Epilogue
(*ok, I know you wanted violence or something but come on, I'm not that good
at killing and chasing away scenes I think*)
Two weeks had passed since Tori had come home and only a week since
Dominic had come home to her that night and whispered softly into her ear
as he thought she lay sleeping. "Your safe now." before kissing her
cheek and falling into a deep sleep beside her. Ever since then, things
had been back to nearly perfect. Well, as perfect as you got with a set
of two brothers and sisters. But everyone was like family and Angela
and Tori began spending more and more time togather. She had become like
a sister to Angela and Mia and the girls were almost never apart, except
for when Dominic claimed time with Tori.
The two had grown so close in such a very short time. So much
had happened and so much had been pushed onto their lives. Tori had had
thoughts during the first week about leaving sometime, but Dominic would
sit her down each and everytime and show her exactly why she wasn't going
to leave. She was amazed at how many different things he could be at once.
Soft but hard, sweet but tough, it all astounded her and everytime he
kissed her, her mind dropped a little more of the need to run, until the
day she woke up, two weeks later and the epiphany of her lifetime came
to her. It had taken Dominic almost two hours to get her to stop crying
enough to tell him what was wrong.
"They're gone Dom...." she sobbed softly, as he wiped tears
from her eyes.
"Who's gone Tor?"
"Mom and Dad. They're dead. I never really believed I'd lost
them, that they were still there with me, but....they're not."
she sighed.
"Oh." Dom said quietly. "What brought this on Tori?" he asked,
pulling her onto his lap and stroking her arm.
"I woke up and tried to think of a reason that we needed to leave.
I-I've always done that to distance myself..you know, I mean I always
wanted to think of myself as the person to make the decision that we
had to go......and I couldn't think of one."
"And that made you sad?" he asked almost incredously.
"No...no..you see...the reasons were always that there WAS
something better....something like my father and mother and their
life out there. But there's not. I'm always looking for some way to
get a little peice of that life back and I've never been able to find
it." she paused and looked up at him. "Until now."
Dominic was confused. "What do you mean?"
Tori looked down a little then around in thought as she
spoke and explained. "You see, my parents had this kinda of love
that I thought noone else in the world could ever have. It was
special..just for them. And not just that, they had this connection.
This way of knowing each other and I guess that may have been what I
was looking for...a connection." she looked back up at him.
He pointed to himself and her, back and forth. "Like the one you
and I have." he understood.
"Yeah."
"So does this mean your gonna stay?"
"Yeah.
"For good?"
Tori smiled and kissed him. "For good."
THE END
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