In the heart of darkness

19

  "Stop it, we will be there soon"
 
  "I'm going to fucking kill her"
 
  She was pissed, I took a deep breath trying to calm her but all that came out was more growling. Tears stained my eyes as I fought the shift. Cleo was terribly possessive when it came to Carter and she hated it when anyone got near him.
 
  Now that he was grown he had been getting a lot more attention and Cleo fucking hates it. Don't get me wrong I hate it too but Cleo was crazy, unmanageable. We don't even wait for the car to stop. She forces me out and into the house. Mum frowns when she sees my face, I gasp trying to hold her back when I hear a growl
 
  "How dare you! If you ever touch me again I'll kill you"
 
  Carter growls, mum's eyes widen as Cleo pushes forward. My body goes rigid as I allow her up front in my subconscious and I become a passenger in my own body as she throws the door open. Carter smirks at us, crossing his arms and looking at the woman standing over him.
 
  "You brought this on yourself"
 
  He snaps at her as I advance
 
  "You're going to let her kill me? I just asked you out and touched your arm"
 
  Cleo growls, making her freeze as her aura pushes out as our power comes to life pumping through my veins.
 
  "How fucking dare she!"
 
  She snaps in my head
 
  "Just stay calm Cleo, he doesn't want her"
 
  Daniel walks in but takes a step back as Cleo holds our hands to our sides as the white smoke leaves from our fingertips. She merges us so we are controlling my body together as we glare at her.
 
  "How. Fucking. Dare. You. You. know. he. is. taken. so. Why. Would. You. Touch. Him"
 
  Her body trembles in fear as she steps back and trips and falls on her ass, then she shimmy's back toward the wall on her ass. Tears streamed down her face.
 
  "Carly what's wrong love?"
 
  Jaxon asks me, he touches my hand but squeaks when my white veins burn him.
 
  "She. touched. What's. Mine! WHY?"
 
  We roar at her as my white smoke surrounds her, pinning her to the spot. I allow a little to enter her body to force her to talk. To talk and tell the truth
 
  "Because he's too good for you! I don't even know what he sees in you, he's way out of your league and I can make him happier than you ever would"
 
  Carter, Jaxon, Daniel and rob all growl ferociously at her. My heart sank in my chest as Carter walked to my side. Paranoia creeping in as she talks.
 
  "How dare you insult her, if anyone is out of anyone's league it's me. My Carly is perfect and anyone that can't see that is spiteful, jealous and just plane dumb. if anything she's doing your future mate a favour by killing you."
 
  He nods to me and dad clears his throat
 
  "Don't make her combust it's too difficult to clean"
 
  I roll my eyes and let the smoke enter her. I wait as it travels through each part of her body. I start with her toes breaking each one individually with the smoke, she screams as I twist my hands breaking her foot and ankle then I slowly move through each part of her body breaking every bone that she possesses until I get to her neck.
 
  She screams bloody murder the entire time, my anger simmered at the surface as I gave my hand one final twist breaking her neck. When it's done Carter wraps his arms around me as Togo runs in and drags the woman outside as dad sighs in relief that I didn't ruin his office. My anger disappears and I relax into his touch as he lifts me up and carries me to the couch.
 
  All the excitement I had for today had all but disappeared as what she said sunk in. One things for sure when it comes to Carter I'm irrational, I don't want to share him ever. I know that may sound stupid but when he took my powers to give me a childhood I also missed my childhood with him.
 
  I despised him because he loved me, because he wanted to keep me safe and because he could see through all those fake friends immediately when I couldn't. So now I want him all and I don't want to share him. He pulls my face up to his, cradling it in his hand. My face lit up, the blood under my skin bubbles at his touch making me moan against them. He kisses my nose, my head, my lips. Then he rests his head against mine
 
  "You won't ever need to share me. You are too good for me. We were created for each other. Nothing or no one will ever get in the way of that. I love you so much, you are and always will be my better half"
 
  He kisses me again
 
  "What she said is not true, do you believe me?"
 
  'No, sort of? I'm not sure.'
  
  I think not wanting to talk
 
  "Come here"
 
  He tells me, closing his eyes so I do the same and he opens my mind.
 
  ——-
  I'm being carried somewhere, I feel this urgency inside myself. I can't talk though I can only scream as someone carries me in their arms running at full speed. I recognise the scent as Ashley's. She looks down at me and smiles
 
  "Ssssh settle down bud it's going to be ok I promise, we are going to see baby right now just don't blow up on me please"
 
  Even as a baby I could feel Carter's understanding of what she was saying. He knew not to burn her. He knew she was telling the truth but it didn't stop him whaling. The pull in his chest was so strong it took my breath away. I gasped as the feeling started to slowly get weaker and weaker until we heard screaming.
 
  That's when the pull eased off and excitement filled his very soul. But being a baby he didn't have much patience. The baby he was listening to definitely hadn't any patience. Ashley reaches out and she throws the door open. Inside is mum holding a tiny whaling baby. It had only been born
 
  "Oh thank the heavens your here"
 
  Mum tells her, the baby throws its weight in our direction as love fills Carter's heart at just the sight of the fresh born baby girl. One dad grabs Carter as the other one grabs the baby. They place them in the cot side by side and Carter uses all his strength, all his will power to turn and roll grabbing the baby's hand. She stops crying instantly and Carter starts to Babble to her, he told her he loved her so much. That she was his and he was hers. The baby falls asleep and Carter feels at peace.
 
  The memories flick on to us in mum and dad's room, I was screaming and I didn't stop until Carter lay beside me.
 
  The next time was Carter screaming bloody murder, he was frantically trying to find me. Dads had him in a pram and they were trying to settle him but all he wanted was me.
 
  "It's ok bud mums coming with carly now just settle down"
 
  Jaxon chants rocking the stroller, as they awkwardly walk around outside saying hey to random strangers here and there. But soon the frantic feeling became impossible. He could not live without me, not even for an hour. He needed me like I needed him. He loved me so much even as a baby.
 
  So much that not having me meant he would lose his shit. And that's what he did; he burst into flames falling straight through the stroller onto the street. My fathers squeak jumping to catch him as he landed on the hard ground but he didn't care about that all he cared about was seeing me.
 
  Scott lifts us up as our fire burns brighter, he screams his head off until a car pulls up and inside it sat a screaming Carly. Carter's flames immediately distinguish and his hands go out as he's placed in a baby seat next to me. He crawls over the top as dad jumps in to hold him as mum drives them home but Carter got right in beside baby me and held onto her onsie in a death grip. And slowly both of them fell asleep happy as Larry like he didn't just mutilate a pram.
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