by CATT
Dominick’s hands touched my face he uses his thumbs to wipe away my tears. The whole time he is talking to me telling me I am going to be alright. He promises me over and over again he won’t let anything happen to me. His big hands find their way into my hair, I feel him taking out the rubber bands but I do nothing to stop him when the last rubber band leaves my hair I feel his fingers running through its long length.
“Your hair is beautiful” He says as he locks his eyes with mine. He stops talking as he stares at me one hand leaving my hair to wipe away more tears that has fallen to my cheeks.
“Beautiful” I hear him whisper. I have no idea if he is talking about my hair again or what. To be honest I really don’t give a shit as long as he keeps looking at me the way he is doing right now. His eyes have never left mine. I see him starting to lean towards me. I don’t make a move too afraid I will break whatever spell has come over him. It has got to be some type of spell that’s the only explanation I can come up with that would make someone like him look at someone like me with so much passion in their eyes. Hey, maybe one of my new powers is going to be guys will be drawn to me and can’t help but fall madly in love at first sight. Wouldn’t that be such a cool fucking power to have? His lips are almost touching mine. He is so big yet he touches me so tenderly.
“There you are thank God! I thought I would never find you!” Lisa’s voice rings out.
He is gone. One minute he is about to kiss me and within the blink of an eye he disappears in front of my eyes. He didn’t kiss me shit, shit, and shit! Once again this is all Lisa’s fault I can already tell once I learn what my powers are and I learn how to use them I am going to have to use them to take her out. He must have left because of Lisa did she see him I wonder to myself.
“Did you see him?” I question
“See who? Lisa asks right back, before rolling her eyes at me “nobody is here but you and me Lana. God I am so glad I found your sorry ass. All I could think about was your parents coming home and asking me where you were and me having to tell them I'd lost you. Why the bloody hell are you in Ireland for anyways?" she demands shaking her finger towards me.
“I didn't just decide come to bloody Ireland you smart ass I was thinking about vampires, and I ended up here.”
“Thank God you didn't come up on any rogue vampires. She says then she takes a deep breath through her nose and her eyes go wide. “Oh my God you did come up on some didn't you?”
“Yeah I did… by the way, thanks a lot for telling me if I thought about something I could end up going to going to what I am thinking about. I mean call me crazy but I do believe that is something important you should tell someone! What the hell were you thinking when you decided to show me weapons and tell me how to use them without telling me I might disappear at any given moment if I actually think about what you are telling me. My God woman I swear you had to have one of the biggest brain farts of all times.” I know I am rambling but once again I can’t seem to stop myself. But I do believe I have every reason to ramble don’t you? “Before you teach me one more thing about another weapon or anything else for that matter you will be teaching me how not to end up back in fucking Ireland again do you understand me young lady.” Lisa busts out laughing as soon as the “young lady” part comes out of my mouth.
“Ok I promise I will not try to teach you anything else until I teach you learn that first.” she says when she finally stops laughing. “Now how did you deal with the vampires”??
“I used the stake and killed them” I tell her. I’m not going to mention Dominick. The way he left tells me he doesn’t want anyone to know about him being here so after all he has done for me, there is no way I’m going to rat him out. Plus I don’t want to tell anyone I almost kissed him. It was only yesterday I was kissing Case. I really do like him, and he likes me. I think his feelings might even go deeper than him just liking me. But he has known me a lot longer than I’ve known him.
“How many vampires were there?”
“Four” I respond.
“You killed four fucking vampires without having any training?” She questions with her eyebrows raised.
“Yeah have you forgotten I killed a Drag demon without having any training as well?” I asked sarcastically.
Lisa starts laughing again “Yeah I guess I did forget. You know Lana, I think you’re going to be one bad ass Keeper when you learn everything and find out what your powers are. However, for now let’s get home before your parents get back, and I have to tell explain to them what we were doing in Ireland.”
“How am I going to get back home?”
“Well right now the way we're going to do it is I'm going to hold your hand, and I will take us both home. The only thing you have to do is not think about anything while I do it. Do you think you can keep your mind empty until I get us back home?” Lisa asked with a smile in her face.
“Yeah smartass I believe I can manage that.” I say smiling back at her. Lisa takes hold of my hand laughing. “You know what Lana, I believe you and I are going to make really great friends.”
CHAPTER 9
Walking with Lisa from the kitchen we are both laughing at a joke Doug just told us. We both come to a dead stop in the dining room. I am looking straight at the last two people I wanted to see today. They are both staring right back at me. I wonder if I look as frozen as they do at the moment. Case walks around my parents and comes to stand by my side.
“Hey" he says as he takes my hand and kisses me on top of the head. I’m not sure how I feel about Case acting as if we are a couple. He is probably just trying to put me at ease. He knows this is the last thing I want to deal with. He laces his fingers with mine. I turn my head toward Lisa noticing her gaze is locked on mine and Case’s hands. She looks up at me when she feels my eyes on her. She raises her eyebrows at me questioning without words what the hell is going on between Case and I. Case gives a small smirk to Lisa before squeezing my hand a squeeze then he turns his attention back to Summer and Harris. “Lana I don't believe you have met the King and Queen.” He says to me which I never reply to.
Harris is the one that speaks first. “Everybody would you please leave, Summer and I would like to speak with Ra...I mean Lana alone.” I watch as Cain and Lisa both walk away without looking back. Case never let go of my hand.
“Case that goes for you to” Harris says.
Case surprises me by still holding my hand. He turns to me “Lana do you want me to stay?” I look at him. I can’t believe he is going against what the King has told him to do. Before I have time to say anything to him however, Harris speaks again.
“Case I told everyone to leave. That means you too.” Harris says his tone showing he doesn’t appreciate the fact Case is not doing as he has been told.
Case never even looks at the King. His eyes are still on me. “Lana do you want me to leave it’s up to you.”
I have to say I feel my feelings grow even more for Case. I understand how much he cares for both Harris and Summer and for him to go against them tells me a lot. “No Case you need to go. He's right we do need to talk, and we need to do it alone but thank you so much for standing by me.” He catches me off guard when he bends down and kisses me on the lips before telling me I only have to yell if I need him. He let’s go of my hand and starts to walking towards the door having to pass by Harris as he goes. Harris stops him when he reaches his side. I thought he was going to be mad, but instead he puts his hand on Case's shoulder telling him not to worry everything will be fine. Case gives his head a nod letting Harris know he understands. Harris gives his shoulder a pat and Case walks out of the room.
“Why don’t we all sit down," Harris says motioning towards the table.
I take the chair at the far end of the table while Summer and Harris sit side by side at the other end of the table giving me plenty of space; trying to make me as comfortable as possible. I see it in their eyes they are as afraid as I am. Could this really be as hard on them as it is on me? Yeah, I g
uess it can be. They’re afraid I won’t talk to them, that I won’t want anything to do with them. Not knowing quite how I feel about that realization I just sit there with my hands in my lap.
“You are truly beautiful Rain.” Summer says.
“My name is Lana not Rain.” I retort.
“I'm sorry your right Lana is your name.” Summer says while her head drops a little.
“Sorry we weren’t here when you got ho...I mean here...but we had to be in a meeting, it took longer than we thought it would” Harris says trying to ignore the mounting tension in the room.
I know he trying to give Summer time to recover from me telling her “Rain” wasn’t my name. I don’t mean to hurt her but there is NO way in hell I am going to be called Rain. I’d already lost everything in my life I have no intention of losing my name as well.
“Are you feeling better?” Summer finally asked.
“Yes much better thank you.”
“By what we heard you did a great job at taking down that fucking Drag. It seems you’re going to be a natural. I believe you get that from me, I was a natural myself.” Harris says all boisterous.
I can hear the pride in his voice as he tells me how proud he is of me even if he is also stroking his own ego at the same time. Plus the smile on his face shows how much he likes what I did. Summer is rolling her eyes at him as she shakes her head at his behavior. Without thinking I let out a laugh. Both Harris and Summer start laughing.
“I guess that broke the ice didn’t it?” Harris says.
“Yeah I believe it did.” I answer.
“I'm sure you have a lot questions Lana, and we will answer anything you ask. Summer tells me still smiling.
Sitting there, I think for a few seconds and realize I don’t have anything I want to ask them, well at least not right now I don’t. “This has really been hard on me. I'm not going to lie about that. Case told me the story about the war, and how the demons broke into the Keeper World. I know you guys put me with my parents to keep me safe”. I see the hurt that comes across both their faces when I call my mom and dad my parents but what did they expect? … “So I don’t really have anything I want to really get into with either one of you at the moment. I am still trying to process everything I have found out since waking up right now. This is going to be hard on all of us. I don’t want to make it any harder than it already is. But surly neither of you think we can simply just become this big happy family over night because that’s not how it works. However, I would really like to take the time to get to know you both. When I first arrived here well I should say when I first woke up here I hated you. Then yesterday when you came back, I ran out the door because I didn't want to see either of you, but last night a funny thing happened. See while I was sleeping something woke me up. Then I realized it was you two so I laid there and ease dropped on your conversation.” I see a smile playing on both their faces as I continue to talking.
“What I heard were two people that did what they had to do. Two people that were worried I was going to hate them. Two people that were sad and scared I would never be forgiven them. Sometimes after you left I fell back to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I no longer had any anger at either of you. I'm still hurt don't get me wrong, but I'm hurting because, I miss my mom, dad, and brothers and all my friends. Thinking I'll never talk with them again or the fact they don't even miss me, I can’t even put into words how much that hurts. The only thing I wish you had been able to do differently is I wish could have made me forget them the way they forgot me.” Harris and Summer sit there listening to everything I have to say without opening their mouths. After a few minutes of me not speaking I guess they figured out I was done talking.
Summer is the one that speaks first this time. “Lana thank you for everything you just told us. You’re right we were worried you would hate us. I have worried about that for the last eighteen years. I knew from the day we left you that Kristie and Raymond they would become your parents. I’m glad you love them. We know they're your parents. We gave that right up when we left you with them. All we want is to be able to have some type of relationship with you. I’m sorry you’re hurting so much right now. If there was a way to stop your pain I would do it in a heat beat because I understand the pain you are feeling because I have felt in for the last eighteen years.”
“Thank you that means a lot to me but I’d rather we change the subject for the moment if you don’t mind.” They both nod their heads indicating they agree with me so I jump onto a much lighter subject knowing it will get a good laugh out of them. “Would either of you happen to have any idea what kinds of powers I now have?” Harris starts laughing then he goes from laughing into a huge belly laugh. That makes Summer laugh, she doesn’t laugh as hard as he does, but she does have to wipe tears from her eyes.
“God Lana you remind me so much of myself at your age” Harris says when he can finally speak again.
Harris saying that to me didn't make me mad matter fact it made me feel proud. I mean he is the King of the Keepers' World, and you can tell by looking at him, he is really a bad ass king at that. I believe he thinks I am going to be badass like him. “Thanks" I say, with a real smile on my face. That makes Harris laugh again. When he stops laughing he tells me he is sorry for laughing so much but that he has waited a long time to talk with me yet he never imagined would be so much like him. Then he states they have no idea what my powers are. We talk for over an hour about a lot of different things. The more we talk to each other the more comfortable we get. Douglass comes in the room telling them someone is waiting for them in their office. They both stand up telling Doug to let whoever it is know they will be there in a few minutes. Summer looks back at me asking if tomorrow I would like to train some with her. Of course I jump at the chance. “Yeah sure…that sound's great…um do you think we could work on teaching me how not to disappear when I think about something?” Both their eyes get huge as they stare at me.
“Have you done that? “I mean have you disappeared?” Harris questions.
I snorted as I laughed at the astonished looks on their faces. “I may have taken a short trip to Ireland but lucky for me. I had a stake with me. Oh one more thing you guys want me to call you King and Queen or will Harris and Summer be alright?” Harris starts laughing again while Summer stands there staring at me. Harris tells me while laughing at the same time to call them Harris and Summer then he takes Summer by the hand. Before they leave the room Harris lets me know we should meet up later he really wants to know why it was lucky I had a stake with me on my trip to Ireland. Summer assures me we will definitely be working on my manifestation abilities tomorrow. As they walk out, I hear Harris still laughing and Summer scolding him telling him to stop laughing that it isn’t funny that I could have been hurt. Right before they get out of hearing range, I hear Harris telling Summer she is right, and he shouldn't have laughed, for some reason, I know Harris is lying to Summer trying to stop her from being mad at him. I also know Summer knows that is what he was doing. She just doesn’t let him know she knows.
Chapter 10
Over the next few months, I settled in to my new life. I’m not going to lie I missed my family and friends on earth something bad. The first few weeks I thought I thought I was dying due to the pain I felt in my heart but as the months went by the pain lessened of course I contribute the fact I have been working my ass off with my training all these months which left me with little time to hardly ever even think about my family and friends on earth. My powers are growing by leaps and bounds even after all these months I’m still discovering almost daily. Harris and Summer don’t know what to make of it, I have already surpassed both of their abilities. Fighting has come natural to me. We go out nightly on patrol's most of the time we do nothing accept patrol. But when we do happen up on a demon or the uncommon rouge we kill them. I hate to say it, but I love fight, plus I’m really good at it. My relationship with my birth parents has come a long ways. I have a lot of fun with them. Th
ey never pushed me. They always let me decide how much time we spend together and what we talk about.
A few months ago Lisa taught me how to shield myself from humans so I could go visit my family and friends see so I could keep up with how they were doing. I managed to do it a few times but it didn’t take me long to comprehend the fact seeing them in that manner only made it worse on me. So I stop going to see them altogether. I can’t fathom how Harris and summer managed to visit me for all the years they did. I gained an all new respect for the both of them once I saw for myself what they put their selves through for eighteen years so they could lay eyes on me. Lisa and I have become extremely close friends she is my new BFF we both love to shop our styles may be different, but our love for shopping oversaw our different styles. Cain is a super wonderful he cracks me up all the time with his sense of humor. One thing I have seen but I keep to myself is the fact I believe he dating a Neither. I actually saw him with the girl one day while Lisa and I were our on one of our famous shopping trips. I'm pretty sure the girl is a werewolf. Lisa or Case knows nothing about Cain and the girl however I don’t believe it is my place to say anything to either of them. So my lips are zipped. See the keepers world have rules that a keeper must abide by. One of which is a Keeper is never allowed to become romantically involved with anyone other than another keeper. I know that sounds completely crazy while at the same time being a bit predigest but in another way I can see the Angels council’s point of view on the subject. A Keeper has to live on the keepers world and you must be a keeper to live on our world which sort of knocks the dating pool down quite a bit. I will never tell anyone about Cain, I figure he can do what he wants after all is he is grown.