AN: Nope, the characters
are still not mine. And yup, I changed the title of the chapter yet again.
Warning: I wrote most of
this chapter (maybe the last few pages)while listening to KC and Jo-Jo’s song
“All My Life,” Usher’s “You Got It Bad,” Black street’s “Don’t Leave Me,”
Voices of Theory’s “Heaven” (that song takes me waaaaaaaaaay back to when me
and my boyfriend first had crushes on each other when we were 14 and in jr
high!) and finally, Frankie J’s “Don’t Wanna Try.” May be sappy…
The Gift of Cursed Blood
Chapter 6: The Dream
Hilde pushed the heavy, oak
door open and her eyes were immediately drawn to the woman in the middle of the
room. There was a boy and a girl in the room with the woman and Hilde’s eyes
widened when she saw it was Lucas and Claire. She ran towards them to try to
get the woman away from them but realized she couldn’t move. She screamed at
them to get away from this red haired woman who had kidnapped them. With great
disappointment and sadness, she discovered that her children couldn’t hear her.
“Damn you! Let them go!”
she screamed at the woman. “Give them back!” she yelled again and struggled to
move. Her whole body was frozen to the spot. Her arms and legs wouldn’t budge
no matter how much she struggled. She looked down to see if there was anything
hindering her movements but found nothing. It was the only the woman’s power
that was holding her in place.
How can someone be so
powerful? I should be able to fight back. I’m not this weak.
Hilde tried yelling again
but to no avail. She saw her children cower from the woman as she yelled
something at them. With a sinking heart she realized that they couldn’t hear
her either. With all her might, Hilde tried to move her limbs. She wouldn’t
give up without a fight. If it was a fight this bitch wanted then a fight she
was going to get. Hilde concentrated on getting her limbs loose of whatever was
holding her in place. She saw the energy of the magic that was holding her in
place but other than that she saw nothing.
Wait a minute…magic? Magic! This power isn’t natural! It has a source.
With renewed strength and
determination, Hilde concentrated on the source of the energy that held her. She
stopped suddenly when she heard the red haired woman‘s muffled speech. Her lips
were moving but Hilde couldn’t hear what she was saying. Hilde tried her voice
again but it’s still didn’t’ work. She was left there to try and read the lips
of the redhead.
If she concentrated hard
enough she knew she could catch some of what the woman was saying. It sounded
muffled but she tried harder. She closed her eyes and tried to picture the
exact same scene that was laid out before her.
The words the woman was
speaking became clearer. Slowly, she began to understand what the woman was
saying to her children. The voice seemed far away, surreal almost. It was very
faint but very clear. It sounded as if the woman was speaking directly in her
mind, as she had done back a the castle, rather than being in the same room
with her.
I am Natasha, and you
are to be my pupils. You will do everything I tell you.
But our mama teaches us
everything! Why did you bring us here?
Hilde almost cried as she
heard the voice of her son for the first time in days. She saw him take a hold
of his twin sister’s hand and squeeze it lightly as if telling her everything
was going to be okay and to let him handle speaking to the woman.
The woman laughed loudly
and slapped the little boy.
You’re mother is
probably dead by now. And if she isn’t, there is no way she can ever win. She
doesn’t have the power that I do.
We don’t like you! You
hit us!
Hilde’s heart broke at the
desperation of her son’s voice. Oh God, the needed to get moving before this
woman harmed her children!
Shut up! Only speak
when I give my permission, you impudent child!
Hilde was going to kill
this woman; she was going to pay for this! Suddenly, the woman’s voice became
muffled again until Hilde could no longer hear her. She opened her eyes only to
see that her body was moving backwards and away from the room in which the red
haired woman called Natasha held her children.
“No!” she yelled, having
regained her voice. “No!” she cried desperately. She struggled against the
magic that was pulling at her but it was too much for her. She saw the woman’s
mirror appear in front of her and realized she was no longer in the room with
the woman. This was a different room. It was beautifully furnished. It was a
fairly large room with a big, four-poster bed and a large window that led to a
balcony. Across from the bed hung the intricate mirror she had seen the red
haired woman look into.
Natasha.
The mirror pulsated with
the same magic that radiated from the woman. The same magic which held her in
that room. The dark energy surrounded the room but it seemed to concentrate in
the mirror.
What the hell is this? Why
am I here? Where…
*~*~*~*
Hilde bolted upright. She
was breathing hard and her heart was beating like crazy. She put one hand to
her chest and with the other she wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
A dream.
She swung her legs off the
bed and pushed herself off. The cold stone floor was freezing under her feet
but she ignored it. She walked out of her room and down the hall. Without
knocking, she entered Duo’s chambers. She hesitated when she approached the
bed. From what she remembered about him he liked to sleep in his
birthday suit and tonight was no different. All she could see was his chest but
she was sure that under that sheet that was loosely draped across his hips, he
wasn’t wearing anything underneath. Hilde licked her lips and gingerly climbed
on the bed.
“Duo,” she said and shook his bare shoulders but he only stirred and turned
on his side. She shook his shoulders again. “Duo wake up!”
“Hmmm?” He mumbled and turned over again.
Exasperated, Hilde pinched his left nipple and twisted.
He yelped and sat up instantly. “What the hell?” he screeched and turned on
to Hilde. “Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my bedroom?”
“Shh! Shhh! It’s me, Hilde. Calm down!”
She saw him rub his nipple and he flopped back onto the bed on his back.
“What are you doing here? You don’t--”
“No, I don’t, Duo. Get your mind out of the gutter,” she said dryly. “I had
a dream about Lucas and Claire.” Hilde scooted closer to him on the bed so she
could see him better in the dim light that came in through the window because
of the full moon. She put her hands on his shoulders and forced him to sit up
again.
He sighed but complied. “What was the dream about?”
“I was in Lord Dushuku’s castle, or I’m assuming I was there I don’t know,
but there was this red haired woman with brown eyes and she was yelling at
Claire and Lucas and she slapped him. Duo, I’m so worried about them,” she
confessed.
He could hear the desperation in her voice and, not for the first time,
wondered what feelings a mother harbored for her children. He wondered just how
a woman could love her children so and he wondered if his mother had ever loved
him with the intensity Hilde loved their children.
Hilde sniffled lightly and said, “We need to do something, Duo. She’s not a…
she’s not like me, Duo. She’s a witch. She uses dark energy and her powers have
a source. It’s all magic, Duo. Her control over the weather, her mind control,
everything is magic Duo. It’s not natural.”
Duo didn’t say anything for a while. He just listened to Hilde’s sobs. A
rainbow of emotions assailed him. He was angry, sad and depressed all at the
same time. He couldn’t tell where one emotion began and the other ended. He,
most of all, felt like crying. His children were lost, kidnapped, and there was
nothing he could do about it.
Suddenly he turned to Hilde. “A red haired woman?”
Hilde wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded. “Her name is Natasha, I
heard--”
Duo’s head snapped up and he looked at Hilde. “Natasha?” he asked.
“Yes, Natasha. Why?”
“Natasha… that’s the name of Dushuku’s daughter… it’s because of her that
he’s been attacking us.”
Hilde was confused. “Did you--”
“No. I didn’t sleep with her. I refused to marry her.”
“She’s going to hurt them, Duo! She’s going to hurt them because you
couldn’t marry her because we‘re still married!” she sobbed. She covered her
face with her hands and cried harder. Her sobs made her body shake.
Duo didn’t hesitate one second. He forced her hands away from her face and
he hugged her to him tightly. Hilde wrapped her arms around his shoulders and
cried. He could feel her tears making his shoulder wet but he didn’t care. He
caressed her short hair.
Damn, I’ve missed this Hilde. I’ve missed you so damn much.
Hilde dislodged herself from his arms and looked at him and studied him for
a few seconds. You haven’t changed from the last time I saw you, Duo. You’re
still as handsome as you were when you were seventeen. I’ve missed you, Duo.
“I… I want my babies back, Duo. We have to do something soon,” she
whispered.