/A\lone With <Darkness>(Rose)

[>>Sacora<<]

She'll take you down with a single thrust
She's taken over to quickly
No medication can kill the lust
So say a prayer for the sickly
Cause she belongs to heaven

She's comin over like a suicide
And it's the same old trip
The same old trip as before
Another complicating suicide
And it's the same old trip
The same old trip as before

Darkness...Blackness...Numbness

Blood...Pain...Burden

Small gasps echoed through the almost empty house. In one room, a pitch black dog whimpered, clawing at the door, trapping him, keeping him from his master. He whimpered...fully aware of everything that was happening in the room above him.

Above that room, was a large bathroom. Another sharp gasp came as the young, black-haired woman leaned over the skin. The water was running...but it was red.

Suddenly, the young woman threw something across the room, it hit the wall with a metallic tink, splattering it with blood, before falling to the floor.

"Must stop...must stop...must stop..." she muttered between gasps. She shoved her wrists under the water, wincing. "Please...let me stop..." she whispered.

To her horror...the blood didn't stop...it just kept coming...terrified she ran to get a towel, pressing it against the open wounds. She twisted the towel around her arms, before huddling in the corner.

Tears stained her pale cheecks as she whimpered...the burning in her veins...in her arms...was finally there...and yet...this time...it was worse. She cried out...all numbness gone. Below her, a dog howled.

She bit her lip as the pain grew...all she wanted was for it to stop... Oh Lord...please let it stop! Then as she glanced at the knife on the floor...she knew one way that she could stop it... No! her concious screamed at her. Not this way!

She unwound the towel, wincing. Her horror grew as she realized...it was still bleeding. She began to feel light-headed. Oh God no! she thought. Am I...

It all got dark.

Shattered burst out of the room, and pelted up the stairs, to the bathroom door, he whimpered, scratching at the door, attempting to open the door...to try to help her... He whimpered, then planted himself in front of the door, waiting for it to open. He began to howl, endlessly, trying to get someone to anwser.

[Rose Brennan]

A small silver car being driven by a tall woman with radiant blonde hair pulled up outside a huge house that was supposed to belong to Sacora.

She glanced at a sheet of paper her friend had given her with her address scribbled onto it and furrowed her brow as she looked at the magnificent house.

How could such a girl afford a house like this? Then she realized it was probably the father that she’d told Saffron about, the one who had been a drug dealer and that was now in jail for good at last...and good riddance.

After seeing the girl in the burnt open stretches of the barren country she’d taken it upon herself to look out for her, as her responsibility.

The amount of scars on the girls arms weren’t a good sign and she knew it, the girl had seemed overly depressed...and that wasn’t good for anyone.

Suddenly her attention was brought to howling, a high and sorrowful pitch of a friend cast out, punctuated by the scrabbling of paws against a wooden door. Her blood turned cold, she couldn’t have...no.

Saffron opened her door and was out in a flash; everyone around her turned as she first tried the door and found it locked.

“I forgot my keys to my friends house” she said hurriedly to an old woman who was giving her a nasty look of pure disapproval and that wasn’t good in this circumstance.

“Sacora!” Saffron yelled, and her heart beat faster as she received no reply. “This is not good” she murmured and began climbing up a nearby tree and looked into the bathroom window of the grand house, it was the only room she could get a look in and wasn’t expecting to see anyone.

And there she was, crumpled in a corner of her room and a knife discarded by her side. Blood was pooling around her and she was unconscious. Saffron swore under her breath and leant over to the window, undoing it with ease and sliding in.

She raced over to the girl, her feet slipping on the ruby red blood that was pooling on the white tiles. She delicately placed to finger to the girls neck and gave a sigh of relief as she felt a weak pulse.

She slipped and arm under the girl and picked her up in her arms, banging down each door with her foot as she hurried outside, the strange black dog following her.

Everyone seemed to jump into action as they opened her car door to slip the girl in and the dog jumped in beside everyone as she sped away at top speed to the hospital “Oh god, what have you done to yourself” Saffron murmured, the dog’s howling still ringing in her ears.

[>>Sacora<<]

Shattered-

The black dog eyed Saffron warily. Then he growled, a low growl as if to say. You hurt her...I swear I'll kill you...

Then he whimpered and sniffed his master, he glanced up at Saffron, willing her to hurry. His senative ears could hear the slowly fading pulse. His senative nose could smell the drying blood. He was at the edge of panic.


Sacora-

The young girl, wandered through the blackness confused. Where am I ? she thought. She glanced around, terrified at the endless nothingness...the blackness. What's happening to me?

She opened her mouth, and took a deep breath. Her breath because a pale mist in front of her. She glanced down at her now numb arms, they were still bleeding, but what terrified her...was she couldn't feel any of it.

Multiple images flashed through her mind. She saw herself...slowly growing up alone...she saw his perfect, beautiful, tainted face. His bright blue eyes and his pale brown hair, his perfect grin. Then she saw her baby...pale, blue-face...still. She could feel tears starting to well up.

Then suddenly everything stopped. The darkness turned into light. She glanced around confused, until she saw a figure in the distance. She made her way toward it...captivated by it...

As she neared, she made out a beautiful brown haired woman. She had her same ice blue eyes...even the tired look in them. In her arms was a little baby boy, she was singing to it softly, a soft little lullaby.

I hear the river call my name
My tears fall down just like the rain
Beyond the clouds I yearn to fly
My mind is floating, towards the sky

Oh dream my angel, don't be afriad
Don't stop believe, or you'll start to fade
The spring will room, the flower's bloom
But your still a darkened, empty room

I hear the whispers, they say to stay
But I turn around, and run away
My body trembles as I roam
As I walk the streets, I'm all alone

Oh dream my angel, open you heart
You've been through so much, you've been torn apart
The sun will rise, the darkness falls
But you'll still be my angel
Standing tall

It was a sad little song...in a way depressing, but also filled with hope.

The woman looked up from the sleeping baby in her arms, and smiled softly. "Sacora..." she whispered.

Instinctively Sacora took the baby from the woman's arms. She stroked his peaceful face softly, tenderly. "I'm so sorry..." she whispered, a tear falling from her face. She held her son tightly, but still tenderly.

"He came here without a name..." said the woman softly, looking at her feet. "I hope you don't mind...but I've choosen one for him..." Sacora looked up and the woman continued. "Haze Tyler Arame..."

Sacora blinked, speachless. "Are you..."

"Yes...I figured...since I wasn't there for you...I could be here for him..." she smiled at the baby fondly. Then she walked over and touched Sacora's now tear-stained face. "Sacora...look at me..."

Sacora's ice blue eyes met identical ones on her mother's face. "You're not meant to be here...not this soon...I will not let you join me so easily...but you have to be careful...to think things through...I know it's hard...but there are people who can help you...you just have to trust them."

Sacora blinked slowly then gave her a small nod, before glancing down at Haze. She hugged him to her then, reluctantly released him. She glanced at her mother, then suddenly the darkness was back.

[Rose Brennan]

OOC: made a thread for you in Saffron's house