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Chapter Eleven

Jillian Mastrano

Icy Tears

Eddie grabs my wrist and pushes me into the bushes behind me. He looks over at Adrian and Sydney and they follow suite, crouching low in the thorn free cloud of green.

"You have to stay here," Eddie growls. "No matter what you hear, no matter what happens, you guys have to stay here."

"No," I whisper as I grab his hand. "Eddie you need my help, there's water here, I can help you!"

"No Jill, I'm not taking you with me, it's too dangerous," he whispers as he leans down on his knees.

"But you can't take them all by yourself," I say as my eyes burn with tears. "Sydney, Adrian, say something!"

Adrian looks at me with sad green eyes. "There is no other option Jailbait, Eddie's a big boy, he can take care of himself."

Sydney nods and takes her hand in mine. "Eddie is right," she whispers.

I look away from them angrily. How can they say this? How can they all agree to send Eddie out by himself? Eddie reaches out and wipes my tears. He pulls me into his arms and presses his forehead against mine as he strokes my cheeks.

"Don't worry about me Jillian," he whispers softly. "Trust me ok? I won't let anything happen to you or Mia. I'll come back for you I promise."

I nod and bite my lip to hold back a sob. Eddie squeezes my hands one last time and races through the white forest towards Mia's screams. Sydney wraps her arms around me and I lean into her shoulder.

"He's going to come back," she whispers, her voice wavering a little. She reaches out for her Cross with her spare hand. "They both are."

I look out the bush to see the trail of footprints Eddie left and felt my heart tighten. I won't leave him alone, I can't. He'll need my help and he knows it. Adrian meets my eyes and his eyes wander around my aura. He narrows his eyes at me and shakes his head disapprovingly as he reads my mind.

"No Jillian, do not even think about it," he says in a low voice.

Sydney looks over at him shocked at the coldness of his tone and then at me. He knows, he knows what I've set my mind to and that I'm not going to back down on it. He knows that there's no way to stop me now.

"I'm sorry," I whisper as I pull myself out of Sydney's arms. "I have to."

Sydney finally caught onto Adrian and mines silent conversation and shakes her head at me with horror filled eyes. "Jillian get back here now," she says.

"Jill, you need to stay," Adrian says as he looks me in the eyes. Suddenly something soft washes over me and I feel my knees give in as I plop back into the bushes. I gasp in horror as I see what he's doing; he's using compulsion on me. "Jill you know you need to stay with us sweetheart, you have to stay right here with Sydney and me."

Sydney pales and watches as I let out a sob.

"How can you use compulsion on me?" I choke out.

"Jill," Adrian says as he places his hand over mine.

"No!" I yell as I snatch my hand out from underneath his. I push myself up to my feet and jump out of the bush. "Don't you dare stop me now Adrian Ivashkov!"

Sydney jumps to her feet and tries to reach for my arm but it's too late. I break out into a run and push myself deeper and deeper into the snowy white forest. I hear Adrian screaming for me and I look over at my shoulder to see them running after me. I turn back to face the front and follow Eddie's footsteps that line up into a straight line leading to a field of untouched snow. My breaths come out short and fast as I pick up the pace. I can't let them catch me, I can't. After ten minutes of running, my sides start to burn and sweat starts to trickle down my neck, underneath my heavy snow suit. To make matters worse, Eddie's footprints are starting to disappear as I walk further and further into the treeless field of snow.

Shocked at the sight before me, I start to run again and feel my heart skips a beat as Eddie's footprints vanish.

I look around the forest and pale. How can this be? Where is he? He has to be here, how can his footsteps just disappear like that? That's when I see a small figure standing off in the distance of the field, a small familiar, petite figure and behind her are four other men with blood red eyes. Mia, oh my God it's Mia. And where's Eddie? Is he…?

My heart comes to a stop as I stumble back into the tree behind me. A hand suddenly snatches out from behind the tree and pulls me back into the shadows of the large Pine. I struggle in the man's grasp but he soon overpowers me and ends up pushing me against the tree face front so that my back is towards him. I give up in the man's grasp and start to sob as I look up at the clear blue sky. Please God, please if you're there let me live. I can't die yet, oh Eddie where are you?

"Let me go!" I manage to hiss through my sobs. "Please let me go."

"Calm down," a familiar voice snaps as he loosens his grasp on me. "It's me, Eddie."

I let out a gasp and turn around on my heels to throw my arms around his neck. "I thought they had taken you," I whisper.

He pushes me off of him. "Why didn't you stay back with Adrian and Sydney? Why didn't you listen to me?" he whispers angrily.

"I-I wanted to help Eddie," I say. "I didn't want you to leave alone."

"Why don't you trust me? Do you think I'm that weak?" he hisses. "God Jill, what am I going to do now?"

I blush and feel tears spring in my eyes at his cold tone. He was never this cold and mean towards me and it hurts more than having a dagger through your heart.

"I'm sorry Eddie, I just wanted to help."

"Well you didn't alright?! You just made everything worse, how am I supposed to guard you and cross the lake to get Mia huh?"

I blush and look down at my feet so that he can't see me crying.

"I-I can break the lake," I mumble.

Eddie stops pacing and looks at me. "You'd need water, the lake is frozen,"

"You just need to make a small hole or something; I can reach the water from the hole and make a wave."

He groans and leans against the Pine agonized. "It's too risky; the Strigoi will probably just pull her out."

"Mia can fight back, she'll get the message when I make the wave, and after all, she's the one who taught me the move."

Eddie looks at Mia and sighs. "Fine, stay here, I'll go make a hole."

I nod and watch as he sneaks closer to the lake with his stake in his hand. As soon as his back is towards me, I dry my eyes and rub my face of all evidence of crying and watch as Eddie carves a circle into the lake. He steps back and pokes the large circular plank of ice and watches as it pops up from the water. He silently kicks it aside and nods at me.

I close my eyes and reach my hands out towards the water. A warm feeling runs up my arms and I let out a sigh as I push my hands up. The nice, tingling feeling elevates as I push higher and then back down and then higher again and then back down. Finally when my entire body is heated up with my magic's strength, I push the water up one last time as high as I can and then push it down with the twice the force I've ever mastered before. The ice breaks loudly which catches the attention of the Strigoi and Mia. As the crack meets the crack near where Mia's standing, the ice splits in an ear piercing sound and a huge wave of water gushes out. From across the ice, Mia meets my eyes and nods silently as she caught onto what our plan was.

Come on Mia, I think. It's now or never.

Third POV

Mia Rinaldi catches the familiar green eyes of Jillian. The Strigoi holding Mia growl angrily as the water washes up to their waists. This is a distraction that they do not need. Mia takes advantage of their frustration and kicks her leg back at the Strigoi holding her. The three other Strigoi start to reach for her but Mia's prepared and is on the top of her toes. She raises her hand and grabs a heavy load of water and pushes the three back leaving her and the wounded Strigoi on the other end of the still standing ice.

The Strigoi growls and manages to push himself up to his feet as he lets his eyes take in his friends on the other side of the wave and then Mia. "You are being foolish blonde," he hisses as he narrows his blood red eyes. He limps towards her and grabs her by her hair. Mia's grasp on the wave falters and one of the three Strigoi grabs onto her floating ice plank and tries to hoist himself up onto it. "You are dead."

Mia watches in horror as the Strigoi's fangs near her throat. She looks over on the other side of the ice to see Eddie racing across the bridge of ice Jill's holding together with the water on the other end of the lake. It'll take at least a minute for Eddie to come and save her; he'll be 59 seconds short. Mia looks at the Strigoi as he closes his mouth in on her throat and does the most stupid thing ever. She breaks the ice and breaks her wave.

The four Strigoi howls angrily as the five of them fall into the icy cold lake. Mia closes her eyes and lets the water raise up over her head as her legs start to grow unnaturally still. She pushes her hands out and tries to move the water around her but her hands seem to be too cold and still to do anything. She feels her tears on her cheeks slowly raise up to the top of the lake that's getting farther and farther away as she sinks towards the bottom of the very deep lake. Her lungs ache from the lack of air and her heart beats painfully slow as her eyes start to flutter close. The Strigoi push them up to the surface easily and seem to have forgotten about Mia. Suddenly, a hand reaches out from the growing darkness and motions for Mia to reach out for it. Mia stretches her hand weakly and feels familiar, long calloused fingers squeeze hers gently as they drag her up to the surface. Strong arms wrap around her small, fragile body and pull her onto land and she feels her body shake as the man sets her down gently.

Mia starts gagging and gasping for air as she falls onto her palms. She clutches her side and tries to bite her lip to keep her from shivering. She ends up curling against the large Pine she was set besides and looks around herself to see that she's no longer near the lake but back in the forest on the other side of the lake that's free of all the Strigoi whom had attacked her. How did she get here?

Something moves besides her and Mia gasps. The man, she thinks as she looks up into a pair of red blood eyes. Mia pales and pushes herself into the trees.

"No," she whispers. "No, no this can't be."

The Strigoi looks into her eyes painfully and starts to reach for her but stops frozen halfway. He looks over his shoulder and glances back down at her one last time before racing into the forest.

"Mia?" someone calls. "Mia?!"

Eddie pops out from behind the tree in front of her and drops down on his knees before her. He quickly shrugs out of his jacket and wraps it around Mia's shaking body.

"Shh, Mia, it's ok, I'm here, everything's going to be ok" he whispers as he tightens his grasp on his stake.

"No," Mia whispers as she looks down the forest where the Strigoi who had saved her life ran off to. "Nothing will ever be ok again; nothing will be ever the same from on today."

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