The Three Deaths of Anita Blake

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Came across my notes on an early Anita Blake fan-fiction... http://igenlode.livejournal.com/14323.html
(https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/14223.html)


Just for the record - the 'three deaths' of Anita Blake were:

1. Shot by Edward in a suicide pact to save them from being eaten alive by ghouls
   
2. Her bond with Jean-Claude brings her back into half-life: she tries hard to get him to release her (having no wish to spend eternity trapped aware in a rotting body), but in the end her consciousness clings to existence despite her will -- it's like trying to kill yourself by holding your breath.
   Jean-Claude takes drastic action to force her to 'let go', and her last memory is of fleeing from him in terror.
   
3. Jean-Claude then proceeds to have Anita raised as a zombie by one of her fellow-animators in order that he can apologise to her for what he was forced to do -- he truly was trying to carry out her own express wishes, allowing her to find true death rather than exist in his world as one of the undead. The story ends with the two of them hand in hand, awaiting the moment when she will be put back into her grave: it's a peaceful moment, with Anita ruefully amused and resigned.