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Catherine made a Tsk'ing sound when she felt Nick's aura...Catherine turned to Kurai and took her hand...She then whispered to her "Follow me..." Catherine pulled Kurai's hand until she walked with her. Catherine took Kurai to the staff room. "Now Kurai...Do you love Nick?!" Catherine said closng the door and stand near the door.

Nick bent forward and placed his hands on the back of his head. The realization was too much for him to bear. One day all this will come to an end.. maybe even by my hands.. Nick has already grew fond of Half Moon and its residents, the funny, the sweet, the wild and the down right crazy. Watching them suffer would be too much. It was strange for a child of death to feel such attachment towards people. Even now as he looked at the girls in his room, both worried and just curious, there was a small, fragile bond. It somewhat calmed him down. But just as he was about to speak, a searing pain in his body came, followed by a punch in the gut feeling. Nick's heart felt like it was being crushed from the inside.

Nick gripped his shirt, trying to resist the enormous pain. Trying his best to hide the feeling to prevent them from worrying, he sat up and excused himself, leaving Loraina, Catherine, Alice, Kurai and Rachel in his room. As soon as he was out of their view, Nick dashed to the bathroom and locked himself inside. Placing both hands on the sink, he glared at his reflection. The pain came back, worse this time. A minute later, he saw a shadowy figure in the dirty mirror. Its chilling presence, the dark cloak and hood, the eerie red glowing eyes, the person staring back at him with an evil grin, was no other that his father.. Death.

Death held up a thumping red object covered in chains. My heart! Nick thought to himself as his father made it float just above his cold hands. Then suddenly, he made the chains pull tight, squishing the heart and causing it to pump violently fast. Nick felt the pain instantly. Death then stopped for a while and began to speak in an unearthly tone. "Wouldn't it be nice to watch all these people suffer?" With a snap of a finger, he turned the mirror into a peek into the future. There he showed New Orleans as a huge burning crater. Ashes fell like snow, as bodies burn all over. On the center of the crater was the remains of Half Moon. Nick was sitting in the middle, screaming in agony as all the people he once knew lay dead around him, killed in brutal and horrible ways. Like a broken video, the vision repeats on the part everyone in Half Moon gets violently executed. The sight was enough to make one sick, but Nick quickly clenched his fists and smashed the mirror.

Nick panted as he watched his fist bleed on the wall. For a moment, he felt his father leave him alone. Just as he was about to turn around, Death showed up physically, gripped Nick by the neck and pinned him to the wall. "You will come back to us, and you will remember your purpose in this life, fool." With that, Death left and Nick stayed on the bathroom floor, a bit shocked that his father didn't finish him off. Nick's decision was now clear, he must leave before he puts anyone in harm's way.

Rachel saw Nick excuse himself and she saw the wavering feelings that he was trying to hide. She began to worry and politely excused herself outside of the room. She wanted to be near him no matter what even if something or nothing happens. She wanted to let him be sure that she was there for him.

The witch led herself to the vacant room and morphed with the shadows. She travels along the hallway and back to the room as she jumped from one person's shadow to the next and made her way into the bathroom where she blocked off his exit.

She was in sadness, close to tears as she saw him panting and his fist bleeding as she took his fist and uncurled it as she kisses the blood off of it.

"Please my love, my Mr.Death, I don't wish for you to be in pain alone. It's always okay to be yourself in no matter what form you may take. No matter what ever comes our way, I want to be there for you and to help take the load of pain off. Let me take some of the burden of even if it is something or nothing because I don't want to see you like this." As she said this to him in a quiet voice she let her tears out as she wraps her arms around him. She looks up at him and nuzzles his cheek as she continues to hold him.

Kurai looked up, the pain not quite subsiding yet, but she could see now. She had been taken to the staff room... by Catherine? She listened to the question, taking it in.

Do I love him...

"I don't know," she replied, slowly, carefully. "I don't think I remember what love is. And even if I do, what can I do about it? Absolutely nothing. He's up there," Kurai moved one of her hands above her head, "And I'm down here," she moved her left hand as low as she could without bending down. After a while, she returned them to her sides.

"Besides, he's busy with his problems. I don't want to become another thing he has to worry about. And anyway... I don't think I would be able to stand it if he got hurt. And with me, he will get hurt."

Kurai couldn't say that her old master must be planning something. Only Nick knew, and it would be a secret for now.

"Warning?" Kurai asked, more alert. "About what? Is that how you know what's happening?"

She really wanted to know, but Kurai was also trying to get off the other topic. Her feelings were not something she was completely comfortable with.

Why does this girl have to be so damn persistent...

"Alright, I love him," Kurai admitted softly. But then... She morphed smoothly into shadow, eyes glowing like coal and her form swirling with shadows. Her shape was undefined and became sharp or blurry at random. Sometimes she even melted completely away. This was what she gave up when Sonneillon took her in. Her existence. Now that she wasn't bound to him and had no reason for being there, it was fading fast.

"But look at me." Kurai breathed, her voice coming out differently because she didn't usually talk while she was in this form. "Look at me and tell me if I can love someone. If someone can love me, even if I am nothing. I am not worth anyone's time. Now that I have no reason to live, I'll just fade away. I'm not even be able to protect someone I love."

Nhanna let out a little burp as she set the glass back down with a clank. It was empty, and she giggled, placing her fingers against her mouth to hide it. She watched as the girl entered, sitting next to her before storming off. "Lover's spat?" She said to Jessica, giggling once more. She hopped off the stool, twirling on one clunky, doll- like shoe. "Wolf Girl does...many questionable...things." She said, speaking of Danni, the one Jessica had referred to earlier. It was then that she caught sight of the glass the fairy had left untouched. She skipped over to it, lifting it up to her mouth with both hand, and drinking deeply.

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"Play with me...
And I'll play with you...
Cut and sew...
Your heart in two...
Tickle you...
Until you scream...
Make you laugh...
Until you bleed...
Cut and sew...
Your smile anew...
Play with me...
And I'll play with you..."
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Danni sat on the edge of the roof, reveling in the breeze. Unable to help herself, she through back her head and howled, long and deep. She tilted her head when she was finished, laughing slightly. ~Good to breath...~ She thought. And then she heard the answering howls, and her stomach dropped. ~Idiot! Do you honestly think they're going to stay away after hearing you howl like that?!~ She groaned, getting up from the ledge. ~The wolves come.~ She thought bitterly.

Kurai changed back.

"I appreciate what you're trying to do, but..." she looked at Catherine firmly. "Rachel is my friend. I know she's more sure of her feelings than I am... I don't want an enemy out of her. If she can take care of Nick better than I can, then she can do all she wants."

Even if she did cut her link with me earlier. That hurt.

She sighed. "I'll just... go up and check on Nick again..."