Epilogue
I've decided to keep a journal. I know the truth about the world around me. There are monsters under the bed. I don't know what my power was, when I fought off Nikolai and his thugs. I can't even describe it. There is something strange about me, but I guess I will learn about it sooner or later. I don't think this new war is over yet.
The doctors are amazed that I survived. Anyway, I died, at least that's what the doctors told me. I was literally dead. For six minutes, from what they believe, they think I died on the way to the hospital. It turns out Nikolai kept me alive and took me to the hospital. He saved me, I guess. There is a new set of marks on my neck. I think Nikolai marked me. He told Amy, when she came to the hospital with the others that he did something that would save my life. But he didn't explain what. He did tell her however that I was pretty much Korin's servant. That is why I died, or almost died. Well, I did die. But anyway, he stayed at the hospital till dawn. Then came back the next night while I was unconscious. He's invited me to go on a date with him. Yeah, right. I can really see that happening.
It turns out that Raye and Darien aren't together. Darien hadn't been able to sleep and Raye had heard him pacing. She was worried about him. She told me that when I had left she had tried to start something between him and her; she said she thought I was dead at the time. But he wouldn't let anything happen. I don't know if its true, but it gives me hope.
I've decided to stay here at the palace. I don't know why. Maybe to make sure that there are no more attacks or something. Or maybe because of Darien. I don't know how I feel about him anymore. I was ready to let him go to Raye if he wanted, I don't know if that means I love him enough to let him go, or if it means that I don't love him anymore. I think I do. Every time I see him, my heart starts a drum march. He is so gorgeous that its hard to be around him and not love him. I can understand why Raye tried.
Everyone has left me in peace. I think that they think I was trying to run away again. I guess in a sense I was. I wanted it over with. Oh well. I'm here now.
Molly is ok. Nikolai stopped Laryn and Jesse, the only one of his vampires to have survived the night, from killing her. She now works for him. I see her sometimes. But she tries to stay away from me. I think she's the one that paid the worst price for my betrayal. Because that is what it was. I betrayed everyone when I left.
But I wonder if everything would have been better if I had never come back or never left and I cant say that it would have.
Oh yeah, Lilly realized who I was, she wrote me a letter, she's coming for a visit. She's majorly freaked that I was the Princess. She doesn't know how she didn't see it. She'll be here next month. She says she needs to talk to me about something important though. I wonder what that's about. Guess I'll find out when she gets here.
Serena.
AN: LOL I have noticed that most of my readers have noticed that this story was rushed. smiles There is a small reason, and kinda a dumb one, which is why I am rewriting these stories, all of them, to expand all the characters and the plots. The reason I didn't seem to finish this story or any of the others correctly is because at the final chapter, which is still planned out, I came up with the next story line. Now most people would make a note of it, and then keep writing on the original story, and I would have, except that when I went back to the original story, I found that I could only think of the newest story. I still have the original ending plans, and plan on implementing those endings when rewriting. Book 1, Silent Judgment, was not supposed to end here, there were supposed to be several more chapters. Book 2, Cruel Visions, also wasn't supposed to end where it did, plus there were some facts in Book 2 that I had thought to leave out due to too much written on the story, and at first I thought they wouldn't fit in with the plot. After finishing book 2, I realized that those parts that I had left out were actually integral to the plot. All the stories that are being posted on are first drafts, the final drafts will be posted on my site. Shakes head As to the reason that it has taken me 2 years to rewrite Book 1, one reason is life, the other is due to research. Anyway, I hope people will understand, and YES your reviews are taken into consideration. If you point out something that you wont to learn more about, or have questions, I will do my best to answer and work on that part of the story. Though, I will tell you, as far as what happens between Darien, Raye, Serena, and Nikolai, I have no idea, none of the series have reached that point. But I will give you a hint, Book 4, Dangerous Distractions, will bring out the relationship between Darien, Serena, and Nikolai, or at least whispers complicate it a bit!