Eldritch [the original]

Chapter 3 ~ Don't say that

          I don't know how long we sat there. We sat there, staring at the sky, and I don't know what he was thinking about the entire time, but I was wondering why I was here, why couldn't Remmi meet Vincecho, where exactly I was, and.....why did he come through the window when he could clearly just teleport into the house? "Vincecho," I mumbled to him, the dimly lit night sky didn't allow me to see much, let alone see far off. "Yes, love?" he inquired. "Why couldn't Remmi see you?" I proceeded to ask the question again, he said he'd tell me, so here we are. "Well, she can't meet anyone in the alternate universe of imaginary characters, it would rupture the fabric of space and matter, but not time, no that takes a lot. Due to the fact that we speak with her through her thoughts, if we were to see her, It would probably put her in a coma of sorts and end with most of us being distorted or erased due to her contact with something she knew but not physically. We can see her in her dreams, though." he rambled on, how did he know all this stuff? "How do you know?" I questioned him. "We've taken our chances with others, love. We're done losing people," he whispered. "Well, where are the others?" I said, my eyes never left the sky, the stars, the atmosphere. "Out there." he raised his hand and pointed off in the distance. We were sitting on a mountain, at a cliff's smoothed over ledge, still steep. Forest spread out across the grass behind us, trees of all heights and sizes, all of which seemed unfamiliar to me, each with their own mystical nature. "Why don't we go there?" I asked. "We can't," he mumbled. "Why not?" I asked. "They'll....they'll kill us. Alex, they're after me," he mumbled, but he almost snapped at me. He acted like he was okay, but fear hinted in his voice. Who would have thought that the all powerful creep would be scared of anything, but something was worrying him, and considering he's scared, I was petrified. I cleared my throat. "Are you okay?" he questioned me. "Vincecho..." I mumbled, "I'm scared." you said, your voice clear, but still hushed. It felt wrong to kill the silence, it felt wrong to be with him. He just sort of laughed. "Why are you any more fearful now than you were back in Remmi's room?" he inquired. "I..." I had to think on that one. "Love, there is a 'hell' in 'hello', a 'good' in 'goodbye', a 'lie' in 'believe', and an 'if' in 'life'. I may be scared and worried, but love, trust me, they won't find us for a while." he said this so calmly, so sure of himself. 

        "So what are we going to do until then? Just sit and wait?" I questioned him. He shrugged with all six of his arms. "Do you have a place to stay?" I asked. "Of course dear, but I would much rather sit out here and enjoy the stars." he stated, "It's so nice to finally have someone around, though." I found that strange, Remmi had always said that he was sort of introverted, alone on the sidelines. Maybe he regretted it. "I......" It made me feel terrible to know that maybe he wasn't as bad as everyone made him out to be, "I'm sorry," I whispered, and I was being truthful. I really was sorry. I reached forward and spread my arms to hug him, but before I could reach him, he pushed me down, held me by my wrists onto the ground. "Uhhhh......h-hi?" I didn't know what to say, I was kind of surprised, embarrassed, flustered....I could feel my face heating up as an indication I was blushing. I just stared up at him, his golden eyes dark now, only a small glimmer in them from the moonlight, it was intimidating, almost scary. He wore another seductive smirk on his face, "Gullible." he cooed before licking the edge of his lips. "V-Vincecho...?" well now I was really sorry about things. Like me and my stupid sympathy. Before I could do anything about this, he dove in and kissed me. His lips molded into mine and while he started soft, he eventually kissed me with such intensity and passion. I struggled against him, but I didn't budge, he held me down and wouldn't allow my squirming. He pulled away and stared at me with his golden eyes and his crooked smile. "Vincecho....stop..." that was all I could get out, I was already breathless. He just sort of snickered in response. "Fine, but you better believe I'll be back on you later," he said as he sneered and crawled off me. "Why would you do that?!" I squealed, I hated him for this, he might have been nice before but he's stepping over lines and crossing boundaries he shouldn't. "Shut up," he said cooly, not rudely, more like a joke. "I hardly know you Vincecho, you've practically brought me here to die, and in the moment I felt bad for you, in my most vulnerable state, you tricked me! You....." I just sighed.

          "I'm going to tell them where you are," I said before running off. It didn't take long for him to catch me, though. As I was running, almost slipping and falling, his hand coiled around my arm, pulling me to a sudden stop. And I stumbled, practically falling over. He jerked me over to him in one swift movement, causing me to lose what balance I had left and I fell, but only to my knees, his grip held me up, and it hurt. It hurt so bad... "You listen to me," he snapped, "I brought you here to help me because I know that you.....mortals, pitiful mortals, are stronger than anything imaginary, but you best believe that until you can get a hold of your powers that I'm stronger than you, I'm smarter than you, not to mention how small you are, defenseless! You'd be so easy to kill, my little finch, so I suggest behaving, and keeping yourself in line. Got it?" He barked at me. I was so horrified, my hands were trembling, only because he was right, I couldn't stand a chance to him. "Got it?!" he said, louder this time. I nodded. "Okay," he mumbled, less stern, dropping my arm and walking back up to where we had been sitting. I looked down at my arm, where he'd snatched me up. There was a mark there, the skin he'd grabbed was a little pink just because of how hard his grip on me was. I just covered my face with my hands and cried. There was no escaping this, no escaping him...there was no way around it, I was going to die here, with this psychopath. I sniffled. I walked back up to the ledge and sat down, as far from him as I could"They were right," I mumbled. "You're a monster, you deserve to die," I said, wiping my eyes and looking up at him. His face changed for a mere second, and he looked so sad, so hurt. But it only lasted a second. "D....don't say that," he concluded, picking me up and cradling me in his arms. I couldn't even look at him, I just looked up at the stars, rubbing the arm he had pulled me by. He looked away from me too, but he didn't look at the stars, he looked at the place he'd said the others were located. I watched as I saw a shooting star pivot across the sky. "I hate you so much." I mumbled, my voice barely above a whisper, I was still trembling, shaking, the words were hard to get out. I didn't look at him, but I could see him look at me with that smile, that crooked smile in my peripheral vision, and personally, I liked it just fine that way. "You'll change your mind." he stated, glancing up at the stars.