Other Fan Fiction ❯ The Lost Ones ❯ Chapter Forty One ( Chapter 41 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Keith shrugged slowly. "For your sake I hope so; but I can't honestly tell you what he'll do."Elyssa took his hand and led him to the middle of the room. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she smiled, her eyes shining with hope. "Please, tell me....do you remember?"

Neron's arms wrapped around her waist as he nodded. "I do."

She smiled, leaning forward she kissed his neck, then his jaw, and finally his lips. He shuddered beneath her as she smirked. "Do you remember when I first did that? Back after Arthur's death. I ordered you to stay the night with me. You didn't want to, but you didn't have any choice. I cried into your chest most of the night, and finally ordered you to make love to me." She ran her hand over his cheek before kissing him again. "I've missed you..."

He closed his eyes and smiled into the kiss. "I've missed you to."

Mia's hand went over her chest. "Oh...God..." she whispered. Silent tears escaped her lips. It was as if she knew what he was doing. Her heart was shared with him, it wasn't hard to know what he wanted. She pushed her own pain down, wanting him to only be affected by what he wanted. Leaning over, she moved closer to Keith. "Don't let me go, Keith...I feel like I'm falling..."

Keith nodded and wrapped his arms around her. "I won't let you fall," he said against her.

Neron opened his eyes as she started to lead him to the bedroom. "There is so much I want to tell you," she said with a smile. "Four centuries is a long time to be apart." In her bedroom, she threw off her shirt. Taking Neron's hand she brought it up to the symbol on her chest. "I got it tattooed on me. It's just like the one we shared so long ago."

His fingers traced the lines, but as he did so he looked down at the partial symbol on his hand. "We do...have much to discuss," he whispered.

Unclasping her bra, he pulled him back on the bed. "Shut up and kiss me," she said with a smirk. "That's an order."

Despite the fact that he was no longer her slave, he felt an overwhelming desire to follow her command. She had ordered him around for a century, the first part of which he was nothing more than a slave and a maid to her. Perhaps that was why he did as she asked.

She moaned into the kiss, her hips bucking beneath him. She caressed his face and nibbled on his flesh. "I want you to know, that over the years I have watched lovers grow old, and my children's children fade away." She bit her lip as she stared up at him. "And yet in that time, all I could think of was you. I felt guilty at first, toying with the hearts of mortals, but overtime, it became a second nature."

Mia wrapped her arms around Keith. Her body was starting to feel hot and she could easily put the pieces together. Closing her eyes, she could almost see Neron's arms around Elyssa, loving her, being with her. She moved her face to Keith's chest and took him in. To keep her heart from breaking and Neron feeling it, she went over every memory she had of her and Keith. All the good times they shared over the years. The parties and the first time she got kisses. The first time Keith punched a guy for groping her and making a big deal about him being the only one allowed to do that. The time he set her first apartment on fire when he tried to make her a birthday cake. He was always there. Every time she turned around, he was always protecting her, making her smile, ditching over girls just so she wouldn't be alone.

Keith kissed her, his lips gently massaging her's in an attempt to help ease her suffering.

"You loved others, while your heart belonged to me?"

Elyssa nodded. "Four centuries, it is a long time," she told him. "I did not know when you would return; and I could not simply live in isolation. The world changed around me, and I had to change with it."

She stroked his body, and nibbled on his flesh once more. "Take off your clothes," she ordered.

Neron hesitated, but his body seemed too long for this. He started pulling at them off even as he debated against it.

Mia's heart sped up and she clung to Keith, knowing it was Neron's feelings that were moving over her. She took deep breaths on his chest and forced herself to think of more memories. She thought of her last Christmas. She spent it with her parents and brother and someone Keith showed up. He said his parents were in Paris and he didn't want to be alone. It was silly now that she thought of it. He had no parents and he wasn't alone. He just wanted to spend Christmas with her. She smiled against him.

"You were always around," she said with a light laugh. "That's so annoying."

He smirked as he looked down at her. "What can I say? I knew my odds of scoring with you would only improve if I was always around you."
Mia smiled at Keith and moved her hand to his cheek. "Silly...that's all you ever seemed to care about. Why would you spend so much time with me when I always said no? Why do you keep sticking around with me? What do you have to gain?"

"What can I say? You'll always want the one you can't have," he told her with a smirk. "When you wouldn't give me what I w anted, I ended up spending more time with you so that I could try to score. In that time I became attached to you."
"Attached to me?" Mia asked. "I wouldn't exactly call being friends an attachment."

Neron felt her flesh against his, and he moaned into her mouth. While her hands traveled his body, he kept his on either side of her, keeping himself poised above her as much as he could. "Elyssa," he whispered, his eyes burning with restrained emotions in the growing darkness of the room. "Tell me. Tell me why you betrayed me."


Elyssa's breath caught in her throat as she heard this. Her hands traveled over her chest as she shook her head. "Silly rabbit," she whispered, he frowned, not getting the reference. "I didn't betray you. What I did, I did for us. If the gods had granted your freedom, you would be mortal. You would die, while I continued to live. I couldn't bare that."

"You could have been mortal as well, Elyssa," Neron told her. "We could have lived happily and died happily."

"But this way we don't have to die."

Neron shook his head slowly. "Sometimes, I beg for death," he hissed. "Just to end this cycle. I do not wish to be immortal; and you didn't even bother to ask my opinion, before you did what you did."

Elyssa closed her eyes and sighed. "Back then you would have never questioned my judgment. You followed my orders, knowing that I knew what was best for you. Why do you do it now?" Her eyes opened as she felt his hesitation. "It's because of her, isn't it?"


Neron didn't bother to hide it. "Yes," he told her. "Mia would have no problem living a mortal life with me."

"Oh really? She would have no problem supporting you, taking care of you, and watching over you? If you became mortal, what would you do? You don't know anything about this world. You don't even know how to read. I have all the money we would ever need to last a thousand lifetimes. I can make our immortality, be like heaven."

"I do not wish to live forever," he told her again. Getting off of her, he shook his head. "I have told you this before. I told you back then at the final round of the tournament when I fought Thor. After I killed him and we were taken to the gods, I told you, I begged you, that if you loved me you would wish for my freedom. I knew the gods would not grant it to me unless you asked for it. While you were taken away to make your wish, I waited for the chains to fall, but they never did."

He shook his head as he ran his hands over his wrists, remember the feeling of betrayal. He pulled at the bandages until he revealed the metal bands beneath. "When they came to tell me that you were gone, that you had made your wish and left, I didn't believe them. I lashed out, cursed them for not granting my freedom earlier. They said I was never human, just some clay puppet they had created to kill. I killed one in my rage, and for that I was punished. All that was because you wished for your immortality rather than wishing for my freedom...." He paused to breath.

"How can you say you love me when you did that?"



"Yes, well, when you've been immortal long enough you realize it's hard to make friends. You only get to keep them for so long before you have to disappear from their lives. Hence, the reason I called it an attachment."

Mia smiled wider at him. "Well, now we are both immortal and we can be friends forever."

Keith groaned and rolled his eyes. "Can we at least be friends with benefits?"

Elyssa shook her head. "I know what's best for you, Neron. You told me that yourself."

"As you said, Elyssa, four hundred years is a long time. I loved you, and you betrayed me."

Elyssa sat up, glaring at him as he reached for his clothes. "Loved? You loved me? Now you love that tramp, huh?"

"Yes," he told her, bluntly.

"How long till she betrays you? How long till you betray her?" Elyssa stood and walked over to him. "I have waited four centuries to be with you, doesn't that count for anything." Her hands trailed over his body, stopping as she cradled a certain part of him, making him moan.

"You wouldn't have had to have waited any time if you had wished me to be mortal..."

Elyssa's hands squeezed tighter, causing him to groan in pain as her nails sank into his delicate flesh. "Get to your knees," she ordered as she gripped tighter. He winced as he did what she said.

Mia shrugged. "I guess it all really depends..." she said. She had pushed her bond with Neron down so far at this point that she couldn't feel any of his pain. At the moment, all she could feel was her and Keith.

Keith smiled at that. Leaning forward, his lips grazed her flesh. "Well, I can live with that for now." His tongue flicked over her, feeling goosebumps rise on her flesh.

"You can die now, Neron," Elyssa told him. "Either you belong to me, or you don't belong to anyone at all."

Neron winced. One hand kept a firm grim on a vital part of him while the other held a knife to his throat. A part of him wanted to laugh at the irony, seeing as how the knife she was holding was the one he had given her four centuries ago.

"I don't remember you being this crazy," he told her. Where was Mia and the others? He was trying to push himself toward her as much as possible to alert her to the crazy woman who was trying to sleep with him.

Elyssa's grip tightened and he felt her nails break the skin. He whimpered against the blade. "It's because of your bond," she said at the sudden realization. "If I can reestablish our bond, you won't have any need for her."

Mia suddenly shot up from the bed. It was like Neron was suddenly screaming at her. "Sophitia!" Mia screamed.

Sophitia rushed in quickly. She looked at Mia and Keith. "Neron! Find him! He's in trouble!"

Sophitia looked at Keith for approval as Mia grabbed his phone and dashed for the car.

Keith sat there after she ran off. "Son of a-" He began throwing a tantrum on the bed. Every time he got close- "Damn it Neron!" He mumbled curses as he threw on pants and a shirt and grabbed his gun.

"Zeus, would do the honors," Elyssa purred into Neron's neck.

Zeus held the hot brand on his hand and smirked as he knelt before Neron.

"This isn't going to work," Neron told her. "Even if you do brand our symbol back on, it doesn't mean it will reestablish our bond."

"How do you know that? You've never had a master come back like this before. After all, I was made for you." Elyssa nodded, and Zeus thrust the hot iron onto Neron's flesh. The demi-god thrashed about as the iron burnt through his flesh. Elyssa moaned, into his neck, smiling as Zeus pulled back. She didn't feel anything yet...but in time. She had to. She wouldn't lose him to that tramp.

Neron panted, but didn't give them the satisfaction of doing anything else. "Is that all you've got?" he whispered.

"Shut up," Elyssa hissed.

Neron's eyes widened as his lips closed automatically, his body following her orders.

"Turn right!" Mia yelled. Sophitia took a sharp curve.

"How...do you know where you are going?" Sophitia asked.

"I can't explain it. I just...know," she said. "Here!" She pointed to an apartment building and Sophitia hit the brakes.

They all got out and Mia ran up the stairs. Sophitia and Keith were on her heels. She stopped at one of floors and looked down the hall. Getting out her gun she rushed to a door and kicked it down. Sophitia moved next to her as Mia pointed a gun at Elyssa. Neron's naked form sat on his knees next to her.

"Let him go," Mia said.