He stood there. But it wasn't really him. Simply a vessel. Standing before Alexandra, its palm placed firmly against the countertop. The image he showed was merely what he allowed to be seen. She thought she knew. She could SWEAR to herself that she knew. But she didn't.
"And you wanna know why, Ally?" he spoke, through the voice of a messanger.
"You wanna know WHY, I know, you don't me as well as you
think you do?"
The figure approached Alexandra. In a flash, and only for a moment, David was gone.
It was merely the two of them. Alex. And this entity that called itself 'Reeve'.
"I know...Because I never," 'Reeve' inched closer to Ally, his lips mere centimeters from her ear. Breathing down her neck, his breath sending a slight shiver down her spine. A chill she would never admit to. ".....I never,
ever, allowed myself to." He backed up just a tad....He, himself, feeling a prescence from Callaway. Even through this shadow, this image he cast, he could feel the power within her. He smirked.
"All I've ever shown, was a fragment. A sliver of the full picture. You think you know, because you know all about that fragment. You have every...." 'He' leaned in a bit, brushing against her, "....inch. Figured out, right?" ....she glared at him from the corner of her eye. The disdain for this....
person, raged inside her eyes, her expression, and it was quite clear that at any moment she could strike him down.
But she didn't.
"The thing is, Ally-Cat...A puzzle is not complete till every piece is fit into the frame. You know the rain." He licked his lips ever so slightly, and fluttered his eyelashes. "...You know The Storm. Right?"
In an instant, the lights were out. Darkness consumed the room. Its voice rang out.
"But do you know The Show? Do you know that other half, that
better part of me? No. No, you don't, because I never showed it to you."
The lights reemerged. And an entirely different figure stood before her, face to face, the two of them gazing into one anothers' eyes....
"But. I can show you. I can show you worlds beyond, beyond that which even Azrael himself could have shown you. They lay far beyond the stars, Callaway. You wish to know? I shall give you the key. Turn it, and it is yours, The Truth, The Way, The Light....and The Darkness.
"Take it....and it is yours. Imagine what you will, believe what wish, but until you know The Truth?"
Once again, the lights are plunged into the void. And the voice speaks out once more...
"......You. Know. Nothing."
The lights are on. He is gone. Alex stands beside the counter, she turns, and David stands there before her, with an expression on his face, as if he has no idea what's running through Ally's mind.
As if 'Reeve' were never there.
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Quote:"An old phrase comes to mind, 'It's better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all.' That kind of love you don’t always find. That love that is a reckless abandon that love that you would risk it all for, that you would sacrifice yourself for. That kind of love I offered you, the kind I gave so freely, never asking for anything in return."
Quote:"The girl you are stepping into the ring with isn't that girl. That girl was weak; she was bewitched by the thought of a fairy tale. She was lost in wonderment at the world you had shown her. She was entranced by you; she felt that you would hold her close. The girl you are getting in that ring is the girl her father taught her to be. I’m going into this match to win. Everything I did, I did to prove to you that I was worthy enough to be the one next to you. Now I've learned, I didn't need to prove anything.. to anyone..
"I am powerful, I am frightening, and now, everyone will see..... I'm not to be taken lightly."
Quote:This was merely a sanctioned match, no matter how much everyone around her wanted her to go all out on Nova, no matter how much he expected her too, that isn’t who she was.
"iAm who iAm!!"
"And I am who I am."
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Quote:“You are going to tell the truth Alexandra, if it’s the last thing you do on this earth.”
Alexandra shook her head, trying to fight back the urge to scream out. She knew something had changed. Something was different about her and Nova. They were changed people. The link she felt to him was gone; it was as if he had severed it. She could feel nothing from him now. She could look to the sky, and the only thing she would feel would be the moon. That’s when it hit her, Nova was gone. She looked at Zak with his cold golden eyes looking back into hers.
“He’s gone… I felt his warmth leave me. All it left behind was the cold sting of emptiness, the emptiness I will fill with the joy of being uninhibited in the ring.
"The emptiness I will fill by once again, becoming the monster.”
. . .
"If there was anything I could say to you, it would simply be this. Thank you for showing me that no matter how much you love someone, you shouldn’t change who you are for them. I changed; I changed and tried to save you....But there’s one mistake I won’t make again. I will never let another man make me believe that I can’t defend my friends. I will never again let someone in like that. I will not change who I am. It’s time for me to be who I was meant to be. My path to redemption starts with you.
"I’ve lost for far too long, it’s time to clean the slate, and start over. It’s time to accept my fate."
the raven Said:"My earliest memories are not of anything specific-- they're more like memories of feelings, as opposed to events... abandonment... loneliness... sadness. They say our destiny is formed in these earliest moments. That our fate is determined at this critical juncture. The chosen begin their path towards greatness, the ill-fated are doomed from the beginning. The unfortunate devour themselves searching for annihilation.
"You see; we are all prisoners of our own nature, locked into certain patterns of behavior. I could no sooner change the path that I've been placed upon, than I could stop a swallow from migrating... or a salmon from spawning.
"So it is written, so it shall come to pass."
"Feed the darkness. Feel it fester within. Gaze into the mirror's reflection, see what stands before you, see it stare back at you. Look into those gorgeous eyes of yours.
"Look into my eyes. See that they are the same.
"I do believe in you, Calico. Try, for even one moment...
"To believe in me."
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