Healers blood

Chapter 13 Dominick

  I can't believe they're back and May's older now I guess. I lay in bed my arms wrapped around Sylvie her hand on mine sleeping peacefully. I kiss her head and carefully get up out of bed she mumbled something then rolls over and falls back to sleep her hair is tied in a braid. I walk to the living room and look on the couch for Andrew but he wasn't there then I go to Zinnia's room and he wasn't there either then I go outside the cold wind blows up my jacket causing me to shiver. I see Andrew sitting by the lake. Andrew looks at me and I do my best to ignore the red rim around his eyes then he turns away I stand next to him and take a deep breath. "Do you know something I don't Andrew?" I ask and instantly regret pours through my brain when he looks at me. 
 "Dominick you know I don't tell people's future," Andrew says shaking his head. Now I was worried. 
 "Think of it as someone else's future that you're telling me," I say sitting down next to him.
 Andrew lets out a raspy breath and starts saying  "In my dreams I see loss and I see the love I see a girl and a boy the boy is reading a book and the girl playing sports" Andrew looks at me and I urge him to continue, wanting to know more. "The loss is a big part of your life and people will be sad and one will never find love again," Andrew says and a tear runs down his cheek almost like he's living it. I start to shake and I don't know if because of fear or cold. "The love is something new that can never be taken away" He continues I know the images he sees are not vivid and sometimes they don't even happen, but it is still unsettling. I smile at the thought of the two kids how happy they are reading books and playing sports. Suddenly Andrew starts to cry I look at him as he cries in his hands. 
 "Do you want to talk about it?" I ask him sitting by him not knowing what to do he's never cried before he's always laughed and made jokes, but maybe like me that's his way of hiding in a shell. 
 " I'm scared not for me but for Zin" now he has all of my attention to what happens to Zinnia. " I had a dream it was so real she was laying on the ground yellow-orange flowers in her hair and gold makeup like fire crawling up her eyes and lips like swirls," Andrew says his voice shaking with sadness and fear. "B-but she was dead not sleeping d-dead" now I was scared. I can't lose her she's like losing her brother but worse because I protected her from so many things and kept her safe. 
 "Andrew I can guarantee you that I will not let anything happen to her," I said and Andrew looks down at the lake below the cliff.  
 "Sometimes I think if I jump they'll all be safe everyone will be there will be no loss," He said leaning closer to the cliff and a tiny pebble falls off the wind blows in his hair and I go to catch him getting scared but he just looks at me tears still in his eyes. 
 "Andrew you dieing is definitely not the solution to any of this do you understand me," I say, he nods his head and we walk back to the cabin. "You know it's been about six months since I bet you at a game of chess," I say smiling since neither one of us could sleep now. He smiles and we set up the chessboard. "I still can't believe I bet a super genius the last time," I say Laughing quietly so I don't wake anyone up. Andrew just looks at me shaking his head. 
 "Well, I promise you it won't happen again." I skip over a tile as he talks about him and Zinnia and I take his queen. 
 "You know I think I found the problem you talk too much," I say and he starts laughing. Zinnia shuffles her feet in the living room and hugs Andrew. Then she sits down. 
 "Who's winning," Zinnia asks looking at the board wearing a flannel that looked like Andrew's the sleeves covered her hands completely and the end of the jacket ends at her upper thigh. 
 "I am," I say taking his last knight and kicking my feet up on the table. Zinnia dozes off and chews on her hair as Andrew rubs her arm. I point at her hair and she takes her hair out of her mouth. Zinnia falls asleep on the couch and Andrew carries her back in bed and pulled the blankets over her, he walks back to the couch and I walk back to my room. I crawl under the covers and nestle next to Sylvie's warm body. 
 "I love you, Dominick," she says her voice is tired and she soon falls asleep before I can say I love her back. Soon I fall asleep too. When I wake up Sylvie is already up I walk to the kitchen where everyone else is. Sylvie is standing by the counter a plate resting on her stomach I smile at her and she smiles back. Andrew looks at Zinnia in almost a daze. 
 I clear my throat and Andrew snaps out of the gaze. "Let's talk," I say and open the swing door that leads to the living room "So when you said loss what did you mean," I ask thinking the worst did he mean Zinnia or Sylvie. 
 Andrew shakes his head. "Dominick I don't know, I can't visualize the future I can only feel what others are feeling" I look at him with confusion in my eyes. 
 "But you said you can see a girl and boy," I ask him and he smiles. 
 "I can't see them, but I know by understanding their feelings," Andrew says still smiling and I finally realize those are my kids. My girl and boy. " So say you were feeling happy like you are now I can look for the happy moments in your future," Andrew says and I soak in every word he says. 
 "Do you know anything else from my future?" I ask, but he shakes his head. 
 "I can see your future, but I think I should leave everything else a surprise," Andrew says but then his face lit up. "I can tell you that your daughter wins at a basketball game and a track race. She's very determined like you, and can tell a good joke." Andrew says my eyes light up and he continues talking. "Your son is the brightest kid in his class and loves to read he is a lot like his mother," Andrew says I smile. 
 "I guess he's not that good at telling jokes then," I say laughing and Andrew nods his head laughing along with me. 
 "He's very flirtatious though" I laugh at this, thinking about my kids and getting to hold them and letting them fall asleep on my chest and even when their older I can watch them grow up separate fights, tell jokes, listen to jokes  Andrew and I walk back ad Warren is talking everything he was saying sounded like a lie. I don't trust him, but Chloe does so, so do I. 
 " Este chico está lleno de mierda" I mumble to myself, but Warren hears me.
 " What did you say," Warren says and I think of something else to say. 
 " I said you must like chocolate," I say smiling at him and Andrew laughs I feel like he knew what I said, but I just ignored it and so did he. May walks out rubbing her eyes her brown hair knotted up. She goes back to her room and brushes her hair.
 Wyatt takes a sip of coffee and starts smiling he missed out on his kids teen years "Good morning sleepy" May rolls her eyes at Wyatt and sits down, but she falls through the chair we all look at the chair, but it isn't broken it was turned to liquid we all tilt our heads and May starts to laugh. 
 "Yeah I can turn solids to liquids," she says still laughing when she stands up Wyatt gives her a plate. 
 "Can you turn this to a liquid?" he asks and May takes the plate and turns it to pure water almost. We all start laughing when someone knocks on the door. I go up to it and open the door the person just walks in she takes off her hood and looks at me I look at her a little uncomfortable.
 "Hey Dominick," she says giving me her hoodie and walking to the kitchen. 
"H-hi Elina," I say rubbing the back of my neck her powers make her shimmer in the light creating almost crystal armor around her whole body. Chloe runs up to her giving her a hug and Zinnia walks up to me taking the hoodie I'm pretty sure it was mine, but now I wanted nothing to do with it she's still embracing her powers and not changing to a human ever in her life. That was actually the reason we broke up. She believed in embracing powers not hiding them while I believed that hiding your powers was safe.   I hated that she was willing to show her powers, but I guess she didn't need to worry about dying because her powers are not a danger to society as super blood would say. I'm not either, but everyone I love is if I were to lose them I would lose my whole world so I worry. Sylvie wakes up to me she could sense my distrust in Elina. She looks a lot like Anna but her skin is much darker. Someone else walks through the door as well it was Grayson we thought he was dead after the explosion that killed half the rebels in Fort Helen he turned up as missing. Sylvie runs up to him they were really good friends he opens his arms for a hug and doesn't let go he smiles at her. His powers are unique unlike many of the others he can feel people's emotions and even change them if he wanted. He pulls Sylvie out of the hug and looks at her rounded belly and he starts laughing. I missed Grayson's laugh it was so pure almost like nothing can change it. He hugs everyone in the room besides Warren and Andrew who he does not know. I have a feeling however he and Andrew will get along. I did notice he was walking with a limp on his right leg. 
 He notices me looking down at his leg.  "The bombs blew off my leg clean off," Grayson says and I look at him with pity I can't imagine living without a leg. "It's okay though because I got this cool red prosthetic," He says smiling I knew it was fake it was a sad smile that I know all too well. He sits down his right leg unable to bend. I turned around to face the counter occupying myself to do anything, but feel guilty I was there the day Grayson lost his leg a large piece of concrete was falling from the ceiling. He pushed me out of the way he went to jump the other way but failed. I thought he died so I ran the other way really he was still alive, his leg was probably stuck under the concrete. I pour myself a cup of coffee then I pour one for Grayson. When I set the cup down at almost the same time the bottom of the cup hits the table a loud boom comes from outside. I look at Grayson and Elinna and they don't look concerned at all. I go outside to see two buses one is a bus filled with boys no older than maybe fifteen and the other is a bus full of girls probably the same age. One of the boys managed to get the bus doors open he was tall and was pure muscle all the other boys come flooding out of the bus and into the fresh air. Jayce runs next to me Ana not that far behind May looks by the window in confusion and Andrew laughs at all of our bewilderment. 
 " I figured you would need some reinforcement," Grayson says opening the girl's bus door Jayce storms off and Ana follows I look at them all.  None of them look like they know how to control their powers. They all file up in a line the majority of them look like they have been beaten countless times. One little boy, in particular, has stitches across his eyebrow. " Of course they're all going to need training," Grayson says his dark brown eyes looking at them all. Grayson was tall too. Tall enough to make me feel short and scrawny too. " You should learn their names you'll be the one teaching them after all" I look around and I realize I'm the only one standing by them. 
 "So I guess I'll go down the line and you tell me your names" I instruct. "Saying that really makes me feel like a teacher" That gets a laugh out of the crowd. "Okay, what's your name sir," I say looking at the boy who opens the bus doors.
 When he speaks I suddenly become very scared. "My name is Junior sir," He says loudly I nearly jump. 
 " Okay Junior you ah don't have to shout," I say clearing my voice for about five seconds I'm frozen to my spot not able to move, but then I walk over to the next person. 
 " My name's Elite," he says then he looks at Junior who was laughing. I start to laugh to now becoming less scared of Junior. Elite was short with brown hair his bangs almost touch his eyes. 
 "Well Elite that's an um very nice name, very princely" I jokingly say which makes Junior laugh. I walked over to the other person this was a girl she was chewing on a piece of gum with her arms crossed. 
 "I don't have to tell you anything" her hair is cut short in a bob she had a small streak of red in her black hair. I laugh at this mostly because it is true. 
 "Well between you and I these two nimrods just gave me their names you seem pretty smart" this makes her laugh and the other two cross their arms in anger. I walk to the other people they all refuse to give me their names as well and they all look like they haven't eaten in years. The last person was a little boy he looks at me for a minute but then smiles. 
 "My name Sebastian" He looks frightened. I knelt down next to him.  
"I like that name it's very charming, you see that lady over there she's very nice, why don't you go over to her". I say and Sebastian nods his head, Sylvie picks him up and carries him inside. "Okay so many of you are going to need training, but first you need food and sleep". I say and this gets cheers from everyone as they walk in the cabin I'm suddenly aware that there is zero room. 
 The girl I talked to earlier stops in front of me. "My name's Camille" I smile at her I really like that name it suits her. Finally, I'm not the only Hispanic one here either.
 " That's a lovely name, do you like cooking," I ask because I could really boost now I'm not just cooking for seven people I'm also cooking for more than maybe fifty hungry teenagers.