Chains Of Blood

Chapter Five

As soon as Jonathan was in a straight pose, his demon side was gone as well as Maia's. "Maia....", Jonathan breathed. "Jonathan", she almost lost her voice. "William, please don't freak out", she said. "What are you?", he spoke, he was lost for words. "We are half-demon, half-human, our father did this too us. We are experiments, William", Maia said softly. " So your father did that to you, with the burns and scars on you", he said. "Yes, he did, Jonathan got it better than I did, he WAS in league with him, but he is protecting me now", Maia added. "So protecting you, involves hurting you", William said. "No he didn't mean it, I did something wrong beforehand", Maia explained. "Alright, I can't tell anyone" he said. "No, I can't deal with the stress of people knowing" Maia said. "Who would believe me?", he laughed.

"Are you okay, right", he said. "Yeah, I'm fine, this was nothing", Maia said, trying ignore her bleeding arm. " Maia your arm", her brother said, reaching out to touch it. "It's fine, it will heal, I just need to heal", she said. Jonathan took his syringe out of his pocket and injected it into Maia's neck. Her arm healed, but it turned into a big silver scar. "Did it hurt?", William asked. "No, Will, I need you stay to stay away from me" Maia said sounding disappointed. "Why" he said hurt. "The last friend I had, I got him killed" she said. "So am I meant to be scared, I'm not, I will always be there for you", he said. Maia didn't say anything.

"Jonathan, I'm going out for some fresh air, with Will, can you clean up?", she asked. Jonathan nodded. Both Maia and William left the flat and walked to the park. "Lacey is on holiday, so she is safe", Maia said, "Well that's one less person to worry about". "Don't say anything, William Sherwood, there is nothing to say" she said sourly. "Alright, I won't" he said.

"How are you going to deal with your father, I mean if he out to get you and your brother...", William said. " I don't know, I don't care what happens to me, I care about what happens to Lacey, Jonathan and you", Maia said. "Why your brother?, look at what he did to you", William yelled at Maia. "Jonathan saved my life, I would of been burned alive if it wasn't for him, so don't tell me if he is a bad person, all he has done is helped me....", she blew up at William. "I'm sorry, please...", he said. "It's okay", she said quickly. She saw her veins changing to the colour of a dark crimson.

Maia hugged William and ran home, "Maia, where are you going?", he said. Maia ran home and saw Jonathan cleaning still. "Jonathan, I....", she spoke and saw her body was fine now. She covered her arms with her jacket and rushed to her bedroom. She shut the door and jumped into the her bed. She wanted to sleep, she tired but for no reason, she hadn't done any activities that would drive her to exhaustion.

*FLASHBACK*

Maia was in the garden with her little brother, they were both playing football, as they normally do if they had finished all their work. "Matthew, don't kick the ball to high, otherwise it will go in the neighbour's garden", she said. Maia turned around and saw father behind her, he told Matthew to go upstairs to his room. "Father what's wrong?", she asked. "I just wanted to see how your leg was doing", he said in a low tone. Her father picked Maia up and put her on the dinning room table and unwrapped the bandage around her ankle, she wimpered in pain. "Is it getting better, otherwise I can't perform for my drama exam". "It's not, it is infected with something, I am not sure, I will have to do surgery on your leg, now", he said coldly. "Father, isn't that illegal, I mean I know you are a doctor but don't you have to be a hospital or something", she said quietly.

"It doesn't matter, I care about you're health, so meet me downstairs in ten minuets while I prepare", he said loudly. he wrapped the bandage around Maia's ankle and walked downstairs into the basement. Maia limped up the stairs o find her little brother, she walked into his room and fell over, her older brother Jonathan catching her, she hissed in pain from her leg, the veins closer to her ankle turned a black-red colour, she passed out, with her body out like starfish. Jonathan carried his sister downstairs and dropped her on the table, Jonathan tied her sister to the table, father sterilized his knife and cut open Maia's leg from where it was injected from. Her father's fingers where inside her leg, he saw a bit of bone, but wasn't part of her body, it was tooth covered in poison. Jonathan covered his sister mouth, her father took the tooth out of the leg, it was like taking out a bullets.

Her father sprinkled a silver powder into Maia's leg, she woke up screaming, but it was muffled from Jonathan covering her mouth. She cried out in pain as her father was stitching up her leg up. Once it was over Maia sat up on the table and her father bandaged her leg up and carried her upstairs. Jonathan tucked her in bed and kissed her on her forehead. Matthew came running inside her bedroom and jumped on the bed, Matthew hugged his sister and ruffled his hair. "Matthew, I won't be able to play football tomorrow, sorry", she said sounding disappointed. "It's okay, just get better so you can", he said and ran to his room. Maia rolled up her trousers and saw the veins on her leg turning back to normal colour again, but very slowly. She waited.

(Sorry it's been a while, been caught up with family stuff and ex-girlfriend issues, please comment if you like the story, I really like support, thanks)

(➰Happy Shadowhunters Day-02/01/17➰)

Syesha➰