GUARDIAN|M.LANGDON

PART 14|SUGAR

I continue to look at cordelia, until it becomes too much- once so peaceful, she now looked so pale, frail and her eyebrows are all furrowed, wherever she is right now obviously isn't pleasant, and it pains me to not be able to do anything

I sigh standing up, starting to feel a little stronger- I had to leave, not being able to stand the sight of her so weak, I needed some air

Before leaving the room I pause, looking behind me once more to Cordelia

"He won't take her place, I'll make sure of it"

I make my way outside of the door- it made sense now,
'he rises to the position of supreme' bullshit- of course they met the same power mad boy I'd met
Why didn't I make the connection at Ariel? I'm so... I'm so useless sometimes

I manage to make it about a few paces when someone speaks from behind me

"You'll make sure of what?"

The voice made me jump as I turn around, Michael
I tried to hide my shock, or the awkwardness of seeing him again

"You were eavesdropping" I state, trying to change the subject

"Your conversations are loud" he simply states, taking a step closer to me, his height caused me to look up

But more importantly, liar
I could smell lie on him, like burnt sugar- bittersweet

"Hello again" he continues, looking down at me with a small smile

I inhale deeply, that same overwhelming sensation came before me, a need to watch him for god knows what reason

"You're not a warlock" I reply trying to ignore my emotions overwhelming emotions, it was an obvious statement

"They said I was"

"But you're not, we both know you're not" I take a step towards him this time, now of course referring back to our first encounter- everything that I had seen

"Your mothers a satanist, are you a demon?" The last 4 words i hushed my tone

He grins proudly "no, and she's not my mother"

He looks at me and bows his head down silently, leaving me confused

"Thank you"

Thank you? I furrowed my eyebrows as he continues on

"I don't think the interrogator suddenly stumbled when he tried to kick me before I killed him"

My face drops as I also remember that encounter

I jumped on him, holding his arms back and pulling him as far as I could backwards, to get him away from Micheal

I let out an exhale, how did he know?
I guess my reaction was enough because he smirks at me, and lifts my chin up, tapping the side gently

"I won't tell anyone if you wont" He winks at me, I go to speak up again, try and form some sort of comeback but before I could I hear some commotion-

"Cordelia" I whisper to myself, snapping me out of my trance like state as I immediately go to find her, trying to erase the last 5 minutes that just happened

I rush my way back to room to see cordelia awake, and walk towards her about to hug her but I stop, letting her have room, as she sits up

"I want to see him"

My smile drops
I knew who she was referring too

"The boy"
She didn't even need to say anything more

We make our way out the room to find the warlocks, and low and behold we find them, Ariel speaks first

"Are you alright? We were so worried"

Burnt sugar once more

I watch them all slowly come out one by one, lastly Micheal following, unable to take my eyes off him as he too looks at me

"I want to thank you for bringing them back" cordelia directs this at Micheal, and we all look to him

"I wanted to get your attention"

"You certainly have it, and now I'd like everyone else's attention" she explains of a vision, one of the future, what harrying things she had scene

What demons plagued our future, what could happen

I bow my head as I let her continue, shivers radiated my body as she continued to explain

"In two weeks Time, you will take the test of the seven wonders"

My head raises at this, the test? All the sisters were obviously unsettled by this, Myrtle being the one to speak up on it, and slowly all of us joining in argument, but she ignores us all our leader, she knew she had the final word

"If you succeed, you will be the next supreme"
Stubborn as always, delia

This made me feel sick to my stomach, it was wrong, the others couldn't feel it but I could

This wasn't right, it was the wrong choice

As cordelia excuses us, I can only look up at Micheal, his face was stern, as if a soldier in the army- it felt like nothing could break his stare
Until he looked towards me, and I could see emotion once more

-TIME SKIP-

We made our way home silently in the car, words unable to escape us- I could only tuck myself away to the window watching all the trees pass by

It would be two weeks, two weeks until the test would be taken

Two weeks until cordelias place would be challenged, a shiver ran through my spine

Two weeks until I see him
I looked out the window, and I thought back to him
Michael

The name stayed on my tongue, I let it stay there for a bit, trying it out- it was a strange flavor, I hated it
But I couldn't help but wish for more

He was there, at the school, but how? Was it simply coincidence? It made my head hurt the longer I tried to make sense of this whole situation

But no matter how many times I tried to change subject in my mind, or think of anything else
My thoughts always ending up linking back to him