Chapter 930: Chapter 115- Talia – Confrontation Part 2 (VOLUME 5)
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Talia
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I felt like I couldn’t breathe. What was happening? My parents knew what these men were? Who they were? And they were still willing to talk to them.
“MOM!?” I screamed at her. “These men have killed our people, and you act like it’s nothing at all. How!? How are you able to do this to our people?!” I screamed at her as I felt the pain start to surge inside of me.
“I have never hurt anyone, and I never will.” The man that had spoken earlier spoke up with a terrified tone to his voice. “I swear that I will never hurt anyone. Please, you must believe me.”
“Believe you?” I snapped at him angrily. I could see almost nothing but red as my rage flooded through my veins. “You want me to trust you.” I tasted the man’s fear in the air in the room. It was thickening as he looked at me and the anger that was evident on my face. Or maybe he could just feel it rolling off of me. “I will never trust you. You are a liar and a murderer.”
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“I swear that I am not.” The man seemed to sob as he shrank away from me.
“We have not killed anyone. We would never. We are afraid of our family.” The other man spoke up. His accent was thicker than the other man’s, but I was still able to understand him perfectly. “I love Alyssa, she is my soulmate. I would never do anything to hurt her, or her people.”
“You cannot be her soulmate. You are human for one thing, and for two you are a monster.”
“Talia!” Mom snapped at me angrily as I yelled at the man. “That is enough.”
“Mom?” I was confused. What was going on here? What was happening? “They are part of that family.”
“I know, Talia. They were brought here to answer for their family’s crimes, but they are innocent. And until they are no longer innocent, they will be safe in our home. I will not let anyone here become the monsters that they have been told that we are. That would not be the right way to handle this situation.” She was trying to be rational and calming, but her voice was telling me just how angry that she was at me.
“You haven’t seen what I have seen, Mom.” I yelled back at her. I was not going to back down here. “I have seen what these men do. I have seen it in person.”
“What do you mean?” The man with the more boyish face asked me with eyes that clearly said that he didn’t believe me.
“Clovio, now is not the time.”
“Clovio?” I snapped at him. “You are Clovio? So, you are the boy that my sister likes. And that must mean that you are Warrick.” I glared at the silent boy.
“Yes, I am Clovio, and he is Warrick.” The man nodded and didn’t even try to deny it.
“Well, Clovio, let me tell you what I have seen. And I am not just talking about the numerous dead bodies that have been left behind by your family. Those were horrifying and heartbreaking all at the same time, but that wasn’t the worst of it. Last week I had a vision. I dreamt of a girl that was about to have a date with someone that she liked. Only this man got to her before she could go on her date. He did something to her to make her go into some sort of trance. He carved runes onto her body that basically paralyzed her. He then raped her and murdered her.”
“H..he raped her?” Clovio looked appalled by what he heard. “Th..that isn’t right. H..he shouldn’t have done that.”
“Oh, but you have nothing to say about the fact that he murdered her?” I snapped at him. “That doesn’t seem to bother you at all though, does it? The more of my people that die the better, right?” I was breathing heavily as I screamed at him. “You don’t care as long as he doesn’t fuck one of us, right?” My anger was making me devolve into a vulgar and hateful person, but I couldn’t help it.
“Th..that’s not what I meant.” Clovio was shaking his head. “I..I can’t stop them. I..if I did, I would be killed. I have lost friends, brothers, cousins, people that I care about. They wanted to stop the planned attacks. They wanted to save our family from this evil that seems to be plaguing them. They failed though, and they were killed for it.”
“That is bullshit!” I snapped at him.
“No, Talia, he is telling the truth. I have found proof of this in the mansion. The one that we were to explore together, but then you all got the phone call about the murders in the states.” Uncle Dietrich walked over toward me. I knew that he was a good guy, but I was so angry that he was being lumped in with the others just because he was daring to oppose me.
“You’re lying. I know you’re lying to me. You’re probably just trying to protect them because they are related to that man that you used to know. And they are from Germany just like you. You’ve turned sides.”
“ENOUGH!” Uncle Shawn stepped between me and Uncle Dietrich with angry eyes. “You are out of line, Talia.” He was glaring at me, breathing heavily. “You need to calm down and listen.”
“No, Uncle Shawn, they need to listen. Those men are going to kill again. They are going to kill my friends. I saw it.”
“I don’t know how you saw it, Talia, but I know that you are right. And I don’t want it to happen either.” Clovio was speaking directly to me now. His eyes seemed calm despite the fear that was on his face. Maybe he thought that my family would protect him from me if it came down to it. I wasn’t going to hurt him though, that would make me no better than his family.
“I not only saw it, but the leader in their group, the one that raped that girl, he spoke to me in my vision. And he hurt me too.” I took a step toward him as I pulled my sleeve up. Lex was on guard though, and he wrapped an arm around me protectively as I stepped in front of Clovio and Warrick. “Do you see this? They are healing, slowly, but they are there. The man that was the leader of the group in my vision did this to me, and he wasn’t even really there. This man did this to me.” I reached into my pocket and pulled out the picture that I had drawn of the killer. “This man was the one that I saw doing all those horrible things.”
Lucas and Westin hadn’t been at the meeting, so they hadn’t heard all of this yet, so they were as shocked as Clovio and Warrick. No one would believe it if they hadn’t seen it. How was it possible that someone was able to interact with me in a vision like that? A premonition that hadn’t even happened yet? This means that the man’s spirit was what was aware of me or something? It was confusing to me, and I knew that there were no answers that would be coming my way anytime soon.
“H..he did that to you?” Clovio was looking at the bruises with eyes that were wide open. “C..Claud did that? I..in a vision?” He looked from the bruises up to my eyes in slow motion. “H..how? How did he do that?”
“I don’t know.” I snapped, this time it was more out of frustration than anything else. “I just know that he is the one that left these marks on me. And if it wasn’t for him, I might not be having these visions at all.”
I didn’t know how to prove it. I didn’t know how to even explain it to my family, but I had a feeling that my visions were only coming to me because of that man. I don’t know if he killed anyone in the other countries, but he was killing them here, and I was seeing a vision for each time that it happened close to home.
I could be wrong though. Maybe it was just the proximity to the place that I called home. Maybe it was just because these murders were the ones that I personally would be the most terrified by. What the man did to that girl in California, and what he was planning to do to the girls that I went to school with, that was terrifying enough to make me not want to leave the house ever again.
“I..I need to go.” I turned and started to leave the room. I needed to get away from these people. I needed to stop looking at these men that only made me think about death and murders. I needed to be alone. I didn’t even want Lex anywhere near me.
“Talia?” Mom called after me.
“Tally!?” Dad sounded scared as he yelled after me.
“Talia?” Lex was the next to call my name, but he was already coming after me. I needed to get away from him. I needed to be alone. I just couldn’t bear to have him look at me when I was crying, not again. So, I created a door and stepped through it into my room. Once I was in there, I slammed the magic behind me, stopping him from coming after me. After that, knowing that he would come to check my room first, I created a barrier around my room so that I was alone in my own space. I was able to think, and to cry, in peace.
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