The Princess of Hell

Chapter Six: Father

John took us to a small little coffee shop downtown, that looked like it was about to close. While John was getting Liz and me some coffee, we got a bit bored waiting and began to explore. "Hey Rae, what do you say we do some old fashion modeling pics?" Liz smiled and I nodded before she started to point where she wanted me before we took some pictures.

Not even a minute later, John came back with three coffees. "Here we go" He hands me my caramel, hazelnut coffee with two creamer and one sugar. "You have a sweet tooth huh?" he joked with me as he handed Liz her cup. I chuckled and looked at my cup as a warm feeling in my chest bloomed. "So about Red." he starts the conversation with me and Liz. " I admire him. He's a force of nature" I chuckled at the wording but nodded. "No, no, he's determined. He's unstoppable"

"Some people would call that cocky," Liz muttered.

John chuckled before defending my brother."He's just strong"

"He is that" I commented sarcastically.

I rubbed my cup before going to take a sip when John stopped me by putting his hand on top of my cup preventing me from drinking it but my lips did touch his hand causing both of us to blush."Sorry but that one is mine, I have your's" he handed me my cup when Liz took our picture causing us to look at her.

"You two are just so cute" She teased causing us to blush.

John cleared his throat "Um, my uncle used to say" I looked up at him as he spoke. "We like people for their qualities but love them for their defects" Liz and I were quiet for different reasons. I know that she loves my brother but she sometimes wonders if it is healthy. I was quiet because I had never really felt that type of love. I think I just have a small crush on the agent before me but nothing serious. I feel like my dreams have been showing me someone but I don't know who. "He loves you, you know," John tells Liz bringing me out of my thoughts. "What about you?"

Liz shrugged "I don't know. I grew up with him" She began to fiddle with her cup. "But now every time I see him, I get confused" I rubbed her arm as she continued. "There's not a day where I don't think about him. Even now, I feel like he's here" She starts to walk away causing me and John to follow her.

As we walked down the road, John offered us doughnuts and stuff for our coffees. I decided to let loose a bit and jumped onto his back to which Liz took a picture of us. John laughed at how we were but we continued down the road talking about small things like how cold it was or what we should do during our time out. During the time we were out, John told some jokes and Liz took tons of pictures until we made it to a park bench. I was sitting in the middle while John was on one side of me and Liz on the other showing me the pictures she took tonight.

At some point, John yawned and wrapped his arm around my shoulder before saying "We all have a side that we try to hide." Suddenly he was hit in the face by a rock causing him to yell out in pain and get up and yell "HEY, WHO THREW THAT?!"

I looked at him concerned. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah," He said as he sat back down "Yeah, I'm ok"

I turned his head towards me to check his face before saying "You should only have a bruise" I told him as I brushed his brow bone. After we confirmed that he was okay, we started to talk until I felt an unbelievably searing pain in my throat causing me to scream loudly. "RAVEN" Liz and John yelled before John caught me as I began to fall down due to the pain. I felt my magic beginning to try and take the life force from the plants and things around us, to try to stop the pain.

"Raven, what's wrong?"

I couldn't say anything through the pain-filled sobs until it finally stopped causing me to pant heavily. As I lay on the ground, I could only think of one reason as to why I was in so much pain. "Father" I whispered when the sound of tires screeching filled the air.

I looked up to see a bunch of agents getting out of two vehicles, one ran towards us "Liz, Raven, I'm sorry"

"He's dead isn't he?" I asked with tears already in my eyes. The agent didn't say anything, he just had a somber expression causing me to break down and cling to John as I balled my eyes out in his chest.

"We have to go." I barely hear the agent tell us. John just carried me to the car while Liz and the agent followed us into the car.

When we got back to BPRD, I ran to the library to see the agents of the BPRD starting to set up the crime scene, but I couldn't find my father. Amongst the people in the room, I saw Manning talking to a couple of the agents when my brother came up beside me and started to walk toward where I figured out our father's body was. When I realized where he was, I pushed past all of the agents and yelled out "DADDY" with tears falling down my face. When I got where his body was and when Red placed the body on the ground, I got on the other side of him and held my father's face. When I stroked his face, I lost it completely as I screamed my heart out causing my magic unleashed to a larger extent than ever before. "Daddy, please wake up," I begged as I brought his body closer to mine. "Come on Daddy, it's not the time to go to sleep, Please wake up. I'm here Daddy." I rubbed his chest to try and get his heart to even give the smallest beat. "Please Daddy, I need you" I kept begging when I didn't get my wish. "Please Daddy, it's not time. You have to wake up." I kept crying until I felt large arms wrapped themselves around me and was brought into a firm chest.

I started to struggle until I heard my brother's voice whisper. "He's gone, Raven." With those three words, I just felt like I completely broke and curled into his chest. "He's gone."

"Daddy"

~Hello my little rabbits and mad hatters

So I am crying because as I was writing this, I thought of my papa who died during the pandemic of 2020, and how neither I nor my family was able to say goodbye to him in person. Rest in Peace Papa, I miss you so much and wish you could have given me one more hug before you left. I love you so much. 

Please leave a comment about the story for me to read. This will probably be my last chapter of the day.

-XOXO

The Wonderland Hacker.