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An Angel From Hell
By Kayla Chavi

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Epilogue

I don't know how I survive the dawn of the morning, but somehow I got home. The outcome of the final battle had been this:

Jedeite survived, barely, but he did. Rei was dead, having died to save Serena's soul from eternal damnation. I had lost my best friend in her, Jedeite had lost a lover.

Years later, I asked him once how he dealt with the pain of loosing her over and over again. He just smiled at me and said, "You don't deal with the Pain, Darien, you embrace it and make it a part of you. It's the only way to survive."

Amy was still alive, but would never see again, nor would she ever walk. Beryl was very dead and not returning, I had that on the authority of the blond bitch that had kept me from saving Serena. Andrew was still alive, even though, he too had been at the site of the Great Spell. The Higher Powers had brought him there to test her.

Apparently, he and Serena and been brother and sister in his first life. Go figure.

And I....I was a vampire.

And I was now standing in front of a computer with a disk in my hand. Andrew had given it to me once I was coherent enough to actually think again.

"She wanted you to have this," was all he said to me.

Now I was in her apartment, in front of her computer, just staring at the screen. Slowly, I pushed the disk into the hard drive and began to read.

* * *

I awoke to the feeling of my clothing slowly and sensuously being removed. Slowly I opened my eyes and saw that my husband had just finished removing my dress. His face was troubled but unreadable. He wasn't looking at me as he began to kiss my stomach. It was almost disheartening at the sadness I was able to see in his eyes for only a brief moment. His hair was down and most of his clothing was gone as well.

"Endymion?" I whimpered quietly and threaded my hand through his hair. He stopped and pulled back to look at me. Slowly he kissed back up my stomach and I hissed in an unneeded breath as he delicately moved his mouth along my breasts. "What happened?"

He didn't answer me. He just continued to kiss me. A moment later he began to touch me along my thighs and hips. I was a little perplexed as to why he was doing this. However, I wasn't going to complain. Instead I ran my hands through his hair and did my best to return his kisses and caresses. It wasn't easy for I was completely on my back and he had moved so he was straddling me.

"Endym-" He pressed his lips to mine and silenced me with a deep and passionate kiss. It was tender and caring. I could feel his love in this kiss. He didn't even break the kiss when he slowly entered me. I whimpered quietly, for even though I was expecting it, it still came as a surprise. I wrapped my arms around his neck as he thrust into me slowly. We made love and it was probably one of the most pleasurable experiences of my life.

I know that we should have talked about what had happened with the two Angels of Life. We should have discussed what happened to make me faint. We should have done anything but make love. It would have been smart of us. It would have saved us.

"I love you, Senna," he murmured over and over into my ear as he had brought me to a high climax in what had seemed to take an eternity. I opened my eyes to watch him. What I saw, scared me. I nearly screamed when I felt the cold press of metal against my neck.

I just reacted. I grabbed the wrist holding the knife and snapped it back. I heard his bones crack but he didn't make a sound. I held the knife for a moment before it burned me. I hurled it across the room and then rolled us over. We were still joined and he was still hard. I held him tightly to the bed and looked down at him in disbelief.

"Do it."

"NO!"

"Do it, Senna."

"Never. I could never."

"Damn you, Serena."

I cried out as he harshly pushed himself into me. My grip on his wrists faltered and he used the opportunity to sit up. He continued to move against me at a faster pace. I tried to pull away, to stop this, but he held onto me tightly by the waist. It became a matter of who was capable of outlasting the other. I won by the shear fact that I was a vampire and a woman. He buried his face in my neck as he climaxed. A second later I joined him in esctasy.

I didn't even realize that I was drinking from him until I heard a strangled sob. We were still joined and he was climaxing again, the Euphoria taking over his body. I withdrew my fangs as soon as I saw what was happening. He breathed in deeply and then fell back against the bed. I fell with him and with the little strength he had left he pulled me into his arms.

I began to cry silently into his shoulder. "Why?"

"I knew that I could never. I knew that all I had to do was make you lose control."

"Why?"

"Because I would rather die like this, a part of you, in you, then any other way."

"You're an idiot."

He laughed quietly, "I know." He tilted my head up and I looked at him. I saw the rest of his life fall slowly away. "Find me. Find me and screw me over. Find me and love me. Find me, Senna." His eyes began to close and his hand fell away from my face. "I love you, my angel from hell." I felt his soul leave his body.

I cried my whole heart out the moment he died. I was truly alone again, for with him went my soul, my heart, and my love.

* * *

What happened later is not nearly so dramatic, in fact it's almost boring. It wasn't until nearly twenty years later that Atlantis sunk into the sea and K'thia was consumed by the ravages of war, due to the stupidity of our children.

I, of course blame Terra, who died after the war. She had ended up have most of the influence over my children, even though both Endy and I had protested her 'words of wisdom'. I'm amazed that Endymion turned out to be as wonderful as he did with a mother like that.

Jedeite and I became close, always looking for our significant others. He would make sure that if Reishe did become a Priestess that she wouldn't swear any vows of celibacy. I would make sure that Endy never looked at any girl other than me.

Darien, I've found you so many times and every time I've fallen in love with you. Each time is like the first. You always manage to have me feeling like that silly and clumsy fifteen year old girl. Sometimes I know exactly what you feel, and other times I'm so confused I don't know whether I'm coming or going.

I want you to know that I blame you for everything. It's your fault that I fell in love with you, its your fault that I spend my immortal existence looking for you. It's your fault that I border on being a pathetic love-struck girl and an amazing seductress.

Thank you.

I've lived my Unlife with a purpose other than kill, crush, destroy. My Unlife has a purpose, no matter how weird or pathetic it is.

Just remember, that if we don't find each other for a long time, that it is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all. (Yes, I realize that belongs to Billy, but I was the one who gave him the idea for it in the first place).

Yours for eternity,

Serena, your angel from hell

* * *

I saw the blood splash on the keyboard a moment too late and realized that I was crying. Crying for my love that I felt like that I had lost completely.

I knew now otherwise. I knew that I would find her when the time was right, and maybe this time we could have the happiness we wanted without stupid curses and angry ex-girlfriends.

I read over the last part once more and smiled. So she knew about my title for her. I tried to be surprised, but it didn't work.

I sighed heavily and ran a hand through my hair, noticing for the first time that there was an address attached to the disk. I frowned slightly when I realized that it was a warehouse.

Grabbing my coat, I looked outside to see that the sun was setting and then ran all the way to the warehouse. I was able to get the door open by breaking the lock. Flinging open the door, I was not prepared for the site that greeted me.

There were thousands of things that littered the large room. It was filled with paintings, and art, jewelry, and even a large bed. Each item had a small card telling exactly what it was, where it was from, and I assume what version of me, she associated it with.

I went through each item, the search taking me long into the night until I reached something that would have made my heart stop if it was beating.

It was a glass figurine of a Knight, his sword was raised to attack some great evil, and every detail was exquisite. The expression on his face was one of determination mixed with confidence and a little bit of fear as he faced whatever foe he was against. I smiled when I realized he had dark hair and blue eyes.

On the ground behind him was the damsel in distress. Her face reflected admiration and even a bit of love as she looked up to her Protector. Though it was almost odd that her hair had a problem deciding whether to be a light auburn or a pale blond. Her eyes were also blue, and her skin was amazingly white.

'To My Knight in Shining Armor, Darien. May you always protect and guard against the evils of the world, even if they do come in the form of hellish angels. Love always, Serena.'

The card was dated, February 14, 2001.

Today.

I fell to my knees and cried, for what wouldn't be the last time.

Serena was dead and it would be a long time until I would see her again.

It was the End of the World.

* * *

Of course the story doesn't end. If it did it would be a mockery of every love story that existed. It would be a mockery of Romance. The ending doesn't always have to be happy, it just as to have hope.

Several years later I was walking down a crowded street in Los Angeles when I heard a woman screaming out in pain in the back of an alley.

Worried, I followed the sound until I came upon a young woman with long black hair. She was leaning against the wall, screaming shrilly in pain. That's when I noticed that she was pregnant.

Not thinking, I took this woman into my arms and lead her to the hospital without saying a word. I won't go into the details, but later that evening she gave birth to a little girl.

Both she and her husband were ecstatically happy and thanked me for getting her to the doctor so quickly. Apparently she had been robbed and the trauma had forced her into an early labor. Without me, the doctors claim, she would have lost the baby in that alley.

I was just glad that the husband got there so he could have the joy of witnessing the birth, and hearing the screams.

So a few days later I came to visit the woman in the hospital, along with flowers, balloons, and chocolate. The woman's oldest daughter, a girl of about three or four with black hair and violet eyes, was sitting on the bed, holding the newborn baby.

"Hey kid," I said smiling.

"Hello Darien," the little girl smiled shyly. "Mommy says that she and Daddy don't have a name for my little sister," she pouted.

The mother laughed, "We always thought that we would have a boy and a girl, so we only picked out a boy and a girl name. Reilyn got the girl one."

I nearly choked, for the first time realizing that Rei was sitting in front of me. I looked down at the little girl in her arms. "May I hold her?" I asked, half afraid, half dying with anticipation.

The woman nodded and Rei handed me the baby carefully.

My eyes closed when I held her, my heart singing, and I felt a desperate tug at my soul when I held her.

"Serena," I said after a moment, looking down at the newborn.

The mother smiled, "It's perfect!" she exclaimed and Rei wrinkled her nose.

"It's a girly name," she muttered and I laughed quietly. Serena just looked up at me, and somehow the same mischievous glint was still in her eyes, for she reached up and grabbed my nose, yanking on it.

I just laughed and kissed her forehead. Everything was going to be okay. I had found her, and in twenty years I would come back again and do what she had spent 8,000 years doing.

Pathetic? Yes.

Insane? Most definitely.

Wonderful? Absolutely.

I had found her!

My one and only angel from Hell.