Asmodeus

Chapter 21

"You need to stop doing this!" Silas says, wrapping a blanket around my shoulders and rubbing me dry as he turns on the electric fire that sits beside the sofa, where I currently sit with chattering teeth and dripping wet hair. "I'm not going to die" is all I manage to say as he sits on the footstool opposite me. The weather has become a little less angry, as have I. "I know, I won't let that happen" Silas responds "no, I mean even if I die on this earth, I get dragged to his so either way he wins" I speak with my eyes wide open, In shock. "You spoke to him?" Silas asks sounding slightly disappointed and I nod as tears begin to stream down my face "oh and the council want the stone of Zephyr so they can free the witches trapped inside and regain the power they once had, I'm the key to that, I'm the problem, I'm the solution, I'm the burden, I'm literally a walking disaster" I sob "I'm so sorry Silas, all this time you thought Mia was dead but she was just his play toy" I wipe the tears from my eyes and reach out to hold his hand in an attempt to comfort him. "If he takes me..." I begin to talk "he won't" Silas interrupts "Silas" I say as he stands "we need Daeva" he speaks but I stand up and I stop him from heading downstairs "please, not tonight" I beg once again taking his hand in mine "I just want to be a girl, on a boat with a guy she likes,even just for an hour" I say as I step closer to him. "You like me?" he smiles and I nod "I feel at peace when I'm with you, my mind stops racing and all I can think about is how much I want to kiss you" he steps closer to me and we are so close, I can smell his aftershave. I look up at him and he looks down at me as his hair falls, framing his face. I tuck his hair behind his ear and stroke his soft cheek, running my fingers along his jawline and then along his lips as our eyes long for eachother, I pull him towards me, I want to kiss him, I'm going to kiss him.
"LOOK WHAT I FOUND!" Daevas comes running up the stairs causing us to part, I close my eyes and drop my head laughing at the timing "oh shit, I can leave if you guys need a minute I didn't think you were like that, well no actually I knew you guys were like that I just didn't know it was like that" she rambles "Daeva" Silas says snapping her back to the conversation "okay so the weather got crazy and woke my up so I decided to do some more reading and I found out that the sacrifice doesn't actually kill you, you just get trapped inside the dreadful world of Asmodeus" she says and I look at Silas "well due to lack of surprise, I'm guessing you already know but I have an idea, crazy idea, reckless idea, foolish idea but it might work" she continues "you have to die on this earth for Asmodeus to claim you but what if you don't die" she smiles excited by her idea "well that's what we are planning on avoiding" I laugh "you will die but you won't die die if you get what I mean" she winks and I shake my head "I haven't got a clue what you mean" I say looking at Silas who looks just as lost "like I said I'm not sure if it will actually work because no one has ever done it and we aren't supposed to mix like that but what if, you drink vampire blood before the sacrifice so if you die you will be dead but you won't be stuck in the land of Asmodeus" so the thing with vampires, if you're supernatural and you die with vampire blood in your system then apparently you can become one but it has been tried multiple times and it's failed everytime because of the power imbalance inside the body. We weren't made to mix that way. "I think you have officially gone crazy, in all my years of life I have never seen anyone be successful with turning someone else unless that someone was fully human" Silas says "and in all your years of life you've never seen a Cinnstuar witch or the stone of Zephyr" she shrugs. "So my options are, I give up and let Asmodeus win, I die and let Asmodeus win, I wait around for my mother to catch me or I drink vampire blood and probably die due to my body rejecting the change" I say as I look from Silas to Daeva and back again "it's worth a try, I don't want to live without my best friend" Daeva responds. "I'm dying anyway so why not experiment" I force a smile trying to lighten the mood but I don't think it works as Silas looks worried "I'm going to let you two get back to whatever it was I interrupted" Daeva says as she makes her way back down the stairs "what worries you?" I ask and Silas looks up at me,"loosing you, " he responds. "We will figure it out." I smile, a reassuring smile, not sure if I believe my own words.
"How long to the island?" I ask. I look out at the night. We can't see anything out here and with the crazy weather that I caused, Silas had to stop the boat. "Around six hours, why don't you try and get some sleep?" He says as he watches me yawn."Good idea, " I respond as I realise just how tired I am. I head down the stairs and to my room, stripping from my clothes and sliding into bed. I lay there as the boat rocks and close my eyes. It feels like I'm floating and when the boat wobbles, I'm afraid I will roll off the bed. This feels horrible and I begin to feel nauseous. How can people sleep like this? I give up, I stand back up and reach for the robe that was hooked onto the back of the door, wrapping it around myself I head out into the very slim hall, looking for a bathroom. Three doors down and to the left I finally found it, it was small and compact, very basic with a one person shower. I turn the shower on, remove my robe and climb inside, trying to shake the nausea. It didn't work, I feel sick for so many reasons, the overwhelming stress of everything is just too much. A vampire, me? Me becoming a vampire, me drinking the blood of one, me dying an excruciating death. What if it doesn't work and what if it does? Then what? I'm some sort of hybrid witch vampire and I will stand out more than ever when all I wanted was just to blend, but I can't let Asmodeus get his way, can I? Would it be so bad, stuck with him forever? Yes, yes, yes it would.