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/ Possessed...

If u please, dragi cititori...erm... mi s-a cerut sa continui p-aci ^__^. Ehm... am ajuns cu muuult mai departe cu povestea xD.Well, nu stiu daca mai sunt persoane interesate dar... ma roog

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“Ah… Miss Preddle… I thought you wouldn’t come…”
These graves seem to be smiling at me… Encouraging me with their pathetic writings…
“Well… I wanted to know the decision, inspector…”
Rest in Peace… oh, don’t I envy this happy faith…
Who has this faith, anyway?...
“I presume they already started digging…”
“Probably…”
What is faith? Why is it needed?...Anyone could survive without it…
“Do you think that man tells the truth…?”
“I sincerely don’t know what to believe, inspector… But…”
“Ah… they’re probably done, miss Preddle… let’s go...”
…Why should you believe?...
“Inspector, we took the coffin to the hospital with an ambulance…”
“Excellent, then… That was fast…”
“Well, we thought we had to dig deeper… we are surprised we finished that fast, too…”
“Ah… shall we, miss Preddle?”

…
Envy…envy…
“Inspector… thank God you are here…” a trembling voice said.
“What happened?”
“You wouldn’t believe us if we told you…”
Footsteps along a corridor…
“What happened, doctor? Your assistant really alarmed me…”
“Well… you brought me an exhumed body for a case of yours, didn’t you?”
“Yes, of course…”
Forgotten beliefs in what’s impossible…
“Are you sure that’s what you brought me?”
“Yees, doctor…”
“Well… when has this body been buried?”
“Seven months ago or even more…”
“I’d say just a few days…
The body’s… intact…”
“…”
“I can’t even call it a body, inspector… what did you bring me?”
“A dead body, doctor …! …”
“It’s alive, inspector… and I doubt it’s been exhumed today…”
“What did you just say?...”
The inspector caught Alicia from falling…
She kept herself from losing consciousness…
“Can I… see him?”
“Of course, of course… we’re trying to keep him alive… he’s extremely dehydrated… he’s right here…”
A divine smile coming through a broken window…
A silent whisper of hope…
“His pulse is not quite normal, so we believe he’s in a coma…But he can recover…”
Recovery…
His cold hands still can’t move… and still can’t hold her…
Alive… still trembling a bit…
Alive… and ready for even more…

…
[Oo da. Nu spuneti nimic. Stiu]

…
It’s dark…again…
And it’s so cold… livid… horrifying…
Not even the warmth of pleasure can penetrate the pain…
Not even life itself can be considered so lively…and still so dreadful…
Drenched in blood…sorrow’s waiting…
Sneers…
You’re heading for it deliberately…
What for?...
Gasps… expectancies for a sudden last breath…
The light of a candle…
Hopeless cross of eager lies…
And nothing left… except your thoughts and his…
How’s it like?...
Describe it in detail…
Aren’t you…enjoying it?
“Luke…
Open your eyes, Luke…
Look around…”
…
Extreme pants in the room’s stressing silence…
Eyes wide open… Lungs inhaling air in desperation…
Bizarre sounds…
“Where…?”
The hospital ward shines in its usual cleanliness…
No one there…
“When did I…?”
A very well-known perfume still lingers around the room fading…
“Alicia…”
And… once again, some sort of weird whispers…
“So, inspector… did you find the police officers and doctors that stated the actual death of mr. Halestone?”
“Fortunately, we did, doctor… but before we can accuse them of anything, we first have to make the necessary research on the victim to end up suspicions…”
“Ah…we’ve already taken blood samples…”
“And?...”
“Just as suspected, inspector… cyanide.”
The last word’s echo made the curtains tremble…
“But how can that be possible? Doesn’t that mean…”
“That mr. Halestone is the only man known to ever survive cyanide,yes… We first must find out what kind of cyanide it is before making any statement…”
“Cya…nide?”
Amazing discoveries…
“What the…?”
“Mr. Halestone, you can…”
“Speak…yeah, I’ve just realised that…”
“But you were in a coma…”
“I was?...”
He tries to get up…
“Does it hurt when you move, mr. Halestone?”
“Y-yes… it hurts all the time…”
Eventual stares…
“But… who are you?” he asks in an odd whisper.
“Inspector Hall, mr. Halestone… I guess we never met before…”
Mr. Hall tries to shake hands… Luke turns his gaze to the empty walls…
“I want to see my…”
“Girlfriend, we know…She’s been here earlier…”
He can still feel the perfume…
“I’ve noticed that…” Luke said looking at a bunch of flowers in a vase nearby.
“Mr. Halestone… I don’t think you realise…” the doctor said.
“I want to see her now…”
“You can’t…”
“Why?”
“Mr. Halestone, 7 months ago you were buried… alive… after being poisoned with cyanide… do you realise the severity of these facts?”
“Poisoned?...Show me…”
The doctor took a piece of paper out of his pocket and showed it…
ANALYSIS
Blood sample no. 08543
Sodium cyanide --- 5.23%....
………………………………..
“Interesting…”
As he again tries to get up, his veins lock up in small clusters, and his blood boils raging… He smiles and holds the pillow tight to his chest…
“Your girlfriend has been called as a witness in court… that’s why she can’t come.”
“Leave me alone…”
The doctor almost pushed the inspector out of the room…
“It’s part of the recovery, I assure you, mr. Hall…”
The door is shut…
Calmly, he crawls into his bed like a weakened worm…
“Interesting…interesting…
I hope you still know that what killed you was your own will, Luke…”
“I wished for what’s the worst not to happen…”
“You were so stupid at that time…
Are you still stupid?”
“Hmm…we’ll both find out…soon enough…”

“Soon…enough…”

[...]

As time passed, he kept staring at the ceiling…
The sun kept rising and setting…
The wind kept blowing…
And the days just fleed away…
“Luke?”
And a voice woke him up from daydreaming…
“Can you hear me, Luke?”
“Probably…”
And he’s careless…
“Luke, you can speak!”
“Not for long…”
And she’s worried…
“Luke…I…”
“I don’t need any excuses, Alicia…”
“…Excuses?...”
“Hmm…”
Hardly breathing once again…
“Luke…you’re moaning…”
“Interesting…”
“Yeah, that’s the way I like it…”
“You’re…wounded…”
“Gladly bleeding, actually…”
“Luke…let me call a doctor…”
He starts panting heavily… as his blood spreads on the pillow…
“Luke, you’re not feeling well…let me call a doctor!”
“Don’t…I need to talk to you…”
“About?”
“About…something…”
The pillow stopped turning red for a second…
“Luke… a few days ago… I still thought I’d never…”
“What happened to me?”
“THAT’S WHAT I’M WONDERING,TOO!”
“DON’T YOU SCREAM AT ME!”
…Silence…
“Alicia… I don’t know a thing…”
“How dare you say that?! LUKE, YOU HAD WINGS!
…Didn’t you?... I mean was I dreaming or something? …’Cause even if I was dreaming… I certainly woke up with you dead in my arms…”
“…In your arms…”
“But you just…fell in a coma…”
“Hmm…”
“And you finally woke up…”
“As I said earlier…not for long…”
“What do you mean?”
“Say it…say it…”
“Alicia…I’m so weak…”
“Huh?...”
He grabbed her hand firmly and slightly pulled her…
“There are… so many things you should know…”
“What?...”
She was already sobbing while speaking…
And he started coughing…
“What are those things, Luke?...”
His cardiograph was bumping so fast…
“Luke?...”
“I told you I can’t take this for long…you should believe me…”
“Why should I?...”
“It’s for your own good…
Listen…listen…”
His voice was fading away in her ears…
“There were so many lies… weren’t there, Luke?”
“I don’t think I can tell the difference between what’s true and what’s not anymore…”
“There’s no need for you to tell the difference… since there’s nothing true…”
“Oh, want me to…”
He was interrupted by a round of coughs…
“To…prove you wrong?”
“Know anything that’s not false?”
“That’s if you want me to tell you…”
“What?...Another lie?...”
“No…I just want to advise you…for the times I won’t be there for you…”
She stared at him for minutes…
“Go ahead…”
“Hmm…look…”
Luke took a deep breath…
“First of all…make sure you’re always surrounded by what pleases you…”
“?!”
“Never do the opposite…like I did…
I’m sure you wouldn’t like to live my life…
Make sure you’re always surrounded by light…keep it close to you as if it was your own child…
Never let it escape from you…and always remember that it’s afraid of betrayal…”
“?!”
“And…second…
The month of September is for you to keep around, too…
Never let it go and end all of a sudden…
Because…remember this…
If the day of 30th of September comes… there won’t be any October…
Or November…or December… nothing…
At all…”
“LUKE!”
She could feel that he was about to lose consciousness… His head fell deeply into his pillow…
His pulse…
His eyes…
And his words… Light and September…
The cardiograph was barely marking any heart beats…
And it stopped…
“And it was all so senseless…”
“CALL A DOCTOR!...”
“WE’RE LOSING HIM!...”
She just stood there, watching…
And waiting for it to happen…
At least now, she was patient…
Nothing…nothing…
“Miss, I must ask you to leave… the visiting hours are over already…”
Is this thing I feel…envy or pain?...
I can’t tell…
The hospital was left far behind…
I can’t even tell if it’s love…or hate…

…
The moon whispers words of unreal affection…
The sky is way too dazzling… even if the sun’s long gone…
And it’s snowing with glitter…
A window is opened widely…
The street in front of the hospital’s empty…

A bizarre silhouette is seen near the window… seeming to be getting ready to jump…
A man barely bleeding from his left arm…
“OK…I think it’s safe…” he whispered.
He looked back one more time…
The hospital ward…
Flowers…
The shut door…
And without even thinking about it again, he jumped…safely…
He wasn’t that high to get injured…
He got up…
And ran…

“Hey…”a familiar voice said from behind a building.
The familiar voice of a familiar person…
A man who once screamed “This woman’s innocent”…
He stopped for a moment…
“Over here, Luke…”
“How dare you show your face?”
“Hmm…let’s just say the prison walls see me as a ghost – I went right through them…Undetected…”
“And why did you come here?”
“To have a small chat with you …before you leave…”
Luke raised his eyebrows…
“I was in court today… again…obviously, I was sentenced to prison for 10 years… momentarily...”
“So Alicia was found…”
“Yes… they were convinced I was the one who did it, so I guess I tricked them…”
“Hopefully prison will at least prevent you from finding me anymore…”
“Guess again…I told you I escaped now… I can do it again if I want to…”
He turned his gaze to the ground…
“Doesn’t that…make you jealous?”
“Shut up…worm…”
“Now, be grateful … to the one who brought you back from that grave…”
Luke gasped…
“How do I know it was you?...”
“Well…I had help, of course… Angels can’t really bring people back to life… that’s a thing only one person can do…”
“Now, don’t start speaking of that unreal God of yours again… I’m not in the mood to listen to your nonsense…”
“The only person saying nonsense here is you, Luke…”
“Huh?...You’re saying that God of yours…”
“Don’t call Him my God, ‘cause He’s not only mine… He’s your God, too…”
“Not anymore…”
“…?”
“I realise now I was a total fool back then… when I still thought there is someone up there, looking upon us humans…
But now I can clearly see we’re all alone…
You should resign to this thought, too…for your own good…
Raven…”
The man looked deeply into Luke’s eyes at the sound of his name…
All of a sudden, he started walking calmly in the opposite direction, without noticing Luke’s stare…
“What the…?!”
Luke stood and watched him go for a short period of time…
“Raven…Raven, where do you think you’re going?...”
The man…kept walking…
“RAVEN, STOP IT! DON’T…”
So peacefully, he didn’t even bother to answer the screams…
But he could hear…
Silent sobs…
“Don’t…turn your back on me… I won’t be ignored…” Luke said one more time with a trembling voice. “And you’re going to listen to me…right now…”
“You fool…”
He stopped and turned around slowly…
“Heh…look at you, Luke…”
“?!”
“Your eyes are all red and you’re still weeping… how…childish…”
“SHUT UP ALREADY!”
“…Is this what he turned you into?...That…treacherous snake you have inside…”
“Stop…”
“What? Don’t tell me you’re protecting him…”
Raven shook his head a bit… then he put his hands on Luke’s neck violently…
“You foul creature… can’t even run a battle on your own…
Have to use someone else to accomplish your miserable plans…”
Luke’s pupils started shrinking alarmingly as Raven was about to choke him…
But he didn’t even notice…
“I’ve got a small present for you, Luke…”
Raven gave him a rectangular package after letting him go…
He was confused…
“Open it once you feel you’re safe...
And something tells me you should get going by now… I will, too…”
“Will I ever get to see you again?...”
“Be sure of that… consider this a promise…
Eh… angels keep their promises, I assure you…”
Raven’s blue eyes smiled in the odd light the moon spreaded all around…
And left without another word…
Luke stared for a moment or two at his package…
“I wonder…”
The temptation to open it was so big…
His hand trembled upon the wrapping…
“…Where the subway is…” Luke said completing his phrase.
The street seemed so warm watching it from the distance…
And…bizarrely safe…
Like being in the arms of the one you love…
“You don’t need love anymore…”
Luke smirked sadly while walking away…
“Hmm… I probably don’t…”

…
Ah…it’s so odd to see how people look at you…
Straight in the eye… like they’re suspecting you of something…
Like they’re trying to guess your past… That’s why you turn your gaze somewhere else, somehow afraid of them…

I think … I now realise the wind blows stronger when you’re alone…
…And it blows even stronger when you know you’ll be alone for a long period of time from now on…
…But in most cases, it’s better to be alone and self-confident than with someone else and always fighting betrayal…
“Oh, really?”
“At least, that’s what I think…”
Luke took a good look around…
The subway was way too noisy for someone to hear him talk to himself…
“Renfrew…Renfrew, where are you?” he whispered, glimpsing at a couple of subway trains which were about to leave…
He put his hands in his pockets…He again felt the wrapping of the received package, hearing it rustle…
But suddenly, he stopped stroking it, having the feeling that he’s being watched…
“Another coward admiring me…” he said in a heart beat.
“…Luke?!”
He looked backwards…
“Ah…Alex…
I forgot you live in Renfrew, too…”
Luke fleered back at Alex’s humming…
“…Imagine… I can hardly remember the fact that we used to be neighbours… even…friends…
Remember those days?...”
Luke stopped his monologue for a while just to gaze at Alex…
He seemed to be losing himself within his own mind… Luke felt this fact by the way he held his mouth open…
“How…why…when?...” Alex barely babbled.
“Now, don’t be surprised nor scared… but I’d rather you didn’t tell Alicia a thing about our little encounter…
Well… if you really want to tell her everything, then I can’t stop you at all…
If you want to hurt her deeply…then go ahead… I won’t even try to stop you…”
“You…you…”
Alex felt like he was choking on purpose… but he kept his eyes fixed on Luke’s cheerful and lively silhouette…
“You…devil…”
“What…?”
Luke was interrupted by another voice…
…Train 334 to Renfrew is about to leave the station…
“I’d love to stay and chat, Alex, believe me… but I really have to go…
I think you can live without me torturing you…”
Luke gloated over him one last time…
And left him there, still watching him through the windows of the subway train…
…Watching him being purely shocked, not even able to make a phone call…
“Perfect…just perfect…”

…Is this the image I was willing to create ?...
Is this the fake Luke I wanted to use to protect my true self?...
A heartless creature…an evil being…
As Alex said… a pure devil…
Is this what I truly wanted to hear from him? Am I fully satisfied?...
I can’t tell… I can’t tell…
I can’t even think properly in a while…
Is this a crisis I’m barely getting through or is it just the deceitful harmony that immediately follows a decisive battle?...

[oh, absenta indelungaaata ^_^ oare mai citeste cineva pe-aici? ]

da, citesc eu .
awesome.
dar pot sa-ti dau o micuta, mica minuscula sugestie? nu mai pune puncte de suspensie asa de des. arata mai urat si ingreuneaza citirea.
oricum, ideea e superba. congrats.

Thanks, Sam. Mi-am mai schimbat stilul de a scrie pe parcurs, deci punctele de suspensie se vor imputina. Promise ^_^

…
The subway train reached its destination after an hour of complete boredom…
Luke got up and stretched his legs a bit before getting off the train… He hadn’t moved since he last gazed at Alex’s lost figure…
“Hmm… Renfrew…” he grumbled, touching the ground.
Luke glimpsed at a clock nearby…
“Odd… so many people in the station at this late hour…”
He climbed up some stairs, managing to see the night sky… finally catching sight of the city he hadn’t seen for so much time…
He turned left… kept on walking, although he encountered extremely old acquaintances…
He enjoyed to be considered purely invisible…
“Alas, they’ve all forgotten me…”
The road was so easy to walk since he was ignored…
And he saw it…
An old manor, keeping its hidden memories sealed within its dark walls… Sneering defiantly through its cold windows, encouraging grudge and grief…
“Here we are…”
The massive door was surprisingly unlocked… it opened with a long, careless creak…
But he stopped, astonished of what he saw hanging on the wall right in front of him…
A…mirror?...
His own reflection stood there, patiently waiting…but it didn’t look quite the same…
Luke got closer… his steps echoed, tension growing steadily…
Closer…
And closer…
And he figured it out…
“This is not… me…”
He couldn’t recognize his own face… his expression…
He analyzed everything with care as the reflection stared back at him…
It didn’t seem to have the same eyes as he had… definitely, they were not the same…
And his hair… looked darker than the usual…
What was it that had grown on his head?... He recalled seeing those things before, but couldn’t remember when…
And… what were those things that appeared on his back? He looked deeper within the mirror...
“Wings?...”
He touched the mirror gently, tapping it a bit… The reflection did the same thing… Luke could swear it could feel the way he trembled…
He examined his long-fingered hands carefully… in the mirror, they appeared to be extremely pale…
Almost lifeless…
“Who the hell are you?...” Luke asked rhetorically, still touching the reflection’s white fingers…
It didn’t form his words… but something else…
“I’m…you…”
Luke opened his eyes widely, confronting the reflection’s gaze…
“No…this can’t be…”
His nails tapped the mirror again… it sounded like it was already cracking...
But the reflection didn’t seem to mind his first tears…
“No…no…” he said groaning already…
He contemplated his supposed image in the mirror for a second…
And then…
“This is not me…”
“It is…”
“It’s not…”
“I assure you… it is…”
“No, it is NOT!”
Filled with the sense of mutiny, Luke placed his fist right into the mirror’s centre, breaking it into thousands of pieces that scattered on the floor…
Several of them got under his skin… His pain seemed to be immense, but he didn’t even mind…
“THAT’S NOT ME!...”
He fell on his knees slowly, trying to put the pieces back together…
The reflection…stayed the same…
He felt like the walls were closing in around him… He grabbed a piece of glass and ran with it in another room…
He found retreat in a small corner and took his shirt off, throwing it…
Using the piece of glass, he tried to cut his veins, moving along his left arm…
“Come on…”
His skin was torn already… blood started rushing out…
His tears fell on his deep wound… combining with the huge red drops that fell over…
He saw himself in them…
“That’s my true self…” he sobbed smiling…

Eu ma chinui sa citesc, Jul'
Mare lucru nu inteleg, dar in mod cert scrii super bine.. adica mna, nu's chiar asa idioata la engleza

Nu prea am timp sa comentez.. mai scriu ceva la dezbatere.. dar mna, astept next, am sarit peste mare parte din al doilea post al tau, m'am cam grabit.. am citit mai devreme azi, iar amuh am vazut ultima parte postata ^^

Te pricepi.. brava xD

Buildings seem to touch the clouds that gather around the moon, trying to hide it from insolent people…
They’re all so modern, while the sky refreshes the atmosphere with its antique look… the stars light up edges of an unknown universe…
Everything’s too dynamic in the old city of Renfrew… 4 pm looks like a rush hour to its people…
…Leaves rustling under the wind’s gentle blow… Flowers bending their heads, sleeping in perfume…
Urge of denied beauty… that’s what Luke always saw through the windows of his room in his lost childhood…
He rubbed his wound thoroughly, as if he was testing if it still hurts… A moan coming from deep inside of him answered his question…
“…I should’ve been dead by now…” he thought, still gazing through the window…
…He was trembling of pain in his old bed… above it, a picture shimmered…
A dark-haired child was winking within it…
…A gone Luke…
“I’m not tired…” he said glimpsing at the pillow lying behind him…”But…
I guess I could at least pretend I am…”
He stretched his legs, although he was struggling not to get too relaxed…
But a thought made him jump out of bed, much more tensed up than ever…
The package…
He ran across the room, but his desperate search didn’t take too long – his bare foot hit what he was looking for.
Grabbing the package, he slowly sat on the bed, trying to maximize the tension…
And he unwrapped it… just to discover a book in black…
His red eyes stopped upon the title…
Holy …Bible…
Without a word, he opened it, flicking through it…
“What was Raven thinking, anyway?...” he wondered, swearing in his thoughts…
Another page turned over… and he saw something that got his blood boiling strongly…
For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water…
“What?...”
…And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes…
Luke shook his head, reading the last phrase again …
And again…
“LIARS…THEY’RE ALL JUST LIARS!!!”
…On his knees, with the Bible staring at him compassionately, he screamed as if he was calling the sun to bring an end to his fears…
“Liars… liars… what do they think they’re doing to me…” he sighed about to drown in his tears…
He crawled on the floor, conquered by tiredness… his wound opens once again…
He didn’t even bother to cover it… but fell asleep, hoping to die in his own blood…

[thanks,btw ^^]

Foarte frumoasa povestea ta! Dar trebuie sa recunosc ca nu am citit aboslut totul. Dar ideea am prinso