Goodbye, Artemis (standard:other, 716 words)
Author: dying_for_salvation	Added: May 28 2005	Views/Reads: 3181/2067	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The price of taking your life will cause much more than your own.

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She was jolted from her own thoughts of trying to shut off the voices
behind the grave. She opened her eyes and saw that the grey tombstones 
no longer stood out in the darkness. The shadows were slowly enveloping 
everything around her. 

Your name, mortal. 

Your name is on the tomb. 

“No!” she screamed as the darkness claimed her. 

Meet your fate, mortal. 

The memories came flooding back to her. 

The olive green casket lined with gold leaves being lowered slowly in
the ground... 

Don't, she whispered into the nothingness. 

The black car parked outside the tall gates of the graveyard as the grey
clouds rolled by... 

Her eyes stung with tears. 

The silent steps of the people pouring out of the church in a quiet,
mourning march... 

“Please...”, she begged the emptiness around her. Please make it stop. 

A boy outside gripping a white rose so tightly that the thorns were
digging into his flesh and drawing red drops from his broken skin. 

“Stop it!” She screamed helplessly as the tears ran down her face from
her lifeless eyes. 

The cold table on the morgue... 

She sobbed as words failed her. She opened her eyes as she willed the
tears away. 

The gun. The gun in her hand. 

Her eyes widened. 

The shot rang through the emptiness filling her up inside. 

Her tears fell no more. 

He stood in front of it, numb to everything else around him, including
the blood staining his hands. He stared at the cold marble, and let his 
hand gently graze the name engraved on it. 

Goodbye, Artemis, he said softly. 

The earth welcomed the white rose on top of it as he turned away. 


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