CHAPTER SEVEN: NEW START, NEW LIFE.
Third person
Logan watches as the car drives away, he had told Brandon to drop Jade at her house, put her in her bad and come back without being seen by anyone. Now he just stood there staring into the darkness of the night as she became further an d further away from him, he could her heartbeat anymore or her hear sweet voice. She was gone for good this time.
"if you truly love her Logan, go after her" Danny says from behind him.
"I can't" I turn slightly, look down.
"why not" he looks at Jessica and Danny holding each other.
"I own her happiness and peace, I also have a duty to up hold as your King" he disappears into the darkness.
Jessica and Danny stand looking at each other wondering if they did the right thing, maybe they should just tell Logan. But they know…they won't.
NORMAL POV
Oh the rain, the rain reminds me of many things. Like how I woke up one morning, two days after I left Logan, Jessica and Danny…Ryan and the only thing I remember is feeling his cold hand on my cheek and his words. I went home, where my mother and father are, when I boarded off the plane my parents hugged me and kissed me, started asking me questions like "who took you?" and of course I lied, itodl them I didn't know I was kept in a dark room with Nikky and I never saw the people's faces…ever.
Detective Ross called off the investigation after 2 months, I was any help and there weren't any other leads. I stayed with my parents for a few weeks , went to the back changed my account and put the 5 million in it. I went back to NY for a month, sold my apartment and started looking for a house…in White Woods. I know I know I'm going back to where I first met him is crazy but he won't look for me there, he thinks I'll never go back there.
4 months, I still wasn't showing , I told my parents . my mother broke down and cried for hours and my father paced and cussed and threaten that if he ever gets his hands on the assholes neck he would kill them. I don't care, I had to change everything, so now I'm a nurse who works at White Wood Hospital, Surprised? Ooh and I found out I'm 4th generation witch, surprised?. My ancestors where the witches who founded White Wood, the gift my father calls it skips generations the way it wants, you don't have a choice…will I ever have a choice?. Funny thing is my parents and my family knew who took me but they couldn't necessarily go running around screaming "VAMPIRES TOOK OUR DAUGHTER!", and my cousin Mikey tried to find me but looks like we aren't they only ones we can use shields.
I know it's a lot to take in, imagine how I felt. My life has changed, I wanted to be a lawyer, now I'm a nurse and moved to a town I hate to protect the people I love, sometimes I 'm paranoid and I think they are watching me, but they not. Jessica and Danny come to see me a few times, sometimes with Ryan but when I started showing, when I became an balloon, he stopped…he just stopped. My Grandma taught me some magic you can say before she died 2 years after I "returned" so I think I'm getting back on track. I can protect myself and Adian…my son.
"Jade, your shift is over. You need to get home" I nod, writing in patient 5's file. I look up slightly at Anna, my friend and co-work and playmate mom.
"yea, I'll go just now" she snitches the file away from me, smiling playfully.
"come on Jade, I'll finish up. Adian must be waiting" I roll my eyes.
"his with his grandparents, he's having fun, not even thinking about me" she laughs and shoo's me away and I go.
I step out the car, when I feel the presents of something or someone.
"Jessica and Danny, would you stop that, I could set you on fire" i hear them laugh, I turn and hug Jessica , then Danny.
"sorry just come to drop off Adian's "meds" and say hi" I yawn, and nod.
"tired?" I nod again.
"he's inside if you want to see him" they no "no".
"we need to go before Logan notices we're gone, the covens will be in town next week. We wanted to warn you, go away for a few day with Adian and your parents" I groan.
"it's been 3 years, will he still remember my scent?" Danny nods.
"I see what I can do…anyway thanks guys" they smile, hug me and disappear.
Days, weeks, months go by and I can't sense them anywhere, I put a protection spell on Adian and myself. I had to learn to protect us , he is just 2 years old, and I can't lose him even if I was blessed with him through pain and agony. Life is funny, I know. Cartoon night so we are sitting on the couch Adian is watching cartoons, while I play with his black hair, he looks like his father, just younger. Black hair, black eyes, baby face…big black eyes. He is intelligent , happy, loving, kind, active, like run around like crazy active. The cartoon ends finally.
"okay bedtime" Adian sits up, making a sad face.
"buaaa mama, me not go schoou tomorrow" he moans.
"okay so you don't want to go to Kyle's house tomorrow?" he stands up and walks into the bathroom to brush his teeth.
" what type do you want tonight?" by type I mean blood, he has a glass every two days,Doctor Danny orders to help him with development but he can eat human food and it still has its functions.
"AB negatave" you can imagine how that sounds, he can speak well and all but something it's like he is still learning to.
"okay come on, hurry up" I pour some AB negative into a small plastic cup and put it back into the fridge.
I walk into his room to find him in bed and ready to sleep, I hand him the blood, he drinks in one shot, and hands the cup back to me.
"okay, Goodnight baby" I give him and kiss , leave his lap on, but switch off the main light.
He walks towards me, his eyes entirely black, I walk back trying to get away from him, but I feel hitting the ground, I'm scared I can feel it, I know he can too.
"you kept him away from me!" he shouts, I pull myself backwards.
"mommy!MAMA!" I turn slight to see Brandon taking my son away, I try to get up, but he kicks me in the side.
"please Logan, he is still young. He needs me" he laughs maliciously.
"no…he doesn't" he crouches, his hand wrapping around my neck. I can't breathe, his grip tightens.
"he never will"
I have nightmares most nights but tonight is different, I can feel someone watching the house so I go to the window and peep out the curtain, I can see it, and it and see me. I know it can see me. If it is Logan, I can't move now, I have more strength where my family lay in the earth, I know people may think I'm a fool because I don't want to leave but that doesn't mean I can't fly Adian to Hawaii for a while.
Third person.
He sits, watching the sun go down and the moon become brighter. Nikky walks in with Amber, who runs to Logan as soon as she sees him.
"daddy!" he scopes her up, while she giggles.
"how was your day love" she sits on his lap, her long blond hair and baby blue eyes.
"we had play time an-" Jessica walks into the room, growls at Nikky before speaking to Logan.
"we back!" Danny walks in behind her, with a smirk on his face.
"yea we back!" he says mocking Jessica, Logan stands up, putting Amber down on the chair.
He moves closer to Danny and Jessica, smelling the air. Jessica moves closer to Danny, but Logan grabs her arm gently, smelling the air one more time. He turns slightly towards Nikky, who looks confused like very one else.
"go get lunch" Nikky face turns angry.
"Logan you hardly see her!" Logan appears in front of Nikky.
"I said leave" Nikky takes Amber and leaves, but she doesn't want to, he treats her like shit all the time.
Danny and Jessica remain quite, waiting for Logan to speak. Logan just stands in the middle of the room watching the two.
"when did you see her?" Jessica walks up to him, looking him in the eyes.
"we didn't, we just run past her apartment in Brooklyn hoping we would see her but we found out she moved 2 years back" Logan sits in his office chair.
"I don't believe you" he get up and walks towards the door, but stops before he goes out.
"i will find her again" he walks out.
"we are fucken screwed! I can feel it" Jessica whispers.
Normal POV
My cousin Mikey opens the door, and lets a very hyper Adian in. I laugh hugging him, and Sammy his wife.
"so he's doing well with the blood" I nod, watching Adian and Kyle, my cousin's son play outside. Mikey hands me a glass of Iced tea.
"and you still having those nightmares" I nod sitting on the chair closet to the window.
"Jade, there's a shield around the house" I look at both Sammy and Mikey.
"I know, sorry. It's just…I saw one watching my house" Mikey nods.
"they'll be running through here any day now. They going to the 8th coven" I frown.
"be home on that day please" by home he means where my parents are. I moan and groan like a six year old who doesn't want to go to school.
"aah come on Jade! Not now" I try my puppy dog house, but they don't work.
"nope go!" I sit having lose our little war.
"I swear you two are brother and sister with the way you act" Sammy laughs.
we are. His father and my father were brothers but his parents died when he was 10 and now he is in his late twenties, and he is more like my brother than my cousin, my annoying brother.
"I can't, he'll smell me and know I am here…I think I have to face him I'm tired! God am I tired!. He haunts me in my dreams and in my waking hours. I constantly feel like someone is watching me or they gonna ponce onto me and Adian. Mikey, I have to be there, I am your right-hand woman, your heir if you pass and Kyle is not old enough to take the throne, and I'm also the smartest and the best fighter you have with and without magic" He groans, knowing very well he has lost this war.
"Mickey, she's right" Sammy gets up, winks at me and kisses Mickey's cheek.
"and you know she is" he groans again just as Kyle and Adian run in the house, they freeze when they see Mickey.
"mommy I think Daddy's changing into a pig again" ooh and we can change form.
The wind is blowing telling me secrets of the woods and the leaves in the trees create music, almost like the sea and waves crashing together. 200 of us all over the woods waiting for them, listening,looking our senses heighted. 200 of the strongest witches and wizards ready for them. I go stiff, when I hear thunder and feel it vibrate through the ground.
"Jade I need you to go to the back please" I frown, shocked.
"Mickey I need t-" he faces me, I can see the worry and the protectiveness I his eyes.
"alright" I walk to the back and stand next to Anna, angry.
"he's only trying to protect you" I look at the dark brown earth, the moon and stars our only light source.
"we can't protect each other at the same time".
A few seconds after them in the distance, they appear in front of us. I can see them, Ryan, Jessica, Danny…Logan, wait what? Nikky?. He turned her? Wow ookkaayy. I stood in silence, Mickey staring daggers at Logan.
"Mickey, say something!" he looks back, right at me. Than faces Logan again.
"Logan McShane" his deep voice echos through out the woods.
"Mickey Winters, thank you for allowing us to pass through your land" Mickey keeps a straight face.
"you welcome, but pass through quickly. We have families to go home to" Logan smirks.
"I can smell her" I go stiff, shivers run down my back.
"I bet you can bloodsucker" Logan's eyes start changing becoming black bit by bit.
"bloodsucker?" my cousin laughes.
"what leech, you not getting what you are?" oh fuck.
"I don't think he can Mic, he is a King just like you but a little more…how I can I put this? He is monsterish, aren't you Logan" I stand in between Mickey and Logan.
Everyone just remains quite.
"what? You can't speak now Logan? Is it in a knot?" I laugh.
"Jade" he whispers, stepping forward, Mickey pulls me back.
"yes Jade, the girl you kidnapped and raped repeatedly? Anywho, you and Mickey sound like a couple of were-bitches, move on" they both look at me like I'm crazy as fuck.
"I told you to stay at the back Jade" I look at him with a blank face.
"yea I would have but you were about to burn him Mickey. I could see it. Control remember?" Control that's the one thing my grandmother taught us never to forget.
We are not animals we do not run on instinct like Vampires and Weres. We have something they don't , but something they do want . When my granny unlocked my powers, I got something called the sight. I can see the past, present and future, the decisions people make or are going to make and how they will affect them and the people around them. I see what everyone tries to hide. I dream my visions, when I touch someone, when I concentrate or sometimes…most times they just come to me, but I can block them out, I only use it on nights like this when I know Mickey might start a war. He is a good king, he just has a short temper.
Mickey has the fire gift, we have it, his is just…more powerful and beautiful. He could burn down a whole city if he wanted, but he won't. Mickey nods and stands behind me, breathing in and out deeply.
"you asked to past through our land, why are you still waiting? We'll make sure you get to the other side and back when you return" I look at Mickey, he nods and smiles.
"all know what to do" Mickey reminds them of the plan, some in the air, some among the vamps and others like myself on the tree tops.
I jump up, using the wind to keep me up. I look down at Mickey, he nods.
"okay lets go" I run, knowing where we are headed, our land ends at the edge of the White Woods, we never go past or into their territory, been there had to run for my life.
The wind feels like ice, which is weird because it's warm out tonight. Running on wind is like floating, except you control it
"you a witch" I ignore him, I know I was…wrong in a way for exposing myself but I rather have him know now than to come back with black eyes and those pearl white fangs , wanting to kill me and my family.
"a White Wood witch at that. I know there was something about you that was…unusual about you" I stop, Ryan stops too, smiling.
"you were at my house? Why?" his grins wider.
"I had to see you, so I followed Danny and Jessica" rolling my eyes, irritated I continue running.
"come on! You didn't miss me? Just a little bit?" letting out an irritated moan I run faster.
"I forgot about you" I hear him drop, lands on the ground.