Chapter XIV- Where She has Nightmares

A boy swept his way through the dark forest. He was drawn by the scream that erupted throughout making the birds fly their way away. Little he knew that his curiosity would lead him to the greatest disappointment in his life. He watched as the man drove a hand across the woman's chest and her eyes asked for mercy as he mercilessly reached to her heart and rip it out with a satisfying rend; letting her light silhouette sway hitting on the cold ground. I didn't know what I was doing there, who were those people. But he turns on his heels away with no hint of regret marked on his facial expression. The boy felt his eyes let tears fall, he never had before that feeling in his chest, I felt his pain as if it was mine. I wanted the same release from that feeling just like he wanted. I wanted to make him pay for the blood he shed just like he wanted.

Agony... I wanted release from that. His desperate steps guide him until the Woman's body and with a weakened knee he falls knees to the ground next to her. I wanted to see his face, touch him, comfort him as he laid right were the heart was made forcefully to exit her body. I reach next to him and wanted to touch him...promptly the massive hand of the man reaches to him and lifts the boy effortlessly with one hand, looking at him in the eyes. They couldn't seem to notice me but I was there so close...

I wanted to save him but couldn't reach to him no matter how much I tried. "We cut off what is weak." The deep voice of the man echoes...

"She was your mate! My mother" The boy retorts enraged trying to fight him, which was useless, the man was strong, he knew there was no match for him in the ten greatest kingdoms of the world, there was no possible match to his power.

"She was my weakness. Love is good, but good is the enemy of great. You'd better learn that, boy... " He blurts...I was panting trying to save him, my body wouldn't move, my limbs wouldn't respond, when the boy fights he turns into a furious beast with shiny blue eyes, the man turns into a beast with scarlet red eyes...I needed to do something but I was totally immobilised. NO-Oh-.....

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I woke up screaming. The thunders still cracked the sky open for the rain outside to pummel the ground.

But the dream...If it was a dream, didn't feel anything like a dream. Felt so real, the cold of the forest on her skin, the breeze that brushed her hair curls and the voices.

That boy that cried for the woman, I couldn't make up his facial lines, couldn't come to see it, it would remain for me a mystery. The forest...the woman. The conversation, everything felt so vivid, so real...

"You are going crazy." I whisper to myself, knowing well that it was the third night in a raw. I couldn't see his face, but could perfectly feel his emotions as if I'm him...

This bizarre images just keep floating in my head, ever since Derek... No, it couldn't possibly be. It was just me, frightened of being near to Derek... A thunder strikes immediately making me jump. I put my pillow over my head to avoid hearing it, I started to cry until the slumber took me back into the darkness of my dreams.

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I look at myself in the mirror and observed the zombie that reflected on it...that was me. Looking like an empty vessel, a walking human body coming from the shadows, with no soul.

Instead I was coming from one more hardly slept night.

Dark circles horribly displayed around my eyes.

I would even take some sleeping pills, but I'm afraid of closing my eyes and falling into that horrendous space with such horrible events that have been following me for the past days.

I knock on the second last door in the corridor and I'm received by a very sleepy Vanessa. "Halo, stranger. Who lives always makes it's appearance." Vanessa snaps at me yawning. Truth is that I have been hiding from them for the past days, suddenly I don't want anything to do with any of them. "Thank you for waking me up in the middle of the night." She says, it was 7am, I pull a smile on my lips and put myself to talk but she interrupts me before I even start. "You look awful."

"I know. But your brother, the Alpha, would like to talk to you." I inform.

"Tell him that I will be going there once it's morning." She says walking lazily to her bed and sliding under her sheets. I envied how she just was enjoying her sleep hours, I miss those days.

"I'm pretty sure he means now." I say stepping into her room.

"For all the effects, I died." Vanessa says putting the blindfolds over her eyes and yawning again. "Good night." She says making a lazy peace sign with her fingers and I chuckle closing the door behind me.

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"You always have to be on the contrary side. What is your problem? Does the happiness of other people bother you that much?" Vanessa yells at Derek that patiently looked at her and repeated himself for the zillionth time.

"No party for Lydia, no party for no shit under my roof." He repeats calmly with no expression on his face. Lydia pins him with her gaze looking at him, it didn't cause any commotion from him.

"I hate you." She says.

"Big deal." He retorts and she takes the pen from his hand, he was about to sign on the paper to ignore her once for all, and tosses it across the room before storming out. The man leans back on his sit sighing before turning his gaze to me as I sit on the sofa across his study faking to be concentrated in my book. "Do I deserve that?" He asks and I don't know if that was a rhetorical question, was he even talking to me?

"Should I answer that?" I ask.

"No." He says right away. "Get my pen." He orders and I stand up unwillingly, bang the book on the sofa and get him his pen.

"Your pen." I say reaching to him.

"A smile kills no one." He says and I chuckle on hearing who is talking about smile, Mr grumpy guy! Did I spoil him that much with my smile that he thinks it comes for free. Did he eventually stopped to think, I'm the human in the room, the one that actually has feelings? He keeps on acting as if nothing happened.

I force a forced smile on my lips, to show him that I really didn't want to. He smirks and takes the pen from my hand.

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"Lydia." I hear Fabian call me as I make my way to the kitchen. "Are you okay?" He asks as I turn to face him. I look at him nervous I scratch the spot the mark is thoughtful. It was obvious from my face that it wasn't alright, But I could still lie.

"I'm fine, just the storm last night wouldn't let me sleep." I say in a failed attempt to smile.

"You should have just called me. I would come and cuddle you." He says and I end up biting my lips, that was so freaking tempting. I could use a warm cuddle, maybe it would sway me away from the hell pit into dreamland.

"Thanks for the offer, will reconsider it next time." I say blushing. He returns me with a grin.

"I feel you so distant lately. Did I do something wrong?" He says and I glare at him with googled eyes. He would never disappoint me, unluck some people. This bite and mark thing, really got into me, if he even knew.

"I'm sorry, Derek has been very demanding lately. I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression." I look down.

"It's okay. He told me to leave you alone too." He says and reaches a hand to my cheek. "But I won't." He says and I just travel in his beautiful eyes, I so wish it was that simple.

"We are going to watch a movie, would you want to join?" He breaks the silence.

"Of course, before Mr grumpy comes back from his small tour." I say under a nervous laugh. He takes my hand to lead the way and I stop him.

"Fabian!" I call, he turns to me with all the attention. "can I ask you something?"

"Anything."

"But it's about you guys."

"Even better, you are interested in our kind." he replies so sweet. Oh, I missed him.

"When a werewolf." I say pausing in every single syllable. "Bites someone-"

"-if they become werewolves?" He finishes the question, it wasn't quite the question, but he starts to answer. "Well, if it was an alpha that bit in a full moon, it's hundred percent a recruit, but a normal wolf bite wouldn't have the same effect and could be only lethal."

"Right!" I chuckle thinking that maybe I'm dying... "But if it's not in a full moon?"

"That bite could be lethal or just a bite."

"But how do you know it's lethal?"

"Because the person can lose a lot of blood and die. Any other question?" Duh, I mentally roll my eyes.

"Well, not really. But if the person doesn't die it will leave a mark, of course."

"A scar, naturally." Fabian says shrugging.

"There you are." Vanessa says coming towards us. "We can't wait for you forever."

"I was just inviting Lydia." Fabian says.

"Inviting her!" She chuckles. "I know, it takes forever. I'm going to say it once again and you two kids need to have some sense knocked into your two nutshells..." Vanessa starts preaching and I just space out, thinking if I'm going to die or what.

The nightmares are clearly purgatory welcoming me in...

"Lydia!" A voice echoes insistently in my mind and I flinch looking at Vanessa and then at Fabian. "Did you even hear me?" She asks and I only frown. She puts her hands up in redemption. "I give up. Go ahead and break each other's hearts." Vanessa says walking away. Fabian only shrugs looking at me. He gestures to me that she's crazy.

"Don't mind her." He shrugs... I looked at the screen. There were the most horrible images of 'Wrong turn to Death'. In normal days I wouldn't stand such movies but now, I'm so much thrilled about my real life that I don't even flinch on watching the movies. the people around me joke and throw popcorn at each other, as if they are watching a comedy movie.

I lay on Fabian's shoulder and stare blankly at the screen. I feel something hit on my face and look up to see Vanessa grinning.

"Lydia." She says laughing.

"She's so static with the movie." Caleb Comments and I manage a smile.

"If you don't like the movie-"

"It's ok." I interrupt Fabian in the middle of his speech and turn to the screen.

"Come." He says making me stand up and leading me outside the games room. He stands in front of me and puts a finger on my chin so that I look at him. "Are you sure you are alright."

"Positive, I'm just really tired. I think I will jump in bed earlier today."

"If I did something you didn't like, please tell me." He says and I only smile before hugging him.

"Everything you did ever since we met, was just right." I whisper and we break the hug, I notice as his lips get closer to mine, I close my eyes to let the moment happen, but the flash image of Derek plays in my eyes and I flinch stepping back. Fabian looks at me confused.

"I'm sorry. I just need a to go to bed." I say and rush away from him feeling guilty with my heart beating fast. I cross the corridors, instead of going into my room I go to his study and stand there waiting patiently for Derek walking up and down.

I hear the thud and look to the doors departed before seeing the man that drove his wheel chair in, he looks at me and sends the man away. I go over to him quickly, enraged and wanting him to stop faking as if he didn't bite me.

With my hands on both sides of his wheel chair, I feel it slide slightly behind and stare at him close in the eyes.

"What the hell did you do to me?" I demand.

Two updates in a day. It was long not posting. Hope you had fun.