[Darkitow]

Hi everybody! I come here with a fishy issue, which is a little (actually, not) story about fantasy and some steampunkish science fiction. I have some sort of plot dilemma, and I've gotten to some sort of dead end because I can't think about a way to solve this part of the story without changing the "premises" I wanna keep.

So, in this story, the main character is a human girl, who for some unknown reason (at that point), has gained incredible magical powers, far superior than any of the powers of her other six companions (although they seem to be a mixture of them all). Some of those powers are rather obscure, and she still doesn't have a hold of them yet, affecting her instincts sometimes. One of those companions is an angel. Literally. The girl and the angel develop a very intense romantic relation (by intense I don't mean sexual and stuff, just very very full of love, lol).

There's a moment of the story where she kills him. In a cool-blooded and heartless way.

But, there comes the problem: I want this act to be completely conscious and lucid. Even if her new powers have changed a bit her character into a slighty "anti-hero" mood, she still loves him, with all the might of her heart. But she kills him.

No, he doesn't do anything wrong, not even something that she took as a wrong action, and killing him won't save the universe, not even a puppy. It won't benefit her in any realistic way, if we don't count the later self-control that the main character regains of her instincts, but she doesn't know this would happen. In fact, what I mean is that there's not a good reason, nor altruistic one, to do so.

On top of that, in the future, he will come back to life, and not in the DBZ way where everybody does (I mean, that resurrecting won't be a crapfest of my book, it has a good explanation of it and could happen again to other people, but the odds are harder than the sea turning blood tomorrow). When he comes back, he will gain new powers (as he won't be an angel anymore, not completely), he will be driven by revenge and try to take on the girl from killing him, at first without letting her to know who is her new enemy, but later they discover it. Later they make up, but we can have a feel that their relation has come into a bit not too sane relation, lol.

Nobody and I mean, NOBODY (except the guy after it happens) knows that somebody could come back from the dead and that he would do stronger. I mean that this wasn't some sort of cold-blooded-but-right-action to make him stronger, when she kills him, is to leave him dead and buried.

So, why would she do it? This drives me nuts because I can't figure it out... How can I make her kill him, wanting to and not being insane or possessed, without him doing anything wrong, and without hopes to recover him (even if this happens later)? ARRGH. Dx