King's huge frickin' book of randomness galore:The ultimate

Promises

"Tell em' hi for me....'till I get there....."

That was all I could say.

That was all there was left to say.

Now, it was true.

I had no one left.

My family, anyone I ever loved and cared about died.

All of them for me.

Even Grace.

Ten years....

Ten years the one who went out of her way to raise me, to keep me from being an orphan was dead. And yet, she still has to save my ass. It cost her her arm and her hand to save me, and even now, not even a moment ago, she'd held me back.

I made me sick to see what happened to her keeping the one who started all this's pet from killing me.

But this.....This makes me so much sicker.

I told her I' be there for her.

I told her I'd have her, hold her, protect her and never leave her in lonesome.

"Look who's in lonesome...."

She died saving me from something I could've survived. From pain I could endure. And now, all I can do is....watch.

"You'll never have to go through seeing me become a monster again...."

Is what I said.

"I'll be there to make sure that doesn't happen."

Is what she told me.

Two promises......

That's the promise I made to you, Lucy.

The promise I made if I could protect you.

I couldn't.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Those promises.......

die together, along with you.