Addison
I stand on a balcony looking out on the city of my birth, my city, my people. I am the crowned prince of Atlantis and I have a confession to make. I hate my life. I have lived through more times, wars, and other bull shit than I care to think about. But I love my people. I can't leave them and there is no way my twin brother would be of any use to them if I did leave. But here lately the thing that has occupied much of my mind has not been what should be there. It's a woman. I have been dreaming of her for months.
She is beautiful in the most God like ways. She has a fiery temper, a quick whit, and she has been on her own for far to long. She doesn't trust anyone with out cause and she doesn't like taking orders. She fights to protect herself and others but she hates to be violent. I feel the pull of a darkness with in her that loves when she kills. The bloodier the better for that darkness in her. It wants to take over at all times but she doesn't let it. But she is tired and only getting more so day by day. She has no one to watch her back. No one to protect her when she is at her weakest. I'm not sure how much longer she can keep this up.
I can't stop my mind from wanting to reach out to her. I am standing here and I have just gotten called into this meeting from my training. Training that should have taken my mind away from her. But like always it failed. So now I stand looking out on my city dripping sweat and thinking about a woman that I have no name for only knowledge of what she looks like and an intimate knowledge of her body. And by Poseidon she has one hell of a body. She is all lean muscle and curves for days. I have to say who ever she is I NEED to find her. I should be paying attention to the talk of the elders about the state of my kingdom but as I said I can't focus on anything but her. Unless my life is in danger or the lives of one of my men. I can't force her from my mind any more. It's like the Fates don't want me to be able to do anything else. Could that be it? Was this in fact Fate's doing? I saw her just as she had been in my dream from last night.
In the dream this time she had been fighting a vampire more powerful than any I had yet to come a cross. She had been tired and sweating just like I was now. But her blood red hair was lose and flowing around her. It was down past her very good looking ass. She was dressed in all black like always. She had been injured but she was healing and quickly. Things like that never seemed to keep her down, if they did it wasn't for very long. Her skin was pale yet there was a kind of glow to her. I could see she had power that she kept on a tight leash. Her pale blue eyes had been glowing too and I could see a storm in the distance in them. I had reached out and touched her check and she had seemed to actually feel it. She had nuzzled into that simple touch and the storm quieted. But she was still very pissed. I had heard her speak more than once. She had a Scot's brogue most of the time when she was this pissed but other wise it was an American Southern accent that was in her voice. She was caring and companionate with those that where closest to her. Her heart though hard to get to was a warm place that many called home. She was perfect, or at least she was perfect to me. I had felt her skin last night too and it was like silk. How could such a woman exist and not be claimed by any man yet? She was tiny compared to me at my height of six feet nine inches. But she was just as capable in battle as I was and she was strong. Strong like I had never seen in a woman. She was like I said perfect.
"Your Highness? Have you been listening to anything that has been said?" Cortus asked. I could hear the impatience in his voice. Damn caught again. What must our high priest think of me? I hung my head. How was I to focus. It didn't matter what I did. I closed my eyes and she was there. I open them and my mind refused to obey me and push her aside.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what is wrong with me. I know this is important, but my mind will not take heed and do as I will it to." I said. As I looked around. In this room it was only my parents, Cortus, Adison, and I. It was safe enough to admit what was going on in my mind. Cortus can to my side and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"The woman from your dreams again?" He asked. When the dreams had first started I had gone to Cortus to help me understand what they were. They had felt so real I was sure they had to be but they were not mine. Not my memories. I had never live in Scotland or the Southern United States. I had only ever lived here in Atlantis. So how could I know the things I suddenly knew. But he had asked a question. I nodded. I couldn't keep this to my self anymore. Something had to be wrong with me.
"What woman? What kind of dreams?" My father, the King asked. I met his eye for a moment. How did I explain this to him. I shock my head.
" I don't know how to answer that Father. You have always taught us that our duty was to the people of Atlantis and I believe that is true now more than ever but I CANNOT get my mind to focus on the things that I should." I said. My father looked angry for a moment but my mother stepped forward and place a gentile hand on his arm at the shoulder and he calmed immediately.
"Start with what you know Addison. Cortus says you see this woman in your dreams. Do you just know things about her? About the world she has lived in and everything that has ever been done to her or by her hand?" Mother asked. I looked at her I knew I didn't keep the shock off my face at all. But as I said I was safe here with these people none of them would use any of this against me ever.
"How did you know that Mother? I mean yes. I know she grew up bouncing between Scotland and the Southern United States. She lost her mother when she was 14. She has been fighting every day of her life scents. She has power I have seen it. A storm in her eyes when she loses her temper. Her physical body is tiny compared to mine. She is full of fire though. She fights with the same strength I have in me. She always keeps her hair down or if it is up then she is wearing turtle neck shirt. I haven't seen why she always keeps her neck covered. But she does. She has pale skin that last night I felt its like silk. Her eyes are a pale blue like the ocean at midday maybe even lighter than that. But there is a darkness in her too. When that darkness takes hold her eyes become a deep sapphire blue almost black. But she has a kind and caring heart. If you can make it past the icy shell she has put around it. She cares for people no matter who or what they may be.
She judges everyone on an individual bases. She has battled Vampires and other fowl creatures yet she has Vampire friends and charges. She is something I can't figure out. She is scared from so many years fighting all alone yet there are times in that place that I feel like I'm more syndical than she is and I have not had to endure any where near as much as she has. I have been seeing her for months in my dreams. At first when I would wake I could push her out of my mind to be able to focus on my duties. But now I can't get away from her. I close my eyes and I see her there standing in front of me, then when I open my eyes she is the only thing my mind will see. If there is no life threating danger she is the only thing on my mind no matter how hard I try to push her a side so I can do what needs to be done. What is more I don't really want to push her a side. I swear in the last few weeks its like some part of me believes she can feel it when I push her a side. But surely that is madness, isn't it?" I said. My parents smiled.
"It's not madness Son. That is how it is for us. When the time is right we see everything about our true other half. When times are at their most dangerous and there is no true time for courtship Fate steps in and provides us with dreams that show us everything there is to know about our true other half. Somethings She leaves out so there is still something to share and that have been kept privet to both halves but the big things. Things that shape us in to who we are those are shared. Like the lose of a mother at such a young age, and the battles your other half has fought. It is all meant to prepare you. So you understand why she is so guarded when you do find her. She will know those same sorts of things about you. Son I wish you would have told us when these dreams first began we could have helped you." Father said. I was totally shocked I had not expected this from my father. He had been drilling my duties into me sent the time I could remember.
"As for your feeling that she can feel it when you push her a side. She can. I did when this same thing happened to your father and I. In the beginning it was easier because she was pushing you a side too. But now weather she knows it or not she cannot bare to have you so far away. You said she has fought alone all her life? I would be willing to bet that, that is beginning to catch up with her. She is feeling tired right? Questioning how she is going to be able to keep going? She needs rest and some place safe from all that hunts her. She needs someone to make her feel safe and you Son are the only one who makes her feel safe. She can't bare to have you push her aside because she is weakening and some part of her knows it. No one's strength is infinite my boy." Mother said. I was so shocked I could hardly speak. She was weakening and she knew it.
"So in some ways her not allowing me to push her out of my mind if her calling out for me? She needs me to find her to help her?" I asked I watched my parents. They both nodded.
"Yes Son. That is exactly what is going on. She needs you to protect her. If she has the same temper you do and I would be willing to bet that she does than she is not likely to want to publicly acknowledge that she has a weakness. She can't afford to but through this link the two of you have she is trying to tell you that she needs help." Father said. I met his eye then and knew what I had to do.
"Go top side with your brother and Cortus when they go to look for the Daughter of Poseidon and find her Son. She will not last much longer on her own. You will know where to find her just fallow your gut. Who knows maybe she will know where the Daughter of Poseidon is and can help you find her too." Father said. I looked over at my twin and he shrugged.
"I have been trying to get you out of here for a while. So yeah lets go. Cortus and I are due to leave later tonight. We'll help you find your woman. No way am I leaving you unprotected up there though." He said. I knew that was as close as I was going to get to being on my own with my woman. I liked the sound of that. My woman. I met Cortus's eye now too. He looked at me like I was being an idiot for waiting this long. It was decided then. I was leaving with them tonight and I would not come back with out Her. I just wish I knew what her name was that might help matters.
Comments (1)
See all