Love is a strong word

Chapter 18

Alex's Pov.

I wake up on a hard surface. Not like a floor more like.. Concrete. I sit up and look around. I see a small dark figure in the back corner. I struggle to my feet and hear a scoff from behind me. I quickly turn around only to get hit to the ground the dark figure had gotten up and hit me in the stomach. I lay on the ground clenching to my stomach groaning in pain. I look up at the figure and try to make out his/her face.

"DALLAS!" I yell as loud as I can. Than I turn roll over on my side to look behind me. I see Nikole on the ground on the opposite side of the room also clenching her side. The black figure was walking to Nikole. "STOP!" I yell. Nikole swiftly moves her head up looking at the person. He bends down and grabs the side of her head. "NO NIKOLE!" She looked into his eyes like she was hypnotized.

"NIKOLE LOOK AT ME!" I yell as loud as I can. No matter how hard I try it seems as if no one can hear me. I looked away for 2 seconds. Than heard a load snapping sound. I turned back to Nikole seeing her dead. I know she will come back but it still makes me so pissed that someone is so.. Frozen hearted. The black figure was now walking over to me. I could see his face now. I just didn't recognize it.

"Hello, Alex." The deep voice spoke.

"What do you want from me?" I said raising my voice. Making it seem like I have confidence. "I need your help." It spoke again. "Why on gods good earth would I help you?" I press. "You need me."

I scoffed. "Need you?" The figure nodded. "Yes. You need me to stay alive."

I shook my head. "You know what?" I spoke confidently. "I don't need you."

"Oh, Alex. Do you know what your capable of?" It spoke lower this time.

"What do you mean?" I staggered to my feet to stand face to face with him. "You don't even know your own history." He laughed. "What are you talking about?" I proceed. "You are one of the most powerful witches of all time." He spoke no hesitation. I look down at my hands. "If I have power, why can't I do anything?" I move my eyes to face him. "You must learn. I can teach you." He says. He pulls his hands up to his face and I small flame appears. "How- how did you?" I push out. "I will teach you all about it."

"What about my friend?" I look back at Nikole pointing a long finger.

"I compelled her to do a.. Aaron for me."

"Compulsion?" I ask. He's crazy.

"I'm not crazy." He adds.

"How did you..?" I spit out.

"I have the same power as your friend." He turns to Nikole. "What did you compel her to do?" I ask on.

"Just to.. Kill your friend Dallas." He spoke. I stare wide eyed. "You want me to help you? But, you compel my bestfriend to kill my boyfriend? YOUR CRAZY! Decompel her now!" I ordered. "I don't take orders."

"You will now." I felt a rush of heat flow threw my body. I look down at my hand it was glowing with fire. I touched the fire ball but it didn't burn. I didn't hesitate I threw it at him.

"Now." I repeat. Getting a new ball ready. He shook his head. I charged it at him, he ducked it easily. "STOP STOP!" He screams.

He runs over to Nikole. She's waking up and he looks intensely into her eyes "Forget everything I've told you to do." She repeated. "I will forget everything you told me to do." She blinked and grabbed her head. She groaned. "My head.."

"Nikole." I spoke sternly. "Get out of here now."

"No! I'm not leaving you!" She stood up and wiped off her pants. She started walking over to me. "Leave now!" I feel the heat build up in my body again. I turn around and she only gasps. She closes her eyes and disappears.

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Nikole's Pov.

I vamp speed my way out of the building. My eyes were filling up with tears. What was she? I look back at the building. Should I go back for her? No. I can't. She could kill me. Maybe if she didn't mean it she could. The man.. Who was he?

"Nikole!" I hear a loud yell across the parking lot. I look up from my sobbing and see Blake running to me. I meet him half way. "Blake.." I staggered out. "What happened?" He looked at me full of concern. He looked me up and down for any wounds or anything that could hurt me. "I'm fine." I say. My throat getting clogged up from all the tears.

"What's going on?" He says. Still looking at me full of concern. I open my mouth to speak but nothing comes out. "It's okay Nikole. Don't try to speak." He wraps his arms around me. I snuggle into his chest. "I wish it could be.." I whispered. He walked me to the house. We both sat down on the couch and he asked "What's wrong babe?" I looked up to him from looking at the floor. I started popping my fingers. I tend to do that when I'm nervous.

I open my mouth and start explaining it to him, I talk about; Alex being a witch. The man in the black. The house. Everything. He didn't say anything he just walked into the kitchen and started weeping. I followed him slowly after. "It's going to be alright." I walk up behind him putting my arms around his neck. "We will get threw this together. I love you Blake." He touched my arms. "I love you more." He looked up. "We will figure this out."

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