Hello, everyone! How is everyone? I was working hard on my routine and then I pulled a back muscle and I was in pain for 3 days.
Anyways, I huge warning for this chapter;
THERE IS GRAPHIC DETAIL OF TORTURE, VIOLENCE, DOMESTIC ABUSE AND RAPE! READ IT AT YOUR OWN ACCORD!
Enjoy!
Be Somebody
Chapter 13: Tortures of the past and of the present.
Nansia doesn't know how long she has been hanging in there but her arms are going numb. And her eyes were red from crying.
What would 2149 Nansia think of her if she saw her?
Then her mind went into a flashback;
Flashback:
Nansia woke up in the drop ship while crash landing and she was horrified.
She looked around her and she locked eyes with another horrified look in the boy's eyes.
"It's only a bad dream! It's only a bad dream, Stiles! You have to wake up Stiles! STILES WAKE UP!" The boy mumbled horrified and very breathy and she looked a little confused because she couldn't quite understand what he was saying.
"It's not a dream!" Nansia yelled at him with a very anxious tone but she was trying to calm him down and he started to tear up since he couldn't calm down.
"No, it can't be!" The boy said crying as he looked around him.
Nansia couldn't argue with him because she got hit her head to the seat she was sealed in and lost her consciousness from all the bumpy way down.
She only regained it when one of the other 100s check on her, his name was John Murphy.
"Thanks." Nansia told him in a pained tone and Murphy smiled sadly. Murphy felt a little protective of her because she looked so out of place.
"Any time…well within a normal reasoning." Murphy said and helped her up and they walked out of the drop ship.
Nansia and Murphy looked at the forest view and Nansia was beyond confusion and Murphy understood that because she didn't hide it.
"My grandpa used to say this is a forest…it's pretty cool, right?" Murphy said in a teaching voice and Nansia was too distracted by trying to understand what the fuck was going on that she only nodded out of instinct.
After that Murphy left her and walked out of the drop ship and Nansia was left staring at her surroundings.
End of Flashback:
Her eyes flattered open as cold water was thrown over her entire body.
"Wakey wakey!" The man said with a mockery tone.
"What do you want from me?" Nansia asked tiredly and shaking from the frozen water as she was hanging there.
"I think you know!" The man said as he draw out the word know as he moved around the warehouse and her.
"No the fuck I don't! What do you want from me?!" Nansia yelled at him as she tried to come close to his face.
"Oh! You're lying! How can you not know about Malivore since your friends know?" The man said again and he drawled out the word "lying" and then his voice return to normal.
"Your name is Ryan Clarke, right?" She asked as her teeth chattered together and she shivered. Ryan tilted his head in confusion and nodded in response to Nansia's question.
"Alright, listen to this Ryan Clark, this is the truth, I don't know anything about any Malivore and these people in the school aren't my friends so they are not obligated to tell me shit and I'm not obligated to know shit. In conclusion I know nothing!" Nansia said with the bravest tone she could master while freezing from the cold water and shaking.
Ryan studied her and she seemed genuine and he couldn't believe that she doesn't know a thing about Malivore.
He had seen her hanging around Hope and her band of friends. How can she not?
He decided that she was lying.
"Here's the thing miss Gilbert, I don't believe you." Ryan said as he grabbed a rope and he folded it in half then took a bottle of a yellowish water and he drenched it. Nansia watched in horror realizing he knew what she was but then noticed how the water had not only wolfsbane but vervain.
So she reached the conclusion that he didn't know what she was and he was trying to cover all his bases.
"Seriously? You are so obsessed with whatever you are looking for that you think I'm lying even when I'm not! I can't make you believe me…but I really don't know anything!" She yelled at him while he pretended not to listen to her.
"Alright, you might be right, also you might know something by other names so let me explain; I'm looking for the keys to open Malivore, Malivore is my father that TRIAD had managed to liquefy and whenever a supernatural being is being thrown in they get erased. No memory of them ever existing. Now that I explained them to you, do you know anything you are willing to give out or I'll have to get it out of you with the not so nice way?" He said quickly as he looked at her in the eyes with a no emotion.
"Oh! Now that you oh so kindly explain that to me I'll tell you that I only saw a bunch of monsters attacking the school for no reason or at least most students don't know why they were attacking. And that is all I know, please…please let me go!" Nansia told him desperately and Ryan studied her face for a bit he was reminded about how he realized who she was;
Flashback:
He was watching her leave the bench and he decided to follow her. He followed her everywhere and that is how he realized she was going to that school. He tried to research her name online but only found some adoption papers. This girl didn't exist before the adoption.
He thought she escaped from Malivore somehow along with all the monsters.
So, he abducted her. He wanted to know what she knew!
Which brings us to now.
End of Flashback:
"You really don't know, do you? Then answer me this, where are you from?" Ryan asked her and Nansia sighed;
"My full name is Athanasia Andoniadou-Skorpiti I was adopted by my cousin's cousin because my mum was abusing me and my sister, my step-dad and half sister are working on a case to get my mum behind bars. I am from Central Macedonia in Greece. Nansia is my nickname since none of you Americans can pronounce my name." Nansia said a half true and half lie yet she was very good at lying, she's done it many times on many occasions.
Ryan studied her.
"I know you don't believe me, take off my shoe on my right leg, on my foot there is this huge scar, I had a glass in my foot after stepping on it after the baby bottle fell from my hands since it was warm and didn't expect it to be warm. Mum dragged me by the hair and threw me into my room, locked me with no food or toilet for two days because I broke my sister's favorite bottle. I have two scars on the back of my upper legs from when I saved my sister from being whipped with branch of decorative wood because she said no to washing the dishes because she couldn't reach the sink, she was five years old. You want more? Lift my shirt right under my bra there is a burn mark my mum "accidentally" burnt me with the iron because she saw that I had stained my rosy shirt with bleach while cleaning the bathroom couple days ago. I had a mark on my thumb in my left palm because she shoved a nail in there because I wouldn't let her take out my two front teeth when I was seven. I have a scar on my scalp because she cracked my skull twice, one when I was five and she shoved me to the wall and one because she brought the trunk of the car on my head. My upper lip is so thin because when I was two I pulled out the landline phone, she smacked me and I went almost flying to the edge of the wooden coffee table my entire upper lip was cut by the glass and wood of the table I was lucky I didn't need stitches. Is that enough?" Nansia told him with a shaky voice because she wasn't lying those things did happen to her.
Ryan was frozen in his mind her mother sounded almost as evil as his father.
"Are you human?" Ryan asked her and she sighed.
"I don't know…there were weird things happening to the women of my family…they either die under weird circumstances or have Schizophrenia or become abusive like my mother. The only sane woman I've known was my grandma, my mum's mum. When I was a baby my first word was mama and it was directed to her not to my mum…my mum left me with her for a few months then she returned with my step=dad. She was my mum as far as I'm concerned…she had a hard life yet she wasn't evil…may rest in peace…sorry." Nansia said as she tried to fight the tears and Ryan subconsciously wiped her tears away.
"Sorry for your loss." Ryan said and Nansia nodded.
"Thanks…I haven't cried in over three years for that…" She said as she moved to wipe some snot in her upper arm. Ryan cringed at the unsanitary act but didn't do anything else.
"Any other question?" Nansia asked and Ryan nodded.
"What were you parents jobs? Your family's jobs?" Ryan asked and Nansia sighed.
"Alright, um..we start from my mum's side they were mostly farmers and teachers. My grandma's parents aka my mum's maternal grandparents were from Peloponnesus in Greece and my great grandpa was a small business owner he produced his own wine, he fixed shoes and other appliances and then had a small vineyard. My great grandma's family they were farmers in the surrounding area but much about them I don't know. I researched for a project when I was 14 years old and continued till a I was 17 years old but only got road blocks World War II and the Greek Civil War later most archives were burnt or they were destroyed in the huge earthquakes in 1980s and 1978 depends on which branch of the family you'd look for. My great grandma had nine surviving kids out of twelve, lost her second eldest during the bombings, my grandma the third older daughter saw that happening and blamed herself for it since her brother war her red jacket and the Nazis saw him. She hated the color red from that point till her last days, 88 years. Her husband came in from Eastern Thrace now known as partly as European Turkey and Bulgaria during the not so peaceful exchange of populations in 1922 and 1930s, they established themselves in Central Macedonia and worked as farmers until my grandpa after the war decided to become a teacher and went to Athens where he met my grandma."
"Him, his best friend, my grandma and my grandma's best friend once they graduated the Academy they would leave for Holland in the wake of the civil war which tore my grandma's family to pieces and some siblings left to Australia to never return. My grandma and grandpa got married in Holland a year before they moved to Belgium where my mum's older sister was born. Then they moved to Sweden where my mum was born. Throughout the years abroad my grandma worked as a teacher in both Belgium and Swedish schools in the morning and Greek school for the Greek generation of immigrants in the afternoon. While my grandma worked as an assistant and secretary for the group of people who are the directorate of the primary, secondary and higher educational system in each country and helped grandma teach at the afternoon school at times. When they returned to Greece when my mum was 10 years old my grandpa became a principal of a local new primary school and my grandma a co-principal until grandpa died of cancer when I was four months old and grandma retired. She taught me how to read when I was five and by six I could speak some English and I could understand some Swedish from mum."
"My aunt worked as a secretary to an editor of a magazine that specialized in construction and architecture until she was fire under false allegations because she refused to be the sex slave of her married 58 years old boss. She then went back to school and got an agriculture degree in night school and she started a small farm with her boyfriend and they started producing honey and they made ointments and candles from bee wax and soaps. They also had apples and peaches and they made them various desserts. Then she went back to college and got a degree in Geographical Science which allowed her legal by European Laws to own her land and map her land which for that asked my paternal cousin and her team to do it and then she planted solar panels and used the energy for her hydrofarm experiment that my cousins Helena and Andreas helped build."
"While my mum studied to become a Nursery slash Kindergarten teacher and she study in Athens for the first two years and the other two years she studied in Stockholm. She graduated and decided with her friends to go road tripping to Ireland and they attended a Metallica concerted in Dublin where she met my bio-dad and they had sex and I and my twin were conceived and nine months later born there."
"Now my cousin Andreas has started studying medicine in Amsterdam but after the first four years he transferred to MIT along with his friends but the circumstances were very hushed but during the Christmas he told us him and some of his friend designed a app that uses the biometric print of a person and tracks them through every possible social media and the Internet and Dark Web. But he spends most of his summers in Greece when not working and since he has a Bachelor's degree from High School in Botany he helped my aunt. My cousin Helena she graduated from High School with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Robotics, we went to the same high school were in four years you were completing two types of education, secondary and higher education meaning that you had to do twice the amount of studying. I and her studied for fourteen hours per day for four years. Anyways, after she passed her Pan-Hellenic exams, something like the SATs, she dropped out of the college for Business and Tourism and joined the Air Force and at the same time she was attending online classes at MIT for Mechanical Science and Astrophysics which led her into partnering up with NASA and looking for another livable planet and she is helping build spacecrafts that could withstand long journeys in Deep Space, I don't know the specifics. But she has also helped her brother with his app too at some points."
"While Helena's parents and Andreas' parents were just farmers and co-owned a bar slash night club. My step-dad's family according to him and archives has been blacksmiths, bakers and farmers for centuries only breaking this cycle was my grandpa who after centuries of living in a village near Mountain Olympus decided to go to Athens and work odd jobs, he mostly worked construction. One summer while visiting family he met my grandma she was having a heated argument with her step-mum and step-brother and her step-mum pushed her into the river and tried to drown her when my grandpa intervened along with her step-brother who was trying to pry his mother away from his step-sister. After that my grandpa became my grandma's only friend and decided to stick together to the point he realized she was being abused by her step-mum, he married her only to take her away from them. Together as friends they moved to the near village where my grandma's biological brother was and my grandpa's family originated at first from. Grandpa took his great grandpa's land and started building their home while they lived with my grand-uncle and grand-aunt for the first three years. They fell in love and had my aunt Eva then six years later they had my step-dad."
"It was after my step-dad was seven when his sister who was 11 years old had her first Schizophrenic episode she set my dad's comics on fire and then pushed my dad against the marble sink they had in the yard to add the hose in and water the plants and trees in the yard. My dad after that hit started to have seizures at random times which led to the entire family to leave for Athens. For years my dad would under-go two brain surgeries which would lower his eyesight as a result completely shattering his dream to join the Air Force or NASA, during his teen years he pretended to be dumb and didn't do well until he realized he was harming his own self instead of his sister who by now had gone to study abroad in Romania as an Architect. He study so hard he became the first in his entire school so much so that he was accepted to his first college choice. He wanted to become an Astrophysicist but then he sister returned from Romania and she hadn't been taking her Schizophrenic meds and tried to set him on fire because she thought he was a Soviet spy during in one of her episodes which reminded him how vulnerable he was. He decided to join the Navy but grandpa warned him that if he did, he would be disowned since grandpa's older brother was drowned during his time in the Navy and he didn't want to lose his son, so my step-dad chose the Army. In some conflicts with the Turkey my step-dad lost his 79% of his hearing in his right ear after a IED exploded near him and his Unit when I was 7 years old. When I was 10 he was shot in the leg. He retired when I was seventeen after twenty five years in service, now he's spending his time building various furniture and doing odd jobs in the neighborhood."
"My sister wants to join the Military Academy once she graduates High School and she wants to join NATO and United Nations' troops. She is currently in Junior High and she's training under her dad's guidance and her Track Team coach, she's the best archer in the district and she's great with guns and martial arts. She does MMA for fun and has joined a professional Hip Hop dance group. She's tough…I remember in Primary school she beat up to boys who refused to let play football because she was a girl. Good times!"
While Nansia talked Ryan had sat and listened with awe and confusion that when she said about her sister and the kids in her school he chuckled and Nansia looked at him and she genuinely smiled then he remembered he hadn't spoke about her cousins here in US only in Australia and Amsterdam.
"How are you related to Jeremy Gilbert then?" Ryan asked and Nansia sighed.
"I was in Italy on Youth Exchange program regarding the stop of illegal labor and human trafficking in Europe and Africa when I got a call from my uncle Tinos from Australia telling me he managed to track down some of my grandma's siblings, we had met during my grandma's funeral a couple months prior to my trip in Italy…his dad had disowned him because he was gay and married a Muslim man so they moved to Greece and reunited with the family, anyways he gave me the Gilbert name and since then I had been in contact with Jeremy's sister who is actually his paternal cousin. Elena is my maternal cousin from my mum's paternal side of the family. My grandpa had a brother who married my grandma's sister without anyone's approval and they disappeared, they told us they were going to Australia but apparently they immigrated to US." Nansia lied perfectly and Ryan nodded believing it.
"Now, will you let me go? I told you everything I know." Nansia pleaded and Ryan was very tempted when Nansia groaned in pain and then she started to puke a black liquid.
"What is that?!" Ryan exclaimed in shock and disgust.
"My blood…" Nansia said in between puking and Ryan rushed to put her down.
"Why are you puking blood?" Ryan asked and Nansia shrugged.
"I've done it one more time since coming here in the US…my blood is black because of radiation poisoning….I was 12 when the Fukushima disaster happened and because I was already immune compromised I got poisoned…many were but the countries kept it silent…no one knows not even Jeremy or my parents…I was told that if I told anyone I would be taken to the labs and become a lab rat I didn't want that so my school nurse forced me to not tell anyone…I was very careful but with the beatings mum noticed how my blood was becoming darker and darker growing up…she said because I was a mistake it was God punishing me for killing my twin during our birth. I don't know why I'm puking but I go through puking fits from time to time. What triggers them? No idea…when my best friend was killed in a terrorist attack I puked, my grandma died I puked, when I was 13 years old and a Greek F16 crashed…was shot down near where my school was on excursion and the playground caught fire and suddenly planes are shooting at us from all direction I was hiding under a table and I was fighting not to vomit…I couldn't hold it when I managed to sneak out and see what was going on I saw a man being burned alive…I puked because I recognized him, he was the dad of two of my classmates. I think stress causes them. Except if my super power is to make others puke because I'm puking." Nansia said as she laid her head to the cold floor and Ryan studied her.
"I…I don't know what to say." He said quietly.
"Let me go, I'm useless to you. I know nothing about whatever there you are looking for, I'm too busy trying to get my life on track, send some money to my sister and get the bitch of mother of mine in the darkest cell there is for what she done to us." Nansia said serious and she looked at Ryan in the eyes.
"Alright." He sighed in defeat as he started to undo the chains then he touched her arm, for couple seconds nothing more or less, a scene flashed before his eyes;
Scene:
Nansia standing a sea of dead bodies. She looked to her right and saw a blond woman and to her left a dark haired man.
"They are all dead." Nansia said in horror.
"Radiation killed them." The blond woman said.
"No, Clarke, we did. We pulled that lever!" Nansia exclaimed in guilt.
"We had to save our people, Nansia! There is no other choice!" The dark hair man said.
"We just committed genocide Bellamy! How far? How far are we willing to take this, huh? How much do we, the three of us, bare it so no one from our people has to? Till when?" Nansia exclaimed as tears threatened her eyes.
"The Grounders would call us Wanhedas." The blonde woman said in a quite tone.
"And what? Should I be proud? Proud to be called Commander of Death Destroyer of Worlds? Because if that is what I am I prefer you crucify me right now because I'm done killing in the name of freedom! I'm done!" Nansia exclaimed in more anger as she marched away.
As she walked through corridors she turned and saw another man hugging his knees and looking to the empty space.
"Maya is dead." He said quietly.
"She was one of the good guys and you killed her…and for who? For us? Why do we deserve to live and they don't?" The man said as he kept looking at the wall.
"There are no good guys, Jasper. And we should all burn in hell for what we have done." Nansia told him as she kneeled next to him.
"You sound like her! You sound like Clarke and Lexa…when did you became them, huh? I still remember the kid you were, the one that celebrated her birthday with a cake made out of our rations of rice." Jasper man said as he looked at her and Nansia sighed.
"I was pretending back then…I was never a kid…my childhood taken away from me by my mother, my innocence was almost taken away from me at 12 years old, my full innocence was taken when I watched my first mass execution on TV at fourteen." Nansia said with sadness in her voice.
"Yeah and today you graduated to genocide, you hadn't even killed a man before today." Jasper said with disapproval.
"You're wrong. I killed for the first time when I was eight, a man was raping my childhood best friend's younger brother in an alley I shot him on in the head and then four more times after he fell. I then burned the gun and the body and made sure the brother never spoke of it…he couldn't the traumatic event blocked that memory in the deepest parts of his head…only I remember that." Nansia said as she looked at Jasper and Jasper hugged her.
"Clarke was right, there are no good guys…they never existed." Jasper mumbled in Nansia's shoulder as Nansia started to sob in his arms.
End of Scene:
Ryan gasped and jumped away from her and looked at her terrified.
"What?" Nansia asked confused as she stood up and shook the chains off.
"I saw something…" Ryan started to say when Nansia made a step forward he made a step backwards.
"How…why? Why you killed these people?" Ryan asked her in a terrified tone and Nansia tilted to the side her head in confusion.
"What people?" Nansia asked confused.
"In that bunker…I saw it when I touched you!" Ryan said with a trembling voice and Nansia demeanor changed completely.
Before Ryan's shocked eyes Nansia changed completely and said;
"I still can't control my magic damn it! So close!" Nansia said as she grabbed the chains and started wrapping them around her fists and Ryan's eyes widen in shock.
"Don't worry I'm just from the future." Nansia said as she swung the chains and hit Ryan across the face. Ryan didn't retaliate he grabbed her by the neck and slammed her to the other side of the warehouse.
"You lied to me?" Ryan asked hurt and a little betrayed.
"Nope…just didn't explain the truth till the end." Nansia said as she grabbed Ryan's arm and twisted it and then broke it. She kicked him in the shins and made a run for it.
But as she made it out she was shocked to see the dawn of the day which made her stop for moment and Ryan to catch up with her. Ryan grabbed her pulled her back inside as she kicked and screamed.
"LET ME GO!" She yelled but to no avail.
He punched her hard and she was unconscious.
Nansia woke up being chained again from the ceiling but this time she didn't came around on her own, no, a blinding pain woke her up. She was being whipped. She had a black eye and blood run down her chin. She flinched in pain as the wet rope was whipping her and she sobbed in pain.
"I don't know where those keys are or what Malivore! I DON'T KNOW! PLEASE STOP! I DON'T KNOW!" She pleaded as she was being whipped more times.
Blood run to the ground and down her back.
"I don't believe you, miss Gilbert." Ryan said with a sinister tone.
Nansia's eyes glowed blue as she was whipped again and she growled something;
"Jus drein jus daun!" (Blood must have blood) She said before her eyes glowed more vibrant blue and her chains started to heat up and become orange as she freed herself before the shocked eyes of her tormentor.
She turned and looked at him as her eyes glowed yellow.
"I don't know what's your deal but I know nothing and if I did what makes you think I snitch my own friend, snitches die in ditches just as people who cross me!" She said with a cold and distant tone as she walked towards with the chains and blood leaving a trail behind them.
She swung the chains while hissing in pain and made Ryan to fall on his back that made a murderous look cross Nansia's face as she started hitting him with her chains again and again.
Then when she had enough she ripped them off her hands and started to punch him and kick him. Then she found an iron rod laying around and turned to him but he was on his feet and with incredible speed grabbed it and stabbed her, blood poured from her mouth but she was still standing as she ripped the rod out of her. The blood that spilled suddenly started circling the man and they lit up on fire as her eyes glowed yellow as she walked over the flames.
The flames had lowered just for her. He looked horrified.
"What are you?" Ryan whimpered and Nansia smiled.
"I'm one of the Commanders of Death. Yu gonplei ste odon! (Your fight is over)" She growled as she lifted the iron rod and drove it straight through the guy and then turned around and left as blood dripped from her back and her abdomen only mid-ways to collapse from the blood loss.
She didn't know what happened but she feels herself being picked up and when she opens her eyes she sees it's Ryan and he's alive?!
Panic rose into her and she tried to move but the pain in wound on her abdomen very much that she laid still instantly as she allowed Ryan to carry her…wait where is he taking her?
Nansia's body was being laid on the table and panic rose in her instantly yet again but what Ryan did next was unthinkable…no unfathomable! He grabbed a chair and sat next her and grabbed her hand and went to kiss it but Nansia was awake now so she took it away from him and looked at him in disgust.
Ryan just chuckled and laid back in his chair.
"How are you alive? And where you trying to kiss my hand? What kind of sick son of a bitch are you? First you whip to death's door and now you kiss my hand? Dude if you are into BDSM good for you but this wasn't it!" Nansia exclaimed in a disgusted and sarcastic tone.
"Well, right now I'm not." Ryan said with a smirk and he eyed the corpse on the ground couple feet away which upset Nansia as she gasped.
"How? How can you be here right now? Am I hallucinating? Why would I hallucinate you of all people?! Get out of my hallucination!" Nansia started to ramble and have an anxiety attack just then Ryan jumped to his feet and kissed her.
Nansia's eyes widen like saucers at the action but as Ryan touched her cheek lovingly she raised on of her eyebrows and her eyes crossed as she tried to look at his hand then she felt his other hand going to her waist and it touched the hurt abdomen which made her wince and bite Ryan's lip which hurt him in turn and he moved away apologizing for hurting her…again.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" Nansia exclaimed so loudly that Ryan's ears started to ring and he sort of blushed.
"I stopped your panic attack." He said while softly smiling proudly as the blush spread to his cheeks and Nansia looked at him with this incredulous look as she started to fume with anger.
"It was an anxiety attack BECAUSE YOU ATTACKED ME? YOU BEAT ME AND NOW YOU ARE KISSING ME AND YOU ARE NOT DEAD BUT YOU ARE?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!" Nansia started yelled angrily and Ryan's facial expression changed to a cloudy one.
"I KNOW! AND I'LL FOREVER REGRET WHAT I DID TO YOU TODAY! TRUST ME!"
"TRUST YOU? OF COURSE I DON'T!"
"BUT YOU WILL!"
"WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN? WHEN THE MOON CRASHES THE EARTH?"
"NO! WHEN YOU'D BECOME MY….NEVERMIND!"
The fight broke out between them but as it started to suddenly it was done also.
"When I become your what?" Nansia asked horrified.
"When you become my girlfriend and then my wife." Ryan admitted in defeat and for the first time Nansia noticed the wedding ring on his ring finger.
"You are not from right now are you? You are from the future…how?" Nansia realized in shock as she tried to sit up but Ryan gentle touched her belly pushing her back down.
"You need to let your wolf heal you, sweetie." Ryan said softly and Nansia noticed something in his eyes…an emotion she hadn't seen before and without realizing she touched his hand and a scene played out before her eyes;
Scene:
It's snowing outside and Ryan is looking at the window while he holds a class of wine while Christmas music is playing in the background from another room and the crackling of the fire in the room is heard soothingly. He's willfully looking at the crescent moon while he sips his wine. He's dressed in a very silly sweater that shows an fat Santa Clause and his bag of presents, a light blue button up shirt is poking out from the collar and the hem of the sweater and it's paired with black pants and shoes.
Nansia walks into the room dressed in high-waisted nude color pants and she paired them up with a deep green sweater with red letters knitted on saying "Merry Christmas, you idiots!". She paired them up with high heel ankle boots with laces. She is holding a cup of hot chocolate and she has a hot chocolate mustache. Her hair are dyed a deep red and they are loosely curled and half way up and half way down pinned. Her make is deep red matte lipstick and mascara nothing too fancy.
When she sees Ryan she's about to do a 180 turn only to be stopped at the sight of wrapped presents and she rushes to get them causing Ryan to turn to look at her.
They look older than twenty…maybe thirty two years old?
"Oh! Hi!" Ryan says awkwardly to Nansia as he turns to face her.
"Um…hi! Thanks for coming!" Nansia says equally as awkward.
"It was Hope's and Landon's idea…they think I should apologize to you for what I did to you twelve years ago." Ryan says with a shameful and nervous tone.
"And you think I'll forgive you?" Nansia asks with a tense tone.
"I think you will because if you hadn't at least understood my situation why you helped me get out of my fath…out of Malivore's grasped and forced me to build a relationship with my brother? If you hadn't at least understood then why you saved me?" Ryan asks Nansia as he walks around the arm chairs and side table that is in the middle of the room and stands in front of a terrified Nansia.
"Because I know how it is to be abused, Ryan, but I didn't become the abuser. You did." Nansia says to him as she made a move to pass beside him but Ryan stops her by blocking her path.
"You've done much worse than I have on your own free will, Nansia, I didn't have free will and did those things! And I'm sorry! I'm so so so sorry! Please forgive me! Do you want me to beg on my knees because I will!" Ryan says to her with a hard tone at first but then his tone changes to a begging tone as he grasps Nansia's hand and makes a move to knee when Nansia touches his waist in an attempt to stop him.
"Alright! Alright! You are right and I forgive you in the spirit of Christmas! You're forgiven! Now enjoy this party!" Nansia says with a small smile and Ryan smiles as he listens to a song and gets excited and grabs her while dragging her to the living room. But not before grasping the cups both of them held and put them at the side table.
There are a bunch of people dancing to Christmas blues and Ryan makes Nansia dance with him.
"I remember when I first listened to that song for the first time, I was at a bar and I was serving drinks when a lady asked the man I was serving if he would like to dance with her. He said yes. A year later I was serving on their wedding after party. I always wanted to dance this song with someone just to see how it's like." Ryan tells her as they moved to the rhythm and Ryan's hand on Nansia's waist gently pushes her towards his body.
Nansia looks at him confused and as he spins her around and as she returns to him their bodies collide and Nansia winced and Ryan grew alert.
"Did I hurt you?" He asks worried and Nansia nods.
"Yes, you buckle hit me in my surgical scar the one I had from the umbilical cord surgery when I was six…it's okay it'll pass. Not your fault." Nansia says to him as she rubs her bellybutton and Ryan nods.
"I wish I could remove the buckle but I'd flash everyone if I do." Ryan jokes and Nansia laughs as she titled her head back and Ryan marveled at her with adoration in his eyes.
Just then the ringing of a spoon to a glass made them stop and turn to look at Hope and Landon as they started to count down for the New Years!
Just as one passed everyone started to hug and well wishing when Ryan turned to Nansia and gently cupped her face before kissing her passionately and she reciprocated.
Once they stopped kissing Ryan said smiling;
"Happy New Year! May 2039 goes well for you." Ryan says with a lovesick smile as he keeps cupping Nansia's face who looks at him in full awe.
"Thanks…to you too I guess. Um…I should go wish the others…" Nansia says awkwardly as she tries to wiggle out of his grasp but he holds her in place before planting another kiss and this time Nansia's hand as holding him close from the waist as they continue kissing with passion.
Later in the evening Nansia is in her bed reading a book when the door knocks and she goes to open is Ryan with his pillow and blanket and ipad.
"May I join you?" Ryan asks Nansia who nods as he climbs to the bed and get comfortable.
"Want to watch a movie?" He asks her and she nods as she comes closer to him and Ryan looks at her as he smiles giddily.
During the duration of the movie Ryan has his arm over Nansia holding her close to him as he rests his head over hers and she rests her cheek and head to his chest.
"Want to go on date with me?" Ryan asks her and Nansia looks at him in shock but smiles and Ryan can't help but lowly growl as he kisses her again. The movie long forgotten as they make out.
The morning light finds them sleeping in each other's arms.
As they take turns in the join in bathroom getting ready to meet the others Nansia asks him;
"When did you start having feelings for me?"
"It happened slowly I first fell for you when I saw you..after I hurt you….I…I don't know what it was if snapped in me the only thing I wanted to do was to engulf you in a hug and kiss you senselessly but the way your eyes looked at me…it broke my heart many times and drove me insanely mad. When I spend the months in Malivore with Hope I asked about you, she told me you were angry at all of them for not telling you and that you hated me, and rightly so, I promised her that if I ever got out I would correct my mistakes…then my father forced me to hurt you all. I was so jealous of your relationship with Jed…so jealous! When I pretended to be the principal and I would see you kiss him I wanted to kill him and at the same time it pained me. That was when I realized that for once I was in love. That is when I was thrown back into Malivore I did everything to get out and when Hope and you destroyed him I was free. I moved to New Orleans where I always felt at home and started anew. I saw you one day walking into Declan's bar and I thought I'd faint I truly thought you came for me but you didn't then I saw you from the side lines everything and I decided you needed time. Yesterday, I couldn't hold it in anymore, it's been nine years and I haven't stopped being in love with you. I know you don't feel the same and it's okay maybe you will in time if you chose to go out with me." Ryan rambles as Nansia watches him in total shock.
"Thank you…thank you for not forcing me to love you…I want to go out with you…something in me is drawn to you." Nansia admits with a small smile as Ryan smiles widely and continue brushing his teeth.
End of Scene
Scene 2:
Nansia is walking into the house and is flopping on the couch…my students hate me…" Nansia whined and Ryan sat next to her as he hugged her.
"They don't understand they are kids, give them time to get used to you." Ryan advised her wisely as he took her in his arms.
"Thanks." Nansia mumbled in his embrace and Ryan kissed her head.
"Anything for my wife." Ryan said smiling as they sat to the couch and watched the sun setting from the terrace doors in their apartment with view of the Vancouver skyline.
"I love you, Ryan….I truly do." Nansia said to him as she sat up to face him and Ryan kissed her as they started to make out.
And like that things escalated quickly if you know what I mean…
End of Scene 2:
"See? These are some of my favorite memories of us…by the way us moving to Vancouver away from everything was a nice choice but let's be honest we are in the supernatural for life." Ryan said smiling softly and Nansia looked at him in shock.
"I…I felt everything you felt…this overwhelming…and what is that with the scenes show in my head?" Nansia asked confused.
"It's your psychic gift. Bonnie will teach you everything don't worry. I love you and please please don't give up on me…I know now the reason why you forgave me and why you so easily went out with me…it's because of this moment…and thank you! I love you so much!" Ryan said as tears picked up in his eyes as he cupped her cheeks and kissed her deeply as he started to cry.
"Why are you crying?" Nansia stupidly asked.
"Because in order to become me this me has to go so much hell…the nightmares I would have for life…the pain and guilt…we aren't so different you and I, you see." Ryan said and Nansia managed to sit up and hugged him.
And for a moment she felt it this overwhelming wave of love as Ryan kissed her neck and buried his head into her shoulder sobbing.
"I'm sorry for everything I will do to you and your friends…I'm so sorry! Please, please look for away for free me from Malivore!" He whispered in her arms and Nansia nodded as she rubbed his back and Ryan held her tighter.
"One questions…who's Declan?" Nansia asked him and Ryan let her go and looked at her.
"Nansia, you aren't alone in this world there's more of your family than you realize, listen to Elena when she tells you to start looking for more family members during this Christmas." Ryan advised her and Nansia looked at him confused.
"What do you mean?" Nansia asked with a tense tone.
"I can't tell you with details but when Elena speaks with you throw the idea for a blood spell that tracks part of your DNA and finds your match…then you'll get your answers." Ryan told her as he held her face with one hand while still holding onto her back with the other.
"Um…alright…where will you go now?" Nansia asked him worried.
"I'll tell you just outside of the school's gate so you can get some help." Ryan said as he picked her up.
"No! I don't want to bother anyone with this…they have to deal with Malivore…I…I'll sneak into my dorm take me at the back." Nansia said to him as he nodded and he walked her to a car.
"It's rental under a false name…Bill Andoniadis." Ryan said smirking as he put her to the seat next to the driver as he buckled her up he took a look of her abdomen and winced but then kissed her again and Nansia was surprised she subconsciously deepen the kiss.
No!
Nansia was jerked away by Thalia's voice into her head and Ryan looked at her confused…
"Did I hear your ancestor's voice?" Ryan asked confused and Nansia nodded.
"Is she haunting you?" Ryan asked as he raised his eyebrows and Nansia nodded.
"Well, at least she's protecting you! If she wants to protect my future wife than I'm all for it, even if it's from me." Ryan said to the empty car and suddenly the radio opened and the song of Does Your Mother Know by ABBA blurt out and Ryan chuckled as he rushed to the driver's seat while Nansia smiled as she looked at the back seat.
'He's good for you but not yet, descendant!' Thalia's voice ringed through her mind and Nansia nodded as she touched her lips and she saw Ryan smirk.
"Something to remember me by." He said while winking.
"Well something pleasurable to remember me by," He quickly added as he started to drive.
No one was in her dorm as Ryan helped her inside.
"You need to wash…do you think you can or should I stay to help?" Ryan asked her and she sighed.
"Stay…I need help." Nansia whispered in pain as she held her abdomen that was still healing.
Ryan nodded and went into action he put water to get warm, he opened her wardrobe and took fresh underwear and pjs out then found the first aid kit.
Nansia watched him move around with ease.
"You know where I have my stuff…that's creepy." Nansia commented and Ryan laughed.
"You made me memorize them before I was sent here…by you." Ryan said as he looked at her and smiled.
In half an hour he helped her undress, cleaned her wounds and stitched her up and when the bath time came around he comforted her that she shouldn't be ashamed of her body it's not like she hadn't seen her body before. He helped her wash carefully and put her to bed. He stole one more passionate kiss before squeezing her hand for last time before leaving quietly and Nansia drifted into a dreamless sleep.
Future version of Ryan drove all the way back to the warehouse and saw his past self and shook his head disapprovingly as he walked around the warehouse and looked around him as if he was waiting for someone.
Just as he was about to kick his past version as a punishment for hurting their…well his wife and making it harder for him to forgive himself when new footsteps walked inside and Ryan turned and looked at them.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Ryan asked with concerned tone as he walked closer to the person who instantly hugged him tight.
"I am…I just saw my mum…well a week ago actually…I have been trying to figure out a way to stop this…" The older version of Stefanie said in Ryan's embrace.
"It will take time, kid, and what are you trying to fix for a week now? I have been researching Malivore and keeping an eye on my past self keeping an eye on my wife…a sentence I never thought I'd ever say…" Ryan said as he forced the embrace to stop and looked at Stefanie with a stern look.
"You know how you want whatever is happening in Sanctum to stop but you can't change the future by traveling to it and hoping when you'd return to find everything the same, especially when you dimensionally time jump from one earth to the other, it's not natural." Ryan advised her and Stefanie nodded as she stepped away from the embrace and took notice of her surroundings.
"This is where you met her for the first time huh? Romantic…" Stefanie said smirking and Ryan lowered his head in shame.
"I wish I could change that…maybe when I talked to her on the bench it should have been that our first meeting she remembers not this…I prefer to be the anti-technology guy than the guy who abused and tortured her." Ryan mused as he walked over to his dead self and didn't hold back and kicked him.
"HEY!" Stefanie exclaimed as she rushed to grab him.
"Don't beat up yourself…literarily!" Stefanie scolded him with a stern voice and Ryan obeyed.
"Now, what?" Stefanie asked him after a short silent moment.
"Now, we get us a hotel near this town and we wait until your mum speaks to my wife and she starts looking…I mean you don't have to stay you can leave, you did your job, but I need to put some information on Malivore near where my brother and Hope can find easily in order to get this son of bitch killed so I can start healing. Which brings me to this…" Ryan rambled as he moved about the warehouse and Stefanie watched intently and then saw a red notebook.
"What's that?" Stefanie asked confused.
"That, my dear cousin-in-law, is the book I made with all possible ways to unlink me from Malivore's grasp…I wrote everything that will need to happen and I'm very tempted to show it to my wife…I mean I started this book with that very same purpose so she won't lose her time on chasing a lead and completely not look for Thomas or Colin or Declan." Ryan rambled anxiously and Stefanie grabbed the notebook and flipped through it.
"Seriously? You incorporated love notes in it too?" Stefanie exclaimed while laughing as she looked at Ryan's blushing cheeks.
"Dude! No, it's creepy considering your current state of your relationship! You can though plant some of those leads somewhere Nansia can and will find…minus the love notes! She must fall in love with the you that will be in the process of become you not the you from the future…so keep you kisses for your wife." Stefanie half scolded him half advised him.
Ryan looked at her deep in thoughts and nodded then grabbed the notebook from Stefanie's hands and led her to the car where he started to drive for a close motel.
Salvatore Academy:
Nansia woke up feeling rested and in less pain as she stood up she jumped from her skin seeing Penelope and Jeremy looking at her angrily with their arms folded to their chest.
Fuck!
"NANSIA GILBERT WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS?!" Jeremy exclaimed angrily and Nansia cowered because she was reminded of her dad when he got angry but the movement to lower her shoulder and crouch her back made the whipping marks that was healing to inflame that she instantly winced and straighten her back but the she felt something wet trickling down her back and her eyes widen.
That whole thing didn't go unnoticed by Penelope or Jeremy who saw the dark hued blood wetting the bed sheets.
"What the hell?" Penelope exclaimed as she roughly moved Nansia to see and then when she saw the blood to lift the shirt up revealing the bandaged up abdomen and the stitched and bandaged marks on her back.
Jeremy and Penelope watched her shocked as she tried to cover her body with her duvet but Jeremy snatched it away from here and with an angry tone asked who did this to her.
"Ryan Clarke." Nansia answered with quiet tone which made Penelope to gasp and cover her mouth as her eyes watered.
"Oh! So that name sounds familiar, huh? Leave me alone!" Nansia exploded as she grabbed the duvet from Jeremy's hands and wrapped herself in it then she wore her slippers and marched out of the room shoving Jeremy aside.
She used the back door and she started walking not caring where she would end up as scenes of everything started playing in her mind. She walked and walked and walked until she found herself in front of a motel.
She had walked 2.5 kilometers without realizing it and she felt drawn to the number 33 on the door. She walked up to it and knocked.
Salvatore Academy:
Jeremy and Penelope rushed to Alaric's office and Penelope group texted everyone to get their asses in the office.
In ten minutes everyone was there.
"Did you have any news on where Nansia gone to?" Hope asked the moment the door closed.
"Yes, Ryan Clarke had her and tortured her…she had whip marks and burn marks and a wound in her abdomen." Penelope said with an angry tone.
"How? When did this happen?" Lizzie asked shocked and horrified.
"We don't know the moment she told us who did this to her she grabbed the duvet from my hand wrapped herself in it and she left. I couldn't stop her…it all happened so fast." Jeremy said with a shocked tone.
"Then we look for her." Alaric said with an authoritative tone as he divided the kids in pairs and so they scoured every inch of the campus.
They didn't find her.
Motel Outside Mystic Falls:
Ryan and Stefanie had taken turns showering and Ryan ordered take out for them.
They agreed on a movie and let it play in the background as Stefanie explained to him why she was so hell bend in changing the outcome in Sanctum and Earth and why she revealed herself to her mum by needing her medical expertise.
"So, let me get this straight….Ana Coem told you what Madi abdicating as a Commander will do and you used your newly developed magic powers to see the future…having seen the chaos…you decided to change that! Stefanie, don't feed into your hero complex, dear." Ryan said to her in a kind and parent like tone.
"I know but I thought if Nansia realizes how to use her powers earlier she can trigger them to return to them and help with everything! Besides, Ana being here proves that Nansia's Time Vortex work. And if Nansia starts making them again and giving them to Watcher maybe I can stop them from falling to TRIAD's hands forcing Peter to come back and…Felicity then wouldn't get sick…" Stefanie started rambling as she ate her French fries.
"Stop! Stefanie, I came here because I always do. You came here because you did…since Nansia always learns the same way about her family, you did your duty. Don't try to change anything and more importantly don't mix up Peter or Felicity in this! Let time move on its own because if you change it then what we now call our lives wouldn't be our lives and I like our lives! You have your parents and everyone is alive and happy! Even Hope's parents which that will do her good! So, don't you dare change anything! We both leave tomorrow, is that understood young lady?" Ryan said with a stern tone and Stefanie looked at him.
His whole demeanor changed from relaxed to tense.
"Understood…sorry." Stefanie said with a quiet tone and Ryan nodded.
"Good because Felicity and Nansia will play with the timeline so we don't need more mix ups. Sorry I yelled at you, I hate knowing what I would do to them…to Josie, to Landon, to Hope and even Rafael…hell even Felicity…you know I used to date her right?" Ryan said with an ashamed tone and she nodded as both of them continued eating in silence.
Then a knock made them look at the door.
Ryan stood up and went to open only to see Nansia as tears started to run down her eyes.
"I became that girl…" She said as she sobbed and Ryan instantly hugged her careful not to squeeze her tight.
Stefanie's eyes widen in shock and fear as she rushed to hide underneath one of the beds and Ryan saw that and inwardly sighed in relief.
"Come on in." Ryan told Nansia as he led her in the room and Nansia watched the two beds.
"The only free room they had.." Ryan tried to explain and Nansia nods as she sits on it.
"What happened?" Ryan asked her as he continues to eat his burger.
Nansia told him about Jeremy's reaction and showed him the damage in her stitched when the bloody duvet fell down a screech was heard under the bed and Nansia quickly bend down to see Stefanie.
"WHO ARE YOU?" Nansia exclaimed alert and suspicious as Ryan rubbed his face with his hands in despair.
"Hey, cousin!" Stefanie said slowly as she emerged from under the bed and waved awkwardly.
"Cousin?" Nansia asked shocked as she looked between Ryan and Stefanie.
"My name is Stefanie Salvator…" Stefanie started to explain but Nansia cut her in half as she rudely pointed her pointing finger at her and her eyes widen saying;
"You're ten not fifteen!"
"I know! I'm from the same future as Ryan…I came to help…" Stefanie tried yet again to explain but Ryan cut her this time saying;
"No, I came to babysit you…"
"NOT THE POINT GUYS! TIME TRAVELING ISN'T A FORM OF VACATION!" Nansia exclaimed and she scolded them cutting their banter off.
"We know!" Both of future versions of Ryan and Stefanie exclaimed as they moved their heads to the side.
"So…what was your job here since I know Ryan's." Nansia asked as she folded her arms to her chest but winced in pain and let her hands hang to either side of her body.
That movement made Ryan flash with anger and shame inside while Stefanie just wanted to hug the hell out of her and comfort her but Nansia's eyes and demeanor didn't look all that friendly.
So? What do you think? Shocked you enough? What do you think will happen next?