Focus…just focus…you can do it, just don’t…Pain ripped through him once more, bringing him down to his knees, his teeth gritting hard in response. With a growl that was so unlike him he tried to get to his feet only for another wave of the most agonising pain to shoot straight through him, his head feeling like it was going to split in two and it ( Read more... )

The laughter as it burst forth was condescending, amused beyond all belief and filled with a blood lust that was practically tangible as the man almost beneath his grasp. His cane struck out at the speed of light, hitting bone, taking away knees that tried to get away with a sickening crack and an audible thud at flesh met concrete ( Read more... )

He awoke with a low moan and took in his surroundings through the pound in his head. He was still here, in this place that he still, to this day, did not how he got there. The pain in his chest was far and away worse than the one in his head and he fumbled, without looking, at the table next to him, hoping to find the bottle of laudanum that would ( Read more... )

( So silent and peaceful in the darkness where we fell )

( It's the wrong time, but she's pulling me through... )

“Don’t abandon me Lisa, in God’s name I have never needed you more…” the words, a plea, he meant them even though all he wanted to do was to protect her. But how can you protect her from the danger when the danger was inside your body? When the danger was you ( Read more... )

( And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I'm haunted
By the promises I've made
And others I have broken
I'm haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head )