by CATT
“CASE CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND HARRIS DID THIS TO US! THE FEELINGS WE HAD FOR EACH OTHER WEREN’T REAL!”
“HARRIS ONLY PUT THE BINDING SPELL ON US THREE YEARS AGO! I’VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE! EVERYTHING I FELT WAS REAL AND STILL IS! I GUESS I KNOW NOW YOU NEVER FELT ANYTHING FOR ME. YOU CAN GO TO HELL FOR ALL I CARE LANA! DAM YOU!”
I sit there on Case’s bed watching as he walks out of his room slamming the door behind him. I have no tears left in me to cry. All I feel is anger. Anger for what Harris has done. Anger at myself for the pain I have caused Case. If I had stopped and thought for just a minute I would have remembered how Case had always told me he had loved me even when he had been a child and too young to know what love was. Feeling trapped and not wanting to see anyone. I do the one thing I’ve always done the best I leave.
CHAPTER 48
For couple of weeks, I wondered around aimlessly I spent a few days in China before blinking myself to the U.K from there I went from country to country before finally blinking myself to Egypt being there made me somehow feel closer to Dominick. I guess because of how the huts had been decorated in an Egyptian motif. I remembered the time we spent lying on the huge red and gold cushion. Dominick’s arms around me the one kiss we shared before he stopped us saying we couldn’t do this to Case. The same night he had told me he had petitioned the Angel’s council the last time with the help of Summer, so he and I could be together.
I stayed in Egypt longer than I stayed in any place. Feeling sorry for myself and thinking about what may have been. Deciding I would never go back to the keepers' world for what Harris and Summer had done and for what I had done to Case. I was through fighting demons and keeping the world safe. I knew the Angel Michael had told me there was a war coming, and I was needed. I was supposed to lead or something like that. However, they will have to find somebody else because I am done.
I will find someplace to live and keep my mind blocked from the keepers and try to start my life over again for the second time in a year. It crosses my mind to move to Florida to be close to my human family I had been raised with. Maybe even make friends with them, but I let that thought die a fast death. I know the Angel’s and keepers will be keeping their eyes out there.
Deciding I will go someplace no one would ever consider. I ended up in a small town in South Carolina, which work perfect for me. Blinking, myself to the beach I manifested myself a house identical to the one Lisa had made for us to stay in on the Cape. I had loved that house so much it seemed only fitting to make one for myself that looks just like it. I used an incantation on all the people living close by so they will think the beach house has been here for for years.
The first two weeks in the house I never left. I would go outside and sit on the beach, but that was it. I manifested my food or anything else I needed so I wouldn’t have to have contact with people. At night, I would think about Dominick and how I had watched him die and done nothing to save him. I would think about how I had hurt Case and wonder if he hated me as much as I thought he did. It has been a couple of months now since I’ve been gone from the keepers’ world and home sickness has set in.
I thought about Summer and Harris and how they had betrayed me yet I missed them just the same. I missed everybody. I never even said good-bye to Lisa or Cain. I fall asleep every night missing my family.
One day I decided it was time for me to leave the house. It has been so long since I have spoken to a person, I wasn’t sure if I would remember how. After showering and drying my hair, I decided to let the heavy mass hang down my back in its natural wild waves. Slipping on a pair of old jeans with holes in the knees and a long sleeved black shirt I put on my sinkers and grab up a jacket before heading out the door.
I walk around town for a few hours looking in a lot of the antique shops without buying anything. I spoke to a few nice people along the way but had no real conversation with any of them. Seeing a riverboat restaurant I decided to go in and see how the food was.
Walking in I read the sign saying, “seat yourself” I found a booth in the back as far away from other people as I could get. Picking up the menu that was already on the table I start reading what they had. The waitress comes up asking if I know what I wanted. Closing the menu, I order a cheese burger and fries with a cherry cola.
Watching the waitress leave I look around the riverboat restaurant. It is a nice place really. Everywhere, I regard there is fish mounted on the walls. Lighthouses everywhere and what I assumed were pictures of ships and people bringing in fresh seafood. Great, I’m in a place that specializes in seafood, and I order a cheese burger and fries. My burger is probably going to taste like shit. The fries should be alright, though I mean people eat fries with seafood all the time.
The waitress brought my cherry cola out and told me my food should be ready shortly. I thank her giving her the first smile I have given anyone in almost two months. Observing the other customers in the place I see families sitting together laughing and enjoying their time together. I see couples holding hands sitting close to one another.
I think I’m the only one in the whole place sitting alone. Deciding that looking at the other customers was making me more depressed then I already am I drop my head and concentrate on my cherry cola The waitress brought my burger and fries out along with an extra cherry cola She asked if I needed anything else. Looking around and seeing ketchup on the table I tell her no and thanked her, I had everything I needed. When she left I inspected my cheese burger it looked really good. Picking it up I take a bite and found out it tasted as great as it appeared.
I ate the whole thing along with the fries. It was the most I’d eaten in the past few months. I knew I was a bone, but I had no appetite and no matter how much I’d tried to eat I couldn’t I had just lost interest in food. The waitress come back around and asked how everything was. I told her it was great and she asked me if I left room for desert. I told her I couldn’t eat another bite if my life depended on it. She smiled at me as she laid the check on the table and told me to have a great day then walked away from the table.
I was about to leave when I felt it. The feeling hit me like I was being slapped across the face. In a way, I guess I was. I watched as a male fairy walked up and set down at the counter of the bar. He was like all other fairies you saw. He was handsome tall with a slim build blond hair blue eyes and flawless skin. He smiled at the young waitress behind the counter using his charms to get what he wanted whether it be to cause her problem's rune her life or trick her, so he could take her back to the fairy realm and turn her into a slave. Who knows it’s a fucking fairy and that’s the kind of shit they do. I see my waitress come to a table that is close to me so I get her attention, I tell her I’d changed my mind about desert. Ordering a piece of chocolate pie and a refill on my cherry cola, I sit back and listen to the fairy as he flirted with the young girl behind the bar.
The sight of him makes me sick and has my anger mounting a hundred times over, I’d never laid eyes on him in my life, but it doesn’t matter he is a fairy, and I hate all of them. To me if you, were a fairy or a tree person, then you; we're responsible for Dominick’s death. Sitting there my anger grew and grew. When the waitress brought out my pie and refilled my cherry cola, I asked her where the restrooms where at. After she told me she left. I sprang from my seat, heading to the bathroom as fast as I could. Eyeing myself in the mirror my face is red and my eyes are dilated from anger.
I knew I couldn’t let another person be tricked, or killed, by a fairy or the tree people. Taking a deep breath, I do the only thing I know to do. Using my mind, I picture the Whoops back in the gym on the keepers’ world and manifested it to me. Knowing it is too big to hide I put it down on my side and walk out of the bathroom and go back to my table. Surveying the bar again I see the fairy still there working his charms on the poor girl who doesn’t know any better. Leaving enough money on the table to cover the bill plus a nice tip I go outside to wait for him.
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bsp; It turns out to be a really long wait. I was hoping he would walk out the door by himself and not with the girl, but if the girl is with him one good hit in the face, and I’d be able to knock her out without doing too much damage to her. Another hour goes by before the fairy walks out singing in his low musical voice. He is alone. I follow him staying far enough back as not to clue him in, I am there. When he turns down a deserted back ally, I know he is fixing to open the door to the fairy realm and go through. I have to do something now if I am going to, or it will be too late.
Without thinking I run up behind him throwing the whoops over the top of his head; he turns and looks me in the eyes. I boom “THIS IS FOR DOMINICK!” Right before drawing back my fist sending it through his chest cavity blood gushed down my arm dripping to the ground. I locate the heart and pull it from the fairies' body. Watching as he drops to the ground. Dropping the heart beside him, I know I should feel guilty for what I have done. The only thing a keeper is supposed to kill on sight is a demon. At no other times were we to kill anything unless it is fixing to kill someone else or trying to kill us.
I stand there staring at the fairy feeling no guilt for what I have done. I did, however, feel as if I had gotten a little revenge for Dominick. Taking the whoops off the fairy I speak the word BURN and watch the fairy burn to nothing. I blink what little ashes left into the ocean. Heading home that night I felt as if I had given a little payback for all the HELL I had been put through for the last few months. I start believing maybe there is a way I can make Prince Osier pay for what he has done. I will start taking out his fairies one by one. He will see what it is like to lose something he loves. Not that he really loved or cared about the fairies he ruled, but he did love and care about the power he has over the fairies. If I take his fairies away he will lose the one thing he loves most POWER!
Over the next month, I work on auto pilot going out every night blinking myself to different states or countries going to the places; I know fairies will be hanging out. They love to be in places with lots of people. Those where the places they could wreak the most havoc. I counted each kill as another victory for Dominick. I have managed to kill twenty two fairies. I lay awake at night wondering what Prince Osier is thinking. If he has any idea, it is me doing this. I hope he does.
When the keeper part of me takes over, and I start giving thought about how wrong what I am doing is, I shut it off and remind myself I am no longer a keeper. I did notice the crime rate is way up and every day it seems like everything gets worse. I wondered if this is the beginning of the war Michael told me was coming. I would be lying to myself if I said it didn’t bother me, but I have complete trust in the ability of the keepers to handle anything.
I went in a bar in Russia dressed in my usual keeper clothes. Skin tight black leather hip hugging pants with a black leather button up low cut sleeveless shirt. Along with my ass kicking black leather boots, I found that wearing clothes like these left nothing for my enemy to grab hold of in a fight. I wore the boots just because they were kick, ass. I have my hair braided and pinned on top of my head leaving no chance of anything or anyone being able to snatch my hair. Gazing around I take a seat close to the door, so I could see who comes and goes.
I hadn’t been sitting there long when I felt it. A fairy is in the room, but I couldn’t spot them. That is odd I’d never had a problem spotting a fairy. They were close I could feel it, looking around trying to spot the fairy I am taken by surprise when I hear a females voice say, “it’s you isn’t it?”
CHAPTER 49
Gawking at her, for a while I realize she is fairy. It’s just I’d never seen a female fairy before, and I am taken back. She sits down at my table and asks again if it I was fairy killer?”
“Who are you” I asked playing dumb?
“I am Saurian my husband was among one of the first fairies you killed. I am forever in your debt. Because of you, I am no longer a slave to him. I have been sneaking out of the fairy realm to nightly in search of you, to thank you and ask if I could help you. The women in our world are slaves and nothing more. I won’t go back to that life again even it means they kill me. I will welcome death before I am enslaved again.”
“Look I don’t know what you’re talking about. You have the wrong person.” I said as I stand up from the table and head out the door. I am trying to decide if this is some kind of set up. I mean after all the females are slaves to their husbands maybe her husband has sent her here to find out who I am. I made it to the sidewalk when I hear the woman again.
“WAIT PLEASE! I MEAN YOU KNOW HARM!”
Stopping I eye the woman who calls herself Saurian she is very pretty with long blond hair blue eyes and pale skin. She is about my height and slim. I would say she would be in her early twenties.
“What do you want from me?”
“I want to help you. The women on our world that have not been enslaved by husbands yet all want to help you. You are our savior!”
“I'm no one's savior!” I state to her and start walking again. She follows begging me to listen to her.
Glancing at her, I asked, “How do I know you’re not just doing as your husband ordered. You could be setting me up right now for all I know.”
“If you do not believe me, please kill me like you have all the male fairies you have thus far.”
“I don’t want to kill you. I want you to leave me alone!”
“I can’t leave you alone you’re the only hope the fairy women have and we want to help you.”
“How can you help me? I asked.
“I will help you in any way I can. So will my friends you just need to tell me what you want us to do."
“Before I talk with you anymore or possibly take you to my home, I would want to look into your mind. See for myself if what you say is true.”
“Please do as you need to."
Closing my eyes I go deep in Saurian mind. Seeing how she has been beaten yelled at and made to do things no woman should ever be made to do. I see the man that was her husband and I remember killing him. I am glad I had been able to set this fairy woman free from her life of bondage. Opening my eyes I said, “Alright I believe you. I’m going home would you like to join me?”
“Yes I would most grateful savior."
“You’re welcome and my name is Lana not savior.” Taking Saurian by the hand, I blink us to my living room.
Saurian sits on the couch while I sit in my big chair with the ottoman. I asked her a lot of questions about why the women could be enslaved by the men when the women were fairies themselves. She informs me she isn’t sure why or how it happened. She said it had been that way for as long as she or her mother could remember.
Blinking, us each a cup of coffee I asked her what the women wanted me to do for them. Saurian tells me they want me to free them. She said they are all willing to die for the chance at freedom. I reply to her there isn’t any way I can kill all the male fairies, so I don’t see how it could be possible for me to free them. That’s when she tells me if I could help and the women escape the fairy realm and get to earth, they will be free and the male fairies will have no power over them.
“If the female fairies aren’t allowed to leave the fairy realm, how could you leave?
“It’s not that we are forbidden to leave the realm. We can’t leave because we are never allowed to know, the incantation, so we are stuck there without a way to leave.”
“Well you’re here so you must know the incantation. How did you find it out?”
“After you killed my mate, I went to tell Prince Osier, and I overheard him talking with the tree people about how his fairies were being killed, and that he had a good idea about who was doing it. Then he told the tree people to change the incantation. I listened to him as he quoted to the tree people what he wanted the new incantation to be, and I memorized it. I left and went back to my hut and wrote the words down before I could forget. Then I went back to the prince and told him my mate had been killed.”
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��How did you know your mate had been killed?”
“When a woman is mated to a male fairy, he controls her body and mind. When I could have my own thoughts, I knew he was dead. I thank you for giving me my mind and body back to me Lana.”
“I’m glad you have your freedom back Saurian I am honored I could help you. But why not just give the other women the incantation and let them open the door and leave on their own?”
“That would never work if Prince Osier saw the women disappearing, he would change the incantation again, and we will not get another opportunity like this.”
“Why don’t you get all the women together and open the door and all of you leave together? ”
“If one of the male fairies or the tree people saw us; he could stop us with just one word they have that much control over our minds without even being mated to us.”
“Then how could I help you?”
“It seems the male fairies cannot control you. You can kill them; you hold the power to free us. All you have to do is come back to the fairy realm with me. I can keep you hid so no male fairies will know you are there. Let me get the women together and open the door; you stand guard at the door until all the women are through then you follow behind us.”