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Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
"And I'm scared, I'm scared for my life."
- Diplo
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"Cece...you coming?" Hunter smiles at me as he runs after two small children with light brown hair. Shouting "rawr," as he grabs one of them and lifts them into his muscular arms, throwing the small girl up into the air with one quick action.
"I'm gonna EAT you....." Hunter speaks in a deep voice, sending the little girl whom I notice has soft blue eyes into a laughing fit. She giggles as Hunter tickles her violently, and just as soon the other child, a little boy comes over with a large, unhappy pout of her face as he sticks out her bottom lip at him.
But he has the same face as the other, they're twins...
"Daddy!" He shouts, crossing over her arms in a frustrated manner, he couldn't have been any older than six at the most. The other little girl who happened to own the exact same face, was put down into the grass as he knelt down beside him and smiled.
Daddy?
"Remember what we discussed earlier?" Hunter speaks softly, giving him a big hug. "Don't be jealous of your sister, I love you equally with my entire heart." He smiles, looking over at me with his big blue eyes.
"B-but what about mommy!" The other cried out, running out to me and throwing her arms around my waist.
I stiffened, mommy?
I looked down at the little girl with brown hair and found myself staring at her eyes. I knew these eyes, I had seen them before.
Just as I was starting to inspect them further, everything went a bright white before running to a dark, cold black.
One that I had been familiar with over the past few weeks.
The cold floor that belonged to my prison cell.
*****
"Cece?! Come on, wake up!" Jay's familiar voice shouted, as I was shook slightly from behind.
"Cecelia!" A warm sigh let out, hitting the back of my neck. What I wouldn't have given for a radiator, or a hot bath...or even hot food. Forget that, just food in general.
"Are you crazy! You could've died doing that!" He panicked, and ran his hands through what I guessed was his hair since the darkness that was around me seemed to get ten times thicker.
Wait, I could've died?
"W-w...what do you mean I could've died." I asked him, feeling like I already knew the answer to my question.
"Cece...everyone whom knows who you Really are, knows what you can do. Which also means the consequences of your powers."
"What consequences Jay?"
"You don't know?!" He sighed, " you use your own life force to heal others. It's what keeps you alive, and if you run out...there's nothing left in you that can keep on living."
What he said sounded familiar, but also fuzzy in my memories.
"I'm guessing that they may or may not have just tested you...and I think you might have passed their little test."
Well...I'm now screwed.
I was still lying on the floor trying to figure out what on earth I had just dreamed about, or was it even a dream because it felt too real. I didn't want it to end.
I wanted Hunter, I needed him to survive. It was eating me inside out not being able to see him, to feel him one more time. A sudden determination then came over me.
I knew where I was going to get my strength from, and I would get it from all my thoughts of Hunter. The future we could have together, the family.
I looked over at the little girl across from me, day by day she screamed less as she lost her soul. Lost it to the b*tch who was responsible for everything that had ever happened here.
She killed my parent's, she killed me...
Not this time, because I wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.
"Cece...are you mated?" Jay asked, catching my attention. I didn't want to say 'it's complicated' because that's literally the worst response a person could get. No matter how true it was.
"I have a mate...he never had the chance to mark me because I was too scared to actually do anything about my feelings towards him." I sighed as I let a small uninvited tear fall out of my eye.
"Cece, that's seriously not healthy for you, going on for too long without being marked can affect your health. But I understand his intentions, if he had before you were captured...it would have been incredibly painful for the both of you to be separated. " Jay spoke sympathetically, putting his hand through the small gap in the cage to rub my shoulder supportively.
Suddenly, I thought back to what Jay had said about watching his mate so slowly insane day by day beside him. Not being able to stop it in any way. He truly had faced a hard life.
I was fed up, I was done...and I was about to get us the heck out of here.
With the small energy I had, I stood up and began rattling my cage. Trying to get the attention of any filthy, discussing rogues that were nearby. It was time to go home.
"Hey! Hey Assholes!" I shouted, as Jay tried to shush me, thinking i'd just get myself killed.
"Come on assholes! Come and show me what a waste of space you really are!"
One of the guards head snapped towards me as immediately he marched towards me growling. I'd hit a soft spot, and I couldn't resist a cheeky grin appearing on my face as he made his way towards me.
"Oh I'm sorry sweetheart...did I offend you?" I smiled at him, tilting my head to the sit and laughing. Jay then cut in.
"CECE SHUT UP OR THEY'LL KILL YOU!" He began rattling his cage in an attempt at drawing their attention from me. But it wasn't going to work, I knew exactly how to annoy them. I'd had good practise with Hunter before I ended up here.
A rough voice then spoke, sending a shiver down my already freezing spine.
"Send the wh*re to Cat. She'll sort her out, or kill her...I don't really care which."
Without any hesitation two rogues grabbed me and began dragging me in the direction of the room and the end of the hallway, was I panicking secretly inside. Yes. Did I have a plan? Sorta.
I was brutally dragged into the room loudly, obviously Arialia wasn't expecting to see me from the look that was on her face, it almost as if there was fear. Glad to know I made an impression.
She glared at me as once again I was chained up against the wall. As confident as ever, I even went as far as too shoot her a grimacing look.
She was at the opposite end of the room, talking to the creep that was in here with us last time. He almost looked worried at my confidence, and that just fueled it even further. I was a raging fire, and all they were doing was adding more coal.
Suddenly, without any expectation at all, Catori changed forms. Becoming a large brown wolf with red eyes. She snarled at me and then lunged at me.
Attacking my throat as she clamped her jaw into it, red slickly blood began emerging in all directions as I screamed as loudly as I could at the pain.
She then stepped backwards, and once again changed into what I could only describe as her 'human' form. She was wearing a white dress, or was...before she decided to cover herself from her mouth down in blood, my blood.
Fear took over as I realized that my plan wasn't going to work...not now.
"Stupid c*w. You always have been and always will be." She laughed, taking her hand and wiping away some of the blood that was on her face.
"Let's see...I heard that you were terrorizing my men." She began, licking her lips to taste some of my blood. My stomach churned.
I shut my eyes and began to think, I thought of my mom...Hunter, even my real parents whom I'd never Seen a photograph of or met.
I opened my eyes and glared at Catori, pulling my chains one after the other off of the wall and watching as Catori's grin slowly melted off of her face. I needed a new plan.
I then sprinted out of the door and towards the rows of cages in which Jay and the little girl who's name I hadn't learned yet were being held.
From the angle that I was looking at him from, for once I had a small glimpse of his face, well...only his eyes. His big, broken, blue eyes which were staring into mine.
"Cece....." He murmured, not truly believing I was in front of him.
"I'm going to get you out." I promised him, before stating to pull on his cage door. Only stopping when I felt a cold hand on my back.
Catori.
She then began draining me as I fell forward against Jays cage, staring and watching him as he began screaming for me and hitting his cage. I couldn't hear him, everything was silent.
Except the cold words which Catori spoke coldly.
"Never underestimate me b*tch."
*****
Dead isn't a word I'd use to describe what I was feeling. Tortured seemed like a more accurate answer.
I'd lost count of how many times I'd been defeated now. It felt like a long time ago that i'd promised myself that I would win, that I would look out for myself and not be a damsel in distress all of the time.
Obviously, this hadn't gone to plan. Because once again I was crying on the damp floor in my cage. Trying to somehow be comforted by Jay. It wasn't working, I was useless.
I wasn't going to see Hunter ever again, I was going to die in this hole alone with James.
He then spoke unusual words to me, words that stood out but yet didn't at the same time. Words that confused me.
"Cece? I think Hunter is looking for you."
Quicker than I thought humanly possible, I sat up against the cold wall, placing a hand to my neck and letting it heal. Turns out sitting in a pile of you're on blood wasn't as comfortable as It sounded.
"What to you mean Jay?" I asked, focusing on healing my neck and the infection that would likely follow.
"What did you say his name was again....umm Hunter Grey I think?" He stuttered for a second. I needed him to confirm this again.
"What did you say Jay?" I asked, not even sure I was hearing what he was saying properly.
"Cece....we are all going to get out of here, and I think it's your Hunter that's coming. The rogues were discussing it earlier, they think it's why you're constantly getting stronger quicker, because he's near us...and soon he's gonna find us." Jay almost laughed in delight at this, as I guessed that there was a grin on his face.
"Jay?" I spoke softly, having to take a double-take to know if he even heard me, I sighed before he responded with a simple."Yes?"
".....who's Hunter?"
Dun
Dun. Dun
Damn what a cliffhanger that is, hopefully my baby Cece won't remain locked up for much longer.
Til the next one, and oh! The song is te same as the chapters name :)
Is the dream a flashback? From the future? Or just foreshadowing? I'll leave that up for you guys to decide.