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She was there pacing the floor, yet again. Her arms crossed rubbing them with her hands as if she were cold. She wasn't by any means. She trembled, trembled! She wasn't angry, a bit frightened this time. The ache grew within her. The fire burned a slow ember now, but by night it would be aflame greater than any fireman had seen. It took her as she sat angrily on the edge of her bed.

"Not now." She thought to herself. "Not him."

She drew within herself and asked why. She went to the woman with long white tresses who was her protector for as long as she could remember. "Why?"she asked, the pain in her heart, in her eyes.

"I don't want it to be the same...not with him."

The woman with violet eyes caressed her face and smiled. "You can beat it. You can hold it in."

"But you know what happens when I do that. We both know all too well." she said with a plea, that was almost a cry. Then, she heard her from behind...

"He want's us you know."

She didn't turn around. She knew who it was.

"NO..it isn't like that!!" she cried looking at the floor

"Yes it is, it is with all of them, he is no different."

She felt her hand on her shoulder from behind, and jerked away, stepping up beside the woman with violet eyes.

"Please" she begged "Make her go away"

The woman gazed down at her with understanding and love and looded up at the girl behind her.

"I know" the woman with violet eyes whispered.

The exchanges were silent and she wanted to hear what they said. WHY couldn't she hear them.

She was on fire, in pain...how could she stiffle it with the war inside her raging.

Where was he?? Not him...but Violet eyes companion? She knew the other was here lingering in the shadows waiting for the right moment. The moment when the fire would all but consume her. When at the precipice of gasping for the last breath he would come take his drink. Then she would completely fall.

She gazed up at Violet Eyes and she was smiling down at her with pity. She took her face in her hands and kissed her forehead. "You have it with in you, you must find it."

She looked around and saw they were alone.

"How..when I am hounded by these others, when they know my weakness. HOW?"

It was then that she felt him..tiptoeing through her soul. She took a slow breath letting her eyes close and open slowly the feeling pouring over her as a warm summer evening rain. He pulled at the center of her and the fire grew...as she gazed up at the woman.

"Please."she softly gasped. "He is here."

"I know child."

She laid her head on the womans chest trying to push the fire away trying to push him away....