jims legacy 01 - jim sees dead people
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I smiled when I walked in and saw Maddy, but it died on my face when I saw her expression. I gave her a quick chaste hug for comfort.
“Maddy? What’s wrong?” I asked, my voice was thrumming with compassion and she collapsed against me for another hug.
I was glad Madison didn’t pull away, I needed to know why she was so upset, my business or not it hurt to look at her so depressed. I was used to a confident sexy bearing from her, which made her current state seem worse than if she was anyone else. She wasn’t normally one to get down over little crap.
She whispered, “My mother is in Mercy hospital. She… It doesn’t look good. Fourth stage cancer.”
I held her until she could stand, and just held her. One of the rules in the house was no interfering, no healing normal humans in a hospital. For two basic reasons we had this rule. One was where would it stop? What was the line? Where they meant to die? We are not gods.
Reason two was a little more selfish, we would be caught, cameras in the hospital would see us enter and exit, we would be seen and the government would… Investigate.
For the first time I determined to disobey that rule. I just had to. Rule two was no longer an issue, I could turn invisible long before a camera on the hospital grounds could see me, be in and out without anyone seeing me at all. My family didn’t even know I could be invisible, I hadn’t even told Kristi.
Rule one… That one was harder, but I just knew I needed to make Maddy feel better, that seemed to be the driving force behind my decision. And I knew it was also selfish, because the person dying next to her, that I didn’t know, and didn’t connect to my life.
Well, I would let her die.
I would pick and choose, I would play god. Just this one time? My conscience cringed, I knew once I crossed that line I couldn’t go back, and it would be easier next time. Next time a human I loved was dying, or being hurt from losing someone they loved too early, too soon.
Could I live with that? Could I live with letting Maddy’s mother die? I would despise her if she let mine die for some stupid reason like higher morality, its bullshit anyway. Humans play favorites all the time, why was this any different?
Was this any worse than some important politician getting the heart over some other person when that person was higher on the donor list? No, I don’t believe it is, in fact my way I don’t have to kill anyone else. I just have to stand by while they pass naturally. One doctor boggling miracle coming up…
I didn’t want my car anywhere near the hospital either, perhaps I was being overly paranoid, but you never know. I activated my invisibility and created a teleport gate and stepped through. I stood still for a while, my skin crawling.
I went to the front entrance and waited for Maddy to arrive. Invisibility is cool but i have to be hyper aware of everyone around me. They can’t see me so not bumping is one hundred percent my job.
I followed Maddy closely through the doors, the sensors unable to detect me. I figured following her would be easier than trying to sneak through a nurse’s station and find a room. I didn’t want to make it to obvious as an instant heal would be. You always hear the stories about someone on the cusp of death suddenly reversing and the cancer just slowly goes into remission.
That was my job today. Introduce a slow heal, turn down her pain receptors by half for the duration and get the hell out without accidentally bumping into someone.
Piece of cake.
Of course the thought that those other remissions might be necromancers playing god for huge sums of money occurred to me. Despite feeling guilty though I was going through with it.
I waited for Maddy to leave, I wasn’t sure where the rest of her family was, but I would count my blessings if I could work in there alone. I wasn’t sure what scanning her with energy would do to my invisibility ball. It shouldn’t do anything but I haven’t tested it yet. When she left I went in and scanned the problem, it really had set into her whole body.
I set up a spell form to slowly heal and partially dull the pain over the next month.
I couldn’t just put energy in her and expect it to work like light energy does. It wouldn’t heal her because it wouldn’t know what to do after I left. It would just go inert. This should work though, I attached the spell form to her hip bone, I didn’t want anyone that could see energy to see it, and they would if it was on her skin. I doubt they would detect it, I made it really small.
I activated it and watched a while, it seemed to be working fine, if slowly. I had never made a healing spell form before, but I had healed with direct energy guided by thought so many times that it really wasn’t hard to accomplish. With no one to follow I found a dark room with no cameras in it and just transported from right there to the college. I was sure I was being paranoid not going straight home.
I walked into the coffee shop and went into the bathroom, then dropped my invisibility, ordered a coffee back at the counter and headed home. I had a spell form to work out from my epiphany this morning.
I tried for simple first. I added one new symbol that I made up from whole cloth. The thought I attached was simple, detach yourself on command and become a free floating spell form.
That’s it, no container, just link the spell form to something. Anything. Then pull it off by telling it to activate the first part and holding the form firmly in my mind so it doesn’t dissipate when it comes loose. Then send it at the speed of thought to the target and activate the rest. If it works that is.
It didn’t work, it detached, but then fizzled because the whole form activated and burned out because it wasn’t attached to anything.
Second try I inserted a second thought into the spell form, not to pass on activation past step 1. I also changed my concentration to only hold the spell form I wanted to actually throw at a necromancer. That would hopefully allow just the first two symbols to dissipate as it disconnects, leaving me with just a free floating drain dark energy spell form.
The second try worked perfectly, I had a free floating spell form ready to launch wherever I wanted. Of course I didn’t have a target, so I just stopped concentrating and the rest of the spell form broke up. What I was excited about is those two symbols I added will work with any other spell form I come up with. I was pretty happy though with my non lethal but make someone completely helpless spell form.
I couldn’t picture myself making a killing one. Even against necromancers.
I take an hour and build about 30 of them and attach them to the back of my phone. I wasn’t carrying around a wand or something equally stupid, and I always have my phone with me. I couldn’t picture ever needing more than that. Right now I knew I didn’t really need any of them as we had an unofficial truce with evil… That just doesn’t sit right with me but that’s the way it is.
I can’t believe I actually did it, I needed to celebrate, and I knew Maddy was probably out for a week or so until it became apparent her mother was recovering. Kristi was still not around. I tracked down my mom, my birth mother.
I said, “Stephanie, want to go to the beach?”
I always call my mom Stephanie when we get on bikinis and teleport to a beach somewhere, because she looks like my younger sister, and calling her mom just draws some very strange looks.
She smiled, “Sure I’m still cool enough to hang out with?”
I snorted. “Soon enough I’ll be too old to hang out with your young hotness mom.”
It was her turn to snort and look at me weird. Then her weird look slowly turned to concern and surprise.
She said, “You haven’t figured it out yet? Have you looked in the mirror lately? Don’t you feel your energy working?”
I replied, “Umm, this morning, figured what out? What about my dark energy?”
She sighed and looked apologetic, “You finished maturing two years ago baby, at nineteen. Two years ago now and you haven’t changed a bit. Your dark energy renews you constantly, you may not be a vampire in the full sense of the word, such as teethe and drin
king blood. But you get the same age benefits. I thought you would feel it honey, I never thought to tell…” She just sort of trailed off looking horrified at herself.
I smiled, alarmed at finding out I was virtually immortal but trying to blow it off.
“Cool, so I’ll always be your older by one year sister when we hit the beach?” And watch everyone I love die over and over as I go on? I felt sick.
She nodded. Her face looked sad and concerned. Mom always saw right through me.
“Beach?” I asked again, she never answered that part.
I needed to not be in this house right now. Would Mina be immortal? Or would she die like dad and Wade? They would live a few hundred years. My dad still looked about 26 even pushing 45 or so. But not…
I almost burst into tears when I realized how much worse it would be for mom, she worshipped the old man… Somehow I held it together, all these thoughts coming at me, that wouldn’t occur to someone at twenty one. Someone who had so much time left, but knew deep down they would eventually follow their loved ones. I knew dad wouldn’t stay as a ghost either. He was looking forward to seeing Nikki again someday.
Focus Ariel, beach, sand, sun and swimming.
Mom said, “I can’t this afternoon, how about this weekend?”
I just nodded and turned to leave, but I was suddenly in her arms and I broke down and wept like a child.
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The end of the week went by quickly and on Saturday I still hadn’t heard from Maddy so I guess the doctors hadn’t run tests yet, she should be in about twenty percent remission right now. I decided if I don’t hear anything by Monday morning class I would check on her, make sure it was working as it should.
Still no Kristi either, I was handling that by burying my head in the sand. If I thought about loving her and her not knowing… If I also wondered about if she loved me back it would drive me batty.
So little sis and I, otherwise known as mom and I had on matching white bikinis that brought out our dark red hair and teleported to Rincon in Puerto Rico. It was 82 degrees which was unseasonably cool and the water was so clear. The weather was so much warmer than home I wasn’t looking forward to the return trip to just above freezing weather.
We had a blast, swimming, enjoying the looks of the men walking by. Call me a momma’s girl but for some reason when I was with her I never felt that embarrassment or insecurity come on. Mom was safe, even if she did act like a silly teenager sometimes.
In some ways she would always be that eighteen year old girl and somehow that was comforting. And of course I knew she would never do more than let them look. She belonged to dad heart and soul. Over lunch we had crunchy calamari and some cocktails.
I filled her in on what was happening in my life recently. It had been a couple of months since we did the beach thing and caught up, it was exactly what I had needed to center myself.
All good things come to an end though and I teleported us back to the house, creepy crawlies or not a beach day is so worth it.
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Sunday was homework day, I also built a bunch of what I called spy spell forms. It was like the energy hooks my sister and brother used, but because it’s a spell form it would last for months activated. And probably stay viable a couple of years on standby not using power, instead of the one to two weeks theirs lasted before they had to renew them.
I wanted to be prepared. If I had to check up on Maddy’s mom Monday to see how she is I want a way to do so without going back again, each time I went increased the risk of getting caught after all.
It’s pretty cool, the spell form is like audiovisual wireless strait to my head, I could also detect energy through it, which means I could check up on the spell form healing Maddy’s mother if it came to it. Plus, they might come in handy in the future even if I don’t need one now.
Come to think of it I could probably just open a miniature transporter gate. I can’t reach through them with power like you can a portal. But I should be able to shoot a spell form through it and have it embed in the wall or something on the other side.
I text Maddy to let her know I am thinking of her and to tell her I’m here if she needs anything. We talk a bit but no real update, just that if her mom is dying she feels guilty spending any of the remaining time away from her, but will see me in class tomorrow. I guess doctors are slow on the uptake, or she hasn’t reported feeling better yet.
I felt better about things with somewhat of a plan going on, for at least one of my problems. I head down to the basement to check out what is going on. Turns out they are getting ready to let Amanda and a couple of others out, who will be expected to stay in the house or with one of us until they graduate training.
One of them runs for it, but my aunts catch her easily and throw her back in the cage. She can stay there until Mina has a chance to look at her energy. I really wish I could see that, but I can’t. Jeremy can but we aren’t going to use an 11 year old as a good or evil barometer.
It isn’t that he can’t be trusted. We just don’t want to expose him to any more evil until he has to be. Not to mention giving an 11 year old a job is a bad idea. Chores yes but he is too young to decide to join the family business.
I hang and chat with Amanda for a while. I am going to miss her soft spoken beautiful voice when it’s her time to be free. It’s like listening to silk and velvet while getting a full body massage. I need to ask her soon if she can sing, before she leaves, or I will always regret it. I got goose bumps just thinking about it.
It’s getting late and I have an early class tomorrow, bio with Maddy, so I head up to my room and pass out.
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“Mmmnphh!” my scream is muffled as I wake up. What?! I can’t breathe!
Kristi says, “That’s right, pleasure me slut!”
Oh crap, I’m in love with a sex crazed slut ghost.
Then I gasp as she sucks in my clit and shoves a vibrator between my wet silken folds. She must have prepared me in my sleep.
She grinds my face as if in a reminder and I start to lick and suck on her labia while I bring my hand up and around and slap her tight ass. It’s taking all of my concentration to work through the incredible build up in my molten core as she works me hard with a vibrator and abuses my swollen clit with her wet tongue.
I keep licking her, driving my tongue deeper inside her velvety folds, my tongue on automatic as I moan loudly and my legs spread wide. Offering my molten heat to the pleasure Kristi and the vibrator are providing me. When I arch my back in pleasure she pulls it out without warning and sticks it in my now exposed dark hole. I scream out as she spanks my pussy hard then sucks on my erect, red, hot, and swollen clit.
“Oh god I’m cumming!” I scream into her dripping pussy as my body arches and my core erupts in ecstasy.
My orgasm extended from her almost rough attentions to my holes, my center vibrating from my rectum as she punishes my clit with her teeth and tongue. I gasp as I struggle for breath while she finally turns off the vibrator and softly licks around my clit.
Letting me fall, letting me breathe. I was still gasping when she grinded her wet hot core in my face, impatient for attention. I actually giggled because I could hardly move.
“Kristi that was an intense one, give me a moment please, I can barely move. God it’s good to see you, I missed you this last week,” I panted the words out two or three at a time.
I started to lick again as I gained motor functions, slapping her ass cheeks one at a time with one hand while I used the other to rub, pinch and slap her clit. I enjoyed the taste of her as I continually licked out the slut’s juices. I used my dark energy for telekinesis.
Grabbing the vibrator with a grin I move it into the hand slapping her ass, my grin of anticipation so wide I have to stop licking for a moment. Then I powered it on and violated her sphincter. I started to ream her ass with it as I turned it up to maximum and sucked in and bit down on her clit hard.
I knew we would both be worthless for a while, both of us enduring those intense over stimulated orgasms. Our bodies jerked with aftershocks, like shorts in our body. It hurt and felt great at the same time. I couldn’t hold back another loud giggle after another powerful aftershock passed.
Kristi said, “You crazy slut!”
I giggled again and said, “You started it!” like I was 5 or something. Which was true, she over stimulated me first. I giggled again.
I turned around as best I could so I was looking at her face to face. My Kristi. My crazy slut ghost. Mine. Or at least, I hoped she was mine. I kissed her softly, so very gently and caringly, the direct opposite of what we just did to each other. I poured my soul into it. When I broke off the kiss her eyes were so very wide.
I said softly, “I have something to tell you.”
She whispered, “What Ariel?”
I touched her face and said, “While you were gone, I figured out I was in love with you.”
I stopped breathing and waited, this was Kristi. Best friend Kristi. My friend with benefits Kristi. My friend that had kept me off the deep end those last few months of high school, and had stayed with me the last couple of years.
I was terrified that statement would end our relationship, at least, if she didn’t love me too. I didn’t have to wait long, no more than a second or two, but those short moments were terrifyingly long to me.
She smiled and said, “I love you Ariel, and about time you figured it out.”
I gasped in annoyance. She did not just take my precious moment and stomp on it with a wiseass comment. Of course, she totally did. That didn’t mean I wasn’t grinning in both relief and happiness.