Chapter Eight
Amethyst woke to the feeling of extreme pain. Not the kind of pain, like a broken leg. No, this was soul-splitting, mind-numbing pain.
Too much pain for me to be dead.
She had been grabbed from behind and shortly after she had gone completely into the arms of Morpheus. Probably opium fumes, she thought.
"So you are finally awake! Good. I look forward to you passing out again." Angelic's voice... and she didn't sound happy.
"Open your eyes!" Gavin's voice.
After three attempts she managed "I can't."
"Then I will have to make you." Angelic again. This time she sounded ecstatic.
The first thing she felt was the chill of a metal blade. The next was fear. After that... the pain doubled, then tripled... and stayed there.
Then her fear tripled.
She's trying to cut my eyes open!
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Urban paced back and forth across his room, trying to think of a way to save Amethyst, and make sure when he killed them they stayed dead.
Mavros convinced Urban not to grab his sword and run after Gavin and Angelic, but he was still fuming.
"Where did they go?" Urban said.
"I don't know." Mavros asked quietly.
"Well then why did you do it? What did you get out of it?" Urban yelled.
"Nothing. I wasn't thinking."
"So I noticed. Where would they take her? I know that there are only three places they could take her... The graveyard, the Left Moon and the Crux. Did they make any hint of where they might go?"
"I don't know why you're asking me! I don't know anything. They told me not to ask questions."
"Get out." Prince Urban was in a rage that he could compare with none other.
Mavros left quickly. Outside the door, he leaned up against the wall. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bag of a blue powder that shimmered with an addictive gleam.
He recounted the conversation he had with Gavin earlier...
"You are the one that the leper is to go with?"
"Yes... not that I wanted to."
"I can take her off your hands."
"She is paying a good price."
"I can sweeten it." Gavin held up the Nevermore.
"I can have that now?"
"Provided you sned the girl to me alone."
"Done."
"When she leaves the room, put out the light."
Gavin had given him the Nevermore and a devious smile. His eyes had been... oddly... seductive in a way. Once Mavros agreed to do the deed, he dared not betray him.
He continued on to his home. There was nothing he could do as of now. He had betrayed the prince and his best friend. He took the bag and had intended to drop it. Instead, he took it and placed it back into his pocket. It was his decision that caused this problem. He may as well reap the rewards.
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Amethyst's face was covered in blood. Angelic had been carving the girl's eyes open for the last ten minutes.
"Angelic. It's not going to work." Gavin called to her from the kitchen. She was trying to get Amethyst to scream.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the girl's either passed out or she just won't scream."
"She wil. If she's passed out we just need her to wake." Angelic replied stubbornly.
"You will kill her if you keep cutting her though." Gavin pointed out.
"Oh, well. The bitch deserves it."
"I need to find out what her mother left her. My sister always was a slick one."
"And?"
"And I can't find out if she's dead." Gavin was beginning to be annoyed.
"Gavin, please!"
"NO!" Gavin yelled. Angelic shrunk under his angry gaze.
"I'm sorry." She murmured.
Gavin sighed. "I am too. Just try not to be so infernally impatient. I need her. If my suspitions are correct, the power that that girl inherited from my sister it too great to be left to die." Gavin pulled the frightened Angelic into his arms. She leaned into him.
"What is it that you think she has?" Angelic asked.
"I will tell you only if she has it. Otherwise it is better you not know. I don't want to have to exspend the energy needed to erase your memory if she doesn't have it."
"You would erase my memory?" Angelic asked, alarmed.
"Of course. If you knew too much. I have to keep myself safe."
Angelic got up and walked away.
She'll get over it. Gavin thought. He leaned back in his chair, unconcerned. She won't do anymore damage to Amethyst after that much yelling.
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Amethyst woke and it was all she could do not to scream out in pain. Even after she had passed out, Angelic must have continued to cut.
Despite her best efforts, she must have made some noise because she could hear one of them comming back in.
"Still alive?" Gavin's voice.
"Unfortunately." Her throat had healed to a point that she wouldn't gag on her words.
"I see. I told her to hold off a bit. For once she listens."
"Why? What do you want with me?"
"Two things. When that infernal mother of yours died, she left you with something quite valuable. That and you have the prince's ear."
Amethyst must have moaned because Gavin added, "Why do you fight it? You two obviously have feelings for each other. Have you ever thought that maybe the reason that he refuses to let you go is because you push him away? You could have used his feelings to your own ends. He's easily used when his emotions are strong."
"You mean manipulate him?"
"Of course."
"What did my mother leave me? As far as I know all I got were her scales." Amethyst asked to change the subject.
"Well, it comes with your scales. I'll just have to coax it out of you. You may want to go back to sleep. Angelic will be back in here to torture you otherwise."
"Why are you helping me?" Amethyst asked. He was a sadistic enemy before. Now he was helping her.
"I need you alive, but I need Angelic. So you'll just have to deal with it." With that he walked away.
Amethyst observed her choices... and they were nonexistant. Until her eyes healed, all she could do is try to think of anyhting she could have inherited from her mother. And she would need to find it before Angelic lost her temper or Gavin gave up on her... in which case Angelic would still kill her.
She was running out of options.