A/N: Okay, so I've noticed that I get a lot of stories mixed up and since it takes some people awhile to update I have to go over the story again before I read the updated chapter so I remember which story I'm reading. So before this chapter I will include a summary for people who've forgotten what's happened so they can remember! =o)
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Summary of the Entire Story Thus Far: Susannah is taking lessons from Paul on how to be a Shifter, but there is a lot of tension between Paul and Jesse. Susannah soon realizes that she hasn't seen Jesse in three days, and when he asks Father Dom he realizes that she has lost all her mediating powers. She breaks Paul's nose (yeah Suze!) and practically beats him up. Yadda yadda yadda, Suze gets a book on Shifting/Mediating and finds out how to get her powers back. Paul won't give up trying to win her/threaten her, and finally she gets her powers back only to be hit over the head with a baseball bat (by Paul, of course) and is kidnapped onto the boat (yes, the one from her dream; see chapter 7). There she is almost murdered by Paul, and then Jesse comes in a beats Paul to a bloody pulp, but Susannah accidentally slashed her forearms (think wrists) up when she pulled them out of tight, thin ropes and she's currently bleeding to death in Jesse's arms. And now the story continues………dundundun!
WARNING: SUPERIORLY DRAMATIC AMOUNTS OF FLUFF AND ANGST!!!!
~*The Undoing of the Mediator*~
Chapter 14: Demons (an AMAZING song by Guster!!)
~*Jesse*~
Never in my life and death have I been this scared. Susannah was in my arms, dying. It was like my worst nightmare had come true and was playing itself out in reality. Her blood was smeared all over my clothes and hands, shining against my ghostly spectral glow. The only thing that kept her from dying right then and there was my hand closed around her wrist tightly, and the blood was even beginning to flow out around that. She started to close her eyes and I panicked.
"No! You can't go to sleep on me, querida. Stay awake! Stay with me!" I practically screamed into her ear. Her eyes fluttered back open and she looked warily up at me.
She couldn't die! If she did, it would be entirely my fault for leading her to that beach tonight and not waiting for Father Dominic. How would her mother deal with the situation? What would Father Dominic do? No, this girl, my querida's, life was too precious. I had to save her no matter what. I desperately wracked my brain for a solution, any solution. None came to mind. I thought of everything I read about ghosts and mediators, but there was nothing in all my years of research that could solve this unbearable situation.
I had never seen her this helpless, this………vulnerable. I pulled her mouth up to mine in a kiss, urgently trying anything to keep her up and awake. Love for her flooded trough my body in that kiss, and I put my whole soul into it. She kissed back weakly, and I could feel the life flooding from her helpless body. Her left hand reached up around my neck for support, accidentally pulling on the string to the medallion. The medallion………that was it! I quickly broke away from the kiss despite her weak protests and lifted the medallion up from around my neck, sliding it onto hers. The medallion was still glowing, signifying that it was time to do what only I knew I had to do, come back to life. I knew that this would be my only chance to ever come back to life, but I realized that there are more important things in this world. Things like Susannah. She had a family who cared about her, she had friends and mentors who would be devastated if she died. She looked up as me wearily with shock and anger in her misty eyes.
"I can't……….take this Jesse. You use it. Have………your life back," she muttered almost incoherently.
I kissed her forhead. "Querida, if I didn't do this I could never forgive myself. Let's just hope that we can get some help before this is needed," I said soothingly. "No! This won't even be needed. We'll get you out of here, Susannah, no matter what it takes," I said again, not just reassuring her but myself also.
"I………can't take………it," she said, as fiercely as she could. "You've been………waiting for………so long………I………can't take………that away from………you," she struggled to get out.
"Susannah, you misinterpret why I'm here. I'm not here to come back to life. I'm not here to get revenge for what Diego did to me. I'm here because I've never experienced love………until now. And because of that I know that I could never let you die, no matter what because I love you. I love you, Susannah, don't ever forget that," I said, meaning every word that came out of my mouth.
"Jesse………" she murmured again, seemingly incapable of any other speech. I brought my forehead against hers and closed my eyes, rocking her back and forth.
If only I had my eyes open I would have known what was coming next. If only I wasn't so enveloped in Susannah I would have heard the footsteps. I would have noticed the menacing red clouds forming in the cabin of the boat. I would have heard the slow chanting coming from behind Susannah. I would have noticed the gleaming knife that stood just a few feet away, wrapped in someone's hand.
The first thing I did notice was the pull. I knew that pull, and had only experienced it once in my life. It was the most terrifying thing that I had ever experienced, besides the fact that the one love in my life (or death) was dying in my arms. The pain is unbearable, like it's pulling your heart in opposite directions.
My eyes flew open the moment I felt this to discover my arms and legs completely covered in the red smoke, and Paul was leaning over the back of Susannah, knife high in the air.
"I told you I don't lose, Jesse," he sneered menacingly before driving the wretched knife hilt-deep into Susannah's back. I scremed in fierce injustice and pain as she keeled forward into my arms, her eyes glazing over in pain and her mouth muttering an incoherent word. I tried to reach out to her only to find myself being pulled upward into the abyss of a hole I knew led to the Shadowland. I screamed at Paul to stop what he was doing to me so I could save her, be with her, but he merely looked up at me with gleamingly evil eyes. Struggling against the imprisoning ropes of smoke in vain, I watched in horror as Paul leaned over to lightly kiss the dead body of Susannah Simon.
A/N: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **calm, Summer, calm** Yes, I know it's superiorly short, but this was the hardest chapter yet for me to write, and I was seriously thinking about just skipping it and putting a note in that said, "too hard to write, Suze dies and Jesse's exorcised", but I didn't think that would fly. And to my reviewers, I love you all, especially the ones who threaten to kill me (cause it makes me update sooner! ::dramatically:: Oh, the fear!!!):
DiLiRiOuS uNiCoRn: amor means love in Spanish. Querida is a term of endearment meaning 'sweetheart' and amor is 'love', like my love. I know what you mean about Spanish teachers, they don't teach you the practical stuff! Just random tings like how to talk about spaceships and such =o) (that's what were working on………WHY??????) Thanks so much for your awesomely long review! I love awesomely long reviews!
Nimmo: I'm actually thinking about writing a part two to this story in this story, cause I'm not a huge fan of sequels. What do you think? And thanks so much for your review! It absolutely made my day!
Kouri: Unfortunately in this chapter, Paul does away with both Jesse and Suze **sob!**, and I HATE HIM WiTH A BURNING PASSION FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, but he's really pissing me off in my own story. Maybe I should make something bad happen to him. =oD
Morgaine of Ithil: Really? Thanks dude! It's funny………I hate when other people write them and I'm reading, but it's just so fun to write them! Am I being sadistic here? =o)
Hannirose: judging from the chapter you just read, I think you will have to (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) kill me with your spork. (aren't spork's like the greatest invention of mankind? In my opinion, they most definately are!! **happy dance**) Thanks for reviewing, girl!
StrawberryMary: I don't know………what will he do without her?
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