Chapter 168: Giving Her A Hint

Tali

The first thing I did was give myself permission to just feel. Just for one to feel all of the bullshit. At first I rather freaked everyone out by my sadness and tears, so I pretty much stayed in our rooms. I spent time with Jareth just soaking him in. He was such a healing salve to me. My mates just held me and supported me while I momentarily fell apart.

Then I pulled myself back together and went out and joined everyone, as I realized they needed to see me, and see me functioning. Whether I liked it or not, I had somehow become an important part of this whole thing. So, I climbed out of my hole and went back out among everybody.

“Okay, the meager flashes I saw were seriously fucked up, so tell me you're okay.” Gihanna sat across from me at the table for breakfast and just watched.

“Well, isn't “okay” one of those relative terms?” She gave me a put out look.

“How about I'm better than I was, and right now I'm perfectly fine with that. The rest will come a bit at a time. I think it will take us all a bit of time to truly reach the “okay” stage again.” She nodded and sighed.

“I know you're right, I was just worried. So, condensed version, what happened, because as I said my visions were fucked up.” She shivered slightly.

“Well, truthfully, they probably weren't far off. I was pulled to Paul, my stepfather, who is truly evil. I was finally able to watch him die. The guys all got pulled in with me when I panicked about it being him, although, I think they would have been disappointed if they hadn’t been able to help me kill him. Now, I have one more of those bastards to go, and that cleans up from those papers we found about them.” She nodded.

“Yeah, when you asked me I saw that they were tangled up with you, and I saw some things that were hideous, so I purposefully didn’t try to see a whole lot more. Sometimes I feel so invasive when I see things about people, especially when it’s about their past and shit that happened to them. I always think if someone wants me to know, they’ll fucking tell me. However, sometimes my visions do not adhere to that motto. So, I saw some, enough to not be sad in any way that they are dead, or I guess one is dead the other soon will be.” She smiled at me and I chuckled.

“No doubt about that.” Cerberus said as he sat next to me at the table, cupped my chin to turn my face to him, then kissed me gently, but thoroughly. I had noticed the guys making sure to touch me and kiss me, I guess wanting me to know nothing about this bullshit changed how tey felt about me or something. Which was sweet, I will admit.

“Well, maybe if you think really hard to baby girl and talk to her about who needs to die, she’ll be cooperative and help you get there?” She smiled, got up and went over to Sihilich and sat, kissing his cheek, and he turned to grin at her and kissed her back.

I smiled, “Did she just drop a damn hint?” I looked at Cerberus who was grinning.

“Let’s hope so, love.” He kissed me again and then went to go get some food and probably check in with the pack.

So, I took her advice, and I started thinking to her about this horrible man who was very evil and needed to die. I thought about his face, I thought about all of the others who he had hurt and all of that shit. I hoped she would be able to pick it up at some point.

It took nearly 2 weeks before I ended up dream walking into another dream that was not my own. Again, just as with Paul, this felt different. This felt personal, so I had a feeling it had finally worked and this was what we had been waiting for. I thought to the guys, trying to pull them in, it wasn’t working and I was getting distressed. So, then I opened a door and went into a room full of cages, and they were all full, everywhere I turned there were sad and hurt faces, just like there used to be.

Then when that overwhelming emotion hit me, finally they got pulled in with me. I guess I had to be in distress of some type for them to enter this with me. It was good to know that happened, but it was annoying. I couldn't just will them here before I lost my shit.

I had my hands over my mouth as I saw all of them, trapped in those cages. Off to another side of what was actually a huge room was a stage. Fuck, this was one of his buying events, where he was planning on selling these people.

The guys came close, supporting me while they looked around, “Baby, is this what we think it is, is he here?”

“Yes, it’s one of his selling and buying things. I haven’t seen him yet, but yes, I know he’s here somewhere.” They nodded and we moved forward.

Finally I saw him, and I almost threw up. He was sitting at a large curved couch, there were men all around him. They had women in various states of undress wearing collars and showing signs of torment. He had his hand wrapped around one’s hair, forcing her mouth to move up and down on him as she practically suffocated. He belittled and humiliated her while he was basically killing her, which was very much like him.

Then for the 1st time I saw something I had never seen before, his eyes started to glow a slight red, like just a hint of the tint glowing out from behind his usual eye color, which was freaky as well.

“He's a dark Fae.” That was all Cerberus said, before he walked behind him and stood there.

Anthony looked up and saw him, his eyes got huge, then he turned and saw all of us. He was surprised but he also looked at me with utter hate. Then before he could manage to utter a word, Cerberus lengthened his claws, and ripped out his throat. Then on top of that, he ripped his whole head off.

I looked at him with tears streaming down my face but nothing but love. Then we were all yanked back out, and sat up in our bed, in our room. Once again, they gathered me close and held me while I lost my shit and cried out the years I had been tortured and tormented at his hands.

Now, they are both finally dead. Now, we had to find Raphael and Shaitan and we could finally end this fucking war.