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Benjamin stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Chandler and a caution entered his gaze. Of course, his back also went straight as if he was trying to become the biggest rooster in the henhouse. "Who's this?" Benjamin asked purposefully slinging his crossbow over his shoulder. I mentally rolled my eyes at the boy. "It's nice to see you too, Benny."He sent a glare my way but didn't call me on the use of his nickname. "What's going on?" I asked quickly before anything else could be said. "Craig and the other guy are down there helping Julia with the rest of the group," suddenly his face got serious. "There were a few people hurt in the escape."I gasped and reached for the chair to hold myself up. "The children?" He shook his head quickly. "No, no, the kids are ok. They were the first ones we loaded up." "Thank goodness," I breathed out. "We did, however, have a few people that thought they should go first, and I'll tell you what Julia gave them a good uppercut until the rest de
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"Hi pumpkin, glad to see you again," I replied to her. "I am happy, too. I was worried you'd turn into a mean monster like mommy did. But Marcus said you'd be fine, and that he was always right cause he was the oldest," she babbled. I laughed because that was the thing Darren used to tell the kids all the time. It tore my heart to hear it, yet at the same time, I loved hearing proof that the kids listened occasionally. "Well, he was right. Wasn't he? I'm here and I'm okay for the most part," I said to her giving her another hug then lifting her down. Once freed she happily raced off once again to oh and ah over the babies with the other kids. "She's taking the death of her mother really well," I commented to Julia once I knew the children were occupied. Julia's face almost fell, but she seemed to straighten her back and bury the feelings once more. "I know. I'm waiting for it to finally sink in. But she kept telling me this morning that a black woman came in her dreams and told
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"It was that woman! When she attacked, me she knocked me on the ground and this is all just a hallucination that is being brought on by a drug-induced coma," I rambled on and on but that thought horrified me. I searched frantically for a door, for a way out. "I gotta wake up! I gotta get back to my children and my husband." Reaching my hands out I tried to feel around for a wall that might lead to a doorway. I found a wall and followed, but every time I looked back, I hadn't gone anywhere. I ran, but it was the same and when I looked back, she was still just a few feet away. It felt like I was on a treadmill, running as fast and as hard as I could but still not getting anywhere. "I've gotta get back. I can't stay here. I've gotta get back," I chanted as I felt the tears build up and up until my words were nothing but sobs. My lungs burned and my thighs threatened to seize so I had to stop. I leaned against the wall and continued talking, rambling, hoping that the sound of my voic
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"It was that woman! When she attacked, me she knocked me on the ground and this is all just a hallucination that is being brought on by a drug-induced coma," I rambled on and on but that thought horrified me. I searched frantically for a door, for a way out. "I gotta wake up! I gotta get back to my children and my husband." Reaching my hands out I tried to feel around for a wall that might lead to a doorway. I found a wall and followed, but every time I looked back, I hadn't gone anywhere. I ran, but it was the same and when I looked back, she was still just a few feet away. It felt like I was on a treadmill, running as fast and as hard as I could but still not getting anywhere. "I've gotta get back. I can't stay here. I've gotta get back," I chanted as I felt the tears build up and up until my words were nothing but sobs. My lungs burned and my thighs threatened to seize so I had to stop. I leaned against the wall and continued talking, rambling, hoping that the sound of my voic
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All I could do was stare at him. This child in front of me had never said anything that intuitive in his life nor had ever been more serious. He had abruptly become so discerning that it was frightening me. I was at a loss what to do beyond nodding my head. He gave me a huge smile and a self-satisfying nod then went over to the far corner and messed with a few pieces of papers on the table. It looked as if someone had brought a few crayons and pieces of papers for him. He riveted me especially when he started singing his ABC's and then counting. It was something he had never done so willingly. Julia came rushing in, dragging my attention away from him. "Marcus said something was wrong, and I needed to come immediately. What's wrong?" she asked deeply concerned. "It's this, damn- I mean dang leg," I retracted my words when Johnny's head came up and gave me a chastising glare. She came closer and looked at the bandages. "It looks like it needs to be cleaned again and another band
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Louis would barely think of something before Julia had it in his hands; he had a smile and call her a psychic before continuing his work. The next thing I knew I was all fixed up and ready to go."Now, I want you to stay off that leg today," Louis instructed as he walked over to the sink to wash his hands. "But I can't!" I argued slightly surprised that he honestly thought I would stay in this bed all day.He sent a weird, incredulous look my way. "Why not?""I gotta take care of my kids. We still have a lot to do around here, and someone has to help take care of the four newborns."Amid helping him clean up the wrappers and equipment, Julia paused to put her hands on her hips and pin me with a raised eyebrow. "You are acting as if we don't have enough people around here to help out. We have at least twenty people, all in all, I think a few of them can get off their butts and help. You are not irreplaceable." I flushed in embarrassment. She was right; I was acting a little too big f
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My heart stopped and the entire world spun violently. I closed my eyes trying desperately to get a handle on what was happening. "Who? Who has him?" I implored him weakly. "Ernie and Pete," he responded just as weakly. Julia must have known who he was talking about better than I because she spat out a harsh "no". Craig nodded and got back on his feet. "They are held up in the basement and are threatening to kill him unless we bring them all the food."My world seemed to crumble right in front of me and there was nothing I could do to prevent it. My husband was gone, my cousin was gone and now I couldn't even protect my own children. I should never have let him out of my sight, I guess I was still living in a world where if he walked down the hallway then he would been safe. I had to face the fact that the world I once knew was gone. Julia was pacing and running her hands through her hair. I silently envied her ability to do something even if it was as useless as pacing. "What are
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All I could do was stare at him for a moment or two as I considered this. Louis didn't seem like such a bad man and neither did Craig, but I knew their stories. I didn't know Chandlers, but my gut told me he was telling me the truth. In a split second, I listened to my gut and trust him despite all the evidence to the contrary. "Okay," was all I said. Chandler blinked several times then nodded accepting the only piece of approval I could give him. "All right," Craig blurted almost making us all jump. "Let's get this happy little show on the road." I waved him ahead of us since he seemed to know the way. He led us down the right hallway until we came to a group situated around a big metal door. A few of them I recognized, but most of them I couldn't even remember their names. Yet, they all seemed to know me well. "Vicki! What are you doing up?" one asked. "You really should be in bed," another said. I would have been warmed by their concern if my attention wasn't focused on
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The sunlight shined through the gossamer curtains and hit my face. I awoke gently, blinking several times as my eyes tried to adjust to the light. As the window became clearer and clearer, I couldn't place it. I sat up trying to remember where I was. "Vicki?" said a deep voice from behind me. I turned and behind me were the sleep hazed eyes of my husband. Everything hit me at once and I began to shake. He wrapped me in his arms as he had done every morning since our return. We got back to that tiny shore side town to find Craig, Erin and Marcus had been waiting for us at the edge of the pier. They had greeted us like heroes, and I hadn't been able to stop holding Marcus or checking him over to make sure he was okay. Other than the rope burns he seemed physically okay. There was a haunting look in his eyes, but he refused to talk about what had happened while he had been an Eater. I had been forced to let it go after a while, but not before I made him promise to talk to me when
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I laid the ruby on the ground and brought the solid rock down on it as hard as I could. The ruby shattered instantly and the shockwave from the power being released hurled me back to the ground again. A bolt of light shot to the sky and little lights sped out of it so fast that it looked like one light if you weren't as close to it as I was. Souls. I thought. Souls were being freed. They streamed at light speed towards the sky and as soon as they touched the storm they shot off in all directions. So many souls that the sky began to light up like it was noon instead of almost midnight. The roar of the souls leaving their prison was so loud you could hear it for miles. A loud scream from the circle snapped me out of the hypnotic state that the light show had put me in. She was beating against the field still, but this time it wasn't it anger it was in fear. "Let me out! Let me out! She's gonna kill me! Help! Help!" she screamed frantically. I jumped up to go help her, but Jenevive
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Avamarie gradually stood up and wiped the blood off her mouth as she chuckled weakly. "You're right, Mother. You did teach me to duel, and I never did defeat you," she said softly. I watched her closely my gut telling me she was up to something. My gaze flew between the two women trying to figure out what was happening. Avamarie couldn't be giving up that easily. Jenevive was indeed enormously powerful, but it was becoming obvious that Avamarie was truly quite powerful in her own right. Movement behind Jenevive caught my eye. A large boulder that had come out of the ground began to quiver then slowly float up. I glanced over at Avamarie trying to see how she was doing it. One finger was lifting, but the hand was pressed so tightly to her side that from where Jenevive stood she wouldn't be able to see. "Look out!" I screamed. Jenevive spun around just in time to be plowed over by this boulder. She flew across the clearing until she landed brutally on the ground, bouncing once
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"You had everything inside you to make it here. And look you did," she finished with glee.Her reasoning's were horrifyingly simple, terrifyingly easy. She used me plain and true, and I had made it so easy for her to manipulate me."If you hadn't meant for me to save the world, then why did you give me this stone that would save me and keep me safe?" I asked angrily throwing the shards from the stone at her feet.She bent over slowly and picked them up petting them tenderly as if they were the sweetest flower, she had ever seen. She looked down at them with a strange curiosity that held a tinge of regret in her eyes."I gave it to you so that you could bring it back here. I knew Mother would never give me this stone and it was the last piece I needed to complete the spell. A pure soul for sacrifice," she said softly. Then fury boiled up as she turned it on me. "But you! You, selfish bitch! You couldn't help yourself. You had to use it on every bleeding soul that you came across, didn'
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In anger and disbelief, I confronted her. "NO! You're lying! It is you! You killed your own daughter! You sacrificed her to seal your pact with the Daemon!" I yelled at her. She dropped her head and I nodded at the acknowledgement of her guilt. "You're right. I killed my own daughter," she admitted despondently. I straighten my shoulders feeling justified in my anger. She was trying to mess with me to keep me from my goals. Well, she would have to try harder than that. By the end of the night, I was going to have my children back. "But not for the reason you think," she interrupted my thoughts. "And you have no reason to trust me, but I sacrificed her in hopes that I could save her before she finalized the pact with the Daemon. What I didn't know was that in doing so I, myself finished it. Because I took the last piece of good that was in her and sealed it in a stone known as the Black Star Sapphire." She pulled a necklace from under her dress and showed me a stone that was
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The dusk was approaching harsh and rapidly when I dropped in front of a tree wasted. Panting, thirsty and starving. I was lost and had long ago ran out of will power to keep going. My body itself was refusing to keep walking. I had been coaching the exhausted lump of skin for the last few hours just trying to keep going and now my feet finally gave out on me leaving me sitting against the tree. The little nudge inside of me had grown into a constant tightness of the gut. I knew I was getting close and didn't want to give up. Looking around I tried to spot something anything that looked familiar to me. I pulled up the image that Avamarie had given me in my dream trying to find a clue. The cabin was desolate and run down. The area looked like a million other areas that were in the forest. The only thing that stood out was a few odd wooden wind chimes.Wait… wind chimes. Immediately I closed my eyes and tried to slow my breath so that my pounding heart didn't override every other soun
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We waited until we were far away from the shore before beginning to bombard Gerard with questions. "How did you find us?" Was mine. "Why did you come back?" Benny asked viciously. Gerard raised an eyebrow at him. "You're welcome," he replied sarcastically. "Something told me that you guys needed me. So, I found the nearest non-crushed rig and following the carnage. You guys left a lot of banged up rigs behind." He gave a short chuckle as if he could see the image of the wreckage in his head. "Where is everyone else?" he asked changing the subject abruptly. Benjamin and I looked at each other hoping the other would tell the story not wanting to verbally rehash it. I couldn't think of Marcus laying tied to that bed thrashing around reaching for someone to try an ease the hunger inside of him. Just the thought of not wanting to think of it brought the image to mind and my breath left my body in a whoosh as if I had been struck in the gut. "I left him," I whispered heartbrokenl
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The Eaters let out a scream rocking the walls then went straight for Craig and me. I tucked my head down around Marcus' shoulder waiting for the hands to grab me. Two loud thuds then nothing. My ears were ringing making it hard to hear anything more than the pounding of my heart over them. An eerie silence reached me when my ears finally opened again. Glancing over my shoulder into the room I found Benny standing there staring at us with a smoking gun in his hand. Erin stood next to him gripping his arm tightly and horror darkened both of their gazes. Marcus was making clicking noises in my ear and then I heard a response in my other ear. Panic consumed me as I struggled to get free realizing that Craig had been turned as well. Something slammed into the front door before any of us could make a move to free me. It slammed over and over again until we could all hear the wood on the door splintering. "Get him off her," Benjamin order Erin before booking it out of the room. Erin
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"Let me take Marcus," Craig offered. I gave him a grateful look and traded him. Johnny jumped on me wrapping his little arms around my neck with a strangled grip and I felt the wet rain of his tears. My own silent answer fell from my face as I walked behind Craig watching him carry my screeching Soul Eater son in his arms. I felt like a failure, worse than I had when I thought I had lost the world to this epidemic. I had failed to keep my son's safe and now one had been turned. Benjamin opened the door as he saw us approaching. "Oh shit," he whispered. Erin popped out the door with a smile of greeting until she saw Marcus. "Oh, God! No!" she cried racing towards us. "Stop!" Benjamin demanded grabbing her to keep her away from us. She spun in his arms and hid her face against his chest sobbing. Craig pushed passed them and took Marcus to a little room in the back of the house. "What happened?" Benny demanded. I had to swallow several times before I could speak and even
