Destiny Demons

"No, it doesn"t happen, too, often," I rea.s.sured him. "Ketheras has only returned through me twice, well three times now."

"What"s it like?" Adam asked and everyone came to the table to listen. Casimir sat at the end and paid close attention. Lothair and Leon sat across from me as Adam sat across from Casimir. All of them were gazing at me, waiting for my answer.

"It"s like being in a box, forced to watch as everything unfolds, like watching a movie and you"re screaming at the screen for the girl to run, "don"t just stand there, run!", but she just stands there screaming until she"s dead. You want to stop yourself from doing anything but your body does it anyway. I was telling myself to stop attacking you, Cas but I didn"t. I couldn"t stop. I still swung but I couldn"t feel anything. Your attacks didn"t hurt me as I stood at the window of my mind. I was inside myself, in a bubble cage. I could see the darkness inside, the foul evil that resides, moving like a shadowy fog through the rage that foamed and sputtered. The fog looked like fingers clawing up at me threatening to take me to the depths of the darkness. I will admit it was the scariest thing I have ever experienced.

"But when you touched me," I turned to Adam. "I saw it, this bright light inside the fog, then the black fog pulsed and began to thin as the light brightened. The rage stopped bubbling and when you gave me the shot, my prison began to float to my consciousness. That"s when the pain of our fight hit me, the antidote burned in my gut and the flames took me," I finished.

"Wow, that"s crazy, Abby," Adam started. Everyone looked blown away by my description of the incident.

"Wait," Casimir said, "Do you think you could"ve regained control without the antidote? Do you think Adam"s energy alone could"ve done it?"

"I"m not really sure, maybe," I answered.

"How? You"ve always needed to antidote!" Lothair remarked.

"I don"t know," I shrugged. "Adam"s energy always has been strong with me, but I don"t know."

At that, the room went quiet as everyone thought about this new information. It was Leon who broke the silence.

"So Casimir told me that you had visions of me dying?" Leon addressed me since we were all opening up to talk to each other.

"Yeah," I answered looking into Leon"s face. I hadn"t noticed until now that he looked exactly the same as he did that last night we were together in my father"s garden. My heart pounded at the memory that flashed in my mind.

We were in the garden grounding ourselves when we looked at each other and the pa.s.sion and want washed over us. We were in each other"s arms and were all emotion. Desire tingled deep inside of me and sent a rush up my back. I could taste his sweetness in his kiss and felt his pa.s.sion. We fell to the ground, hands untying, unb.u.t.toning and pulling at our clothes. He lay above me and looked into my eyes. "Abby?" he said, "Abby?"

I blinked and shook my head. I was at the table with Leon, Adam, Casimir and Lothair. They all looked at me questioningly. "Abby, are you okay?" Leon asked.

"Yeah," I said and met each of their eyes. "Just took a quick walk down memory lane."

"Must"ve been a doozy," Adam laughed. "You were breathing hard and all flushed.

"Yeah," I blushed. "It was a good stroll."

"About what?" Lothair asked as he popped a piece of beef jerky in his mouth.

"None of your business, Lott, it was personal," I said playfully.

"Who?" Casimir asked.

"What is this, twenty questions? Does it matter?" I asked and looked around at them all with a hint of a smile.

"It might mean a difference in mood. I would a.s.sume that is was a VERY good stroll by the look on your face," Leon remarked.

I sighed and looked at Adam who raised one eyebrow as if to say, "So?"

"Fine, it was you, Leon. Back when we were human. Back in my father"s rose garden," I blurted and Adam just smiled victoriously as he was the one to get it out of me. Leon"s eyes narrowed and went distant as he took the same stroll as a smile appeared on his face. Casimir and Lothair just smiled back as if they were happy that I would even think of Leon like that.

"Those were good times," Leon mumbled.

"Yes, back before our immortal lives tore us apart. Before the anger, the rage, the hatred. When life was simple royal life, when the only lives that depended on us were those of our kingdoms, not the entire human race," I said and a shadow washed over Leon"s face. I didn"t know exactly what it was that caused the shadow on his face but he gazed into my eyes as if he were searching for something. But what?

About then I felt a familiar energy from outside that brought a smile to my face. I jumped up to answer the door before the bell rang. I nearly jerked the door open and there on my porch stood vampires. Silas looked at me, his large perfect smile on his face and I wrapped my arms around his neck with a squeal. "Silas, you"re okay?!"

"Yes, now what is this about our lives being in danger?" Aaron asked. I turned to look at him.

"Good to see you, too, Aaron," I said astonished.

"Yes, I am okay and it is very nice to see you," Silas chimed in as he peered at Aaron from the corner of his eye. "By the way, I would like you to meet my family. This is Myla, my wife. This is Aaron"s wife, Allison. And my adopted son and daughter, Keegan and Kyra," Silas informed me as he motioned to each.

"h.e.l.lo, everyone, you can call me, Abby. Come on in and I will explain why I called you," I said. I nodded to each of them as they entered. As everyone entered the living room I began introductions, "Everyone this is Adam, Lothair, Leonidas, Casimir and Edward."

We all met in front of the couches. They all sat in pairs, Silas with his fair blond hair and gentle features, wore a light blue, long sleeve shirt with tan slacks. His wife, Myla, was a shorter, thin woman with strong features and a long narrow face. Though her nose was prominent and strong, it was thin and very feminine. Her long straight chestnut brown hair reminded me of Lena"s. Aaron looked the same as I remembered, with rich, reddish light brown hair and chiseled perfect features. He sat next to his wife, Allison, whose hair was also dark chestnut brown with soft waves that fell to the small of her back. Her fair skin was paled by her dark brown eyes. On my love seat, sat Kyra and Keegan, their hands interlocked. Her shoulder length blond hair flipped out in a pixie style and a beauty mark over her upper lip. His short sandy blond hair over his strong chiseled features was spiked up in the front. They looked happy and comfortable.

"So, Dru, what is this about?" Aaron asked. Allison elbowed him and he turned to look at her. She looked at him with wide eyes and raised brows. She was telling him something with that look. "Did you see them come after us, too?" Aaron questioned as he looked up at me as I stood there.

Adam walked through the living room to one of the plush leather chairs and patted the arm. I took the invitation and sat on the overstuffed arm. I turned to Aaron who was now to my left with Allison between us and asked, "What do you mean, "too"?"

"Allison sees visions from time to time. She told me we were in danger the day your message came," Aaron answered.

"Oh," I managed. "So what exactly did she see? I mean, what did you see, Allison?"

"I saw Silas and Aaron being… killed by men that I later described and Silas recognized my description as the elders Markus and Rurik. I also saw you there," she finished and looked at Leon.

"Yes, he was," I a.s.sured Leon as he looked at me questioningly. "Rurik had Aaron and Markus had killed Leon then Silas," I said. She turned and looked at me with a look of astonishment.

"So you did see it, didn"t you? And that is why the message?" Allison asked.

"Yes and yes. I had to warn them of the impending threat."

"I see, but why are they after us specifically? Why Leon, Aaron and I? Why us?" Silas asked, more to himself than to anyone in specific.

"Not sure. I could see them coming after you all but I don"t quite understand why you guys specifically," I answered.

"You sent that message a few weeks ago and you still don"t know? How are you supposed to protect us if you don"t know why they want us dead?" Aaron spouted off angrily.

"I"m sorry, Aaron, I"ve had other things going on that were a bit more pertinent to my own health. I haven"t had a whole lot of time to find out," I said irritated.

"Well, you call us to come here saying that you can protect us yet you don"t find out as to why. That"s great, Dru, just great!" Aaron spat.

He was still mad at me. After eighty-eight years, he was still p.i.s.sed. I couldn"t believe it. "Aaron, stop!" Silas snapped.

"No," Aaron snapped back. "She"s the one that left us all those years ago. No explanation. No goodbye. No nothing. Then all of a sudden she messages us telling us that we"re in danger, to come and she"ll protect us but she doesn"t even know why we are in danger to begin with. And what did we do? We jumped and ran. Why? Why, because she"s some champion of the G.o.ds? Some indestructible force?" Aaron was up on his feet pacing as he ran through his thoughts, releasing his anger.

"Aaron…" Silas began but Aaron spun around, cutting him off.

"No, let me ask this, Dru? Why don"t you look the same? Because you needed a new body? Because, come to find out you weren"t indestructible at all. You died! You were killed! So much for the indestructible Champion of the G.o.ds! So tell me, Drusilla, Abigail, whatever, how are you going to save us? Why save us? You don"t care, you never did!"

"That"s enough, Aaron!" I stood, anger flooding my senses. I was standing with my hands balled up in fists as he spun around. "Is that what you"re angry about? I tried to say goodbye but you wouldn"t listen. I loved you, Aaron, but I hated what you were, what you are. You know that! I began having dreams of ending everything, of hurting you and I couldn"t bear even the thought of bringing you any kind of pain. So I tried to tell you that I had to go. But you argued about me leaving. So I waited for the right time and I left, to protect you, from me. I was losing a battle that I fought with myself. My instinct said to kill you because you were a vampire, my enemy, the creature that I was to kill and yet, you, Silas and Leon were not the monsters but my friends. That caused a conflict, an inner struggle. To kill as my instinct said or not to kill as my conscience told me. I struggled with it as you struggle with the thirst for human blood. Can you try, at least try, to understand, Aaron. I did it for you and Silas," I finished with a plea.

Aaron"s cold expression relaxed as the reality of what I said sunk in. Allison stood and looked at me sympathetically then to her husband. "She"s right, you know. She wasn"t meant to stay anyway. If you ever got past your own anger you might have seen that." She sounded so sweet as she explained and it seemed to have worked because Aaron"s face relaxed and softened. She brought her hand up and touched his face as his eyes closed and he took a deep breath.

"You"re right, Allie. I have you and that is the way that is should be," Aaron said and looked into her face. "Sorry, Dru, Abby. Allie is right. You weren"t meant to stay and I understand why," he admitted and looked at me. A smile inched its way across his face and I knew that all was forgiven.

"Its fine, Aaron, as long as you understand why I left," I said.

Aaron nodded in agreement and I stepped forward wrapping Aaron in a hug and he as well. "I did miss you, though," I whispered in his ear.

"As did I," he admitted softly.

We stepped back and looked at each other. "I sure am glad that you two made up, I was worried for a second that we were going to have world war three break out," Silas said as he stood.

"No, world war three was the other day," Leon laughed.

"Ah, yes, I would definitely say so," Casimir added motioning to the shattered door that he had sent me through. The frame was still intact but the gla.s.s had been cleaned up after Adam had taken me to bed.

"Why? What happened?" Aaron and Silas asked as they glanced at the door frame.

"Well," I started but Casimir began.

"Abby lost control to Ketheras. The council had sent Windigo."

"Steroid pumped Windigo," Lothair chimed.

"Yes," Casimir agreed. "Steroid pumped Windigo were sent after Dru. They didn"t know that Dru really isn"t Dru anymore. She"s Abby," he paused to allow questions but Aaron and the others just nodded in acknowledgement. "Well, when they attacked, Abby fought them alone."

"Why alone?" Silas asked looking at me.

"She put up a wall to block us," Lothair replied.

"No, I didn"t. I"m telling you guys, again, I didn"t do it!" I nearly yelled.

"Then who did, Abby? Who?" Casimir asked.

"He does have cause to ask, Abby. You"ve done it to us all before," Silas said calmly.

"But I didn"t do it this time, I swear," I said in a sulky voice. I really hadn"t. A couple hundred years ago, I had. I blocked all of them including Lena, as I fought a lair of vampire. After the fight, they all made me promise not to do it ever again and I hadn"t, not even the few days before though they didn"t believe me.

"Well, whether it was Abby or not, she did get injured," Leon interjected. "We weren"t thinking and she went to bed without the antidote. When she woke up, she wasn"t Abby. She was Ketheras," he finished explaining what exactly happened to Silas and Aaron.

I sat back down next to Adam and let him tell the story. I noticed every once in a while, Edward would look at me and Aaron would get this look of anger on his face. I tried not to linger on it, too, much and listened to the story myself.

"So, is Adam as strong as Abby? He seems to do pretty good. I"ve see Ketheras myself and he is extremely strong and Adam got her the shot by himself?" Silas asked.

"Yeah, he did and once he is a Kethra he could possibly be a worthy adversary to her," Casimir answered.

"Once he"s a Kethra?" Silas asked.

"Yes, for some reason, Abby hasn"t turned him," Casimir answered and I knew where this was going.

"Why?" Silas asked and everyone looked at me questioningly.
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Everyone looked at me but Adam, and I think I knew why. We didn"t feel it. Yeah, we felt connected and we were really good friends. I loved him but, I wasn"t IN love with him. I didn"t think he was in love with me, either.

"Yeah, why not?" Aaron asked.

"Because," I started but stopped. I looked around at everyone and saw something in Leon"s face. Hope? That"s what it looked like, but why? I started to think but stopped, realizing that everyone was waiting for an answer. "Because, I don"t think he"s ready," I answered.

"Not ready?" Casimir asked. "He"s The immune! Your twin flame! You two love each other! Why wouldn"t he be ready?"

"Because, while yes, I do love him, I"m not…" my voice trailed off when I looked at Edward. His face was astonished, and I realized he didn"t need to know the truth. "I"m not talking about this anymore. When I feel that he is ready, I will!" I exclaimed.

Luckily, Casimir took the hint and dropped it for now. We all sat a moment in silence.

"So do you have any idea why us three?" Aaron asked breaking the silence.

I shook my head. I honestly had no idea why Aaron, Silas and Leon were being targeted. But one thing was clear, I had to find out.