*~ I Don't Love You, I Can't Love You ~*
*~ Chapter 1 ~*
*~ Prologue ~*
"You killed them..." she whispered. Her eyes staring wide at the two motionless bodies on the floor. Slowly she looked up to him as a tear rolled down her cheek. Taking a step back, a sob escaped her lips, "W-why would you do that?"
"They found out what I was," he explained and looked out of the window to his right. He stared up at the full moon momentarily and sighed. In all truth he took no pleasure from what he had just done but it was necessary. He looked back to the little seven-year old. She was trembling with fear and staring down at the woman on the floor. He inwardly cringed as the image of his own mother flashed through his memory.
He took a step toward her but she yelped and jumped three steps back. He stopped and sighed deeply again.
"You wouldn't understand, child," he told her.
She shook her head, "But Mummy and Daddy didn't do anything to you."
"They realised what I was," he repeated himself.
"But they didn't do anything!" she cried, stamping her foot.
"Because I didn't give them the chance," he snapped, making her flinched. Again he inwardly cringed. He didn't have the best patience in the universe and he was trying to work on that, after all his partner was expecting for the second time and the first child was a little timid due to his quick temper, he believed regrettably. He took a deep breath to stay calm and continued, "You will survive, little one. You will find safety and peace after this day. Your parent's souls will protect you and guide you."
"You're not going to hurt me?" she asked after a brief pause.
"Do you know what I am?" he asked. She shook her head vigorously from side to side. Even if she did he would not have touched her. She was very young, and the young tend to dream of monsters in the night. To everyone else he would just be a nightmare that tortured her memory when her eyes were shut, and in time he would just be a nightmare to her too. "Then I shall not hurt you."
After a slight hesitation the girl asked quietly, "What are you?"
He levitated off the ground slightly and back to the window making the little girl gasp, "I should not like to tell you. You would suffer if I did so," he then whispered some words she couldn't make out and a dagger appeared in his hand.
She held her breath her eyes widening again. But he just said he wasn't going to hurt her! Didn't he? He lifted the dagger above his head and a ball of light appeared at the point. He then swiftly pointed the dagger at window throwing the little ball of light at the glass causing it to shatter outwards. He hopped up on to the window ledge, crouched and leaped out in to the sky.
"I will not return," he told her. She could not see him now because she was still deep inside the room but she could hear him clearly, "I promise, I will never return. I am sorry that I have stolen your closest family. I do not expect acceptance or forgiveness. I am aware that that is out of the question. All you must do is forget. Forget what you have seen and me and remember only the happy memories with them. I did not hurt them for nothing and did not hurt them because I wanted to. It was something that had to be done. Goodbye, Little one."
The silence remained for almost ten minutes until the little girl realised that he wasn't coming back, that her parents weren't going to wake up and hold her...that she was alone in a dark room with her dead parents in front of her and nobody knew.
She screamed at the top of her lungs. A real spine chilling shriek and fled out of the room shouting and screaming and sobbing all the way. She slipped on the second step of the staircase and skidded the rest of the way down, grazing her elbow as she went. She didn't stop to inspect the minor injury she just screamed and continued on with her escape. She almost crashed in to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. No! She started pounding the door in a sort of frenzy as her imagination began to scare her with images of her parents' dead bodies.
Just then something glistened in the glow of the hallway lamp. Keys! She snatched them from the table they were on and shoved them in the lock. The lock was always hard for her to turn and a lot of the time she had to ask Mummy to do it for her. That wasn't an option today and she needn't worry about strength now either as the adrenalin rushing through her veins, gave her enough power to twist the metal and open the damn door.
She flew out of the house, dashed away from the door and collapsed on the sidewalk in the street. She breathed in and out and after a moment, looked back the house. Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked up to the window that was smashed.
Who was that and why would he do such a thing?
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