That night, I couldn't sleep, cry, or move. I just stayed curled up in a ball on my bed while my thoughts tormented me.
"Everyone will hate me now because they'll all have heard us fighting," I thought, knowing that it was true. Having nothing better to do, I went over to my large bathroom and started up a warm shower. The warm water eased my tense body and over all helped me relax. When I stepped out, almost an hour later, I dressed in a lose fitting white t-shirt and some cloth shorts. After brushing my hair and pulling it into a ponytail, I went over to my broken window-wall. The moon was full tonight and cast a white light on everything, making the atmosphere seem almost haunted.
"Of course it seems haunted, I'm living with a bunch of vampires," I thought, finding no humor in that thought as I usually would. Even though the outside world had a haunted look to it, it seemed to call to me and soon I found myself standing outside with the cool grass under my bare feet.
There was a chilling winter breeze that seemed to be blowing non-stop. All of the trees were swaying in opposite directions with the wind making it seem as it there were different gusts of wind being sent out in different directions all from the clearing I was standing in. Off in the distance, I heard a faint owl hoot along with the sound of rushing water.
Suddenly, everything stopped. The trees no longer swayed in odd directions, the wind stopped blowing, the owl was silent, and I could no longer hear the sound of rushing water. My breath hitched when I saw a pair of beady black eyes staring at me from the darkness of the surrounding forest. Right away, I knew to cross wild animal off of my list of suspicions because no animal had those type of eyes. These eyes were cold, and menacing, and hungry.
"Xavier," I gasped before running into the forest, but away from the eyes. While I ran, I heard a darkly amused laughter following me and then everything unfroze. The breeze started up again, but this time more powerful so the wind picked up the leaves and blew them around. Also, now the animals wouldn't stop making their noises and instead of hearing the rushing water, the skies started to pour. As I ran, my hair got caught on a tree branch so I had to pull out of the hair tie, leaving my hair to fly around and get in front of my face.
"Where are you running Kory?" a voice called out to me. I could tell it was male, but because of the howling winds, I couldn't identify who the voice belong to. The forest ground soon became mud and my feet sank into the ground before I ripped them out to keep running. My hair, though heavy because it was wet, still flew around and went into my line of vision. Because I couldn't see, I wasn't able to see the large tree root which caused me to fall.
I landed on my hands and knees in the mud, feeling a rock cut into my lower thigh. Quickly, I was losing hope in my ability to stay alive for much longer and warm salty tears ran from my eyes. My body was trembling with fear and my vision was blurry from my crying. I was done for and I knew it.
"Please God, help," I begged quietly while trying to get up from the ground.
"I can smell your blood Kory. It calls to me," the man spoke again.
"Leave me alone!" I screamed out into the night. I heard foot steps and looked up at who my follower was only to have my heart stop.
"Richard," I whispered, my tears falling faster now. "Why?" I asked weakly, finally standing even though my legs were shaking. He didn't answer, but just continued to stare at me, hunger in his gaze. Even though I knew it was useless, I turned away from him and began to run away from him. My running was useless because I knew that Richard could catch up to me in a heart beat if he had a heart to beat. As I ran, branches from trees cut my arms, legs, face, and ripped holes in my shirt which was soaked through and sticking to my mid-section.
"Why do you run Kory? Afraid I'll hurt you?" he mocked, his voice echoing all around me. From what I knew of Richard before, he would never hurt me, but now I didn't know anything of him.
"Stay away!" I screamed at him, but my only response was his cold laughter.
"Your blood calls to me Kory, and I want it. Why keep me from what I want. I thought you loved me," Richard yelled, his tone harsh.
"I loved Richard! Not you! You're just a monster like Xavier!" I yelled before I was pushed up against a rather large tree by a pair of cold hands.
"I am Richard, don't you recognize me?" Richard asked, forcing me to look up into his eyes. Instead of his normal, passionate blue eyes, I was forced to look up into pitch black ones that held no emotion except thirst, but it wasn't the thirst that usually appeared in his eyes when he looked at me. This thirst was for my blood.
"You're not Richard," I spat before he pushed his lips to mine with a bruising force. The kiss was cold and heartless, no feelings in it. I fought against his hold, against his touch, but no matter what I did; I knew that Richard would always be stronger than me.
"My dream! This is my dream coming true!" I thought, horrified that it was the truth. Soon, I found myself running out of air so I once again tried to push away from Richard. This time, he actually responded by pulling his lips away from and letting his cold eyes wander over my body.
"Let me go Richard," I ordered, but he ignored my voice and just continued to stare at me. I soon realized that he was staring at all of my cuts which were bleeding.
"Don't," I begged, watching as Richard knelt down so that he was even with the large cut on my thigh. Without even looking up at me again, he ran his tongue over the cut and let out a pleased groan.
"You taste delicious," Richard said, his voice deep with blood lust. I just let the tears fall as he cleaned all of my cuts with his tongue.
"Please stop," I whimpered when Richard noticed he blood stains on my shirt. Slowly, he brought his cold hands up to my stomach and pressed against the cuts, causing me to hiss in pain. Without warning, Richard ripped my shirt open until right below my breasts and started to lick the cuts I had there too. The whole time he did this, I was crying and kept asking myself why he was doing this.
"I'm a monster, aren't I? This is what monsters do. They take what they want without caring about the victim," Richard answered my quiet question before he slowly began to tear the rest of my shirt. "And what I want, is you. All of you," he growled before kissing me roughly once again. All I could do was stand still and quietly whimper at his actions while Richard roughly ran his hands over my body. Any of the cuts his hands fell over, Richard made sure to scrape over them with his nails and make them bleed more. When he came to the cut on my thigh, he dug into the flesh which made me scream out in pain.
"What's wrong Kory?" Richard asked, watching as I cried from the pain he was causing me.
"I hate you!" I screamed at him before slapping him. Richard froze before staring up at me, this time his eyes filled with anger.
"You'll regret that," Richard hissed into my ear before slamming me harder against the tree. I heard something crack, but wasn't sure if it was the tree, or me. Now I didn't even have energy to scream as Richard threw me to the ground and held my arms above my head. My conscious was slowly slipping from me and I knew that I would soon be out cold. Once that happened, who knew if I would ever wake up again after Richard was done with me.
"Please stop," I begged once more, my voice coming out as nothing more than a weak whisper.
"I love the sound of you begging for me to do something to you. Wither it's one thing," he said, looking down at my revealed chest, "or another," Richard then added, looking at all of my still bleeding cuts. Deciding that begging wouldn't get me anywhere, I chose to do something else.
"Fuck you," I hissed venomously. He just glared at me. In less than a second, Richard had my body lifted off the ground with his hard wrapped around my neck, slowly squeezing the life out of me. My vision became clouded as I ran out of air, but I didn't have enough energy to struggle against his hold. All I could do was hang there as Richard slowly killed me.
"So this is what you've become: a low-life vampire who kills for pleasure," another voice spoke. Richard dropped me and I fell to the ground, landing on my knees while I gasped for breath. "I thought you had potential Richard, potential to be something amazing. I guess that sometimes I even make mistakes." Bruce stepped out of the shadows.
"This doesn't concern you, leave," Richard growled, standing between Bruce and I.
"Of course it concerns me. It concerns me and the rest of the clan what you do to Kory because she could either save us, or kill us. It all depends on what you do and how it effects her because you are the one that effects her more than anything and anybody else," Bruce said sternly as the others stepped out of the shadows as well. Soon they were surrounding Richard and I in a circle and I felt a twinge of hope that I might actually live through this.
"Oh God Kory," Karen gasped when she say me kneeling on the ground covered in mud, blood, and tears. "What the hell did you do to her you bastard?!"
"Nothing she didn't have coming," Richard spat. Normally, I would probably glare at him and say something back, but right now I had to focus all of my energy on not passing out.
"That's bullshit! Kory never did anything!" Victor yelled.
"She's a stupid whore who doesn't know when to keep her legs crossed!" Richard insulted me.
"So this is why you're doing this to her?! Because you hurt her and she was trying to stop the pain!" Beast Boy yelled.
"Oh yeah because sleeping around with the enemy is a great way to stop the pain," Richard mocked. His words cut me deep as I looked down at the ground, ashamed of myself.
"Just give her to us Richard," Raven said.
"I can't do that Raven because she's mine and as long as she still breathes, she'll forever be mine," Richard said before picking me up in his arms and holding my neck near his mouth. I was limp in his arms, like a rag doll and my head limply fell to the side, revealing my neck to Richard as he licked his lips. A jolt of pain ran through me when he sunk his fangs into my neck and I screamed out in pain.
"No!" Bruce yelled before running forward and tackling Richard to the ground. Since I was still being held by Richard, I went falling back with him, but somebody caught me before I fell to the muddy ground once again.
"Go after him!" Bruce ordered as my eyes slowly closed.
"Stay with us Kory," I heard Karen beg as she began to run back towards the mansion. I knew we were inside when the rain stopped falling on me and it became brighter.
"Go get a bed ready," Raven ordered and somebody went running ahead to prepare the medical room for me.
"If he ever shows his face again," Beast Boy started, I could hear the hate in his voice.
"He will when he returns to normal to see Kory again," Bruce's calm voice stood out amongst the others'.
"No," I whispered. All I wanted to do was forget Richard's face and what happened earlier.
"The bastard got away," Victor told Bruce as I was placed on a cold surface.
"No, no, no, no, no, no!! Get away from me! Let me go!" I screamed, my eyes still closed so I saw Richard's face flash across my mind.
"He's gone Kory, he's not here," Karen tried to calm me, but I wouldn't listen.
"Stay away! Don't touch me!" I kept screaming and squirming around, trying to get away from the cold hands that were holding me down. My nails clawed into the metal below me as I felt restraints being placed around my wrists and ankles.
"Check the bite," Bruce ordered Raven before I felt the painful tingling in my neck.
"She's unstable, I can't work with her like this!" Raven yelled over my screams. All I could see were his haunting eyes, all I could feel were his cold hands holding me down, and all I could hear was his cold laughter while I screamed out in pain.
"I'm sorry Kory," I heard Bruce whispered to me before my world went black.
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So I know that the chapter was that long, but I think that it was pretty damn good! I'm really happy with this chapter and I hope that everyone else is too! I should be updating Being With You Only Brings The Tears within the next couple of days, but then I'm going to Washington until like the 9th of July, so the next update may take some time.
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Kattie