Chapter 3

Dominique joined the family called the Methuselah and found a kinship with others of her kind she never had before. She met Pandora who became one she grew to trust and rely on and soon met Aubrey who would come to be a sister to her up to this very day. Yet out of them all it was Morpheus, better known as Master3rdDegree, who she rare left the side of. One night, alone together in the Family Castle he removed the hideous mask to show her what most never had seen. His face was ravished beyond decription, a large hole lain where his cheek once was, only his eyes and dark curved lips were free of the ruin his face held. Dominique studied his face intently and decided then and there that she loved him.

As time passed and they grew closer Morpheus wrestled with demons of his own, ones from the past that haunted his every waking moment, forming into a myriad of whispers that seemed to linger about his form always. One night he shattered Dominique's world by placing in her hands a amulet she knew well, it was once her mothers. With dsbelief and fear she looked at him with questioning eyes. "I'm not the same person i was long ago." was all he said. She came to discover that it was him that murdered her family when she was but a mortal child. Him who had murdered every suiter that desired of her affections and love. With a quivered and pained voice she asked "Why? why did you do it?" her hand clutched around the amulet as her eyes searched his for answers. He turned his eyes from her, his massive shoulders dropping slightly and replied in his deep tone that was laced with pain "I loved you, have loved you since you were a child, and i wanted no other to have you."

She struggled with this knowledge and fought within herself, but in time realized that it no longer mattered, she loved him too much no matter the actions of the past, and they remained together for some time. They faced many hardships and struggles, twice seperating from one another. During that time he was often distant and showed Dominique little of the love she needed. Another named Damien vied for her love and affections. Yet nothing and noone at that time could dim the deep love she had for Morpheus.

For days after she cried, racked with a pain she never had felt before. Her deep blue eyes turned pitch black and dead to match her aching heart. Thinking she had lost him forever she crushed her mothers amulet into pieces and threw it into the lake as blood tainted tears slid down her marble white cheeks. When he near took his own life and laid upstairs the Tavern within a room near death she knelt by his side and rare left the Tavern. He soon recovered with no knowledge of her vigilent stance by his door watching over him.

As she sat upon the cliffs overlooking the Tavern one night he came to her and took all that he gave her, the Scorpion ring he gave to her among others. The action sent her near into the black depths of depression and the wish to end her long existance. Earlier that eve she had written to him, speaking of her love for him, how she could not bear to go on without him by her side. And as she walked back into the Tavern and curled up on the couch she had little idea he had not found the letter, the messenger delayed by the weather.

He sang, songs which cut deep into her heart while his eldest daughter revealed to him of Dominique's words of worry and love while he was near death. Nothing seemed to matter and he left, Dominique cried upon her sister's shoulder certain she would never again know his touch and love. Her tears were ceased by the sounds of his motorcycle pulling back into the Tavern yard, his large form bursting back through the doors. He went straight to Dominique as she got to her feet and faced him, in his hand the letter she wrote. He held it out looking to it then looked to her "I just got this, i had no idea." he said as his eyes roamed over her. With a small voice she replied "Well, now you do." him having thought she loved another, not him. He stared at her for what seemed like a eternity then stepped to her wrapping his massive arms around her tiny lithe form. She collapsed against him and held to him tightly never wishing to let go.

Later, Dominique found herself to be with child. Morpheus, desiring to finally have a real and true family gave them both, along with his brothers, the name of Diabolus. She gave birth to a baby girl they named Fatality.

One day through reasons unknown to Dominique Morpheus was befallen by a crumbling alter. His son, Cold, stumbled upon the ruins where Morpheus lain and died in his efforts to free his father. Later Dominique with the aid of Lucifer(Damien) found the ruins and dug Morpheus free. Without a word to either Morpheus rose and carried off his son's body into the forest to a hidden lake and behind a waterfall. Within Morpheus gave part of himself to his son and in doing so released all the hatred and darkness inside him. He later emerged from the falls a Angel..so pure even Dominique found it painful to be close, to look upon him.

After that day he vanished for a time and Dominique began to think he vanished for all time. Then one night he returned. He stood within the Tavern a time giving no words or ackowledgement to Dominique who stood and watched him with her heart racing in her chest. Then he turned and left breaking Dominique's heart. He released all within him and once more embraced the darkness unto himself and then..as Dominique wept wondering if he had abandoned her..he vanished again. Devistated she wept uncontrolablly for hours. Days later she removed her rings and vowed to move on with her life, weary from the constant pain and confusion.

For a short time she returned to the side of Damien, whom was there for her in her darkest times. With his support and love Dominique slowly healed of her pains, although the deepest ones remained uptouched. She soon found herself to be with child, Damien's child, and in the mists of a act of self destruction on Damien's part she revealed to him of such. Happiness was short lived though. Damien soon departed the isle for good, Dominique later miscarried the child. Racked in fresh wounds of hurt. certain her life would never be nothing more than never ending pain and constant heartaches, she tried to take her own life, Morpheus appearing moments before she could do so, taking away the blade that she meant to end her existance with.

Chapter 4