Dath Dragnost
I ward the door. Making sure nobody can get in, and my woman can’t get out. I leave a note on the bed as she lies there fast asleep, because I don’t know how long I’ll be gone for. Because I have two tasks to tend to, that my rage won’t let me hold off on a second longer. Even though it feels like a crime to not lay there and hold her as she sleeps.
I make one stop. One I don’t want to make. But need to. When I tell him my plan. He just nods and follows me in my shadows.
First task is Ruckus. And imagine my surprise when I slip into his bedroom and he’s laying fast asleep with my other “task”. I should slit their fucking throats. Be done with them. Maybe I will.
I cast the room in even darker shadows than the ones of the night. They’ll know it’s me. There’s nobody else that currently wields shadows as power within the guard.
I sit in a chair across the room. Letting my shadows curl from my feet, across the floor and lift up, and slip up the side of the bed where their naked bodies lie in a peaceful sleep.
I can see them through the pitch black that fills the room, because only I can see through my own shadows. When they wake , they’ll see nothing. But fell, absolutely , fucking , everything I’m about to do to them.
I let the curls of shadow wrap around both of their necks simultaneously, hearing their gasps a second before their bodies jerk and their hands wave and clasp at the shadows they have no power over. Their hands slip right through the darkness embracing their throats. My shadow pull, forcing them to sit up. Then, my shadows lift , and pull them to the side and slam them to the wall. Both of their naked bodies dangling and kicking and thrashing. Hands still grabbing at their throats. Their own nails clawing at their skin as they try to release themselves.
Their eyes are full of panic and fear and I feel my mouth slip into a grin. I stand slowly as the sounds of them choking fill the room along with the thud of the backs of their feet and legs kicking and thrashing against the wall.
I walk through the dark , giving them just enough air to keep them alive.
I’m standing right in front of them, the shadows thick enough that they don’t even see it coming. My fist flies first toward Ruckus, cracking him exactly in the same place he punched Salayna. I feel the skin split. And it splits harder and wider than the punch he dealt her.
“They say Eye for an eye. But me?” I growl and see their eyes widen impossibly further at the sound of my voice. “Me, I always take more than what I’m fucking owed.”
I punch him again right where I first hit him. His head flying and then I’m dealing Renaya the same blow. Her head slams sideways and off the wall and I release my shadows and drop them both. Letting them crash to the floor as they grab their throats while choking and gasping for the breaths that I allow.
“I’ll…kill…you” Ruckus croaks as he aims to get up.
“I’d like to see you fucking try.” I growl and my foot swings and makes contact with the side of his head. My heavy boot sending him to the side , his head knocking against Renayas who is also still choking for breath and then clasping her head.
“You both owe me a fucking rib.” I growl and then am landing a blow to Renayas chest. Hearing the crack in her chest and the howl of pain. My nostrils flaring as I then pivot and land one right in Ruckus’s side and hear him wheeze as his ribs crack.
“Did I say one?” I ask calmly. But I’m anything but fucking calm.
“My mistake.” I say as I kick Ruckus again in his ribs on the other side and he groans. Renaya screeches and fucking cries as kick her in the other side of her ribs. Both of them on their sides. Holding their deserved broken ribs as they struggle to fucking breathe and move.
“Knew you were …fucking…the loyalist slut” Ruckus bites out between groans.
I place my palm on the hilt of my dagger, draw it out and crouch down as my shadows grab him , pull his head up and he garbles on air as my shadows grab his tongue.
I slash the blade across his outstretched tongue. My shadows slip away as the meat of his tongue falls with a wet slap to the floor as he screams in agony.
Renaya can’t see what’s happening. But she can hear it.
“Please!” She cries. Shaking in fear as she tries to crawl away. I let her. Only for a few moments as I grab Ruckus by the throat.
“I’d dare you to say it again, but looks like cats for your tongue….no…I do…” I say as I scoop it up, blood on my hands, and blood pouring like a river from his mouth as I fist his hair and shove the piece of flesh into his mouth with a growl and my fingers push it down his fucking throat. He gags. On his blood, on his own fucking tongue.
“SWALLOW IT” I growl as I force his mouth shut. Grinning as I glare at him in a way he can’t see. He chokes and thrashes and tries to escape me, tries not to swallow his own severed tongue.
He manages to choke it down and cries like a fucking baby as the front of his chest is covered in blood.
“You won’t remember this, any of it, other than what I’m about to tell you…”
“Stay. The. Fuck. Away. From Salayna Silveri Salt.” I growl and then grab his head and smash the back of it into the wall. Through it.
I leave him to writhe and groan in pain as I stand and walk over to Renaya who is slapping her hands on the floor and wall and dresser trying to the find the door. I watch her shake violently with hope as she finds it. Hands reaching up. Sliding over it frantically and grabbing the door knob.
“No” she cries when she realizes it’s locked. Not by the mechanism but by powers , lesser magic she doesn’t know yet how to use.
I snatch her by the hair and she screams as I drag her across the room and throw her onto the bed.
“No! Please!” She cries in agony.
She probably thinks I’m about to do the worst thing you could do to a woman. But even if I was that kind of fucking man, I wouldn’t stick my fucking dick in a woman that hurt mine.
“You put your hands on Salayna again, and I’ll fucking slit your fucking throat” I growl and punch her in the face. Once again. Twice again. Pounding my fists until her face is mangled and she’s knocked the fuck out.
Then I go back to Ruckus who is still groaning. Weeping in his own fucking blood.
I kick him in the back. The head. The ribs. Again. Again. Till he too is nothing but dead weight on the floor.
The door opens and I feel a hand on my shoulder. Turning and ready to fucking strangle the person behind me. My shadows wrapping around their throat.
My eyes widening and then my shadows releasing him.
Rylus. The stop I had to make. The only person who could erase minds. He wasn’t able to wipe them entirely. Just short stretches of time. And I was currently going over the time limit he gave me to handle the two people who hurt the girl we both care about. Whether he buys it or not that I’m simply doing it for my group, I don’t care.
“Get out of here.” He whispers.
I breathe hard. Still only seeing red.
“I’ve got it from here.” He says as he urges me to leave again.
“You need to leave. NOW Captain Dragnost.” He warns and I turn my head. My shadows fading and curling back into me. The room is still dark, but it’s the natural kind that your eyes can adjust do, not the abyss of black that my shadows create.
I take off. Trusting him. Knowing that maybe I shouldn’t. But I do. Because as much as I hate to admit it, I know he cares enough about her to cover up my revenge. Loves her enough. I snarl as I run. Making it back to my room and undoing the wards and opening my door.
“If you ever lock me in your room again I’ll- !!” Her voice cuts off when she sees me.
Her eyes are wide with shock. Horror. Then they pinch. Angry. She’s so fucking angry.
And just when I think I’m going to be confused to get yelled at for locking her in she’s across the room in nothing but my shirt and her hands are grabbing my wrists and looking down at my bloody hands. Down at the splotches of deep wet black on my boots and pants. The tracks of blood on the floor my boots. She’s shaking.
“Are you hurt?” She asks. The sound of her voice is the only thing giving me pain right now. She’s worried. For me. She’s scared. For me.
“No.” I say softly as her hands refuse to believe me and she pulls at my shirt and pushes it up and her soft delicate hands search my skin beneath and she’s circling me. Checking my back and her hands are on my arms and then she’s around me again and reaching up and grabbing my face and turning it side to side. Her worried hands and expression make me smile.
“Why the fuck are you SMILING ?! what the hell happened to you?!” She says and shoves my chest and I laugh when she immediately jerks her hands back as if she hurt me. Then reaches out and places her hands on my chest in a silent apology and worry that she might’ve hurt me. I look down at her , those eyes, that face. That beautiful, maddeningly perfect , irresistible fucking face of her.
“YOU happened….babe.” I say and she blinks at me.
“What do you do Dath?” She asks. Her breath short and panicked. Her eyes searching mine.
“Just taught a small lesson to a few people that are lucky I didn’t slit their throats.” I say. Confirming for her that I handled her attackers. While also confirming that I didn’t actually kill them.
“You didn’t have to -“
I lift my hand. Grabbing her jaw and tilting it up even further. The blood I spilled for her , smearing on her skin as I grip her chin.
“Nobody. Touches you.” I bite out.
She sucks in a breath and just stares back at me.
“Nobody gets away with hurting MY fucking woman.” I growl and she exhales , her breath shaking her as I back her up towards the bed.
“How are your ribs?” I ask. Knowing she’s probably mostly healed by now , other than maybe a little ache in her ribs. The bruise of her face is gone, the bump in her head was gone earlier before I left. with the healers powers mainly fixing her it was just the left over pains that kept her recovering earlier.
“They’re…fine” she asks.
“Hmm” I hum as I drop my hand and grab my shirt and pull it off. Wiping my hands. My face and then tossing the bloodied shirt to the floor as she takes several deep breaths.
“You can’t possibly want to have sex right now” she says in shock.
“Oh. I assure you, I very much DO want to have sex right now.” I say as I undo my pants. Her eyes follow my movements.
“What did you do to them?” She asks. I smirk as I drop my pants.
“Let’s save the chit chat for after I fuck you Silver” I say and then gently push her onto the bed.