**********Raymond********
It's been two weeks..two!!! since I had seen my Vixen. Two weeks since I've perceived her scent, two weeks since I heard her voice. I have to admit, I am getting restless. My resolve just like everyone elses' has almost slipped completely and I am really trying to keep it straight and normal but it's so fucking hard.
What pisses me off even more is the fact that what ever clue we pursue turns out to be a dead end and we'd be back to the beginning like we never even searched!!
I have eyes and ears everywhere on this earth, but I haven't heard anything, not even a whisper of who her captor could be. Whoever my useless father hired, is really doing a good job, but at what cost?. How much does he have to pay for such an operation? Would he really go this far to annoy me?
Ferd currently isn't speaking to me because I've refused to let him kill him, and Darius, well, its safe to say he is disappointed.
I can't just let them do it...it just doesn't feel like the right time.
I heard my door open so I looked up to see who it was. It was Elizabeth. I immediately reached down subtly to tap one of the buttons under my desk that alarms everyone to go back to normal. It keeps visitors unsuspecting.
"What's happening, Ray?"
"I'd need more than that to be able to understand you, Lizzy." I said turning to the papers before me. Luckily the words had started registering so pretending to work wasn't so hard.
"Do not test me, Ray. What the fuck is going on?"
"How?" I asked facing her completely, keeping my face void of any emotions and my breathing leveled. She's has an eyes for details no matter how small.
"Bullshit!! Raymond. What's happening ?"
"It's nothing that should bother you, Lizzy. Go home and rest since you've refused treatment." I said dismissively looking down at the papers on my desk.
"You are hiding things from me, Ray. I thought I apologized"
"And you ain't hiding nothing from me?!!" I scolded in frustration. "You wouldn't let the doctor take your blood, you made the guy I had to keep an eye on you tell me lies the whole time." Her sad face was quickly consumed with shock
"Oh, you thought I wouldn't know? I honestly thought we had something, Lizzy. But you keep hiding things from me and you know how much I despise secrets!!!" I banged my hands on the desk again, cracking it.
"I'm only trying to protect you!!"
"From what, Elizabeth?! From what?. You left me for years, open to this world and the demons in it. Accused me of murder, making me suffer for something I didn't cause or have control over and all of a sudden, you want to protect me?! Me?!?!?!" I gripped the table so hard as I felt tears gather in my eyes.
"You have always... always been the smart one, Elizabeth, but that is not how protection works. I'm sorry."
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Since my outburst with my sister at the Palace, I haven't felt comfortable being anywhere close to her. I feel terrible for bursting in that manner.
I shouldn't have, but at the same time it burns me to think that she'd hide something from me, not just anything, but something that could take her life. It hurts. I don't want to loose her.
"Ray, you are here! Why did you just disappear? Is anything the matter?" Darius asked as he climbed up the stairs to my my porch.
"It's nothing serious" I said scooching alittle on the couch so he could sit. "Since the fallout with Lizzy, I've just been feeling off..like something is out of place. Why would she lie to me?"
"Ray, we cam talk about that later, okay? What's important now is finding your mate. Just treat her as one of the non- important notices for now. Whatever reason she had, she shouldn't have kept it from you. Keeping it from you was her decision, not yours. So let it go, for now okay?" I nodded in response, leaning into the couch.
"Good, so we were thinking. What if she's in plane sight but we can't find her because of a spell?"
"A spell? But Margaret did some cleansing and searching. She said there was nothing."
"Nothing in her knowledge. What if it's someone powerful? I told you I could see fear on her face that day. What if it's an old witch or a more crafty one or..dark magic." I laughed at his reasoning. Darius has a thing for magic, a very strong thing and his knowledge of them is so vast you'd think he's one.
"Darius, this isn't one of your magical encyclopedias, this is real life. You really think if there was someone with black magic, we wouldn't know? Have you forgotten already what happened three years ago? The supernatural clash? Before the formation of the council? As bloody and terrible as that war was did you see anyone with ancient black magic? "
"Ughhh, you have a point. But that doesn't mean they do not exist. They are probably in hiding, waiting for the perfect time for... Fuck it, I don't know." He threw his hands up in exasperation.
"Exactly. But, I'm gonna have to speak with the elders. They do not like father so it shouldn't be too hard to get them to tell me what they know. You have a solid point.-"
"-If we can trace the kind of witchcraft used, we can trace the witch or wizard and if we get them, just maybe they can tell us where she is or we could just find another to break the spell."
And I can have my baby back.
"Thank you, Ray" Darius said
"For?" I turned to him, confused.
"You took my point serious. Janet doesn't like hearing anything about my obsessions, neither does Fernando. Thank you."
"Uhh..it's okay. It was a valid point so..yeah. C'mon we have a lot of things to do." I said patting his shoulder and leaving the couch.
That was very awkward...
Somewhere...
"Ma'am, I think they have a plan."