A/N: The muse kissed me again in the form of nightmare that I just had to get out of my System. I'll tell you at the end about the dream, so that I don't spoil anything... but I should probably warn you that this fic might be a little angsty. If that doesn't turn you off, then please enjoy the ride :)

Prologue

The dark corridor doesn't seem to end. No matter how far she is running, she can never quite reach the light at the end of the hallway. She runs and runs and runs until her lungs are burning and her legs are hurting. And then she runs some more, just because she can not stop. With every passing of a light switch, she pushes the button but no light ever goes on. She can hear his voice in the distant, calling her name. He sounds frantic, scared even, a sound so foreign coming from him that she almost doesn't recognize it. Her pace speeds up, trying to get to him, wanting to tell him that everything was alright. That she was alright. That he didn't have to be scared. She circled the floor once, twice, three times but his office is empty every single time. He yells her name again and she runs a little faster again. His voice is everywhere, the panic in it chilling her to the bones. And it is getting louder and louder until… BANG.

With a hammering heart, cold sweat all over her body and a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, her eyes snap open, momentarily blinded by the brightness of the early morning creeping into her bedroom.