He roars, his fist touching his lover's face. A howling scream from his throat, his heart beating with pain... "Christ didn't save Ellie!" He screams. She stumbles to the nightmare ground, the bruise scarring the depths of her soul...
And tears appear in his eyes...
"I'm sorry..."
Sobbing, she embraces him...
The bruise on her face, the scars upon his cheeks. The distance between them, the shadows dividing them. Her heart bleeding with love, his soul seeking the light. The wounds in her soul, the darkness in his eyes...
He is hell. She is heaven.
"I'm sorry... Ellie's gone..."
"But there is hope..."
And he listens.
"I have died every day waiting for her too. Waiting for you, waiting for everyone. My friends, my family, my love..."
"And there is a reason why I waited... Because I know you would wait for me too..."
"I could have fallen, you could have stayed... I could have been dark, and you been light... And you would have waited for me, day and night, praying for my return... And you would have sung to me, to the abyss, calling my name..."
"And I may have listened, and I may not..."
"What if you didn't listen..."
Her eyes fill with dread.
"Then I would be lost... Forever..."
Tears, upon his eyes. Tears of fear, tears of hope. He looks deep into her wounded eyes... His darkness, her light. His fear, her might...
"Ellie... What has she become..."
They intuitively know. A succubus. Her divinity forgotten, her light forsaken - to the abyss of darkness, to the shadows of night...
"I must save her..." The silent words of his voice fade into the darkness... "I came here for her... I lived for her... I died for her... She would have done the same for me..."
She listens, knowing that he would not believe without Ellie. Too attached to her, too addicted to her, too broken by her... There is only one way to resurrect the dead, one way to transmute the darkness, one way to revive the fallen...
"I know where she is."
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