CH57 The king, the queen, and the vampire

"Now, where is she? It's about time you tell her that you don't love her, otherwise the lycans? I will tell them to jump off a cliff without transforming, your choice" I chose this time to make myself known
"Jabari, Dakarai how lovely to see you" I greeted, inside every bit of me wanted to kill them but on the outside? I seemed calm, I took in the fact that Dylan and Charlie were stood really still
"Oh don't worry about them, they'll be fine" Jabari assured, 'you won't be' I thought to myself, Damon was stood near the sofa whilst Jabari and Dakarai were sat on the sofa
"You have a... cosy house" Dakarai said
"Thank-you, I love it" I told them although I really wanted Damon to hear me
"Of course you will need a castle, I mean how else will you hold meetings, and dances, and other important things?"
"Don't you know, this house can extend magically?, I have the power to make it big, bigger than this, then shrink it again, it's very handy" I smiled as I lied
"What about servents, I mean surely a queen shou...." Jabari began but I interrupted him
"Why are you here? Why are my brothers compelled? What do you want?" I shouted as I stood up
"My, my, aren't you fiesty? I like it" Dakarai smirked coming closer, "so beautiful, how beautiful you would look on my arm" he stroked the side of my face, I slapped his hand away "your mate has chosen to step down, he has told me how he doesn't want you, all he wants is one kingdom to rule, and the rest will belong to us, that's what he wanted right from the beginning, isn't that right Damon?" Dakarai turned to Damon for his confirmation, Damon just looked down at the ground, Dakarai laughed "which kingdom did you say you wanted vampire?" He asked
"Um, I uh" Damon looked at me pleadingly
"Come on, don't be shy, tell us, I'm sure my future wife and queen of six kingdoms won't mind giving you one" Dakarai turned to me "will you sweetheart?"
"I uh, uh, I'll have uh" Damon couldn't say anything
"I know, he wants Africa, he told me" I announced, Dakarai looked angry "the kingdom of Africa will belong to Damon" I smiled, king Jabari threw a glass on the floor, there was glass everywhere, he blinked to Damon and started to strangle my mate.
I could see Damon's severed head in his hand but now I could also see Dylan and Charlie dead near my feet, and I lost it, my body was on fire as I screamed, I could hear people shouting, things breaking, was the world ending? A world without Damon and my brothers wasn't a world worth living in, so I stayed there possibly screaming, was I screaming? Was I not? I had no idea,
"Anastasia, my daughter, calm yourself" I heard the sweetest voice,
"Mum?" I asked, my voice was raw like I hadn't drunk water in days
"No beautiful daughter I am Osiris the god of life" Osiris explained, I gasped, I started to see around me, the house was burnt down the upstairs was gone, there were two bodies in the room "that's Jabari and Dakarai" Osiris told me "Anubis has taken them already
"Damon?" I whispered "my brothers" not really wanting to know the answer
"Damon is fine, so are Dylan and Charlie they're outside waiting for you, Damon wanted to come back inside after saving Dylan and Charlie, but Anubis stopped him" Osiris explained to which I sighed in relief "come, daughter, stand" Osiris told me lovingly as she helped me to stand, I had blood stains on my arms, and my jeans were ripped and bloody, but I had no scars, no pain, I guessed any wounds I had were healed, Osiris walked me to the front door, that was now on the floor, we stepped over the door, when Damon saw me he ran to me and hugged me so tight
"Oh gods, I thought I lost you" Damon was crying and I allowed him to hold me, I was glad he was okay, Dylan and Charlie joined in on the hug and we stayed there for a long time, when the hug finished we were no longer outside the house, we were in Dylans living room, Damon was no longer crying, Charlie left the room and came back with three glasses filled with water and another filled with blood, I took water with a thanks as did Dylan, Damon took the blood, Charlie offered the other water to Osiris but she declined
"You need it more than I do, child" she told him, Charlie drank the water
"You gave me your blood?" Damon asked as he drank from the glass, Charlie just shrugged "thanks" Damon smiled, Charlie smiled too
"What happened?" I asked "back at the house, I mean, what happened?" Damon, Charlie and Dylan looked at one another, Damon went on to explain
"When Jabari was strangling me, you screamed, you started shouting 'why gods, why' fire shot out from your hands it burned Dakarai first as he was standing right besides you, then it flew past him to Jabari, when he was burnt, Dylan and Charlie were no longer compelled we tried to get you out of there but the fire coming from you didn't allow us closer, Anubis appeared with Osiris, Osiris told us to get out of there and she promised she would get you out as well" Damon finished his part then looked towards Osiris
"You were still shouting, asking the gods why your mate and brothers were dead, why you had to be there to witness their death, why death couldn't have taken you before taking them, the fire was still strong but I put a soothing hand on you and told you everything would be ok, I kept telling you to calm down, I kept telling you that your mate and brothers were fine, finally you calmed down enough to ask me about them, you know the rest" Osiris finished explaining "and now my children I must leave" with that Osiris got up
"Please don't leave" I hiccuped I felt at peace when she was close
"You don't need me, my child, when you need me I'll be there" she told me, she was gone in less than a blink of an eye.
I hugged Damon to me and breathed him in, he smelled of burning but he was alive
"I'm so sorry" I whispered
"Hmmm, for what?" He asked me as he too seemed to be breathing me in
"The house, I'm sorry I burnt it down"
"No baby, I don't care about the house, I'm just happy you're ok, I was so scared" Damon kissed my hair, then kissed my forehead, then my cheek, then my lips, our foreheads touched when the kiss was over
"Sorry to interrupt, Anastasia, Damon" Damon and I gave our full attention to Dylan as he spoke "We would be honoured if you guys would live here, with us, until your house is fixed"
"Only if you want to, of course, we have plenty of room" Charlie would have carried on rambling but I stood up off my mate
"Thankyou Dylan and Charlie that would be great" I said, they seemed to relax, "Your clothes" Dylan looked at his clothes "They're bloody" I gasped "did I hurt you?" I shrieked I moved back, but Damon was there, he stood behind me and hugged me to him
"You didn't hurt them, Jabari did" he whispered in my ear, I relaxed at the revelation.
"You're going to need clothes" Charlie informed us "I might have something upstairs" Charlie proceeded towards the stairs and all of us followed, their bedroom was blue, the bed, with blue silk sheets, was under the window, the curtains were black, there was a built in wardrobe covering one wall, the doors were a dark blue with long silver handles, he opened the first door on the left, it had many colourful shirts and some grey ones he took two grey ones out "sorry, we don't have any black ones" he told Damon
"It's fine, this is fine, thank you Charlie" Damon took the t-shirts from Charlie,
"I don't think I have any pants that will fit you Anastasia" Charlie told me as he handed a pair of black jeans to Damon
"I won't have anything either" Dylan said apologetically "I'll go to the clothes store, and find you something, size eight ok?" Dylan asked me
"Uh, yes thank-you Dylan" I confirmed, Dylan left the room and I soon heard the front door open then close
"I'm going to take a shower" Damon declared, to which Charlie and I nodded, Damon left the room and, I still held the t-shirt in my hand
"Please sit" Charlie told me
"I can't, I'm bloody" I told him
"Just sit, please" Charlie whispered I obliged and sat on the bed, feet dangling, Charlie set next to me and gave me a side hug with one arm "Are you ok?" He asked me
"Yeah" I whispered not trusting my voice
"Talk to me" he begged
"I was so scared Charlie, I though I lost you, all of you"
"Why?" He asked me, he sounded confused, I shook my head "tell me, please" he whispered once again
"I saw Damons severed head in king Jabari's hand, and I saw yours and Dylan's dead bodies at my feet, the sight, oh gods, the sight killed me, Charlie, I wanted to die, I wanted to burn the whole world and then burn myself" I finished, tears steadily streamed down my face, Charlie turned his upper body towards me to hug me better, I did the same, I was still crying when Damon came back after his shower, he said nothing as he finished drying his hair, I sniffed and finally let go of Charlie I saw the wet patch on his chest
"Sorry" I laughed a little
"It's ok, don't worry" Charlie waved a hand, just then I heard the front door
"Dylans back" I announced, Damon and Charlie nodded and I heard Dylan coming up the stairs, soon he opened the door and put four bags full of clothes on the bed behind me, I turned to the bags and took out the clothes there were some dresses, pants, and t-shirts
"Dylan, why did you buy so much?" I asked as I looked at all the clothes, Dylan just shrugged
"Come on, Anastasia, time for a shower" Charlie told me, getting up from the bed
"I'll show you where it is" Damon offered, I took a green t-shirt out of the bag and took out a pair of blue jeans, and proceeded to follow my mate, he took me down the corridor, and pointed me to door, when I tried to open the door, Damon caged me against the wall "you chose a green shirt" he groaned in my ear
"Damon" I whimpered
"Shh" he kissed my neck and I groaned both his hands held mine, the only parts of me he was touching, but still I moaned, he bit my neck, and I gasped it felt so good to have him drink from me, but suddenly I was worried, didn't he once say that a witch's blood is poison if its not offered?, I quickly unlocked our hands and pushed him away, blood was leaking from my wound, which slowly closed
"Damon, are you ok?" I held his face not wanting him to die, I was crying again what do I do? How do I stop him from dying
"Sorry, I got a little carried away" Damon said, sheepishly
"You're not dying" I observed he raised an eyebrow at me "you said when a vampire drinks from a witch without permission the blood becomes poison" I cried
"That won't happen to me, you gave me permission to drink from you whenever I needed, remember?" He held my face too. I thought about that, then smiled when I remembered the conversation we had in North America, I blushed "now go have your shower, I'll be in Dylans bedroom when you're done" with that he opened the door and lightly pushed me in.