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Chapter 4 - “Waiting for…”

"We've been here for decades, yet you still have that

pungent smell about the words you spew at times."

The shift in hall that's filled with fallen leaves, as

all windows are opened and curtains softly wave in

breeze. Outside had changed from dreary evil town

of void, dread, ashed snow and beastly horror that

freezes blood in veins.

"You still seem pretty amazing at giving a helping

hand." – The man walks to grand piano, that's

covered in layer of dust. – "Don't you wish to see

how it starts over? Those memories do last… And

she's been there, just forgetfully dilly-dallying streets

of other places that's filled with more distaste in

human traces."

He picks up lid, as dust is flying around.

"You think she'll be back? To us?" – Long white

hair fall down the shoulders and back, the robe he's

wearing is with long sleeves. This robe changed

colour to one that's more red, although it was black

many years, instead. The pattern of yellow is mixed

in there. This robe's touching floor, as he sits in

there.

"She was, is and will be part of this realm. This

is her shadow, her gardened self. Like us," – dark

hair strand is removed from the face, he touches the

piano keys with right hand, – " there is them, that

keep roaming outside. From garden, to magic, to

those who reside in rooms filled with dust, faded

rust and old memories. We're here to wait for her, as

she waits for us too. I mean, I'd still like to kiss her

face, run my fingers through the disgrace she keeps

under clothes and calls body. I want her to moan

my name, be her 'somebody'. Then tie that girl up,

shove a knife in her side and watch her lights in eyes

go off, as she'll smile and understandingly say the lie

of 'I too, love you'. As she might."

"Not in a thousand years she'll agree to such treatment from you." – White hair falls down from

shoulder, the man gets up to wander the room that

was left hastily behind.

"And you think she'll greet you? With love and

joy, so that you'd enjoy pleasing her to death in a

grip of possessive self? You'd be pulling her out

like a book from the shelf you cannot live without.

Rereading each chapter until mind is so drunk you

cannot feel how betrayal was brought and you made

her so sweetly suffer. Oh really, dear brother? You

think you are better than me?"

The gaze of gray eyes under white haired disguise

stared at smirk and a gist from the person whose

wrist was threaded in red, as his own…

"There is no way in void you'd ever have her."

"Are you sure? Truly sure she'd look qt us like she

looked at us before?" – Tired smile with regret, as

the keys are met with fingers, yet not played at all.

– " She's older, wiser… And even if she'd look at us

like before… She would not let us play games we

did long ago. Not an inch of the shit we managed

to pull would be now near her graceful soul. I sense

she grew a warrior. I would kneel before her… I'd

kill, to have her… I truly would make all suffer in

pain and regret, just to have her met with my love

and be accepted. Dear brother, you do know what I

mean. Even though we're like so, yet we share her

as sin."

Robe was brushing the floor. Old wooden planks

were softly squeaking as he walked bare feet.

"It's been years. It's truly been years…" – Long

sleeves fall to the elbow, as raised hand traces top of

the head. – "I have waited…"

"You've waited as much as we're here." – A sharp

sigh is let out and the footsteps follow. – "You know

that you were the one to get a hold of her, when she

walked streets that night, as the monsters rampaged

all in sight. Eating souls they'd find on streets, yet

stupid enough not to seek above third floor of houses

that stand in rows. And what? Remember holding

her by hand as you walked narrow path, then up

to the stairs and here to the hallways of residing

despairs that were, what? Six of us? Back in time

that was us up on this goddamn floor, playing hide

and seek, surviving as gore during plague of that

what was not fit and ash rain and ash snow as the

seasons changed. It was a horrid, cold world… We

lived in."

Grey eyes looked right at the hall, the windows that

were opened to the outside world. His brother stood

beside him. White hair shook, as head shook, with a

memory long forgotten.

"Elyon played piano…" – He spoke.

"Which is partially rotten…" – Brother cut.

"There was the Kai and Eliot, and that…."

"That shadow brat, which would disappear, after

forging a pact. With that hell knows what. Adrian

seems to still be the asshole. Not that I'd say he is

shit…"

"But he was there when all was in blood and

no lights were lit. He proved that we could be

surviving."

"Yeah, through magic old and shitty binding."

"That was at least something he did. You plainly

hid."

"I sure did. It was absolutely horrid out there."

"And I scouted the streets of that nightmare…"

"You did well at that, yes, but let's come back to

that night when that guest arrived."

"She was scared."

"That she was."

"She was lost."

"That is true."

"And she somehow showed love for us…"

"Like we did too…"

"And she cried."

"That I remember clearly."

Both had made silence fall around clearly.

"She was first human in lands of evil." – Black hair

were rustled in breeze.

"She was first one that possessed that evil." – Grey

eyes met with green of his brothers.

"She brought our demise… Yet with graceful

change in life." – Emerald green eyes looked far

beyond the horizon line. – "She gave us hope."

"I loved her teary eyes, the way she'd cling to me

in a hug, clutching hands gripping me tight. When

she feared I might die." – Grey in the eyes and smile

had softly graced lips.

"I'd love to have her with her tight grip around me

again as well. Or how she slept close to me, and how

that warmth seethed through me, filling soul with

something maddening. I don't regret that hardening

and madness that did fall through cracks, as I bit her

back, kissed her lips and tore side of her wrist…"

– Smirk and tongue that traced lips. – "I loved the

taste of her lips."

"I miss her in all those ways too. It's a fucking

insanity to share blood with you." – Turned around

and went back to his seat on a sofa, his white hair

almost hitting brother.

"Well, let's just face it, dear brother." – Black shirt,

black trousers and shoes… Green eyes with lit fuse. –

"I remember what we both did. Not just me. So you

better wake up and see that we both greatly screwed

up with what we had. And I do wish that she comes

back."

"You mean me?" – Her dark hair, her smile and

devilish glare, the dress long and heavy. – "You sure

had grown, baby."

Her remarks hit hard on the both. They stare in

surprise at her.

"Oh, dear sweety, don't be like that. If I remember

correctly you spoke of me before um… I walked in

on your drama." – She giggles a bit. – "Oh don't be

sorry. I know how you worried, eating each others

mind apart."

He walks over, taking two steps and hugs her tight,

misbelieving that it truly could be… The smell of

heat from the skin, the warmth from within, the

same strength in embrace.

"I'm…" – His green eyes haze.

She hugs him and pats him on back.

"I know." – She said that…

The robe shifts on floor as we walks, then he hugs

her from another side, sandwiching girl in between

these guys. She snuggles against their cheeks.

"I've missed you too, you devilish geeks." – Her

softness and fondness in way she speaks… She's

back to where they could hardly please time in the

lengthy waiting for her. But this – this they could

not account for.

"I love you too. So don't smother me. We still have

that elder tea? How about some, m?" – She pecks

each cheek surrounding her.

Then body they hold begins falling apart. The

damn clay made thing of the goblins attack…

"This joke will not be tolerated at all…" – The rage

in those eyes was accounted for.

"Trust me, that was last straw for either of us. No

longer the tricksters will play with us." – Grey eyes

lit with fire to kill. Murder time will prevail, it will.

Once blood soaked two brothers came back to the

house. They've stumbled across the same lass. She's

there, sitting on the chair, right next to the old grand

piano.

They stood in a doorway, with weapons in hand,

ready to strike for all it's meant.

The music begins and two fall into stupor. The

melody played is as suitor. Same melody played only

when she was here and no longer ever did this piano

make a sound to share.

"Oh my." – She looks up, as she seeks blood soaked

figures. Then smile and a laugh escapes from this

figure. – "Good lord you two," – She says through

her laughing, – "no changes to view, you still strike

the dead for nothing."

She laughs. She gets up and walks over to both.

Her hands coming up, her palms cupping cheeks of

both.

"You really need shower." – She looks them in the

eyes. – "This blood soaked horror does not suit your

eyes."

"Is this joke?" – Grey eyes look with no speck of

hope.

"I'm not really sure." – Green eyes try to focus on

what's in front him, with more…

"You do know that there's water back now, right?"

– She looks back, smirk, sparky eyes. – "I better

hear your excuses after you look like selves, without

bloody attire to wear above all. I mean, you do like

the dirty play and all, but I rather give hug to a

cleaner you. My dear Ary," – She eyes grey eyed

gent, – " my dear Erick."

She looks at them like a mother that scolds kids.

"Well go on, you merciless twats! I ain't got the

time for bloodied brats!"

They look at each other, seethe weapons and go, to

shower as they know – she's her. Like before. Same

as always, yet definitely something more.