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− | ''The smell of crude disinfectant lingered in the air. Francine had always hated the smell of hospitals; she had actually hated everything about hospitals. The woman | + | ''The smell of crude disinfectant lingered in the air. Francine had |
+ | always hated the smell of hospitals; she had actually hated everything | ||
+ | about hospitals. The woman shouldn’t be here but she had to come; she | ||
+ | had to see the little girl one last time. Besides, she was invisible | ||
+ | if her sire decided to reprimand her for it then so be it.''<br><br> | ||
− | ''The woman silently and cautiously made her way into the | + | ''The woman silently and cautiously made her way into the where the |
+ | child slept; little Teresa; Francine’s niece and the only known | ||
+ | survivor of the fire. Only eight years old. Her little body riddled | ||
+ | with the affects of the fire. She looked over the suffering child | ||
+ | and wanted so badly to put the child out of her misery. Francine had | ||
+ | loved Teresa dearly. So, while it pained her to see the child in such | ||
+ | pain; Francine couldn’t bring herself to make it go away.''<br><br> | ||
− | ''Her eyes looked down among the child and then went over; taking | + | ''Her eyes looked down among the child and then went over; taking |
+ | Teresa’s small hand in her own held it for a while. The little girl | ||
+ | stirred but didn’t open her eyes. Francine couldn’t watch any longer | ||
+ | and left. She came back two days later to find out that Little Teresa | ||
+ | had been lifted to heaven; as the nurses seemed to say.''<br><br> | ||
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+ | ''Walking out of the hospital; her eyes gazed upward as if trying to see | ||
+ | past the stairs and into heaven itself. God loves children; is that | ||
+ | not what is supposed to be. The innocent should be saved. Francine | ||
+ | was no longer sure she could believe in a God that allowed such | ||
+ | suffering of an innocent child, her entire family to be killed or her | ||
+ | to become ….this …. a monster. She had nothing left to lose. With | ||
+ | that in mind she turned down a narrow alley way and found just one | ||
+ | homeless man sleeping there; he would do for her first human kill.''<br><br> | ||
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Hospital. No, Francine was not going to the hospital. No, she hated | Hospital. No, Francine was not going to the hospital. No, she hated |