MISPER
With The Sunrise
She never believed she would escape him. Animal instincts pushed her to run for her life and she might have succeeded if she were stronger. If she were smarter. If she looked and behaved differently so that the police would have believed her.
No one believed her.
Except for Hyuuga.
Natsume…
She had thought he would help her.
She had thought that maybe after this she could invite him out for a date. Even though she was pregnant, he seemed to like her anyway. She thought about his black hair and his red eyes. She thought about that devilish smirk that gave her many alluring ideas, yet she never acted upon it. She was too invested into finding her mother. She was too invested into finding evidence and working on persuading the police to follow the traces she had found.
Not many had believed her.
Only Inspector Hyuuga did.
She liked him very much.
She would never see him again. She would never see her child. She would never see her mother again. She would die. Because of the monster that was leaning above her, his knife raised to cut her stomach and take out her almost born child.
She could feel the cramps getting stronger.
It was time. The little one wanted out. And the monster wanted it out right now.
She could see his dangerous white teeth – like a wolf, ready to attack his prey. But no animal killed another just for the fun of it. No animal killed another just because they wanted a part of that body. Animals killed to eat and to survive.
Only humans did that for fun.
Only humans were monsters.
And this human was about to cut her in half.
Mikan felt the rush of pure motherly fury through her veins. Without a scream and without really thinking about it, she clenched the metallic bar hidden under the water, and swung her arm from the side and stabbed him right into the head.
He fell on her like a log. He was heavy and she struggled to push him off her. She succeeded and the lifeless body splashed into the water and the water moved him a little further away.
She breathed.
She breathed and opened her heavy eye lids. She was lying on the shore, water surrounding her, making her hair dance with the waves, star shining brightly above her. She felt the cramps again, but it was not painful anymore. She closed her eyes, her mind drifting away for some time. She opened her eyes again, feeling him coming out.
She pushed, letting him slide through her slowly, without real pain. She was going to bring her child out. He would live.
The starry sky slowly changed its colours, getting brighter.
She pushed for the last time and felt him slip out. Her baby was born when the sun rose.