GUARDIAN|M.LANGDON

PART 7|FAMILIAR

I groan heavily
Pushing myself up, as I see myself in a much larger bedchamber

I'm still in the sanctuary?
I'm Alive?

I take my time to readjust and remember last nights events

Everyone was dead
Mallory...

Safe to assume, they were never going to save us
But why bother keeping us? If that was the plan all along

I tried to hold in my cries as I stayed in the room, it was much nicer than the one I had, softer and more decorated

Is this what the v.i.p's lived like? Even then I imagined this was a lot nicer than what they had

I finally gained the courage to get up, to try and find out what happened
Or rather, get out- if venable or mead found out-
But then another thought crossed my mind

Who saved me?
If they wanted me dead, why not leave me there with everyone?
It hurt my head to think of, either I find out and I die
Or I leave and I die- curiosity has to win here

I left the comfort of the bed, finally gaining my courage, and I pattered slowly across the rooms until I found a place I recognized

As I make my way through the halls I see a huge staircase, I make my way there but I see other people

Coco, and Mallory?
Alive?

Without hesitation I scream "Mallory!!" And I nearly trip making my way towards her

"Eve, you're here? Why weren't you poisoned?" I hadn't even realized there were more people here, i look at a woman, older than me and had beautiful blonde hair, I realise that these people weren't from the sanctuary

I look at her and a wash of relief overcomes me, who is she? A motherly aura filled her, as if I had known her for years

I shuffle nervously, never good with strangers "I- um, Langdon told me not to..." I think back to his words, how would he know? Was it his fault?

"Looks like things never change" I turn to look at a much older woman with bright red hair, and cock my head in confusion? The redheads aura maintained smartness, love and bravery

"What do you mean?" Is all I manage to say

A third member stands up, younger and very beautiful "let us remind you then" she had a different aura, witty, confident, but afraid, as if some trauma washed her

But they all maintained a similar aura; familiar

I didn't even clock that I felt... different
Auras? What bullshit was that? I could hardly read a person if they told me there life story, but now I'm guessing about trauma?

They start to chant around me, like a mother maiden and crone, all huddled together circling me

I started to feel... lighter, but a splitting headache started to go through me, like recalling events from the night of drinking, they finally stop and I breathe deeply, feeling things come together slowly

"Why are we here?" I look back to the blonde

"Because you're special, Eve, and we need you, all of you"

"How do you know me?" The blonde goes to answer but we're interrupted

"I ain't helping you with that shit"
I see Dinah stevens by the door, except now looking at her... it feels wrong, how did I never notice before?

I Sit down by Mallory as she looks around, still confused, by instinct I held her hand

I still am confused, but I feel more complete, whoever these people are, and I'm sure I'll know soon, I think they're doing it for good

"Who cares, as if you could ever defeat anyone with that backwards voodoo shit" the beauty snaps at Dinah

I go to look back at Mallory until I realise, I'm not there anymore, and I feel something grip the side of me harshly

Langdon?

I look up at him in confusion, a powerful bolt of emotions came from him, different to the rest
There's were... subtle, like a candle scent
His was almost unbearable

Strong and evil, but strangely... nice? I felt wrong in the comfort I had feeling his aura, it felt familiar to me somehow
I guess I did know him before

"How can any of you defeat me, when I've already won?" He shouts to the audience below us, everyone now looks at me and him, almost frantically in panic- I guess he was the bad guy

The blonde looks up at me in a panic, before back at Langdon "you haven't won, and let Evelyn go, her identity spell has already been removed, she'll remember everything very soon"

Identity spell? What?

I feel Micheal grab me tighter, as I start to feel a little woozy, I wonder if he could even sense it, whoever he really was

"You've already taken her from me once, I won't let it happen again, and have you not seen the state of the world?" He spoke authoritatively, but with a passion I haven't seen before
These people really got under his skin

He did this? The apocalypse?
What does he mean again?

Who is he?
Think think think fuck sake Evelyn!

The redhead replies "it's almost as bad as your dinner jacket, but at least the world can be fixed"

If I wasn't feeling so sick right now I would have probably laughed

"By you?" Despite his evil monologue right now, I think he senses my state right now, he adjusts himself so I have more support and internally I am thankful, I breathe heavily, it felt like my head was blocking up, different things filling my head- but I just didn't know what her

The blonde looks at me and nods slightly "by all of us"

I feel even worse now, but I finally let slip of whatever consciousness I had left of me as I utter a single word- the blockage in my head finally flowed with everything
My memories
I gasp my last word- a name

"Cordelia"