Here it is :) it's short and a filler, but I hope you like it
Uri and I spent the two weeks he managed to get off work together. He took me down to the rafting school and we went kayaking, we ran in the woods every morning. When his family went to the lake nearby I explained my tattoos to him, especially the map on my back. When I started travelling, I got a blank map with all the country borders lined in, then every country I went to I got coloured in. My tattoo of the Empire State Building down my side for home, the lock and key on my ankles.
I convinced him to take a trip into Denver and we spent the day walking around and having fun. I begged him to get a tattoo with me and all he said was, "What would I get, I have nothing that needs meaning on my skin." He then grabbed me around the waist and hoisted me up onto his shoulders while I shrieked.
Uri taught me to paint after not doing it for years, he had gotten so much better than when we were twelve. After one particular session, we went into town to the diner for lunch. It was Saturday so it was packed, but we managed to get a table at the very back. Just as we finished, Karla called Uriel and asked us to pick a few things up from the supermarket.
When we got everything we needed, I ran into May Hoffman.
"Watch where you're walking, young lady!" She huffed, then turned to look at Uri, "Uriel Benedict, is it? You haven't been home for months, your mother was telling me how worried she was about you."
"I've been quite busy with my job in Denver, Mrs Hoffman, I travel a lot as well, otherwise I would come down every weekend." He said respectfully, pulling a face at me when she looks away, I stifled a giggle, causing her to look at me.
"Is this your girl, Mr Benedict? She's certainly pretty, not so sure about the tattoos though."
Uri looked awkward, "No ma'am, she's just a close friend."
"I'm Cassandra Bouchard, Mrs Hoffman, I spent my summers with the Benedicts for many years." I interrupted, refraining from rolling my eyes at how crass she is.
"Oh little Cassie Bouchard! Why on earth did you stop visiting? Those boys became trouble makers after you left."
"There were some family issues," I said shortly, hoping to end the conversation.
Of course she had to try to find out what. "What could possibly stop you from coming to see those boys?"
"We really should get going, Cass," Uri started pulling me to the checkout.
"My family died." I tossed over my shoulder to May Hoffman, who stood there shocked.
"I can't believe you said that!" Uri laughed after we paid and left, making the walk back to the Benedict Family home.
"I just wanted her to shut up," I replied, laughing too.
Whenever I had nightmares (which was almost every night), Uri would come and sit with me until I fell asleep, then he would usually fall asleep next to me. On his last night before he had to go back, I had the worst nightmare I had had in years.
I'm standing in a warehouse, unable to move. I see a group of ten people in front of me, Mom, Dad, Chris, Mitch and Katie. They were gagged and tied to chairs. I cried out, it was like my fourteenth birthday all over again. Five people stood behind them, holding a gun to their heads. It is exactly like that day, that still haunts me, except everyone is grown up and different somehow, they've given up on trying. They can't see me, I'm in the dark and they're in the light. I try to scream, but it just comes out like a strangled sob.
I hear the sound of a bullet sliding into the chamber, then another, and another and two more simultaneously.
There's a pregnant pause and then all of the guns fire at once.
The bodies slump forward in their restraints.
I sat bolt upright in bed, screaming my throat raw. Uriel burst in the door to take in my ragged appearance. The tears running tracks down my face, my hair escaping its loose braid and my heaving chest and pounding pulse.
"Shhh, it's okay Cassie, it wasn't real, it wasn't real. I'm here now." He curled me into his arms and his chest as he slides into the bed. I sobbed quietly, glad I have someone just here.
Thank you, Uri I was too tired to speak, so I just used telepathy. Uriel stiffened slightly, then just stroked my hair until I fell asleep.
"It's okay darlin'" I thought he whispered as my breathing calmed and I let the darkness consume me.