The One He's Not

Dark Jokes & Worlds Colliding

Dark Jokes & Worlds Colliding

KAT

To be completely honest, I didn't think that I would be feeling this feeling ever again.

The feeling of complete and pure numbness. I felt like I did ten years ago and it was a sudden emptiness that I would never forget.

But instead of seeing the crushed car that was trapping my mother, I was seeing the pain-stricken, wide eyes of Noel paralyzed on the ground.

Everyone was crowding around him, so I could only see glimpses of his body. I could see him shaking and twitching in agony and I couldn't bear myself to watch.

I looked over a Nora who was still crumpled on the ground and I could see that even though she was extremely weak, she could still manage to put a smug smile on her face. I was horrified.

"What the hell is happening?" I demanded.

Before she could answer, I saw Dexter's father show himself and that was all of the answers that I needed. His eyes were still glowing and by the looks of it, Nora still managed to contain one of her followers to make her last dying wish come true: Noel being dead.

"Even in death, I still have control." I barely heard her say it, but it was there. The problem was that she wasn't actually dead. Yet.

I felt my insides boil. My muscles became tense with rage and I started to see red all around me. There was still commotion around Noel's collapsed body, but I still couldn't bear myself to look at him. I wanted to remember the smug, sarcastic asshole boy that I fell in love with. Not the suffering one.

As I got angry, the air around us started to spin like a torpedo. The garden was going to be in pieces once I was finished with it and for once, I wasn't going to stop myself to control it. All of the built up rage that I've had for this woman was now being let loose and it was all for Noel. I at least could give him that.

Everyone could barely stand on their feet, the wind was that strong. Branches from trees were flying and I could even hear a couple of palace windows shatter. Light bulbs were bursting, people were tripping and falling and calling out to me, but I couldn't listen to them. I was so focused on just trying to make this whole nightmare end.

And it finally did.

The oak tree in the centre of the garden gave way from the great pressure of the winds and luckily, Nora was just in the right place at the right time. Down the tree came and with a loud whack, it hit the ground and caused the ground to shake. It was then my sudden splurge of anger subsided and I realized what I had actually done.

"Kat, you may want to get over here."

I looked down at the tree and huffed. The wind had tamed itself and now it had become a light breeze. I could see Dexter's father, confused as ever, staring at the fallen tree in utter disbelief, but I didn't have time to deal with him.

I turned to the crowd of my friends and family and weaved my way through. There, in the middle of the circle, laid Noel and I was so happy to see that his eyes still had life in them.

"Shit, my insides are burning. Is this how you feel now, Gingy?"

Ignoring his joking comment, I fell to my knees beside him and scanned his body for opened wounds. He seemed to look like his usual self on the outside, but if he said that he wasn't doing so good on the inside, we were in for trouble.

Noel threw up beside me and I hushed his painful mumbles. Nora must have used Dexter's father under her mind control to cause this. I've heard of King Elliot's powers and how he could torture and kill things from the inside and I didn't have a doubt that Noel was his next victim. Noel's body was withering on the inside and I didn't have a clue how to stop it.