The Queen and the Crystal Vol. 3

Ch.7 Ben's Encounter

Back in Athena and Ben's place, Athena was in the kitchen cleaning everything in sight. She was going up and down on everything. She jump to one room to another cleaning the clean. Worrying so much about Ben she can't just sit down and wait for him to wake.
When she was able to find time she try to cook Ben favorite's dishes.Hopefully the smell will travel to his room and wake him from his slumber. With each dish she would place it on the table in case Ben would appear in front of the kitchen door. With nothing to do, Athena grab herself a chair and lay her head on the table for a bit but the next thing she fell asleep.

In Ben's room, he was there lying in bed with one sheet covering him. He wasn't sure if it was the smell of the delicious food or a present in the room that woke him up. He open his eyes but eyesight was blur, he couldn't see clearly. He try to pull himself up but stop suddenly for pain in abdominal was painful. He try his best to sit up right. The feeling he had from the pain was as if everything inside was breaking. He felt with one move he will shatter everything in his body.

"How are you, my love?" a voice said from a far. With his blurry eyes he saw a women standing in front of the door. Assuring, it was Athena he said, "What? What happen?"

"Nothing much but you did miss one heck of a battle." The voice said again. But as the voice spoke. Ben stood still, breathing heavily. Even with his eyes blurry he finally realize who the voice was, "Jezebel..." he said breathless.

She walk up to the bed beside him. She was grinning, the type of grin when you know you have accomplished your mission.

"That was one heck of a battle Ben. I wish you could have seen the end of it." She said evilly.

"Witch! What have you done?" he try to raise his voice. It hurt him when he spoke. His anger was raising for the fact that she was in his room. She laugh tenderly at him and sat down on the edge of his bed.

"I wanted to get the crystal and nothing was going to stand in my way." She said. He was confuse on what she was saying to him. He's head was spinning every where. But he gather his thoughts. He knew her plan so why is she telling him again?

"I figure something out that will bring the princess down to her knees. But now I sense it not enough. I feel that she's going to be a lot stronger to bring her down." She said.

"It going to take...a lot of force to... bring... the princess down..." he said as he pause to moan to each of the pain. He try to sit up straight but each pain was unbearable. That comment he made to her gave her a smirk on her face.

"She just like her Mother." She said," You remember Octavia's last moments. How she use her last moments?" Ben stare at with a incandescent look in his face. He wanted to get out of bed and grab her by the throat until she faded away.

"You know the old saying... Like mother like daughter. Losing her life to save the one she love. If she anything like her mother she'll do anything for her love ones."

"In chance in hell... she would... She'll stop on nothing..."

"Nothing? Tell me something Ben. Why are you, and everyone in little gang, stuck in this time and not in yours? How did you come this time in place? Was it by choice or force?"

"That is no concern of ... yours... Jezebel..."

"Sacrificing for the one you love. Isn't that what she did?"

"What?" he said, he had the feeling where she was going but he was too feeble to talk back at her. All he can do was to listen to her, every word of hers.

"Rebecca. She risk her life for Sebastian with the battle of Octavia's sister, no? She did it once. Don't you think she'll do it again? Maybe this time not for Sebastian alone but maybe she go to great lengths for her friends?"