Four weeks..Five days..Six hours..Twenty-Seven minutes. Since she touched V and Serenity felt every moment of it. As the steam filled the dimly lit bathroom in the overly large and cold mansion that belonged to her employer who was currently teaching her to harness the gifts she already possed and tap into the inner strengths that lurk deep within. Long fingers moved threw her hair as she rested against the wall of the shower.

  It felt like an enernity since she felt the touch of her ghost lover...Since she heard him. So closed off she became to him...It was enough to make her go mad. When she closed herself off from the voices in the dark...The Visions came clear. But she couldnt bear another day without Zacharah. She craved his touch. She was giving in. Last night she had met with Gino. He gave her what she craved most. Now it was what she needed most. Stepping from the shower she would grab the small vial from the calico bag that rested on the floor near the sink.

First came the miorror then the asprin...Then the crushing ,,,The dropping of the sweet lifes blood.Then the small red straw.Press it into the nose...Close your eyes...Sniff..Snort.Head rish/ It was a feeling that made her heart sing...Then came the mist...The prewarnings to the storm.Slliding down she would sit on the floor.The steamy bathroom mirroring her mind...So foggy...So muggy. The only thing that mattered was hum.

 She had almost forgotten how beatiful he was. With eyes of deep blue and ashy blond hair. Was he this beautiful in life as he was in the there after?Reaching out she would touch her phantom lover.

"God I've missed you. Un so sorry"

Serenity could feel him as he moved around her his old touch against her warm flesh.Like a mere whisper.Brushing over her stomach...Her breast. How could she ever be with a real living man? How could she ever stomach any other to touch her? Serenity was sure that noone ever would..Though dispite the feel and ttouch of Zac flooded her senses and the raw emotions of the ghost filled her...In the deepest parts of the fog Serenity saw him. With his dark eyes...His oh so cool demenor. The saddness she felt from him when he thought she wasnt close.Shaking her head. Ishmale wanted nothing more then to posses the power she had. And she wanted nothing more then to learn to control what she was and to please him.

  It was in those moments that she felt her....The one who she was told to tell him about...Those dark eyes so much like Ish's Staring down into the very heart of her...The whispers in her mind calling her...Pushing up she walked in the haze barly taking a moment to wrap up in the black robe that hung on the bathroom door,In her minds eye she saw the woman...So beautuful....So dark that it could only be the woman who once possed this house...These cold things. She followed it...Right into the safe room that was hidden in the libary...

She could feel Zac trying to pull her...To take her away from what she was doing. But the call was to strong...Fingers brushing against the old books that were hidden away in the room. Till she hit a book that seemed to be much more older then herself.Closing her eyes she could see in her mind the dark headed woman reading from the book...Her the words as if she stood in the room. Something about the book screamed run from me...But Serenity craved in her fog filled mind for the knowledge that it had...Like Eve and the tree of knowledge...The serpents being the woman who once haunted these halls in her darkness.