fate was wrapping it's merciless wrath around the torn three.
"Rose..."he managed to speak her name in a tight voice,his breath coming out ragged and trembling,everything he had been preventing coming alive in that moment."Rose...talk to me.Rose,honey,say something please."
Slowly,the rest of her body having gone limp in his able-bodied arm,she turned her face up to his and gingerly reached up with her crimson dragon demarcated hand to caress the bottom of his cheek."Don't even begin to think this means you can shirk you're responsiblity to Wendy,Dragon boy.I expect great and wonderful things from you both."she told him in a light,soothing voice,the darkness that fell over them making her medium blue eyes a few shades deeper but even so they sparkled and reflected in the ivory moon casted high above."Do you know how much I love you?"
Tears gushed from his charcoal eyes."Rose...why-why did you do all of this?Why-didn't-you-run-away?"he choked on sobs,half of his bodynow felt like it was frozen and the other half burning as sorrow over what his wife had done immediately almost set it."Honey,please tell me...please tell me you're going to be alright...Rose,I don't want to loose you,please..."
She smiled the sweetest smile she could muster as he brought up his hand enough from the arm he still used to support her weight and stroked some of the silky medium blond hair that rested to the side of her smooth,heart-shaped face behind her ear."I can't promise you that Jake."her breathing turned more shallow and her voice dropped to a loud whisper,resulting in them having to move their faces closer."I did this because I...I want you to promise me Jake.I want you to promise me you'll take care of Wendy and one day look for Cole.Before he makes that turn in his life."
"What...?"he whispered back in restrained weeping."What about Cole?"
"Don't worry..."she laughed back faintly."She can help him.So can you."
Jake turned confused."What do you mean by that?"
"Right now isn't the time,Jake.You need to take our daugther and leave."
"Rose...Rose don't you dare."He warned her feebly,scattered-brained and incredulous."You can't leave us...you can't leave me."her falling more weak and breathing even less caused him to start to panic."Rose,after all we've been through you can't go now!Not now.You've fought all you're life,Rose.You're so strong,honey.You're strong enough to win this fight."
She used the last of her strength to raise herself up a little more until their faces were just an inch apart and two single tears rolled down her round and blushing cheeks."Yes,I've won the fight over conquering my fear of both my different selves and the fight to save my family.Now it's all up to you and Wendy...to go on and save those who are corrupted."her will and spirit were no longer enough to keep her up to his level almost,so casting one last glance lovingly over at her slumbering daugther and up one more at Jake,she smiled again and told him tearfully."I didn't slay you and I want you to live,Jake.My time has come and I don't want to go but I have to.Just...Just keep that promise I asked you to make Jake.Please."
"Rose...?"
"Promise me,Jake..."
"R-Rose?"
"Promise me..."she inhaled a final time,her fear of passing surmounted.
"ROSE...I'll...I'll-I'll try my best,Rose."
On impulse,he seized her body up to his and the very last drop ofher remitted life was absorped up in one thirsty and passiontate kiss.The last kiss they would ever share but one that Jake could feel stretching into the very outreachs of time and space itself.A few soild,stale minutes had passed and he turned his tired eyes over to his awakened daugther who was staring at him with eyes that exactly resembled Rose's and before he could do anything,she let out a squeal of happiness and reached for him.
He held both of them close to his body and somehow warmth found it's way to him...the lifelessness was something he could not yet face and so he remained like that,half asleep and half awake until morning.Like ahard statue,unmoving and emotionless.The Huntsclan had already taken Cole and left...they would bring him up to be one of their own,to be a killer.But there was nothing Jake could do now,expect listen to his small,beautiful daugther's healthy little heart beat againist one side of his chest and try to decide over the incomplete request Rose had asked of him...to one day go after his own son.His son,who he knew would become his own enemy one day,was too much for Jake to bare and so he didn't hesistate to cry long and hard,for he had never cried much before and never would again.
For Rose and Cole were gone...only a broken Jake and his little cooeing and softly gurgling daugther...were the only two survivors for now.
To Be Continued...
A/N:Just to be clear,I'm not depressed.lol. There will be a bit more lighter moments but I've wanted to do this for a while now.So,if you liked it...if I hopefully didn't make y'll bawl too much that is,I'll continue soon.
This darkness where I'm bound
And this black hole I've dug for me
And silently within with hands touching skin
The shock breaks my disease
And I can breathe.
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
Your faith like the pain
Draws me in again
She washes all my wounds for me
The darkness in my veins
I never could explain
And I wonder if you ever see
Will you still believe?
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
Am I that strong
To carry on
I might change my life
I might save our world
Would you save me?
And all of your weight
And all you dream
Falls on me, it falls on me
And your beautiful sky
And the light you bring
Falls on me, it falls on me.
It was nearly midnight,as a figure hurried through the deep and secluded Jersey woods.Panting and dodging trees that could barely be made out in the shawled darkness.The only source of light that provided any means to travel by was the luminous moon that hung in the center of a pitch black night-time sky.But the figure didn't seem to care,as two bundled blankets were securely pressed againist the person's chest.The sounds of rapid fire brawling and grunting weren't far behind,as it stopped at the top of the hill they had been ascending and placing it's back to a large flat stone lying againist a medium-sized boulder,inhaled and exhaled in small breaths,before turning to look down at her very much prized packages.
"You know,little ones.The more I think about it day-after-day,the more I begin to realise how much better life was all those years ago."The young woman spoke to them softly,although she could hardly make out their disticnt facial features.But she needn't,she knew them by heart now.
"Thorn."
Came just one of the voices she had come to dread,one of the voices that had belonged once to someone she would have considered a complete waste of time and energy but now feared.Feared because she knew she it was either fight or flee and she hated to fight anymore.But clearly being aware that she couldn't escape without acknowleding him...she turned her head skyward and with the moon's white beams silhouetting the image of a young man,whirled around and away from her resting place like she had so many others.With the fire of passion to engage in taking someone on still residing within her and flaring,the former Huntsgirl had to resist by all means by keeping her charges close to the warmth of her chest and her heart,which was thumping inside her rib cages,her mind racing frantically for something to say...anything to keep him away as long as she could.All of a sudden,her combative nature seemed to surface slightly.
"Just leave us be."she warned him intrepidly."I don't want to fight you."
"Hmph!What makes you think you can convince me you still have it in you to fight,anyways,Thorn?"He scoffed confidently,his brown eyes filling with amusement at her apocryphal threat."It's been over a year now."
"Don't push me.Besides,you're one to talk.When we first met and battled, you two were useless.Just because I choose not to resort to violence at every given opportunity anymore,doesn't mean I still don't have it in me."
"We could call it a draw,Mrs. Long."Alan went on as if she hadn't even spoken,as if she wasn't even worth his time to so much as taunt now that she had become who she was."You could surrender the child and let it be done.The Amercian Dragon and you could be free to leave.Also,you-"
"That's one of the reasons I abandoned my destiney in the first place,that completely lack of remorse we gain when we get sucked into the stupid world of hunting and selling magical creatures."Rose cut him short,taking a few steps back to get ready to run,as she continued strongly."This...this world you all are wrapped up in is going to one day turn on you.If you think I am the first...just you wait.More will lead by my past examples."
By now she was feeling as though he was heeding her words as though if they were completely factual based.Taking them in and realising that it would be immoral to separate a small infant from his or her mother.But just as that calming thought crossed her mind and was starting to relieve her deepest fear in the world,she sensed a second presence behind her.
"How's life been treatin' ya so far,sweetheart?"
The taunting voice of the second Huntsboy reached her ears and sent an instant rush of renewed terror through her veins,causing her back to tense up and become stiff.Shadows entirely consumed the area from behind her and she felt the unwelcomed feeling of helplessness rise up againist in her throat and chest,clogged with other assortments of raw desires,despises and despairs.She had sworn off fighting but not because of just her obtaining twins,no,it was because she had had enough of it.Fighting had once been apart of her life but she had seen it as ruining other's life and now it was putting not only her and her husband in danger,but her childern.Only two mere options were before the eighteen-year-old and a half mother...she could give in and be overtaken...or she could place her flesh and blood down to ward off those who threatened her life and that of her families.The two Huntsboys had become more advanced only within the last year,as Jake had informed her from battling them when he had to in order to protect them...she was afraid now but only when she allowed her alter ego,her more quick-witted and sinister self out...was she in control.Thorn had been concealed for nearly six years and she was the only part of Rose that could save them,the only part of her brave and ruthless enough.She was there just not yet summoned.
"I hope you both have missed me..."A dark and sophistical voice forced it's way from the hidden depths of her soul,somehow not surprising her in the least bit."Because..."she continued to speak as she went over to very gently lay the two slumbering babies in the confines of partially extirpated roots cording from a large oak tree,forunately being cushioned by the dry leaves that had fallen for the last several weeks."...Heh,I've missed you."
Meanwhile...
Jake could make out the Huntsman perfectly,as the two were once again engaged in hand-to-claw combat relentlessly.The heat seekingness of his dragon vision also allowed him to detect objects and people in the dark and tonight it was especially useful.But the nineteen-year-old's mind was farther from that thought and as always,focused on Rose's well being and not only that...but that of his childerns.By surprise,the young couple had been captured as they had been going home to resume a life in New York...the last place they hadn't been for over a year since High School had ended and they had decided on taking off to escape the Huntsclan's search for them.Occasionally they met up again but this was the first time they had been targeted as a whole family...the first time his wife and his childern were in danger.He knew he couldn't quit and look for them with the Huntsman himself dead on their trail...they wanted either Jake slain or their marked son as payment for Rose's complete and disgraceful treason in which they had only gotten more serious with the last few years.
"We could continue fighting like this for how ever long the two of us can stand on our own two feet."The Huntsman declared in a breathy voice as he caught Jake by the wrist in the midst of an underhanded swing with his fist."Or..."he twisted it back and nearly out of it's socket as if doing it was like breathing air,his grip and gaze unforgiving."You can just give up and turn yourself over to us.Sacrifice yourself over to save you're gifted young son,my ungrateful wretch of a niece and you're other pathetic child."
Jake turned abrasive,ripping his claw away and seizing the older man by his shirt collar in one swift move,as he spat to him in a dangerously low voice."I'm gonna make you eat those words and wish you had never even formed them in that twisted brain of yours.You can insult me all you want but you leave the rest of us out of it.Got it?"he thrusted him back and to his surprise,the Huntsman stumbled back some and then holding a sort of indecisive position for a few moments,collasped onto the ground."What the huh...?Okay,this is definitely not what I pictured you doing.Get up!"
But the large,built body of the middle-aged man cladded in his Huntsclan Academy uniform didn't so much as flinch.Even as Jake socked his head curiously and started to shift over to the left side a bit,his poor eyes were getting strained from exhausting their usage so long and he thought he was picking up the sounds of blows and crys from high above on the mountain crestwhere Rose was.The sudden feeling that she had been caught and her being taken in also leading to their two childern being tooken in as well caused a surge of rage through Jake and it took him everything he had to resist striking the Huntsman as he was still in his sedentary state.
"Listen up and listen good,Huntsy.We've been at this for a good long time and if I do give myself up for the sake of my family,it's you who will also be goin' down with me.I've been the American Dragon for five years and if at all possible,I'm going to go back to it when were back in the NYC again...there's nothing you can do,no matter how many times you try that is going to stop us.We've stopped you before all those years ago and we've been stoppin' you since then.So you give it up.It's over,Huntsman."
The next events were only flashes to him,as heard two people jump down on either side of him and when he reached out to grab them both,a third person came down,dropped a net on him and stuck a perfect landing as the young adult dragon started to thrash around,the power of the only substance that rendered him without power took it's quick but painless toll on him.Breathing hard and heavy from the anger starting to well up in his lungs,making it difficult to look up but he willed himself enough to see the craving in his nemesis's eyes,the absolute hatred this older man had for him.But it didn't phase Jake,as his mind was centered on thoughts of only his family.Had he failed them?Had he not lived up to his name?
"You're time has come,American Dragon."Huntsmaster told him as he got to his feet and assumed standing in front of the unwillfully passive dragon with the other members standing on either side of him,his voice now was pratically thickened with anticipation for the long-awaited moment of a most gloriest and trimphuant moment."Though the years of chasing you down have been wearisome,it is nearly worth it all to see you in this state as we have battled tirelessly,countless times."he accepted his retrievened staff from one of the Huntsmembers when it had been dropped over a few yards away,as he whipped it front center and powered up with it's emerald glow illuminating the area around."It's over dragon,finally..."
"NOOOO!"
Jake screamed in a blood-curling manner at the top of his firey lungs,so loud and forceful that it made his eardrums explode and his heart pound out of his chest.For in one instant,Rose came sprinting over on her long and lean legs,leaping into the face of the attack and directly tossed one of the infants at him for him to recieve in his languishing arms.Then he witnessed in slow,heart-stopping motion,as the attack and his wife made contact and she was thrown back by it's great intensity.Shifting the child to one arm,his right arm strengthend rapidly in that one instant and he was able to catch the fallen young woman in his arm,though it was like a twist of fate was wrapping it's merciless wrath around the torn three.
"Rose..."he managed to speak her name in a tight voice,his breath coming out ragged and trembling,everything he had been preventing coming alive in that moment."Rose...talk to me.Rose,honey,say something please."
Slowly,the rest of her body having gone limp in his able-bodied arm,she turned her face up to his and gingerly reached up with her crimson dragon demarcated hand to caress the bottom of his cheek."Don't even begin to think this means you can shirk you're responsiblity to Wendy,Dragon boy.I expect great and wonderful things from you both."she told him in a light,soothing voice,the darkness that fell over them making her medium blue eyes a few shades deeper but even so they sparkled and reflected in the ivory moon casted high above."Do you know how much I love you?"
Tears gushed from his charcoal eyes."Rose...why-why did you do all of this?Why-didn't-you-run-away?"he choked on sobs,half of his bodynow felt like it was frozen and the other half burning as sorrow over what his wife had done immediately almost set it."Honey,please tell me...please tell me you're going to be alright...Rose,I don't want to loose you,please..."
She smiled the sweetest smile she could muster as he brought up his hand enough from the arm he still used to support her weight and stroked some of the silky medium blond hair that rested to the side of her smooth,heart-shaped face behind her ear."I can't promise you that Jake."her breathing turned more shallow and her voice dropped to a loud whisper,resulting in them having to move their faces closer."I did this because I...I want you to promise me Jake.I want you to promise me you'll take care of Wendy and one day look for Cole.Before he makes that turn in his life."
"What...?"he whispered back in restrained weeping."What about Cole?"
"Don't worry..."she laughed back faintly."She can help him.So can you."
Jake turned confused."What do you mean by that?"
"Right now isn't the time,Jake.You need to take our daugther and leave."
"Rose...Rose don't you dare."He warned her feebly,scattered-brained and incredulous."You can't leave us...you can't leave me."her falling more weak and breathing even less caused him to start to panic."Rose,after all we've been through you can't go now!Not now.You've fought all you're life,Rose.You're so strong,honey.You're strong enough to win this fight."
She used the last of her strength to raise herself up a little more until their faces were just an inch apart and two single tears rolled down her round and blushing cheeks."Yes,I've won the fight over conquering my fear of both my different selves and the fight to save my family.Now it's all up to you and Wendy...to go on and save those who are corrupted."her will and spirit were no longer enough to keep her up to his level almost,so casting one last glance lovingly over at her slumbering daugther and up one more at Jake,she smiled again and told him tearfully."I didn't slay you and I want you to live,Jake.My time has come and I don't want to go but I have to.Just...Just keep that promise I asked you to make Jake.Please."
"Rose...?"
"Promise me,Jake..."
"R-Rose?"
"Promise me..."she inhaled a final time,her fear of passing surmounted.
"ROSE...I'll...I'll-I'll try my best,Rose."
On impulse,he seized her body up to his and the very last drop ofher remitted life was absorped up in one thirsty and passiontate kiss.The last kiss they would ever share but one that Jake could feel stretching into the very outreachs of time and space itself.A few soild,stale minutes had passed and he turned his tired eyes over to his awakened daugther who was staring at him with eyes that exactly resembled Rose's and before he could do anything,she let out a squeal of happiness and reached for him.
He held both of them close to his body and somehow warmth found it's way to him...the lifelessness was something he could not yet face and so he remained like that,half asleep and half awake until morning.Like ahard statue,unmoving and emotionless.The Huntsclan had already taken Cole and left...they would bring him up to be one of their own,to be a killer.But there was nothing Jake could do now,expect listen to his small,beautiful daugther's healthy little heart beat againist one side of his chest and try to decide over the incomplete request Rose had asked of him...to one day go after his own son.His son,who he knew would become his own enemy one day,was too much for Jake to bare and so he didn't hesistate to cry long and hard,for he had never cried much before and never would again.
For Rose and Cole were gone...only a broken Jake and his little cooeing and softly gurgling daugther...were the only two survivors for now.
To Be Continued...
A/N:Just to be clear,I'm not depressed.lol. There will be a bit more lighter moments but I've wanted to do this for a while now.So,if you liked it...if I hopefully didn't make y'll bawl too much that is,I'll continue soon.