Crimson

Can Portal's go missing?

"Whatever happened to you, I hope that you gave them something worse" I say to him, I scan his body something that I couldn't just stop myself. My eyes land on something in his hand a fist, protecting a small silver looking chain as I grab it widening my eyes at the sight as tears spring to them.

"This is impossible," I say as I stand up and walk over to the door and open it slowly my eyes fixed on the chain as I look at a family photo on the fridge down the stairs. I take it into my hands and cry a little when I notice it.

I sit here for hours just looking at the photo as my mind replays the events that happened the last time I ever saw her like a video tape that's stuck on repeat. A groan from behind me summons my presence back into reality as I wipe away the tears and turn around seeing James as he limps towards me.

"How'd you get this?" I ask him as I put the chain on the table in front of us.

"The demons gave it to me, they said that you'd know what it meant" he says to me, I let another tear roll down my cheek as I sniffle.

"What does it mean?" he asks me as he sees me cry, he wipes away a tear from one of my cheeks and turns to me.

"It was my mums, she never took it off of her" I say to him as I close my eyes, the vivid memories of her limp, pale body lying in the snow as it slowly sunk down from the deep crimson blood around her.

"I'm so sorry, if I'd known . . ."

"You couldn't have, everyone that knew is either dead or can't recognize that" I say to him, "Not until this" I whisper throwing the photo in front of him as he takes it in one of his hands and looks at it. We're smiling like idiots, my little body being held up by her as she kisses my cheek.

"Dad gave it to her for a birthday present, I had a matching bracelet" I say to him as I hold onto my wrist where it once was.

"How come you don't wear it?"

"I lost it years ago, and I was devastated" I confess to him, "But I thought that someone out there who finds it will be happier that they have a bracelet" I say to him as I get off of the stool and rub my face trying to prevent myself from crying more. I can't stop it as the tears flow like a fountain, my body jerks as I take in a deep breath to try and calm myself but it doesn't do anything, just makes it worse. He hugs me not knowing what else to do, as I don't hesitate to hug him back. He lets me cry into his chest until I feel better, whispering to me that it'll be okay.

"We'll get through this okay?" he reassures me, I nod my head as we stay like this for a while, soon rubbing away the fallen mascara that runs down my cheeks. I hand him a shirt of Conner's and he takes it before he runs off towards his castle of isolation. I walk to Conner's and open the door with a sigh, I scream when Conner runs at me pulling him into my chest tightly. I smell the stench of blood on him as we part and I see his body covered in it.

"Conner? What the hell happened to you?" I shout concerned as I push him slightly.

"The demon's they're getting more and more aggressive, on top of that three of our pups are missing"

"What?"

"He means three wolf babies," one of Conner's men says to me I close my eyes and take in a deep breath.

"I know that, what I mean is why three?" I say to them, they all shrug their shoulders as we all sit down as Conner paces the room explaining everything as I nod my head.

"There's no more hiding in this fight, and it's going to be a bloody one too, we need to find a way to get to hell, in the cage so then I beat the shit out of the devil and get my life back to the way it was before all of this mess started!" I shout escalating in volume towards the end of the sentence as I rub my temples sighing loudly.

"I think that I may have a way," Conner says as he takes my hand and leads me towards the back of the house. He shifts and nudges his head towards his back as I get up. He runs towards the house where the spiral is on the tree, I get off of him as he shifts back, I throw him a shirt and he puts it on.