If only I’d known that I would be right

If only you hadn’t been so stubborn

If only we had used the other plan

If only the door had been open wide

If only we’d been seconds earlier

If only he underestimated

If only he hadn’t been so well trained

If only we had been that much smarter

Maybe, just maybe, she’s still be alive...

Lives

Lives with meaning

Meaning I’ll never understand

What happens, I wonder

Wondrous things, I would hope

I hope someday you’ll tell me

Perhaps I’ll never know

Know of these worlds

Worlds so unknown to me

Or maybe these stories

Stories of places and people

People will share

Tell me, dear one

One I hold so close

Close this thought, and tell me what you want me to know...

Just one more, I tell myself. It is the day of Halloween, and it is time for my last kill as I creep into the dark house. A man charges towards me, and I stab him with my bloodstained knife. As he falls to the ground, I turn and see my demon in the corner. He smiles. I’m finally done. I leave the house, stained with blood, but cleaned from the sins of my past life. Im only sorry for my future one....

“No!” Zara screamed as she watched Northwind pull the gun up to her head.

“You know what you have to do to save her.” Chloe’s monotone voice announced from Northwind’s mouth. “Are you going to let your partner die, Flame?” The words turned cruel as Chloe said her name through Northwind, before forcing North to wave her hand, taking down her uniform and revealing Ellery underneath.

She did. Zara ...