James Moriarty - Tempestuous Tides

Chapter 10

Sebastian carried her up to the top of the hill where he knew there would be a reservoir of water for her to wash in, and get herself back to normal. He knew that she might change to someone a little more aggressive than she was in her human form. Not that he could blame her, it was the state of her mind when she was back to her natural state.

Shaping this situation had taken a very well crafted mind, especially to have manipulated Moran to have taken Camilla away, knowing he was too much of a gentleman to not care for her as he cared for Aella. Thankfully, he was able to view the proceedings from on top of the hill, watching everything that was happening as he had his back turned whilst she cleaned herself over with the water. 

"So, where do you come from?" she asked as she walked into the deepest part of the water.

"That doesn't matter," he held his hand behind his back, fighting his flight response to go and help Moriarty. "I need to watch."

"So stern..." her voice trailed off, ducking her body under the water, ensnaring her body with the cold water surrounding her. "Why am I not going back? Moran, turn around. Turn around!" 

Her head rose from the water, her legs were still intact, her panic was setting in. Thinking about how long it had taken them to get to the top of this hill, to get to this reservoir, the water was not the right water for her. Once her head was up, it went back under the water, being pulled back down to the depths. Losing her consciousness. 

"Camilla!" he called for her, scouting around to see if he could see her. From out of the pool of water, her fingertips came up to the surface of the water, trailing off underneath. "Camilla, hold on!"

Stripping his body of his shoes, socks and t-shirt, he swans dove into the water after her. As he got deeper into the water, he looked around, hoping he would see her around somewhere, as though this was commonplace for him to find or see her. Nonetheless, he was worried about her drowning. How stupid did that sound? But, right then, she was in her human form, not having any gills to breathe beneath the water.

Going further down, he saw her body lying underneath the water, she seemed so innocent and sweet. Nothing was keeping her under apart from the pressure of the water. Usually, this was nothing she could not handle, unlike then. 

Grabbing her body in his arms, his hair came out of position, falling in front of his face. Just looking at her, she seemed so stunningly beautiful, if he had not noticed that already, he had right then. 

Pulling her body up onto the ground, he tried CPR on her body. Everything he was doing was failing, her pulse had disappeared, her eyes were rolled into the back of her head. No breathing was coming from her. 

"Camilla, wake up!" he heard the song in his head, the song they sing to kill you, letting the blood bleed into your brain, clouding your head. "Oh, come on! You have fought me enough."

Looking down at his hand, he was healed, his hand was back to normal. On the bare part of his arm, he was healed. No sign of bite marks or injury, all of them had disappeared. How?

"It was all a test," someone spoke behind him, getting closer to him. "Moriarty told me where you would have gone, he knew you would. This was all a test, I used her to bring you to me."

Moran turned around, he saw someone he had not seen for too long. Instead of feeling happy like he had expected, he felt disappointment, betrayal, disgust. He now hated her guts. Another part of him that was asking, why? 

"Was she not real?" he asked her, watching Aella come to his side. After he let his hand go, Camilla's body was gone. "Where did she go?" 

"Oh, she was will. Now, she is rendered useless to us,"

"How is she useless? Are you jealous?"

"Maybe. We lost touch, didn't we?" 

Moran got up, standing above her, recognising she was still the small, aggressive person she used to be. "You lost touch. You don't get to be here,"

"It seems you came back to find me. I bit you all on the boat, I left you with the marks you needed to find me, and you did,"

"I was going to find you originally, yes. But, right here, right now, I have forgotten who you are. You have lost who you were. You mean nothing to me now," 

"Moran, don't lie to yourself," she smiled, grabbing his hand in hers.

"Get off me!" he pulled his hand out of hers, slapping her across the face viciously, making her fall to the ground. laughing. "You are nothing. If you are jealous, Camilla was twice the woman you are."

"Even though she bit you?" she chortled, unable to control her laughter.

"Laugh all you want, you did it too. You made me think I loved you when in fact, I was never in love with you. I was in love with the idea of it. Bring Camilla back,"

"No." 

Aella got up, walking away from him, wiping away a small tear caressing her eyelids ever so slightly.

"Puppy tears, that's all they are. Wake up and smell the coffee you stupid, pathetic girl! You will never be a woman, you haven't got the guts to face the fact you killed your fleshly sister! Do they know that?"

"You don't ever get to bring her up, Sebastian!" she shouted back at him, storming back toward him. 

Moran grabbed his gun from his shirt, pointing it directly at her. "You have been held underwater for too long. I think you have too much water in your ears. The real world called to you, and you left because you cannot handle the fact you are a murderer,"

"No! I am not a murderer,"

"You are, you killed the man on that ship. You almost killed me. You killed Camilla, you killed your sister, you have killed your brother, you have killed John Watson. All were good people," 

"No, Moran, no,"

"You helped me kill those in your fathers Poison Chambers, you shot those rescue people dead, leaving others to drown. You drag them with you to see where death lies with you,"

"No!" she screamed at him, howling in annoyance. "You have killed people too!" 

"I accept what I have done, you just choose to lie about it because you're pathetic. I said that before. No wonder Camilla was a much better woman than you. I am comparing a girl and a woman. Stupid. Just grow up, and get your act together, because I am sick of you now. Find where your loyalties lie and let them lie. One day you will be lying in your grave lonely and no one will give one. You killed your sister. Whatever it is you want to believe about yourself, you are a murderer," 

He walked away from her quoting one of the lines of the song that she had learnt how to sing 

"Leaving me in silence was all you ever did, you took me, tortured me and hunted me till dead."