Chapter 17

A slow breeze brushes through my bedroom window as I lay on top of the sheets with my eyes opening to my surroundings.

"so your awake" came Patches voice from the doorway.

"your wings are big" I observed the big white wings coming out of Patch's back. "I guess your an angel now, so I guess that means you need to kill me" I said, tears welling up in my eyes.

"no, I'm to protect you" Patch smirked that irritating, yet irresistible smirk.

"I need to go now, but I'll be back later" he said and in an instant he kissed me on my forehead, lingered there and then vanished.

I went back to sleep after that, even though my thoughts kept turning my dreams to the events that happened in school.

I woke with a alarming feeling buzzing through my body, then I heard a sudden crash downstairs.

Slowly and silently, I made my way down the stairs, at some point during the night Patch had changed my clothes into my smurfs pyjama top and shorts; when I arrived at the foot of the stairs I saw a dark figure standing in the living room. His eyes were crimson red, but not red like Raphael's, they seemed filled with anger and sorrow.

"who are you?" I asked, stepping to the light switch to turn the light on. Before I could touch the switch a silver dagger was suddenly stuck in the wall. It just missed my hand.

"I don't want you to look at me when I'm like this" came Jacobs voice.

"Jacob, what's wro... ng?" I asked, turning on the light to look at my cousin.

His eye's wasn't his anymore, his face was covered in blood, his arm was a sword in a mutated way.

"what, who, what the hell happened!" I shrieked after taking in the gruesome sight in front of me.

"Harrison, your father, had me dragged into the basement beneath his house and they ... did things" he explained taking a step towards me.

"is that your blood all over you?" I asked, trying not to seem frightened.

"no, but before I tell you whose it is, you have to understand that I didn't want this to happen" he was saying but my mind couldn't process everything.

"who's blood is it!" I barked, my temper catching up on me.

"Suzu's and Luke's, they tried to stop me from coming here to apologise for before, dating Marcie was the reason this happened to me."

"you killed them?" I yelled, tears streaming down my cheeks, "you killed them and you expect me to accept an apology for something I don't even care about anymore!"

"I'm so sorry" he said, but I didn't believe him, he isn't my cousin, not anymore.

"get out and never come back, stay away from me and I suggest you leave Coldwater too" I growled, pushing him away after he took four more steps towards me.

"please-"

"no! just go!" I screamed, my heart feeling like it's been stabbed a hundred times over.

"goodbye, Nora and I'm so sorry for everything, you'll never see me again" he said and then he was just gone.

I crouched by the wall, crying so much I wanted to vomit; my eye's glued to the bloody footsteps on the floor.

"Luke, Suzu, Jacob" I sobbed, "they're all gone, now I have no one."

I stayed crouched to the floor for a while, I couldn't estimate the time. Patch arrived at the open front door, he was still dressed in the clothes he was wearing when I killed Chauncey.

"Nora!" Patch yelled, running into the house (Jacob turned off the light when he left, I didn't notice because I was too emotional), Patch didn't see me on the floor and stomped up the stairs and to my room. a few seconds later he was back downstairs.

"Nora, you here?" Patch called, I sobbed in response. He switched on the light and spotted me crouched down by the wall, his gaze followed mine and saw the foot steps.

"Nora, what happened?" Patch asked, concern filling his eyes and face.

"J- J-Jacob, he ..." I cried, lunging into Patch, hugging him with all my might.

"ok, calm down then tell me, ok" he said, wrapping his arms around me.

We sat there for a few minutes, huddled together on the floor.

"I'm ok to talk now" I sniffed, pulling away from him.

"ok, now calmly tell me what happened."

"my father, Harrison, turned Jacob into a monster, he admitted to me that he killed my cousin Suzu and my brother Luke, and now he's gone too, I have no one now" I explained my voice barely above a whisper.

"you do have someone" he said, my eye's lifted up to meet his. "you have me and you also have Vee, well I'm not sure about Vee but I promise to never leave you, I love you more than myself."

"ha, so your less cocky now, I'm impressed" I smirked, wiping away my tears. "I'm going to call my father."

Patch nodded, went into the kitchen and started cleaning the blood footprints.

"Dad, did you make Jacob like that?" I asked through the phone, Patch had picked me up and sat me on the sofa before he started cleaning.

'yes, it was an experiment of new medicine we synthesized' Harrison said from the other side of the line.

"did he really kill Luke and Suzu?" I asked, tears welling up in my eyes again.

'yes, he did, they're deaths were necessary for the testing process, don't worry you can live in that house on your own, I own that land and you'll get Luke's monthly allowances and income and any other money he's got coming in.'

"so you sacrificed your son and your niece just to test some illegal medicine you made! I can't believe you!" I snapped and hung up. "asshole."

"don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you" Patch said sitting next to me on the sofa.

"I know" I said, leaning back against him and his strong arms wrapped around me. I felt safe again.

the moment I said those words I never doubted them for a minute, even if something in me was doubting my judgement.

Silent Bride Of A Tengu: I have decided to carry this on than rather make a sequel because I thought it would be easier. please review :)