Spell Broken Chapter 1: preface: Raven's Night, a house of night fanfic

Whoop I finally got this finished Gud job me! Ok explaining time, the beginning is a bit rushed because all the sudden the first half of this story got delited and so I had to rewrite it. Oh and I might make this a one shot or not i don't know because i can kind of see the rest of the story and i kind of cant. Oh well I'll think of something till than R&R and yes the enchantress is hitting on Rephaim and yes she is someone who you love to hate.

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Spell Broken

Preface: Raven's Night

Rephaim stood on the rooftop of the deport wandering what he was going to do. His father was going to use her, hurt her. And there was nothing he could do to stop it. He did not know what to do.

This was all that damned imprints fault. If he had never saved her; if she never drank of his blood than he wouldn't be in this position. Then he would be standing by his father's side without hesitation or guilt as he has been for his inter life. He would not have to worry about betraying the Red One because they would never have met and therefore Rephaim would have no one to betray. She should have killed him when she had the chance, than none of this would have happened.

Just then he realized which grate his hand rested on. And he quickly withdrew his hand as if it had burned him. It was here, here that he had saved her life and helped her escape certain death by burning in the sun. And later under the earth he had let her taste of him, drink from him. Just to pay the life debt he owed her so that he could be free of her bonds, only to establish a stronger, more permanent bond.

Anger and frustration build within him. And he tipped his face up to shout his frustration into the sky. "By all the gods if only I could take it back!" Rephaim did not except a response so he was surprised when maniacal laughter met his words. He whipped around trying to find who had dared intrude on his thoughts. But there was no one there. Just when he thought he had imagined it the maniacal laughter sounded again, causing the feathers on the nap of his neck to stand on end.

"Who is there, show yourself!" The air shifted and the density of the air changed and then a woman stood before him that was beautiful in a beautiful way. She had pale skin and pale snow white hair. Her eyes were storm green and her pupils were night black with flashes of lightning within them. She wore a black gown with ivy green fringe that hugged her body in intimate places. But flowed and pooled out at the bottom.

Her thin pale lips turned up in a resemblance of a smile. "Hello Rephaim." She breathed her voice snaking out and wrapping around his body. Rephaim took a step back and hissed. "How do you know my name woman?" She chuckled softly and said. "Oh I know all about you Rephaim, I know all your secrets and the things you want to keep inside. In fact I know more about you than you might even now about yourself. I've been watching you for a long time you see."

His eyes turned to slits and he said. "You've been what? How long have you been spying on me woman." She tipped her head back and laughed psychotically, that maniacal sound he heard earlier, in the sky above them a clap of thunder sounded. "Spying?" She cackled her face turning cruel. The storm in her eyes building. "I'd watch your tongue little boy it ain't smart to anger an enchantress ya hear." She said putting on a fake southern bell accent.

Rephaim froze and his blood ran cold. An enchantress, what would an enchantress want with him? And why was she watching him. One thing's for sure was he was going to have to watch himself for now on. "Very well, not spying; but may I ask you what you are doing here. And what you want with me?"

She gave him a sly smile and said in a crooning loving tone of voice. "Oh and that's the question isn't it. What am I doing here?" He sighed and said "What do you want?" Her smile grew reminding Rephaim of a lizard and continued to speak to Rephaim in the same crooning loving tone of voice. "Oh but my dear it's not about what I want it's what you want."

"And what is that," he asked nervously. Rephaim did not think that, that smile could grow any bigger but it did. And she breathed her voice snaking out, wrapping around him and freezing his frozen heart. "Her." "Don't touch her, don't hurt her." She laughed and said, "Oh I haven't done anything to her, my darling. She is perfectly safe at her school. If you don't believe me reach out with your bond. Feel for her, find her and know all is well." The word well ended in a psychotic chuckle, not helping Rephaim's fears.

But he did as was told. He reached out through their bond and found her, she was laughing. She was laughing and enjoying herself and full of life; surrounded by her friends without a care in the world. It was so joy full that Rephaim's heart seemed to stop and he felt embarrassed for interrupting her joy.

"There you see," she said, "well, now let's talk Rephaim, let's talk." He sighed but then nodded his agreement. "Splendid!" she cried clapping her hands together making another clap of thunder rumble. "Just splendid, now Rephaim you asked to take it back right, your bond." She didn't wait for an answer. "Well what would you say if I could make that happen?"

He opened his mouth to speak but she talked over him. "I could break this little bondage you guys share."The enchantress continued using air quotes around the words "bondage." "Heck I'll even stop you from getting shot, I'll make it were all of the 'she saves you're life' crap, never happens." Rephaim finally was able to speak. "Why, why would you do this? Besides I do not want the bond broken. I was merely speaking angers I do not wish for the bond to be gone."

She laughed again and started to pace around Rephaim. "Oh sweet heart how naïve can you be?" When he continued to just stare at her she continued. "Haven't you ever wondered why she saved you? Why did she trust you? Have you wondered out of all the monsters in the world to redeem why chose you? You, of all people, why save you?"

Rephaim rocked back and forth restlessly. He had wondered these things. Why had the Red One saved him? It made no logical sense. And it made him uncomfortable to have this woman state so; to bring up all of his doubts and confusions and throw them in his face. "What iss it you want?"

She smiled kindly at him and, shrugging her shoulders breathed out. "I told you I want to give you what your heart truly desires. Just not that easy; I want to teach you a lesson Rephaim. A pretty good one to, I want to know whether your precious Red One would love you if you guys weren't imprinted. No, no." She said dismissively when he opened his mouth to speak. "You listen, I'll speak."

"What if she never drank your blood I wonder? If she never established the bond, in fact, would she love you if she never saved you that fateful lonely, dark, bloody day? I want, and will put it to the test. I'll change the advents of time and make it were you never met you are the only one that knows the true course of events and the true connection you share. And it will remain like that forever. Forever that is if you can find a way to make her love you without the bond. Without all of the things you've shared and been through together to tie you as one.

You'll have until the complete passing of all four seasons to complete this task." All of the sudden she grabbed his arm and pull his arm towards her palm up. She smiled slyly and touched his palm with the tip of her index finger. "That should help you keep track of the time." All the sudden a round swirling design appeared on his hand. It had frost and ice covering it and it showed a bare, naked tree with snow covering its branches. And to his horror has he watched the branches swayed with some kind of unnatural wind and the swirling knots around the circumference of the circle twisted and moved as if they were alive.

"Don't worry" she said when she saw the look on his face. "You will be the only one to see it." Rephaim cried. "Why are you doing this?" She laughed. "I told you, because I want to help you. I want to see how much your love really loves you or whether it's just a result of a little, insignificant bond. An experiment, I you will. Relax my darling if she truly loves you than you should have no trouble trying to woo her."

"How is taking away the only thing ever good in my life helping me," she sighed and said. "I am trying to teach you a lesson. A lesson you should have learned a long time ago; a lesson that will change the course of your life, a lesson, that if you had learned years ago you would have turned out so much differently."

"And what lesson is that?" Rephaim asked acidly. "Now my heart what would the point be if I told you what you needed to learn. You would learn nothing. I want you to have the chance to see what your life has been missing and the only way for you to see that is if I take away from you the only thing your life has ever had. But be warned my precious if you do not succeed to woo your beloved by the end of the passing of all four season it will all be destroyed. You will never have met, you will never have imprinted, and you my Rephaim will never have known love. I will take it all away. I will change time and reality so that you will never have been shot. And thus never have met your Red One. Only you will know the true course of events. But as far as Stevie Rae is concerned she will not remember you even exist. She will only see you as another Raven Mocker. A murderer and a monster born of rape and hate; oh and the Raven Mocker that killed her professor, we must not forget that little snag. But fear not, there is hope, if you do succeed in your mission and she does find some way to love you and collapses in your arms and begs you to take her away. I will undo all that I have done and you will be here, right here, as if this never happened. All that I have done will be undone, she will know who you are and know your name. She will be imprinted with you and love you till death do you part, as the mortals say. And she will have no memory of the things you did well trying to woo her into her good graces."

"And if I refuse to participate in this little game of yours?" Rephaim asked icily. "Well than beautiful, than I will not remove the spell and none of the events that lead to you standing here right now would have happened. You see Rephaim; you can't stop me from having my fun and game. You cannot prevent me from breaking your imprint. So you see it is in your best interest to play along and capture and win your beauty's heart. Otherwise…"

"Otherwise?" "Or stay alone forever…"

All of the sudden the enchantress was gone but her words continued to echo into the night, wrapping around Rephaim, causing him to be sick to his stomach.

"Or stay alone forever…"

"Stay alone forever…"

"Forever…"

Just then Rephaim was overcome with a wash of dizziness and he sank to his knees. His vision blurred and his site went black. Just before he went unconscious he felt a burning pain slam through him and he felt like his very soul was on fire. As if he was dying, he never felt this much pain in his life. Not when he was shot, not when he took Stevie Rae's blood debt and let the white bull drink from him. A vision came to his closed eyes.

Stevie Rae stared at him pain and horror in her eyes. And as he watched, unable to do anything but stare no matter how much he wanted to comfort her; she began to fade from him. Dissolve and vanish as if she was never there in the first place. Gone, gone from his life never to be there again. He watched as Stevie Rae opened her mouth and cried out his name in fury and pain and heart-aching love and lose.

REPHAIM!

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