Thaddeus Carter

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again"
- Stephen King (one of the many Gods of writing)

It was fate that led to Valerie meeting Aiden in her own era of darkness. It was fate again that she believed he could actually salvage her tortured heart. But fate can only do so much after all.

Remember how Trisha Yearwood once said, "What's meant to be will always find a way"?
But for most, fate is never ever fair.