I was shocked. I was still bleeding as I stood staring out the window of the place that Poseidon had said we could stay in. I had just gotten my ass handed to me by my father. He wasn't actually here or it would have been a literal ass kicking not just a chewing. But what could I saw to defend myself. I had totally and utterly fucked everything up. I had found My woman. Only to piss her off and lose her. She was the daughter of Poseidon that we had been searching for and My woman. She thought I wanted to kill her. I could not do that not ever. What is worse is that she seemed to believe that her own father wanted her dead too. But my father had suddenly disappeared without warning. I had noticed that Poseidon hadn't said much more than that we could use this building for now to rest and recover, scents Coyrah had set that peace of paper on fire and left it on the ground. I looked at him now as Cortus fussed over the wound on my head. She had really been trying to kill me. Poseidon had told me that as we had left the bar. I had made her that angry. I knew why though. I hadn't seen her. I hadn't been paying attention when we first walked in and I saw the first hints of the storm in her eyes. I hadn't seen her as I should have. So why would she believe that we had been dreaming about each other for months when I hadn't seen her as I should have. It wasn't until we stood surrounding her in the street and her eyes had gone dark that I really saw her and knew who she was and what I had really done. When she had told us what the price was for what we wanted. FUCK!
"Hey Aidan, what was that paper Coyrah burned?" I asked him because he had been strangely silent as well scents his encounter with Coyrah. He snapped his head up from its resting place looking down at the floor. But he didn't answer me. It was Poseidon that answered me.
"It was a letter I left with her mother for her shortly after she was born. I knew then that she was by far the strongest of all the children I had ever had a hand in bringing into this world. I knew she would be the one to do what no one else could. Up until two months ago it was the only contact I had ever had with her. I spoke to her for the first time, that was when I promised her that she would finally be safe. I told her I was sending you all to her. I told her what to look for and where to look for it. I wanted to be there when you found her. I wanted her to know I had kept my promise. But as with most things everything just had to go to Hell." He said. I could hear the sorrow in his voice. There was another crack of thunder right over top of us. Poseidon looked up at the roof finally realizing that one Hell of a storm was raging outside. He stood and walked to the window with me and placed his hand on the glass.
"She is Pissed. She is more God than human you know? Her mother was a daughter of Thor, a God with much the same power as my brother. That is where Coyrah gets the power over the storm from. But she is still my daughter so she feels most at home in the water. Or she did when she was younger. I would watch over her whenever she would go swimming. I wanted to talk to her. To be at her side but I couldn't or I would have put her in more danger than she already was. This storm will give all her enemies her location now and they will come in forces far more than she can stand against." He said. I looked out at the storm and I felt her anger, her rage, and her pain in that storm. I had, had a hand in all that.
"Well this has all gone to total shit!" A woman's voice said. We all turned on her. All but Poseidon that is.
"Go away Airtimes. I'm not in the mood to hummer you." He said but just then my parents returned with another woman.
"You will answer for this Poseidon. This is your fuck up. Airtimes is only trying to get that poor child back under control. You left her alone far too much Brother. Now look what you have done. She is out there now fighting really just looking for away to die so the pain will stop. For being a God you are a shit father. Even hate it as I do your brother was always a better father to his children than you have been. You were a better father to all your other children before this one. You have made this now you will hummer me. That child is in this much pain because of you so fix it. But not tonight. She is too dark right now to be reached even by you Addison. She wants it all to end. You all have pushed her too far tonight. She is a girl that has known nothing but pain and lies for her whole life and you have compounded all that in the course of just a few hours. You'll need more than just Airtimes' help on this one. You are going to need all of us. I don't give two fucks about your Atlantis. But Coyrah will unmake the world in her darkness and I do care about what happens to that child. She didn't ask to be brought into this world. That was you Poseidon, you and her mother. Now her mother is dead. She died protecting her child which is something even I have to admire about her. But you have done nothing for your child. You have failed her. Now we must all help you or pay the ultimate price for your failures as a father." The woman with my parents said. She was not looking kindly on Poseidon. Or me for that matter. I knew my part in this. But she was really laying into Poseidon. I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the man, or God. Though in that moment he looked more like a man than a God.
"Hira I did what I thought was best. If I had been close to her she would have been in more danger than she already was. You know that as much as I do. Hades would never leave her in peace if he knew. And not even I could have protected her all the time with my brother always calling for me to be at his side in a moments notice. I know what you are trying to say but this was how it had to be. She had to be strong no matter what and she won't unmake the world. She would never give in to her darkness that much. This is her anger with me. I know and that is not of my making. I gave very specific instruction about how this lot was to approach her. They didn't listen to me. If they had this would not be happening." Poseidon said. Now I was getting pissed. But Hira held up her hand to stay what I was about to say.
"Poseidon that storm out there is inertly YOUR fault. Your daughter believes you want nothing more than to kill her. She believes that you care nothing for her. She is but a means to an end. One you and you alone want. You have done NOTHING to prove her wrong. You have not shown her that she was loved at all. She believes that the only person whom ever loved her is dead and no one will ever see her or love her again. You did that. You, Poseidon did that. You left her all alone in this world. There are plantae of ways to make a person strong without making them feel unwanted or unloved. Love is the strongest thing that you can give someone. Tell me Poseidon what does your daughter have to help her hold back the darkness that lives within her? What light does she have to cling to? Love is the light that gives us the power to fight back the darkness in each of us. So what love does that poor girl have Poseidon? What lights her path in the darkness? ANSWER ME!" Hira yelled the last at him. But he stood there dumb struck. I could see it he had no defiance to give her. I saw him realize that this was as Hira had said, all his doing. He had never shown his daughter any kind of love and she had been alone. No one to love her or see her, to know she was in pain and struggling just to excite in this world. He hadn't made her strong he had broken her. Now it would seem we would all have to pay the price for that. My heart hurt for Coyrah. She didn't deserve this no one did. I had always had my parents and my brother, and I knew beyond anything that they loved me. It wasn't about what I could or couldn't do it was because we were family and that meant something. But Coyrah had lost that at the age of 14. That was too young to be totally alone in the world. I hadn't really thought about that when I was seeing her in my dreams. My dreams maybe I could help fix things there.
"It won't work son. I'm sorry but Hira is right. Coyrah won't be sleeping tonight or anytime soon. I know I have been watching over her for all her life and when her demons and her darkness are riding her this hard she doesn't sleep for days. If you want you can return to Atlantis and I will let you know when the worst has passed." Airtimes said as though she was reading my mind. I shock my head.
"No I will stay. I have to, I can't just leave her like this. I don't care if she does try to kill me again. I will show her that I'm not going anywhere. She has to know she isn't alone anymore. I know she won't believe words but she always believes actions. She will be pissed sure but once she clams down she will see that I didn't leave her alone in this. Then hopefully she will believe that I never will." I said. All of which was true. That earned me a smile from Hira and Airtimes.
"You are a brave boy. I'll give you that. A bit stupid but brave. Things are going to get a lot uglier before there is even the slightest hint of light at the end of the tunnel. But if you are determined to see this through than you shall. Know this though she will not make it easy for you. That is not who Coyrah is, it never was." Hira said. I nodded.
"I know I have been dreaming of her for months. I know some of what she has been through and what she is like. I know that she will test me. She will do everything in her power to chase me from her. I know I can't let that happen though or she won't be the only one lost for good." I said. Hira nodded.
" I know Son. I see the red string of Fate tieing you two together. I will do what I can to make sure she doesn't actually kill you but you know that she is not one to be played with. She is a fighter she always was. She fights everything and everyone so I wish you luck. You are going to need it." She said. I bowed what could I say she was right I was going to need luck and in no small measure. But place Fate don't let me lose her when I only just found her.
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