All righty here is chapter 20! We have 20 chapters, everyone pat themselves on the back! SERIOUSNESS WARNING!
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Something wasn't right. Kadaj was breathing too hard. My eyes snapped open and he was drenched in sweat. His arms weren't holding me, but he was lying on his side of the bed twitching and mumbling. I watched him for a minute, maybe it would pass. I brushed his silver hair aside with my hand and kissed him.
He stopped twitching and opened his eyes. I smiled at him, trying to comfort him. He looked into my eyes, his gorgeous green depths drew me in, but there was fear lurking just below the surface.
"Are you okay?" I asked. He tried to smile, but it left his lips immediately.
"I'm fine," He said, almost as if he was in pain, "just a bad dream." I looked at him questionigly. "Really. Go back to sleep. I'm going to go take a shower." He kissed my forehead and rolled me off of him. He stood up and walked quickly to his bathroom. I sighed and pulled the covers closer around me. He shut the door. What was wrong with him?
I lifted the covers off and walked over to the door. I heard the shower running him closing the shower door. I sat there until the shower stopped. I heard him come to the door so I jumped up, but he didn't come out. I heard him slump against the wood. I leaned closer in and listened to him. The back of my head was full of worry. I heard him stand and I quick jumped back into the bed just as he opened the door.
He walked over to the bed and lay down next to me. He scooted closer to me and pulled the blankets up. Before he wrapped his arms around I turned my head to face him.
"I love you." He looked at me for a moment, then leaned in and kissed me.
"I love you too."
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Today was only a half day. Thank Mother. I sat at my desk trying to finish the never ending pile of papers. Being a leader was hard. We had to pay the bills and keep in the buget. Who'd have thought we'd have a problem with that? I finally paid the last bill and stood up from my desk.
"Rena will you wait a minute?" Kadaj said, not looking up from his papers. I nodded and sat back down in my wheeley chair. Trey wasn't in the room right now.
"Why?" I asked, spinning around in circles, getting rather dizzy.
"Because," Was all he said. I sighed and continued spinning.
"Rena," Trey said from the door. Then I could no longer see him. There he was agin. He was gone.
"Yes?" I asked, getting extremely dizzy. There he was, there he wasn't.
"Stop spinning." There he is again. There he isn't.
"Why?" Again, and gone.
"Because-" seen and gone. "-You will puke all over the floor." I grabbed the desk and it shook with the effort of stopping me. The room kept spinning. Trey and the doorway would not stand in one place and Kadaj's face would not stop bouncing up and down. "And could you excuse us for a minute?" I nodded and stood up.
I swerved violantly and slammed into the desk. I started to walk out the door. The floor was tilting and I could barely see where I was going. I slammed into Trey and he stumbled to the side. I hit the hallway with so much force I hit the wall on the other side.
"I'll just wait out here." Trey closed the door. I slumped down on the ground and closed my eyes. The floor still felt like it was tilting. When I finally returned to normal I pressed my ear against the door.
"So you'll leave in a few minutes, I expect you back before midnight," Trey said.
"Of course," Kadaj answered back, trying to keep his voice level down. He and Trey really didn't like each other. The door opened and smacked me in the face. I rubbed my cheek. "Fuck!" Kadaj knelt down.
"What?" Trey asked.
"I stepped on her hand," Kadaj lied, yelling back to him.
"Oaf." Trey muttered. Kadaj glared at him.
"You okay?" He asked and kissed my cheek.
"I'm good," I stood up.
"Come with me." He said and grabbed my hand. He pulled me to his room and locked the door, sealing it with darkness. I sat down on his bed as he ran around and got his sword. "I have to leave for a few hours. I want you to stay in here. Don't go down to dinner. I have a stash of food under the bed if you get hungry or thirsty."
"Why?" He stopped his frenzied packing and knelt next to me and took my hands in his.
"Just promise me." I looked deep into his eyes. They were full of that concern and pain of last night.
"I do."
"Promise me!" He pushed for the promise.
"I promise." I was scared. Kadaj never panicked like this.
"Thank you." He gripped me in a tight hug and kissed me passionately. "I will come back." He opened a portal and dissappeared, leaving me sitting on his bed.
He was due back at midnight. Eight long hours I sat in his room. When the clock struck midnight, he didn't appear. I gripped his pillow tighter, the soft cotton squished against me. I had felt nothing, not a pang of worry, happiness, sorrow, anger, or pain in the back of my head. Nothing came. I sat alone and in the dark of his room, unwanting to move. The clock slowly made its way around to twelve thirty. Still no sign of him.
At one a.m. he still didn't show up. Worry swelled within me. A white flash appeared before my eyes. The next thing I realized I was on the ground twitching and realing with pain. It was no longer in the back of my mind but full force on my body. Tearing and ripping at me. I tried to scream for help but all that came out was a scratchy gasp. When the pain subsided something loud thumped against the floor. I jumped up and turned on the light.
Kadaj lay on the floor. I ran over to him. His clothes were covered in blood and dirt, mixed together to make a disgusting color. He was drenched from head to toe. I pulled him on my lap and brushed his hair of his face.
"What happened?" I asked, trying to get him to open his eyes. His breath was quick and raspy.
"I lost."
"Lost?" His eyes snapped open for a moment then slammed shut. "Kadaj!" He was freezing cold. I carefully removed his clothes and ripped the blankets off the bed. He was covered in cuts and blood. I wrapped him up in the blanket and ran into the bathroom. I turned the bathtub's heat all the way up and only put a little cold. I removed the blanket. He was shivering. I picked him up and stumbled into the bathroom. I slowly lowered him into the tub, careful not to knock him around. He shivered violantly.
"Rena," He whispered, his voice raspy and shuddering. I searched his eyes but they were blank, they closed again. His breathing slowed but he was still in bad shape. I took a wash cloth and cleaned him off. I drained the water from the tub and took the detatchable hose and rinsed him with hot water. He shook violatnly when it went over his abdomen. I got him out and lay him on the bed, drying him carefully with towls. I got a pair of pants on him. He winced when I tightened them.
"Kadaj," I whispered to him, trying to wake him up. "Kadaj!" I said., louder this time.
"I--" He started to say then blacked out. I looked down at his abdomen. From this angle I could see a cut. It was long and straight across his abdomen. I got a closer look and gasped.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXAuthor's Note: All right guys the fic is finished ahead of schedule. This chapter isn't the end. There are 39 all together. Lurv you all! And warning the next chapter is gruesome and gross.