The Weaver's Tale

I woke up shivering with cold. Slowly I sat up, my whole body hurt from the events the day before, an opening spell, they tried to open me up like a pinata. Or, Peter tried to open me like a pinata. He wanted nothing more than to learn my secrets, but I did not have any. It was all about power for him, he wanted to know exactly how I gained control over the elements and did not believe me when I said it was a natural talent. That is, when I had access to my magic. The first thing they did when they took me was binding me so I could no longer use it.   It took four witches and a vampire to take me down, but once they had gotten hold on Emily I surrendered. I could not let her die because of me. Peter using the opening spell on me did result in an argument between him and Frederic. Frederic did not want me to get hurt too much, not out of pity, but because of his own plans with me. He wanted to create an army of invincible creatures. He wanted to create vampire and witch halfbloods and I was a tool to get to that goal. He wanted me to have his children. He had experimented on more witches, but they either had miscarriages or both witch and baby died while giving birth. I could only hope I would fall into the last category, because Frederic would not stop until he got what he wanted.   Then I heard it, screams. I knew I wasn’t the only one held captive here, but I did not know who else was here. It was a male, judging by the screams. I had no clue what they would want with him. Maybe he was only here because Peter wanted him here? I could not imagine what Frederic would want with this person… Then another sound came, music. Music that once soothed my soul, but now made me shiver in fear and despair, it was his tune, Frederic was coming. A few months later *Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep* The loud beeping sound annoyed me, had they not tortured me enough? Did they now have to keep me out of my sleep too? At this rate I would die from exhaustion. Actually, that did not sound so bad, but I was so tired, all I wanted right now was a bit of sleep. Then it dawned on me, I was way too comfortable. And the pain, the pain was gone. In fact, I felt nothing at all. Everything seemed numb. Had I died? No, that couldn’t be it. If I had died, my parents would be here, and Lucy, not this annoying beeping sound.   I opened my eyes. I was in a brightly lit room, so bright that the light hurt my eyes. I instantly recognized it. I was definitely not dead; I was in a hospital. How did I get here? Did someone manage to save me? Were Peter and Frederic dead? I hoped so.   Then I heard footsteps and a doctor came into the room. I knew her, this was doctor Savannah. She had been my primary doctor ever since they brought me into the hospital in a similar state I was in now, roughly 5 years ago. I had just turned 13. I had been drugged and r***d by humans for about a year. My father was there too, they kept him as leverage for me to comply, but no matter what I did, they tortured him anyway and he did not survive. It was at that point I discovered my powers and I managed to kill them all, accidentally I might add. I do not regret them dying, but I never wanted to be a murderer.   “Avalon!” Savannah exclaimed now. “I am glad to see you’re awake.” I shrugged and winced, I may not have felt anything laying still, moving hurt. “What happened?” I croaked; my throat was very dry. “We were hoping you could tell us.” dr. Savannah said, “someone brought you in after finding you on the side of the road. No one knows how you got there or what happened to you.” Fear came over me. If they didn’t know what happened, then Frederic and Peter might still be alive, they would come for me again, I was sure of it. I started to panic at that thought, I couldn’t go back, never again!   In retrospect I had nothing to worry about. Savannah, being a human, knew nothing of the events, nor did I tell the police anything useful. Peter and Frederic did not come for me. I did not know if that meant they were dead, but I was happy with it. However as soon as I got out of the hospital, I was awaited by not only my half-brother, Jonathan, but a vampire too…