Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ ~work in progress~ ❯ Sidhe Draoi preview ( Chapter 1 )

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I watched as shane was shackled to the ground before my very eyes. His ankles bore thick iron bracelets that attached his wrists in front of him and bound him to the stone beneath him. My eyes were tearing the more with each glance of saddness he threw in my direction. I felt like a traitor to my heart and his trust. At one point, our love was a mutual feeling. There were many days we would lay under a willow tree with the smell of summer and the taste of flowers that tickeled our senses together. Then, we could look at one another and smile and we could feel the love in the air. I'm sure these days, before i betrayed everything we built, I could no longer feel that warmth in the air that could only be created by mutual feeling. I could remember the days we would walk in the spring as the dandellions were just giving off the seeds and the white pollen flew around and one year, they blanketed the ground like snow. 'snow in spring' i used to joke and he would laugh.
Nothing will ever be like that anymore, and i realized this, as a tear fell down my cheek. I watched the man I knew i would die without; being tortured by the members of the unseelie court. The queen next to me was smiling sweetly, but the dark red poison dawning her lips was clearly visible and clearly interpreted how evil she truely was. When I first came to the fey realm, I found her beautiful, attractive and forever youthful and I had wanted to be just like her. She introduced me to her world and promised me I would be happy here, but i was naiive and I thought that I would be able to live here with Shane. Naiive, being the key word and I saw where foolishness had led me too in the end. No family, no love, and just a life of lies and treachery.
With one last look at shane, I turned on my heel, the bells around my foot jingling and quickly swooped out of the grand hall. From behind me, i thought i heard him beg me to go back and help him and for a breif moment, i stalled and almost did. However, after taking a deep breath to clear my thoughts, i kept walking. I had to remember that he had brought this on himself when he told me what he really was. He knew i was going to be intregued and he should have seen this future falling on himself.
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That evening, I sat on a balcony in the treetops that i had built for myself and stared at the forming stars. I began to wish I were back home with my mother and even my sister who i hated more than anything. Anything was better than being here by myself, under the queen's rule without Shane to be by my side. Off in the distance, the sun was starting to set and a bridge began to appear. Everything in this world was always changing like the wind. There was nothing that stayed the same for more than a few hours so there was always something to do, even for a semi human like me. I jumped off of the tree top and softly landed on my feet with a thud. A few druids gave me death glares and muttered obscenities behind my back. Druids were usually kind by nature but because I had caused the death of one of their own, they hated me. Not the queen because by hating her, they cause their own deaths. There were no music in the air from any of the fey folk. Every creature seemed to be in mourning and if there was any music, it was the kind that played in my head. The soft piano peice you usually hear at Funerals but a little more sad. Maybe because I felt a part of myself die that day with him. I knew he was dead and I never told him how much he really meant to me, not that it would matter in the end. Shane was the only one who ever understood me and there won't be anyone else I could ever see holding my heart the way he held mine. He was a little rough with the precious innocence of my soul but never broke it the way I didn't want to be broken.
Shane had always respected what I wanted, done what I wanted and left me alone when i needed to be. But, because he wanted to think rationally and I decided to be immature and not realize how much he loved me, I lost him. I had lost him many times in the past but never had I lost him like this. There was that one day I was asked what I would do if something like this ever crossed our future.
"I would come with you." I whispered one night, my head resting on his chest and his arms around me tightly.
"I won't be gone long. I won't ever leave you behind forever. You will never be alone." He promised. I remember challanging that promise with another.
"Will we always be together? Till after the end of time?" He paused for a breif moment to kiss the top of my head.
"Of course we will. Nothing can end what is ours."
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Those, of course, were the best times I had in my entire life. But then, he broke the pomise and everything began to spiral downwards. I still remember the night he told me that we couldn't be together.
"I'm not strong enough to protect you as I am now." He whispered, holding my hands in his and his forehead against mine. His face was twisted into a painful expression and his eyes were closed shut.
"You don't want to try?" I stared at him, hoping for an explanation. He took a deep breath and opened his mouth to speak but quickly snapped it shut. I could see his jaw tighten and he shook his head, keeping his eyes sealed. That was the moment, my heart shattered leaving me cold and empty.