Soul Shards

Chapter 15

Alex's POV:
I slept peacefully last night for the first time. It had been hard to sleep when Trott was gone but the fact that I knew Azazel was still out there made it worse. I got up out of bed and checked on Abby, just making sure she was still there or not stirring or anything. I walked to her door and saw that she was cuddled up to Ross. I balled up my fists, I didn't like him just being around her but this just made it a whole lot worse. I walked into the kitchen and got myself some tea. "Your never up this early, what's the occasion," Hannah joked.
"Just in time to see my little sister and Ross cuddling."
"Aww that's cute."
"Not so much for me."
"You will learn to love it eventually, it was meant to be you kinda can't stop it."
"Yeah I know it just hard to see him being so close to her."
"Just be glad that it's him and not someone you don't know."
"Yeah everyone is saying that."
"Sorry."
"It's ok." I finished my tea and walked back to my room to get changed. I looked in Abby's room again, I wanted to take a photo and taunt her with it later. I looked in the door and Ross was awake but Abby wasn't. "Hey Smith," he said like he had just woken up.
"Unlike her to still be asleep," I said.
"Yeah," Ross looked down at Abby I could see that he really cared about her, it was too early to say he loved her but I could defiantly see it. I just left to make things less awkward.

Later on in the day Trott was being a little bit strange, no more than usual but he was just being strange. "Hey Trott mate you alright," I asked.
"No not really, I had nightmares. I can't stop thinking about it." He was hugging his legs and rocking back and forth. "Hey what ever happened in sure we can help you get over it."
"Alex I was away for 3 days right."
"Yeah."
"Well where ever I was it was like 3 years. It was hell I was tortured the whole time and I was just revived for it to happen all over again. For 3 years."
"Sorry Trott."
"It's not your fault it happened. I'm just trying to deal with it." I guess he was just traumatised and not going insane. Katie came over and I gave him a bro hug so I left to go find Abby.

I went into her room, she wasn't there so I went to the arena. "Hey Alex."
"Hey Abby, what are us doing." Suddenly Ross appeared and he looked like he was about to throw up. "Still making you feel sick." He nodded then ran to a bucket and threw up.
"We are still working on that. I'm starting to think his body isn't coping with it because it's not supposed to," Abby said.
"I think I'm done for now," Ross said looking quite pale. He did just throw up. Abby walked him up the stairs then came back down. "So what are you looking for me for."
"Just wanted to see where you were. Just to talk to someone other than traumatised or questions." Abby laughed, Duncan and Kim just loved asking a million questions. Lewis, Hannah and Sjin were out hunting the demons and trying find out Azazel's base of operations or whatever. "Well can you help me with something."
"Yep sure what."
"Just more Wizard stuff."

Abby's POV:
One of the Wizards powers was mind control and we generally used it on animals to get them to help us out in battles but it also worked on humans, it was just slightly harder. "Ok who are we hypnotising," Alex asked.
"Animals for now but I want to try it on humans later."
"Ok so where are we going then."
"The zoo?" I said as if I was asking him.
"Fair enough, but sometimes it's creepy if someone sees you just starring at an animals for a few seconds then it suddenly does something."
"But it's not that noticeable as its only a few seconds then I can do other stuff but I'm still controlling it."
"True ok let's go." On the way I asked Ross, Chris and Katie if they would like to come along, it was the zoo and it would be a nice outing and if Azazel turned up and ruined our fun we would have more people to defeat him or at least chase him away.

We got the the zoo and Chris seemed a lot more lively. We had a force field around our weapons that allowed them to be hidden from the metal detectors and we payed and walked in. "Ok which one first," Alex said.
"The reptiles?" I offered, knowing he would love that.
"Alright then." I could see that Alex was really happy about seeing the lizards and stuff, he had two geckos that he brought into the tree and had in a tank in his room. I saw a few geckos and Alex just stopped so I decided to try them first. I made the gecko climb the side of the tank a little bit so it's little foot was touching the glass and Alex put his finger to the glass not realising I was doing that. "Look guys he is so cute." I didn't have the heart to tell him to was just to cute to see Alex, as big as he was, fascinated by such a small creature. We went through and I tried the snake and made some little boys day by making the snake go right up the the glass, he was so happy.

Next we went to the wolves. They were beautiful creatures. There was an outside bit and inside where there was glass and you could almost go right up to them. We just had a look up the top then went to the glass bit. I saw these two little kids up against the glass and they looked like they were trying to call the wolves over, but they were sleeping. I got one of them and brought them over the the glass and made it lick the glass right where the kids were and it made them laugh then they started running around and I made the wolf chase them it looked so cute and they loved it. I then let the wolf go and it looked at me, it seemed to stare straight at me. I saw that it was taken from a road because it's mother was hit by a car which just kept driving, the wolf was terrified. "Abby," Ross shook me. I must have looked like I was day dreaming. "Are you alright."
"Alex have you ever experience seeing an animals life after you hypnotised them."
"No, that's new. Maybe ask Duncan, Kim or Lewis. They might know." That was weird.
After that I wasn't so keen on hypnotising any more animals. We just walked around and had a great time. We were looking at the reptiles again because Alex really wanted to have a look at them. Ross and I were just standing beside each other and he took my hand. I looked down at our hands then up at him and I smiled closing my hand around his. I started to get a bit hungry it was late afternoon and I hadn't even had lunch. "I'm getting hungry can we grab some food," I said. So we all went and got some food. We saw some fans they all went mental seeing Chris. We told them he was just sick, break the news slowly. After they got some autographs of the guys and photos we had just about finished eating and we're ready to head off back home. I didn't feel like walking so as soon as we were in the car park and out of sight of anyone I took Katie's hand and teleported leaving Alex to teleport back on his own. "Thanks for leaving me there," he said once he got back.
"Well I only have two hands." I blushed a little bit. Chris winked at me he obviously saw Ross and I holding hands, in fact we still were. I lit up like a tomato and let go of his hand. Lewis, Hannah and Paul came back just as Ross and I started making dinner as it was our turn.