Heart Of The Forsaken

Breaking Inside.

🌜I'm so sorry it had taken me so long to write, but I have kind of been homeless. I'm still without a home of my own but I at least have a place to stay. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me. 🌛

••••••••••••••••••••SPYKE'S POV••••••••••••••••••

"What did you just say?" I choke out through my shock swollen lips. I know I must have heard wrong, after all there was no way that this feral creature, who only moments ago, had killed one of my 'pack' could possibly think he was my mate.

I watch as the newborn struggles once more to rise to his feet, before allowing his body to drop back down to the hard cement floor. "Mine." His deep voice again repeats while staring up into my shocked eyes. I feel my knees tremor at the sound of his voice, deep and sensual, but rough from what seems to be disuse, and I can't help but wonder how long it had been since he has spoken.

"Mine, mine, mine, mine" he begins to chant and he once again attempts to struggle to his feet. I hear feet shuffling behind me before I feel a cool hand land on my shoulder as Rayven stops slightly behind me and leans over my left shoulder. Even before he can open his mouth to speak the newborn attempts to lunge forward with a deadly snarl. Behind me I can hear light laughter, and I know that my brothers mates are laughing at my misfortune.

With that knowledge I snap out of my trance, and shake Rayven's hand off of my shoulder as I try to keep my wolf in check, something I haven't had to fight since I was a child. I can feel him fighting to surface, to convince my human side of what he already knows, and accepts. The fact that this pathetic, filthy and crazed creature at our feet is indeed our mate.

Finding it almost impossible to control my wolf I turn on my heel and rush for the exit just as I feel my bones start to break. I know I have to put distance between myself and this creature before I lose full control of my human mind.

The last thing I hear before losing myself is a scream of rage from my mate.

••••••••••••••••••••UNKNOWN'S POV•••••••••••••••••••

No, no, no! Why is he leaving us? We only just found him! The monster within me struggles to take control once more as his scent drifts away from me. My ears are suddenly filled with an inhuman roar, and I'm shocked when I realize that the sound is flowing from my own throat.

Somewhere in my subconscious I'm aware of those still within the room speaking. Something about blood, but it doesn't make sense to me. All I seem to be able to concentrate on is the fading scent of my mate, and the knowledge in my mind that he ran away from me, that he doesn't want me.

I'm broken from my deep thoughts and despair when a warm arm is thrust under my nose. I can smell the hot blood flowing in their veins, and am unable to stop myself from sinking my teeth deep into the struggling arm. I drink deeply as the arm try's to pull free from my grasp, but I'm far to strong. Before long the struggles start to slow, then suddenly the arm is ripped from my grasp and a cold but bleeding one is pushed against my blood soaked lips.

I'm unable to do anything other than swallow the rich blood as it coats my tongue. The more I swallow, the clearer my mind becomes. Much sooner than I would have liked the arm draws itself away from me, and I look up to see the dark skinned creature like myself run his tongue over his wrist sealing the wounds there.

To his left is an unconscious man, the one I smelled when they brought me though the first room I believe, and standing around the room, looking completely at ease, are the two dark haired and fair skinned creatures from the clearing, as well as the small creature with almost white hair.

"Now that you have had a bit of my blood, you should be able to focus enough to do something other than hiss and piss me off." The tanned creature spoke as he brought himself down to my level by squatting down. I can see the blonde creature start to step forward but the long blacked haired man gently pulls him back, and away from me.

"My name is Severin, this is my brother Kin, and our mate Skyler, and this is my son Rayven." The dark creature, Severin, speaks while pointing to each in turn. "Do you know who you are?" At my small head shake he continues. "Alright do you know what you are?"

After a moments indecision, wondering if I should speak for fear that he would think me insane, I finally come to realize that there isn't much he could do, besides laugh in my face, and quietly blurt out what I believe myself to have heard said only minutes ago. "Vampire."

I look up into his face and wait for his reaction. "Yes, that's exactly what you are. Now if your willing I could help you remember your past, who you where and how you came to be a vampire, alone and without your maker." I allow his words to sink in for several moments as I wonder if its something I would want to know, to know what I used to be, and what I had done before becoming the monster I am.

After several long moments of thinking, I nod my approval to Severin. I can feel the power radiating off of his body as he moves closer to me, and I can feel the monster trying to submit to his presence. Lost in my confusion as to why he would feel that way to another creature I'm completely unaware of what's about to happen until I feel Severin's fangs sink roughly into my throat before the images flood forward and cancel out every other thing.

So many things, memories flash through my head like a movie on fast forward. I watch as the young dark haired man frowns from a child until adulthood. Watch as he's attacked while leaving the bar early in the morning, and watch as he awakens as what I am now, a monster.

Suddenly Severin pulls away from me, and helps me steady my body, which unknown to me had slumped sideways. When I'm steady once again he looks down at me with a faint smile, and says," It's a pleasure to meet you Kerrigan, mate to Spyke."

Before I have the chance to speak, his voice rings through the small, dark and musty room,"He's not my mate, I Spyke, reject you, Kerrigan as my mate." With those words I feel my soul shatter and the monster fight its way back to the surface.