Chapter 5.

The Beginning of The End..

After that fateful night many things occured, too many to recount in detail or any true accuracy. Sufficed to say, it didn't last. Nothing ever did in Dominique's life. The fault she could only place on herself. Time slipped by quickly just as all that mattered to her slipped through her fingers like fine sand. Even vampire's who had lived as long as she was prone to mistakes and bad choices. Hope itself was wretched from her very soul and placed out of her reach till she grew weary cold and dead inside.

But she went on, what else could she do? So, she lived on...racked day by day by guilt, pain and desolation. Ending the torment had crossed her mind, but what right did she have to so easily escape the punishment she deserved? None she felt. She had failed everyone who had stood by her side through the good and bad. Fury and desperation burned in her eyes like wild flames while inside echoed a emptiness that never ended, her soul had retreated so deeply that her eyes bore no fact that it even existed anymore.

"Pain begats Pain..Every day when we wake we make choices, small ones and major ones that affect not only us, but those who are a part of our lives. Taking for granted all we do have and dwelling on all we don't have is folly and a means to a rapid ending. Someday..I'll learn.." she murmured once when words actually found their way to her lips.

The end, for now.