Disclaimer: I own nothing. *sigh*
Note: This is what I guess you’d call an adaptation to this one book I read. >.> No I’m not going to tell you what book, you’d end up going and getting it from the library and spoil EVERYTHING. *pooooooooooooooooouts* And that wouldn’t be any fun. Its just too bad I lost *MY* copy of the book. *sigh* You’ll notice throughout this and other parts that I’ll use some Episode Zero stuff. Never really wrote a fic like this so be kind. ^_^;;; Also know there are GW and EW characters throughout and non-GW characters, don’t beat me too hard, onegai?
And Then You Die...
Prologue
September 19
L2 Orphanage
The dogs were howling.
Lords I wished they’d stop.
Focus. Shoot. Move on.
The light’s dark here… gotta adjust it.
All the orphans… gods why? Nevermind… just take the picture.
Focus.
My hands shook as I opened the camera, taking out the old roll and inserted a new one.
“We need to be leaving now Mr. Maxwell.” The Sergeant was standing in the doorway behind me. Revulsion dripped from every one of his seemingly polite words as he stared at me. “They’re just outside the village, we shouldn’t be here.”
Focus.
“We have to go.”
Another room. The camera was knocked from my hands he now stood over me with a haunted expression. “What are you a ghoul? How can you be doing this?” I couldn’t do it anymore. I was dying inside.
No. I had to do it. I bent down to pick up the fallen camera. “Wait for me outside… I’ll only be a minute.” I barely heard his muttered curse as he turned on his heel and left me alone.
No, not alone…
The orphans…
Focus.
I could get through this! No, I couldn’t. I leaned up against the wall, closing my eyes trying to block the images from my head.
And the dogs continued to howl. I couldn’t shut them out.
I was convinced then that the world was full of monsters.
I open my eyes and start toward the last room. I’d just have to show them the monsters. I willed myself not to think or listen to the dogs.
Just Focus.
Shoot.
Move on.
Shoot.
Shoot.
Shoot.
And move on.