A/N: Hi, all. I got this idea a little while back and finally got some inspiration to write it! Now I know the chapters are on the short side, but I'm trying to keep it so that the main thing happening is isolated in a chapter if you get what I mean. This fic is something a little different for me, but I hope you like it.

P.S. I am still pinkpeacelimegreen, just changed up my name

P.S.S. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHACTERS

CHAPTER ONE – WISH

Vitani stared down at the ring that adorned her finger, the gem glistening in the light. She knew the article did not stand for love. It stood for three years of war, but no one else knew that. The only reason she had said yes was because she felt it was what was expected of her. Sure, she loved him, but everything about it felt wrong.

She was not an equal, but a victim. He had berated her on countless occasions because she had done something he did not like. Most times it even lead to him striking her. This was the norm for their relationship. Everyone else thought that they were the perfect couple, but she begged to differ.

She wanted to leave, but she didn't know how to run. Always had he felt that her family would be disappointed in her. That was why she stayed around and went through all the abuse he gave her. Day after day she wished for a way out.

Vitani let her hand drop back down to her lap and observed the world around her. The wind whistled past her ears and rustled the young leaves and they desperately clung to their branches. She felt the sun shining down upon her, warming her with its rays as a few birds chirped nearby.

This was the world that she lived in. Everything as constantly moving and changing around her. Life never stooped, but she always felt like she did, and while she sat still, the world was oblivious. She was but one person among millions, her existence uninfluential. Sometimes she felt like she could disappear and no one would even notice.

She adjusted her seat on the well upon which she sat and looked down to the water below. Reflected back was the girl she had slowly become. Her face was pale, her long hair thin and wispy, her eyes blank and void of happiness. She was not the carefree girl everyone thought she was. Vitani was the complete opposite.

Her fake happiness facade was tiring. In moments like these when she got to be alone, she let her true feelings show through her mask and reflect upon her life. At night, she would often stare at the stars and contemplate if this was all there was to life. Her eyes would always search for a shooting star to wish upon for a change, and thus far she had not found one.

A call from within the house stirred her from her revere and she stiffened. Vitani knew that voice all too well. To her, it could be Satan himself beckoning for her, and she almost wished it was because even he couldn't match the brutality that awaited her. Hesitantly, she rose from her perch and slowly walked to him.

Inside she was met with the eyes she had come to know. They were filled with warmth and looked inviting, but that was only the outside. Inside was rage, hate, and above all, power. He thought he held the power to control her.

"Where have you been?" he asked impatiently.

She swallowed and looked at him with an unreadable expression. "I was sitting outside."

He glared. "What, wasting precious time again? You could have at least been doing something useful, like cleaning up this place!"

Vitani looked around at the nearly spotless room. "I finished cleaning a couple hours ago."

"I don't care! Find something else to do instead of wasting time daydreaming!"

Vitani closed her eyes for a moment and exhaled sharply. "No," she said firmly.

He raised an eyebrow. "No?"

"I said no."

He stood up and looked straight into her eyes. "You dare to defy me?"

She glared back into his eyes. "Yes. You don't control me."

The sound of skin hitting skin filled the room. She put a hand to the spot on her face he had just struck and winced. "Get out of my sight," he hissed. "You're worthless."

She quickly turned and left the room, going back out onto the terrace. She knelt down at the well and let her tears run silently down her face. The sun was setting, and what little remained still playfully peaked over the horizon. Vitani looked up to the darkening sky and saw but a single star.

She closed her eyes and began to wish. "I wish I could be free of this life…" she whispered. When she reopened her eyes, the star moved and shot across the sky. Suddenly, its course changed and it began to pelt down towards where she sat.

Vitani backed away from the well and watched as the star plummeted into the water below. She heard a distinct splash and peered downward. The water rippled and she noticed a faint light under the surface. She leaning over further, trying to make sense of the situation.

Slowly, two tendrils rose out of the water, glowing blue from the light. They climbed their way to the top and stopped just before the rim. One reached out to Vitani and she lightly touched her finger to the strand.

Emotions she did not know she could still feel filled her. Love. Happiness. Want. Freedom. She closed her eyes and sighed contently. "This is it," she whispered. Vitani grasped the offered tendril and nodded.

The water began to envelop her arm and the other joined in starting at her waist. She felt herself swelling with glee as her body was slowly encased. Her feet left the ground as she was pulled up and she hovered above the opening of the well.

Vitani looked back one last time at the life she once knew. She saw a fluttered of the curtains and noticed that he was now watching her in shock from the window. "Goodbye," she said before she was sucked down into the abyss below.