The Truth Lies Beneath Your Eyes (8 page)

“I built up immunity to the anesthetic you
used, my name’s Amethyst and what’s it to you?”

“My, my aren’t we a feisty little one,” The
man said. He walked closer to her and she saw a familiarity in
him…which scared her.

“I’m only asking one more time, why are
here,” she said impatiently and then felt Christophe reach toward
her.

“Simple, your little buddy over there. We
want him and you. It will be you job to recruit other demon
children.” She stared at him for a moment, “no.” And then he made a
gesture with his hands and some men came in and attempted to grab
her. She didn’t know how of why but it seemed like all she
remembers doing is flinching and the men were bloody heaps on the
floor.

“What the fuck?” she didn’t know that she had
even moved before a small girl walked in and said,

“You are his child.”

“Uh pardon me but who are…you’re the little
girl…the one Alex told me about,” Amethyst started but then she
heard Alias and Alex wake up,

“Kristen….” Alex said sleepily. The pretty
girl almost seemed to float over toward him with her curly blonde
hair that was held out her eyes with a flower hair clip.

“Alexander!!!!!” The little girl yelled and
hugged him.

“You don’t hate me?” he asked.

“You were ‘pose to come an’ play yesterday?
Remember?” she asked.

“What are you- oh my god” Alex said still
holding the four year old in his arms.

“I meant to tell you, they wiped her memory
of Leah when they took her,” Christophe said.

“But how, it’s impossible!?” Alex asked.

“What are you and Christophe talking about
Alexi? Can we play now?” Kristen asked oblivious to the situation
in all her four year old wonder.

“Wait so she doesn’t know that I died saving
Leah?” Alex asked. Kristen ran over to Christophe and ran her hands
over his back and he yelled but then, the marks were gone, not a
scar.

“Drink this, Silver,” she said handing
something that looked like grape juice to Christophe. Amethyst held
it up to him and he drank and then out of nowhere he had had the
strength to break the chains holding him to the wall.

“Can we play now? Daddy taught me how to cure
our kind but he said not to cure you. Why not silver?” Kristen
asked.

“Because your daddy thinks I’m mean, Goldie,”
he answered Christophe.

“Goldie and silver?” Amethyst asked.

“Yeah I saw her hair and called her
goldilocks so she calls me silver,” He answered briskly.

“You should sleep some more,” Christophe
mumbled to Amethyst.

“It’s a thirteen hour flight from new York to
Romania,” he said stretching and leaning carefully against the
wall.

“But if I sleep then they’re going to hurt
you more,” She yawned.

“No more than if we ran now, and it’s much
easier to fight if you’re not falling asleep, he mumbled. “uh huh,”
she mumbled, falling asleep in his hold.

It was snowing, why was it snowing? And
there were red footprints in the snow.
You
should run.
But I stayed still watching the story unfold. I
could hear screaming, horrible loud screaming and cries of
terror.
This is not what you wish to see.
But I followed the bloody foot prints as if they were my own,
like I knew where the footprints and screams would take me to.
Do you wish to regret?
The voices in my head
got louder and louder and they were familiar but not my own.It was
some kind of crazy psychotic, evil impulse telling me to keep
moving forward, keep following, It was snowing in the forest a
seemingly familiar place with bloodied foot prints and for some
reason everything had a hint of glamour or sparkle, the snow
glittered because of the slight sun muddled by clouds But it looked
to surreal, like I was in a watercolor painting or a movie scene,
why?.
Insolent child, haven’t you ever been
reminded to
listen
to your
conscience?
Through the trees was a fire and almost burnt
beyond recognition was three, three boys?
Alexander, Alias, Christophe.
I was horrified but I
studied the scene.
Look!!! It’s you!!!
But for some reason I saw myself watching them burn and
laughing, laughing with that man who interrogated me earlier, The
one who I thought wanted us all dead.
Nope, not
you.
I could hear them talking about my dead friends. “you
know you’re above them, right?” and “you know you should’ve killed
them sooner” and “you know they were useless anyway, don’t you?”
And all I did was laugh and agree.
You should
wake up now.
And then the man who interrogated me smiled and
said “Daddy’s little girl” And then I couldn’t hear myself
scream.

Chapter 14

One Bright Day in the Middle Of the Night

It’s February 9
^th
and-
Alias’s thought was interrupted by a
scream from Amethyst who looked like she was sleeping. He saw
Christophe shaking her.

“Wake up, come on, it was just a dream,” he
was spying as Alias watched her stir from whatever nightmare she
must’ve been having.

“Horror movie screech much? What happened?”
Alias asked. She looked around, confused about where she was and
unsure of what to say.

“Are you okay? Do you need something?”
Christophe asked.

“To get out of here as soon as possible,” she
said in a voice just above a whisper.

“What did you dream about?” Alex asked in
unison with Kristen.

“She can’t be right, it’s not possible,”
Amethyst said in a mumble.

“What are you talking about?” all three boys
asked, but the little girl just smiled and laughed.

“I am so right, that makes me your little
sister or something,” she said laughing.

“Oh yeah, prove it then!” Amethyst replied
angrily.
What are these two talking about?
Alias thought.
She’s arguing with a little girl about a nightmare, are you
serious?

“Look, only blood relatives can open the
door,” Kristen said gesturing toward the door that she had entered
through.
The guy changed Kristen’s blood?
Alias thought, not
wanting to think too hard about it. “Okay so all you have to do is
touch the scanner thing and the door will open,” Kristen
continued.

“Alias, can you touch it?” Amethyst asked
shaking.

“Why?” Alias questioned.

“Because if you cant open it and I can, then
that means-” she stopped talking but I understood. I walk over to
the doors. Some kind of enchanted steel and reach left toward the
scanner and touched it,
BZZZZZT!!!!

“Ouch!!!!” I yelped as it sent a shock
through my body. “Screw that!!!” I grumbled. Amethyst inched toward
it and touched it gently and the light on the scanner flashed and
read: Access Granted for, Amethyst Lyell Alexander.

She’s the direct daughter of the bastards
that are out to annihilate all fallen angels as well as my family’s
bloodline, great,
Alias thought. He expected he to be happy to
know who her family is or at least her father, happy to know she
wasn’t going to be killed, he expected a lot but he didn’t expect
what actually happened at all, she broke down crying.

“Don’t cry, superhero,” Alex said, knowing
that the inside joke always made her smile but this time it just
made her crying even more. Christophe came over and held her
tightly.

“It’s no big deal, who he is, and this means
that it will be easier to escape,” Christophe said.

“But he wants me to kill you!!!” she
sobbed.

“What are you talking about? Why would he
want you to do that? It was just a dream!” Alex said from across
the room.

“You kidnapped his daughter from her
caretaker, took her to Romania and enlightened her about being a
half demon, taught her how to fight the caliber and on top of all
of that, he wanted you three dead anyways,” Kristen said
laughing.

“But I don’t want
all
of you dead…I
like you Amethyst and I like Alex and Silver,” She said jumping up
and down.

“Bu-what did I do?” Alias asked.

“I can read your mind, you know too much,
that’s why you don’t talk, you think about what’s happening and you
thinking is going to ruin daddy’s plan, besides all you boys are
here cause you did something wrong, remember?
I can’t even
remember clearly what I did wrong to begin with…did my brothers
even have something to do with it?
Alias thought hard.
What
did I do wrong anyways…I keep being put here on earth for some
reason…but what is it? If I remembered what I did the first time I
was fifteen…I would just fix it and age and then die I guess…what
did I do?

“I can show you what you did wrong if you
like, just go to sleep,” Kristen said and the he slowly drifted off
to sleep against his will.

“But why would you even do that?” He
whispered right before his eyes shut and he fell asleep.

“
Come on monkey boy, just hop the gate and
pop open the latch,” The older boys called out to me.

“
But what if I get caught? Or what if they
have some kind of alarm system here? I asked. Now they were all
yelling rude things at me and I didn’t feel like speaking in
English anymore, but I did.

“
Fine, fine,” I said while I pulled myself
up over the gate feeling my baggy black jeans start to get caught I
twist and jumps over.

“
See, little man? That wasn’t so hard.”
Nathan, the oldest boy yelled from the other side of the
gate.

“
So why didn’t you climb your ass over
here and open it yourself? I asked as I pushed up the latch and
opened the gate for the others. Nathan shoved him to the
floor,

“
watch who you’re talking to, kid,” he
said. I knew better than to hang out with all 19 year olds. I knew
Christophe said not to get involved with them, but so what?
Christophe didn’t know everything, besides these guys were my
friends anyway.

“
Nate, what are we doing here?” I asked.
They had just broken into some old looking insane asylum and not
that I was scared of ghosts or anything but this seemed really
sketchy.

“
Look here,” Nathan said as he pulled out
a zipper lighter.

“
You dragged me here so I could watch you
get high?” I said in disbelief.

“
Not watch, this is where we take the
first timers,” Nate said while the others nodded.

“
No, see I don’t like being forced into
confusion,” I said.

“
Just for once, man, quit being so serious
and understand us”. I stared at them for a while,

“
okay, I’ll do it.”

Fifteen minutes later and I can’t tell up
from down but I’m laughing, we were all laughing. “Oh man, a
ghost!!!” J.D yelled and we all laughed while he ran. Everything
had color and was so vivid and- a person appeared out of nowhere so
I reached forward and touch him, than he vanished. It was someone I
had never seen before. I was still laughing and then another one
showed up behind Nate and he screamed cause it touched him and
vanished. Then some more of the appeared in front of all of us and
we ran out the building screaming our heads off,

“
AHHHH! There’s ghost’s out to take our
weed!!!! Run!!!” we screamed. Once were in the doorway Mike looked
at me, J.D, Nate, Lucas and Ben and said,

“
What do we do?!” And after that Nate had
us climb up to where the vines started on the top of the
roof.

“
Little man, you gotta throw the lighter
on the plants and burn up the ghosts.

“
But why me?” I said with a smirk.

“
Cause man, you’re the only one who can
make the jump from the roof to the floor,” and then I just nodded
at all the guys and said I would it. The others poured whatever
gasoline was in their lighters into the roof and the four of them
climbed down. I set off the zipper lighter and jumped off the roof
a second before the whole roof exploded.

“
Way to go little man!!!” They were
yelling in my ears.

“
Ugh,” I groaned. I was starting to come
down off of the high and then J.D yelled.

“
Where’s Ben!!!!” I thought…only four of
them got off the roof…been must’ve fell into the fire when the roof
blew up. I ran inside even though I had probably broken something
jumping down and heard Ben screaming,

“
HELP ME!!!!” So I ran into the fire
trying to get him and then…darkness.

I was jolted awake by the dream,

“Oh shit! That’s how I died!? That’s what I
did?! That’s why I’m here?!” Alias said incredibly fast. “He
awakens,” Christophe said.

“I did that? Wait but why am I here? I died
saving someone!!!!” This makes no sense.

Kristen reappeared. “You know those people
you thought were after your weed? Yeah they were five demons that
you killed on purpose,” She said. “So you killed a human, your
other friends died in a car crash and you killed five Calibers, you
would not be here if you hadn’t opened the latch to get inside the
insane asylum, get it? None of that would have ever happened had
you had just said no and listened to your brother and stayed away
from them to begin with, but because you didn’t…now you’re stuck
here…doesn’t it royally suck?” She said. One thing was dreadfully
clear to him; if Alex was damned here because he killed one of
their kind what was he in for if he had killed five? He knew for
sure he had to get all of them, including Amethyst, the hell out of
here. Or else they might be better off being in hell after all.

Chapter 15

Apply some pressure, the bleeding should
slow

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea,
swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis. But it's
just the price I pay. Destiny is calling me Open up my eager eyes.
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside.
She was singing the song in her
head. She needed something, anything to make her thoughts stop.