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🎂Double update for my son's birthday. Tobias Damien Young turns three today.🎂

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Acacia/Ciarán - Age 16

Meliorist Sanctum

"No, I'm not part of the chess club," Mercury eyes me, though I keep my heart steady as he slowly releases my hand. He pauses a moment while Etain regards him and states, "Though I'm happy to be the one Acacia is dating."

Etain narrows her eyes and replies, "Funny. Acacia didn't mention she was dating anyone."

Mercury releases a sigh and pulls an attitude while questioning, "I'm sorry, but since when does she need to be treated like a child with a babysitter constantly hanging around?"

Etain remains silent while she continues to look first at me and then to Mercury. She's thorough...with what happened to me, Dante wanted to make sure I'd be kept safe and have someone to talk to...I never imagined she'd be this persistent. When her eyes trail back to me, I see Mercury take a step forward and outstretch his hand before grasping her shoulder.

"Look, she's got me to-"

A yell leaves his lips as Etain moves faster than Mercury anticipates...she snatches his wrist in her hand, grabbing his elbow with the other as she quickly strikes upward. I can hear the bone snap, my eyes widening as his yell becomes much more painful when she suddenly throws him over her shoulder, pinning him to the ground. His cheek is pressed hard against the pathway, Etain's knee pressing into his back while she holds his broken arm behind his shoulders.

Mercury is breathing hard, and when he moves, she tightens her grip, and he's left groaning in the agony that courses through his body.

What I don't expect...

...I feel his pain.

It's not as to the extreme he's in, but it hurts my heart when it shouldn't.

Etain clears her throat and informs him, "I do not know you. I do not trust you. Once you've given me a reason to trust you undoubtedly, you'll do well to stay away from Acacia Arin-"

"-Valentine," he corrects her, and in another moment, he's attempting to struggle out of her hold. Etain grabs his other arm when he moves to try and push off the ground, his voice almost nonexistent when she begins to hike it up behind his shoulder blades.

"Valentine...that surname was dead to me the moment Arthur's pitiful excuse for existence was ended..." her voice trails off before her gaze catches mine briefly and states, "...the Hybrid Queen would have done more honor to the woman who raised her by retaining the surname that contains honor...Wood."

"Bitch-"

"Yes, that's exactly what I am," a smirk crosses Etain's features as she playfully toys with him at this point, snapping his other arm while his cries carry out into the late night sky. It awakens a lot of my peers, some coming out of the dorm buildings to see what the ruckus is...

...Cypher and Niamh are among those.

Etain warns him, "It would be wise if you not to cross me, little vampire...because the vampires strong enough to take down an alpha, are those who have drunk the blood of their once so called enemies," her voice lowers and becomes very dangerous as I see the familiar glint reflect off her irises, her lips closer to his ear as she muses, "no matter how strong you think you are, you'll never outmatch one of us," she spits on his cheek before she releases the hold she has on him.

Etain's...

...she's an alpha?

She's a woman...

...how?

Etain rises to her feet, taking a step away before she glances around and calls, "Whoever he belongs to, you might want to clean up the trash before I do it myself."

I watch the way the Cypher and Niamh scurry forward to help the very injured Mercury, but I hardly get another glance because Etain approaches me and nods in the direction of my dorm building. When I glance toward it, I see a few standing on the top steps along with Sinéad and Fae sitting on her shoulder.

There is a very hateful look that crosses Mercury's features that I catch before Etain clears her throat and nods for me to take my leave. I don't waste another second, stepping quickly away from the situation before climbing the steps to the top. I'm quick to duck inside with the rest of the girls, the door closing behind us and a wave of relief passing over me.

The further I am away from Mercury, the less I feel for him on many different levels.

Sinéad exclaims, "Wow! She's a badass bitch!"

Some of the human girls are cheering while they begin to gossip about the public display of embarrassment toward Mercury that everyone will be talking about for a long while.

Fae nods as she giggles on Sinéad's shoulder, "Finally someone knocked that vampire down a few pegs...I'm giddy as a new spring faerie!"

Though I don't quite understand her analogy, I assume she's over the moon about what happened. I can't help the smile that remains on my lips, a nice victory that isn't necessarily mine directly, though it feels like it.

The next few days were brighter to me because I didn't come in contact with those who continue to torment me. The cellphone remained quiet, and a weight seemed to lift slightly from my shoulders.

Dante arrived today, knowing I'll be leaving soon for the winter solstice council meeting over the winter break. I'm really sad Etain isn't coming because Dante wants her to remain at Meliorist Sanctum as she's creating a positive image for many of the parents. There are those who don't leave for winter break, so she'll be keeping an eye on them and making sure everything remains up to standards. It's funny how life throws us curveballs, and I know it was never her intention to stay long, but I'm glad she is for the meantime until she has to leave...

I'm getting ready to lock up the chess club room for the break when I hear someone knock on the closed door. Furrowing my brows, I cross the room and open the door to see Rian standing there.

I tilt my head to the side and tell him, "I'm just about to leave-"

"Can we talk for a moment?" There's an uneasiness in his tone, and after a few moments of silence between us, I nod and step back into the room. He steps inside, and I shut the door behind him, Rian turning to face me after a few seconds.

I ask him with curiosity, "What did you want to talk about?"

Rian appears to be slightly nervous, though his approach is stronger when he asks, "I didn't know we were supposed to meet for coffee," he pauses a moment and I'm in complete confusion, until he says, "or meeting at the cafeteria, or going for a walk in the grove, or the many other things I've heard from Sinéad...and Fae."

My heart skips a beat and begins to pick up when I swallow hard and tell him, "I...uhh..." I can't even think of what to say to him.

I don't need to though, because Rian tilts his head to the side and replies, "If I'm going to be used as an excuse, you might want to make sure we're both on the same page about your little white lies."

"I...Rian, I'm sorry," I glance away from him for a moment, my heart continuing to beat unevenly.

Rian shakes his head before I see him awkwardly change his stance, his eyes meeting with mine as he tells me, "Why don't you want to be around me? Yet you lie that you are?"

"You wouldn't understand..." the words leave my lips before I can check them through a filter.

"Is it because of that mark?" He questions and nods at my neck.

I subconsciously already lift my arm and touch the scarred puncture marks with my fingertips.

"If you're going to use me as your scapegoat, don't you think I at least deserve to know who has claimed my beloved?" His eyes hold a pang of sadness with a slight hint of anger at the way he weaves his own words.

No one told him...

I shake my head and drop my arm back down to my side before tears gather in my eyes, and I state, "I'm not your beloved, Rian...I'm the mate of the werewolf Taron Regan...I'm in no way a vampire's beloved!"

"So whoever did this choice marked you...is that it?!" His voice holds a desperate tone...one that I can see he's wavering on the line with as his voice cracks.

"I don't know!" I'm crying now, tears slowly trickling down my cheeks as I fire back, "I feel a warmth whenever you or Mercury touch me! Whenever you or Mercury bites me...though he chooses when he wants it to be painful and when he wants it to be pleasurable," I pause as I'm breathing a little hard, the emotions bubbling up to the surface as Rian's eyes search my own deeply before I finish, "with you...all I feel is warmth...all I feel is..." I shake my head and take a step back away from him when he reaches out to me slowly.

"Acacia-"

I shake my head profusely and cry, "I don't even know! I don't know!"

As my chest heaves up and down, he asks me quietly, "Did...did Mercury? He marked you?"

I don't even have to say yes before I see the anger and hurt rise in his features. I'm shakily trying to breathe evenly as he shakes his head, folding his arms in front of his chest as he takes a defensive stance. He shields himself away from me, and it hurts when he finally says, "You've been lying about seeing me...when you've been willingly seeing him after he marked you?"

"Rian, no-"

He holds up one of his hands, my voice instantly quieting...

He's hurt...I know he's hurting so much, and I wish I could help, but all I've done is continue to screw up everything.

Rian is almost in tears, seeing the way his eyes fill with them as he tries to clear his throat and fights down a sob of his own. He shakes his head and takes a few steps toward the door, my heart beating fast as I don't know if I even have a right to ask him to stay.

I know I don't, I've just caused him pain that I don't understand entirely.

Rian halts when he's a few feet from the door, turning sideways as he tells me, "My dad was right."

"What? I-"

He cuts me off once again as his words cut me and whether it's intentional or not, my heart drops into the pit of my stomach when Rian says, "Arin's really are nothing but schemers and liars."

"Rian-"

He quickly takes hold of the door before flinging it open. The door smashes against the wall before swinging on its hinges as he moves out of sight and down the hallway.

I release a shaky breath before my back leans against the wall, slowly allowing my tears to slide down my cheeks as my back does to the wall. I exhale a quiet sob as I cover my mouth with one hand, another...much harder sob leaving my lips as the tears fall over the back of my knuckles.

Rian...

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