Raven leaned down, picked up her hand and placed the necklace and a small note in her hand before running away.
"Raven! Wait!" She yelled after the man. "Man, this really bites."
Taking a closer look into her hands she saw that the necklace that he had placed in her hand was a very expensive dragon pentacle necklace she saw while shopping with Matt Hardy the week earlier. She had made a comment to Matt on how that the dragon was an ancient symbol of knowledge and about her astral journey to Hel's world. The dragon was Red, like Argyle and its wings, head and two hind legs made up the star while the four cardinal directions were in their places with their direction's color and the star symbol was positioned in front of the dragon. This was worth five hundred dollars in one shot and now she had it.
Dear Anu, she read on the small piece of paper, please take this gift. I don't need anything from you and I don't want anything from you. I can't have you and you can't have me. Friend or lover, it would be torture for us. I can't have you so don't even believe you can try.
Raven (Scott Levy)
"If that's the way you want to play then we'll do it your way." Placing the necklace around her neck she felt some sort of change come over her. "He spelled it."
It was true, it wasn't a strong feeling but she could feel energy in this pendant. He must have done something to it. But what did he do?
"Hey Anu, how's it going?"
"Matt, where's Raven staying?"
"Why?"
"Him and I have a little bit of a talk coming to us. And on a different note, only you know that I would want this necklace."
"I only told Jeff about it. Raven gave that to you?"
"Yeah. And I think he did something to it. Do you know which room he's in, I really need to talk to him."
"He's always in the room right across from you at all the hotels we stay at. He's in room 280, what's going on?"
"Religious stuff. I'll have to talk to you about it more. Send my regards to your brother." Anu stood up and stormed off only to come back a minute later. "Forgot my Book of Shadows." Then she was gone again.
Smiling Matt nodded. "I knew this would work."
Anu stared at the brown door in front of her and was actually wary about what to do. What if Raven wasn't in, or what if he doesn't want to see me? That question plagued her as she wondered which part of her she had to do in order to confront her problem.
"Dreana I hope you're right." Anu mumbled as she knocked on the door.
It slowly creaked open and there he stood, like always, in the shadows of his own misery. From his standpoint Anu was like an angel in the light with an innocent face and an angelic outlook on life.
"I thought I told you to stay away from me."
"What did you do to this?" Anu indicated to her pendant. "What did you do to this, Raven? I can feel energy in it, not a lot but enough to know that you did something to it."
"I didn't do anything to it. I had a witch do it for me because I don't think I understand how magic works yet."
"What did this person do to it?"
"She helped me put my energies into it for you. And a little bit of love."
"You can't have me, remember? So why would you do this?"
"Because I'm trying to protect you from me."
"Listen, you're not a bad man. You're scared to let anyone you care about get to know the real you because of your past lives."
Raven cocked his head to the side. "Lives? This is the only one I have."
"You may support the Egyptian side of the Craft but that doesn't mean you know everything there is to it." Anu tried to push him into the room but he wouldn't budge. "You mind either me coming into your room or you coming to mine because we need to talk." Still no response from Raven. "Dang it, Raven! For once in your ten lives will you please just listen to what I have to say?"
Jay Reso and Adam Copeland had been walking by when Anu's outburst announced her presence. They only stopped to look at them, before which ran off when Raven's eyes locked onto them.
"Come in."
"Thank you." She stomped passed him and went to the small table to put her Book of Shadows down on the table. "Listen I know I was a little harsh but I had to get this out in the open for you. I could care less of what happened in the past with you. I only care about you in the present. Your past should be a building block for your future. Use the past to make your future better."
"What do you want me to do? And what is it with lives?"
"In Wicca you don't just die and stay dead, your spirit goes to the Underworld and think about what you have learned in this age so you can better your life in the next. If your soul is scorned then you live long miserable lives, or short painful ones."
"Have you been doing a background check on me?"
"So to speak, Dreana has been helping me to conjure up visions of past life experiences and your lives seem to weave with mine some how."
"Huh? Example please." Raven plopped down on his unmade bed.
"Okay, example one: you were Jack the Ripper, and I was one of the prostitutes you murdered. I've been a victim of a rapist, you, and you left me for dead in the middle of the desert. Then you were four once and your mother went insane and shot you because she thought the "Devil' was speaking through you, I was your sister and that's why you are scared of guns."
Raven shut his eyes. "Why? Why are you and Isupposed to be together?"
"That's the unanswered question. Maybe there is no reason, maybe there is a reason. No one really knows. I may have been only in an initiated witch of a coven for a year and a half but I've been studying Wicca since I was ten. I've seen things, experienced things and know things that have gotten me in a lot of trouble."
"Like the Joe guy?"
"Yes, like him. Don't let him confuse you, he used me for a bad thing."
"What did he have you do?"
"He tricked me in looking for a number, a number to the lock of a bank. Him and his friends robbed it but they haven't been caught. I can't go to the police about it because who would want to believe a witch. Have you notice the bad publicity I've been having with everyone on this tour? I've had to replace my cameras twice, with my own money, because I have a personal stalker on the crew that thinks if I can't work then I'll have to get fired. Jeff Hardy makes the worst possible hate remarks if he's ever around me. You think I care? Yes I do. Do you think it hurts my feelings? Yes it does. Does it seem that I want to quit my job and go home? No I don't. This is the best thing to ever happen to me and I don't want it to end. What I'm trying to get at is, you and I have had the same lifestyles. Maybe with scarred souls we can at least become friends. I feel alone in this world of wrestling. I may be a friend with Matt Hardy but he's just there so we can have a normal conversations. I don't have anyone that I can talk to about the Craft. Have you ever felt that there is something that you want to talk about but there is only one person you can talk to you about because they may understand what you're going through? Well let me tell you, I've felt that way for the last four months. I feel like you could be the one special friend to me and that I can trust you even if you don't trust me. There I think I'm done."
The man just looked at her. He stood up and walked up to her, eyeing her the entire time. She was stronger now since she had taken a fraction of his determination from what he had placed in the pendant for her. He had wanted her to be strong and she was, but now what? She had a hold on him now, Anu was standing alone, in his room, in front of her. A million thoughts ran through his mind and she was plaguing his dreams at night, Raven didn't even know why he let this girl affect him the way that she has. He was starting to regret ever approaching her that day in the ring.
"We can try but I'm not granting anything."
A small smile played on Anu's lips. "Good. We can start by going out to a restaurant tonight. You pay your way and I'll pay for my way. I'll drive because I'm sure you'll want some alcohol in your system. I'll be ready at six and we can go out. See you tonight, Raven."
Turning around Anu grabbed her Book of Shadows off the table and was going to leave but Raven caught her arm. The next thing she knew he was pulling her into a tight hug. Awkwardly she hugged him back, feeling the strength of him and her almost melting together it seemed like. This action alone was very comforting and secure, she didn't know how she could actually go one without this man being in her life.
"I'll see you this evening." She said as she pulled back. "And don't skip town, I have a few ways of finding you."
"I'll keep that in mind." He smiled. "From now on, only call me Scott when we're alone but Raven when we're around people."
"Scott it is then. See tonight, Scott."
"Yeah, same here."
Then she left, wondering for the first time in her life what she was going to wear and where they were going to go. We first dates always this scary? Now I'm thinking it's a date when it's definitely not. Anu chastised herself as she went to her own room to think of what to do for that night.
I know, weird chapter but it's a stepping stone for this third person POV story. I hoped you like it so far.
