Evelyn Earth Part 46

I was torn between scenarios. If I made myself known and confronted Audrey then we would most likely end up in a stand-off. I couldn’t guarantee that I would prevail in a one on one fight with her so that was out of the question. I couldn’t risk my life for someone that was already dying especially when I had an important job to do.

I could simply turn around and walk away, pretend like I hadn’t even come up here to look for them, but I had already gotten rid of the front door—a dead giveaway that someone had been in the house.  

The only thing I could really do that would cause the least disturbance to our plans was to combine the two scenarios. I slowly made my way back down the stairs and stood in empty doorway.

“HELLO!” I shouted, “time to get up lovers, everyone is waiting for you back at the well!” I placed my hands on my hips and assumed an annoyed expression, which fluctuated between nervous anticipation and worry. Audrey’s flame red hair flounced down the stairs followed by a flowing summer dress and ending in the slap of bare feet.

Evelyn Earth Part 45

Our movements were becoming more frantic, desperate even. He rolled me onto my back; our hands still locked together above our heads and kissed me with such ferocity that I was plunged into a well of inescapably good pain. It felt like we were spinning around in space amongst the stars he had been studying moments before.

                I opened my eyes and gasped in pleasure and surprise. His hands unclasped mine and travelled down my body removing items of clothing as they went along. A swirling liquid mass of darkness had formed around us, escaping from our hungry bodies and wrapping us in swaths of black fairy floss.

                I pulled on his long hair and yanked his head back to look into his eyes, which were burning with ebony fire. Even his lips had become rimmed in darkness.

                We were terrible monsters making love.

Evelyn Earth Part 44

He had been an only child living in a big house, so big that he had gotten lost under all the clutter that his parents kept. By the age of fifteen Sebastian had seen nothing interesting in his life. By the time he was eighteen he had still seen nothing worth mentioning. It was as soon as he packed his bags and moved out of his cavernous home in Wales that he began to live his life.

                From that point forward he swallowed everything with abandon. First it was the alcohol, the women and then the drugs. He moved from Wales out to London into a flat with four other guys just like him; young and fearless, but only out for themselves. It was only a matter of time before life seemed to be going down the drain with the left over beer so he packed up again and took a trip down to Australia.

              

Evelyn Earth Part 43

I turned back around and looked at the group of people I was left with. One of them I could kill right now, another I wouldn’t trust with my left shoe, three of them were useless and Sebastian was my only friend and I didn’t even trust him completely. I sighed.

                “Are we done fighting kids?” Sloan said sarcastically. I shot him a death stare and bared my teeth a little. Actually, make that two people I could kill right now.

                “Are we?” I looked at Audrey who had taken to twirling tendrils of her flame coloured hair around her finger.

                “For now” she cooed. I grimaced in annoyance. Who even spoke like that? It was a cross between the voice of a child and a whore.

                “Can I speak to you alone?” I said to Sebastian. He nodded in response, shot Sloan a reproachful look and followed me behind a slab of fallen concrete.

                “So she wasn’t what we were expecting” I said.

                “If you were expecting help then no not at all, that one’s like wild fire. She flares up and burns out unpredictably. When she first appeared your power outburst had already run its course through most of the city. She questioned me about it and before I could even reply she grabbed me and pulled out all my bloody memories. Everything she touches is instantly under the command of her power, and I mean instantly Evs.”