by CATT
“Saurian I can’t say that I will or won’t help you. Why don’t you let me sleep on it tonight, and I’ll let you know something tomorrow? You’re more than welcome to use one of the extra bedrooms to sleep in tonight if you want.”
“There is no way I can do that I must go back to the realm before I am missed. A few of the other women have been lying for me every night for the past two weeks while I’ve came in search for you each night. I must be leaving now, but I will return tomorrow night to get your answer. Please remember you’re our only hope.”
“I promise I’ll think about everything you’ve said.”
“I will see you tomorrow night Lana my new friend.” I watch Saurian walk out my front door knowing she will walk to the edge of the water and open the door returning to the fairy realm.
Going to my bedroom, I pulled off my leathers and pull on a night shirt. Taking the pins out of my hair letting the braid fall down my back deciding not to unbraid it, I craw in my king-sized bed and pull the covers over me. Lying there I realize for the first-time that my birthday has come and gone and I had forgotten it I’m nineteen now. God my life has become so bad that I have forgotten my own birthday. Normal girls my age are on top of the world about turning nineteen they look forward to it for months. But most girls my age also don’t kill demons fight Satan himself or go to the fairy realm and be held hostage nor did they fall for a guy, who is part Angel and have a mother that is a vampire and watch him die at the hands of tree people. Plus let’s not forget the boyfriend her father bound her to.
I know I would have dated Case without Harris binding us together. I had feelings for him. Even now I missed him. I missed the closeness we shared. I missed his arms holding me. Making me feel safe, and protected, if I had never met Dominick, I knew Case, and I would have been happy together. I remember how we always were together. Tomorrow night I will be telling Saurian I will help her free the fairy women. I will do that for Dominick because I know he would have done the same thing for the women. But it’s over after this it’s time for me to go. I miss my family it’s time I start over again and let Dominick go.
I know whatever war is coming is going to be bad. I can’t let my friends and family fight without me. It’s also time to see what Case and I are like together without the binding spell. I do have feelings for him and if over time something develops between us again I will give it everything I have in me. I can’t continue to live my life in the past it’s not who I am, or want to be.
CHAPTER 50
The next day I laid around the house, went for a walk on the beach picking up a lot of seashells. I spent the day doing a lot of nothing. Sitting on the couch I wondered what time Saurian would show back up. I was ready to help her, and the other women escape the horrible lives; they have been made to endure for all these years. I was also ready to go home. Somehow in the last few months I have gotten over my anger with Harris and Summer. The past was the past, and it was time for me to look toward the future, and my future was in the keepers’ world fighting to keep the world safe. I know in my heart Dominick wouldn’t want me to be doing the things I’ve been doing. At least, one good thing is coming out of this mess and that is being able to help these women escape a life of being slaves to the male fairies.
It was just after six, and I was eating a bowl of Ravioli and watching an old episode of happy days on the nickelodeon channel when Saurian walks through my door.
“My God you scared the SHIT out of me! Don’t you know how to knock?”
“I am sorry; I'm afraid I’m not used to the customs on this earth world.”
“Well one custom is you never walk in some one's house until you knock, and they tell you to come in!”
“I will remember that Lana. I’m truly sorry.”
“Make sure you do. You’re in now so you may as well sit down.”
“What is this thing you are looking at? How are you able to watch what these people are doing? Is this how you are able to find out where the fairies are going to be before you go kill them?”
“You’re joking right?”
Saurian gawked at me like she didn’t understand why I asked her such a question. Thinking back I don’t remember seeing a television the whole time I had been on the fairy realm. If the women there had not been able to leave the fairy realm, it made since that they wouldn’t know what a TV is. It was almost impossible to believe that I was sitting here with a woman who had never seen a television in her life that’s fucking unbelievable.
“It’s called a TV it’s used on earth as a form of entertainment.” Saurian still studies me as if I am crazy. She doesn’t have the slightest idea what I am talking about. Turning the TV off, I tell her I’d explain it to her later.
“Have you decided whether you will help us or not” Saurian asked ringing her hand until they were turn red?
“Yes I‘m going to help, but I’ll need to know everything you can tell me about the fairy realm. How it works and if you know of any way I can keep my powers when I get there?”
“Why would you think you wouldn’t have your powers on the fairy realm?”
That’s when I finally understand that Saurian has no idea I have ever been on the fairy realm before. She really doesn’t have the slightest idea who I am.
“I was on the fairy realm a few months ago, and I lost my powers, as soon as I arrived there.”
“That wasn’t due to the fairy realm that was due to Prince Osier” Saurian said.
“The prince told me he had nothing to do with it, he said the fairy realm it’s self-stopped my powers from working. He said it had something to do with an incantation the first fairies had done as a safe guard to protect their world.”
“The prince lied to you. Lana in case you haven’t figured it out yet you can’t believe anything a male fairy says to you. The prince knew the moment you entered the world, and he took your powers. I never knew you were there but the women of our world are never allowed to know much of anything. How did you get away?”
That was a story I didn’t want to tell. It would bring up memories I was working hard not to think about. “It’s a long story maybe I’ll tell you another time right now I need you to tell me everything you know. Furthermore, if I get the women out that are already slaves to mates will that break the spell the male fairies have over them?”
“YES, if they can leave the fairy realm that will break the males hold on them but Lana; I don’t think that will be possible the women can’t think for their self. Their minds and bodies belong to the males and there're too many of them for you to kill. Plus the tree people will stop you; they may be small, but they are very strong.”
“Saurian I’ll grantee you if you can get me in the fairy realm, and I’m able to keep my powers, I will get all the women out including the ones that are already slaved. Trust me when I tell you I’ll be the male fairies and the tree people worst nightmares."
Saurian tells me everything she knows about the realm. We discuss the place we will open the door and led the women through. I asked her how they will make it when they all leave the realm. She tells me they hadn’t thought that far ahead but with what powers they have they should be able to provide for themselves. We talked for over an hour setting a date for the next week for everything to take place. Our conversation started to die down with all our plans completed. I was about to turn the TV back on and try to explain to her what it was and how it worked when she asked if she could ask me one question about when I had been on the fairy realm. I started to tell her I didn’t want to discuss any of my time there with her, but then I thought her question may have some importance to what we may be facing next week.
“Sure what’s your question?”
“I did over hear the men talking about someone leaving the fairy realm I just didn’t know what they were talking about. Any ways I heard them saying the people left one of their animal’s there when they left. Later, I found out it was a man. Was that you, they were talking about?”
Feeling anger rise at the thought of them referring to Dominick as an animal made my blood boil. I couldn’t wait to go back to the fairy realm with my powers and make all the male fairies pay for not just killing Dominick but referring to him as an animal. When he was one of the best people, I had ever met. He gave his life to save not only me but Case, Rachel and Adam.
“Yes that was me, along with some of my friends who left but we never left the man you’re talking about there. We saw the tree people kill him. There was nothing we could do. It killed me to leave him there knowing we couldn’t get to his body and bring him back home where he could be put to rest the way a man like him deserved.
“Lana I don’t know what you thought you saw, but that man is not dead. I would say he wished he was with all the beatings I’ve heard they give him on a daily basis but the man you speak of is very much alive.”
CHAPTER 51
I can’t breathe. Oxygen won’t go into my lungs as much as I try to make it. Could it really be true? My Dominick was still alive; My Greek God wasn’t dead she had to be wrong. I saw the tree people put the stake through his chest! I saw his body go limp. “You’re wrong Saurian I saw him being killed.”
“I don’t know what you saw Lana but trust me, he is very much alive I’ve seen him with my own eyes when they’ve taken him out of the cage they keep him locked away in and beat him and laugh about how they have broken him.”
“Are you sure about this Saurian?”
“I am sure Lana your friend is not dead, but he is no longer the man you once knew. He is like a whipped animal. I do not know if there is any hope for him, I’m truly sorry my friend.”
“When we go to get the women out, we will be taking Dominick with us” I inform her feeling truly alive for the first time in months.
“I do not know if that is possibly Lana he is well guarded all the time. There is no way we could ever get close enough to him to rescue him. I’m not even sure he could walk if we we're able to get him out of the cage.”
“You let me worry about that part. I need you to do me a favor. Please try to check on him for the next week until I can get to him.”
“I can’t get close enough to do that.”
“You don’t have to talk to him just try to get close enough to make sure he’s still alive that’s all I ask.”
“You have my word my friend; I will do my best.”
“Thank you Saurian” I said jumping to my feet and pulling her into a hug.
“I must go now. I’ve been gone way to long as it is. I will return tomorrow night.”
“Please be careful Saurian if they find out you are leaving every night you will surely be killed along with your friends. You’re the only hope we have of getting your friends and Dominick out of the fairy realm.” I hug her again before watching her walk out the door.
I spent the rest of the night unable to sleep. I went running on the beach with thoughts of Dominick, and the fact that he is still alive playing through my head. I would bring him home next week, or I would die trying. It made me sick to think he had been on the fairy realm being tortured for the last few months. I will make the male fairies, and the tree people pay for what they have done to him. If it’s possible there will be no realm left by the time I leave back out that door.
By the time I made it back to my house the sun was starting to come up. I had run the whole night without even realizing it .After taking a shower I slipped on a night shirt, and braided my hair before closing the blinds in my bedroom and lying down. When I fell asleep, I dreamt of Dominick and how happy he would be to see me. In my dream, we went back to the keepers’ world and fought side by side and would fall into bed at night and make love and he would tell me how much he loved me before we would fall asleep holding each other.
When I woke up the sun was going down and all I could think about was I was another day closer to seeing Dominick again. Getting out of bed I slipped on a pair of sweat pants and pulled a long-sleeved shirt on before blinking myself a cup of coffee. I went out to sit on my front porch to enjoy what little day light was left. I was still sitting in the same spot when Saurian walked up.
“Hey come on up and grab a seat.” I watched as Saurian sat in the rocker beside mine. She had a solemn look on her face that made my heart sink was she going to tell me Dominick was dead that I had found out too late.
“What’s wrong?" I asked putting my coffee cup down on the table beside me afraid I may break it in my hands.
“Lana I saw your friend.”
“IS HE DEAD? IS THAT WHY YOU LOOK SO SOLUMN?” I demanded wanting to know, but at the same time afraid to know. Before Saurian had told me Dominick was still alive I had begun to put my emotions back together. I felt as if the last few months had been a nightmare. If she tells me, he’s gone now I’m not sure I could live through losing him a second time.
“No Lana he’s not dead, but maybe he would be better off if he were. I got close enough to him last night to try to talk to him but all he did was lie there with dead eyes staring into space. He never spoke or moved. I’m not sure you would recognize him; I don't know if there’s any of him left. I’m sorry to tell you this, but I wanted to be honest with you. I wanted to make sure you understand what I'm telling you Lana. Your friend will be different after what all he's gone through. He won't be the same friend you thought you saw die months ago.”
I felt tears try to fall. I held them back because I knew it didn’t matter what shape Dominick was in. When I get him out of there and back on the keepers’ world, Sage will help him. I saw what Sage did for my earth parents, and if he could bring them back from the HELL they had been in, I knew he could help Dominick.
“Saurian thank you for risking your life to check on Dominick and don’t worry as long as he’s not dead when we get him out of the fairy realm, I know someone that can help him.”
“I hate to ask you but please just check on him nightly and make sure he is still alive.”
“I give you my word that I will check on him every night Lana. You are putting your life in danger by helping the women on my world it is the least I can do to check on your friend at night.”
“Saurian never take the kind of risk you did last night by getting close enough to Dominick to be able to speak to him. The guards could catch you; it's too dangerous. Just try to get a look from a distance. Remember this as long as a guard is there that means he’s still living. If he was dead the guards wouldn’t be standing watch.”
Saurian and I sat in the quiet for a while before I asked her if she felt like taking a walk on the beach. I had to do something with my body. I knew after Saurian left I would be spending another night running again. There was six days left before I could go back to the fairy world. The reason we had to wait a week is because on Saturday, all the single women will come together to pray to whatever God it is the stupid male fairies tell them to pray to that one of the males will mate them and make them their slave. Well, this time the women were going to get there real prayers answered. They are going to be set free.
The sorry sons-of-bitch’s have treated these women horrible not to mention what they have done to Dominick, and I was going to make sure they paid for all of it. Saurian had no idea what powers I actually have, and I haven't told her. She will find out soon enough. When I enter the fairy realm this time it is going to be completely different.
“Lana thanks for sharing this beautiful place with me, I am honored to have you as my friend. I’m afraid it is time for me to leave you now. I must get back.” This time I stood on the beach watching as Saurian opened the door and went back to the fairy realm.
CHAPTER 52
Every night Saurian would visit we would eat and talk, walk on the beach. I found she has become a really good friend, and I know after all this was over, I would make sure our friendship continued. After she leaves at night I run, matter fact over the last four days, I have run more than what most people ever run in their lives. I run so my body will be exhausted
hoping it will help my mind shut down, and I’ll be able to sleep.
However, when I go to bed, my thoughts turn Dominick then my mind wonders from that to go on to my family and friends in the keepers’ world. I can’t count the times I thought about blinking myself to my house on the keepers’ world to tell my family; I love them and miss them and to let them know about Dominick being alive. The only thing that always changes my mind is Case. I mind always goes back to the last time I saw him and how angry he had been with me. He had stared at me with such hatred in his eyes. I’ll never forget the way he left his bedroom slamming the door leaving me alone sitting on his bed alone. He had never raised his voice at me before that day and I never want him to talk to me or look at me with such hatred again.
He had always loved me, doing anything and everything he could to make me happy. All these months I’ve been away has told me one thing and that is even though my father broke the binding spell he had on us, I still care about Case. I still love him. I just loved Dominick more the idea of seeing Case again knowing he might hate me scares the shit out of me. So every- time I start to blink myself back to the keepers’ world I’d change my mind to afraid to see Case.
