I hid behind the column and watched as that monster held her body in his arms. He pushed her hair out of her bloody face and looked down at her with those soulless eyes. I almost stepped out to finally eradicate his existence from this world, but I couldn't right now. Not when he was throwing me a party.

I hated thinking this way, but Queen brought this upon herself. She was too nice, too soft for her own good...so terribly naive. If she had been with me all these years, she wouldn't have fallen prey to that low rank vampire.

I thought my little notes and lessons after all this time would teach her something about trusting the wrong people, but I'm afraid they didn't. She was the same scared little girl that I knew so long ago...

I paused my thinking when I thought back to her not running from me in the hall today. She turned to try to face me, but I was the one who cowered away.

I never knew she'd be coming back to Jeradua so soon. The last I heard she had finally settled into her life in Heaven and I gave up hope that she'd ever come back here...back to me. Feeling her presence back here a few weeks ago was what finally sparked the fire in me that brought me back to life.

I almost cried when I saw her. The resemblance she carried of her father through those brown eyes and that single beauty mark above her cheek made my heart splinter. I missed him more than words could explain, maybe that's why I couldn't leave Queen alone.

As joyous as it all was, my happiness was crushed after finding her with Lucifer's son. I still hadn't forgiven him for everything he did, and if it were up to me, they'd both be burning in that Hell he created. An innate part of me would always belong to Lucifer, but I hated him. He hated me too.

I watched as Syn picked her up from the floor and began walking down the hall as her limp body left a trail of blood on the floor. I whispered a spell, wrapping an invisibility cloak around myself and stepped out of the shadows to follow him. As soon as I did, Syn turned around, his red eyes scanning the halls most likely from the sudden dark energy that was radiating off of me.

His eyes landed on me and I gasped, thinking that he saw me, but when he turned back around and continued walking, I relaxed. His calmness in this situation was astounding to me. His eyes were already red indicating that his emotions weren't of his control anymore, yet here he was.

He walked into a bedroom and placed her lifeless body on a bed before standing back up and running his hands down his face. A guttural growl escaped his mouth before he grabbed a lamp beside him and sent it shattering to the floor. There it is. His fist created a hole in the wall and everything within arm's reach was obliterated by his anger. Everything except her. My poor girl was lying facing the Heavens with her hair fanned out on the dark pillow. Her angelic face lacked any tinge of life, yet she looked more peaceful than she had since entering this forsaken world.

Maybe she should stay dead...

Perhaps she'd be able to find a true haven beyond the borders of our world and truly be happy...that's what I wanted. Right?

No. I was too selfish to let that happen and Queen was destined for greater things than death. Things that I needed her to be alive for.

The door burst open and Genesis strode in, making me upturn my lips in disgust and cross my arms. I absolutely despised her years ago, and I still did now. Lucifer called it jealousy and it might have been, but that didn't change the fact that my body vibrated with anger whenever I saw her smile.

"What happened?!" She rushed to Queen's side of the bed, checking her pulse and when she heard nothing, she took her hand in hers and began crying. She began mourning her as if she were her child and my jaw clenched. Of course, she was here trying to steal a title that wasn't hers AGAIN. "Who did this?!" She sobbed at she looked at Syn.

"Mia," he replied lowly. As if remembering everything that happened in the hall, he rushed out of the room.

"Syn, no!" Genesis screamed, running after him, leaving Queen and me in the room alone. I walked slowly to the bed, my heart pounding with each step I took toward her, and when I was close enough, I sat beside her.

"Hello beautiful girl," I whispered with a smile, moving her curly hair out of her face. "I'm sorry we had to meet under these circumstances. I always imagined you to at least be...breathing when we met." I laughed softly, as screaming down the halls ensued. Loud as they may have been, nothing could ruin this moment for me.

I squeezed her hand tightly, hoping to leave behind a reminder that she wasn't alone, and I took a deep breath.

I contemplated erasing her memory of what happened tonight, but I decided against it. This would be another lesson for her. I wanted her to know how to fight back, to kill if she needed to. I needed her to remember her death, I needed her to remember me...in whatever way she could. I wanted her to use her brain and wonder why the sudden urge in her was tempting her to kill those who wronged her.

Removing the invisibility around myself, I laughed as I imagined a guard walking in and seeing me. They would probably die from fear or remain glued to their spots in shock. For centuries I was only a tale told around the realms. Many didn't believe of my existence, but the ones that did wished they didn't.

I hummed a tune as I placed a hand over Queen's heart and closed my eyes. I gathered all my memories and all the love I had for her, and slowly pushed it into her. The warmth from my heart traveled to my shoulder, down my arm, and floated across her chest.

I thought about my excitement from her first steps, my disappointment from her first tears...her father's laughter at her first giggle...my anger at her first mistake...Everything of her that I had in me was poured into her, draining me of my energy but slowly and surely reviving hers. "Per amorem meum mortuus es, per amorem meum redibis. De cineribus mortis surge...(By my love you have died, by my love you will return. Rise from the ashes of death...)," I chanted.

The spell along with my low mumbling continued until I felt a faint heartbeat in her chest. There you are. I waited for the slow and weak thumping to grow into a strong one, and I removed my arm. I began humming as I finished the remainder of the spell and healed her wounds completely. Her beautiful brown skin now looked unblemished with no blood or cuts and I smiled down at her.

My humming stopped as I felt a looming danger erupting from within the palace. A power surge so forceful that if I didn't leave now, I would never be able to. I had to leave her, again. This was always the most painful part of coming to see her. It felt like I was leaving a piece of my heart behind with her.

I quickly grabbed a piece of paper, scribbling across it what I needed to write, and opened her palm to place it inside. I laid a kiss on her forehead, making her eyes flutter open, but before she could see me I snapped myself back into the palace halls and into the shadows.

I wiped a tear that came out of my eye from leaving her and I forced myself to walk away. I needed to focus on my plan, my revenge. I would make them pay for making her live a life without me. But that would take time.

For now, I needed to distance myself from her so I could stay focused. I would be back for her soon, but I would never be far from her if she needed me.

I'm always here for you, my little one...my baby.