Breaking the Madness

Fifteen - Part two

Anna POV

"It's alright, I've got you," Luc smile reassuringly as he held me against his chest in the water.

My heart was thumping and adrenaline was pumping through my veins. I couldn't believe I just did that. I jumped into the water, even though I knew that I could swim. I jumped. A hysterical laugh bubbled up from with my chest and echoed around the forest. Luc smile grew when he saw that I was okay.

"You do look nice in a bikini Petal," he teased.

"Thankyou," I replied turning the same colour as the bikini.

Luc held me tighter around my waist and started to swim out into the middle of the lake. The deep dark depths of the lake scared me as I didn't know what else could be lurking within. You never know what kind of horrors lay just out of sight. You just never know.

"You seem deep I thought Petal?"

My gaze flickered from the murky water into the silver pool of his eyes.

"I am."

He frowned at me, then smiled, "You don't like to extend on your answers, do you?"

I shook my head and he laughed. His laugh sounded like pure sunshine to me. I like sunshine.

"Do you like sunshine?" I asked Luc.

He looked as me sadly for a moment before replying, "I love sunshine, Petal. I love the feel of it on my skin, the warmth, even the smell. Sunshine does have a smell you know?"

I laughed as he wiggled his eyebrows at me.

"However, where I come from we don't see a lot of sunshine, for there is no reason for the sun to shine."

"Why is that?" I inquired my brow furrowing.

"The sun does not like us enough to give us the gift of light and warmth..... but you.... the sun loves you. He has blessed you with the gift of sunshine forever, no matter where it is that you go."

Luc was looking at me in a weird way, as if he was remembering some sad story in his head. A very sad story. I didn't want Luc to be sad, the world was a better place when he smiled.

"Would you like to teach me how to swim?"

He did smile which made me happy, but my happiness was shortly lived as he ruined it by saying, "Of course, but I was wondering if you could tell me why you don't know how to swim?"

I quickly averted my eyes from him and looked back into the water.

"I don't want to tell you," I growled, my jaw clenched tight.

Luc didn't say anything straight away, but he gently placed his hand on the side of my face making me look at him. Then he stated, "You can trust me Anna. With anything. I promise I won't judge you or like you any less than I do now because of what you say. I promise I will never make you feel less about yourself because of anything. You are the most incredible person I have ever met and I will do anything to keep your light shining forever."

My lip trembled as I tried to stop myself from crying.

"Okay."

"Okay?" Luc's eyes widened in surprise.

"I'll tell you..."

Luc gently pressed his lips against my cheek and murmured, "Thankyou Anna."

I sighed, "When I was younger I was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. But my father refused to accept that there was something wrong with me, that I was sick and there wasn't really a way to fix it, fix me. One day he locked me in the attic, and they chained me to this chair and after that father had all sorts of people come and do stuff to me."

Luc looked angry as he asked "What kind of 'stuff' did they do to you?"

I didn't want to tell him but I did anyway.

"There was this one man, Doctor Carmichael, he would make me take off my clothes in the chair and he would then poor really hot water over me. I often tried not to scream, but sometimes I just couldn't stop myself. Once he had done that he would yell at me, telling me to choose reality over my insanity and if I didn't, he would do it again. and again. And again. Until my skin was red and blistered. Another man, Doctor Smith, would inject me with this stuff, I think it was insulin, and he would leave me until I was almost dead only to revive me. i couldn't walk for weeks after. The worst however, was Doctor Jacobson. He would step me to the chair and attach these things to the side of my head. Then he would flick the switch on the machine that was attached to the things on my head, and pain would course through body. My head felt..... I do t know how to explain but it was horrible."

When I finished there was silence across the lake. Luc squeezed me closer against me and pressed his lips to my temple.

"I'll teach you to swim, petal,even if it's the last thing I do," his voice was pained and full of anger. I hoped he wasn't angry at me.

"Are you angry at me?"

His eyes widened, "No? Why would you think that?"

"Because I'm broken...." I whispered lowering my gaze.

"You're not broken, Anna, you are perfect just the way you are. Im angry at what happened to you, I'm angry that I wasn't there to protect you."

I looked back up into his eyes only to find the sincerity of his words.

"Thankyou Luc, for teaching me to swim."

He smiled. "No problem Petal."

With that he pulled me further out into the water and started to teach me the very thing I had never thought I could do, and I'm not talking about swimming. Luc was teaching me how it was to fall in love.

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A/N

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