Chapter IV

He held her in his arms on his lap as he sat on the river bank. She was quiet as she watched the calm river just roll by them. The steam coming off the water created colorful swirls that Abbie occasionally would reach up and try to touch forgetting about the soft blanket covering her nakedness. Abraham just watched her the entire time. What he could not figure out was this feeling that came over him every time that he stared at her. It was not the same feeling that he felt when he was hunting his prey. He did not wish to harm her. He wished to keep her with him...always. She made strange sensations flow through his body that he thought Moloch had destroyed. He did not know why this woman would conjure these feelings from him. Aphrodite had no hold over him so he did not understand why he felt...soft towards her. He watched her smile as the hot vapors from the river touched the exposed skin of her shoulders.

"Do you come here a lot?"

She did not face him as she spoke. "I come here often."

Abbie closed her eyes and breathed deeply of the surrounding smells. "You must just come here to watch nature be herself. It is beautiful here."

Abraham raised an eyebrow at her words. Of course all of her thoughts were of goodness and beauty.

"I come here to work on my skills and wash my axe in the river. It gives it a nice shine and helps it repel the blood that mars its blade."

He felt her stiffen in his arms and a smile filled his face. It was nice to see that she had fear of him because of what he did. He wanted to make sure that she had not forgotten.

Abbie pulled the blanket back over her shoulders much to Abraham's dislike. "I know that you see the beauty of this place. You carved those chess pieces and they are beautiful. Not even Moloch could take your sense of beauty away."

"There is beauty in blood flowing over a glistening blade."

Her groan of frustration made him smile even more. Abbie turned in his arms and looked into his intense blue eyes and frowned. "That is what you unfortunately do but is that what you are?"

His arms suddenly tightened around her body and her back slammed into his chest. She could feel his hot breath on her exposed right shoulder.

"What do you think that I am?" His deep voice resonated throughout her body and caused her to shake. Abbie closed her eyes listening to his deep breathing as he waited on an answer from her.

"You are a wro…wronged Man th….."

"I am a demon. A blood thirsty assassin that will not stop until I have completed what I came here to do. I have no remorse or sympathy for anyone. I am ruthless and like to kidnap females and keep them naked in my presence."

Abbie opened her eyes and looked out over the river. "The last part I believe."

She heard him growl at her and loosen his tight hold on her body and she sat forward. Abraham smiled seeing the smirk on her profile. This little thing had no fear of him. Perhaps he should not have given her the blanket.

Abbie listened to the calming sounds of the river and her smirk turned into a smile. She knew that he could be reasoned with because of the night he used his body to keep her warm. No kidnapper would be so accommodating to their victim. He gave her food and water but the clothing was an issue. She was confident in her ability to talk him out of killing Katrina. He was just angry and rightly so but he had to let that go. He was free of Moloch. He just had not realized it yet.

What was she thinking with that smile on her lips? Did she not know that she was never leaving him? He had just come to this decision while watching her. The infection would pose a problem for a while until he forced it out of her. She would enjoy his treatment of the illness.

"Can I swim in there?" Abbie looked back at him as she pointed at the slow moving river.

Abraham nodded. Her excitement tripled and she quickly escaped his hold and lap. She held the blanket around her body and looked at him as he leaned back on his left elbow on the sloping bank and watched her as she stared at him.

"Are you going to look away?"

"No,"

She looked incredulous. "But why not it is the right thing to do."

"Not if you wish to see things."

Abbie frowned at him and started walking towards the river but came to a sudden stop and looked back to see his left heel on the blanket. She looked up into his eyes.

"It is my blanket and I do not want it wet."

Anger filled her body and she threw the blanket off and ran as fast as she could to the warm water. Her body submerged into the glorious liquid. She lowered her entire body inside and then sprang up to the surface. She moved her wet hair from her eyes and wiped off the excess water from her face before looking back at the bank. Abraham was not there. The blanket was there and his clothing was piled on top of it. Abbie gasped and quickly looked around in the water but she could not see a thing. Abraham quietly surfaced behind her as Abbie continued looking into the water. He made a sound on the surface of the water and she turned and screamed when she saw him.

"Abraham!" She pushed him but she was the one that almost fell into the water. His arms circled her waist and kept her from falling in the river. She pushed against his chest for a while until she finally gave up seeing that he was not going to release her. Abbie sighed and glared up at him.

"Why won't you release me?"

"You could fall and hurt yourself then I would have to kill you because I can't have damaged bait."

Abbie smirked at his words. He had a teasing lilt to his speech. "You mean like you did the first time when I was first infected with Aphrodite."

"I do not want you to die at any other hand than mine."

Abbie placed her face closer to his and stared up into his eyes. "I don't think that killing me was even on your mind. You kissed me."

Abraham lips were suddenly on hers. Abbie whimpered as she tried to get away for a moment and then she settled down and let the horseman do what he wanted. Her head swam as did everything inside her body. She knew that her submission had something to do with the Aphrodite infection in her vein even if it was asleep when Abraham was around. His kiss deepened as his hands began roaming her body. He could hear that thumping sound again but chose to ignore it and continued kissing his captive until she completely submitted to him. Abraham slowly pulled his lips from hers and Abbie laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes.

He slowly rubbed her back and laid his head on top of hers. She was quiet and agreeable with him this way. He would always do this to get her to agree with him. This was much more pleasurable than killing her. He was enjoying this closeness with her until she opened her eyes and saw a pair of yellow ones staring back at her. She screeched and leaped into his arms. Her breasts smashed against his face right at mouth level as she tried to climb on him. Abraham held her away from the water as she frantically searched for the creature that she saw staring at them.

"He will not harm you because you smell like me."

She did not care what he said. "What is it?"

Abraham was too busy testing the softness of her breasts with his lips to answer her. He planted small kisses on the soft mounds until she stopped squealing about the monster in the water and looked down at what he was doing. His eyes were not that intense blue anymore they were darkening towards black. She tried to get out of his arms but his mouth latched on to her right nipple. The sound from her that filled the night air made Abraham body's body shake with savage need. He dropped her legs and wrapped his arms around her waist and held her tight as he suckled at her right nipple. Her head fell backwards as words flew from her lips that made no sense. He felt her tremble over and over again in his arms and it pleased him.

He began walking from the river slowly still holding her nipple captive in his mouth. Abbie felt the blanket touch her back and stared up at him as he hovered above her. "I will stop when you ask me."

She was confused until his head moved down to her breasts again but this time the left nipple was the one that he favored now. She closed her eyes and felt her body going back to that place of pleasure and moaned.

Oh…. please!"

Abraham released the nipple and slowly moved up her body and hovered his lips over hers. "Please what…?"

Her head rolled to the right with a soft moan as Abraham's right hand moved down her body and between her thighs. Abbie arched her body when he touched the quivering and moist flesh that lay there. He loved the sound of her voice.

"Does it ache here…for me." He began touching her in such a way that Abbie grabbed onto the grass on the sloping bank and called out to the night. He kept touching her while shifting his body into position to replace his fingers with something more lethal. His hands moved to the space above her head on the sloping bank as his flesh pushed inside of her body.

The sharp intake of air and her sudden gaze into his eyes made him stop. Her nails dug into his arms on either side of her head holding his heavy body away from her.

"You said. Ohhhhh… you …. ah would stop." He watched her eyes close and her face crinkle with pain as he paused before moving deeper towards her source of fear. She was so small he knew the stretching of her flesh was not comfortable at the moment.

Abraham closed his eyes and moaned. "You did not ask me."

"Please…. please!"

She felt his entire body begin to shake above her. She could see and feel it in his powerful arms. Abraham lowered his head.

"Aphrodite… will cease to have power over you if you have me inside of you." Abbie shook her head in a negative fashion. She did not want Aphrodite in her body or him for that matter. Why did she think that she could talk him out if being what he was?

His hard flesh inched closer to his ultimate goal of claiming her as his. Abbie felt her body painfully expand as his flesh moved deeper towards ruining her. A sound of pain reached his ears as his body continued to stall with his plan.

He had no reason for waiting for her to say yes. He told her that he was a demon. He was a remorseless and ruthless assassin determined to kill his sworn enemies. Why should he care about causing her pain or want to her to feel good about her decision to give him her virginity?

Abraham opened his eyes and lowered his forehead to hers. She wore a pained face with her eyes closed. The thumping sound returned and he now knew what it was that she had awakened within him. "I don't want…. to hurt you. I don't want Aphrodite to put you in harm's way."

Abbie slowly opened her eyes and looked up into his dark eyes as his body shook even more violently than before. The unshed tears in her eyes and the subsequent nod told him that it was okay for him to move.

"The pain will pass…" Abraham stared into her eyes as they slowly closed as he moved deeper inside her tight body.

The thing in the water started growling. Abraham's supernatural senses came to life. His flesh stopped moving forward just as he was about to break the taunt skin inside her body keeping her pure. He immediately withdrew from her and moved to the right side of her body. His arm moved over her waist and then swung her over his body. A huge metal spear slammed into the ground where Abbie's head used to be. Abraham held her tightly to his body with his right arm while on the ground. He grabbed the embedded spear with his left hand and shoved it upwards pulling it out of the ground and slamming the other speared end into the throat of his attacker. The man fell to his knees beside the blanket and blood sprayed onto the soft material. Abraham rolled to his feet with Abbie in his arms. He placed her behind his naked body.

"HENRY!"

The Warlock smiled as he stood there with twenty more of his men. "Oh did I interrupt you. I can't have you killing Aphrodite just yet she has so much to show me."

Abraham growled at the men standing in his territory. "I will kill all of you!"

Henry chuckled. "Oh they aren't for you."

The creatures in the woods began to scurry as branches and leaves flew in every direction as the thing ran towards them.

"MOLOCH!" Abraham roared and began running towards his former master. The collision knocked everyone from their feet. The force of their combined power created terrible waves on the calm river. Abbie suddenly opened her eyes and slowly sat up on the ground. She held her head as the ringing inside her ears began to lessen. Her blurry vision began to clear and she saw Abraham slamming Moloch into a tree. She heard movement to her right and saw Henry coming to. The Warlock suddenly looked in her direction.

"GET HER!"

Abbie jumped to her feet and began running into the Hollow woods with Henry and his men chasing after her.

Katrina saw the naked Abigail running towards the forest and fear filled her body. Aphrodite would soon wake and then no one would be able to put her back into slumber but the horseman. She turned her attention to Moloch and Abraham battling each other. The two had bruises but Abraham was primed for battle. He was just what Moloch had made him…a killer. Katrina decided to take care of some of the men chasing Abbie until Aphrodite woke and took care of the matter herself.

Nick still could not remember when they had decided to go against the Horseman's wishes and invaded his territory. He would kill them if he caught them.

"Ichabod I don't see this is wise."

"I saw Henry in here. He is up to something and we need to defend Abigail from his treachery."

"Okay but let's stay on the out…"

Sounds of warfare made the two men run towards the sound. They ducked just in time as Abraham's body flew over their heads and into a tree. Moloch stood a few feet from them bleeding and snarling and the two men opened fire.

Abbie stopped beside a tree at the sound of the gunfire and knew that Crane and Nick were somewhere in the woods but she could not stop to find them and she could not outrun the men perusing her. They were cloaked in magic and she could not see them. She needed clothing to protect her skin from the sharp branches. She hid behind one of the trees beside her and closed her eyes to talk to Aphrodite.

"If you don't want to become one of Henry's experiments you better wake up and do something. They said that you were powerful…well I don't believe that,"

Those cloaked in magic could hear her talking and slowed their pace and approached the tree that she hid behind.

Katrina walked from the woods and stood in front of the tree. Henry stopped running and leaned against a tree breathing hard and smiling.

"For an old woman you can run very fast."

Katrina glared at her son. "Turn from your path or the horseman will have your head."

Henry chuckled. "Oh mother you and this Horseman of yours. He is no more. Moloch has defeated him."

Katrina watched Henry's men slowly approaching her from all sides. She could feel Aphrodite rousing from her slumber. "How do you think that he escaped his dungeon that Moloch put him in. He fought him and won. You have awakened him and Aphrodite."

Henry smiled. "Good I wish to see her and then take her power." Abbie's naked body moved from behind the tree as she frowned at Henry. Aphrodite screamed from inside her human host.

"Come and take it then!"

Moloch advanced on the two men as they ran out of bullets. He began running at them but Abraham leaped over them and Moloch. He managed to get the white demon in a headlock that he could not escape from. Abraham smiled.

"I remember the torture I endured from you. The slow burning torture."

Moloch gagged. "Yours will not be so slow."

The crack of his neck left Moloch's body lifeless. Abraham dropped the beast and followed his the feeling of power coursing throughout the Hollow woods.

"Abigail!" Nick and Ichabod ran after him.

Katrina moved away from the naked Abbie glaring at her son. "I have fought your kind for centuries. You are nothing like them and never will be them."

Henry smiled. "We shall see sorceress."

Abbie lifted her head and looked towards the coming force and knew that it was the Horseman. "No I will not sleep!"

Katrina ran and tackled her as Henry's men rushed her and tried to pull Katrina off her. Aphrodite waved her hand and Katrina went flying into a tree. Henry's men backed away from the smoking being. She slowly stood and began chanting as Abraham got closer. She could see the raw power in his naked body already healing the wounds from his fight with Moloch. He was getting closer and the sorceress increased her chanting tempo. The blonde hair flew in the wind as Abraham's eyes blackened with anger. He dove at Abbie and a cloud of dust filled the clearing.

Nick covered his face and waved the dust away and saw Abraham standing there holding nothing but dust. He looked sorrowful and then he got angry. He grabbed the closest of Henry's men and snapped his neck. He grabbed two more and slammed them against trees until they stopped breathing. Ichabod and Nick tried to reload their guns but Abraham was moving too fast. Soon he would be standing before them ready to kill them as well. Henry tried to run but Abraham put him up against a tree. The black eyes of the horseman bore into the fearful eyes of the witch.

"You did this! You made her run. You made her leave me!"

Henry's eyes began turning black as Abraham squeezed his neck. "I will be the last thing you see before you die!"

"Abraham, she could not have gone far. She was not that strong and Abigail still has some control of her because of your medicine."

Abraham faced the witch as she crawled from the woods holding her stomach. "Aphrodite would only go where Abbie had been."

Ichabod stepped forward. "She would not go anywhere to hurt anyone."

Abraham growled at him "As if I care about anyone else."

Nick stepped backwards." She would go somewhere to find clothing. It would be Abbie's first thought. Most of the businesses are closed now."

Nick faced Ichabod. "What is her favorite store?"

Katrina watched her former husband fumble with the words. He had professed his love for this woman but knew nothing about her. Abigail was telling the truth. She saw Ichabod as nothing more than a friend. She had to save her now.

"Norden Jacks," The red head answered with a sense of power. She stood and Abraham released Henry and then whistled. The neighing of Daredevil could be heard throughout the trees. The naked horseman stared at the wheezing Warlock on the ground as Daredevil trotted beside him. Abraham pulled a pair of black bottoms from the saddle bag and put them on. He then vaulted into the saddle and stared down at his four guests. "I suggest you start looking because if Aphrodite has harmed Abbie I will kill you all and then I will kill all that you know. I will hunt you until the end of time."

He ushered Daredevil into a hard gallop through the dark woods all the way listening to the frantic thumping of his breaking heart.

Author's Notes.

I had to get it out of my way. This chapter was slowing down The Dark Garden editing. I hope that you enjoy it and forgive any errors you may find. I thank you for reading.~Frostbytefire