The Prodigal Saga: The Escapee

Chapter 11: Forbidden Fruit

I gave Wesley a look. The man was either drunk or on drugs. It took me awhile to even begin to fathom what Wesley had said. In that time, my rescue 'convoy' had made it some ways through the woods, leaving me with a man who probably had one too many puffs of weed.
"Ok..." I said, giving him some leeway to humour him. "How much did you smoke before you got me?" I asked.
"No, no, hear me out!" Wesley protested. "I found this..." He pulled out a book and handed it to me. "My old first mate found this while we were on the hunt for you." I took the book.
"Royal Oceanic Genealogy?" I muttered. Wesley nodded.
"I though it was just a cover that Andrew used to hide that it was really porn, but I read it and saw that this is legitimate!" I looked through it. "it holds the family name of every clan that was found in this oceanic kingdom...this could be a key that proves the myth of Atlantis is real!" I huffed.
"Alright, you're holding out on me." I said. "Hand over the rum." Wesley huffed and flipped to a page made entirely of gold leaf.
"There's Triton, big fucking whoop." I said, starting to put the book away. Wesley grabbed it from me.
"Wait...this holds everything." Wesley pointed to a fold in the pages and I slowly opened it, blinking until I was used to the brightness. I looked at it and saw the writing and a picture of the daughters of triton with the necklace.
"When Queen Aquata was on her death bed, abandoned by her daughter and son, the daughters of the late Triton infused a drop of blood from each sister into the necklace Ariel had received as a wedding gift. Then it was promptly hidden away to be found by the kingdom's Prodigal." I read. I scoffed and handed him the book. "I'll believe it when I see it." I said hearing shouts.
"Merideth!" Shelby shouted, "we got company!" Wesley shot up and I went to sit up and look out the window.
"Son of a bitch! It's Isaacs!" Daniel had acquired a snowmobile and was pursuing us, from what I could see from the side view mirror. Wesley pulled out his pistol and opened the window. "Alice, stay with your sister." I shot up and looked over to him
"I want to -" I started Wesley forced me back down and went to the window again.
"Your aim is too bad and you're in no state to fight. Stay down or I'll make you stay down!" Wesley's eyes glared me down and I shielded Alice from any stream of bullets that could have pierced the body of the van. Wesley forced himself to sit on the door panel and start firing behind the car. I heard gunshots from Daniel's snowmobile and Wesley grunted. I shot up and hid Alice behind me.
"Wesley!" I shouted. The man Wesley called Afanasy grabbed the pistol, muttering.
"What's he saying!?" I asked his wife, the one I knew was fluent in English.
"Afanasy said to let him do it." Oksana yelled over the bullets. Her husband got up on the front door panel and shot a few rounds before grinned, handing the gun to me with rapid Russian, sounding triumphant as Wesley collapsed. I gasped in horror. He had been shot in the stomach.
"MAMA!" I shouted, ripping Wesley's zipper down and ripping the flannel shirt underneath open to expose his chest, ignoring my intensifying cold. "Mom, he's hurt!" Wesley's eyes fluttered a weak smirk playing on his lips as I struggled to staunch the flow with just my hands. The blood seeped through my fingers, dying my skin in red.
"I knew you had a thing for me, Merideth." He grinned. I almost smacked him, but the sight of the blood nearly made me faint. "Tell my sister I would have made you a great husband."
"Fuck off, tell her yourself!" I pressed his jacket over the wound, desperate to stop the bleeding. "You're not dying on me, Wesley Carter, I won't let you!"
"She likes him." I glared at him, getting a set of tweezers and digging into the wound, pulling the bullet out. Wesley gave a groan of pain and I winced.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, a little more." I grabbed the peroxide and started dabbing it. Wesley gritted his teeth and I touched his face. "Hold still!" I whispered, looking him in the eye. Wesley stopped and relaxed as i mopped the wound. "Is he still chasing us?" I asked Oksana laughed.
"Afanasy took care of Daniel. Had a good shot in the shoulder. Knocked him off that snowmobile, child." She laughed, pecking her husband's cheek. I grinned, they were adorable even at their age. A true love that hasn't been compromised. I turned back to Wesley and watched as I bandaged where my mother had previously sewn, three, maybe four. Daniel wasn't known for his high calibre rifles.
"We'll make a stop to refuel and get some supplies to get you back to the ship. You stay here." Mom got up and I got up
"I'll come w-with..." My teeth chattered and I started getting cold. Wesley grabbed my arm wincing as he sat up.
"No," he muttered, forcing me down. "You go out there and you won't come back. you're still ice cold." He ran his hand up my cheek. "Too cold for Prodigals to be running around like a jackass."
"Fuck you." I whispered as Afanasy pulled into some random ass Russian store. Everyone bar me and Wesley got out and left me alone with the aforementioned pirate. Silence enveloped the van and I looked around for something to keep my mind busy. I mentally swore when I found only the necessities to keep me going. If only I had my journal!
"Looking for this?" Wesley dug in his satchel as if he read my mind and pulled out my diary. I went to yell at him when he stopped me. "Look I haven't opened it since you disappeared." I took it from him and hesitantly looked it over. It hadn't been touched in ages. I looked to him.
"I see." I started to open it, only to stop. "Why didn't you?" Wesley shrugged.
"Maybe it got dull after a while, listening to the ramblings of a teenaged girl. Maybe I grew up a little from the twenty two year old man-child you called me on page fifty three...maybe I developed some respect for you to respect your privacy. You won't find out about me like I can about you. You, unlike myself are an open book. I can read you and tell just from the look on your face you're flattered, maybe even lovestruck. Don't deny it, the look is always the same from you as it is from the rest of your kind. But you're different."
"How so?"
"You're like your mother, analytical, like you don't know if I'll, say, greet you in the morning with a French vanilla cappuccino." I didn't even bother to ask how he knew my favourite coffee. "Or if I'll kill you in your sleep. It's quite entertaining to watch, actually. but...you're unlike other girls I've known...well, bedded." I raised an eyebrow as he continued. "They automatically succumb to my charm and it's usually fairly easy to get their clothes off. But, you...you look at me like I'm some sort of forbidden fruit, your hormones playing Satan to your mind's Eve. But you had your temptations, as have I. Admit it, you want me." I huffed, back to that "I want him" crap.
"Prove I want you." I challenged. Wesley smirked, taking his shirt off. My traitorous eyes roamed his chest when he leaned down and laid over me. Warmth immediately enveloped me and I let a sigh escape my traitorous lips.
"Exhibit A." He smirked. I shook my head, looking into his eyes, the colour that had greeted me from that white world of death.
"You're warm, I'm cold," I countered. Wesley smirked.
"Exhibit B, my dear little princess, is circumstantial. Both times when I kissed you, in Bristol and on the Black Wing...you had no intention of pushing me away. And you aren't pushing me away now." I huffed.
"Yeah, right." I scoffed. "Mentally." Wesley laughed, leaning down to place his lips at my ear.
"Keep telling yourself that, my little songbird." He purred, I shot him a death glare.
"You're the one that's all over me." I snapped. Wesley looked me in the eye and my self control wavered.
"I'm giving in to temptation, Eve. What about you?" All I could think of were the pros and cons of this encounter.
Cons: he's an overzealous, cocky, asinine bastard who almost got me killed multiple times.
Pros: he's hot, smart and a real sweetie when he's not pissing me off. I huffed and grabbed his shoulders.
He may have been forbidden fruit...but he was one cool drink of water. But could be candy coated misery.
He's a devil in disguise a snake with blue eyes and he only comes out at night. Gives you feelings that you don't wanna fight you better run for your life. Carrie Underwood ran through my mind, my favourite song warning me of the dangers that I could be facing.
Maybe it was the hormones, my depleted mental state or that bad boy teasing look in his eye...hell, maybe it was me going crazy. but something inside me made my need to resist this bad boy's charms diminish.
" Fuck it." I grabbed his shoulders and forced his mouth on mine, the first kiss between us that I myself initiated. Again, hot, steamy, angry. My anger and his amusement towards it mixed to create an undeniably addicting experience. I would say this was my own personal brand of heroine...but that would be too Bella Swan of me, and Twilight is for the weak, as Wesley oh so cleverly pointed out.
We might have laid there for several minutes, maybe multiple hours or several sunlit days, time got away from me.
The cold, his fingers in my hair and the softness of his and his own crushing weight on my own made my hormones run wild. I had to either take control of my hormones, or I'd end up wanting him too much.
But before I could try to resist again, I heard my mother gasp, Shelby shriek and Madam Krow burst into a fit of light laughter.
"I told you they wanted each other. It was just a matter of time until their hormones took over." I forced myself off Wesley and saw my mother gaping, not at me, but at the man child on top of me.
"What are you doing!?" She gasped.
"She came on to me!" Wesley protested. I smacked him.
"Crawl up your own dick and die." I spat, my traitorous cheeks going bright red.
"Wesley and Merideth sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, than comes marriage, then comes Meri with a baby carriage!" Shelby giggled prodding me childish, very unlike her. I threw a knife at her, missing her completely and hitting a window lamely.
"Fuck you." Wesley and I said together.