Nephilim (23 page)

Chapter Thirty One

“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There’s always something after happily ever after.” Arthur Phillips

Ada turned around to see the Werewolves and Witches that were lost in the battle. All in all they had come out fairly good.

‘Dad where are you?’ Ada called to Kade.

She sensed his energy and went towards him. She stopped short when she saw Travis held in Kade’s arms. Kade’s face was streaked with tears as he visibly trembled. Ada screamed and ran towards them. Travis’s throat was cut open and bleeding. His skin pale and she could feel that his heart was nearing to a stop. The Vampires stood around watching what was going on. She could sense their concern.

“Oh please Dad; save him” she cried.

“I can’t. If I do heal him, I can’t keep him human Ada; he has lost too much blood” Kade spoke.

Ada didn’t care anymore. She couldn’t lose Travis. He meant too much to her. She shook her head and stroked Travis’s hair. Merza rested her hand on Kade’s shoulder and nodded her head. Kade lifted his head and allowed his teeth to elongate. He brought his arm to his mouth and bit deep into it. When the blood began to drip he leaned forward and touched it to Travis’s lips. The blood looked so red against Travis’s pale lips. Kade leant forward and put his tongue on the bleeding wound that was slashed against Travis’s neck. Ada couldn’t take her eyes off the blood that dripped into Travis’s mouth. She willed for him to take of the blood.

‘Please come back to me Travis’ she spoke into his energy.

Suddenly she heard Travis take a deep intake of breath as his eyes flickered. He opened his mouth and clamped his lips over Kade’s arm.  Kade sucked in a breath over his teeth. Travis opened his eyes, blue opaque eyes as he threw his head off Kade’s arm. He licked the dripped blood off his lips, before he turned his eyes to Ada. He smiled a sly smile, his teeth still elongated sparkled in the dark. Ada smiled and let out a cry of delight as she wrapped her arms around Travis’s neck.

“Oh Travis” she cried as tears fell from her eyes.

Kade lowered him to the ground and Travis pulled Ada in tight against his chest and soothed her.

“What happened?” she asked.

Travis ran his hand through his hair and leant back against the tree that he was sitting under.

“Dane” he said shaking his head.

Ada shook her head and frowned, glancing between Travis and Kade.

“Dane materialised in front of us while we had Travis in our arms and tore at his throat with a dagger” Ermanno, a Vampire, spoke as he stepped towards Travis. “That’s why we attacked Dane”

Ada looked up at Ermanno and nodded giving him a weak smile.

“Well I guess you got your wish” Ada said looking over at Travis who sat with his eyes closed and a slight smirk on his face.

Travis snorted a laugh and shrugged as he stood and quickly scooped her into his arms.

“I guess I did. But there is something nobody told me about becoming a Vampire” Travis said.

Ada frowned and looked at him.

“What?” Ada said confused.

“It makes you horny as hell” he said with a laugh before turning and moving at Vampire speed back towards the coven.

Ada could hear the roar of laughter fill her ears behind her from the other Vampires as the blur of their energies moving at speed followed closed behind Travis.

Travis and the group of Vampires stopped short as they reached the stone building. It was charred and burnt from the fire that Abaddon had set. There were bodies of Paranaturals that lay scattered about the grounds, victims of the fire. Victims Ada hadn’t counted on. She felt the air suck out of her lungs as if someone sucker punched her.

“Oh Travis. So much death and devastation” she cried.

Travis gently put Ada back onto the ground. She stepped forward to walk past each body. As she walked past them, Ada waved her hand over each Paranatural, sending a chant of peace across them. As Ada passed each person, the bodies glowed gold and turned to ash and floated into the night’s sky. Ada felt the tears begin to drip down her face. Her heart felt so heavy. So many of the people she loved; gone. She couldn’t save them.

‘No one could save them’ Travis spoke into her mind.

Ada turned to him. He stepped into her and pulled her into his arms. She felt the tears give way to sobs. This was so needless she kept thinking. She kept thinking maybe if she had done things differently, if she hadn’t been with Dane, if she had of protected Travis from the beginning, her brain wouldn’t switch off.

“You couldn’t have changed anything, it was fate” Travis said in a soothing voice as he stroked her back and kissed her hair.

Ada sighed and pulled away from him to continue to survey the damage. Ada stepped through the back door of the coven. The walls were blackened most of the furniture was nothing but ash and soot. With every step she took, Ada felt power release from her body as the house began to heal itself. The walls rebuilt, the crackled paint righted itself, furniture materialised, her magic followed as she moved. Ada went through the rooms, her heart breaking with every lost piece of memorabilia she discovered. She reached the library and could hear the sobs before she went through the door. Morrigan sat in the middle of the room, clasping a book to her chest; tears fell from her eyes and dripped down her cheeks. Morrigan looked up at Ada.

“I couldn’t fix it. My magic wasn’t strong enough” Morrigan cried.

Ada nodded and stepped forward sitting on the floor beside Morrigan. She pulled the book from her Aunt’s lap and pulled her into an embrace. The two women sat on the floor their tears mingling together and their sobs ringing through the coven. Ada heard footsteps and felt her Mother’s touch on her shoulder. Both women looked up at Merza as they stood and wrapped her into their embrace.

“Don’t you ever do that to me again” Morrigan cried to Merza.

Merza soothed Morrigan’s hair.

“I had to Mor. He would never have been stopped if I didn’t” Merza replied.

Ada frowned and shook her head.

“What do you mean?” Ada asked.

Merza sighed and patted the seats in the library, the three Witches sat down and Merza explained what had happened to her. She was working under cover with the Aje authority, Merza explained that she knew that there was someone crooked in the Authority. She hadn’t worked out it was Dane until much later.

“I never even suspected Frankie, but when I did it was too late, Abaddon already had me. Frankie led me straight into his arms. I felt so stupid in being tricked; but Frankie. I trusted him like a brother” Merza said shaking her head sadly.

Merza explained that she hadn’t planned for Abaddon to put her into a trance; she hadn’t even planned on being caught by him.

“I don’t know if Frankie had something to do with it, but I was sure that when Abaddon had me, he would kill me. But I overheard Frankie saying that if I died you would get my powers. I don’t understand though” she said with a shake of her head “Frankie knew that even if I was in a trance you would be able to get my powers”.

Ada frowned and shook her head.

“I hurt so much thinking about Frankie” Ada said.

Merza nodded her head and gently rubbed Ada’s back.

“I never saw it” Merza said with sigh. “That’s what hurts the most” she said.

“Something though has got me confused. If I couldn’t kill Dane in the vision, how was I able to get the amulet back?” Ada asked.

“You lost the amulet?” Merza asked her eyes widened with concern.

Ada dropped her eyes to the floor and nodded. Morrigan reached out and patted Ada’s leg.

“It’s ok we got it back” Morrigan said. “As for how you got it back, the amulet is an incredibly powerful magical property and it doesn’t matter if you are in the psychic realm or in reality the amulet would find you”

Ada nodded her head and rubbed her eyes, exhaustion was starting to sink in.

“It didn’t occur to me that you wouldn’t have been able to really kill Dane though. The psychic realm is a strong place to be. You should have been able to kill him, his death should have been real” Morrigan said with a crease on her brow.

The three women sat back in the chairs quietly. There was so much left to ponder, but Ada felt like she didn’t have time yet to take it in. Ada realised how exhausted Merza looked as she stood clapping her hands on her thighs.

“Well come on you two. This place isn’t going to clean itself up” Merza spoke, reaching her hands out to Morrigan and Ada.

They both took her hands and together with the remaining coven went from room to room using their magic to rebuild and clean the coven. After the sun had risen, Kade and Travis were long gone to Kade’s home to avoid the sunlight; they had finally put the last touches on the coven. Morrigan turned and looked around the room.

“It looks better than before, maybe Abaddon did us a favour burning this down” Morrigan said with a weak laugh.

“Maybe” Merza said with a smile. “Well I think I could sleep for a week. I’m going to go home and crawl into bed with my husband”

Ada agreed and headed for the door with her Mother. As they opened the door they saw Karla standing there ready to knock.

“Merza. Oh God it’s so good to see you” Karla cried embracing Merza.

“It’s good to see you to Karla” Merza replied hugging her back.

“Is everything alright?” Ada asked with a frown.

Karla nodded.

“I’ve been through the causalities from last night; there were one hundred and fifty in all.” She said her face dropping.

Ada nodded and felt her heart grow heavy again. That was so many wasted lives for violence. Merza entwined her fingers with Ada’s.

“They knew what they were getting into” Merza said.

Ada smiled weakly and nodded her head.  It still didn’t make it right she thought.

“Anyway, I just came to give you an update on the casualties. I’m going to go home and get some rest.” Karla said turning away. “Oh and Ada, you won’t be able to go home just yet, your house was pretty much destroyed”

Ada nodded; she hadn’t wanted to return to her home. It felt horrible to go there.

“Thanks Karla. It’s alright” she said forcing a smile to her face as Karla left.

Chapter Thirty Two

“You can be the moon but still be jealous of the stars” William Penn

Ada felt exhausted by the time she pulled into her childhood home and was excited to see Travis curled up in her bed asleep. She crept to his side and felt herself drift into sleep. Her dreams tormented her. Ada stood in the woods, she was naked and Dane stood behind her. He touched her body gently, running his hands down over her breasts down to her mound, twisting his fingers through her pubic hair. He kissed her on the neck and she groaned leaning against his bare chest. He reached up and caressed her tummy, which when she looked down was round and protruding. Ada frowned and shook her head. She turned to look at Dane who smiled a wicked grin at her.

“Did you really think that was the end of it?” he said with a raised eyebrow.

Ada pushed him away, shaking her head. She turned and ran towards the coven, but the woods seemed to be able to reach out and grasp her, tangling with her hair, snagging at her skin. Every time she felt she got close to the coven it seemed to be further away again. Ada heard a screech behind her and she flicked her head over her shoulder just in time to see Dane with large black wings bearing down on her.

She sat up in bed with a scream. Sweat dribbled down her spine and her hair was damp and stuck to her head. Travis sat up beside her and touched her gently.

“What was it?” he asked with a frown.

“A dream; I think” she replied rubbing her belly, which was still flat.

“Want to talk about it?” He asked rubbing her back and kissing her shoulder.

“It was Dane. We were in the woods. I was pregnant. Carrying his child” she said frowning at the memory of the quickly fading dream.

Travis frowned and turned away from Ada.

“Could you be pregnant Ada?” he asked.

Ada shook her head. She didn’t want to think about it.

“I don’t think so” she said hiccupping back a sob.

“How will you know for sure?” Travis asked standing from the bed.

Ada could feel his anger beginning to increase. She knew that he felt jealous about her time with Dane, albeit short. She tried to send her feelers out to soothe his pain, but he instantly blocked her. The rejection sent a pain through her spirit.

“I will go to Morrigan, she will know” Ada said wearily.