Disclaimer: Not mine...why do we hafta go through this again? Oscar and Andre are Ikeda's torture toys not mine, hence I am borrowing them and putting them back with (hopefully minor) damage.    Feedback gobbled up like a hungry puppy with a biscuit! but this puppy bytes flamers freely! Fear by Aria(cune@coqui.net) The life that I had previously held dearly onto, started to fade as the bullets hit me.  I did not even know where all I felt was a stinging pain and then a feeling as if drifting. With eyes that at that moment seemed not to be my own I looked at the sky. Then closed them quickly.     Was no one to lead me away from this life?     Was I to go alone?     Fear overtook me and I started to shake violently--I felt cold, so cold. . .     "Rosalie, wipe her face," I heard a voice command.     With an odd detachment I wondered why I needed someone to wipe my face. It must be the blood, I mussed silently.  My blood. . .     I was fading fast, it took so much for me to draw a breath and all the while, I inwardly cursed my lover--     Damn you Andre!  Damn you for leaving me here alone! Damn you!     Then a sudden peace came over me.     //My love. . .//     I heard him. I wasn't mad! I truly heard him!     //I haven't left you. . .//     But I was so afraid. . .     //Don't be, I'm here//     Will you guide me?     //That's why I am here//     Do I dare believe that it is real and not just an ilusion?     //I am real, Oscar//     Where are you?     //Above you, in the sky//     With the little strength I had left I opened my eyes and gazed upward.  I was aware of a beautiful white pigeon circling above me.  Birds can be considered evil omens of death, the infamous crow for one--yet I did not fear anymore.  I believed Andre, I knew that he would guide me, and be with me.  I felt the little life I had left seep away, faintly aware of the cries around me.  But I did not fear.     With an "Adieu" it was over.     The detached feeling consumed me as I looked curiously and impassively at what used to be my body.     "Oscar!"     I knew instictively who it was.     "I knew you would never leave me."     "Never," he echoed and streched his hand.     I took it and together we left, him guiding me to the unknown.     But I did not fear.  End feedback: