Taylor - stripes and shadows (lesbian) [on hold]

Chapter 20 - Decent into Godhood

“yes” she replied simply as I placed my hand on her shoulder and she mirrored my action, this was supposed to create a connection between us so that the essence could flow from her to me, after standing like that for a moment I started to think it wasn’t going to work

“remember how you found the tiger within you” Lance interjected just as I was about to give up hope “you need to look Taylor and when you find it you need to make it yours” as he said it I realized what he meant, I looked into the shadows eyes and focused my mind, searching for what left like mine in her, once I found it I carefully started to pull it towards me within my minds eye, it was relatively simple compared to my first form shifting, it felt like it wanted to be a part of me, like it was lost and had found where it belonged again as I felt it leave her body and enter into my own I quickly seized it so that it couldn’t pass back to her, as it settled within me memories came flooding back to me, too many to make sense of in that moment and I knew that I had to focus on binding the shadow to me before she passed into oblivion, as if on instanced I shifted into my natural form I turned to look at Lance, as expected he was holding a flask of ink, the ink seemed to be living, swirling in its little pot, I took a hold of it and dipped one of claws into it before marking my symbol onto the shadows arm, a ring of lightning around her wrist, I don’t know how I managed to do it so quickly but before I knew it I had also done one on my own wrist, handing the ink back to Lance I then grasped her hand so that the wrists with the tattoos where connected, I felt my power pulse through me and into her, the tattoos went from a normal looking black to the same swirling colors as the markings on my face, she slumped back onto the sofa breathing heavily once the binding was complete “is that it?” I asked as I sat down beside her

“yes” she said lifting her head up and smiling at me “looks like I’ll be staying then”

As I was about to open my mouth to reply Kali strode up to where I was perched on the edge of the sofa, immediately my full attention was on her “can we talk now please?” she asked, there was doubt in her voice, like she expected me to brush her off or say no

“I guess we should get it out of the way” I said standing up, I gestured for her to follow me out of the room, I didn’t stop in the hallway but instead made my way up stairs to my old room, once inside I heard the click of the door as she closed it behind us, I took a moment to take in the room, it was just as I had left it, even the cloths I had cluttering the floor where still in the exact place I had left them as the day I had left, I sighed and sat down on the bed, there was a long awkward silence that neither of us seemed willing to break, Kali fidgeted where she stood near the door, I noticed she looked like she was half way between staying where she was or bolting out of the door, once again I sighed and patted the bed beside me, she nervously glanced at where I had patted before walking over and sitting next to me

“I wish things had been different” as she said this she was looking at her hands, as if they held the answer to all her problems in the lines of her palms

“but there not, the past can never be changed, that’s just the way things are” I said watching her hands as she entwined her fingers only to untwined them a moment later

“I know but I find myself still wishing I could make it different, undo what I did” placing her head in her hands she gently rubbed her temples with her thumbs as if trying to chase away memories of a time long passed

“then you’re a fool, you did what you did, your only regret is that you had to bear the consequences” I bitterly spat out, I knew I was being irrational but in that moment I didn’t care, I had found out a lot that day and it was hard to swallow, what she had done left a bitter taste in my mouth and the love that I had felt for her was all but gone, I saw her as she really was, a stranger who I wanted nothing more to do with

“I did bear the consequences, I had my godhood taken from me, is it not enough that I killed my own father for you? That I betrayed my own bloodline for love?” she shouted at me, her outburst only made me angrier

“two wrongs don’t make a right and what love was there when I was already dead? What you did you did for yourself, not for me, you always where selfish but you played it off like you where a victim, like you had to do those things because it was “necessary” because your father demanded it, where was your love for me when I was bleeding to death on your temple floor?” by this point I had heard enough from her and I had said all I could say at that point, I had gotten up from where I sat and walked half way across the room with my back to her while I had been talking, without waiting for her reply I opened a portal and walked through it, I saw her jump up off the bed but I had closed it behind me before she could follow.

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