Chapter 9 Longest Journey
I didn't know. How was I supposed to? What should I do? I might need to talk to my... father... But it would take hundreds of years to get where he is. I have so many questions. Vampires are...? That doesn't make sense but then it does at the same time. I asked Ali questions about it. Because she just knew. Like she had been around for hundreds of years and knew everything. She knows more than I did. Six hundred years in one place is a long time. She answered all my questions, and without a doubt I believed what she said. It's strange, a daughter teaching her father.
I don't know how to tell Tess. I don't know if I should take my beloved and child with me, they could be put in danger. Tess because she's a were, and Ali because she's something completely unbeknownst to the vampire/fey world. They could be killed. At this small thought, I hear a tinkling like laughter in my brain. I can feel my face light up at the sound. My strangely beautiful child is listening to me again. I can hear her small sweet voice in my mind. 'Papa, mama will pleasantly beat you if you refuse to bring her along. Try all they might but grandfather and grandmother has a small chance in successfully killing me'. I knew she had been listening to me again. This time though I hear stomping and growling coming at me.
My daughter had apparently voiced he thoughts to the whole house hold. Which means, what I was thinking about leaving Tess home has now been conveyed to said subject of concern. I had been pacing back and forth across the living room of the pack's house while having all these thought. Trying to battle with myself about what to do. My reason for being alive slammed through I mean literally through the four inch thick red oak door. Her skin was rippling slightly, her face was the color of fresh blood, a bright delicious red. My mouth watered at the thought but I was repulsed by it at the same time. I know why now.
"Contessa..." I breathed thickly. I've been so hot for her; it's been three days since Ali was born. Tess stopped bleeding within hours after her birth, but she hasn't wanted me. That's supposed to be perfectly normal, because she's trying to bond with Ali. He small fists are shaking violently with her rage at me. I hold up my hands in a let's make peace action. I just was too slow.
Her small body was hurdling at me, at a ferocious speed. She wanted my blood. At least that's what I thought. "How could you!!" She screamed making hard contact with my body, sailing us both into the far wall close to the fireplace. Her face was streaked with tears. "You can't!!" She started beating me in the chest I felt my sternum crack and give way under her powerful blows. "You'll die!!" She screamed into my face ripping my shirt off. She clawed ribbons of flesh from my left peck. "Liar!" She screamed at me all the while hitting me so hard she was causing her knuckles to bleed. She's broken my jaw, three ribs and my shoulder by this point. I just didn't care, it was the first time in three days she's even looked at me, let alone touched me or straddled me like she was now. I let my instincts kick in and flipped us both pinning her arms to above her head. She's still snapping at my face and neck, and crying. I ran my nose from her ear lobe, along her jaw, and down her neck biting into the supple flesh, she shuddered and started moaning.
It was music to my ears, jus that small sound made my body tense. I started yearning for her. My body ached to be inside her again. Somehow suddenly I was, she sucked in a deep breath when I entered her. I've broken through her hymen for the thousandth time. Her regenerating abilities are really annoying sometimes. Within seconds though she was writhing and moaning in pleasure beneath me, my head swam with the pleasure I was receiving and was giving. I felt her legs tighten around me, she began to squeeze me, I continued pounding relentlessly into her small body, hard and fast. I felt my spine crack and the momentary numbing sensation of being a temporary paraplegic for all of three seconds.
She screeched as her whole body clenched around mine, I tried to pull out before I had reached my own release. She made it an impossibility. While we lay on the floor, holding each other I searched her eyes. Debating on what to tell her. She waited now impatiently. I never understood how we could go from a knock down drag out fight to passionately making love, and then almost back again.
"Tessa, I have to go see my father. I need to ask him questions. Ali answered them for me, but I have to hear his answers. I don't think you'll be safe there. It'll take nearly your whole life span for us to travel there... You might not be able to live through the journey. Even if you do make it there they might end your precious life." She interrupted me here. "How can it take nearly four hundred years to reach your parent's palace? They're here on earth, going anywhere here shouldn't take that long.." she looked confused. "Because the palace is surrounded by fey magic, you can't get there on human devices, we'll have to swim the ocean and walk there. Once we successfully enter the realm of feyrie magic every one day it takes us to walk it'll really be 20 years. It takes 19 days in total to get there. If you count that with us walking to the sea from here and swimming the ocean..."
We took the journey of course. Ali stayed with Dr. Daloris and Markus. The swim across the ocean took us a total of seven years. My beautiful Contessa is now twenty three when we finally reach the realm of fey magic located in Ireland. Now to travel to the palace from here it will take nineteen eartheren days, three hundred and eighty days in feyrie years. She'll be past her life span by three years, she won't make it. I shivered at the thought of losing her but she won't listen to me any more, not that she did to start with.
When I found the seal along the shore I bit the end of my thumb off and pressed it into the three circles. It shivered and accepted my blood. The first day in fey was pretty easy. We hunted mythical creatures together. She ate it; I watched and then ate her. We camped for the night, in a nearby cave. There aren't any stars here. The night is always black. No moon here either. The only thing I can see in the dark are Tessa's eyes, the animal look they have. We fell asleep after I've eaten her for the second time in one day. We woke up the next day to find Tessa is now 43 years old. We knew it would happen. Thankfully her body looks in its late twenties, because of the were in her.
The next day was relatively the same except this time we got ambushed by Orks. Tall greenish bald creatures with little brains or teeth. We took care of them easily. She hunted and then ate, and I ate her. The next day Tessa was 63. Still barley out of her twenties. She didn't start to slack in her abilities until she was into her 15th day. Her hair had streaks of silver and she looked about seventy years old. I hunted for her now, but I still ate her after she ate. She looked 16 in my eyes.
On the nineteenth day of our journey she looked 90 years old. Her hair except the one spot was white as snow. Her eyes were a light blue from blindness. Her hands shook and she was unable to shift into her wolf. I had to tear her food in to smallish bits for her to swallow them. I carried her now as well on my back. She couldn't walk any more. The guards at the gate recognized me they said nothing of the old woman on my back.
When I walked into the court room we were seized. My beloved was ripped from my back screaming. I was held firmly by two vampires. My parents looked at me. They was it. My mother smiled brodley, she beautiful hair glistened in the fey light. My father looked at me in cold blood. He only spoke two words. The worst words I've ever heard in my life. "Kill her" He boomed in that terrible dead monotone voice. I heard then blood curdling screams the tearing of flesh and then nothing.
They didn't even give me a chance to ask anything. They didn't give me a chance to explain she was my soul mate. Everything turned red. I began to fly in speed as I started slaughtering every one. None of them had a chance. I was covered with blood when I stopped to take a breath about to kill my father. I grabbed him by the scruff. "She... Was... My... Soul Mate..." It came out more as growling than anything else. As I bent to rip out his throat and slender hand held my shoulder firmly. A voice I hadn't heard in days spoke out. "Jared.. Who are these people and why are you covered in blood?" I dropped my father like a sack of potatoes.
I spun wildly. Contessa.. my Contessa... looking twenty years old... Was standing before me naked.
