Chapter 10(P.O.V Jade)
I pull up into my driveway and I hop out the car, running quickly to the door almost losing my balance on the way up the last step. I open the door and rush inside, the hallway was clear and intact, no signs if bloody or my brother but the smell of alcohol is still lurking through the whole house. As I make my way into the living room I see the couch flip over and stuffing from the pillows all over the place. There were smashed beer bottles and stains on the walls in different shades, a picture of our family was knocked to the ground and smashed along with other pictures and cigarettes were burned into the ground. I walk past it all and run towards the steps where each one had blood splattered on it going from a lot to a little. I try to step around this as I keep myself together I mean Zeke had to be okay I mean my mother wouldn't kill him I mean the neighbors . . . are out of town. Aw shit she's gonna kill him, I knew I was forgetting something, I forgot that the monster wanted me to be here when my father came over. God Jade how could you let Tori freaking Vega get in the way of Zeke, this is what happened last time, this is why you broke up with Beck Jade. This is why you separate yourself, I keep running until I get to the top of the stairs and there's a finger print of blood on the wall two actually, one small enough to fit my brother's and then one large enough to be my father's. The monster wouldn't kill my father too would she?
"Zeke . . . Zeke where are you?" I get no response and I'm freaking, why doesn't he answer, where could he be, "Zeke . . . Zeke answer me, where are you?"
I run into my room where I had left Zeke this morning but he wasn't there, I then go to the bathroom but there was nothing, it was just as how I left it. I then run to Zeke's room, it was a mess; the bed was practically torn in two, it was just like the living room. Pictures broken, pillow stuffing everywhere, ripped bed sheets, blood stained carpet, and the smell of alcohol lingered in here too. I run out, not seeing him and I sigh as I realize that he had to be in my mother's room and that's never good since we weren't allowed in there. I walked down the hallway to her room to see the door closed like it usually was, I press my hand against the white door and I slowly open it without it creaking. The room was dark behind the shaded windows but I could clearly see the small lump shaped as Zeke spread out on her bed. I walk closer to him not closing the door back and I feel like crying when I see his tattered form. He looked worse than this morning; his hair was a darker red from the blood that stained his originally blond locks and his blue-green eyes were hazed over as he looked at me with a faded smile showing his bloody teeth-two were chipped- and his skin was badly bruised. I run my hand softly over his body and I can see him wince as I touch a few scars that were still slightly bleeding.
"Zeke are you okay . . . come on little guy talk to me" I whisper to him as I run my fingers through his tangled hair
"B-behin – That's all I hear before there's a crushing pain in the back of my head and my eyes roll to the back of my head as I slowly fall to the ground almost dragging Zeke down with me. I can still hear around me and feel the fur covered carpet my right hand gripped on to while my left hit against a shoe. My breathing is slowed as I try to gasp for breath, then another blow is delivered to my back and I grip on the carpet tightly as I try to keep from screaming as I slip from consciousness. It's all happening too slowly for my likings and I can see once again blurred forms and feel everything; the slamming pain of a bat or a golf club on my back and head, the hand that gripped and cut away at my hair and skin, the pain of old cuts reopening and new ones forming, and worst I can feel the pain in my heart at the fact that it's not my mother, no, my mother- that monster- laid dead, out on the floor a few inches away from me. Her eyes were still open as she gave off a scared expression that filled me with . . . satisfaction, and a dent was in the side of her head, her pale hands gripped the bottle of Vodka she was finishing off and I would smile if I could. She died drinking . . . battered and bruised with blood running down her face staining the carpet and surrounding me . . . she will know the pain she put Zeke and I through . . . and she died because of it. I will not be like her . . . I have gone through my life beaten and mistreated and I will not die that way . . . I will not die because of my father and his baseball bat. I focus on my powers letting the darkness seep into my mind and I vision it growing, the blackness crawling from me and engulfing my father so he feels nothing but the pain he has caused me and Zeke and the pain my mother has caused us as well. I close my eyes.
There is a scream, it's my father, and I open my eyes to see him kneeling before me with his head thrown far back with a thick black collar of energy circling his neck like a leash that shot from my hand. I slowly make my way up feeling as if all the pain had stopped, there were no open cuts or blood but there was scars fading as fast as they had formed and I can't feel a thing. No emotion, no pain, not a thing towards the man who murdered the monster and beat my little brother, well I felt nothing but rage towards him. I tighten my grip on the leash end in my right hand, yanking it forward so the man falls into a bowing position as he struggles to breathe and look at his tormentor, me. I want him to feel the pain I have endured, I want him to suffer for what he let my mother put Zeke and I through, I want to see him begging, begging for me to stop, begging for me to release him or to kill him at most and put an end to his torment. Oh God for so many times I was bet nearly to death I dreamt of doing this, of having him or my mother be one small snap away from their death and I will have it, I will have what will be mine . . . and that is his blood, his blood staining my hands as he cries out and gasps for his last breath.
"Bow to me . . . beg me for forgiveness or I'll kill you here and now" The voice that comes out is not my own yet it is replaced by a deep and demonic voice of anger and rage, the anger and rage that I feel towards him.
He does nothing and my anger flares; his skin is starting to peel off his body revealing patches of blood and bone as I raise my left hand toward him causing black energy just like to one around his neck to form around his heart clutching it tight making it hard for him to breathe. I force the energy to travel through his body from the inside, slowly mending into his organs and skin saving his small heart for last.
"Jade . . . Jade what are you doing?" Vega.
I turn to look at the door of the room which I had left open to see Tori Vega standing there holding my backpack. Her white wings hung at her sides as she walked in calmly but staid a good distance away from me while keeping eye contact. At least until her brown eyes move to Zeke, then to my mother, then to my father who was slowly dying from the inside out. I can see how bad this looks from an angles perspective but from mine it's normal.
"Get out of here Vega!" I yell, my voice coming back so I sound like myself
"Jade what happened here, tell me what going on" She said as she walked closer to Zeke and inspected him running her glowing white hand over him causing his wounds to heal.
I turn to my brother, releasing the energy collar from our dad's neck as I make my way over to Zeke. He looked normal, his shirt was fixed and his shorts were intact, his scars were healed like nothing had ever happened and Tori helped him sit up so he faced me.
"Jade did you do all of this?" Tori asked and I scoff at the fact that she thought I would hurt a little boy but I don't answer, "JADE . . . answer me"
"I don't have to answer to you or to anyone, I didn't kill her and I didn't hurt Zeke" I say the last part slowly, leaving out the part about my father who was probably dead now but I didn't look back to check, "What are you doing here Vega?"
"You left your backpack Jade so I brought it over for you, I saw the door open and the living room was a mess. I heard a scream so I came up here and I see . . . this Jade . . . I don't know what to say" she said quickly as she thought carefully about each word
"Zeke can you go to your room for a little while, while Vega and I talk?" I ask and he nodded with a little hesitation before scooting off the bed and running off to his room, "Tori I-
She sat on the bed and stared at my father who was now dead on the floor, collapsed next to the monster of his wife. She didn't look at me as I sat down on the bed beside her, instead she leaned her head on my shoulder and I feel her wings brushing softly against my back and all my anger is gone. I feel . . . love, love for Tori Vega the one and only girl that I have ever liked . . . no loved. I am truly and deeply in love with this girl and everything that's good about her that fixes the bad in me.
"Tori I'm sorry that you had to see this but I didn't hurt my brother . . . I came home cause I was late, my mother told me to come home early for when my dad came home, but I wasn't here. Tori my mother . . . she abused Zeke and I a lot and so did my father . . . but he left to be with another woman who let him abuse her and my mother took it out on us . . . she blamed Zeke more than I because he was younger at the time and she thought that my father didn't want to raise another child. Then once he left they made a deal that he would come back every four months and visit, hee accepted the deal and he came back today . . . that leading to all of this which I found when I came home" I explain trying to get Tori to look at me but she won't she kept staring at my father and the floor under her dangling feet.
"So you killed him?" Her voice was soft and I could barely hear what she asked but my eyes grow wide at the sadness in her voice, she's an angel for goodness sakes of course she would disapprove of this I mean I'm like a demon incarnation everything I do is meant to be wrong.
"I-I I didn't mean to . . . well I guess I did but . . . I just felt so angry and something over took me. When he was beating me almost to death I felt anger and the next thing I knew the man was screaming in pain . . . Tori if I would've known that you were gonna come over I-
"You what Jade . . . you would've waited until I was gone to kill your father and then maybe even take you anger out on your brother?" She accused and I'm taken aback by her outburst
"I would never hurt Zeke Vega!" I retaliated but she just rolled her eyes and sat up then turned to face me
"W-what are you J-jade?" She said quickly as her eyes bared into mine with a stern look
I feel crushed like Tori had just walked into my life and stole my heart before leaving me with nothing. She was afraid of me, I didn't want this I wanted her to love me like I love her but now she's looking at me in disgust probably ready to make a dash for the door and I sigh.
"I've already told you I'm a fallen"