Forgotten And Destined (Forgotten # 1)

by CATT

  “Is he alright he hasn’t woken up during any of this”? She asked.

  “I put him to sleep; he is fine or as fine as he can be considering he has been starved and beaten and is half out of his mind at this point.”

  “How were you able to put him to sleep, for that matter how have you been able to do everything you’ve done”?

  “Saurian I’m a keeper do you know what that is?”

  “No…I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that. Are you some kind of witch?”

  “No…I said and laughed; I'm far from a witch. I’m a world keeper. God created my race. I am part Angel and part of God. Meaning that God took his blood and the blood of an Angel to create us. We fight evil, mostly demons; our job is to keep people safe. That’s why I have the powers I do. We have our own world called the keepers’ world it’s kind of like the fairy realm. The only people that live there or are even allowed to enter are keepers’ or Angels. Well, the sage’s live there as well, but like us, they are all holy. If you are not of holy blood, then there’s no way for you to enter. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you all this before, but I’ve been gone from the keepers’ world for a few months. I had some things I’ve had to work through so I left for a while. I’m telling you all this because I have to go back there tonight. Right now to be exact, I have to get Dominick back there so he can be helped.”

  “I knew you we’re special Lana; I could feel it, but to think your part God, part Angel makes me feel’ as if I should be on my knees in front of you.”

  “Trust me I may be part Angel, but I’m no God! He just blessed me with his blood to help fight the evils of the world.”

  “If you leave now I don’t think I can do this by myself. I need your help.”

  “Saurian you don’t need me; you are a strong woman and will deal with this just fine, but don’t worry I’m not leaving you; I'll be blinking in and every day to check on you and the other women. I’ll be here to help you all get settled. I swear I’m not going to abandon you. You’re my friend, and I‘ll be here for you as long as you need me to be. I just have to get Dominick back; he needs help and the only ones that can help him are in the keepers’ world.” Saurian hugs me and tells me to go and get help for my friend. Hugging her back, I promise her I will see her tomorrow. She releases me from the hug after a few minutes.

  “Until tomorrow then my dear friend thanks you for all you have done for me and my people. I promised her I would tell her everything that had happened on the fairy realm tomorrow when I return.

  Walking over to Dominick, I once again take his hand interlocking our fingers together and blink us to the keepers’ world.

  CHAPTER 55

  I blinked us to Dominick’s bedroom. With him lying in his bed, I lift the sleep rune I put on him. Even though he made no move, I did see the pain come back across his face. Running my fingers ever so lightly on his cheek, I tell him he is home now and that Sage will have him back as good as knew before long.

  Throwing my senses out I search for my parents locating them in the library I decide to walk there instead of blinking myself into the room and maybe scaring the SHIT out of them, considering it has been months since they have seen me. I know I could lift my veal that I have been hiding myself with, and they would know I was here within seconds, but I’d rather see them for the first time on my terms.

  Leaving Dominick my way down the long walkway I soak in the beauty of the place I have missed for months. The pictures of my ancestors covering the walls, the high ceilings all colored the mother of pearl. Gold Angel statues’ everything I have missed so much. I have missed my family and friends and can’t wait to see them. Most of all I have missed Case, and hope he will be as happy to see me as I know I will be to see him.

  Going down the beautiful arched steps, I take a deep breath preparing myself for seeing my parents Harris and Summer Livingston, for the first time in over four months. I’m not sure if they will be happy to see me or if they will be mad because I left. Walking in the library, I see them both bent over the desk looking at something and talking with each other.

  “Hello”…I said and watched as both heads lifted in my direction like they have seen a ghost. I stand there waiting for them to make the next move. Not sure how I will react if they start yelling at me or tell me to leave.

  Ultimately, Summer started screaming running toward me; she pulls me into a hug. She is crying telling me how worried they have all been. How sorry she is and that she couldn’t believe I am home. She went on and on, and I let her. Hugging her back so hard it is a wonder she could breathe. When she eventually let me go Harris was standing next her. I see he is crying as well, this big powerful man the king of the keepers is crying. Wow I’m blown away.

  Without saying a word I threw myself at him hugging him and telling him how much I missed him and how sorry I am for leaving the way I did. Pulling back from me, he looks me in the eyes and tells me he is the one that was sorry. That what he had done had been wrong, and I had every right to be angry with him. I tell him I forgave him for what did a long time ago, and that I knew he had only done what he thought was right. Next I tell them both about Dominick being alive and that he is in really bad shape, and we need to get Sage to him as fast as possible.

  We blinked to Dominick’s bedroom, and Summer started crying again as soon as she sees the shape he is in. Harris calls for Sage immediately. Sage is there no sooner than the words leave Harris’s mouth. It shocks me when Sage hugs me and tells me it is good to have me back home. Then he goes to Dominick and start the process of healing him.

  We left the room leaving Dominick in Sage’s capable hands. We went back to the dining room while Harris went to the kitchen and asked Douglass to bring out coffee. Summer and I have already sat down at the table by the time Harris walks back in the room. Sitting down he asked if I am ready to tell them how I not only found out Dominick was a live, but how I had gotten him back. I had only started to tell the story when Douglass walks in with the coffee.

  Jumping up from the table I run around and hug Doug. He hugs me back in the awkward way he always does when I hugged him or joked and cut up with him. He acts like because my parents are the king and queen making me a princess by proxy he should treat me all formal. He gets really uncomfortable around me when I act like the other teenagers around here. You would think he would be over it after a year. Letting him go, I said, “it’s great to see you Doug, I’ve missed your cooking a lot.”

  “I can tell that by the looks of you. You’re nothing but a bone. I’m going to have to make sure you eat double portions of everything for a while princess.”

  “Aw…come on Doug, I told you to call me Lana not princess. Just because I’ve been away for a few months doesn’t mean you get to go back to calling me princess.” I see the little smile that plays across his face at my words and realize he only called me princess knowing how I will react to it. I punched him on the arm, “You got me Doug, I guess there really is a first time for everything.”

  I go back to my seat when Doug leaves the room. I go straight into the story about where I had been how I had met Saurian while I had been out looking for fairies. I told them how I had agreed to help Saurian save the women on the fairy world and how later I had found out that Dominick was still alive. Harris, and Summer listen as I explain everything. Finally I ended the story with now I’m back here.

  “We heard about the first few fairies coming up missing then when we saw the whoops gone, we knew it was you. We kept it hid from the Angels but Lana what you did to the fairy realm has the Angel council in an uproar. You destroyed the whole fairy realm you killed I can’t even begin to think how many fairies” Harris said.

  “Yeah I did but look at what they were doing to the women? Look at what they did to Dominick?”

  “You were needed here things have gotten really bad. The demons have somehow upped their powers. Whatever is going on it’s not Lucifer this is bigger than him. He’s even afraid he tried talking with som
e of the Angel’s begging for their help. We are on the verge of another war, I’m afraid this may be one we can’t win, and the Angel’s council thought you miss used your powers by doing what you did on the fairy realm” Harris replied. Looking at Summer, I see tears running down her face. I can tell by the tone of Harris’s voice he is upset as well. “What are they going to do to me?”

  “I don’t know, I’m sure they know you’re back here by now so they may show up at any time. Just know whatever happens your mother and I both stand by you. If they strip your powers and make you leave, then we will be going with you.”

  Putting my hand on Summers, I said, “I can’t ask you guys to do that. I’m the one that went to the fairy realm not you, I can’t let you guys to be punished for something I did.”

  Harris put his hand on top of my hand that is still lying on top of Summers his hand his hand engulfed both of ours. He looks me right in the eyes as he tells me, if he hadn’t done what he had none of this would be happening now. Summer considers me for a moment.

  “Sweetie; we only got you back a little over a year ago, there’s no way we’re losing you again. Besides if the Angels have half a brain, they’ll know they need us all right now. We’ve already lost over twenty keepers’ in the last couple of months; they know they can’t afford to lose anymore.

  Feeling sorrow for the keepers whom we’re lost my thoughts turned to Case, Lisa, and Cain.

  “Where is everybody? I asked.

  “Who are you talking about? Harris asked.

  “Case, Lisa, Cain where are they? How are they?”

  “There out fighting all three of them have been gone on extended patrol for over a month now. Last I heard from all three of them, they we're still at the gates of Hell. Whatever this evil force is its working overtime there.” Harris said.

  “Alright well I’ve got to get to them. I need to be there helping them” I said already jumping from my seat ready to go.

  “You can’t Lana”. Summer said “the council has forbidden it. The orders from the council are very simple if you return, you are to wait here until they send for you. If you leave and go to the gate to help in the fight your powers will be pulled right then, without any chance of a hearing.”

  “Am I supposed to just-sit here while my friends are out there fighting, dying?”

  “Yes you are. You have no choice in the matter if you want a chance at staying a keeper, then you’ll do what they say.”

  “Can I go back and check on Saurian and all the rest of the women? I promised them I would be blinking in and out several times through the day to see how they were doing and if they needed anything.”

  “Yes of course you can go and check on them; I'll go with you. Lana what you did was a great thing. You saved all those women from being slaves I don’t see how the council could over look that. We are both very proud of you. You also saved Dominick; we all thought he was dead, and eventually he would have been by the looks of him.” Summer says giving me her kind smile.

  “Thank you, I was worried you guys would be mad at me and never want to see me again for leaving the way I did.”

  “You were angry Lana over what I had done plus you thought Dominick was dead, and you were grieving. I would’ve probably done the same thing.” Harris response back with a pained expression on his face from the guilt he is carrying.

  We talk for hours; they filled me in on everything that is taking place with the demons. I thought back about what Michael, had told me while I had been in the comma. He knew there was going to be a great war, and he had said I was needed. I felt like I had let down the keepers’ and the Angels by not being here to do whatever it is I was meant to do. I prayed it wasn’t too late. I also prayed I wasn’t striped of my powers and sent back to live as a human.

  “Do you know when Case or the others will be coming home?”

  “I’m afraid it won’t be for at least another couple months, but hopefully by the time they return we will have everything settled with the council, and Dominick will be back to himself as well” Summer replied.

  Standing up I hug them both and tell them how happy I am to be back home and that I am going to check in on Dominick before I go take a long bath and get some sleep.

  CHAPTER 56

  I went to Dominick’s bedroom, he is still sleeping and Sage is still working on him. Sage always healed from the inside out. I have to admit Dominick is already looking better. I am sure by tomorrow; he will be awake and looking almost like his old self again. All though it will take him a while to gain back all the weight, he has lost.

  Leaving his room, I go straight to my bedroom. Sitting on the bed, I realize how much I have missed it. I can’t wait to sleep in my own bed tonight for the first time in a long time.

  Grabbing a night shirt and shorts out of my drawers I went to take a bath. With the huge seashell, tub filled I unbraided my hair and stepped in. Lying back I thought about everything that had happened and everything that was happening now. My life has been so out of control for the last year. I had done a good thing by freeing the fairy women I knew I had. Nobody should have to live being a slave. Plus I had not only found out Dominick was alive I had brought him back. I was almost positive the Angels would reprimand me for my action’s it was just hard to believe they would take away my powers and turn me human again especially with everything taking place right now.

  I wished I could talk to Case. I miss him so bad I'd love to hear the sound of his voice telling me everything will be alright. I almost fell asleep in the tub; my body is so fatigued after everything I have put it through for the last week. Stepping out of the tub I dry off then slip on my night shirt and shorts before leaving the bathroom.

  Crawling in my bed it feels like heaven. Snuggling under the covers breathing in through my nose, I caught Case’s smell. I would know it anywhere. Inhaling through my nose again I close my eyes. I can almost believe he is lying beside me. His smell reminds me of life. I guess I thought that because of how full of life he always is. I want to see him so bad it hurts. I want to make things right between us.

  I want him to know that I do love him. He will always hold part of my heart. Just because I will be with Dominick doesn’t mean we can’t be friends that I have to have him in my life I’m not whole without him. I know it will be hard, but we can make it work. I fall asleep with thoughts of Case running through my head.

  Waking up the next morning, I brush my teeth and hair, which takes a lot of time with it being so long. Leaving my room I went to check on Dominick and see he is sitting up in the bed. Sage was nowhere in sight.

  Running to the bed, I throw my arms around him my emotions everywhere I cry telling him how sorry I am that he had been left on the fairy realm that we had all thought he had been killed and how happy I had been when I found out, he had still been alive, and that I had made all the fairies pay for what they had done to him. I felt Dominick pushing me away from him and thought I must be hurting him. I let go and set up on the bed beside him taking his hand in mine.

  We set that way for a while without speaking. I didn’t care if we ever spoke I was only happy to sit here and hold his hand. Looking at Dominick’s face all the bruises are gone the only clue left from what he had gone through for the last few months is the hollowness in his cheeks from the weight loss and the fact he still needed a bath. His hair has its shine back. It’s a couple of inches longer than it was the last time I saw him.

  “Lana if you don't mind I would really like to take a shower.”

  “Ok... Yeah sure I understand” I tell him getting off the bed. “I’ll leave so you can do what you have to do. I have something I need to do myself. I’ll be back later, and we can talk then.” I waited for Dominick to reply. To say something, but he never even lifts his head to acknowledge I’ve spoken. Walking out the door I thought he probably just needed some time to get his bearings back. I mean he has been held prisoner and beaten for months.

  Blinking, myself back to the beach house
there are women and children everywhere. I stop and speak with a lot of the women along the way as I search for Saurian. I received more hugs than I have had in my life. Seeing the gratitude from these women let me know more than ever I had done the right thing by getting them out of the hell they had been calling a home. If the council took my powers from me because of this, then they will just have to do it. Because I know I would do it all over again if I had to.

  I found Saurian in the kitchen cooking along with about twenty over women. Walking up behind Saurian, I asked, “What are you cooking?” She turns at the sound of my voice and grabs me around the neck and hugs me.

  Letting go she said, “I’m so glad you are back I’ve been worried about your friend how is he doing?”

  “He is fine. When I left he was getting in the shower.”

  “Really he is that much better already?”

  “Yeah well keepers don’t stay down long plus we have a great doctor.”