4. One Rainy Night
The bruises on Lucius' body soon proved the months before were just a dream. I often slept alone in our huge Victorian cherry wood bed. Lucius would usually come in around dawn. Sometimes he would come home well into the afternoon.
The first time this happened I was worried and scared that something had happened to him, to my protector. As fickle fortune would have it, I was right, something had happened to him.
I remember it very clearly because that was the night everything started to change. There was a storm raging outside the grand bedroom windows. The heavy velvet green draperies were drawn over the windows, but you could still see the lightening viscously striking the luscious green April grounds. Beethoven's Moonlight sonata was magically playing the in background in order to try and sooth my worried nerves. Lucius had never been this late before. He was usually a very punctual man. I never slept that night, not even when he came home around four in the morning. I was sitting on the old Victorian couch by the blazing fireplace that tried to warm me from the coldness of the vast bedroom. He walked in tired and paler than usual. What struck me more than anything was that he never acknowledged my presence. I felt disappointed and betrayed by the one who had done this to him. How dare he forget about me! I am him wife. Though, he still doesn't notice my presence when he comes home in the morning. So I have gotten somewhat used to his ghost floating around the bedroom in the early morning hours. He stripped himself of his sod and water worn clothing. Where had he been? He placed the clothes in the same chair he always puts his dirty clothes in, in the adjoining Italian styled white marbled bathroom- A habit of his that I have noticed over the short time we have been together. He climbed into the bed. After about and hour or more, I gathered enough courage to go lay beside him in the bed. He had scared me to no end. He looked sickly, ghost like, and almost as if he had been in pain. I climbed into the soft bed. Lucius was sleeping on his side so I curled up next to him. I was afraid to hold him like he used to hold me while we slept, but I still placed my left arm over his body to hold him. He didn't flinch. He felt so cold, like ice under the gentle touch of my finger tips. I couldn't see him properly in night's dark shade, but I thought that I would take a good look at him once the sun rose. I starred into the darkness for who knows how long. To me, it seemed like days. I remember thinking that something or someone had scared Lucius that night. As the sum was rising, Lucius began to shiver. I lightly brushed my fingers up his left arm and softly sang "When You Love Someone" in his ear. I never got all the way up his arm. My hand stopped on an image burned into his skin. I kept singing to try to comfort him and myself. It was an image I would know too well towards the end. The image of a skull with a serpent. He soon stopped shivering. I didn't let go of him. I held him even tighter. I was determined not to let him go. I would not leave him, not now when he apparently needed me. No matter what was to come, I was determined to stay with him until the very end. I truly loved him.
The storm died down by noon and the sun came out behind the clouds. The draperies where drawn back away from the windows. We laid there until it was dark again. I did see in the light of day that he had bruises. He also had a broken rib. This broken rib I found out when he moved more into me as I cradled him in my arms. He winced in pain. He looked like he was holding back a scream of pain behind his perfected façade. When he was sleeping in my arms, he still looked like an angel even through all of the pain the burn, bruises and the broken rib were giving him.
When night had come again, I kissed him lovingly on his forehead and placed my head on his shoulder. The last words I spoke to him that night was "I love you". I remember him saying "I love you more than you could ever know, Narcissa.", before much needed sleep claimed me and carried me into the land of dreams. I dreamed that night that we remained holding on to each other until the end of time. Nothing could separate us now, I thought. Not even in the end. Our love and bond was too strong and too precious. In truth, I did not realize how fragile it could be. I could have lost Lucius that night to a power I didn't even know of. Italian styled white marbled bathroom-
When You Love Someone Bryan Adams
When you love someone - you'll do anything You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun When you love someone
You'll deny the truth - believe a lie There'll be times that you'll believe you can really fly But your lonely nights - have just begun When you love someone
When you love someone - you'll feel it deep inside And nothin else can ever change your mind When you want someone - when you need someone When you need someone...
When you love someone - you'll sacrifice You'd give it everything you got and you won't think twice You'd risk it all - no matter what my come When you love someone You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun When you love someone
The bruises on Lucius' body soon proved the months before were just a dream. I often slept alone in our huge Victorian cherry wood bed. Lucius would usually come in around dawn. Sometimes he would come home well into the afternoon.
The first time this happened I was worried and scared that something had happened to him, to my protector. As fickle fortune would have it, I was right, something had happened to him.
I remember it very clearly because that was the night everything started to change. There was a storm raging outside the grand bedroom windows. The heavy velvet green draperies were drawn over the windows, but you could still see the lightening viscously striking the luscious green April grounds. Beethoven's Moonlight sonata was magically playing the in background in order to try and sooth my worried nerves. Lucius had never been this late before. He was usually a very punctual man. I never slept that night, not even when he came home around four in the morning. I was sitting on the old Victorian couch by the blazing fireplace that tried to warm me from the coldness of the vast bedroom. He walked in tired and paler than usual. What struck me more than anything was that he never acknowledged my presence. I felt disappointed and betrayed by the one who had done this to him. How dare he forget about me! I am him wife. Though, he still doesn't notice my presence when he comes home in the morning. So I have gotten somewhat used to his ghost floating around the bedroom in the early morning hours. He stripped himself of his sod and water worn clothing. Where had he been? He placed the clothes in the same chair he always puts his dirty clothes in, in the adjoining Italian styled white marbled bathroom- A habit of his that I have noticed over the short time we have been together. He climbed into the bed. After about and hour or more, I gathered enough courage to go lay beside him in the bed. He had scared me to no end. He looked sickly, ghost like, and almost as if he had been in pain. I climbed into the soft bed. Lucius was sleeping on his side so I curled up next to him. I was afraid to hold him like he used to hold me while we slept, but I still placed my left arm over his body to hold him. He didn't flinch. He felt so cold, like ice under the gentle touch of my finger tips. I couldn't see him properly in night's dark shade, but I thought that I would take a good look at him once the sun rose. I starred into the darkness for who knows how long. To me, it seemed like days. I remember thinking that something or someone had scared Lucius that night. As the sum was rising, Lucius began to shiver. I lightly brushed my fingers up his left arm and softly sang "When You Love Someone" in his ear. I never got all the way up his arm. My hand stopped on an image burned into his skin. I kept singing to try to comfort him and myself. It was an image I would know too well towards the end. The image of a skull with a serpent. He soon stopped shivering. I didn't let go of him. I held him even tighter. I was determined not to let him go. I would not leave him, not now when he apparently needed me. No matter what was to come, I was determined to stay with him until the very end. I truly loved him.
The storm died down by noon and the sun came out behind the clouds. The draperies where drawn back away from the windows. We laid there until it was dark again. I did see in the light of day that he had bruises. He also had a broken rib. This broken rib I found out when he moved more into me as I cradled him in my arms. He winced in pain. He looked like he was holding back a scream of pain behind his perfected façade. When he was sleeping in my arms, he still looked like an angel even through all of the pain the burn, bruises and the broken rib were giving him.
When night had come again, I kissed him lovingly on his forehead and placed my head on his shoulder. The last words I spoke to him that night was "I love you". I remember him saying "I love you more than you could ever know, Narcissa.", before much needed sleep claimed me and carried me into the land of dreams. I dreamed that night that we remained holding on to each other until the end of time. Nothing could separate us now, I thought. Not even in the end. Our love and bond was too strong and too precious. In truth, I did not realize how fragile it could be. I could have lost Lucius that night to a power I didn't even know of. Italian styled white marbled bathroom-
When You Love Someone Bryan Adams
When you love someone - you'll do anything You'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun When you love someone
You'll deny the truth - believe a lie There'll be times that you'll believe you can really fly But your lonely nights - have just begun When you love someone
When you love someone - you'll feel it deep inside And nothin else can ever change your mind When you want someone - when you need someone When you need someone...
When you love someone - you'll sacrifice You'd give it everything you got and you won't think twice You'd risk it all - no matter what my come When you love someone You'll shoot the moon - put out the sun When you love someone