Damaged

Mom's Letters

Jessica's POV:

Along the way Daniel handed me the two letters. I sat down and read the first chapter. I remember reading this on my own time. I don’t mind reading it again though. Even though I do want a boyfriend, but I plan on not having one. I lived through it with the love through chapters in books. It’s so much easier that way. 

          I filled in the handout we were given, then placed in my blue English folder. I put it back in my bag. 

         I looked at both letters before me. On the back of one of them said “read me first.” I held it in my hands because the sender was unknown. Hoping it was not from D’Angelo I opened it quickly. Reading it as it says:

         Dear Jessica,

           I know you must be hurting. I can’t imagine the pain that your feelings. But as your mother I didn’t want to. A lot of things you can’t understand. 

           I’m going to tell you now that I’m not your real mother. Lily is not your aunt. Jaime is not your cousin, but she is your sister. Your twin sister to be exact.

        Your real uncle helped in this plan to protect you girls. Both your real mother and your father were in constant conflict. They kept trying to get to you both. Your father protecting you and your mother trying to take you. Your father's side of the family were also very untrustworthy.

         Your uncle had gone to see a seer about the best way to protect you. She had seen about how powerful the two of you will become. You two will play a great role in either protecting the world or destroy it completely.

         She didn’t say how to protect the both of you, but your uncle already knew what he had to do. Lily and I were your nannies. He recruited us and paid us handsomely to protect you and take you away from your family. 

       We didn’t take the money. Instead we put it into accounts for the both of you. You both have separate savings accounts. 

       Your mother had been there the morning we took you away. She said that she would be back for you both that night, but after your father settled into some paperwork we set you both in a basket and lowered you to your uncle.

        We would meet him in a spot where we both would take you and move away the next day. 

       We pretended we were asleep when your mother climbed into the window. She was about to take one of you when she noticed that the cribs were empty.   

       She shrieked alerting the both of us and your father about the break in. I felt bad for your father because was in total devastation that you two were taken. Your parents have been looking for you since.    

       Lily and I quit the very next day apologizing about what happened and that we could do nothing to stop. 

         He understood and let us go. We left with what we had packed and left to meet up with your uncle. When we saw him he held out our new lives and yours as well. We each grabbed a car seat and left. 

        “I know you both have risked a lot in doing this, and I know you are willing to risk your lives for those two girls, but why?” He asked the both of.

         “I want to protect what is good in the world. They will do a lot of good in the world for the world,” Lily said.

        “I want to protect them from their mother. I want them to have normal life without the fighting. To live a life before it’s dragged away from them. Especially Jessica.” I stared into Joshua’s eyes letting him know my seriousness. 

        If we hadn’t taken you from them you both would have been miserable. The fighting between your family and the fighting within your father’s side of the family. You both would’ve been in danger if we did nothing about the situation. 

       “After this I am going to travel and hide from my family. I need to know what we need to do for them. To help them get stronger.” He walked over to your car seat.

       “I’m sorry Jessica to put so much on your shoulders. To make you bear a pain that should be mine. Should be your mother’s and father’s. I hope you can overcome that pain and become stronger. I have bound their powers. They will not get them until they turn sixteen. But Jessica’s May come inbound earlier because of the pain she will bear. Protect them until you cannot anymore. If you need more help go see the Steel brothers. They helped get that new life started for you. I have told them that you may seek them out. They don’t know about any of this, just that they are returning the favor of a friend.” He turned away his shoulders shook because he was crying. “Jessica and Jaime please become strong.” Then he left.

       I went to see the Steel brothers. Come to find out that they were quite taken with you. They fell in love with you and they were constantly holding you every moment I was there. I knew you would need a safe place to go when I was to be killed. So I asked them. They were happy and I became close with them.

       After leaving them and getting integrated into a family that hated me, I looked at you face and became sad thinking about the pain you must bear.

      I got closer to the boys, even when I didn’t have you. As you grew I told them everything about you to make sure you are protected. I may not be your mother by blood, but I’m still you mother because I nurtured you and watched you grow into the wonderful girl you became. I am upset that I won’t get to see the strong woman, the strong warrior you will become. 

                 I love you with all my heart,

                       Delilah Heathrose 

            I was practical in tears after that first letter. I folded it up and stuck in my underwear drawer. Then sat in front of the other letter. Do I want to read this? No, I need a break from this. 

         I stood up and headed for my door to go downstairs. Tears dried to my face and I still kept sniffling. I walked down the stairs so I can get a tub of ice cream I made.

         I guess my sniffling though attracted someone. I had just come out with a tub of the cookies and cream ice cream, and went for a spoon. 

         Charlie barged into the kitchen worriedly searching for me. His eyes immediately found me frozen with the tub the crook of my left arm and my right hand in the utensil drawer holding a giant spoon. 

          Charlie strode over to me cupping my cheeks staring into my eyes. He looked pained just seeing me cry.

         “Are you alright? Who made you cry?” I just shook my head no dropping the spoon and setting the tub of ice cream down. I realized that I had yet again forgot my phone. s**t. I took a deep breathe.    

          “I got a letter from mom,” my slow raspy voice came out. He looked shocked for a moment, but a smile brightened his face. He kissed my forehead. It shocked me. 

           “I guess that’s why you were crying,” he stated. He just stared at me for a bit.

           “You look beautiful,” he whispered his breathe caressing my face. He flushed from embarrassment and I turned a little pink. But I smiled and covered his hands with mine. 

           “Your even more beautiful when you smile,” he said. “Though I really wish you didn’t wear that. You already have someone’s attention.” So overprotective of me. I raised an eyebrow in confusion.

          “Daniel said you had switched numbers with a boy. He seemed really jealous,” he said and I just laughed. Even if it was raspy I laughed. Now he looked confused.

         I reached the notepad that would usually hold the grocery list. I scribbled on it quickly. I had overused the quota of my voice today. 

        “He will always and forever be a friend. I told Daniel I don’t plan on dating anyone until college,” he read. 

        “Jessie, we will never believe that,” he said. I scrunched my eyebrows together. 

        “Why?” I wrote down.

        “Your mother told us one thing when she came to visit us. She told us that you would fall in love one day. I don’t know why she said that, but she said that you would fall in love with one person and you were going to be in love when you turn sixteen. A lot of the time we didn’t believe a lot of what your mother said. But meeting you we all became afraid of half the stuff your mother said. Your a beautiful girl with a heart of gold. We’re just afraid you’re going to get hurt. The rest of them are hiding their emotions, but I figured I might tell you. I want you to understand our feelings. So please be careful about who you hang around. We don’t want you to get hurt,” I looked down sadly. I sat there a moment trying to get what I wanted to say while watching my words.  

           “I’ve already fallen in love with someone. It was before I came here. To be honest I should’ve seen it coming. But he hurt me. He broke my heart, by betraying me. My trust for a lot of men, except for you guys is pretty thin. I don’t think I would put my trust in another guy in that form again. But time will tell. I want you to know that this guy hurt me in a way I’ve never been hurt. Or anyway that could be possible. It took me a bit to fall for him, but when I fell it was hard. So when he betrayed me it nearly broke me. I don’t know if mom told you that, but it did so I think you guys should put a little more faith in me. Because you don’t know how much faith I have put in you all. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be healing. I know it’s slow, but I am. You all have shown me such kindness and such warmth that I never really got growing up. I know mom kind of kept her distance. I know aunt Lily did as well. Jaime became the reason of my heartbreak and some of my pain. But you all have brought me in and accepted me and helped me through my pain. Letting me cry it all out and giving me comfort. Without you guys, I don’t know how I would be right. I would probably be six feet under. You all mean the world to me, don’t you ever forget that.” He read it twice. The second time out loud.

          He looked at me quite shocked actually. We stood in silence as everything sunk into his brain. Then the pained looked filled his eyes after a good five minutes.

         “I’m sorry for not trusting you. I guess we are overprotective of you. It must be such a pain for you,” he said softly. All I did was just nod my head. I patted his shoulder and grabbed my ice cream and spoon. 

           I left him in the kitchen and made my way to my room. I changed out of the dress into my pajamas which were plaid green pants and a white, wide strapped tank top and my slippers and a black zip up hoodie. I ate half the tub before I decided to open up the other letter.    

            Dear Jessie,

This is the second part to the first one. Being that I have a lot of explaining to do. The men I left you in the care of are really good men. I know they would take care of you. But what you really need to know is that they are part of a secret society of Hunters.

           They were born to fight demons. Nobody knows how they came to be, but some say that they were creating into being by the blood of the highest level demons and magic. I can’t really say how or if that is even true. 

          They have a whole society of Hunters. There are families of hunters. There are Hunters councils. Usually they either meet once a month, or twice a year. Depending on the situation, mostly due to the rise in demonic activities. 

          The families of Hunters train their children to fight from a young age. At least one family member will be called upon to fight demons. They will be given a mission by the council. Once you’ve been given a mission you must carry it out. Depending on how strong you are depends on what kind of mission you get. 

           I’ll explain a little why it depends on how strong you are. Demons have a Type system. It’s a number given to the strength of a demon. A level one and ten demon you don’t need much strength with. Level twenty and fifty you would need more strength to. Then you have the level 100. Those ones are quite tough and are really smart and cunning. These types of demons either find their way into our world or can be summoned. They also come in multiple sizes and just because they are large doesn’t mean they are stronger. But mostly the bigger ones are level twenties and fifties. We do have vampires, werewolves, Lycan, and other types of half demons. 

        Vampires are few in numbers and try to keep to themselves. They have a pact with the Hunters and remain hidden, but there are those vampires that pretty much stray from the ones who uphold the pact. Mostly if they are given a better opportunity to free themselves so they can enjoy blood straight from humans. When that happens Hunters are sent after them and are killed on the spot.

          Werewolves and lycans are not like what televisions believes them to be. They run in packs and live on their own territory they have multiplied over the years, but there are still not as many. The packs are scattered across the world and stuck to themselves. They also have a pact with Hunters. They have even helped Hunters in the past. They also try to handle the rogue problems as well. Rogue werewolves can be quite dangerous and if the situation calls for it Hunters may have to step in.

       They are others, but they are low in number and stay away from Hunters and Humankind all together. 

        Now the Hunters have a group. Singularly they are strong.you must be extremely strong and dedicated. They are known as The Elites. They are Elite Hunters. Warriors that are truly dedicated to Hunting down demons and are probably the only ones to have gone up against a level 100 hundred demon. Though not alone. It takes about three or four of them to take one down. 

         There are multiple councils in the world. You have one for a district. Districts can be quite large. There are four in the U.S. alone. Then you have the continental councils. Then you have the head council. Which is a council made up of very wise Hunters brought from each continent. It can be a person of the continental council, district council, or even a single individual. 

        You must be wondering “mom why are you telling me this?” If you must know I will tell you. You are half Hunter from your birth mothers side. I will tell you now that your mother went rogue. I can’t tell you when because when a Hunter goes rogue they are Hunted and sedated to be dragged before the worldwide council and judges based on their crime. 

       Now onto the subject of D’Angelo. Yes I know about him. I knew you had fallen for him and that he was two timing you with your sister Jaime. And as you know now D’Angelo is the triplet brother of Daniel and David. He fell into madness and went crazy killing his own family in front of his brothers and burning down their home of fifteen years. 

         He became really evil and is after one thing. Jaime and your offspring. This will come to a surprise, but you and Jaime will become more powerful than you think. Which is why your evil mother tried to take you. I don't know when and I don’t know why, but your mother had become evil. It was sometime after you both were born. 

        But back to the situation. You and Jaime are twins that are Half Hunter-. 

          I paused for a moment only half what’s the second half of me? Jaime being my twin? Hunters? D’Angelo? Mom? My birth mother? This is a lot of information to take in. 

           I took a couple of bites of my ice before continuing reading and eating what’s left of the ice cream. I feel like I’m in a family drama.

            You and Jaime are half Hunters and half Witches. You’ll have to wait for information on witches, but what I’m saying is true. Your mother is a Hunter and your father is a Male Witch. Please wait for my next letter. I’ll be sending you letters until a certain point. There are not many left to read, but that doesn’t mean they are not important.  Most importantly you cannot breathe a word of this to anybody I know it’s a lot to hold in, but they can’t know until a certain time.

                  I love you with all my heart,

                        Delilah Heathrose