The moment must have only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like hours. With my eyes closed I waited. And waited. And waited. But nothing came.
Then I opened my eyes just in time to see Kris fall.
There was a dagger in his heart and the arms which had been used to plunge it there were still wrapped around his shoulders. In his last few moments of life he collapsed back into her arms and she cradled him as he laid down on her lap. Tears were falling from her eyes and a look of pure confusion was in his.
"Dai...sy...?" He whispered.
"I'm sorry, Kris," she whimpered in a trembling voice. She brushed the hair off his forehead with a shaking hand. "I couldn't let you... It's not right." Her black wings were still folded down behind her from her journey here, but I saw a shimmer in the roots stemming from her back.
Kris opened his mouth as though he were going to say something else, but his breath was taken first. Daisy hugged his head as she cried, rocking back and forth, and she kissed the top of his black hair. "I love you, Kris... I'm so sorry..."
It was then that the shimmering I saw spread slowly from her roots. A white glow stemmed from feather to feather, eventually changing her demon wings into those of an angel.
