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". . .Io non averei creduto che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta."

(Canto 3, lines 56-57) Dante's Inferno

"I could never have believed that death had undone so many."

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Amelia ran down the hall until she saw the restroom. She ran in and locked the door, dropped her backpack and went over to the sink. She splashed her face with water and looked up at herself in the mirror. Why was she running away why did....wait she knew why, it was because she was teasing him and she knew it, she was afraid yes but at the same time excited, she always knew deep down she liked teasing him. She liked teasing but she also liked putting up a fight before she gave in and became submissive. She flushed at the trail of thought and where they were going. Her head snapped up as she heard the minute bell ring. She got her stuff and ran out. She needed to face this head on and she was going to enjoy every minute of it.

Richie threw his head back over the chair and sighed. He liked how he felt right now, he liked it a whole lot. And he had Amelia to thank for that, if it weren't for her he wouldn't feel powerful at the moment. He remembered just wanting to take her right than and there. He felt something predatory come out, more animalistic, and he felt it towards Amelia. He noticed a difference in the way he held himself too, more cocky and confident. He even noticed people, more so girls than anything; stare at him more in the hallway. He passed Frieda in the hallway and she stopped him, and flirted with him. Something she would never do, she always held herself to think only the best of the best could be with her, or even glance at her. He couldn't help but feel Amelia was playing with him, teasing him at the moment. How she had run out, but he decided two could play at that game.

He was brought back to reality when he heard the teacher talking to a new student. He lifted his head to see Amelia's' head down and see her crossing to the other side of the room. His shoulders sagged in disappointment and sadness. Why didn't she wanna be over there near him? He thought about how she had ran off and felt bad. He had scared her off without meaning to, he never intended that, he just couldn't control himself that time. He gazed at her form across the room with guilty eyes, he wanted her to look at him so he could say he was sorry. Right as he thought that she turned her head in his direction. He saw her blush and squirm in her seat, she finally looked him in the eyes and smiled. He felt the breath he was holding go.

So she wasn't mad, that was good at least he knew he still had a chance. He just couldn't come on too strong next time. He smiled back and she turned back to her note book. Richie kept staring at her though and a wave of possessiveness came over him. He wanted to go over to her and wrap his arms around her and lock her away. He suddenly felt a surging pain filter through his body, he gasped in pain as he lunged forward in his desk silently heaving as everyone around him turned a blind eye not noticing. The only one that seemed to notice was across the room looking on with frightful eyes scared not for herself but for him.

Amelia felt a violent shiver run through her body, she turned her head in Richie's direction only to see him hunched over his desk and silently heaving as pain wracked his entire body. She felt the swirls of energy flow around his body. She was glued to her desk as she stared in awe and terror, transfixed with fascination but fear. She couldn't move one inch of her body afraid someone would see and turn to see Richie, afraid he would attack someone that tried to come close.

Amelia gasped as she saw she was halfway to Richie's desk, something was pulling her she tried to fight the pull but gasped as she heard a voice whisper in her head. She was in total shock as she now stood in front of Richie, his head was still down but she could feel he knew she was there. She stiffened as she saw him move his head in her direction. He turned his head up enough for her to see his face and she almost melted from just his stare alone. His eyes had went from a crystal blue to an electric ice blue with a gold ring around the iris. His stare was so animalistic and predatory she wanted to run just to see what he would do. She saw his smile and knew he knew what she was thinking. She heard a voice whisper across her thoughts.

"That wouldn't do little bird, not at all. You really wouldn't want to do that."

She jumped from the voice in her head and stupidly looked around to see if anyone heard her, but then chastised herself for her stupidness. She heard a dark chuckle and looked to Richie. She saw he was hunched back over and heaving again. She suddenly snapped out of it and patted him on the back feeling bad for leaving him in the first place. She looked down at him with guilt painting her features as he looked up at her with a pained face.

"What....what just happened?" He rasped out between breaths.

"I...don't know. But I think I know a little bit of what did happen to you." She said vaguely.

She noticed that his eyes had stayed the same but the soft look had returned that was only Richie. Since the eyes stayed the same she felt whatever was awakened had already fused with him and bonded at least a little bit. And if that was true than Richie had more hardships to go through in the future if what was in him wanted to bond with him. But this is what confused her, when she first met him she felt no magikal energy whatsoever. And even if it was dormant she usually felt some sort of energy off the host or body. It was puzzling until it clicked. Someone powerful must have put a seal on him. The bell rang signaling that school was over. She took Richie's arm and whispered soothing things to him as she lead him out on shaky legs.

"Come on we can go to my house okay? I'm going to help you, do you think you can come over to my house?" She asked as she discreetly held his arm to guide him.

She saw his nod of a yes and after she set him down to rest he laid his head on her shoulder and closed her eyes. Amelia blushed at the contact that he made with her shoulder. She couldn't stop thinking of the smiling mischievous eyes that stared back at her as they called her little bird. She involuntarily shivered at the memory. She looked down to see Richie with his eyes closed and his breathing even. Now that just wouldn't do, he couldn't fall asleep . Hey it was Friday maybe he could spend the night it's not like her mom cared who she brought over, she had never done anything bad to warrant her mother to worry about doing something she wasn't suppose to.

"Hey do you think you could spend the night? My mom wouldn't care I just don't know about your parents." She said as she lightly shook him to awareness. She saw him look around dizzily and than focus on her. She almost melted from his stare, she loved his eyes now more than ever.

"Yeah..um I need to call my folks and let them know though do you have a phone?" He asked distractedly. Amelia nodded her head yes and took out her phone and handed it to him. He dialed the number to his house and briefly told his mother he would be at a friends house and not to worry about him tonight.

"Yeah, okay mom thanks." He said as he hung up the phone.

He leaned against the wall behind him and heaved a sigh as he closed his eyes. He was acutely aware of her fidgeting. He stuck his hand out and put it on her knee affectively stilling her movement. He finally opened his eyes and looked at her figure. This wasn't the same girl he met this morning this was a guarded and shy Amelia. She had her head down and her hands together against her stomach as she had a pink tint staining her face. He felt power over her as he saw this. He shook that thought out of his mind as soon as it popped in. He finally got up and stretched, he felt different in the way he moved. He wanted to say graceful, with more meaning in every step he took. He looked back to see Amelia staring at him with blank eyes and a smile on her face. He frowned at this, he knew he had scared her, he didn't think it had been that bad though but apparently it had been. His eyes were filled with guilt as he gazed at her face. He shoved his hands in his pockets as he scuffed the floor with his shoe.

"Look, I'm sorry about earlier I couldn't control myself I didn't mean to scare you away." He said sadly.

Amelia looked at him in shock and than remorse. She had been guarding herself because she didn't know what had happened and was trying to be careful, not seem like she was pushing herself away. She stood up to hug him but he put his hands in front of himself to block her.

"Look it's okay you don't have to force yourself." He said while looking down.

Amelia felt anger surge through her as he said this. Never not once in her life did she have to force herself to do something that she didn't want to do, and now wasn't one of them.

"Look I'm not forcing myself if I was I wouldn't be doing it in the first place." She said aggravated that he would insinuate something like that of her.

He looked at her face now red from anger instead of embarrassment. He felt even worse now for making her mad. He looked down and scuffed his feet on the floor not saying anything, he than felt arms around his body, hugging him. His eyes widened than softened as he hugged her back while closing his eyes inhaling her scent. He smile into the crook of her shoulder as he held her tight to his own body molding her body to his own. He let out a contented sigh as he let her go feeling much better and less bruised as his ego swelled a little.

Amelia couldn't help but want to hug him he not only looked pitiful, but sad and hurt. She didn't mean to blow up at him but when someone assumed something about her and her choices in life she couldn't' help but become angry. She had, had too many people try to dictate her life and she wasn't about to let anyone try and do it now. She felt connected somehow to him, as corny as it sounded she truly did. She let out a tiny laugh at the thought. Maybe this was the one person she was waiting for, for five years. Maybe finally her wish came true and her spell worked, she closed her eyes as this thought left her as soon as it had come. No, she wouldn't get her hopes up this time, she wouldn't let herself be crushed if he wasn't. She opened her eyes to see Richie staring at her with concern.

"What?" she asked confusedly.

"Are you all right you seemed out of it a little bit." He said dazed.

"Yeah your just imagining things is all." she said with a small wave of her hand, she than took his within her own and started walking down the street to her home.

Richie was distracted the whole way there by the warmth of the hand wrapped around his. He tried to distract himself with other thoughts and noticed his glasses were blurring his vision he took off his glasses and stopped mid-step. He was aware Amelia had stopped too and was now looking at him for an explanation. He turned to her with a confused stare and held his glasses up.

"I can see perfectly without my glasses now it'd weird, when I have them on I can't see but when I took them off right now it's like something that was blocking my eyes was lifted and now I can see clearly.

"It's funny if I had probably taken theses off at school and lost them I'd have to go home cause I wouldn't have been able to see..." He finished trailing off as if thinking about it while looking at his glasses with furrowed eyebrows.

Amelia immediately knew what was the cause and told him that she would explain that to him as well when they got inside. Richie looked up surprised that they had already reached her house and walked in with her. It was a fairly nice size house, it was a one story no upstairs like his. It was cozy and lived in, unlike his house which was just occupied by his family. Her house was painted in color it seemed, from reds to blues and golds; on fabric to wall there was color everywhere.

Amelia saw his eyes bug out from their sockets and knew he saw how her mom could be a little eccentric when it came to color and art like herself. She giggled which caught his attention and his mouth snapped shut but his wide wondrous eyes stayed open.

"Sorry about the house my mom loves to paint and loves to design, she's an artist." She said as she turned and lead him to her room.

Richie stared at her room in amazement it was huge to say the least, it was painted in greens and blues, from pictures of green forests on one side of the wall to blue sky's and navy blue clouds on the other. Her king size bed was a bit the same with a forest green comforter with navy blue pillows to the lime green sheets with navy blue designs. The most dominant color though was blue so he assumed her favorite color was blue next to green. He flopped down on her bed and stared up at her ceiling going over all the stuff he saw in her room. He felt the bed dip and looked to his left to see Amelia sitting down and going through a bag of sorts. He watched as he saw her pull out a book, a very old looking book that is.

"This." He heard her say. " Is my family's......book of shadows..... if you will."

"It has been passed down generation to generation, and recently a few years back it was passed down to me when I became of age. My family has a..not a curse...but destiny kinda thing going on. But right now were here to talk about you.

You may not believe me now but later on you will once you've gone through your transformation an have bonded. What you are going through is a bonding of sorts, there are different types of bonding but what you are going through is a metaphysical bonding.

What that is, is when something inside you awakens and physically and mentally bonds with you showing changes in spirit and body. Now we can awaken it all tonight or you can go through the trials of doing it alone.

Now understand this could take days to weeks to sometimes months. If we do it now it will be over and I can teach you how to deal with it and learn to control it. It will be very painful I'm not going to lie but it is better than going through spurts of pain within the span of five minutes like in class today."

Amelia finally looked over her shoulder to see him looking at her with a blank stare. She started feeling nervous from the silence that hung between them. She knew if he ran out on her calling her a liar he would come back eventually and that it would only be natural for him to act that way. But she couldn't help the nagging voice in her head that said it would hurt if he did.

Richie was blown away by it all he really didn't know what to think, but something inside him told him to trust her to go with it that it would be okay. And he did just that.

"Okay...um you said that it could take a long time right? Well I would rather do it tonight, it only seems logical to do it tonight and get it over with." He said while scratching the back of his head looking uncertain.

He saw her smile and his heart melted while his face heated up. She really was perfect for him. Wait, where'd that come from. He shook it off and focused on her the rest of the time as she went through the instructions. He saw her uncover her floor by pulling a rug up and saw a big circle in the middle.

"Okay now not now but tonight after we eat and all that good stuff, were gonna both sit in this circle now before we do anything I'm gonna have to open your third eye to make things easier." She saw the stupid look on his face and elaborated.

"Your third eye is centered between your eyebrows about two inches up, your third eye is your minds eye, it enables you to see...things, like the astral world you can go to other dimensions with your third eye I know it sounds impossible but wait and you'll see.

Now after I have your third eye open I'm going to put you in a trance and awaken your other half now all you'll remember in the morning is feeling intense pain unless you wake up right after you pass out or if you don't pass out at all. Or unless your other half comes out. But we'll save that for later."

Richie flopped back down on the bed digesting all the info he had just received. And all he could come up with is that it would be a long night indeed.

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