What happens now?

Emne: What happens now? Fre Jun 25, 2021 5:50 pm

Dedicated to @Oliver

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It was now a handful of days since she had been back now that she was free and could roam around without looking over her shoulder. Her kidnapper was still nowhere to find, as if he had just disappeared from the face of the earth. So, she had no reason to be afraid, right?

It had all been quite overwhelming being back, seeing the friends and the boyfriend she had left behind. Could they just start over and almost pretend no time had past at all? The answer was an easy one, but hard to face. No. They would never be able to get past the fact that she was no longer human but had joined the supernatural spectrum of creatures. Coming from a family of hunters, that had sworn to eradicate people like her, she didn’t only have to be fearful of what they would do to her. But also the friends of her family or other creature that now found her much more interesting than they had done before. And, then there was the whole thing if this kidnapper ever returned to Gaia.
So, to get all the thoughts out of her head, she had decided to leave the comfort of Ethan’s home and drove to the grounds of lily to take a walk through the woods. A light workout had turned into hours as she had gotten herself lost. And of course, her phone hadn’t been able to get any signal for quite some time. At least she had been able to text Ethan that she was fine, just a little lost in the nature reserve.

Madie made a small twist with her lips and pressed her brows together as she tried to decipher the offline map on her phone to see if she could figure out how to get back to her car as she heard a branch snap behind her. Panic surged through her body, and before she could stop herself, she started running. Her heart pounding violently in her chest. It was incredible how fast she could run, as she had been confined so long to a bed. But the adrenalin that was pumping her veins were more than enough to keep her going. Suddenly she felt a pull that she never experienced before. Like someone was calling to get her closer, that she needed to meet and see. When that happened, she tripped over a root that propelled her down a hill straight into a pond. Spluttering she tried to get the surface of the pond she had fallen into.
At least it helped her out of her panic attack as she felt how the cold water surrounded her body and calmed her down.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Tirs Jul 06, 2021 2:18 pm

So, yet another day in this long life had to pass. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to live anymore, but he had just been slightly tired of losing mates – especially since it had gone so well with Gemma, and now she was gone. He hadn’t truly believed the fact that they had been so close for so long, and yet, he still didn’t have his mate. Lost her to a god damn car accident. As if every mateloss he had gone through, he definitely felt like this had been the worst one to lose.

This wasteful day needed to be spent in the nature reserve. It was to soothe his soul and get some positive energy, so he could possibly get by for the next while. He had been walking around for a while, just enjoying some time alone – but it only lasted until he felt the connection. Yes, destiny had already chosen another mate for him, and he could feel that this Madelaine was somewhere close by. For quite some time, he had hoped that it had been the Madelaine, but he also knew that the world was way too big to let it be her. It couldn’t be.
By feeling how the connection either got stronger or weaker, he directed himself towards her. Searching after her He could hear water splashing and it didn’t take him long to figure that she might’ve fallen into the pond.
As soon as he got close enough, he tried to determine how she looked – beside from soaked… …It was her.
“Madelaine?” he called slightly surprised. It didn’t take long before he got into the pond and approached her. As he got closer, he could feel how the water got deeper and deeper. She couldn’t reach the bottom here. “Here-” he said and tried to grab onto her, so she could lean on him or just swing her legs around him if she needed it. As soon as they touched, he could feel the ‘usual’ feeling he had felt whenever he had gotten close to a mate of his. It was her. “I’m here,” he tried. How the hell had she even managed to get into the pond?

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Tirs Jul 06, 2021 2:50 pm

As she tried to reach the bottom with her toes, she dunked her head under water again. Bollocks. This just wasn’t her day, and now there would be a very good change that her phone didn’t work at all by this point. Now, more than ever, it would have been very useful to have magic powers. But after Joseph had taken her life to give her new, she had lost the former abilities that she had had.

When her head came out of the water again, she saw a figure standing by the bank of the pond. Her name left his lips, and just as his voice reached her ears, she knew who it was. “Oliver” she called back just as surprised as him. What was the odds of him being here?
The water around her started to make vibrations as he stepped into the pond and walked towards her. Herself started to swim into shallower water to be able to stand on the ground. “Thank you!” she started laughing but the laugh subdued as soon as their fingers touched, and he pulled her towards him so she could hold onto his stature. Electricity surged through her body, and it was so powerful that she almost lost her breath.
There was so many words just on the tip of her tongue, but it felt like the tension between them just swallowed them whole. Her eyes found his and it was like she was pulled in like a magnet. “Fancy meeting you here” she finally said, and a bigger smile started forming on her lips. “Always something that it’s warm enough to take a swim, granted I think you are a little overdressed for a normal swimming attire” she could have drown herself for the words spilling over her lips. It was like she had no control over them, or even understood what her brain was trying to accomplish with this.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Jul 07, 2021 7:52 am

She started laughing, but as soon as they touched and he felt the electricity the laughter subduded. Did she feel it too? That hadn’t happened before. He chuckled softly as she said it was fancy meeting him in the pond. He couldn’t really agree with it, but he understood the sarcasm. He shook his head with a wide smile as she mentioned she believed that he was overdressed. “I didn’t really plan to go swimming,” he chuckled and tried to get a better hold of her. “Did you actually want to go swimming, or do you want to get back on dryland?” he wondered with a soft chuckle, resisting the temptation to follow whatever his matemark told him to do; kiss her, confront her, touch her. His eyes accidentally traveled down between them, eyeing the name on her collarbone. Either, she had missed him a whole lot and gotten a tattoo of his name, or she had been transformed. He looked back up with a slightly open mouth. “You-You’re not human anymore?” he said, only to soon after realize what he had actually said. “I-I am sorry,” he said and frowned a bit.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Jul 07, 2021 8:26 am

“Oh, you didn’t?” she responded with a sarcastic smirk on her lips, when he told her that he hadn’t really thought about going for a dip. Then he asked her if she wanted to go swimming. “To be fair?” Madelaine finally spoke “I kind of tripped, one should really watch where they are running” she wasn’t about to tell him that she had been so spooked about the very fact that someone was after her, that she started running like a mad gazelle over the savannah to get away from their pray.

Her arms folded around his neck to make it more comfortable for them both standing there in the water, seemingly forgetting about the very fact that they might wanted to get out of the coldness. Then his next words hit her like a speeding train. “No, I'm not human anymore” she gulped pressing her eyebrows towards each other while her gaze followed his towards her collarbone. Her mage mark.
Her kidnapper had explained it, and why he had taken her after the accident. Wanted to see if there was something more about the mark than had been discovered.
Always with the, you should be happy that I’m even giving you this privilege to be a part of something bigger.

“I’ll, I can explain” she then added with a soft smile “But out of the water” she a little begrudgingly let go of him. It was like something pulled her even closer, instead of her wanting to let go. But eventually she was able to resist hanging on to his body and started swimming towards the bank. When she found that she was able to stand she walked out. She took in a deep breath and tried to shake some of the water off her body. Not that it helped very much, she turned around towards Oliver, only to see that his situation was much worse than hers.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Jul 07, 2021 12:26 pm

He raised both of his brows slightly surprised as she told him that she had tripped into the pond. “Or maybe get some glasses to watch your step,” he chuckled trying to keep the mood light and bubbly. Though out here he had a feeling that she might not have been going for a run, but been somewhat out of her mind since she hadn’t noticed the pond earlier and run around instead of trying to run through it.

Her arms snaked around his neck, hand he had to fight every instinct in his body to not just pull her closer or take what the bond wanted him to take. Oh, how he had missed having a mate close by. It just completed him in a whole other way. His own words even confused himself. She wasn’t a human anymore. It was wrong that he had asked, but the fact that it was his name which was written on her collarbone only made him wonder if it was indeed him and her forever.
He looked back up at her, as she said she could explain – but out of the water. Together they got closer to the shore and eventually was able to walk the rest of the way up. He came after Madelaine, completely drenched in water. His clothing was heavy and weighed him down. While he walked pulled off his shirt and hung it on a branch, only to be accompanied by his t-shirt few seconds later. He turned around to look at Madelaine; his own mark being visible. “Gemma died,” he said, hopefully making Madelaine realize that the name on his collarbone had changed to her name.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Jul 07, 2021 10:47 pm

Her eyes followed his movement as he came out of the water. Her eyes were almost fixated on every movement that he made, how his arms moved, and his fingers locked around the fabric of his shirt and pulled it off. She was almost hypnotised with him. She remembered just how much chemistry they had had between one another when they had dated back in New York. The forbidden romance they had jumped into and saying goodbye to him had been one of the hardest things she had ever done. But even then, it hadn’t been like this. Not understanding very much about the new race that she had become there was still so much to learn even though Ethan had helped her very much in understanding this new world she had stepped into. Not that he would ever understand, as he hadn’t been through what she had been through. Or was a witch himself.

Gemma died

A small sound of confusion left her, as she looked up towards her face, clearly been very occupied by looking everywhere than his face. When the words finally sunk in, she took in a sharp breath. She hadn’t made it. She had hoped, really hoped. But also knew the chance had been slim.
“I’m really sorry you had to go through that” she answered and then moved her eyes towards his collarbone. She took in a sharp breath as she saw her own name written there. Could it really be?
“I was changed” she then breathed out letting the fingers dance over her collarbone “As you might noticed, he created me into a witch” it was somehow very hard for her to let it pass over her lips that she had been kidnapped and someone had changed her against her will. Now she didn’t even know if she could ever see her family again. See Sterling and Hannah. Which killed her slowly every day.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Man Jul 12, 2021 4:19 pm

She had been occupied with looking somewhere else – but it was alright. He knew how it had been for him to meet with mates the first couple of times. It had always been something interesting. He pulled a little pained smile as she said that she was sorry that he had to go through that. The killing and removal of a mark was something very painful, something he had felt many times before.
He saw how her eyes lowered a bit – probably to his collarbone by the way she seemed to react to it. She even let her own fingers dance over her own collarbone. He nodded a bit as she mentioned that she had been turned into a witch. “Yeah,” he said licking his lips. How did he ask if it was him or if she had found him yet? It was such a weird thing, because he didn’t want to sound too hopeful, just because he knew that she was his. But something else caught onto his mind. She knew who it was who had changed her, right? “So, has he taught you anything about being a witch?” he wondered walking just a little closer. Maybe the man who had turned her had been smart enough to tell her something about the matemark on her collarbone.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Lør Jul 17, 2021 10:15 am

Her eyes flickered around, and she tried to keep a smile on her lips, but it didn’t really help on the pit that formed in her stomach. She was still seeing a therapist regularly about being abducted for over a year. They were always telling her that she wasn’t coping, that she just pushed it away and plastered a smile on her lips. But what else could she do? She came back to both good and bad things. So much she needed figure out all over again.

She didn’t really want to sour the mood, as she had just found him again. They could talk about what had happened on a later time, right? “Oh ehm, not really that no, just trying to figure it out myself, with the help with some friends around me, the one who created me is not really around” she explained and gave him a big smile. She walked towards him and placed a hand on his upper arm. It was hard for her not to wanting to keep touching him. “How are you, besides loosing Gemma? Everything going okay with you?” she asked him. Always asking everyone else how they were instead of talking about herself. Almost like she didn’t really matter. To be fair, she just didn’t want to sour the mood about talking about how some maniac had pulled her from the car crash that had killed Gemma. Kept her around for over a year, where he had experimented on her. Only telling her things, that he thought was relevant for himself. Kept in a glass cage where he could always look at her, like she had been some animal in a zoo.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Fre Jul 23, 2021 8:51 pm

The person who had turned her into a witch hadn’t taught her anything, and simply just left her to figure things out herself, with some help it seemed. He was curious in who was helping her and how they helped her. Did they even have any experience in being a witch? Not that he wished to flaunt himself, but he did have almost five hundred years of experience – just by being alive. She gave him a big smile, but it didn’t really fool him. It seemed like she didn’t really know much about anything of her new life – how long had she even been a witch by now? He wished to ask her so much more about how she had been, because he knew she had been missing, and it only woke so many questions, but it also seemed like right now wasn’t really the time to talk about what she had been through.
His eyes followed her movement as she got closer, his eyes even followed her arm, as she placed it on his arm. Some may think he didn’t appreciate her touch, but to be fair, he just wished for more. He really didn’t want her to stop touching him. He looked up at her as she asked about how he was doing. He blinked a little. How was he even? A smile bloomed on his lips and his eyes looked softly at her. “I’m much better, now that I’ve found you,” he said smiling softly. He wished to lean in and kiss her, but he also knew that it could be overwhelming for her. “I… I’m sorry that was very cliche” he said and furrowed his brows a little. He didn’t think much about it, but his hands had found their way to the top of her hips “How much do you know about the mark on your collarbone?” he said, trying to resist to pull her closer. Oh, how many old feeling that was string and how he just wished he had stayed with her all along.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Søn Jul 25, 2021 11:35 pm

The smile grew immensely big as his cheesy line slipped over his lips; she couldn’t help but laugh. A genuine whole heartly laugh. How long had it been since she had done that? She nodded as he confessed himself that it was very cliché “Very – don’t remember you to be this cheesy Oliver” she said with a soft smirk on her lips, eyes glowing with love for him. Even though he didn’t really registered that he had put her hands by her hips. She did. The rough skin from his fingers over her soft golden-brown skin. It was sending shivers down her spine, like she had never tried before, and it was hard for her to even catch her breath.

He asked about the mark on her collarbone, and she almost lost colour in her face when he did. Flashing images of Joel, that had removed the mark so many times that she had ended up losing count. Each time more painful than the other. Him always promising that it was the last one, but it never was.

She licked her lips and finally snapped out of the memories. “I know a little, mostly that it hurts when its removed, and it’s somehow tied to another person?” she explained what she knew and looked towards him. She knew it would be hard to keep hiding what really happened. Maybe it was just better explaining. “What happened to me, wasn’t voluntarily” her voice coming out in a slow whisper pulling her lips a little back keeping the many emotions about it at bay. She wanted to remember the good things, and repress everything that had happened the last year.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Man Jul 26, 2021 11:15 pm

Her smile and laugh was bewitching when she reacted to his cliché comment of how he was doing. He smiled charmingly at her as she said she didn’t remember him to be that cheesy, “You might be right, maybe I was more appropriate,” he announced with a slight smile. Her eyes seemed completely occupied with his, and to him, he only understood why, because it was only her he could see right now (the fact that there weren’t anyone else around was something else). Nothing could take his focus off her.

He noticed how it seemed like she got uncomfortable about him asking about the mark, which made him frown a little. Didn’t she know anything? She almost seemed to have gone into some kind of very short trance, and he didn’t really know if it was because she was trying to remember something about what the person had said, but he allowed her to take her time. He lightened his frown a little when she explained what she knew, it was correct. But had she already lost a mate? That must’ve been tragic. He wondered how long she had been a witch. His subconsciousness started to caress her a little around her hips as she explained that it hadn’t been voluntarily. He could almost imagine that it was the fewest created witches where it had happened voluntarily. Most often it had been a last resort. The way she said it and how her lips pulled back he could almost tell that it really hadn’t been easy for her to be turned into a witch. “I’m really sorry about that,” he said and let one of his hands remove a wet strand of her dark hair, before his hand found it’s way back to her hips. “I have a feeling that it has in no way been an adventure for you, and I’m sorry for what you must have gone through – but if you don’t feel like sharing your story, you don’t have to,” he said with a soft smile, allowing her to choose if she was ready to dig into details about how things had been. “I would love to tell you anything you need to know, if you want me to,” he suggested. Maybe he could both mentor her and be her mate? No matter what, he was sure that she would be a great student.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Lør Jul 31, 2021 7:41 pm

She felt how a lump had placed in the back of her throat, making it hard for her to breathe for a moment. Hard for her to do anything but to think about that, and then the feeling of his hands on her hips and how his thumps slowly glided over her naked skin. Sending almost what could be described as small electric burst going through her body.
Maddie swallowed and pressed down the feeling almost overwhelming her creating a small panic throughout her body. She was strong, she could handle telling him, but not right now, not here.
“I’ll tell you all about what happened –“ she let her tongue glide over her bottom lip. “But not when we are both wet, and out in the middle of nowhere” she laughed and looked at him. Could it be possible to miss someone so much? Even now, just standing there looking at each other, it was like he wasn’t close enough yet.

“I would love that” she said with a soft voice and couldn’t pull her eyes away. “Is this” she pulled her lip towards her with her teeth before realizing and pressing her brows slightly together. “Is this how it feels when you meet your mate?” she whispered slowly letting her hand place itself towards his cheek and let her thump glide over his cheekbone. She couldn’t help herself.
“It’s almost infuriating, that you are here, with me – but you are nowhere near enough”

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Aug 04, 2021 8:48 pm

Oliver nodded as if he understood what she was trying to tell him. She wanted to tell him, but not under these conditions, “Alright,” he chuckled trying to lighten the mood. The smile didn’t leave his lips as she said she would love for him to tell her anything she needed to know, and she didn’t hesitate to ask right away. The way she almost thought about her question made him swoon internally. He should’ve just have stayed with her. He breathed out softly, pulling on a smile. “Yes, it is,” he replied and felt how her hand found it’s way to his cheek. It was really difficult now to not just lean down and kiss her. He took a deeper breath in as she told her how she felt it was infuriating. One of his hands left her hip to grab her hand. “It is really infuriating,” he said and pulled her hand away. “Maddie, you should know there’s no going back if we first end up sealing the bond,” he informed her, before he bit his lower lip. Did she even know that? “D-do you know how the bond is sealed?” questioned. There were so many things he should tell her about the bond before he went and just took away her ‘freedom’. If she replied with yes, she knew how, he would ask her how it was sealed, just to be sure she didn’t just try and brush away his question.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Ons Aug 04, 2021 11:49 pm

She took in a deep breath as he pulled her hand away. Had she done something she shouldn’t have? Her eyes quickly shifted from intrigued to apologetic. The last thing she wanted was to make him comfortable. Especially as he agreed with her statement of it being infuriating. He quickly explained after. Her brows pushed together, no way back. What did that mean?
Her captor had never really explained it well. And the things she knew from being apart of a hunter family was the best way of getting to a witch was taking their claimed mate. But beyond that, what happened when you sealed the bond, she knew nowhere enough of what it would mean for her. For them.
“I –“ she licked her lips nervously, she knew he had said he could help her. But it still felt so weird for her to show him just how little she knew. “I’m sorry, I have no idea how you seal the bond or what happens after” she whispered feeling how a shiver ran through her body. Then there was something about rejecting a witch as their mate would kill them.
And she was still with Ethan, or at least they tried after she had gotten back after being abducted. And the last thing she wanted was to accidently reject being with Oliver. Afterall, she had never really stopped loving him, even after they had decided they couldn’t stay together.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Tors Aug 05, 2021 12:52 pm

He raised his brows a little as it seemed like she hesitated. He already knew by now, that she didn’t know, and now she apologized for the fact that she didn’t know. “Don’t worry, you never had the need to know before now,” he said somewhat calmly. “If you have sex with your mate, the bond seals,” he said and placed her hand on top of his name on her collarbone. “When the bond is sealed, you’re forever tied to your mate sexually. You’ll be able to know where your mate is, if they’re in trouble and how they’re feeling and some bonds make it possible for you to know what your mate thinks” he explained. It was all the ‘good’ things. “You won’t be able to be with anyone else without it feeling like an assault. But if the bond isn’t sealed and you’re with someone who’s not your mate, you’ll feel like something is missing,” He explained and drew a short breath and let the hand on his hip caress her a little. For a moment he stood and just adored her eyes before he took both of his hands back to himself, “I know, that if just follow my instincts… And kiss you… We won’t be able to hold back,” he said and could feel how this felt heavy on his heart. “I am not saying you have to decide anything right now, because I want you to think this through,” he gave her the opportunity to choose herself another life – without him.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Tors Aug 05, 2021 1:14 pm

She couldn’t really help it as soon as the words sex left his lips her tongue unconsciously glided over her lips while letting her eyes travel. She remembered how it had felt before, and the goosebumps and the shivers running down her spine, almost left her breathless for a second. She had to close her eyes as his hand found the mark on her collarbone and had a hard time actually listing him explaining what would happen after the bond had been sealed.

Wait, she wouldn’t be able to be with anyone, ever again? What if she was with Oliver and they suddenly figured out that they couldn’t stay together? Then, tough luck? What if it was wrong, and they weren’t meant to be together like that. If it had meant to be, it would have been them in America. And not Gemma. Oh, how it at had hurt, when she figured out that she knew the woman quite intimately that was going to spend the rest of her life with Oliver. When she had found out they were getting married.
What if fate was wrong?
Her green eyes opened and looked into his eyes. Kiss you. How she wished they could. But she had Ethan right now. Even as it was clear for her, that somehow, in someway it would never end up being them in the end. She needed time, time to say goodbye. So, they both could part on something happier than her being taken away from him like she had been the first time.
It took all her strength to pull out of his embrace, and she folded her arms around her. “You’re right, I, I need time to decide” she licked her lips “but we should, definitely see each other again, I just, I need to go I have someone that is waiting for me, and I hadn’t really noticed just how late it had become” she found her phone that was still run out of juice and popped open the cover where a still intact an undamaged old business card from when she had worked with Zitora. “So, yeah” she leaned towards him and placed a quick kiss towards his cheek. Regretting it almost right away because her body was begging for more. But she managed to pull away. “See you another time, right?” she started walking towards the way she thought would be back to the car, only to stop up and then walk back again. “Wrong way” she said slightly embarrassed and walked towards the car to get home to Ethan.

Emne: Sv: What happens now? Tors Aug 05, 2021 2:05 pm

Fate was cruel to witches sometimes. But in the long run the mates the witches were put up with functioned very well. He knew he would be happy with Madelaine forever. He was so certain. He had been living for almost five-hundred years. They had been a blast most of them, but he knew he would love the years after so much more if he was with her. He nodded a bit as she agreed that she needed time to decide. He also had some idea, that she wouldn’t be able to stay near him right now, since the unsealed bond between them just screamed to get more attention. “It’s alright, go see who you need to see,” he said and pulled on a soft smile. He nodded to her before she placed at quick kiss on his cheek. He closed his eyes, restraining himself from doing anything to her. He didn’t want her to regret her actions. “See you another time,” he repeated, still with his eyes closed and listened to which way she went, only to realize she was coming back. He opened his eyes and drew a big breath in, listening to how she said it was the wrong way and passed him. “Drive safe,” he exhaled. For a moment he just stayed there and stared at the view. He then eyed his clothing before he whispered a spell to dry his clothing, so he could get fully dressed and hopefully get on with his day.

//Out.