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Sean felt death’s cold touch upon hi around his heart

He was falling through light and shadow Death was co He saw it, felt it, tasted it Oddly, death seeentle touch He found hiht himself already dead Because she ith hie fire Shedding a rain of tears Her touch was so infinitely tender Her beautiful face isted in anguish

"My love Oh, God, Sean, I eon Ah, love, too late for a surgeon, Meg, my God, you must flee, save yourself Damn me for a fool, I cannot protect you--"

"I’m safe--"

"No, there’s another killer here--"

"No, Sean, I’ainst the cold Tell me you love me Tell me you would have married me Tell me that you‘ll love me for all time"

"Oh, God, Sean, I love you, for all ti, I can--"

"I love you," he told her "So much Oh, God, I love you I love you I would die for you, tiain"

"Sean, no oh, God, I will kiss you with life Give warmth to your lips " Desperately, she leaned over hione

She let out a cry of the greatest grief She had come too late, too late Too late to even offer up a last kiss

She held hi The dead lay strewn around her She heard voices in the far distance; theout his lead to find the wounded There were soti as she looked to where Wynn lay fallen in a pool of blood The old man had been tainted She looked further And there he was Despite Sean’s blow, he was standing again, staring at her in triumph

Aaron Carter

He strode to her To where she held her beloved Sean

"You bastard!" she raged, and tenderly set Sean aside to rise to her feet

"I told you that I would have you We are one and the same You will come to understand--"

"I despise you and loathe you and I will find a way to rip you to shreds! I told you to leave, and you took that innocent girl You killed her slowly, and when her father was insane with his grief, you added to his reater strength, and caused him to mete out his justice on men innocent of the murder you committed"

"I seduced an innocent! Dear me! Yes, my sweet, that is the nature of the beast, , aed, and she flew at hith Even he was startled by her power, his sone as he raised his arrief and hatred She tore into him with such force and power that she ripped flesh fro real dae

"Bitch!" he roared

The wind seee between theher power that was co between them Heedless of all else, she fell to her knees beside her lover once again

Oh, Godoh, God, she had meant to watch over him! She had hovered too far in the distance, and she hadn‘t seen as happening, she hadn’t realized that

Carter Aaron Carter She ‘d thought hie

She eased back against the bullet-riddled trunk of a thick old oak that had soony She would gladly tear Aaron Carter fro that by closing her eyes she could vanish what lay before her-- the blood of war, and the blood she had wrought herself She wished she could make death itself disappear

Either that

Or know its embrace

But there was a miasma to death as well Death had a stench Even with her eyes closed, she could sry sound, a rustling against the trees, a thunder in her soul

Judg

She opened her eyes Lucian was there, standing in thedown at the body of Confederate Colonel Elijah Wynn Looking from her-- to Aaron Carter