Sunday, July 22, 2012
Jessica’s Side: Chapter 1- Part 4:
I lay awake for a few hours, silence was driving me mad somehow tonight. I could not even sleep no matter how tired I was feeling. Finally I sat up, looking next to me at the clock seeing it was after 4:30am. I shook my head slowly and lowered it, I wanted to cry, but honestly, what good would it do? I decided to head downstairs, I was feeling a bit hungry anyways and cereal seemed like a good idea. As I reached the landing, there he was, Mathias, still like a ghost staring at me with those metallic silver eyes of his. I jumped in startlement and held my chest, feeling my heartbeat rapidly within it, “Mathias!? Shit…” I held onto the railing to catch my breath, “I didn’t even hear you come in…” I heard him chuckle as he walked closer to me, “Forgive me, princess, I did not mean to frighten you…” I lightly smiled, walking towards him with that inviting smile of his and the soothing voice that somehow always seemed to hypnotize me. I frowned a bit and looked over him, thinking what if I had ever lost him, “Mathias…you need to quit going out at night, what if something could happen to you?” He pulled me into his strong arms and rested his head upon my shoulder, rubbing his nails up and down my back, “I’m a tough guy, I can take care of myself. You do not need to worry for me, come now, let’s head to bed…” I sighed and nodded. I was trembling, and he could tell as he held me tighter. “Okay…” I responded softly, as he took my hand and we made it up the staircase. Maybe now I could get some rest that he was home.
Mathias’ Side: Chapter 1 - Part 3:
I waited for Jessica to be in bed before I fully walked out the door, the poor girl, I know I shouldn’t have given her the answer of silence, but what was I to say? That her husband is a monster that is feared by many of her own kind? No, she cannot find out, not yet. I love her more dearly than anyone I’ve ever known, but sometimes secrets are meant to be kept within, and perhaps never to be let out for the good sake of others. I will give it another year before I tell her, but I…I just have this fear… this fear that she would turn away, and how am I supposed to live the rest of eternity without her by my side? I cannot worry about that now, the night is before me and I am the predator, that’s all I need to focus on for the time being….
Jessica’s Side: Chapter 1 - Part 2:
The evening was draping over Bridgeport now, Marshmallow had gone to lay down, and the bell tower I could hear toll it’s bells for me to chase sleep as well. I smiled, knowing Mathias wouldn’t join me till much later, “I suppose this is the moment where you head out, huh?” I said lightly. I could hear him chuckle softly from under his long raven hair as he looked the other way, “Yeah…yeah it is.” “What do you do out there anyway?” I asked, hoping maybe I’d get a solid answer and not a vague one this time. He shook his head and stood up, “Business, things I must do. Go to sleep, angel, I’ll go to bed in a while.” I rolled my eyes with a grin, “Okay, just be careful out there. Never know what you’ll run into, like Vampires or worse.” I waited to hear a reply from him, instead he just smiled slightly.
Jessica’s Side: Chapter 1 - Part 1:
Something that always confused me, and I’ll probably never find out, of why Mathias wanted to stay away from the city. Perhaps he hated the busy crowds, the distant honking of horns, or just people in general….either way if I had asked him he’d just give me the same answer, “You’ll just have to trust me, Jessie. It’s better out here…” We had moved from the castle and left it in his sister’s hands, leaving Prowler and Belle behind all because Mathias said the town was getting busier and he wanted to move farther out. He did buy me a cat however, so I wouldn’t be so alone. I named him Marshmallow since he looks like one. I wonder how many more times we’ll have to move because of Mathias not wanting to be near society…
A Segment of Jessica's Backstory
One of Jessie Davis’s most haunting memories in her past was of a young woman named Marion Degrassi, a name she gave her since she really had none of her own. Marion Degrassi was never human, never breathing, and never was able to feel the world the way Jessie did, yet she valued her for trying to show her to be alive.
Before Jessica arrived at the Asylum at the age of 18 because of a traumatizing childhood, Marion, a simple phantom that you can touch with the skin of cold and wet with a sickly sweet smell in the air was a residual of an evil that had once laid there. She could kill, posses, and carried the powers that a regular ghost could not. Her world was made of simple nightmares, twisted dimensions of the hospital, that she once sent Jessie without seeing into her soul. Once she saw the fragility within Jessie’s heart, she swore to protect her as an apology till the day she was discharged from the hospital. Jessie, a human, was Marion’s only “friend”, and guardian.
The day Jessie was to be signed out, was a day gone wrong for over 500 patients and staff. She was one of the mere survivors of a strange gas leak. Jessie personally believed it was Marion’s anger that set off the gas pipes, the anger carried from the male nurses that would take advantage of Marion’s sweet Jessica; Jessie Davis was 1 of 5 people that was able to get out of the asylum.
Now that Jessie is married, she only carries the story of her undead friend within her heart and shares it to no one. Now and then she will travel 15 miles back to the old town where the gas leak was released, back at the hospital of ash and dispair that bared the many hallucinations and personal demons people held inside.
Sometimes when Jessie stands outside the grave of the hospital, she can still hear Marion’s double voiced smoothness call out her name to let her know she still protects her, that she never truly left, and that she is no longer held down but is walking with Jessie with each step of her human life to keep that protective promise that was burned years ago….
Wake Me Up
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become
-Evanescence
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