His Evil Cinderella (On Hiatus)

Burning Within

A/N: I want to thank all of you aliens who were brave enough to read the first chapter! Loads of chocolates and chirping frogs for y'all!

The lyrics come from Run by Katharine McPhee.

Picture: Lila Rhettysi. :>

Happy reading! :)

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Chapter Two

~Light up, light up

As if you have a choice

Even if you cannot hear my voice

I'll be right beside you, dear

Louder, louder

And we'll run for our lives

I can hardly speak, I understand

Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes

Makes it so hard not to cry

And as we say our long goodbyes

I nearly do~

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She'd been informed that it would start like this.

She was consumed by fire. The burning snares crept up her body, thick and jagged in her imprisonment. She'd been warned. She'd been an idiot.

The pain made her want to go back to sleep once more, curl around her shivering body in a cocoon.

It hurt. So much.

::-.-::

Maeve Aviragus looked worriedly out of the window. The rain pelted the window fiercely, hazing her view of the vale. Lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the roiling grey clouds above like a thick, vibrant blanket. Wind howled against the walls of the grand manor, rattling the glass in the window panes. For a moment, she could almost see the stables built on the side of the hill, through the sheets of rain and she fidgeted.

The storm was getting worse and Kieran was still out there.

Alone.

Oh stop it, she thought, scolding herself as she gazed desperately for him to return. He'll be fine. He has roof over his head. He is not going to…

Oh, what if the lightning struck the stables and it caught fire? What would Kieran do if he got trapped in there? She knew she was letting her imagination run wild again, but they did live on a rather high hill. She'd lived here all her life and she had seen the lightning bolt out of the sky and hit the ground with tremendous force. She was scared for him.

How could she not be? He was the only one she had left in this awful, dark world. Ever since her parents and sister had died in that landslide, she'd been alone in this cold house. She'd drifted through the rooms like a lost ghost, as time had gone by with only dust to remind her of what she'd once been. Of what once she had. She'd turned into herself, building the walls around her so high that no one, even if they tried to, wouldn't ever get in. The experience had been horrendous, so dark that she wished she'd never go there again. The dark fortress had claimed her, made her into something dark herself. Something no human could ever comprehend.

Then he'd come.

Maeve had been standing near the gushing river, as still as a statue. The river was located in the vale, away from the village she lived in. She'd been watching the bright, glittering water run down the rocky path, cascade down the mountain in a rush, reflecting the sun so that the white had split into a coalesced halo. She'd been too mesmerized in it to notice that she'd been standing too close to the edge.