wow the last chapter was pretty intense, i hope you enjoyed my little lime ;) , now for more drama!
(Chapter 6) the past and another year of life
"What are you doing here" I asked simply, still no one said a word, there was a thick tension that enveloped the room and everyone looked from me to him and then back to me waiting to see what id do. I felt Damien's hold on my hand tighten and I glanced over at him, he was almost glaring at him, Dylan was glaring back. He cleared his voice trying to ease the awkwardness, "umm can I have a minute?" he said quietly, he started walking toward me, I glared at him and he instantly stopped. "Umm hey everybody let's see what's in the gift shop" Blu said with fake enthusiasm trying to make up an excuse to leave, everyone instantly followed not wanting to be caught up in the drama, the only one that didn't budge an inch was Damien.
"Dylan, you didn't have to come here, you could have just called", "well for you of course I had to come, how could I not come, I mean you are in the freakin hospital, hey umm...mind if we talk alone" he said still not moving and ignoring Damien's existence. I frowned, I didn't want Damien to leave, and he felt so rigid now by my side, I looked up at him he had a dangerous threatened look on his face, "ill be fine I promise" I said soothingly. I didn't really want to talk to Dylan but if I had to then I wanted it to be fast; Damien let out a long breath in frustration and bent down, "if he touches you, I will kill him this time", he whispered to me softly so Dylan wouldn't hear, his closeness still sent chills down my spine, then he kiss my hair lightly but at the same time possessively and then slowly let go of my hand. As he passed Dylan I could hear him mumble "stupid human better not touch her, and what the hell is that", I smirked listening to him complain, I knew Dylan's pathetic little human ears hadn't heard him though, Damien shut the door lightly behind him.
It was silent for a second but then he smiled at me, I raised an eyebrow at him and he started walking toward me, I hadn't noticed at first but he was holding something behind his back with one of his arms. He stopped at the edge of my bed resting his other hand on the side. "So how you been Ernie, what happen to you, and who's new the guy, is that the guy from the parking lot?" "I'm fine always have been, I've just been kinda stressed lately, and you know I've always kinda had heart problems, they kinda just collided, but anyways he is none of our business" I said sternly folding my arms over my chest. He smirked at me, "same old attitude, so you must be feeling pretty good, I'm just here to check up on you I was worried, here" he said finally taking his arm from behind his back. He was holding a cute brown teddy ear that had get well soon written on his tummy and a large red bow around its neck, I held my arm out to grab it like a little girl, I'm a sucker for stuffed animals, I noticed all the wires and cords that were still connected to my body, he winced at seeing them but handed me my bear, I snuggled it close to me.
"I knew you'd like it, your such a baby, what 17 year old still likes teddy bears" he said sarcastically, I stuck my tongue out at him. "Thank you" I said politely, I was staring at the bear lovingly thinking of a name for it when I felt his eyes on me, I looked up to find him staring at me and smiling cutely, are eyes connected, I noticed his eyes still held the same kindness and compassion that they always did when he looked at me. "Why do you still look at me like that?" I questioned randomly, "I can't really help it, and you always look so beautiful it's hard not to stare". I thought about what he said, how did I look right now, I hadn't seen myself in days, I must look horrible. "Don't say things like that to me, I don't feel like hearing your crap today" I said closing my eyes in thought, he sighed , "why do you always think I'm lying to you, why is it so hard to believe that I still have feelings for you", my eyes shot open, "I don't want to hear your BS today, and even if you did, I wont ever have those feelings for you again, nothing you say or do could ever change that, we can never go back to the way we use to be, and you made it that way, I've tried being friends, its just not gonna work", "so that's it then, after all we had together , your going to let some prick like that just come in and try to take my place, there is no way he could ever be as good to you as I was, I would never have let you hurt yourself like this, he didn't protect you like I would", "your delusional, and as far as Damien goes, HE is the best thing that has happen ever to me, without him I wouldn't be here right now, he saved me by getting me here in time, and besides I'm fine now, and I did forgive you I just cant ever trust you with my heart again, you broke it and there's nothing you could ever do to fix that so just leave me alone" I said angrily I turned on my side and dropping his bear off the side of my bed, he watched as it hit the ground, we both went silent.
You could hear from the fast beats on the machine by my bed that my heart beat had sped up rapidly, I now felt drowsy and tired like I just ran a marathon. I looked up over my shoulder at him I could see his eyes watering, I had actually hurt his feelings this time and hes the type of person that never gets emotional, hes very tough and manly; oh great now I feel like an ass I thought to myself. "Ill never give up, and I wont let him take my place, I have to get you back, your best thing that ever happen to me you", "yeah whatever" I mumbled folding my arms and turning my eyes away, they had started to water and my face was growing hot from anger, there was a light knock on the door. "I love you" he whispered before turning to walk out, I closed my eye as my heart twinged in pain, and a single tear ran down my cheek, I heard the door open and close moments later, and then here was a hand wiping lightly at my tears and touching my face then they started petting my hair, I could tell by her bodily scent that it was Bert, Blu Big Red and Lil JoJo were also in the room, I could hear there distinct breathing patterns, It was very soothing, they said nothing yet continued to comfort me, I guess they could tell I wasn't feeling well, the ministrations of the touches and breathing put me to sleep after awhile.
I awoke to darkness, my eyes took a moment to adjust, I didn't move. I could feel Damien was holding my hand again, he was sleeping, I stared at his figure, he looked so peaceful so perfect and innocent. He awoke moments later, "you been awake long, are you feeling ok?" he said sleepily, he must be exhausted after being here so long, shh… I'm fine, go back to sleep", "but I don't want to leave you" he said his eyes already drifting back closed, I took my other hand and lightly ran it through his perfect hair, he nuzzled my hand, I felt jolts of pleasure go up my arm and warm my body, I tried to keep my pulse down and under control so he wouldn't freak out, I didn't even know I could do that; wow I don't think ill ever get use to his touches I thought to myself as I smiled at his cuteness.
He was sleep seconds later, his breathing evened out. I looked around the room, I could see the hall was lit, every few minutes a nurse or patient would walk by, inside the room, and there was a quiet beeping from the machine which showed my now normal heart rate. I noticed someone had pulled the cover up over me tucking me in more, and the teddy bear that use to be on the floor was now resting at my side. "Wow I'm amazed Damien let that sit there" I mumbled to myself. "I didn't want it to but your friends said you would have wanted it" he whispered, I hadn't known he was awake or that I had said it out loud. "Still awake huh?", "yeah, I can't sleep if I know your awake, what ya thinking about?" he said looking over at me, his eyes glowed lightly. I smiled "oh nothing" I said sighing, "Just I really miss Gin" I said now realizing it had been along time since id seen my precious little kitten. "Well first thing tomorrow when we come to pick of up from the hospital we will bring the little guy with us", he said rubbing my hand lightly, where ever he touched my skin seemed to tingle and warm, I moaned lightly under my breath at the feeling, on them machine you could feel my heart beat speeding up a little, he stopped rubbing immediately but didn't drop my hand, "sorry" he said sadly, "don't be sorry, I'm fine.
So, tell me, what's it like being a royal, do you like live in a castle or something?" I asked trying to distract him. "Well its sort of like that, you'd be amazed at how far we've branched out since the beginning, you see we live sort of in.. basically different dimensions, but those dimensions are all on earth, its hard to explain. You see there are even some portals to are world like downtown, and places like New York are full of them, its just people, normal humans are to blind to see them". "Wow that's crazy so… I could have walked into or near a portal to your world and not even known it?" I asked quizzically, "ya basically, but regular humans aren't able to access them for their minds aren't complex enough so there not really in danger, and before your world started becoming so advanced, we preferred to just stay in our own world and mate with our own kind, and the only reason we came here was to stop the IT from getting into your world and destroying everything".
"Oh… so… I don't understand, what happen, why royals start to mate with humans then?". "Well it all started with one of my great ancestors King Jarimith. When he was stopping an IT from killing a human woman, the second he laid eyes upon her he knew it was destiny, his soul became wrapped around her. Now at first the royal counsel didn't like it; a royal falling in love with a lower being and a human being living in our world, but he had changed her with a instinctive bite to the wrist that we all get at birth, it marks are tribe basically, like a family crest royals can't help it, when they feel completely connected to someone they just instinctively bite them. Slowly she started turning into one of us, none of us even knew that was possible, but anyways she was very peaceful and basically lived off his life line; the second he took his last breath she did also, so they would never have to live without one another, the only time a royal dies before there mate is if they get killed by an IT, we never get diseases or illnesses. Seeing such compassion and such a strong bond the counsel couldn't help but greet the humans with open arms, it's because they can't betray us, none has, none ever will, and once you mate you're stuck to that person for the rest of your existence". "Wow" I said breathlessly, he smiled at me and continued. "We live for up to 1000 years, only one human has come close to reaching our age limit; Jarimith and his queen Sara died just a few centuries ago, I got to meet him once when I was a small child. My parents are full royals, Kings and queens, so i'm a full blood, part of the Royal Family, not everyone that is a royal is part of the royal family, its part of our blood line; my family basically just runs everything so I'm one of the princes, I have 18 brothers and sisters, and the only reason I'm not a king yet is because my mother's still live; my father died honorably by fighting off ITs in our only war; they tried to take over the kingdom by swarming the palace, my father alone took out most of them, he sacrificed himself for us.
Becoming King is my birth right, and my family lives in the main palace, it's the only one that's actually in your dimension but it's not locatable by humans, you'll love it there". "Wow, that's crazy, it all sounds like a pimped out fairy tale, so wait, just every now and then one you will just decide you want a human mate?" "Umm not really, around the age of 20 in human years we hit puberty, for us its already been hundreds of years", "wow" I said again raising my eyebrows, "ya I know and though we try to find a mate from our own kind some of us just aren't that lucky, not saying there's anything wrong with having a human mate, its just ever since the universe found out it was possible for a royal and a human to mate its been mitch-matching some of us. Anyways you want to find a mate as soon as possible because are hormones are a lot crazier than humans are.
"In human years i'm 21, i've been searching for centuries". "Oh my, so wait you've been looking that long and never found anyone?" He grew silent, "its fine if you have, I don't care, you can tell me" I said reassuringly rubbing his hand. "I don't really like bringing it up because it's something I have to live with for the rest of my life" he said, his words were filled with a deep sorrow. "Look at me." I said sternly his eyes met mine, there was so much pain there, I shuddered slightly, "nothing you do could ever change the way I feel about you" I sais sweetly, he smiled small before exhaling largely, preparing himself. "Ok well some of us are stubborn and don't want to wait for the universe to make the choice for us so, since I didn't have basically any attraction to my kind, I tried yours.
Twice I found women, Bailey the first was so sweet, I fell for her charm , quietness, and beauty, but it was more like a crush, other females caught my eye too, but this was when I first started puberty and my hormones were driving me crazy. I never told her what I was, she liked how when I touched her it made her dizzy, though it scared her a little. One day I couldn't hold back any longer and I kissed her full force, trying to relieve some of this suffering. She died in my arms seconds later from a heart attack; too much adrenaline was rushing through her system. I wanted to die, but at the same time I could tell my heart wasn't really there, it was still all intact there was just pain". I rubbed his arm comfortingly as he paused, a tear ran down my face but I said nothing. "So then I got even more determined to find my mate. I went to New York, I was thinking lots of women there right, and I was trying to get over the pain of loosing Bailey. I was sitting in bar when a woman approached me. Angela was very thrill driven. She loved the way I overwhelmed her senses, she called me her own personal joy ride, she even kissed me, and though it did take her breath away she still lived so I thought, oh she must be the one since she can take it, thought I technically didn't even feel as close to her as I did Bailey. Finally I proposed to her and told her what I was, she accepted me and I bit her marking her, I didn't really feel right and the mark didn't come out right but I didn't care, I was turning her into one of us, she was so happy, we were about to get married when she finally got tired of my no sex before marriage scheme, I was also tired of waiting so I didn't think anything of it… and." he stopped tears were now in his eyes, they were already flowing freely down my face.. "I didn't mean for it to happen, I just assumed…. That since she could take kissing me and was already done with her first stage of the transformation that ... it would be fine… but before I even got close to mating with her ….." he couldn't speak anymore, he chocked out the last few words, before it was just to much for him. "Shh.. it's ok, you poor thing.. I am so sorry".
I said hugging him, "but that's what's sad, I'm the evil one, I killed those innocent women because of my selfishness", "no you didn't, you just didn't know, you didn't do it on purpose". He looked into my eyes, his were red and puffy, "I tried to close myself off from everything, I didn't deserve the right to mate anymore, I should have to suffer and be by myself for all eternity. Then one day I felt something pulling me back to the mortal world, I had never felt anything like it so strong and solid, I couldn't help but let my instincts take over, and before I knew what I was doing I had already bitten you, I wanted to kill myself, but I couldn't stay away from you, I felt connected to you, my life I can feel it revolves around you, I never thought id find you, and now that I have.. I almost killed you.. Just like the others" he chocked out. I had finally stopped crying, now just focused on his pain; I said nothing for along time. He finally started to calm down and I broke the silence, "it does hurt that there were others before me, but think about it this way, everything happens for a reason and if you didn't go through all that then you never would have met me, and I don't think I can live without you now that I've found you. We will wait, those are my morals anyways, and even if I do become a royal or whatever first, were still waiting till after we get married to do it" I said smirking at him, he gave a little smile.
"I don't understand how you still want to be with me after knowing all that" he said baffled. I shrugged my shoulders petting his head, "I'm just awesome like that" I said concededly, he chuckled. "Well now that that is out the way, tell me more about how humans are chosen". He smiled at me, "you ask a lot of questions, but ok, well you know how there are always hundreds of people that go missing every year, well that's because humans are interesting creatures so maybe 2% of those people end up becoming royals, then there is that 10% that actually go missing because of other humans, the rest.. they are captured and killed by the ITs, and its basically are duty to stop that from happening, but there's still more of them then there are us, plus we cant capture them, there very sneaky and intelligent creatures so once we take one down we kill it for food". "Wow that sounds kinda… weird". He shrugged his shoulders I unknowingly started to cuddle the teddy bear again, he wrinkled his nose, I giggled "what?", "that thing still smells like that guy, umm who is he anyways, I didn't mean to but I kinda heard some of your conversation earlier".
I looked away not wanting to look in his eyes. "Come one, tell me, I told you my story, its only fair" he said pouting playfully, "his names Dylan" I said simply, when it seemed like I wasn't going to say anything else he gently nudged me trying to signal that I should keep going. "I had just turned 11, and was finally being put back in school; my parents had just died in a car crash and I had been depressed, though my sister had been taking care of me it was time she got back to college so I tried to act normal but I was just kinda strange, I didn't really have anybody but Bert who I knew from my neighborhood, she was going to my new school. On the very fist day when I got there, everyone turned to look at me as walked in, only two kids smiled at me, Bert and Dylan. I liked him ever since that day. We started going out when I turned 12, it was cute he kneeled down on one knee and asked me out, we were just kids but we stayed together for four years. As the years went on it was like he was growing bored of me because I still depended on him so much, he helped me get over my parents death and trust people easier.
Then Valery showed up. People started coming up and telling me I should watch out for her because she seemed to be going through all the guys at our school and was starting to try to talk to Dylan, I was not in most his classes but she was. I asked him if anything was going on and he told me he was just friends with her and that nothing was happening or going on between them so I just believed him. That very day, on my way to work apparently he had stopped by to tell me something but she was there and had distracted him. I was walking into the next isle to straighten up the books when I saw her sitting on his lap kissing him, he didn't try to stop her or anything, I just walked away, I literally just walked right out the shop hopped on my motorcycle and drove off. I didn't come back for hours.
He hadn't known I had caught him so that night he called me acting as though nothing had happen, and then he tried to make up an excuse about how he's not sure if we will be able to be together in the future because he doesn't deserve me and just all this bull crap. I felt used and betrayed, a short while after he and Valery stated dating, I waited for him to come back to me but apparently I wasn't important enough, he even had the nerve to tell me he had done sexual things with her and beg for my forgiveness, I would always forgive him so easily because I just wanted to be with him so badly, he had helped fill the hole my parents had left behind, but to him I was just the girl on the side he would always just have when ever he got bored, and I just got tired of it and now he has the balls to say he still loves me. I feel like punching both of them in the face, god I hate her!" I said angrily, Damien chuckled, I glared at him, "what's so funny", "you humans, so … simple". I pulled my hand away from him and crossed my arms, "it might not seem like much to you but it was a lot to me" I mumbled. He became serous, "I'm sorry love, I was not trying to make fun of you or anything, i'm sorry he hurt you like that, you don't deserve to be treated that way" he said taking my hand back in his.
We sat there in silence, for a moment until he finally said, "do you still; love him?", "…I don't know' I said simply, "do you love me?" He asked next, again I paused before answering, "I don't really like telling people I love them anymore, I do care about you a lot and I've never felt this intensely about a person so maybe it is love" I said shrugging. he smiled, "well that's good enough for me" he said shrugging also, "so… you should go back to sleep, tomorrow is a big day for you" he said excitedly, I scrunched up my eyebrow in confusion, "what are you talking about", "wow have I really distracted you that much?" he said strangely, I looked at him funnily not understanding. "Go to sleep my love and tomorrow you shall be on your way home, ok?" he said kissing my hand. "Ok" I said, I had still felt a little sleepy so it wasn't hard to put his words to good use.
I awoke to the sun shining and lots of bright smiling faces. "Ok she's awake", "hey wait isn't this still a bad idea I mean she did basically just have a heart attack", I quirked my eyebrow at them, what are they talking about, "well we will just have to risk it, ok on the count of three ready one two three.." "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" They all yelled, some were holding flowers and some had teddy bears and other gifts, I was actually surprised. They all smiled to see that my heart hadn't sped up from shock, I smiled widely, "wow is it really time already, I totally forgot, yea! Happy birthday to me", they laughed. I greedily took all the teddy bears, the flowers and other colorful boxes were set in the window sills. As I cuddled all my teddy bears, they laughed and took pictures, "ya this was basically all damien's idea, we had wanted to do an actual party and streamers and party poppers and jump out and surprise you but he said it might be to stressful for you" Big Red giggled. "Ok now for the grand surprise", "close your eyes" they told me, I closed them and waited in anticipation, something was sat in my lap, no wait it was two things, they were both moving around, and I could hear little quick breaths that weren't human and smelled of animal fur, I already knew what the first one was but I decided to not ruin the surprise. "Ok and open!" they said excitedly, there in my lap sat Gin with a big green bow around his neck, and another kitten was nipping at his ear playfully, "her names Lola" Damien said , he was resting in a chair by my side with his chin in his hands watching me lovingly, we picked her up from an animal shelter this morning. "Aww she's so cute, she looks like a cow" I laughed, the kitten was white with orange spots, her eyes were blue, and she had a pink ribbon around her torso. I petted her and she nipped at my hand, Gin being bigger basically knocked her over and then they started play fighting on my bed, I giggled, Damien smiled.
A few minutes later a nurse walked in, "well what's going on in here, looks like there's a birthday girl and animals, wonder who snuck those in, hmm…well anyways i'm glad to tell you that you can now leave, just let me check you over once more then ill bring in the wheel chair". "Thank you" I said as she looked at my vital signs and checked off some charts. "Well everything looks wonderful, your as good as new, ill be right back with that wheel chair, oh and happy birth day Erin" she said as she exited. I sighed in relief; things will finally start going back to normal I thought to myself. I was happy being surrounded by my friends and people that cared about me. I was put in the wheel chair minutes later and was strolled out to the car; Damien carried the kittens for me while everyone else grabbed the rest of my gifts. We all got into Blu's van and headed home.