I backed against the lockers and prepared to defend myself. I knew I couldn't fight them all.
One or two maybe but together I was easily outnumbered.
My conscious mind was chaotic. My subconscious however was planning. Words formed on my lips to protect me. His fist seemed to slow down and I wasn't sure whether it was the vampire blood in my system or my magic, but it helped, as his fist drew close to my face I muttered three words unconsciously:
"Waru fera mec"
his fist collided with my face, but I didn't feel it instead his fist seemed to stop dead.
He cried out in agony clutching his injured hand then said
"What the hell! What the fuck are you?"
I know it may have sounded like a cliché but I could not help but respond by saying
"I am your worst nightmare" the 2 guys at the back, the two brothers, moved away.
Their eyes wide in shock and fear, they began to turn away, I extended my fingers into talons and extended one of my arms towards each of them and said
"Álynian"
they froze on the spot their feet held to the floor.
One of them spat in my direction, I glared at him and called forth more magic and said
"Ic creopere þú"
both of them fell to their knees,.
the leader was trying to straighten himself up from his folded posture. He hand his fist clutched to his chest. And he now tried to straighten himself to his full height.
A part of my brain seemed aware of the danger of someone seeing what was going on and I uttered under my breath:
"Áhýdan ús fram oþres "
that dealt with the possibility of others seeing us. I glared at the leader of their group and incanted;
"Ic bebindan þú aet þæs flett"
he fell back onto the floor,.I had used part of the same spell my mother had used on Louis this morning but had instead bound this piece of human trash to the floor.
Human? I was clearly not considering myself one of them.
"Now that you have seen what I can do you should know that I am capable of doing this any place, anywhere, so if I hear even one more snide comment about me or Louis I will personally torture you in ways so horrible and painful they will push you to the precipice of insanity and hold you there, how about a slight demonstration hmm"
His words echoed back into my ears his threat against Louis. Adrenaline and power were coursing through my veins. I felt so angry at them, they had insulted Louis. He was mine and I would not allow anyone to comment on him. Inside my head I accessed the darker part of my magic reserved for causing pain, the words flowed easily off my tongue
"Bryne eac ádl"
They inhaled in shock and utter agony spread across their faces. They didn't cry out but the pain was evident on their faces and in the way their bodies writhed under my power.
"Ic tólýsednes þú"
I muttered a few seconds later my compassion battling my anger. They gasped on the floor and I turned my back on them picked up my bag and walked off down the corridor and round a corner.
I walked into Louis and he pulled me into his arms and kissed me gently on the lips. He pulled away earlier than I would have liked and said quickly
"I tried to get here as fast as I could. I could feel your anger, it was coming off you in waves. What did they do to piss you off so much"
I looked down embarrassed, now that I thought back I had sort of over reacted but at the time I had felt so possessive and protective of Louis. He put a hand under my chin and pulled my face upwards to catch his eyes, I spoke slowly embarrassed
"They insulted you, and I..I.." he smiled then said
"And what? Don't worry I won't get mad, I could never get angry at you"
"I protected myself from one of their punches and then I crippled the other 2 and forced them to their knees. bound them all to the floor and then I sort of...made them burn with pain..."
I trailed off expecting him to get mad at me even though he had promised not to.
He smiled then gave me a quick peck on the lips then said
"This is slightly serious but nothing I can't handle. I will erase their memories later and plant a few false ones for them to find. But from the sounds of it it seems that you don't need me to protect you all of the time"
I smiled at him and then said
"I always need your protection, it feels good to have you so protective of me"
He laughed a quick chuckle and then said
"Well after your last lesson meet me by my car and I will take you home and then. later I think we should go somewhere, a sort of date, then when we get back to my house..."
His hands moved to my arse and he pulled our groins into contact. I moaned at the intimate touch and then he continued
"Well, we'll just see where we go from there. now I have to get back to class. so I shall see you later"
He kissed me quickly on the lips and then on my forehead before continuing past me and round the corner exclaiming as he did
"You really did do well with those guys, they're still on the floor".
I ran through the corridors to my next lesson which was geography, I was extremely late but luckily the teacher simply said before I could get a word out
"I don't care, just sit down. listen and shut up"
I took a seat towards the front of the class next to a black girl and pulled my books out of my bag and looked up at the board.
The girl next to me began to speak
"So you are James right?"
I nodded half listening,
She continued speaking
"So you are going out with Louis right?"
I nodded again beginning to pay more attention to her and less to the work on the board which I noticed I had already studied.
She asked another question
"Is he as hot topless as they all say?"
"Believe me I have seen him more than topless and I don't know what they all say but he is like a god on earth"
I blushed at my statement and looked down at my desk instead of at her, she began to say
"Have you..." but was interrupted when the teacher said
"Miss Thompson, do you have something to add to the class?"
"No Mr Gilbertson, I'll pay attention from now on"
The lesson moved onto the geomorphology here in Virginia, I didn't know much about the city I now lived in. my mum had chosen Virginia because of the mild climate and had chosen the city of Hampton.
Phoebe kept her mouth shut for the rest of the lesson but I knew that she was bursting with questions.
I dodged that bullet however when at the end of the lesson everyone except me had homework to hand in, so I used that opportunity to slip away and dump my books in my locker. Most of the students had already left by the time I exited the building. I saw Louis' car across the lot, I do not know much about cars. I had never really been interested In them, but the car that Louis drove I had heard of, it was a black MR2. I faced it and rested on it while I waited for Louis to arrive.
I was taken by surprise when a fist collided with the back of my head.
My face moved forward and hit the car. My temple collided with the side of the car and I went down a bright red light colouring the inside of my eyelids. I looked up to see the 3 people I had fought before, one of the 2 brothers placed a piece of duct tape over my mouth before kicking me in the stomach. I felt something give along my ribs and I groaned into the tape.
The leader spoke down in my ear while the other kicked me in the stomach again
"Try using that fucking shit again. I dare you. You haven't got Louis to defend you either"
That was where he was wrong, I knew that Louis could feel my fear and pain and I knew that he was coming for me. I curled into a ball as their onslaught continued to protect my face. I heard a growl in the distance, half hidden in the darkness in my head.
I groaned under the tape as darkness consumed me.
Some time later. I don't know how long. someone pulled me up into a sitting position.
I exclaimed as I felt a searing pain spread through my arm and my ribs. I opened my eyes to meet Louis'. The tape was gone from my mouth and I stared up at Louis' green eyes.
he asked quickly obviously concerned.
"James tell me where it hurts"
his fangs were descended but I ignored them as he moved his ear towards my mouth.
"My ribs and my arm" I managed to croak causing pain in my throat.
I felt his cool fingertips run up my arm and he gently squeezed assessing the damage. he reached my shoulder and I winced in pain. he muttered quietly
"Dislocated shoulder"
He moved his hands to my ribs and gently pressed each one, he reached the bottom of my left half of ribs and I cried out burning pain shooting through my chest.
"And 2 broken ribs" I heard him mutter,