The Twisted Links

Chapter 40 (Mature Content)

CHAPTER 40 (MATURE CONTENT)

Rogue Lands...

Eesha sat at the desk in the room she shared with Trish. The vampire was writing lists of things that needed to be addressed. If everything went according to plan then the rogues across the US would be under lockdown. That meant that there would have to be supplies ready and temporary housing built. Princess Hadassah, the High King's daughter, assured Eesha that she and Dameon would be able to find vampires willing to help fund this monumental task at the Quarter Centennial Ball.

Part of her worried about the future and she wondered how bold the Hunters would be especially after Prince Grim and his minions were caught. 

Would she still be hunted?  Would her being here be too much of a liability?  Eesha wondered. She had stayed hidden to fulfill a promise to her friend. Now that she had preformed her oath, she  no longer cared about what happened to herself. If she were to die then she would use ever second to help others.

Taking care of the rogues was now her priority. They already had the endorsement of the Vampire High King and the High Council to band together and protect themselves against the threat of be used, killed, or enslaved. Continuing with the list, Eesha dismissed her worries to wait for another day. Hopefully the Protector would heed her warning she gave Asya.

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Turning off the water after washing hands, Trish stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. The body she was in was no longer her own but the soul inside she recognized all too well.

Why was she here? She wasn't a good person. Why was she trying to help people? All she had ever known was cruelty.

This evening she would summoning a Spirit Walker to fight Dameon Wilde. This demonstration would give the rogues who were reluctant to seek safety a chance to see exactly what they might be facing should they choose to remain isolated. They would reach so many and hopefully they would come.

If only there had been someone to save her.

Her mind traveled back to her childhood. Her father's obsession with becoming more powerful and doing away with the injustice of the world. He did not have the gift for dealing with Divine Magic but continued to work with it anyways. His obsession led to madness. Tracing back their ancestry he found that they were related to the Supreme Queen's second in command. Another witch, the Lady Melanie of the house of Danvers.

Lady Melanie was said to be powerful and could summon the Spirit Walkers at will. On her 9th birthday, Trish accidently summoned one of these creatures. Her father was ecstatic and beginning spending more time with the neglected child. 

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Trish was so happy to have her father's attention. He pulled her out of school and began to train her. Every time she messed up then he would beat her. Every time she perfected something he would beat her. He conditioned her to believe that pain and abuse was love. He also began bathing her and caressing her naked flesh. He told her that it was so that she would become used to his touch and that one day she would fulfill the duty was her dead mother did not, she would give him a son.

Shortly after her 12th birthday, her period started. She was scared and embarrassed knowing nothing about how a woman's body functioned. Her father slapped her hard, busting her lip, and then kissed her. She was shocked but at least he wasn't going to break her bones. A few days later, he brought her into his bedroom. The pain was terrible at first but then he began to treat her gently and buy her small gifts.

Every time a new menstrual cycle started; he would beat her so badly she wasn't she how she would survive. After two years of torture, Trish became pregnant. Her father rejoiced and left her alone only using her body when he got the urge. A few of his friend, also used her and her father didn't care as long as they paid him afterwards.

She gave birth on a dirty mattress in a hovel far out in the woods. As soon as her son was born her father wrapped him up in a blanket and left. An hour later one of her father's friends showed up. Gary stayed with her for two years treating her like a slave and using her however he saw fit while making sure she took birth control.

Two years later, her father reappeared along with her son. They were both well-groomed and her son was healthy. He was a beautiful little boy that glowed with magic. Gary left and her father threw out her birth control before put the little boy in a high chair next to the creaky old bed.

He made Trish lay on the bed and then began to rut in her body while telling the little boy that he was watching his future bride being conceived so that they're bloodlines would be pure. A year and a half later, Trish gave birth to a girl who died soon after birth. Trish almost followed her daughter to the grave when her father beat her for her failure. She didn't become pregnant again.

The boy, Bobby, after his father started showing signs of being able to handle Divine Magic before his 6th birthday. Trish's father was overjoyed and planned on transferring his lesser power and consciousness into his child. Trish watched in silence as the ritual began and both her father and son died in the middle of it. She was alone. This time no one was coming back for her.

The relationships she formed afterwards were based upon one thing: if there wasn't abuse then it wasn't love.

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A loud knock on the door brought Trish back to the present.

"You alright in there?" Eesha asked.

"Yes." Trish said opening the door. "Everything's fine."

Eesha's dark gaze scanned over her seeing far more than the witch would have liked.

"Get some rest." Eesha commanded. "Tonight, you'll need your strength."

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What do you guys think of Trish?

Sigh... another complicated storyline.

Anyhoo... It's my baby girl's 5th birthday. I thought about releasing five chapters at once but since I've had to rewrite everything, I'm now behind. I might release one a day though for the rest of this week. We'll see.

I forgot to add in a picture of Phil and Tanya so I put one in on Chapter 38 if you want to go back and look.

Before I forget, I want to give a special thanks to NayNayR80, Section25, and rybel01 for commenting/voting so faithfully. It means so much to me. To all my "ghost" readers thank you as well for reading. 

Good luck to fellow writer, ScarletMist702 on her new writing endeavor.