How It Ends

by Laure Alexander


Thanks to Kendra and Dor who read this a couple of weeks ago and said it didn't suck.

Is this how it ends?

Fire falling like rain from the sky. Bruises encircling my throat. A boy becoming a man between my thighs.

Is this how it ends?

Tied to a chair. Starving for human blood. My soul screaming in horror and pain as memories eat me alive.

Is this how it ends?

My last chance at love writhing beneath another. A demon opening hell onto earth. My demon slipping free.

Is this how it ends?

Evil having its way with all of us. Driving my former lover mad. Leaving me no option but to kill him if he can't overcome the bloodlust.

Is this how it ends?

Lights exploding behind my eyes. Breath caught tight in my throat. My woman moaning beneath me as she gives me such pleasure.

Is this how it ends?

Haunted by the ghost of my mother. Terrified of being left behind by my sister. Knowing that there's something inside me just waiting to get out.

Is this how it ends?

An unheralded apocalypse. The death knell of my career and probably my life. The sound still ringing in my ears of my lover groaning another's name in my arms.

Is this how it ends?

A squishy, vulnerable mortal again. Scared and alone and so afraid of everything. I need him back, but I don't think that's possible.

Is this how it ends?

Two friends then foes reunited in grief and fear. Injuries causing pain. The tattered love for the same woman causing even more.

Is this how it ends?

My heart empty and broken since her death. Terror of my own abilities standing in the way of the future. The sure knowledge that I am going to fail.

Is this how it ends?

Alone in a crowd. Fear so thick I can taste it on my tongue. Caffeine unable to stave off my own terror as we cower together waiting to burn.

Is this how it ends?

An unseen evil able to take others forms, taunting us, mocking us, playing with us. My humanity a liability to all of us. The knowledge that I'll never get her back like ice in my heart.

Is this how it ends?

No more music. No more laughter. No more anything.

Is this how it ends?

The world falling apart while the polar ice cap glitters far beneath me. Knowing I won't reach them in time. They all must fight without me.

Is this how it ends?

Two apocalypses, two cities, two bands of heros, two great evils.

One universe.

Is this how it ends?

A young blonde woman of exceptional strength and heart sits outside the door to a bedroom listening to the growls of her former lover as he struggles to free himself and struggles to defeat his demon.

A young man, sired by two demons, yet human himself, lays curled around his lover, listening to her weep, as he feels the heaviness of fear surround him.

Is this how it ends?

Am I responsible? The fearful whispers of the woman and man echo in the silence.

Is it me?

The End

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