His Innocent Little Doll:Family

Chapter Eighty Two 'Dreams'

A/n
Italics will be Ember's dreams while she is unconscious

My head, it felt.....fuzzy like a constant screen of white noise was rushing through it. I could feel soft grass brushing against my cheek as I laid still on the floor. I had been here for what seemed days and couldn't open my eyes, I tried and tried but nothing seemed to work yet today was different. I could feel my heavy lids starting to twitch and flutter at the sounds of birds chirping. I heard them every morning and the heat of the sun surrounded me constantly, keeping me comfort in my dark world.

Slowly but surely my eyelids opened, giving me the painful first glimpse of sunlight as they pierced my orbs causing my hands to fly to my face, shielding it as I hissed.
Wait!
I could move again!
My body had been paralysed for these long days, only my thoughts seemed to function. It was agonising, I wanted to get up, I wanted to see where I was. I wasn't scared but I felt completely alone, there was no one here but the birds.

Sitting up weakly I took in my surroundings and smiled, taking in my first breath of fresh air. The field, it was truly beautiful. It felt like I was stuck within an orb, full of light and tranquility. Looking ahead I saw complete darkness, you could feel the cool air trying to burst its way into my space. The darkness knew I was finally awake, it was calling out to me, it wanted me to join it.
I could feel myself being drawn to it but why?
I was comfortable here, I was happy.
I didn't want to go there, I wasn't ready yet it seemed the darkness wasn't giving me a choice.

The birds
They had stopped chirping by the time I had got to my feet and to my surprise the darkness had entered the orb, it was gaining on me. The air was getting colder and more suffocating, I wanted to run but it was seeping in from all sides.
That's when I heard it

"Mammy"
"Mammy"
"Diamond?" I gasped feeling my insides freeze up, she was here with me but I couldn't see her.
My eyes scanned every inch of the field and nothing she wasn't here.
"Mammy"
She was in the darkness!
I needed to get to her, it wasn't safe!
"Where are you Peanut?" I called out as I took my first steps towards her voice.
I tried to run yet my feet wouldn't cooperate, all I could do was walk at snail pace trying desperately to reach her.
"Mammy"
It was Diamond, I was sure of it but her voice.......there was something wrong with it....
It sounded distorted and inhumane like something was impersonating her. That couldn't be right though, my motherly instincts where on high alert, I felt love swelling in my heart at the sound of that voice.
Why did it sound sound strange though?

"It's ok baby I'm coming, mammy's coming"
And with those words I finally stepped into the darkness.......

Back to reality
Four days later
There he sat, once again at her bedside, holding on to the fragile hand that once held him with such love. Love that he had ruined through selfishness and reckless behaviour. Even in her new state she was the most beautiful woman he had ever laid eyes on. She reminded him so much of his mother, they were opposite in features but their personalities matched like soulmates. His mother too had been beautiful, kind, graceful and had devoted her life to loving her son, him. Never did he think he could feel a love that was as powerful as the love he had for the woman who gave him life yet Ember and Diamond changed everything.
Now it seemed he would lose Ember the same way he had lost his mother, in cold blood by a ruthless man they had tried to save him from.
First it was his father, the drunken violent idiot who found fun in torturing his vulnerable wife and child. Then it was Alexander the wannabe king who thought he could ruin his life and take his family.

He still remembers the day of the fight, the day his father came home from the bar in a rage and ready to hurt them. He still remembers screaming, clutching onto his mother's legs as his father drew the knife in and out of her body as she gurgled out her last breaths before sinking to the floor. His father had ran after that, intent on escaping the damage he had caused but little Jack stayed with his mother, hugging her body to his small frame, feeling her blood seep into his clothes just as Ember's had done.