Seeking Salvation

Chapter 15: An Angels requiem

Ok, well here's the warnings and all that. Lemon and lots of emotion in this one. So I hope you all enjoy the chapter. At the end I want you all to take a deep breath...ok. Then just bear with me... = D

Author's note: Song Lyrics by Gun's N Roses: November Rain

When I look into your eyes

I can see a love restrained.

But Darlin', when I hold you

don't you know I feel the same.

The sensation of falling dominated every part of her being. The bottomless abyss that was as dark as pitch, had become the whole of her reality. A stale wind rushed past her, snapping the tails of her tuxedo jacket and raising the goose flesh upon her bare legs. Her hair had naturally parted, creating two elegant tails of gold, that were fluttering away from her sight high above her head. The sickening lurch of her stomach, brewed a heavy dose of anxiety as she plummeted into nothing.

A dizzy, light-headed euphoria came over her. Dulling her wits and creating a groggy half coherent understanding of what was truly happening to her, mind and body. Was this the very cusp of death, the first symptoms of her souls full collapse into oblivion?

Nothing lay below, nothing above...just empty space that went on forever.

A blank slate, a void in need of filling...

Were was she, why was she here?

There was only...the fall...and the all consuming darkness.

Time seemed to slow, then it was as if it was completely suspended. Instead of falling, the air had become thick and she was now floating. Able to twist her body about and glance around at the blank, featureless world that surrounded her.

A soft crying penetrated the darkness, echoing with a long forgotten misery. She glanced around trying to pin point the origin of the fragile voice.

"Mom...Dad...why did you leave me all alone..." The voice moaned, the sobbing growing in both volume and pain.

The voice was young, far younger then she had ever known it to be but she recognized it.

"Darien..." She called tentatively. The sobbing instantly stopped, as if the carrier of the grief was suddenly startled.

A cool mist enshrouded her, her tuxedo jacket damp and clinging strangely over her body. A sick, uncomfortable feeling settled in the pit of her stomach, as her floating descent began to slow even more. The air grew heavy, a strange gravity enveloping her body. As if she had just plunged into some invisible miasma. A slate grey haze enveloped her then, swirling like smoke and sluggishly passing over her. A murky fog that clung cold and wet to her body and obscured her sight. Falling away over head as the thick canopy of fir trees came alarmingly into view. A thick impenetrable dark wood rolled towards the far off horizon beneath her, sloping away towards an icy lake. That shimmered like a frozen mirror, reflecting nothing but the grey emotionless sky above. She had been so drawn to the melancholy landscape of mist and gloom, she had stopped paying attention to what lay just below her.

Her eyes widened in alarm as a yellow, dried bluff of grass seemed to rise up fast to meet her. Crossing her arms over her face she crashed into the earth with a dull thud, sending a ploom of dried grass into the air.

"urgh..." Serenity groaned, cradling her head. She pretty much did an ungraceful belly flop upon the ground. Her cheeks were rosy not only from the damp cold in the air but also in humiliation at her clumsy blunder. Slowly gathering herself, she knelt upon the plateau surveying her surroundings with a cautious eye. A wild landscape of pine and elm trees stretched as far she could see, in the distance was the looming shadow of the mountains and deep within those rocky crags was that huge frozen lake.