Life's Passing

Juliet held tight to me as we all looked through the pictures. I wondered why she was putting up with all of this. Did she really love me that much? If so, I defiantly couldn't let this thing hurt her. I held her hand in mine as Jake wrapped up the slide show. "I'm with Andy on this." He said turning around to look at the rest of us. "There is enough proof here for me to believe what going on. That being said Andy, you have to keep me up to date on what going on. I don't care how bad it gets let me know so I can help you." The rest of the guys nodded and agreed with him. I felt safer knowing that they would all be helping me but what if, at the same time, there closeness only ended up hurting them.

Juliet and I went back to the room and had dinner. We sat in our little bed and I couldn't help but hold her tight. The image of her from my dream terrified me to no end. "Are you alright?" She asked me concern streaking over her face and it wasn't until she spoke I had realized I was crying. I nodded and continued holding her afraid to drift off to sleep or afraid to look down and see some mangled version of my love. She held on to me as well, with fear and tenderness. She was so strong to go on with this.

Slowly after a few hours my eyes began to fell heavy and I drifted into that now familiar cold blackness. I sat in a chair this time, instead of chains a single snake proceeded in climbing up my leg and around my arms holding me into the chair. I took a deep breath and tried to remember that it was just a dream. I looked up to see the evil me coming towards me . A chair appeared in front of him and he sat down and looked at me for a second. "You seem much calmer this time." he spoke softly. " You cant hurt me anymore. I wont allow it." It said. He sighed and looked down to the ground. "Oh brave Andrew. I can hurt you. I can make you feel the pain of thousand. I am simply choosing not to at the moment." his words made me mad but I took another deep breath and tried to let it go. "I've decided that since I know so much about you I might shed a little bit of light on me. " A dark mist swirled around us and soon the darkness disappeared.

I sat in what looked to be a pub. Men were all around drinking tonics and doing sly business deals. It looked like I had gone back in time. I looked down at myself and saw the poet's shirts and dark tanned hide pants that I was wearing. A man sat across from me in the pub and looked down at a book. I couldn't make out the marking in it but I did recognize his face. Matthew Ryder sat studying the book and reading softly to himself the words in some unknown language. He seemed to not notice me, in fact no one seemed to notice me. I waved my hand in front of Matthew's face and got no response. " What is it that you want me to see?" I asked more to myself than anyone else, trying to make sense of the situation.

A few moments went by and then the doors to the pub were busted open. Around five men walked in and came right over to Matthew. "You're coming with us." they said and then they were all around him. They pulled him from his seat and drug him out the door. I followed among the crowd that was now forming outside. We were right in the middle of town and there stood a stage. One filled with gallows. The men hoisted Matthew up the stairs to the noose and all the while he kept muttering the same thing over and over again. "Quadam die , vivet." Over and over again he said it with out bothering to put up the slightest protest. I stood in my tracks horrified at what they were going to do to him. I only slightly noticed what the towns people were calling him as they threw what ever they could at him. "Witch." They placed the rope around his neck as he tried to mumble the last bit of words that he could before they opened the trap door under his feet. The crowed cheered loudly as if some glorious specter had just rained down from the sky.

The swirling black mist came again and I was sitting back in the chair. The snake wrapped around my arms binding. Matthew looked down at the ground then slowly started to speak. "I had to keep telling myself, that one day I would have my life back. I would get revenge on all of those who did this to me. I would make them suffer and live in fear like I did." As he got more furious the snake around me grew tighter. " Did you deserve it?" I asked. "Were you a witch?" He looked up at me then and with fury in his eye lunged forward to look me in the face. "Just because someone is a witch doesn't been they deserve to be hung and battered." He spoke. I tried to think about this rationally for a second. "Did you ever hurt anyone?" I asked. He stood up straight and looked down his nose at me. "I really don't think I'm willing to share that much with you." He said and then turned to walk away from me.

" Prove it to me then! We believe you are who you say you are. But what is it that you need from us. Let me know what you have in store that why I can prepare." I screamed at him. "Let me know if anyone is going to get hurt." He looked back over his shoulder at me. "Only if you want them to." He said. He turned back around to where I couldn't see his face. The snake started to move higher up on me then. "You see if you're a witch in the mortal life, when you pass you can very well become a demon such as my self. And well, that just opens the realm of possibilities for me now. Maybe you will agree in the morning. Vampire." His words were spoken and then he vanished leaving me behind in the darkness with the snake. It traveled around the chair to my thigh and then slowly to my chest. I tried to pull away from it but there was no going anywhere. It slowly rose to the point where it was at my neck and then opened it's mouth revealing it's two sharp fangs. It bit down hard on my neck and I let out a blood curddiling scream. The venom of the snake was injected into my veins and I could feel it pulsating through out my whole entire body. I continued to scream until felt someone shaking me. I opened my eyes to seem Juliet brushing my hair out of my face and telling me it was going to be okay. It was only a dream after all.

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