Forgotten And Destined (Forgotten # 1)

by CATT

  “Will you stay and eat with us?”

  “I would love to but I’m afraid I can't; I really have to get back, but I’ll be popping in and out through the day. I didn’t want to scare Saurian by telling her that right now I need to stay in the keeper’s world as much as I can so the Angels won’t be more upset with me than they already are.

  “I just wanted to see if you needed anything?”

  “No we’re all fine thanks to you. You go take care of whatever it is you need to do. Don’t worry about us. You took care of everything last night. We have enough food to feed all of us for at least a month.”

  I give Saurian another hug then speak to a few of the other women in the kitchen before blinking back to the keeper’s world. I could smell food cooking so I go to dining room and find Harris and Summer sitting there talking with Dominick.

  I hug Summer before sitting down next to her. I tell them I had gone to check on the fairy women to make sure everything was going alright. I couldn’t help staring at Dominick now cleaned up his hair tied back like he always kept it. He once again looked like my Greek God.

  “You look a lot better” I said smiling at him.

  “Thank you, I feel a lot better.”

  He didn't speak another word to me. I watch as he carrying on a conversation with Harris and Summer, he laughs at the appropriate times but the smile never reached his eyes. His eyes; they looked dead. After we finished eating I asked, Dominick if he would like to take a walk with me. His reply is “sorry maybe another time right now I think I need to lay back down.” Watching him leave I turned to Summer and asked, “dose, he act strange to you?”

  “Honey I think you may need to give him some time he’s been through a lot.”

  “Yeah you’re right” I said but deep in my heart, I know something is wrong he is different.

  “Lana I was notified by the Angels council that you are to be in front of them tomorrow morning at eight” Harris said.

  “Will you guys be able to go with me?”

  “Of course we will be there with you” Summer said.

  “Thanks I said as I stand up and hug them both. I started to walk out of the dining room then paused and looked back and asked, “Have you heard from Case, Cain, or Lisa.”

  “I saw them last night Harris said’ I let them all, know that you were home. I also told them about Dominick.”

  “Is there any chance of them getting to come home earlier?”

  “No I’m sorry Lana, There isn't. They may be out longer than we thought. We lost two more keepers’ last night?”

  “Can you at least tell me where they are at?”

  “Sure I’ve never been told you couldn’t know. They are in the middle of the earth the place between Earth, and Hell; it's the gate where demons come through at. They're fighting demons coming through the gate. The problem is the demons are now stronger than I’ve ever seen them; and they are not coming through the gate one, or two, at a time like we have always been used to them doing. Instead they are coming though It a hundred at a time” Harris said.

  “Are they all doing alright?”

  “There fine just tired.”

  Without saying anymore I left the room. Going to my bedroom I changed into a pair of shorts, and a sports bra then took off to the gym. I had to do something to keep my mind off everything. I had wanted to ask Harris if Case had asked about me, but I was too afraid of what his response would have been.

  Hitting the tread mill I start out at a slow walk to warm my body up slowly increasing the speed until I am at a full run. As I run I beg God to keep Case, Cain and Lisa safe as they fight.

  I had been so busy running and consecrating on praying that I hadn’t noticed Dominick had walked in. I happen to look up and see him staring at me. I see the look on his face that I had been waiting all day to see. His eyes are alive now, and I see the hunger in them as he stares at me. Stopping the treadmill I jump off sweat running down my body. How long had I been running to have this much sweat I wonder. I head over to Dominick trying to decide how I can break all this awkwardness that seems to have gathered around us. I made my decision when I reached him. Lifting my arms, I wrap them around his neck. The best I could and pulled his head down to mine kissing him with everything I had in me. He kissed me back like a starved man for the first few moments then he pushes me away. I have to say that was a bad hit to my heart.

  “Lana I’m sorry but I no longer feel that way about you. I’m a different person than I was and my feelings have changed. I’m grateful to you for getting me out of that hell hole. I also would like to be your friend but that is as far as it can go.”

  “Are you saying this because you don’t want to hurt Case? If so you don’t have to worry about that. I told him everything about us the day after we got back from the fairy realm when we thought you were dead. He knows we made love, I told him the whole story.”

  “My feelings have nothing to do with Case; I'm just not interested in you any longer.”

  “How can you say that? What did they do to you?”

  “I’ll tell you what they did to me, they beat the shit out of me every day, plus they starved me.”

  “Do you blame me for leaving you there? Is that why your feelings changed?”

  “No Lana that has nothing to do with it, and for the record, I could never hate you, but at some point while I was there I played it over and over in my head how you screamed out I love you before you went through that door. I wondered why I never yelled it back to you. Then one day it came to me. The reason I never yelled it back was because if I had it would have been a lie.” I felt my heart breaking more and more as he continued talking.

  “I’m sorry Lana; I never should have slept with you. The only reason I can give you is that I’m a guy, and that’s what guys do when they get the opportunity. I would like us to be friends but if that’s too hard on you, I completely understand.”

  I stood there listing to everything he was saying to me. I couldn’t believe he had just told me he had slept with me because the opportunity arose. It sounded to me as if he had called me a slut. The he is making it sound; I had thrown myself at him. Before I know what I am doing I am screaming at him while my heart is breaking into a million pieces once again because of him.

  “YOU-SON-OF-A-BITCH, HOW DARE YOU STAND HERE AND TALK TO ME LIKE THIS! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT MY LIFE WAS LIKE WHEN I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD? I GRIVED FOR YOU I LEFT MY HOME STAYING GONE FOR MONTHS. I HAVE TO GO BEFORE THE ANGELS COUNCIL AND COULD HAVE MY POWERS STRIPPED FROM ME!” I screamed.

  “Don’t blame me for that Lana you’re going before the Angels council because you released all the fairy women and destroyed the fair realm. You just got me out of there while you were there.”

  Listening to Dominick speaking in his deep calm voice while I have been yelling the whole time angered me even more. Before I thought about what I was doing I raised my hand and slapped him across the face.

  “I don’t want to be your friend. I wish I never had to lay eyes on you again. I HATE YOU! I should have left you where you were at. You sorry piece of SHIT”! I ran out of the gym as fast as my legs would take me not wanting to give Dominick the pleasure of seeing me cry.

  When I reached my bedroom, I stripped my clothes and opted for a shower instead of a bath. After drying off I put my night shirt on then brushed my think long brown red hair before braiding it. Crawling in bed, I pulled the covers over my head and cried until I fell asleep.

  My sleep was riddled with horrible nightmare after nightmare. The one that scared me to death was the one where I was told Case had been killed by demons and that if I had been there it never would have happened. In the dream, they told me how it was my fault and that my parents Cain and Lisa all hated me now. Then the Angels council not only stripped me of my powers and made me live as a human, I had been homeless and nobody cared about me. In the dream, I had begged Harris and Summer to help me, and they had told me they were ashamed to call me their daughter
and wished I had really died when I had been born.

  Then I dreamt repeatedly about how cruel Dominick had been to me. How he had told me he had only slept with me because I was an easy lay. Looking at the clock, I saw it was six in the morning, so I decided to go ahead and get ready for my hearing that way I could blink in and check on Saurian and the other women before I had to go to the Angel council.

  CHAPTER 57

  I showered then dressed put my hair in a ponytail and a small amount of make-up on trying to cover up the puffiness around my eyes from crying and lack of sleep. I was hoping the make-up would keep people from noticing. I blinked myself to the kitchen of the beach house figuring that would be where Saurian would be already busy cooking breakfast. I had been right she was standing in front of the stove cooking eggs.

  “Hey I said stepping up and pouring myself a cup of coffee.”

  “Hey yourself” she said looking at me. Taking the coffee I sat down at the table, and Saurian followed me with her own coffee sitting down across from me.

  “What’s wrong and don’t say it’s nothing I’m looking at your eyes, and you look as if you have been crying all night.”

  “Is it that noticeable?" I asked touching my eyes.

  “Sorry but I’m afraid so.” Needing someone to talk with I tell her everything about Dominick and Case leaving nothing out.

  “Honey I told you the guy you brought back may not be the one you left with. I’m sorry, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised. A man can’t take the kind of beatings he took day in and day out, and it not done something to him. I know you say you have the best doctors, and I believe you but there is no doctor, who can take away a hate once it starts. It’s not that he no longer loves you; it's that he just isn’t capable of loving anyone now. He probably never will be again. I hate to hurt you more than you already are but friendship could be all he has left to offer you. Maybe you need to take that friendship and move on.”

  Sitting there talking to Saurian, I thought maybe she was right. “I don’t know Saurian you’re probably right, but for now I have to leave I have someplace I have to be in less than thirty minutes.” Standing up I hugged her and asked if she needed me to blink anything in before I left. I was shocked when she said, “yes more TV’s please.” Laughing I closed my eyes pictured everyplace in the house a TV could go then blinked them in already wired up and ready to watch.

  “It’s done you now have over forty TV’s in the house.”

  “Great maybe now they will stop arguing over what to watch.” Laughing I tell her I’d see her later today then blinked myself to the dining room at my house. Harris and Summer had already eaten and were drinking coffee.

  “Hi” I said as I poured myself a cup of coffee and sat down.

  “How are all the women doing on earth” Harris asked as he took another sip of his coffee?

  Laughing I said, “There all doing great, but I did have to add about forty more TVs to the house.” Harris and Summer both started laughing.

  “You know it’s hard to believe they have never seen a TV before. Their lives must have been really horrible” Summer said.

  “It was trust me.”

  “We are very proud of you for what you did Lana. Because of you, those women will never have to live a life like that again” Summer said laying her hand on top of mine and giving it a squeeze.

  “Thank you Summer, I want you both to meet them; I know you will really like them all.”

  “Well tomorrow we will go with you when you go to check in on them” Harris replied.

  “Well after today I may be living with them if the angels take my powers away and make me live as a human.”

  “Well if they take your powers away, and you have to live with them, I guess we will be living there with you. Remember if you go, we go” Harris replied.

  “I know you’re worried, but I believe everything will be fine” Summer said. “I’m not going to say they won’t do something I just don’t think they’re going to make you human.”

  Harris glanced down at his watch then said, “We'd better be going it’s getting close to time, and I’d like to get there a few minutes early and see if I can find out anything.” Standing up we all joined hands then blinked to the Angels council.

  CHAPTER 58

  Everything at the Angels council is always so sterile it has white walls white ceiling and white floors. There're no pictures on the walls, not even a cross hanging anywhere. Harris told Summer and I to stay in the hall while he goes into the chambers where my hearing will be held at and see if he can find out any information. When he opens the door to the hearing room, I peak in before the door closes. Wouldn’t you know it even the tables and chairs are white.

  From what I can tell with what little I could see it appears as if I will be sitting in the middle of the room with a circular platform all the way around me. I will have Angels circling me…fucking great.

  Like I wasn’t already intimidated enough ugh.

  Harris comes back out within minutes telling us he hadn’t been able to find out information, shocker there. He said it was time for us to go in now. Taking a few deep breaths to calm myself, I straighten my spine and hold my head up high. Just because I am scared SHITLESS doesn’t mean I have to let them know I am. When I hear the door shut behind us, I felt like I had already been tried and convicted.

  The Angels council has yet to take their seats. When the Angel guard started to open the gate from the circle to let me go through and take my seat. He stopped Harris and Summer. The Angel guard said “I’m sorry king, and queen, but you may not enter the circle. You both may be seated over to your left”. Harris started to say something, but Summer stopped him. She looked at me and whispered “everything will be alright we’re right here”. Taking Harris’s hand, she led him to the seats the angel had told them they could sit at.

  I take my seat feeling sick to my stomach. Sitting there it crossed my mind a couple of times to blink myself out of here and put up my shield, so I couldn’t be found and say the hell with all this. The only thing that stopped me was the fact I would no longer be a keeper, and I would lose everyone I loved. I’ve already been there and done that shit before, and I wasn’t going to let it happen again if I could stop it. I will take whatever punishment they handed out if they only let me keep my powers and continue to be a keeper.

  “Everybody may rise and remain standing as the Angel’s take their seats” the Angel guard said loudly.

  Standing up I watched as angel after angel came through a door to the left of the platform. It amazed me each angel, who entered had on the same white suit and they all had white hair with blue eyes. From a distance, they all looked identical. I guess angels aren’t big on having their own fashion. Counting the angels as they came out, I knew there we’re a total of seventeen. I guess they made it odd numbers like that, so they would never be a tie vote. After the angel’s were seated the guard angel told everyone else in the room they could be seated.

  “Princess Rain Summer Livingston would you please stand” the angel sitting in the middle seat directly in front of me said a few minutes after I had set back down. I stood up making sure I kept eye contact with the angels I had my hands to my side trying to show that I wasn’t in the least bit afraid even if my legs did feel like they might give out on me at any moment.

  “I am known as Mathew, I will be leading your hearing today and letting you know the charges you have been charged with. If you do not comply or answer all questions and request made by me or any other angel on this board, you will automatically be found guilty do you understand me?”

  “Yes sir I understand completely.”

  “Very well then I will read off the charges.”

  “First charge – killing fairies on earth”

  “Second charge – Going against keepers protocol”

  “Third charge – destroying the fairy realm”

  “Fourth charge – Disrupting or interfering with another race’s w
ay of life”

  “Fifth charge – The killing of the male fairies and the tree people on the fairy realm. We do not wish to know how you plead on these charges. That is of no concern to us. Today’s hearing and the angel’s you are standing before will decide on your fate as a keeper today. Is that understood?”

  “Yes sir.”

  “Very well then we may start. I will ask the first question please wait until I have completed my question before you answer.”

  “Yes sir.”

  “Why did you kill the male fairies on earth?”

  “Sir I never killed one fairy on earth that wasn’t about to take advantage of a human. I have witnessed myself how the male fairies' trick humans to get them to do what they want. Then they take these humans back to the fairy realm and make slaves of them and beat them until they are dead. My job as a keeper is to keep humans safe, and I felt like I was doing my job.” The second angel didn’t even bother to tell me his name, he just asked the question.