Jason (13)
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Running…...more running. I just needed to run! Since yesterday morning, after Deedee said what she did; I haven’t stopped. My mind won’t let me
Anna helped us with Celine
I had s*x with Anna...hell, s*x isin’t the right word. I practically mated her and spent two days in some sort of frenzy with her and couldn’t get enough of her. I still can’t. I can hear my wolf chomping at me to go back. To go find her. To take her over and over again.
But I can’t. Even in my wolf form, I saw Tasha; cursing me for living; for being happy when she was in a cold, hard grave. My fault. It was my fault!
As my paws hit the grass loudly, I pushed myself harder. I don’t even think I’m in the same city as Anna any more. I just had to run. My thoughts were full of Anna. Of Tasha...of my pup. Suddenly, my wolf whined and I realised I heard a voice in my head
Come back uncle Jason. Come back
Kai!
I can’t. I...need to do this I reply back
No you don’t. You don’t need to do this. Tolkien has been telling you since yesterday to go back. I need you to come back Kai said softly
I..I I couldn’t get my words out
I need you back uncle Jason. I need you to understand how important Anna is and that you could change her fate. And mine Kai said
How? I don’t understand! I shouted
Come back. There are people here who need you Kai explained and you need to speak to Anna.
I shook my head as I tried to fight Kai’s hold over my wolf...over me.
Are you here? I asked Kai
I will be by tomorrow. Mum, uncle Scott, Aunty Kelsie and uncle Ray are coming too Kai said happily
Ray. My brother. My twin brother. The one I abandoned over three years ago! Goddess that’s all I seem to do. I pushed myself hard and my wolf snarled in anger. I felt my head explode with lights before falling over a small branch, causing me to roll over myself before stopping beside a mossy area; the smell of fresh water hitting my nose. I closed my eyes as I took deep breaths, tears leaking out as I thought about how this place looked almost like the area I had buried Tasha and my pup.
I felt Kai’s presence as if he was really there. I swear I could feel his small, healing hand on the top of my head as he caressed and comforted me. My tears flowed more easily as my body heaved with the emotions running through me. How could I go back and speak to the woman who has caused me to forget Tasha and my mate? The female who has buried herself into my skin so thoroughly that even as I fought it; I worried about her, wanted to be there by her side
As my breathing slowed down and my heart rate went back to normal, I lifted my head and picked my body up, trotted over to the small lake and took a refreshing mouth of cold, fresh water. Bliss! It went down a treat and with it; my brash action. I took a few steps into the lake and closed my eyes in delight as the water cooled my paws and fur. Before I knew it, I had taken a swim for a good ten minutes and after shaking the water from my fur, I climbed up the warm, dry grass and collapsed on my back; changing back to human. A very naked human. I just hope no-one comes around because the only thing about running out in wolf form without any planning; is shifting without clothing since I didn’t take my bag with me.
Shit! I didn't even have my wallet! I’m going to have to wolf it back! I groaned before allowing the high sun in the sky to warm me. It had been two days of high twenties in heat so I wasn’t worried about catching a cold. Shrugging my shoulders; I settle into the grass as the sun warms my body; my eyes starting to close.
An hour. I’ll give myself an hour before I start to head back to Anna….and to Deedee. I needed answers. I needed to know where Celine was and what had Anna been doing working with Celine!
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Deedee
“He still isin’t back” Zelda said, wringing her hands together as she paced up and down my living room
“I know” I replied
I sit down on the couch, my tired eyes blurry from reading and staying awake since yesterday afternoon.
“How are you so calm about this Dee?” Zelda asked me
“I have no choice. I need to stay calm. Remember; if the high witch loses focus on her life and her emotions; it affects the rest of the coven” I explain
“B..but she’s your daughter! She’s in a state of coma because her Tanniem, her mate, has abandoned her. They haven’t mated properly so when he left and put more than twenty miles between them; as they couldn’t sense each other; Anna’s body shut down! Oh Dee! How are you going to bring him back without revealing anything?!” Zelda asked
She sat down just as one of our healers, Patrick; came into the room. I looked at him just as Zelda took a sip of water
“She is heavily sedated” Patrick said “The further he goes, the more deeper the laceration are”
“Is there a way to stop them from becoming too deep to leave permanent scarring?” I asked
“Not without his free will….or force by knocking him out and bringing him back. But, if he left again; it would just start all over”Patrick said
“Dee! You are the most powerful being. You could fix this!” Zelda said
“No!” I say angrily, knowing what she was referring to
“No disrespect high witch” Patrick said with a little bow “But we both know that there is another way for you to save her”
“And that way will come with a price. Not one which I am willing to pay” I said harshly
“But if she were to die….to bleed to death because-” Zelda said before cutting off
I get up and turn my back to them both, my body stiff; my eyes clear as glass. My eyes wander to the chest of drawers and as soon as they do; I hear it. I feel it. The heartbeat of the black dagger. It calls it to me….promising me things to help Anna. I shake my head, moving my eyes away from it.
“I can’t do it. Anna is next in line….technically, already is the high witch since she has found her Tanniem. She can fight this, get through this with her goodness and power. But I will not allow dark magick to taint her” I say slowly.
“Dee” Zelda began
“Look what happened last time I did! Look at what I lost!” I sobbed, my hand covering my mouth to hold the sound of pain inside “I should not have been there to bury my children”
“I can’t imagine the pain you have gone through” Zelda said as she approached me “But surely, the benefit outweighs the price to pay? As the dagger won’t be used to give life but help with endurance”
“With a price still to pay” I replied
“What would the price be?” Patrick asked
“I’m not sure I want to find out” I said.
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Anna
I know I am floating. I am not on earth but not dead.
He’s gone. He left me, stranded. Alone. Cold. I know he’s hurting. I am too, especially after what Deedee had told me. But even more than that, my head reeled from two of the biggest shocks to me. One, that it was his family that Celine tortured and killed. God! That nearly done me in. I knew she had been evil but this was next level! Deedee had reversed the spell on me and just as I had gained my memories back; I had felt pain.
At first it had been like a twinge, a little flare up. But then, every passing minute; it grew. It burned from the inside. Soon it was clawing at me, as if nails were scratching against the inside of my stomach. My breathing became short and I started to feel dizzy. As I collapsed, I heard Deedee shout out to Zelda and I knew she had sent a summons to the coven to help. I must have blacked out because the next time I was conscious, I could feel a bed under me but I was too hot. I was sweating.
Patrick, our healer, was also there, trying to help. I remember feeling a pinch at my hand and then nothing. I blackout again. When I came around the second time, Zelda and Deedee were whispering. I knew it was early morning, from the way the dawn was coming through the window. Patrick had come in with his wife and I heard him tell them that he and his wife would care for me for a few hours while they got rest. I remember him reading something as his wife pressed ice-cold material over my arms and forehead which held my body. I assumed it was his wife since it felt like a female touch.
The next time I was conscious was now. The room felt dark, and while my skin was still hot; it wasn’t on fire like before. I still can’t believe what Deedee told me about Jason and this is where my mind boggles. Of course I know other beings exist. Hell, I’ve met most of them! But somehow, the thought of Jason being a wolf; and not just a wolf, but an Alpha wolf!; really seemed to have messed with my head.
Being a witch, most of us are taught at an early age how to detect what someone is. Even if they are hiding behind a spell or charm or glam. Even if they use something powerful to hide themselves, we can usually tell that they are hiding something and are cautious. For a high witch, she would know immediately. Especially if he is her Tanniem. But not only did I not know, but he managed to hide it from me so well that I thought he was human. And to think I was worried about how I would tell him about me being a witch!
I try to open my eyes but I feel them weighed down, as if by force. I hear my door open and I tense, wondering who had come in
“I...i can’t…” I hear Zelda say
“It’s the only way. We can’t lose our high witch. She is the first who is so powerful!” I hear Patrick respond
“What if it doesn’t work and - “ Zeolda is cut off
“It won’t work” I hear Deedee say
What is going on? What are they trying to do? When I heard Deedee’s voice, I felt calmer again and allowed myself to just listen as they spoke
“Deedee...I...I’m so sor-” Zelda was cut off again
“You more than anyone should have known it wouldn’t have worked” Deedee said calmly
“What does she mean?” Patrick asked
“The dagger. It can only be wielded by blood” Deedee said
“Of course” Patrick whispered
“I forgot” Zelda sobbed “I’m sorry”
“Your fear made you take a step that could have caused future damage” Deedee said harshly “I will not subject her to this”
“You are starting to deplete. Ever since they partially mated, the steps to replace you have started. Even you can not deny the ageing. Surely, you think to put us first” Patrick said
“Patrick!” both Zelda and his wife hissed
“I have to think as a healer because I am connected to the coven. I have to look out for the greater good” Patrick explain
“No. He is right” Deedee sighs “What you say is true. I see the signs. There is much I need to still teach her...to tell her before I….but I can’t risk it again”
As I hear them argue, heat suddenly infuses my body; the fire within is so hot that I cry out. My head feels heavy and I start to hear whispers….sinister voices like snake hissing in my ears...in my mind. At first it is muddled, distorted as I make out a foreign language. But then it becomes clearer. It’s not just one voice! There’s several and there talking in a mix of english and something else...something almost made up
Mi-essio arto
Seviesti, Milo Na marto….mei marto!
Come, daughter of the blood...let us unite!
Mi sevinooo ma altonaaaa! Come be with us
Come….come be with us.
Taste the power! Weild your sword so we may smite those against us
Siento marino, malinoto abhiarnoooooo
Accept it….Accept us! Do not falter and be weak
My mind screamed as they tried to force their way into my brain, the voices all talking together at once. I start to moan, my body starting to trash on the bed as if I was having a fit
Taste the power! Weild your sword so we may smite those against us
Siento marino, malinoto abhiarnoooooo
Accept it….Accept us! Do not falter and be weak
The voices repeated over and over. I screamed as I felt pressure from the back of my eyes.
“What’s happening to her?” Zelda screamed
I felt Patrick and Zelda trying to hold me down as my body shook. I felt my hair whipping around my face and realised that wind was blowing violently in the room somehow. I heard Deedee say the dagger was trying to bind itself to me. Dagger? What dagger? What the hell was going on?
Taste the power! Weild your sword so we may smite those against us
Siento marino, malinoto abhiarnoooooo
Accept it….Accept us! Do not falter and be weak
I screamed as the voices got pouder, more painful to me. I felt the darkness, some sort of evil come closer to me and I panicked! Why wasn’t Deedee trying to stop it from coming closer!
“DO IT!” I heard Patick shout in the wind
“HELP HER DEEDEE!” I heard Zelda beg
Even through the wind, I heard Deedee sob
“I’m sorry...I’m so sorry love….i’m sorry”
I felt my heart contract as it felt the wrongness of the words...the action that was about to take place. Tears leaked from my eyes as I felt the evil force crackle and laugh, their voices now high pitches as they repeated the words over and over as I waited for whatever impending doom about to hit me
I felt something sit on my chest and my screaming became muffled, as if someone covered my mouth even though I felt no hand. As I accepted my fate, my body shivering from the creeping coldness, I thought back to Jason and how I felt when I was with him; glad that I could experience that before dying. I heard my name call out and I couldn’t understand it at first….not believing what I was hearing. Sure I had summoned him in my dream and now projecting that dream outward.
“AAAAANNNNNNNNNNNAAAAA”
It was Jason! But how? Where? His voice was close yet not close enough. I felt the air shift in the room and the voices speak again in high pitched tones as they screamed
Stop him!
Don’t let him close
Emintos albinito! Termino...Terminoooooo
NO! They wanted to kill him!
Jason! My body and mind called out to him even if my voice couldn’t. I was feeling stronger as he got closer. Just as the pressure lifted from my chest and my mouth, I heard a bang and the most beautiful voice call out to me
“ANNA!!!!”
Jason! He was here. But I couldn’t see, I couldn’t hear. All I could do was try to breath as I once again slumped into unconscious
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