Three Worlds Apart

Part II, Amelia's Story: Chapter XIX, Amelia

I open my eyes.

Wait.

I opened my eyes?

Can you do that when you're dead?

Am I dead?

Bloody hell, I meant to die. If I'm not dead (which I should be) where am I? If I am dead, this sucks.

Suddenly lights come on and my damn father walks in. Bloody hell, I am dead. This means I must have gone to Hell and now this is my eternal punishment.

"Hello Amelia." Ashton Tessera says to me, the man I once loved more than I care to admit. 

"Shut up." I growl. Great, I'm stuck with this asshole. 

"Is that anyway to talk to your father?" He asks. I smirk, I'll call him what I like.

"If I'm dead, then I can call you whatever I want." I snap. That's when he starts laughing, oh crap. Eternity is going to last forever. 

"Amelia Katarina, you aren't dead. This is real." He says. That's when my heart sinks, if I'm not dead that means I am not protected from this man. Shit.

I notice then that I'm not standing exactly, I'm on an angle. There is a board under my feet, keeping me on the angle. When I try to move I find that I am restrained. Leather belts are attached around my waist, wrists and ankles.

"Are you very frightened of me?" I ask.

"What gives you that impression?" Father asks, he's frowning. Good, if I'm not dead and he tortures me then he shan't be happy either.

"Well you have me tied up and unable to chuck fire in your face." I tell him with a nice smile on my face. He must be a coward.

Wait.

Dawson.

Ashlynn.

Kriss.

Alex.

Are they alright? Are they here? Are they alive? Did I make the biggest error of my life? If they are dead I will never forgive myself. Never.

Suddenly I feel as though I've been hit over the head with a tonne of books.

Ashlynn.

My little sister, she's dead. The monster in front of me killed her. I strain against the belts holding me against the board.

"Don't bother," My father says, "You can't break free." I snarl at him, it doesn't accomplish anything but it makes me feel good.

"You killed her." I accuse, "You killed Ashlynn." The monster doesn't even deny it.

"You killed my mother too." Again the ass doesn't answer.

"What do you want from me?" I demand, "Why am I here? Do you want to kill everyone else I care about?"

My father laughs, "No, unless you don't co-operate with what I ask of you." He reaches out and tugs on my hair like he did when I was little. It shouldn't matter but the fact that my hair was in a ponytail this morning and now hangs around my face and it pisses me off.

As he pulls his hand back I snap my teeth down on his hand. It's so satisfying to hear his cry of pain, now my different hairstyle pisses me off slightly less than it did before. 

"Where are they?" I demand, "Where are my friends?"

My father laughs, "As if I would tell you." He says.

"Are they alive?" I ask, "Just tell me if they are alive." If they are dead, it's my fault. If Dawson is dead, if Kriss or Alex are dead. How could I live with myself? I couldn't save Ashlynn or my mother, if I killed the rest of the people I care about what's left in the world for me?

I never should have brought them with me, especially Dawson. What was I thinking bringing a powerless human boy into a battle? Especially the one I love more than anything else on Earth, the only person I am sure that could be left that loves me. 

Kriss and Alex were different, like me they were-are element children. They could fight, they stood a chance. If they are dead and I am alive than what fairness is there in the world? If four people go in and one lives, it just had to be me. Me. The worst of the four. The one who has caused death, time and time again. 

I lived.

No.

I survived.

I'm not alive, not really. If Dawson is dead then I just exist.

"Amelia, you and I will have a chat quite soon. There is so much to tell you, then you will join me." My father says.

I work up as much spit as I can and spat it in his face, "As if." I snarl.

My father just wipes the spit from his face and leaves the room.

Even if he tells me if they are alive how can I believe him?

When I find a way out of these leather belts I'm going to kill him, the way he killed my mother and sister.

I want him to feel the pain.

All the pain that he has caused me.

He's going to feel it.