We Can't Be Happy Overground
"Go ahead." Cara spoke slowly, "Bring them all back, bring them all back and kill me." Her words tumbling off her bottom lip, her voice low. Her eyes trying to stay fixed on Dahlia, but flickered to Kahlan's strung up corpse. She didn't want Dahlia to know of her true feelings. Dahlia hadn't had the pleasure that Cara had and was still stuck in what passed for feelings as a Mord'Sith. Duty and violence.
This Cara before her now was not the Cara she had known pretty much her whole life, she was tainted by the Mother Confessor, but she did still carry a strong sense of duty, Dahlia had to applaud her for that. The merry band of idiots hadn't taken that away from her. She was still Mord'Sith at her core.
"A little too quick to rush back to the Mother Confessor there Cara..." Dahlia lingered over Kahlan. "What did she do to you?" Dahlia looked sideways towards Cara, a look of confusion in her brow. "Shall we find out?" Dahlia inched closer to the Mother Confessor and gave her the Breath of Life.
Kahlan gasped, tried to move but her ties bound her, she hazily looked up, pain pounding in her head. Her heavy eyelids shooting open wide when across from herself she saw Cara, naked, also tied to a tree. Her lips trembled as Dahlia blocked her view, widening in fear. "What have you done?" Her teeth grated, sizzling with power.
"Me?" Dahlia's brows high, mocking. "Look what you did to my..." She stepped close in anger, speaking fast then composed herself. "...to Cara."
Kahlan reached out with her mind, sending calming thoughts but in return received thoughts of pain and almost fear. How? She was almost picking up on Cara's thoughts. She almost heard Cara's voice soothing her in her own mind, again how? She couldn't make out words, just the warm feeling Cara's presence always gave her.
Had there time together in death broken down conventional Confessor/Sith boundaries? Oh Kahlan hoped so, she flashed in her mind how incredible life with Cara would be if they could literally communicate without words, as opposed to how much they already communicated with their eyes alone.
"I won't let you Confess her again."
"Confess? I never-" Dahlia cut her off with a laugh.
"Why else would Cara, the greatest Mord'Sith I have ever known... why else would she be puppy dogging it around with the Seeker, that foolish wizard and you?" Dahlia chuckled again. "Never Confessed her, you thought I would believe that, foolish foolish Confessor."
"Will you just bring back your sisters and kill us now, I tire of you." Cara spoke nonchalantly. Dahlia met Cara's words with a sharp backhander to the face. Cara spat out blood but her eyes remained defiant.
"You have..." Dahlia clearly had trouble speaking her next words, "... feelings for the Mother Confessor?" Posed as a question but Dahlia was sure she was getting what had been going on here. Still, she looked at Cara for an answer, Cara's silence but steady gaze across past Dahlia onto Kahlan said it all, more than her words could have said or lied. "Her? Her?!" Her voice raised as she grabbed an agiel, and thrust it behind her into Kahlan's side. "This whimpering fool, everything we hated..." Kahlan gasped, her eyes fluttering in trying to keep in her pain. Dahlia stretched out her other hand, the agiel still on Kahlan, and stroked her gloved hand down Cara's quaking in fury torso. "Does that... hurt... seeing your Confessor in pain?" Dahlia's lips formed an almost snarl.
She let her arm drop on Kahlan, and stepped close to Cara, looking over her like an animal on it's prey. She traced her agiel lightly down Cara's exposed curves. Dahlia replaced her light touch with a harsh thrust of her agiel, Cara blinking slowly, allowing the pain to flow through her. Dahlia kissed Cara with passion, Cara's lips clenched shit, refusing to respond but slowly they moved with Dahlia's passion increasing.
"Oh to have you under my power." Dahlia's eyes struggled to take in all of Cara's beauty. She stopped her agiel, where it had been tracing lines over Cara's curves and thrust it into Cara's hip sharply. Cara's hips bucked as far as they could in response, and continued to do so as her steady expression turned into a faint grimace. She closed her eyes again, trying to reach out to Kahlan's mind. It searched for relief in Kahlan's mind, not finding it in her presence. Cara telling her body to not find relief in this moment, in Dahlia and her agiel and hand on her hips, her lips on Cara's ear. "Remember. Surrender. As I did to you." Dahlia's breath tingling on her ear, Cara let herself remember how happy they'd been, but refused to surrender to Dahlia now. "Surrender." Dahlia repeated and trailed her tongue around Cara's ear and down her neck. "It was to be you and me, always, forever." Cara shivered, partly at hearing Dahlia's voice, it had been so long. "Don't you want that back too?"
A smile formed on Cara's lips. "I miss you more than I can ever..." Dahlia moved her agiel and hand from Cara's hips, and moved to face her. "Remember me Dahlia, but let go. Move on."
Dahlia cocked her head back and forth weighing Cara's words. She backed away from Cara, and went to a fallen sister, cupping her head she gave her the Breath of Life, telling her to give it to another till they were all revived. The Mord'Sith were all alive once more, standing tall behind Dahlia, already strong and ready for Dahlia's orders.
"Ride onto Lord Rahl, tell him I have the Mother Confessor... and a nice surprise for him." She made a gesture with her arm and they all took to their horses, riding off into the night. "If I can't make you come back, he will. I'm sure he will be as pleased as I was to see you again, Cara."
"I see you moved on rather quick, Cara." In a blink Dahlia shifted her gaze from Cara to Kahlan. "Nothing to say to me, Mother Confessor... Nothing to say after taking away-" Dahlia cut herself off, she bit her bottom lip, angry at these emotions coming to her surface. She stepped towards Kahlan, slowly placing her agiel into Kahlan's chest, her eyes studying Kahlan's reaction. Watching the pain visibally spread across the woman's chest. "How dare you wear those." Dahlia almost spat in disgust. "You have no idea what Cara endured to earn the right to wear that."
Kahlan looked past Dahlia, her eyes getting lost in Cara's eyes. Drowning in her sadness, worry, hurt, concern, helplessness.
Dahlia tried to block their eyeline to one another, stepping closer still to Kahlan, as she removed the agiel. Kahlan panted, gasped. Dahlia placed her gloved hand on the Mother Confessors chest, slipping her hand, slowly, under the leather over the swell of Kahlan's heaving chest, feeling the Mother Confessors heart pounding under her palm. "What did you do to break her, Mother Confessor?" Dahlia spoke slowly, giving Kahlan's breast a light squeeze. "Did the wizard do something to her? Was that it?" Dahlia searched Kahlan's eyes for answers as she kneaded Kahlan's breast, slowly placing her agiel once more at Kahlan's side. It caused the same reaction as it had with Cara.
Dahlia chuckled, and looked over her shoulder to Cara. Cara was still looking past her, at Kahlan. Dahlia turned her head, angry, wanting the Mother Confessor to speak, at least look at her. Dahlia moved quickly, and swiftly smacked Cara across the face with the back of the agiel, then returned to Kahlan. Standing squarely infront of her. Kahlan's eyes looked up into hers in false defiance. Kahlan shuddered at what she saw there, pure hatred for her reflected back at her. She tried to avert her eyes, but as she did Dahlia smiled cruelly, and leant in and kissed her.
Kahlan bit the Mord' Sith's lip, Dahlia jumped back a little, in surprise, returning the favour with a swift backhanded smack to Kahlan's cheek with her agiel, as she had with Cara before.
Dahlia was more careful this time as she moved close to the Mother Confessor, she placed the agiel in the nape of Kahlan's neck, as she returned her hand under the leather. Cara watched, feeling herself getting wet. She could almost feel Dahlia's touch on her, and then feel like she was Dahlia, moving on Kahlan. Her head mixed up with where she was in the scenario across from her. She watched as Dahlia struggled a little under the binding to reveal Kahlan's flesh. Despite her best efforts she let out a small moan.
Dahlia's head whipped round at the sound. Her eyes flickered with excitement. "Does this excite you?" Dahlia let her gaze on Cara linger before turning to lean in and kiss Kahlan's exposed chest. She placed her agiel back in her belt, and let her hands roam free over where she had freed Kahlan's body from the leather. After a while she turned her head, as he hands played over Kahlan's heavy breathing chest and smiled wickedly at Cara. "You've not changed too much then Cara?" Her eyes dark as she reached for her agiel once more, lingering it above Kahlan's exposed stomach. Kahlan breathed in as much as she could, trying to avoid contact with the agiel, but Dahlia moved it slowly closer til there was contact. Kahlan let out a gasp, her mouth quivering. "Pain and pleasure, still one and the same, Cara?"
Cara who had been holding back words, as she usually did, whimpered out "Please stop."
Dahlia laughed loudly. "Stop?!" She shook her head. "Did you really just ask, no... beg... yes you did. You pleaded with me to stop... for her?" Dahlia rolled her eyes a little. "Don't you remember, you never... you NEVER... beg me to stop." Her eyes bore into Cara's as she let herself calm back down a little. "She really has ruined you." Dahlia couldn't help but slip out, quietly, almost to herself.
Dahlia moved the agiel lower, onto Kahlan's abdomen, tracing around her centre, onto the top's of her thighs. Kahlan moved further and further into her own mind, calling out for Cara's soothing tones once more. Dahlia moved the agiel away, Kahlan instinctively let out a loud sigh, thankful to be spared. Dahlia inspected Kahlan's body, it was now covered in a thin layer of sweat, she looked pathetic to Dahlia's steely grey eyes. She couldn't believe what she was being led to believe, some pathetic Confessor had turned Cara against her. Had effected Cara so much, in so little time. Dahlia gave one last look over to Cara, Cara did not looked relieved as Kahlan did. Cara's eyes showed fear, knowing that her plead to stop was about to cause Kahlan more pain. Dahlia was savouring every second, letting Kahlan linger and recover, then she nudged her agiel between Kahlan's legs.
"And now I'm going to ruin her."