Turning Your Back

Chapter 10: Communications

Nova's Point of View:

Otto and Jinmay had left later last night then we had planned. They stayed quite late, eating a large portion of the apple sauce, but there was still many containers still filled. I got to enjoy some of the jelly this morning when I got up on a breakfast sandwich of peanut butter and the homemade jelly. I have to give Jazz this credit, she is an awesome cook.

We were planning on leaving tonight however to get toward Yron, but I couldn't help but feel that Jasmine needed to get some things off her chest with the Hyper Force and Lediture. And it gave me an idea. She wouldn't like it a whole lot, since it involved her being alone with him for a short time, but she could protect herself now and I would only be next door.

The only thing I had to focus on now was getting her to agree. I already got Jinmay and Otto to tell the team when she left last night and they all agreed, even rotten Lediture. But Jasmine... she'd probably be appalled by the idea and probably want to hit me square in the face.

I sighed once again and I thought the moment threw my head once again. Not noticing the door open behind me. A hand was placed on my shoulder and I looked up at my student how looked at me sadly.

"You've been sighing all morning Nova," she stated. "What's wrong?"

I sighed once more, preparing for the moment I'd been so worried about. "The team and I want to have a communication session where you and I split up to talk to the team and Lediture separate. We got Lediture to agree, we just had to ask you." She stared at me, betrayed. "Please don't think anything rash Jasmine. We're only talking, it will only before for a short time and I'll even talk to Lediture first if you want."

She shook her head. "If we do this," She whispered. "I'd rather get it done and over with that man first so I don't hurl later. His very presence makes me feel sick to the core."

"Are you agreeing to this?" I questioned.

"I guess I am." She pushed her hair out of her face with her hand, and then she moved to the bathroom. "I'll go change and be ready in a few minutes."

"I honestly thought you were going to put up more of a fight." I called to her in a surprised voice. "You're not one to ever want to talk to him or about him."

"I guess I should have figured this would have happened eventually." I heard her say form the bedroom.

"If you want I can have a guard in the room with you to make sure nothing happens."

"No, he won't say what he needs to say if there's someone else there, neither will I. I don't think conversation will be very pretty."

"Probably not. I still have to talk to the team too, questions they're going to want answered."

"Good luck with that." She soon came out in her black sun dress and white shorts, a simple pair of flip-flops on her feet and sunglasses over her eyes. "I guess I'm ready as I'll ever be. How are we doing this?"

"You're going to stay here and I'm going over to the team's room. When I get over there, I'll send over Lediture. He'll talk to you for no more then ten minutes and then we'll switch, you'll go over to the team's room and I'll come back here. Another ten minutes of talking and then we're done. Once that's over, Lediture will go back to the team and you'll come back here. And then we'll start getting ready, plan to leave at three."

"In the morning?" I nodded. "Alright. I guess I'll see you in a bit then Nova. Good luck."

"Good luck to you too Jasmine; God knows we both need it." I looked at her sad face one last time before she put on a mask of bravery and I headed out the door. Heading to the team's room, I passed Lediture. I growled at him as I passed and he glared at me. I soon made it to the team's door and knocked. Sprx instantly let me and hugged me, kissing my forehead and then my lips.

"So what did you see, what happened?" Antauri asked, floating over to us.

"She's scared out of her mind, he's already acting bitter. I passed by him on the short walk and he glared while I growled at him." I quickly answered, leaning into my lover's chest.

"So all we can do is wait now?" Chrio asked.

"That seams to be the only answer." Gibson muttered, sitting on the bed next to him.

Jasmine's Point of View:

The knock that I was dreading soon rapped on my door. I slowly made my way over and unlocked it, letting the face of my once captor reach my eyes. My body tensed and I felt frozen in fear.

"Ah it's been so long since I've seen you my dear." Lediture grinned evilly, reaching to take a few strands of my hair. "Oh your hair is just as soft as it always had been. Even softer now. What have you been doing differently in my absence?"
"Don't touch me!" I snapped, stepping away from him so my hair fell out of his hands. I walked away from the door. "You have no idea how much I just want to slam that door in your face and call the police."

"Yes, but then you'd be arrested and possibly killed, and then you won't be able to see your brother again. Though you might meet up with your parents in heaven." The thought that he killed my parents ran threw my mind. "No my dear, I didn't kill them, they died of the heart break when I took you from them. They've been dead for nearly all the time that you've been gone."

"And they'll arrest you for sexual abuse on a child." I spat at him.

"Do you truly have to be so bitter to me?" He said, walking closer, trying to grab my hair again. "I am the one who took you away from a life of boring royalty."

"And if I remember correctly, that meant taking me from my family and friends, stealing my energy and robbing me of any power I had!"

"Now don't be like my dear." He stepped closer, pinning me between the wall and himself. He placed his head by my head and breathed deeply in my hair. "You still smell as sweet as you had all those years ago, when I first found you in that felid. A perfect place to find love, as I love you my dear."

"You don't love me. All you want to do is keep me away from the outside world so you can rape me for the rest of your life until either one of us die." His face was now only a few centimeters from mine, his grin gone and a look of hatred in its place. He grabbed my face roughly in his hands and brought my face even closer. I was terrified and tears started to fall from my eyes, even when I tried to hold them back.

"Don't you dare doubt that I love you, my dear. I'll love you forever and keep you safe from the cruel outside world that threatens to take you away from me." He then roughly pushed his dried, cracked lips onto mine and I tried to push him off of me. His rough lips started to cut my own in little scrapes and I had no choice but to knee him where it hurt. He instantly let go and fell back. Before his body hit the ground I took off running to Nova.

Nova's Point of View:

We had been sitting around talking for a short while, answering questions that the guys had over whether or not I had anymore information to prove Jazz was innocent or guilty.

It was then suddenly that a large pounding was on the door and Jazz's screams came. "Open up, please! Nova!" I hurried to the door and pulled it wide open and my student rushed inside. Planting herself on a bed, she instantly curled up into a ball and hot tears descended down her checks.

"What happened Jasmine?" I asked, rushing over to her.

"He assaulted me Nova. He forced me against the wall of the apartment and forced a kiss on me. He's delusional! He thinks he loves me and that he did a good thing by taking me away from my family and friends. Now I just found that my parents are dead!" She buried her head into her arms and placed her forehead against her knees. "They've been dead since I was taken." Jinmay rushed over to her and wrapped her arms around her in a comforting hug. Soon Jasmine turned into her shoulder and cried there. Jinmay looked up at me sadly and the team stood their stunned.

"Gibson." Chiro said, authority echoing in his voice. "See if she's telling the truth." Gibson nodded and slowly made his was over to Jasmine, checking her over. It was easy to see that her lips were slightly swollen from the apparent 'forced kiss', along with a few small scrapes and bits of blood.

"The blood is from both of them, mixed together and contaminated. I also found his saliva on her lips. She isn't lying." I shook in rage and nearly broke the door as I rushed outside to go back to our apartment room where Lediture should still be. Upon opening the door, I found him going threw her things, like a sick man does with his drugs.

"Back off Lediture!" I growled at him. "I should call the police for you sexually assaulting a child."

"But you won't, she attacked me." He grinned wildly. "She kneed me where it hurt."

"After you forced yourself on her."

"Its still counts as an attack."

"One to defend herself with."

"But will the judges at court see it as that?" I glared. He was right. What if they didn't see it as defending herself? "I will her back in my care before you know it."

"Not on my watch." I glared one more time and left before I actually tried to hurt him and get arrested myself.

Getting back into the other room, Jasmine was now trying to sleep on Jinmay's lap, not succeeding in the least bit. I walked in and her head shot up. She looked at me sadly.

"I sadly can't do anything while we're here on Peacia, Jasmine." Her eyes filled with worry. I sighed. "We're going to have to move up our plans on heading out."

"How soon?" She asked in a whisper.

"Soon." I answered her vaguely. "I can't tell you now with the team around, but it will be sooner then we had planned, just to give you an idea. We'll start packing soon." I turned to my lover. "Sprx, can you get Lediture out of our room so we can start in?" He nodded.

"I'll get it done. Otto, help me out."

"Coming." He said sadly, the two of them looking back at Jasmine and I before walking off.

I sighed again and walked over to Jasmine. "Common girl, lets get going. Chrio, Jinmay, can you two help get her back in the other room. I don't know if she can walk." The nodded and put Jazz's arms around their shoulders and half dragged, half carried her back to the other room. Lediture was gone thankfully and I had the guys set her down on the bed.

"Good-bye." I heard Jinmay whisper as they walked outside and shut the door.

Witch's Note:

Hey people! Sorry this chapter is kinda short. Midterms are only a few days away and I'm going to be crazy over studying! So I wanted to get this chapter up before that. I hope you like it, and it showed you Lediture's true colors. I hated writing that, but it defiantly added to the story.

Question of the Chapter: What time do you think they plan to leave in the next chapter and who will they contact?

My Answer to the Question: Can't tell you guys that! Its going to be a surprise like always, but I think you guys will love him, as you readers of my story 'Dawn of a New Era' loved him in the past. Yes it's a him! Who is it?

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