'Then why can't you still love me now...why can't you feel the same way I do. I can feel it in you, you've lost it. You lost it before I even died...why...'

She couldn't lie to him, he was in her mind. He could sense a lie.

'I... I... Why should I bring you back? I could just forget...'

'Fine, then do it. Kill me off. Finish me here and now. Hell, if you wanted to you could kill Donlad while your at it, I know you love him, so he'll probabaly end up the same why I am...why not just put him out of his misery now. After that you can take care of the rest of them. You'll be doing me a f***ing favor Dawn. You've seen my life, and I sure as hell can't expect a better one without the ability to trust anyone...'

He felt her mind shake.

'Kill me Dawn, kill me and get it over with so you can go using every other guy you meet...'

He meant to sound harsh. He was so hurt, so angry. He loved her...how could he say those things.

Dawn burst into tears. Donald stared at her. 'I don't do that! I can't, I'm the future f***ing godess of light! I have to bring you back!'

It had worked...he felt like an ass, but it had worked.

'Dawn. I want you to know...your the most beautiful person I've ever met in my life. And I am so in love in love with you, I can't think straight when I'm around you. I would do anything...have done anything for you...I need you Dawn, I need you to keep me sane...alive.'

He felt the warmth of his emotions leaking into her thoughts.

'You're my best friend, and my worst enemy at the same time Dawn. You can make me melt with even the slightest touch' he though about when they had slept together, she felt the thought too. 'You can also hurt me without trying...I don't want to lose you...I can't lose you.'

'But... I'm going to take my mother's place one day. How can you love the future light godess?'

He had an answer to that...but he couldn't say it. She wouldn't understand. It would be so sudden. Hell, it didn't even make sense to him...how someone like that could end up there...

He knew he'd been special all his life, but he never suspected that. He didn't deserve that. Then he wondered how in the hell he had chanced to fall inl love with the light godess' daughter. Life worked in starnage ways.

'I could find a way.'

He knew she sensed he was lying.

'Tell me what you're hiding.'

'I don't think I should...he might get mad at me for it.'

He thought back at how tender he had been toward Adrian. So much different then how he used to know him...why had he changed...he had only figured out a few houra ago himself. When he'd been standing nude at Dawns window, the women below weren't what made him duck, it was the presence in his mind...it told him..and congratulated him...

'Yeah...I don't think I should.'

He knew she wouldn't leave him alone.

'Please, please, please.'

'The man you spoke to...when you entered the realm of the spirits...wasn't just the spirit of fire. That was my father...thats why he looked like me, he only lied about it to make you think otherwise.'

His voice grew silent. What would she say?

'You... will be fire? Light and fire aren't lovers... Light and earth are. Fire is with dark.'

'Thats whats wrong...thats why I've been paranoid this enitre time...but...everything says I'm supposed to love someone else...but I can't. I just can't Dawn...'

She didn't answer

He knew he shouldn't have told her. Now she had even more reason not to love him. Destiny and rules forbid them being together, and yet she loved him before...honestly loved him. How would she feel now, knowing that divinity was trying to seperate them so they could be with other people.

No...he could re-write the rule books...