Four days had passed and I continued the Location spell on Jake but I still haven't gone anywhere and Maya's case had become hopeless at the moment, I couldn't continue because I only have a handful of that special tree and so it seemed none of her personal belongings I possess will work. I had been thinking and the most personal thing I could get hold of was her body or her heart which I have none and will either had to find Jake sooner or chase Marcos out of hiding.
The more stressed I become the more difficult it seemed to conduct the spell and it was supposed to be the most simplest, in the dome I could navigate to him by those vibrations so I tried to do that again without using the spell.
I got on my feet and let myself flow to him, my thoughts and my soul runs to him──to the last moment I had seen him, the last body contact we've had and his last words to me── "Just you know you are mine now"──suddenly instead of the vibrations I would feel, was replaced by a rib breaking trash in my chest and my body started perspiring and every sense in me heightened to the point that it hurt, then the pull came a gripping call tore through my chest, when I pulled my eyes opened I knew exactly where it was coming from.
I literarily couldn't walk, I darted towards it with the urge to get to it before it was gone it felt too long before I reached but it actually took me just a second before I burst through the doors. I found the body on knees and hand, gurgling and moaning as it whipped his head towards me.
"Cassuis" I breathed
I rushed to him and as soon as I placed my hand over his shoulder I found it was extremely soaked, I pulled him up off his knee before I hit the light switch turning it on and I immediately gasped. His skin was covered in sweat and he was as pale as ever, like he was suffering from poisoning. His heart beat was extremely irregular, and he could barely stand on his two feet; he dropped on the bed hunching forward heaving, his hair dripped beats of sweat to the floor.
"What happened?" I asked as I reached him again just as I was to help him sit up properly by placing a hand at the center of his back and the other on his chest when something pricked me, I recoiled and make a sound when I sucked air through my clenched teeth
"What?" I was shocked when I saw my fingers were covered in blood, I peeked over his back and I saw it was deranged in his blood and there was something big suck in his back. I went on my knees and pulled his head up to look at me, his eyes were hanging when he looked, and that was when I noticed one of his hands that were resting on his knees one was covered in a thick layer of blood.
"What did you do?" I sounded mad but I was rather concerned, as soon as my hand came off his face, he started to slump back sluggishly, "Don't rest on your back, just──"
Quickly I helped him in the sitting position while I sat by him holding his shoulder and putting him against me, it felt weird to worry for him.
"I don't get it, wood stake doesn't affect you" I remembered at Ruby's he didn't just drive it inside of him but into his heart.
"Blessed stake, it's been in me for days. I can't get it out" he panted his voice so faint as though he was whispering to me. He drew short labored breaths, his body shaking against me. My heart skipped a beat and I tense at the thought of him dying locked to my side, it's been days since the stake was buried in his back , it should have killed him instantly because it's blessed but maybe because of my blood in his system; it must have slowed down the effects of it.
"Ok, I will help you get it out" I said mostly to myself keeping a hand on his shoulder I stood to my feet and helped him down into the bed on his side. I climbed in the bed facing his back, using my hand I tore down the middle of his shirt to expose the place, I watched his back rise heavily and dropped, releasing all air from his lungs. The stake was perfectly inside his back almost vanished inside of it and since in the middle of his back there was no way he would be able to pull it out of him.
"Why do you help me?" he asked
"This is going to hurt" I warned before placing a hand on his shoulder blade and without further warning right to the exposed edge of his wounds I positioned my fingers to drive into his back, he recoiled instantly and snapped at me turning quickly to face me with his eyes wide while he caged my wrist in his fist. He was breathing quickly and heavily
"I will be as gentle as I could; you cannot let this stake stay any longer inside of you. You are dying" Not trying to pull my hand out of his grip, I let until he felt comfortable to have it out. He stared at me for a while before unhanding me and rolling on his side again leaving a large stain on the sheets.
"Why are you helping?" he repeated
"Isn't it obvious? I don't want you have an easy death" I said
"Ok, you can hold on to the bed. I will be quick" I added
I jabbed my hand in again making him tense immediately but he didn't lash out instead he groaned painfully as I further push my fingers inside to get a hold at the stake inside it. It wasn't as I quick as I promised him; it took about thirty seconds or so before I could get a good grip on the edge of it and yanked it out to one hard pull, his body relaxed immediately and the wound started to close up. I rolled him on his back and realized Cassuis had passed out, I pulled him to the middle of the bed and brought the covers up to his waist. He wasn't waking up and neither was he regaining his less pale skin, I started to panic again. Although his heart rate was starting to settle down, his whole body was still in sweat and his breathing was quick. The stake must have inflicted some wound on him and he's lost a lot of blood already he needed to feed.I rounded the bed and sat beside him, leaned in and brushed wet sticky hair off his forehead, maybe it was from my recent action but I saw his eyes move under his lids before he gradually opens his eyes.
"It's done" I said tenderly and startlingly glad to see those dark eyes stare at me. He didn't respond and neither was his stare moving from me, a feeling washed inside of me and I realized how close we were that instant. I propped back and took a breath when he said, "I need to feed" his voice dry and feeble very much unlike him.
He started to push off the bed when I pushed him back in by the shoulder; I drew my wrist out to him and held it at his face
"Go on" I said seeing his hesitation to take my blood
"Are you sure you want to feed me your blood?"
"It isn't the first time you took it, unless that time I didn't give you my consent" He stared at me hesitantly──quite unsure of himself, his gaze moved from my face to my wrist that was to his mouth. His cold sweat coated palms touched my arms before he balled it in his wrist and pulled it closer. One last time before he bit through it he looked into my eyes and I gave him a go ahead, his eyes bled over before his fangs extended; the sound it made was like a man stepped on an apple. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the pleasure of my blood wetting his throat, I watched him amusingly as he held on tighter and bite deeper into my flesh in intervals. It wasn't any pain I couldn't bear, it was like a little tickle as he did; it didn't take a while before his lips left my wrist and unhanded me laying back with a heave. I hesitated to take my hand away as his gaze was peered to it, as I did I asked
"Are you…done?" He didn't answer but stared at me or seemed he was staring at something besides my face; he rose up grabbed the back of my head and bite into my neck abruptly and there is the vision again. My head kicked back while he held me against him, one arm around my lower back and the other supported at my shoulder blade. My head suddenly felt compressed like it were pressed between two solid walls and I saw myself standing like a living stone, emotionless and cold before it started to rain blood on me. It was dark around me not able to see a thing beside myself, soon I was soaked in heavy thick blood trailing on my face, I trashed out of his grip and out of nowhere I cracked his neck and he fell in heap to the bed.
I was heaving and my eyes were watering like a waterfall, I looked down and my knees were shivering finally I sunk to the floor not really crying but my body couldn't stop quaking. It didn't take long for him to regain consciousness and the time I reached out and grabbed him two feeders, I knew it was wrong but neither could I stand those vicious vision. He came through and didn't take while to grab and hook his fangs to the neck of the girl standing closest to him, I sat in his love seat and watch horrified as he fed. I wasn't really watching but thinking of the vision I saw of me in that demonic state those trails of blood against my skin and dropping into the ground getting soaked. The empty look in my eyes, there was so much unseen pain and lost embedded inside them and that got me hell of scared.
A heavy thumb got my gaze up again seeing those two girls limp in the ground and he rose to his feet wearingly blood on his bare chest to remind me just how selfish I was that moment
"I didn't mean to──"
"You shouldn't be up, I will get Lucinda to come check up on you" I said quickly and avoided him and indeed I sent Lucinda to him right away and retreated to my room. I sat there in the dark reminiscing in the memory of how much pain I saw on his face, and how far I was willing to go to help him out of it. Indeed something is wrong with me, is this work of the claim?
'I will have to stay away from him'