Lost and Alone: The Torres Chronicles

17th Chapter: And Confused

Amelia slumped against the wall when the Wraith Fed, to regain his strength and heal his bloodied abdomen. The result's where never instant, but the euphoric effect the act caused, was somewhat relieving. Two preserved human soul's would sate the Wraith's hunger, for now. The Elder turned around, to find a set of blue eyes staring calmly in his direction.

"You are not, o-f-f-e-n-d-e-d?" The beast's belly growled, as he slumped against the far wall, opposite the human.

"I haven't forgotten what you are, Wraith. I wont, ever, make that mistake again. Trust me." The female's attentive stare didn't wavier, when she rubbed her wrists in a soothing manner. "You must remember something?" She continued to sigh heavily.

"Do you know, what the ruling Queens will do to us? If they believe, our relationship is anything more, then a passing indulgence?" The beast hissed tone-fully and leaned his head against the wall with a exhausted groan. Glimpses of intimacies, he did not remember consenting too, haunted this waking mind. There was also a mild alluring scent lingering around them, hidden beneath thick layers of blood and dirt.

"I don't see..." Amelia's response was cut short.

"I had hoped to avoid this, e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-i-t-y." The beast snarled painfully before continuing. "They need no more proof, then the death of a fellow Wraith... to, c-o-n-d-e-m-n, u-s, b-o-t-h..." The Elder hissed tone-fully and closed his eye's. "This will gain, u-n-w-a-n-t-e-d, attentions." The exhausted sigh he released echoed tone-fully in Amelia's ears.

''That monster attacked...us? They have to see that.' The females mind rustled as she crawled toward the resting beast, carefully. 

"I-t, w-i-l-l, n-o-t, m-a-t-t-e-r." The old Wraith sighed heavily.

"Thanking you, matters." The human's voice grumbled softly. Then she allowed her head to rest gently against his tough leather shoulder.

"I, have, f-a-i-l-e-d... to bring you his head, as requested..." The Elder slowly moved his arm up and around the females warm body. "...And I, m-a-y, f-a-i-l, to protect you, from the, r-e-p-e-r-c-u-s-s-i-o-n-s, of this." The Wraith's somber and defeated tones where hardly a audible. 

"Your here now and he's not." Without warning, the stubborn female picked her leg up and tossed it over the Wraith's form. She got up on her knee's, to look the yellow eyed beast directly in the eye. "Your what matters. You give me hope." She cupped the refined curves of his chin in both her hands. "That's why I..." The human paused to gasp painfully and regain control. Before she claimed something, she wasn't ready to admit. "That's why I, trust you. Promise me, We won't ever lose this."

"A-m-e-l-I-a,... This blood could have, e-a-s-i-l-y, been yours. I-I-I... c-a-n-n-o-t, recall." The beast flexed his hands over the female's forearms. A thick layer of dried blood and bits still covered the Wraith's long finger's. The sight was a strain on the humans unwavering resolve. 

"Never." One single word escaped the humans lips. Then she closed her eye's and inhaled a deep lingering breath. Her soul worked hard to suppress, an array of monstrous images, as they continued to flash, uncontrolled, in her waking mind. The phrase, 'I want to see the sky again', haunted her thought's, endlessly. Guilt was not an emotion she ever expected to feel, in relation to a Wraith.

"You, h-a-v-e, remembered something?" The Elder questioned the female's jumbled and confused thought's. Their Bond allowed him to peer into her soul and share in her confusion. The female's thought's where incoherent, to the Wraith's pain-diluted mind.

'This is my fault.' Amelia's blue eye's whimpered softly.

"Do you, r-e-a-l-l-y, b-e-l-I-e-v-e, you could have forced my hand, unwillingly? In any situation, human?" The Elder's irritations hissed loudly, as he stopped the female from turning away.