Rose petals in the ashes

Chapter fifty:

~Rosemarie's point of view~

Call me paranoid but since that dream of Cheyenne's I put up cameras everywhere outside of the pack house. Today I was looking through the footage and found something very interesting indeed. An exact replica of myself running from the house and jumping an unfamiliar car, driving out of our perimeter at top speed. At one point she looked straight at the cameras. I paused the image and printed it. I went straight to Dimitri's room. He was on the phone. I snatched it from him and hung the call up. He looked ready to speak his protests but seeing my expression he was silenced. "You know what? I was being sincere when I said I was happy for you, but now? I'm furious! That girl your dating looks exactly like me! Hell she even dresses like me! So tell me why the hell I shouldn't disown you?!"

He was speechless. "I can't move on Rose. I... I love you too much" I sighed. "I thought that you could let us go!!!" he sighed. "I guess not." I began to walk away, to deny the fact my maker had most likely kidnapped a human girl that looked exactly like me, brainwashed her to dress and act like me and then started dating her. He caught me in his arms and before I could refuse to speak suffocated me with soft, passionate kisses. I summoned all my strength and pushed him away. "I will not be that girl any more" he ran a hand through his hair and eyed me with a calculated gaze.

"I'm sorry. If you want me to move out I will" I gritted my teeth. "Stay, date who you like but just know I'm not talking to you" I went to get my son and daughter. "Come on you two" my daughter eyed me suspiciously. And then I knew. She'd known what Dimitri had been up to. "I'm sorry" she apologized, dismay apparent, her brow furrowed. "I have failed you mother" Gabe watched us like one does a tennis game. "Never, now come on." she nodded. I took them to the car and put them in the back seat together. "So you'll meet my mum and dad today" I saw Gabe roll his eyes but Cheyenne looked excited.

"They're vampires so you two are highly unlikely to get away with any of that nonsense you see on TV" I heard Gabe muttering obscenities under his breath but Cheyenne looked unfazed. I cleared my throat. "Gabriel Bennett Dimitri Grimshaw! Mind your tongue, talk like that again and I'll make you eat soap to clean all the sin from your mouth. He crossed his arms over his chest and sulked. "Sorry mother" he apologized sincerely. "And anyway, where did you learn to talk like that?" he smiled in smug satisfaction. "You" he retorted. "Me?! I don't speak like that!!!" he scoffed. "I may only be two but I'm not deaf mother, eyes on the road before we-" he was cut off by all our screams as I veered off the road into a huge patch of oak trees.

I coughed, dust clouds were rising and I could hear a slow drip drop of a liquid. The gas in the car! I muttered obcentices and Gabriel said "Now do you believe me?" I glared at him. "Everyone okay?" the courtly nod. "Now if you can I need you to undo your seat belts" they did this "get out of the car" they followed my instructions "now, I need you to run, don't look back no matter what you hear, see or smell" they nod "Go!!!" they flee hastily. I look down at myself. The car has been smashed into pieces and I had been with it. I look down and see the gas leaking onto the sand covered ground. Oh god! I feel myself going into a panic mode and hyperventilating, I truly am going to die this time aren't I? My kids are going to grow up without a mother... I feel tears dripping down my cheeks and I pray to the lord for my health, but I'm a vampire you can cheat death once but it'll always come to find you. 'Life is not counted by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away' and now I was I seeing my life flash before my eyes : the day in the bar when I met Dimitri, followed by our wedding, then me giving birth to Zoey my first child, seeing the plagues, the wars, the changing monarchs, the witch trials, the different time periods and then I was brought to our current year, the day I met Bennett, the next we were married, our honey moon, meeting his pack, moving in, having the kids and a smile came to my lips when I saw myself killing Leah.

I'd definitely out lived my stay on earth. It was time to go for me. I sat back in my seat and looked up and the clouded, crystalline blue sky. What a nice place to die. At least it shall be quick. I hope...

~Cheyenne's point of view~

Gabriel made me run until I keeled over. I wanted to go back, I did but I couldn't turn back, I couldn't let myself see her like that.

'The apocalypse will come when they're at their most vulnerable.'

'Well surely that's in their youth.'

No, it wouldn't be in our youth's. Mum would be dead and it would crush dad from the inside. We were truly alone now. With only each other for support.

************************************************************************************(A/N) so this is the final chapter, the only new update will be the epilogue. Hope you like!

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The song for this chapter is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=FAX61V4Ic2Y

Diamond by Rihanna

Goodbye