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Chapter 3: Moments That Shape Us
Strong. Courageous. Those were the exact words used to describe Kristina but she couldn't find it in herself, anymore. The only thing she saw was stupidity and immaturity. She had done everything against her dear Nina's wishes. Kristina unintentionally thought, if she acted like a child they would send her the young dark haired woman knew deep down that the idea was very unlikely. Kristina tried to keep hope, to follow in the instruction of her elder teacher. To have hope was her goal yet she caught herself having hope in the wrong places.
The raven-head sighed at the sight of the dim candlelight still burning in the back windows of the castle. Kristina rather be surround by darkness then get caught sneaking in after the little spat with her master.
Walking into the garden to be greeted by the luxurious fountain and a sliver glimpse of a body outline, the human jumped back slightly. Gracing back to see if her assumption was correct, the picture of the figure became more visible. The shade sat motionless on the bench beside the water-spewing statue. By the way the manly figure stood and his silence, the servant was certain of his identity.
"Mind sitting with me?" Lord Elijah said sending her a halfhearted smile in the light of the full moon.
"It would be a pleasure." Kristina whispered taking the available sit next to him but avoided further contact.
The grey eyed woman stared in a daze at the moon's reflection off the fountain water. The sight drained from the uncomfortable elongated silence.
"Nina prayed for me to have you as my master." She whispered gingerly braking the fragile glass of quietness. Her fingers lacing around the silver anchor that stood perfectly on her chest at the thought of her great aunt.
"Did she really? I missed that old hag." He chuckled softly, being attentive not to frighten the holder of the big black curls. "She was more of a mother to me then my true mother ever was." Elijah said pondering on old memories, a depressing smile creeping up on his thin lips.
"Yes. Nina helped me with my situation once my parents decided to offer me for . . . the job." Kristina hesitated, playing her word wisely around the creature of the night.
"How did you end up here?" He asked her, curiosity getting the better of him.
"It's a confusing story-" Kristina protested, her chest already hurt from the invisible whole missing in her heart.
"I'm a very good listener." The lord implied.
"It all started when my father caught me with someone I was suppose to be with. His name was Athen. He was very easy on the eyes." She said biting her sore bottom lip when she saw Elijah grin.
"Go on." He implied again careful not to push to hard.
"Lets see. The day of my 17 summer, I was told I was going to be given as a token for our families safety. I had a year to prepare or as Athen would say, I had a year to sign my death or run away with him." She laughed at the irony of his words now.
"We planned to run, even Nina encouraged me, at first. She said she saw the life in my eyes and that I wouldn't want this. But she also told me, if I left it would leave either Emily or Luke to take my space. Emily is always very ill and Luke is much too small to take on the job. Nina was the only one that thought the situation through."
"That late spring, I told Athen I desired to stay and serve the creature of the night." When Kristina said this, she dared not to look in Lord Elijah's forest green eyes. She remained staring at the refection of the full moon on the untouched water. Everything seemed to replay itself in chronological order. And Kristina was the inly one with the knowledge of the pain that came next.
"Four weeks before I had to go,. Athan tried to steal me away, in the end he convinced me. And we planned to leave the next evening. The morning came in a hit gaze that day. I woke up from the long night of sneaking out to meet him in the woods. That morning his family came over and told me the news." She was fighting back tears at this point. Kristina remembered the day like it was yesterday.
"They came in that warm July morning, his mother was nonresponsive to anything anyone said. Probably in shock and Athan's father's eyes were all puffy when I invited them in. But they refused; they told me Athen died last night in the woods. Robbers had tried to take his money but he didn't have any." She finishing by take in a shaky breath. Squeezing her grey misty eyes shut in hopes to bloke out their sorrow-filled faces.
"They beat him to death." The word felt like ice daggers going down her throat but the tears didn't fall. She couldn't put herself to tear over him anymore; she had done enough of that in the past terrifying months.. Deep down Kristina knew Athan would have wanted her to be strong.
"It was a sign, I shouldn't misbehave, thats what my mother told me after i confessed my whole story. My father yelled at me right after my mother told him. That's when, I realized he had sent those people to rob him. I hate them both, which is why I came. I'd rather be in the presence of that monster," She spat secretly meaning Niklaus and Elijah got the memo. "Then face my parents become monsters like him" When she finished the tears had past and there was only true hatred in her voice. Kristina had never told anyone about that incident or about her parents were the really murders.
Her parents were responsible for everything, her sorrows, her lose, her bruises, and her lack of being able to ever love again.
"I must go. I'm sorry for taking up your time with my oblivious blabbering, Lord Elijah." She said, not looking at him and walking to the castle in a hurry. Suddenly a cold arm gripped her wrist and swung her around to where she faced kind emerald green eyes. Kristina felt her face crash into his chest and Elijah's strong arm gently squeeze her. Then she let her tears flow.
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