The Broken Ones

Chapter Eight

Salems POV

This kiss was hard and desperate, like everything we had bottled up—every unspoken word, every unsaid feeling—was spilling out all at once. The kiss was fierce, hungry, almost angry, sending a shockwave through my entire body. His hands tightened on me, pulling me impossibly closer as if he couldn't get enough. I gasped against his lips, and he deepened the kiss, his mouth demanding I pull at his hair and he groaned pouring all the frustration, confusion, and heat into that moment. Every argument, every time he had made me furious, it all melted into this. It was maddening, exhilarating, and terrifying all at once. "This is a bad idea," he says in between kisses his voice rough. "Yeah," I breathed, my voice shaky. "Terrible." But neither of us moved. His thumb brushed my cheek and I leaned into his touch without thinking—no frustration—just this. "Tell me to stop," he whispered, his lips so close to mine that they grazed as he spoke. It was a plea, but there was a challenge in his voice too, like he knew I wouldn't. "I hate you," I groan. "I hate you so fucking much" I pulled him in and kiss him again, when I pulled back I bit his lip enough to bleed and he moaned. Moaned. But I couldn't do this, he hated me I hated him and it would complicate everything. I pushed him away. Stop. The word was caught on my lips refusing to come out, he looked at me in understanding, and then he turned around and walked into the bathroom. I lay down and quickly fell asleep. I got woken by a yell, I sat up and frantically looked around, Mattheo looked like he was having a nightmare, I quickly got up and went over to him. "Mattheo, wake up" I try and shake him awake "No- not her, anyone but her. I need her." he pleads. I get down on my knees and put both of my hands on either side of his face. "Matty, it's me. You are safe." he jolts awake, he looks like he doesn't know where he's at, He is still in his dream, and he's barely conscious. I put my knees on either side of his legs, straddling him, I look into his eyes and grab his face again "Mattheo, come back to me it's not real it's just a dream, I'm real come back to me." he finally regains full consciousness. He's breathing heavily. "if you wanted me to climb on top of you, you could've just asked." I say with a laugh and lean my forehead against his. he chuckles. "I did ask," I remember the events that happened hours before, and I quickly climbed off of him. "where are you going?" he furrows his brows. I look at him over my shoulder "Back to sleep. So should you, we've got a busy day ahead of us." I climb back into bed but I can't go back to sleep so I just stare at the ceiling for the rest of the night, the sun finally starts coming up so I get up and get dressed. I put on a short green and pale purple handkerchief dress and my combat boots, I put my hair in two French braids. I walk out of the bathroom and Mattheo is there, already dressed in a black t-shirt and some blue jeans. "why do you look so nice?" he asks. I roll my eyes and go to lace up my boots. "I like dressing up" I shrug and finish lacing. A few minutes later, we're leaving the house and on our way to see if Dad is feeding the kelpies. We get there and he is nowhere to be seen so I decide to feed them myself, it's been forever since I've fed them.

Mattheos POV

Salem Looks like she just got a dangerous thought as we get to a lake. We go up a set of stairs and when we get up to the next level Salem gives me a deceitful look, takes off her shoes, and then runs and jumps into the lake, I run to the edge and look down in the water as the water level heightens, I see Salem getting tossed around the water and then she comes up above the water and shes riding a kelpie, She brings it to over where I'm at and nods toward a bucket of fish "pick up the bucket and hold it out for her" I do and as the kelpie is eating Salem hops off of the kelpie, Shes soaking wet and her hair is disheveled but she looks like she was made to do this sort of thing. I look back at the kelpie. "her name is kaliope, muggles call her the Loch Ness monster, but she's no monster at all, just incredibly misunderstood." Salem pets her and the kelpie leans into her touch like it's the most natural experience ever. "Salem Ara Scamander" I hear her dad from behind me. "I told you not to feed the kelpies, They can be very violent when hungry,"  He says in a stern voice but the pride that shines in his eyes tells me he isn't mad just worried about her wellbeing. "I'm fine Dad, see? Ten fingers, ten toes, two arms, two legs, one torso, one head. all in one piece." her dad relaxes a bit "Don't do it again, without me." Salem giggles. She actually giggles. She runs up to her dad and hugs him. "please tell me the evil step-monster is gone for today" Salem says in a hopeful tone. "I sent her crib shopping with her sister for the day. Tell me about the creature and witch situation that's going on" Salem's whole demeanor turns serious. "they're going missing, witches and creatures disappearing, but it is only sixth-year witches" Salem's dad thinks for a moment "I asked one of my sources that keep up with the underground creature rings and they say there's a new seller who is selling creatures that no one else even dares trying to catch." Salem drys herself off with a spell and laces her boots back up "So who is he?" I ask. "She goes by the name Lilith, claiming she is the mother of all things evil, but she is not the true Lilith, it's just a facade." his voice is laced with disgust, Salem gets done lacing her boots "So where can we find this Lilith impersonator" Her dads face dropped "you're not going to find her anywhere, it's dangerous and I lost you once I'm not losing you again." he deadpans and Salem scoffs, "I grew up around Voldemort, dangerous was an everyday occurrence. This bitch is messing with creatures, I want her dead. so you can either tell me yourself and we do it the safest way we can or I do it by myself." She walks off. Her dad looks at me "Why did you come with her? You've only ever brought her sadness and pain." he looks at me with disgust, and I don't blame him, not one bit. I know he expects me to be disrespectful, "Hogwarts would have been boring without her." I walk away in the opposite direction Salem went, and I have no idea where I'm going.  I wind up going back to the muggle world.

I'm sitting at the edge of a pond when I hear Salem giggle "Mattyyy, what are you doing out here" I turn and see her walking towards me but it is almost as if she is glowing, I immediately feel drunk off of her. "I needed some fresh air" I stand up and feel dizzy. what is happening?  Salem starts walking toward the woods and I can't help but follow her, she disappears but I continue walking, The next thing I know I'm up against a tree with her tongue down my throat. It feels different, it feels wrong, but I can't stop myself from kissing her back. I hear bone crushing and I taste blood I pull away and look down and Salem has an arrow through her heart, The world starts to spin, she falls and I drop to my knees to catch her. no.. fuck, no. I can't, I can't lose her again. I frantically look around and I see Salem standing in a clearing with a bow and arrow, I look down and the magic wears off. that's not Salem in my arms "Don't you know how to detect a succubus?! You were seconds away from being lost forever!" Salems stomping towards me and I'm instantly filled with relief. I drop the succubus Immediately and run over to Salem, she puts a hand up and stops me dead in my tracks. "I don't want you anywhere near me with that succubus filth all over you" She points at my shirt and I realize I'm covered in Succubus blood. I take off my shirt and wipe all of the blood off of me. While I'm doing this Salem very carefully positions the succubus to where her blood is dripping into a bucket. "what are you doing with that?" Salem looks at me like I'm the biggest idiot in the world. "is your brain still foggy?" Her asking that makes me realize I don't feel weird anymore. "I'm guessing not by the dumb look on your face, succubus blood has the same effect as the succubi themselves just less potent, unless ingested of course-" she must see the look on my face "You didn't ingest any right?!" I feel dizzy again. I pass out and the last thing I hear before complete darkness is. "Damnit, I just got done hating you."

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