The fate of two - unlovable

The Hard Truth

Matty's POV -

the sun had finally gone down and matty was opening up the shop, when he noticed a pale figure lying face down underneath the

back steps. It was a girl with mattered black hair and not just any girl, it was JJ.

Her skin was filthy, coated in blood and dirt. matty gently rolled her on her back, noticing 4 wounds upon her body. two deep s***h's one across her abdomen and the other one on her forearm almost revealing the bone, a puncture in her left shoulder and a small cut on her left side. JJ eye fluttered open“Matty,” she said, her voice no more then a whisper. his chest hitched. sliding his hands beneath her, he lifted her from the cold ground, causing a agonizing moan to escape her lips. he held her to his chest. as her head rolled to the side.

“ dad you have to get out here, it's JJ. she's hurt bad" Matty screamed "Oh my God. Oh my God" Matty said over and over taking the back steps two at a time.

Ben was a the back entrance within seconds.

Ben scooped JJ from Mattys hands, "what happened?" ben said harshly over his shoulder

"I.. I don't know I found her like that underneath the steps" said Matty obviously still in shock.

Ben rushed down the hall kicking open the medical room he used for his healings.

laying her on the bed, ben started to inspect her injuries

"the laceration on the side of her abdomen is healing,” Ben said.

"the other lacerations on her lower abdomen and arm are more serious and don't appear to be healing on their own. the deep gash on her abdomen has torn through the skin and deeper tissue perforating the abdominal wall" Ben continued in a rush as he started packing the wound with gauze trying to stop the bleeding.

once he was done he inspected the wound on her forearm " this one is deep but the bone doesn't seem to be broken which is a relief" Ben stated wiping his forehead with the back of his hand as he continued "their dose seem to be fragments of some kind impeded in the wounds, I'll have to remove it, I believe it is silver and that is what is preventing her from healing on her own".

ben looked up at Matty "pass me the tweezers"

passing Ben the tweezers "healing on her own?" matty said in disbelief

"but she's only human" Matty retorted.

Ben grabbed the tweezers and went to work removing the fragments from her forearm after removing 4 pieces of silver from the wound, Ben went ahead and started to remove the gauze he'd packed in to the wound on JJ's abdomen removing a further 8 fragments of silver.

Matty watched in amazement as the wound on her forearm already showed signs of healing.

Ben started to dress the wounds with gauze and bandages.

moving on to the last wound on her shoulder "it dosen't appear to be a puncture wound" ben said while looking up at matty " it's a stab wound and I can't see any fragments, which is good it appears to be healing on it's own which is also a good sign".

once Ben had finished, matty confronted his father "dad what's going on? how in the hell can JJ be healing on her own?" he demanded

Ben blew out a slow breather " because she's not human Matty"

"I kinda already figured that out" Matty said impatiently looking his father in the eyes.

"Matty now is not the time nor is it the place to have this discussion" Ben raised his voice ending the discussion.

Matty walked away from Ben shaking his head, he approached JJ's grabbing a blanket and covering her unconscious body. he sat at her side holding her hand waiting for her to wake.

JJ's POV -

the first thing JJ noticed was the sound of someone snoring, as she slowly opened her eyes. she realized she was in one of the medical rooms Ben used for his healings. JJ pressed her hand to her forehead as she tried to remember. The night before but it was foggy as the rest of her nights were.

as JJ tried to move she squeezed her eyes shut as pain throbbed through her. It felt like she'd been ripped apart and put back together again. she felt burning sensation in her abdomen it seemed spread, she felt nothing but pain. It seemed to blind her. She groaned.

"JJ?" Matty said while wiping sleep from his eyes "Matty?"

remembering that someone had been snoring JJ looked at matty concern and then relief flew across his features.

They sat together in silence for a few minutes as her pulse slowed and her breathing became normal again.

"what happened" JJ rasped

"I don't know, I found you lying face down beneath the back steps, you where in pretty bad shape to be honest. you where lucky".

” Lucky. Funny choice of words. I dont feel so lucky" JJ said pain lacing her voice.

Ben walked in " you are very lucky actually" sounding totally calm . “The blades that cut you were casted with silver to inflict maximum damage. so it would sit in the injury and leech silver in to your veins until you die of poisoning.”

JJ gasped. "but why? and why can’t I remember anything?"

she started sobbing “I don’t want to do this anymore,” she whispered.

Matty squeezed her hand "don't worry JJ, We’ll figure it out together.”

“I don’t want to die.” JJ sobbed

“You’re not going to die. I promise.” Matty said with conviction.

Ben approached her "Can I look at your abdomen ?” Ben asked.

JJ bit her lip and nodded.

after taking a look, Ben grabbed some anti bacterial wipes to clean the blood off JJ stomach, arm and shoulder trying not to disturb the bandages and he saw that the injury on her side had closed completely.

"well every thing seems to be healing nicely also Carrissa is on her way" Ben informed JJ with a smile.

"Carrissa?" JJ said with a puzzled look on her face.

"sorry, I mean Mrs Cotterson, ah that must be her now" said Ben disappearing out of the room.

I turned to Matty, "do you know what's going on?" I asked

"I don't know but my dad's been really secretive, so it must be big" Matty replied in a whisper. a minute before Mrs. Cotterson and Ben entered the room.

Carrissa (Mrs. Cotterson) rushed to JJ's side "oh my God, what did they do to her?" she said looking back at Ben a look of concern covering her face.

she turned back to JJ

"we have to talk but first, how bout we get you cleaned up?"

JJ nodded, “Here, let me have a look.” She reached over and pulled down the blanket and layed it across the back of the chair. Then she inspected my stomach, forearm and shoulder. “I can hardly believe it. These wounds look at least a few weeks old.” She straightened and smiled at me.

" do you need help getting up?".

"yes please" JJ replied looking up at Carrissa.

JJ got up off the bed on Wobbly legs, grateful for the help Carrissa provided.

Now that she wasn’t in much pain, she was kind of embarrassed realizing she was completely naked.

Carrissa shooed Ben and Matty from the room.

she helped JJ in to the adjoining bathroom.

once in the shower JJ got as much dirt and blood off her body as she could manage, she watched as it swirled around her feet before disappearing down the drain, turning off the shower and grabbing a spare towel and limping back to the room.

where she found a pair of gray tracksuit pants and a black tshirt folded neatly on the end of the bed.

quickly slipping them on trying not to put to much strain on her wounds in the process.

JJ left the medical room following the sound of voices to the small kitchenette, where she found Carrissa, Ben and Matty sitting around a small table.

“Come now, sit down so we can talk" Carrissa said moving towards me

She sat me down at the table and started pulling things out of a bag like a mirror, 4 candles, some herbs and incense. She placed them between us grabbing a stick of incense and lighting it. then she started waving it around us, Matty and Ben both scrunching up their noses in disgust.

JJ stared at her, intrigued but wary.

Carrissa made JJ close her eyes, demanding that she focus on the scent of the incense and wipe any thought from her mind. as Carrissa lit the candles and sprinkled the herbs, once she was finished.

I waited silently, filled with skepticism. What had I been thinking when she said we had to talk? well it definitely wasn't this I thought.

The sudden sting of a knife jabbing the end of my finger tempted me to open my eyes as she dripped my blood onto the mirror’s shiny surface. She began to hum, a strange lilting note that continued for several minutes. Then it stopped, and the silence grew heavy.

“Look,” Carrissa commanded. Fog rose up from the surface of the glass, slowly dissipating. As it cleared, an image formed.

a baby with bright green eyes, no older then 2 sat on the floor, her parents where fighting. when the front door exploded. a woman with bright red hair walked in. raising her hand. the child's father jumped in front of his wife, he was suddenly hit with a bright blue light as he slumped to the floor. the mother fell to her knees morrning the loss of her husband. when suddenly the red haired woman with the sadistic smile turned to the child with a few words and another flash of blue and the lady was gone.

the image faded as another appeared

vivid imagines flashing on the surface of the mirror. so many face's all frozen in fear, with a flash of golden scales and black hair, clawed hands and Sharp fangs dripping with blood and a glimpse of green eyes the deafening scream of the victims.

suddenly Carrissa spoke,

“You have already seen his face and tasted his lips but be weary for he is your redemption or maybe your destruction so seek not your other half but yourself.” carrissa's voice took on a low, unnatural timbre.

“Darkness and death taints your union. It may seek to destroy you.” My eyes flew open. Panic seized me as her words echoed in my ears. Carrissa stared at me with eyes glazed in a milky white film. The atmosphere grew hot with an energy so powerful it hurt, like a thousand little spark's touching my skin at once. Carrissa no longer present. Something else spoke through her lips. “keeper of the Nephilim, you are destined to die. A burden he will bear. As you both draw closer to the purpose you share, the darkness draws closer to you. Beware. Ready yourself for that day. For what will come. For the day he kills you. he will decide to save you or destroy you the choice will be his. and fate of us all will rest in his hands ".

Carrissa suddenly stopped speaking and then another vision formed on the mirror like a movie. I watched in horror as I saw us as if through someone else's eyes. A flash of sandy blonde hair, the hint of a smile, the most masculine sexy voice I'd ever heard.

his features no longer cast in shadow. I could see him clearly.

I gasped.

The image changed. I watched myself as Beau grab me violently. he pushed me against the wall as i fought him for my life. he raised his blade to my throat.

i said something then, something almost in a whisper but I heard it as if i had screamed it at him. “Beau you know you have to do it” i whispered. “It’s ok. I’m ready, it was always meant to be this way.”

I shook my head, unwilling to believe what I’d had just heard and saw. I got to my feet the chair fulling backwards with my momentum hitting the floor with a crack.

Carrissa seem to snap out of her trance

waving her hand over the mirror, the images disappeared.

Matty stood up so fast the chair he'd been sitting on flipped over. In a sudden rage, he grabbed the mirror and smashed it on the floor.

"I won’t let it happen" Matty boomed in anger as Ben restrained him. "Carrissa's vision will not come to pass. There has to be a way to alter the future".

Carrissa looked from JJ to Matty tears spilling from her eyes, "I've tried changing it and yet it is still coming to pass" Carrissa said shaking her head and her voice lace with sadness.

i stood their in shock, then she was over come by a hot fog of rage that raised within her. turning on Carrissa a look of betrayal flashed across her face,

" how could you keep this from me?, I could have died" i cried falling to the floor with sobs. Carrissa approached JJ and then got on the floor beside her, " and what could I have said?" asked carrissa regret lacing her voice.

"oh good morning JJ, have a nice jog and before you go I for got to mention that you've been turning into a giant snake at night and terrorising the community." she said sarcastically.

i looked at Mrs Cotterson (Carrissa) stunned, my mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water.

"I'm sorry, but me and Ben have been trying to keep you safe, then the hunters arrived to investigate the attacks. it all just got out of hand, then you go and revile yourself to them" she shook her head.

after the shock had passed i spoke "do they know it's me?" I asked Mrs Cotterson.

"no, I dont think so. T he one named Beau rang me looking for you in fact, you had him in quite a mood" she chuckled.

" he said I was nephilim." i said with a hiccup

"I know and I know you are his mate"

"Mate?" i asked with a puzzled look.

i looked up, realizing Ben and Matty were still in the room watching them and waiting, i looked at Matty afraid i would see disgust in his eye's but their was none.

Matty smiled at JJ, Ben on the other hand was in shock, "she's nephilim?" he asked.

Matty elbowed his father, earning him a grunt and a frown.

"yes she is Ben" Carrissa answered.

" well I dont care what she is, she's still JJ" said Matty with a wink.

“It doesn’t bother you – what I am?”

Ben's eye's softened “Of course not. Just because we don’t like the Nephilim, doesn’t mean we think they are bad people. Some of the older hotheads like to hold on to the old grudges, but the younger hunters are more open and excepting then the older generation.

In any case, your parentage doesn’t change who you are, just like finding out what we were didn’t change how you felt about us.”

“Never.” I smiled up at Ben and Matty.

Ben came around helping Carrissa to her feet, then doing the same for me once we both stood. Carrissa turned to me,

"now so you know, I told Beau that you sunk off with Matty to go see a concert. I told him you would be home tomorrow, which should give you enough time to heal"

I nodded

but first you must rest, Carrissa ushered me out of the small kitchen and back to the healing room.

as i laid on the bed, thoughts of everything I had learned tonight flooded my mind.

then their was a light tap at the door

I look towards the door, Matty popped his head in " may I come in?"

"yeah" i said waving him over.

he sat on a chair beside the bed and looked at me for a minute, " so where you ever gonna tell me about Beau and you being a Nepilim" he asked

"yeah I was, but I was afraid"

"of what?, of me" Matty asked sounding hurt

"a little, I'm sorry it was stupid, any way

Beau came to see me three days ago, He told me some things that kind of freaked me out"

I explained to Matty about the nephilim and how they where half angle, and how he’d asked about my parents and told me he had known my mother. their powers and every thing else I could recall that beau explained to me.

Matty's facial expressions went from shock, wonder, a flash of resentment when I mentioned what they hunted.

Matty blew out a long breath "Wow, so that's why you've been acting funny and been missing work".

"yeah, he wants me to leave"

Matty's face hardened "what did you tell him?" he's voice tight.

“I told him I belong here with my friends and Mrs Cotterson of course"

“Good.”

“I just thought… that since you hate the Nephilim hunters that you wouldn’t want anything to do with me when you found out what i was.”

"how could you think that? I love you like a sister JJ" The hurt in Matty’s eyes made me tear up as the fell from my eyes and slide over my cheeks.

“You honestly think that would do something like that.” Matty said, “No – I don’t know".

he grabbed me, rapping me in a tight hug " God you're a goofball.

"well you better get some rest, before Mrs Cotterson catches us" Matty laughed as he walked towards the door.

"Matty".

"yeah" he said looking over his shoulder.

"you know I love ya right?"

"yeah I know, and I love you to. now get some sleep" Matty said as he closed the door.