TIP: Eclipses

Torture

"Aahh." River screamed in agonizing pain. Her back lifted off the ground and thrashed around,"stop! Please stop." She begged.

"We can't River. If we stop now. We will have to start everything over again." Clara said pressing her fingertips harder on River's scralp.

"Aaaahhh." River screamed louder,"I don't care, just stop."

Clara doesn't stop and pressed her fingertips harder on River's temples.

"Whoever is not welcome. Repel them." A chant said in River's head while Clara said some of her own enchantments.

River held her bubbling rage and released her sheild, blowing Clara away from her. River stood in her weak trembling knees and her breath unsteady,"I TOLD YOU TO STop..." River said through her painfully shaky breaths before she collapsed.

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"River...." Different images of a woman who looked like her flashed before her eyes,"RUN!" The voice said before she set up in her bed, knocking the blankets away. She let out an uneven breath as a huge migraine came.

"You're finally awake." Clara said as she got up of her chair, walked slowly to her.

River never dared to look at her,"no thanks to you."she looked straight head remembering the pain she went through, "why didn't you stop when I told you to?" River asked now looking at her.

"You must understand River I had to, I had no other choice. How long have we been doing this?"

River doesn't answer. Three straight days none stop. They still couldn't get anyway close to finding out the truth instead they seemed to be further away from the truth. The harder they pushed, the harder it pushed back.

The first few days were about physical training to prepare her for the torture she was going through now. No amount of training can prepare a person for that kind of pain.

There was some kind of wall in River's head blocking them from going any further. Clearly whoever put it there didn't want anyone know what was behind it.

"And the lunar eclipse is tomorrow. I'm trying to help you. How can I help you if you won't let me." Clara continued.

River closed her eyes for brief minute,"clearly this Thalia doesn't want to help. Can we find another way?"

"Even if there was another way. It's too late for that River." Clara said,"it's either you cooperate or you deal with the lunar eclipse on your own way."

River doesn't respond. She didn't like either of the options and she didn't want to go through with any of them.

If she went through with Clara's idea she might lose her mind from the pain. It felt like her head was going to explode.

If she dealt with this on her own there was no way of telling of what would happen. She might go on a rampage and kill anyone on sight. She didn't want that. She didn't want to take a life ever again regardless of if it's being a vampire or a human. She couldn't not have that guilt on her conscience or it will destroy her.

Either way both ways might result in destroying her but the first seemed like the right one. This way less people will get hurt. She could at least die with her clear conscience.

"So what is going to be?" Clara asked as she stared at River.

River looked her the woman in front of her. She has changed in a way. She wasn't the kind warm woman she once was. Or maybe she never was. The woman that stood before her was different some will say cold and distant.