Stevie Rae POV:
I dont own house of night or its charcters in this story. this is how i wished stevie rae, aphrodite, and rephraim would end up. or similar to something like this. so please enjoy and let me know what you think :)
I woke up with a scream that filled my room as I sat up clenching my stomach. Still feeling the pain as I breathed desperately for air. I have been having the same dream of Rephraim and me for the past week now. In my dream I remember walking through the tunnels of the depot and seeing a light at the end of one tunnel. This light had warmth to it and I knew what this light was. It was sunlight. Feeling the suns warmth made me smile because I've missed it so much but I know now it can kill me. But I wanted to feel it more. As I started getting closer to the light the warmer I felt. When I reached the end of the tunnel and with the light only arms length in front of me I made the decision to walk out into the light. I held my breath and shut my eyes tight getting ready for the impact of the pain to engulf my body…but nothing happened. I felt absolutely nothing but the radiant warmth coming from the sun. I opened my eyes and looked over myself and there were no burning patches of skin or blood. I started freaking out! I grabbed my iphone from my pocket and looked at my reflection to make sure I still had a mark! But all was good because there it was. A bright red color filling my crescent moon shape mark on my forehead along with the swirls on my cheek bones. I started to get confused. What is going on? How is this possible?I thought to myself. I started looking around to see where the tunnel had led me to and all my worries stopped when I saw Him. He was just standing there looking strong. Staring up into the sky at the same spot he had saved me at. When the red fledging tried to burn me alive and left me for dead Rephraim was there and hurt badly. That's when I used Earth to cover us from the sun…where he let me drink his blood…where we imprinted….where he saved my life. A smile crossed my face as I remembered what happen as a result of him saving me. I started walking towards him and I placed my hand in his and intertwined our fingers together. He answered by tightening his grip to. He turned his head down to me with his eyes closed…and …did he look like he was crying? There were tears falling from his face, what is wrong with him? Why didn't I feel his sadness through our imprint? I thought to myself as I looked at him confused. I asked "Rephraim? Is everything ok? "That's when he opened his eyes and they were a very bright red color. The same red color that me and the red fledgling get when we are craving blood and what some of the evil Raven Mockers had. Without him answering me he brought his hand up to my face and caressed my check. My eyes closed automatically. His hand felt ice cold and rough to the touch. He pulled his hand away and my eyes reopened. His face showed a hurt expression as he put his hand in front of our faces and he closed his eyes breathing deeply. Before I could register what he was doing an outline of something started to appear in his hand and completely formed. Wait! Rephraim is human! How can he summon something like this? As it completely formed I realized what it was. It was a big, very sharp, and dangerous looking knife. Fear had stricken me. He put his hand on my shoulder but before I could move away he glided his hand behind his back and with a fast movement that was inhuman he pierced the blade into my stomach.
I laid there on the ground what seemed like hours to me when it was only seconds, where Rephraim and I had been standing right before he….my mind babbling broke off as I coughed up blood. Still clenching the knife that was in my stomach I opened my eyes to see Rephraim standing over me. It looked like hatred filled his eyes along with the red tinge of them. I said "Re…Rephraim…why? What's…happened…to…you?" as I said through gasps of air. Grey started to fill the side of my vision and I could feel a numbing sensation starting to come over me and he started to speak. "Because I've longed to fly in the sky again. But because I fell in love with you…the Red One…I lost my father, my brothers, and my wings. I lost everything because of you. But all that changes tonight. Tonight you will die here and I will leave and return to my father's side". Before I could speak he brought his foot up and stepped on the knife that was still in my body. That's when I wake up screaming from the pain that he was causing me in the last scene of my dream.
I put my face in my hands and pulled my knees up to my chest and started crying. Why am I having this dream? Is Nyx trying to tell me something? Ugh I don't know what to do! I thought to myself. All of my friends still didn't trust Rephraim like I did. But I needed to tell someone about the dream. I couldn't tell the Twins because all Shaunee would say is 'girl I told you so!' and all Erin would say is 'Ditto Twin! '.I sighed with the thought of those crazy girls and their twin telepathy thingy. I couldn't tell Zoey. I know she is my BFF but I know she would make me feel like I should keep an eye on him when I know Rephraim would never do that to me. I needed answers because if this was a vision or something than I needed to know how to stop it from happening.
In a way this dream felt more like a vision than a dream but I know Rephraim wouldn't betray me like my dream was describing to me. Would he? I shook myself mentally. Not daring to think that way. I started thinking of who else I could tell when a certain little, conceded, bitchy person started to come to mind. That's right Aphrodite. "Could I tell her? What if she just makes stupid remarks about Rephraim? If she did then I'm gonna have to beat the bull crap out of her!" I said out loud to myself being a little annoyed at how Aphrodite takes things too far sometimes. Aphrodite and I had imprinted before on accident. She saved me from bleeding to death when Stark shot me with an arrow as Neferet ordered him to make me bleed. Making Kalona free and us stuck down here. While we were imprinted I had to deal with her attitude but I now feel that we have gotten closer in a way….maybe. While being imprinted with her the imprint had messed with my head and I started developing feelings for her but I didn't know why. I never told her about it and I never will. I know Aphrodite and how she would react if I told her how I felt towards her so I tried my best to keep the feelings from reaching her while we were around each other but sometimes they would slip and I didn't know if she felt it or not. Even without the imprint I still have feelings for her but my feelings for Rephraim are stronger. I love him not her right? I got up from my bed and pulled back the blanket that was used for a door. The tunnels were dark, telling me that everyone was still asleep. I looked at my phone and noticed I still got a couple of hours left before I have to go to the surface and get Rephraim as he turns back into a human. So I have plenty of time to go and find Aphrodite.
Thats it for chapter 1 :D how do you like it? let me know what you think in the reviews.