A Small Town in Montana (During Prom)

[River53]

Cory's gray hood was up as he glanced around nervously on his way to his father's apartment from the train station. He was missing great moments, no doubt, but it was better he wasn't at Prom with Anabelle. It's probably for the best that he's with his dad in his last hours of life anyways. Aunt Ginger will be here, but Roy will be at Camp enjoying himself at Prom, even with his wheel chair.

Cory blinked as he reached the apartment number, flash backs soared through his head, and his eyes widened, so this is why he came for reals...to learn what he ment to so long ago. If only he could remember were it was. He walked up the stairs and opened the door, and to his suprise, the women sitting in the chair next to his father wasn't his Aunt, it was his mother, Nyx. What was she doing here?

Cory looked up in surprise and said with slight anger in his voice, "Isn't it against the rules to be here?" A small smile broke the solomn goddess's face.

"Rules are ment to be broken, boy. I'm here on Hades's orders, he wants me to be here when Zachary dies, so his job is easier and I can take him to live with me in my part of the Underworld. Its better this way."

"What about My Aunt?"

"She came and is checking in with the hospital and is on her way back now, Zachary will be gone by then, and as will I. You will be the one who remains."

"Today should be a good day, not a day when my father dies."

Nyx gave a small sigh, "Your life has been so full of misery...and I am sorry for that, its my fault. But this is no reason to reject your father to go to some dance!"

Cory sighed and sat down on the floor, head on his knees and just watched silently.

[River53]

Cory got up in an awkward motion and made his way to his room, scrumaging through things he picked up a picture of a girl, then a notebook and pen, and moved his bed away from where it was, he focused hard on his memory and then kicked the wall in, and it gave way to a small compartment, where he took everything out.

The compartment had 4 things in it, a small vile filled with a glistening red liquid, a golden medallion, a scroll, and a necklace with a cresent moon on it. He placed everything delicatly in his back pack and returned to Nyx, "Is he almost gone?"

"Yes...only a few minutes left, is there anything you want to say?"

"Why? I'll see him again anyways. Just Goodbye is all." He approached his father, "Dad...I'm sorry for what you thought about me, but I don't forgive you for all those years."

Zachary replied hoarsly, "I know son...I know." He closed his eyes as if that was all he needed to hear, and his chest stopped rising and falling, the man was gone.

Nyx sighed and said, "Goodbye Cory, I know you don't forgive either of us, but if you need to talk, you know where I am." She vanished in a flash of shadows but whispered, "You have a great power...and you know what it is."

Cory sighed and squeezed his father's hand before racing out.

[artemis101]

(ouch...that hurt.Is the red vial blood?)

[River53]

(lol...nah its something he will need later)