Why did it have to be you

Hell of a Mark: Jacolby

I haven't visited her in a few days and its eating me up inside. I don't believe her when she claims we are mates. I could never see myself with a girl like her. Her defiant looks and rainbow hair are not queen material for Vampires or Werewolves. But what can i do when all I want to do is go into that cell and RIP her clothes off as I kiss her passionately and make all of her worries go away. I can't love her. I'm doing this for my people. I can't get distracted. Though I do feel we should give her a little more freedom since she is our prisoner for life. Maybe I should just go see her. I slowly get up from my bed and head into my bathroom for a quick shower. I wash my hair and my body before rinsing off and turning off the water. Once I've turned off the water I reach for my towel and tie it around my waist as I walk to my counter to grab my deodorant. Once I've put that on I walk out of my bathroom and into my walk in closet to grab a pair of black skinny Jean's, a white t-shirt and some grey combat boots. I walk out of my room and down the long staircase to the front where the valet greets me and asks me which vehicle I'd like to take today. I decide to take my motorcycle today and he retrieves it along with my helmet. I start her up and take off palace grounds and make the 45 minute drive to the house hidden in the woods. When I arrive I turn off my bike and remove my helmet as I walk inside the small house. I instantly go down the basement stairs and find her sitting in her chair which she hasn't left in days, all because I told her I didn't believe in mates. I do believe in Life Mates but I just didn't believe that she was mine. The Moon Goddess wouldn't do that to me. I've always tried to play things right and be a good guy. Why would the Moon Goddess punish me in such a way as to give me a mate that I didn't even want? She sat quietly in her chair watching a muted t.v that we had given her as a luxury. She looks so empty and broken. I don't know why I care so much but I do. I watch as she gets up to use the bathroom and that is when I take away her t.v and chair trying to get her to move around more and to eat because she has done nothing but sit in that chair for 2 weeks now without eating and hardly sleeping a wink. I leave a bowl of porridge on her bedside table and just pray that she will eat it. When she comes back from the bathroom she instantly notices her missing chair and t.v but does nothing. She walks over to her bed, grabs her blanket and wraps herself into a little human burrito before nearly face planting onto her bed. She then curls into a fetal position facing the wall and begins to cry silently, her body racking with her silent sobs. I then burst through the door anger filling my veins as I speak. "Why won't you eat the damn porridge? What is so terrible about all of this that you want to starve yourself? We could have just killed you from the get go and still gotten the same results but that is not what we wanted and still don't want!" She didn't even react. I pick her up by her shoulders and begin shaking her as I speak. "Just eat the damn food! Why do you have to be such a pain in the ass that you just want to starve yourself to death?" I then slam her down on the bed with a resounding thunk from her head connecting with her metal head board. I freak out and instantly yell for Spencer to come quick with his medical bag. Sadly today though he only had his first aid kit. Her head began to pour blood as she just lay there staring at me with so much pain and desperation in her eyes that my heart feels as if it is breaking into a million pieces. Spencer comes in the room quickly and sees her head is dripping with blood covering the rainbow p.js I had bought her. I didn't even notice she was wearing them until that moment. I felt tears begin to sting my eyes as I realize I've been hurting someone who is completely innocent and couldn't even hurt a fly though she liked to put on a tough girl act. "What happened man? I gotta know right away." Demanded Spencer. My voice broke from the tears I held at bay. "I- i got mad because she re- refused to eat and i- i didn't mean to hurt her but i accidentally slammed her head on her head board." Spencer was enraged at my words which only made me feel a bit suspicious of his intentions with her. As he began to doctor her wounds i noticed a softness in his actions and a tenderness in his voice almost as if he were speaking to a wounded kitten, but i knew better. He was acting this way because he was starting to like her. I don't know why this made me angry but it did and i wanted nothing more than to RIP Spencer's head off but i couldn't. She needed a doctor and that meant keeping Spencer alive for another day. After bandaging her head he took her hands into his and Spencer spoke. "Please come to me if you need anything. I promise to protect you as best as possible during your stay here and i promise to try to turn this hell into your own personal heaven. I could feel myself growing angry at the contact of their skin. I couldn't stop myself. I yanked Spencer's hands from her body and practically hissed my next words. "If she is not bleeding or dying do not touch her again. Now leave this room at once." Spencer could do nothing but obey me knowing that I am the stronger vampire. As he left I noticed a slight smirk on Addison's face as she watched my rage boiling under the surface. "Don't look at me like that. I just know that man and what he thinks. Hes trouble for you." I grumbled at her. "You are clearly trouble for me too." She whispered so quietly I almost didn't catch what she said. "I don't understand you Addison." I said quietly with a pause at the end. "But I want to." I whispered so quietly I didn't think she would hear me. "Then stop pushing me away Jacolby. I know you don't believe in the mate bond but maybe you will come to like me in time. Please just don't reject me before you get to know me." Her pleas were almost to much to bear. I gave her a small smile as I sat down on the bed next to her and decided I would give her a chance, though I knew I would before she even asked. I couldn't keep fighting the feelings that were growing inside me. She smiled warmly and the next words out of her mouth made me laugh so hard my throat hurt. "Can I have my t.v and chair back now please?" Her request was to much. I continued to laugh even as I walked just outside the door to where i haphazardly stacked her t.v and chair on the floor. I carried them back in and saw her chowing down on her bowl of porridge. "This is really good. Who made this?" She asked. "I did. As I have made all the other meals you have discarded." With this she looked at me with a sheepish smile. "That's to bad because i bet they tasted delicious." I blushed a bit at her words. They struck a cord in my heart that made me feel like singing to the world. I set her t.v and chair back up as she was finishing her food. She looked a little sad when she saw the bottom of her bowl. "Would you like some more?" I asked her with a wide smile on my face. She gave me a pleading look as she put her bowl out in the air and stuck out her lower lip for an adorable pout. I didn't take her bowl. Instead I walked over to where her chain was connected to the bed and uncuffed it before cuffing it to my ankle. She looked shocked since normally she wouldn't be allowed to leave the room but I took her shoulders and lifted her to her feet. She was a bit weak since she hadn't eaten for nearly 2 weeks so I half carried her to the kitchen allowing her to work out her stiff muscles. In the kitchen she seemed to have taken a double take as she saw all of my expensive cooking equipment. She whistled. "You must really love to cook." She said in awe. "I do. It's one of my few passions." "Well thats a relief because I suck at cooking. Have you ever seen someone burn water before? Because I have." With that I begin to laugh again as I pull out a stool from our kitchens island and allow her to sit with the bowl rested in front of her. I pull a medium sized pot from the fridge and place it on the now warming stove to reheat its contents. Once warm I begin to make her a second bowl of porridge and place the bowl gingerly down in front of her. She begins to eat quickly as if she will never eat again in her life. I feel the corners of my mouth twitch feeling good that I have finally gotten her to eat. I'm glad she is eating because I need her for the next part of my plans. Once she finishes eating I help her down from the stool and walk her back to her room. I uncuff myself and this time I uncuff her too. "Promise me that you will not try to escape. I am giving you little freedom but freedom is still what it is no matter how small. Do not make me regret it. In time it will feel as if this hell is turning into heaven so long as you don't try to leave. If you do all liberties and freedom will be revoked including your television." With that I picked up the chain and left her room. Locking the door behind me. I walk outside the small building and to its backyard. In the back there is a large lake with a dock on our side. I decide to go for a swim and strip down to my boxers as I walk to the waters side. I then dive in without giving any chance to check the waters temperature and am immediately immersed in freezing cold water. I wade out in it for a bit and relax myself on the surface just floating there. Soon the gentle waves and icy water lull me into unconsciousness. 

                                                                                        Addison

I can feel a stiffness in my joints and a tightness in my chest but it's not mine. My body begins to shiver and for some reason I feel like my chest is full of fluids. Its painful but only a dull ache. I feel like a string inside of me is being drawn tightly and becoming weaker and weaker as the seconds go by. Suddenly i realize  it's not my pain i am feeling. I leap from my spot in my chair and run to my cell door. I try the handle but of course its locked. I begin to frantically pound on the door and use all my strength but after weak of not eating i am not strong enough to break down the door. "We have to get to him!" Winter all but shouted inside my mind. "Don't you see that I'm trying here?" I scream at her. Suddenly I feel my bones begin to shift and I can feel Winter begin to take control of my mind. It takes a second for us to shift because we haven't done it in so long but once we are finally done my all Black wolf stands before the door in all her glory. She is much taller than the average wolf with her ears reaching chest level on a full grown man. Her silver eyes glinting in the low light as she pushes all of her weight against the door. Suddenly we smell burning flesh as we both realize that the door is made of silver too. "What will we do now Winter?" I ask her with fear evident in my voice. "There is a small window there above your bed. I won't be able to fit through it but I'm sure that if I can get you up to the ledge you can find a way out." As she said this Winter took a running head start and jumped for the ledge and we shifted in mid air. In my human form I managed to grab the ledge and held on for dear life as I struggled to pull myself up. I managed to get myself onto my elbows as I pushed the window only to find it was locked. I couldn't wait though because the string holding Jacolby to this world grew ever so thin. I decided to hit the window and break it even though my flesh still burned from the contact with the silver. I broke the window and struggled as I climbed out. Cutting my body up in the process. I managed to stand up and shift back into my black wolf as we took off around the back of the house with her following his scent. We followed it all the way to the edge of the lake at the back of the small home and saw the small rings on the surface of the water. We didn't hesitate as we leaped into the water diving under to find our mate sinking to the bottom. We swam as hard and as fast as our legs would carry us and once to him there was no way to hold onto him without turning back into my human form but if I did that we would both surely drown for I was to weak to carry us both out of these freezing waters so Winter bit into his shoulder and began to swim with him to safety. We managed to get him onto dry land but he still wasn't breathing. I shifted back and began chest compression's as I screamed for Spencer to come and help me. I soon realized that my mate and I were alone. I began to cry as I worked hard on his chest trying to keep his heart going when I made the decision to give him mouth to mouth. I placed my lips atop his and the tingles were so weak they felt more like a lady bug was crawling across my lips. I blew into his lungs once and compressed his chest four more times before breathing into him again. With this he finally began to cough up water and his air ways opened back up. I began to cry vehemently as I helped him onto his side and eventually to stand as i carried him inside not stopping to think about the fact that i was stark naked. Once inside I brought him down to the basement where my cell was located and wrapped him in my thick blanket for warmth. I watched him as he shivered with his pale blue lips and I couldn't take it. I pulled the blanket open and climbed inside with him wrapping my body around his hoping to share some of my body heat. His shivers began to slowly subside and the blue tint in his lips faded. I could still feel my body shake at the thought of losing him as I held him tightly to me. "How did you know I was drowning?" He slowly asked me. "I could feel it through the bond as your body slowly began to lose its battle for life. I couldn't let you die." He turned to look at me in that moment and his eyes held what looked like admiration but there was something else behind those familiar eyes, something i couldn't read. The tingles were getting stronger until they felt like an electric current was flowing between us. "Why are they stronger?" He asked. With that I realized where my wolf had bitten him. I looked at his shoulder where there was now a healed mark one that would forever mark him as the keeper of my heart. "I'm sorry." Was all I could say as I slowly unraveled my body from his. Losing the contact made my body feel cold though my skin was still singed and covered in blisters along one side of it. "What did you do?" He asked in an angered voice. I then cowered in fear knowing this would turn out badly. "I didn't mean to... my wolf had no other choice. I was to weak to carry you all by myself and she had no where else to grab you without hurting you to badly." I stammered. "Well what did she do?" He demanded once more with his voice rising with the more anger he felt. "She marked you." I whispered. His face paled as he realized what that meant. "She did what?" He asked even though we both knew the answer. "She marked you. Meaning my heart will now only belong to you even if you reject me until the day you die." With this the color returned to his face and his rage made his skin red like a tomato as he stood from the bed. "You did this on purpose!" He shouted. "No I would never! I swear! The marking of a mate is supposed to be special and beautiful not tragic and under dire circumstances." I pleaded with my eyes for him to understand but he only seemed to become more enraged. "You are my mate but i never intended for things to be like this and I'm so very very sorry Jacolby. Please you have to understand that we were only trying to save your life." I tried to plead my case once more as I slid myself off the bed and onto the floor begging him on my knees. "I am not like you! I am not a werewolf I'm a vampire and vampires do not have mates! Why can you not understand that?" Jacolby yelled in my face. My eyes shined with unshed tears as the one person who was supposed to be made for me just ripped my heart out. "Why did it have to be you?" I whispered under my breath but with his superior hearing he heard my every word. "Believe me Addison I wish it were another person for your sake just as much as mine." With that he walked out of my cell door shutting and locking it as I sat there with my face in my hands crying on the cold dark floor.