Chapter 5
Yet, like every night, I was helpless in the end, but not as helpless as my prisoners. The sight of young childern whiped through my mind, there screems chilling me to the bone, and yet I drank on, every last drop until there bodies limp in my hands and their faces grew as pale as snow. I shivered in my sleep, hoping for the nightmare to end.
As the kid lied limp in my arms I began to cry, what had I done?
Suddenly the lifeless eyes opened "Debris. Debris....." the mouth spoke. I screamed my lungs out, then opened my eyes, and screamed again. A hand clamped over my mouth, shutting of the screams. I tried to get away, but strong arm's wrapped around me.
"Shut up! Do you want to wake up the whole mansion?!" It was Ash, he sounded concerned, but he sounded furious at the same time. I stopped moving he removed his hand, and sat at the edge of my bed.
"Why the hell did you scare me like that?!" I whisper yelled.
"I was about to go hunting when I heard a lot of noise coming from this room, it sounded like you were crying. So I can in and you were tossing and turning a painting really heavy, like you were having a bad dream. So I tried to wake you up, which you did, except you woke up screaming, I must have made it worst." He looked sorry, but I knew he wouldn't say so.
I sat up correctly and whipped the sweat off my forehead, folding my knees to my chest and hugging them. I placed my head on my knees and took some deep breaths. I could feel the end of the bed rising up.
"Don't go." Wait, did those words just come out of my mouth? This place was turning me into a softy, and I hadn't even been here for a whole day!
The end of the bed sank in again. Once I relaxed shook off the dream I looked up. Ash was sitting against the bed post looking at me intently. "Are you okay now?"
I ignored the question, I would never be okay. "Look, wheres Quinn?"
"Is my angelness to grand for you?"
I hissed at him, "I need to talk to him."
"Well its like 3:45 in the morning so he isn't even up, but does this have to do with your feeding problem because..."
I didn't let him finish. "Great! Who else knows?! Everyone?!"
"Calm down! Just Quinn, Rashel, Lord Theirry, Lady Hannah, and me." Agh so Theirry had a girlfriend, but I couldn't careless at the moment.
"Why you?" I demanded, I knew he would torment me about it.
"BECAUSE I am one of the people who helps incapables like you."
My mouth dropped. Why? Why me? Why him? I huffed, and got off the bed and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" he asked standing up.
"You said you were going to feed didn't you? Now come on." I held the door open for him to pass. When he did I couldn't stop my self from saying "Ladies first." His response was not what I expected, it was a laugh.
When we got to the end of the hall Ash stopped by the big window.
"What are you doing?" I asked when he started undoing the locks.
"Opening the window."
"WOW. I got the part genius."
"Then why'd you ask, genius."
I huffed, "I do not talk like that!"At that moment Ash opened the window and jumped out.
WHAT THE?! I quickly leaned out the window, there he was looking up with his arms crossed.
"Are you coming or what?" He wanted me to jump out, great. I hoisted myself onto the window seal, and jumped.
I landed not 5feet from were he was standing. As soon as I hit the floor he began to run, I caught up quickly. We ran a long time in silence, but not after a while he stopped.
"Shhh" he told me in a quiet voice.
"Fine."
After a long moment Ash suddenly jumped really high into a bush area. "Debris!"
I ran over, in his arms was a doe that was squirming a lot. He placed his mouth on her neck and drank, my mouth began it water. I slowly walked over a kneeled the head. Ash brought his head up and whipped his mouth, passing the doe to me.
I was about to bring my mouth to its throat when Ash stopped me "Not to much." It was a command.
I continued, my teeth felt good in the flesh of the animal. The blood swelled up in my mouth a extremly sweet flavor, I swallowed, it was bringing me to my doom. I began to loose control only focusing on the amazing taste in my mouth. I took more, I tried to stop but I was out of control, I couldn't. Someone was calling out, but it sounded like it was from a distance.
Abruptly my head was ripped away from the neck of the doe. I felt dizzy.
"What part of 'not to much' don't you understand?" He didn't sound mad, he sounded serious.
"The part were it doesn't mention taking all of the blood." I told truthfully, suddenly I launched back for the doe. I smacked straight into something that felt like stone.
I opened my eyes, which I didn't realize at first I had closed them. Ash was laying on top of me, I pushed him off and leaned on a tree.
"This is the part where you say 'Thank you Ash'" Ash said like it was a lot of work to block me from the blood, well actually it might have been. The doe must be fazed because it still hadn't moved. I closed my eyes.
"Okay heres what we are going to do, we are going to stay here, your objective is to not actack the doe."
I had two words only "Distract me"
"Fine we can talk, you ask a question and i'll answer it."
I said the first thing that came to mind because the smell of blood was driving me crazy, I had to hold my breath. "How did you meet Mary-Lynette?"
"I was looking for my sisters..."
"You have sisters?"
"Yea, three. Two younger, Jade and Kestrel and an older, Rowan. They escaped this island we lived on.."
As soon as he spoke the words 'Rowan' and 'island we lived on' my head exploded in pain. I moved my hands to my head, pressing hard as if to make the pain stop, it didn't. It hurt so bad I fell over with a loud cry.
"AHH!" I yelled as I toppled over, Ash caught me.
"Debris?! Whats wrong?!"Ash yelled in a panicked tone. I couldn't answer, when I tried all that came out was another cry of agony.
Suddenly I felt I was being lifted up and carried. Ash was running, I could feel the breeze in my hair. I cried out again unable to help myself my head was sending my nerves wild! What was going on with me? Why was I suddenly in a tortured pain? …..........What had set this off?