Timmy asked Tabitha what was going on. What was happening inside that scroll, inside the lives of Sheridan and Luis that would produce such horrible anguish? Tabitha sat down hugging the scroll and she told Timmy that he had opened a Pandora's box. She guessed that if Timmy was so eager to know what was in it, then it was time Timmy knew the future‹and what awaited Sheridan and Luis. But remember, Timmy asked for it!

Timmy was confused. Timmy had already read in Tabitha's diaries about Sheridan's and Luis's past lives in the American Revolution, and Tabitha had no problem with that. What was so different in this scroll? Timmy knew that Tabitha's main goal was to prevent Miguel and Charity from ever making love because Charity would receive her full powers and be able to destroy Tabitha. Tabitha told Timmy that equally important to the Dark Forces was the destruction of Sheridan and Luis. Their love had endured over centuries, and the Dark Forces hated it.

Heaven was determined to thwart the Dark Forces and Tabitha, so over the centuries, it allowed Sheridan's and Luis's souls to be reborn and for them to always meet and fall in love over and over again‹only to have Tabitha destroy it. Tabitha got tired of it, but the cycle never ended. It was a battle between heaven and Hades-with Tabitha, Luis and Sheridan caught in the middle.

Tabitha remembered the first time she heard of the souls we now know as Luis and Sheridan. It was millennia ago when Luis served in Caesar's armies and met Sheridan when she was a princess in Cleopatra's court. Everyone thinks Caesar and Cleopatra were the great love affair that was going on then, but it was really Luis and Sheridan. Tabitha was ordered to stop their love, and she thought for sure that she had. She put a curse on them never to meet again after she had Luis die in battle and Sheridan bitten by the same asp that put Cleopatra to sleep forever. Tabitha thought she had accomplished her mission and destroyed their love, but heaven had other plans for them. She kept on hoping that she could break the cycle of their love and romance for good.

But heaven persisted, and it was in 1912 that Tabitha opened her newspaper and saw a picture of a woman named Susan Crane who was sailing back to America from England that April. Tabitha's head reeled. Damn that soul-Sheridan was back! Would that woman never cease to haunt Tabitha? Tabitha sickened. If Sheridan were alive, then somehow, somewhere Sheridan's love, Luis, would appear.

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