Inner Crisis

Fate.

Beautiful, yet not.

Life.

Lasting, yet fleeting

And like a magical being fated to live,

Our lasting life may also be fleet by fate.

The rest of the ride to the DeAngelis mansion was quiet and Jack was still shocked by all that was happening, from the death of Diane to the shooting of Ralph, to the fact that the DeAngelis had intercepted them and offered to help them. But none of these incidents shocked him like when they had gotten to the DeAngelis mansion and realized that the person going to take the bullet out of Ralph was "Elle" Don Phillip's daughter. Ralph's supposed wife-to-be.

Everyone had noticed the bewilderment on his face and had quickly explained to him that she could perform the operation and knew how to handle situations like this.