I got the idea for this from...i don't know...I think I was in shower and this idea came to me.

Enjoy!!!


Forgiveness

"Have you come to gloat?" He voice was barely a whisper as he laid dying in the hospital.

"How did you know I was here?" she asked stepping out of the shadows. She walked over to the old man and sat next to his bed.

"I could always tell when you were watching me. So…have you come to gloat?"

"What would I have to gloat about? I died almost 80 years ago, why would I come to an old man and gloat about his death?" She rested her chin in her hand and looked at him. "It's almost sicken to see you look so weak."

"I said the same thing…as you laid dying." He stared up at the ceiling and let tears roll down him cheeks. "I'm sorry…I forced him to do it…"

She looked up at him, her eyes wide with surprise. "We haven't talking into about 80 years and that what you say to me? How can you bring that bastard into this?!"

She stood violently to leave but his hands shot up to grab her arm. Bony fingers gripped at her with a strength that the near dead should not have. She looked down at him and turned back, wrapping her arms around him, she laid him back down.

"Don't move so quickly, you're hurt yourself."

His grip on her arm did not weaken.

"Listen to me…after what happened…LISTEN!" she jumped at the sudden yell. "He didn't want to do it. I begged him too. I could not lose you, not like Mother…I begged and begged him to turn you. It's my fault. It was all my fault."

She lent down and hugged him. Golden hair slipped over her shoulder covering his chest.

"It's not your fault. I don't blame you, I could never blame you. I forgive you.."

"You don't understand me!"

"You're reaction was the same as any other brother in you place!"

"No..no..no…" He breathing became shallow and sharp. "I'm not the one still suffering…He's still looking for you. He won't forgive himself until he finds you.."

She stood and walked to the end of the bed, this time his let her, too weak to stop her.

"How can I forgive that monster after what he did to me!? He made me into this thing! He said he.."

"Loved you? He did. He still does. After all these years he carries the guilt of what I made him do. Find him and forgive him. It's the only way he'll move on."

"I don't want him too. I want him to suffer as I do." She pulled one of the flowers out of the vase next to the bed. She was nervous; he could tell she wouldn't stand still. She began to pull the petals off the flower leaving a little trail behind her.

"You can only truly hate someone, after you have truly loved them."

"Callum said the same thing. You're both fool. I came to say goodbye since you don't have much time left. So good bye." She turned towards the window in order to leave.

"You still love him." She turned to look at him. "I can tell. Even after I married Josie, Joshua still loved me. Even after a told him we could never be and he told me he hated me I could still see it in his eyes. I see it in yours still too."

She walked back over to the bed and looked down at him. They stared into each others eyes, then she drew back.

"You still love him after this long." She asked sitting down again.

"And you still love him too….but it is jaded love now. Maybe you couldn't love him again, not like before."

"I'm not 5 Damien. Reverse psychology isn't going to work on me any more."

"It was worth a try."

"I should get going."

"Is Death that close to me?"

"That and the nurse is due to come here any moment."

He looked up at her a smiled. She watched as he eyes drifted shut, his breather became slowly as she watched him pass from this world.

"Gabrella…." She jumped not having been called by her true name for so long, "forgive him…promise me…you will.."

"I forgive you…and maybe…one day I'll forgive him…" she smiled and kissed him as she feel his life drain away to nothing.

She stood back away from him.

Turning back to the window she walked over to it.

"Callum once told me that call vampire love their sires at one stage, but sooner or later that Love turns to Hate. I love mine before he made me like this so I'll carry on hate him. I'm sorry Damien but I can't forgive him."

Pulling the window open she jumped down, landing perfectly on the sidewalk below. She disappeared into the darkness once more. 80 years ago her lover made her into a vampire and she had vowed never to forgive him.