The Guardian (2 page)

The Officer shoves John, but not moving him
too far. “I need to know why you do not even have a scratch on you
after an accident like that.”

“
I wonder myself every day as I pray
for death on most days.” Screamed back John to Marco’s verbal
attacks “What do you want from me?!” John screamed “I loved your
sister with every breath I have ever taken since the day I met her!
I fucking keep waking up to the smell of her blood and her praying
to God for him to spare her! I was not driving the damn
car!”

Officer Marco just glared at John and
rebutted,” Yeah well, every night I get to hear my mom cry herself
to sleep. Sobbing the whole night and then I have to help my father
to his new sleeping spot on the couch after he passes out at the
table from drinking all day. You have no family to morn you. Why
did you get to live?”

“
How the fuck am I supposed to know? I
guess I was on God’s torture list. I keep seeing your sister reach
for me in my dreams and everyone tell me I was ejected from the car
and my memories are not real, how do you think I feel? Dying that
night would have been better!”

“
HEY!” Shouted a third voice from
another Officer ‘What the fuck are you doing? Are you torturing
this kid again? You are twisted man. You need a lot of couch
time.”

“
This is none of your business,” fired
back Officer Marcos “this is a personal issue!” “This little sick
twisted torturous fetish you have with this boy is done. The next
time I hear about you disturbing this boy I am going to have your
badge.” Captain Fisher retorted.

Officer Marcos stormed off swearing under
his breath. “You alright boy?” John just shook his head and said
“It is what it is, thank you.” “If it wasn’t for him getting so
many thugs off the street, I would bust him back to meter
maid.”

“
No no don’t, he lost his sister and
she was the world to him. This is not who he is at all Captain. I
swear. He used to be a really good man.”

“
You have not had it easy either boy.”
Yeah, but I also do not have to see my family falling apart like he
does.” The Captain looked at John in disbelief not believing a
broken young man have so much love for someone who wanted to cause
him so much pain. “Alright boy, if there is any other run ins, give
me a call.”

“
No, need sir.” John said as he
started to walk away and head towards home.

He could not believe that he was so happy to
see his ran down apartment with his rusted half broken bead from
the 60’s, in the old dilapidated apartment building that was mostly
occupied by people that had already given up on life. Most of the
people lived off of Government checks and the others were taking
whatever job they could get to just make ends meet. It seemed a
fitting place for someone who wanted to die instead of living. He
crawled into bed kicking off his shoes one at a time. Pulling his
pillow close and praying for a better day when he awoke.

The late evening quickly drifted into late
night, where the dream began to take place again. Again, he was in
the burning car with his girlfriend reaching out for him as his
friends hung unconscious from the accident. He reached his hand out
to the girl he loved trying to give her comfort and hope as she
wept and begged for salvation from this horrendous accident that
their lives hung in the balance from. Right as his and her finger
tips began to brush each other trying for a grasp, John felt a
strong grip on his ankle and quickly seen himself being ripped away
from his college sweetheart; seeing himself being flung through the
hair slamming into a dumpster, but feeling two soft hands behind
his head protecting his head from the impact and he could feel his
face fully cushioned by a woman’s bosom. He could hear the
explosion and feel this angelical creature shielding him from the
blast. He could feel the impact hit her and she pushed back doing
her best not trying to allow it to harm him. He could hear her
grinding her teeth in pain. The blast was so strong it rammed the
dumpster that he had landed against clean up onto the wall that was
behind it. How could this woman have the strength to push back
against this blow and protect him? She held him close for a few
seconds afterwards and pulled back slightly aligning their eyes to
each other, so she could see his condition. Her eyes were a
haunting icy blue and somewhat green, but he felt safe and somewhat
at home gazing into them.

Suddenly, an obnoxiously loud and rapid
knock was coming from his door that startled him out of his sleep.
It was Marcos screaming” Wake the fuck up now! Get your ass moving
we have got to go now!”

“
What the hell is going on?” John
leaped out of bed heading for the door and preparing for the
worst.

As soon as John turned the tumblers to the
door Marcos shoved his way into the room “Get your shit on,” Marcos
spouted” Mom is going hysterical balling her eyes out asking for
you.”

“
What? What happened?” “I am telling
you she has been off her rocker ever since the accident. Here your
shoes get them on and hurry the fuck up, I do not want her in the
funny house.”

John quickly strapped on his shoes and
bolted out the door with Marcos. Both men were on a full out sprint
towards Marcos’s parent’s house.

“
I am telling you man,” Marcos said
while being half out of breath “mom is not the same as you
remember. I am hoping to God you can calm her down.”

“
I love your family and will do my
best.” Both of the erupted into the house heading to the living
room where Marcos put his arm out to stop John for a moment” O.K,
John catch your breath. We can’t have her seeing us like this.”
John nodded to Marcos. Oddly John did not seem winded.

“
Is that my baby’s Johnny out there I
here?” came from a sorrowful woman’s voice inside the doorway of
her room “come here sweetie. I miss you and my baby”

The woman broke into an uncontrollable
weeping fit. She had her arms out for John to come and embrace her.
John sat at the edge of the bed and pulled her up to him allowing
her to kiss him on his head and he too began cry.” We are your
family and we need you to be a part of it even though she is
gone.”

“
Mom, I know not what to say. I miss
her so bad and wish it had been me and not her.” John said with
great pain in his swollen and crackling voice.

“
I know, you have always been good to
her. Nothing was your fault, baby.” “Mom I am going down to check
on dad”

“
Alright, I am sure he needs some
slowing down.”

She held John tightly in her arms slightly
rocking him like a small child.“Baby, you are not to blame. I lost
my daughter and do not want to lose you too.” John sat up pulling
himself away from her, trying to calm down.

“
You won’t, mom, but I think I need to
leave for a while and get my head straight,” John said in a sobbing
voice “ I need time to figure out what is going on with my head and
to try and get rid of these nightmares.”

Sandra sat for a moment looking at this boy
and started to caress his face with one hand “Baby, maybe you need
to get away and not have so many reminders, but where would you go?
You have no family to speak of.” “I think maybe Europe I keep
seeing Europe in my dreams, which are not nightmares.”

In a cold drafty castle off of the Baltic
Sea were several people walking through a corridor as on dirty
blonde stood staring out the window at the blackened night, looking
out at the star covered sky. “Galechka, I have some questions for
you.” came from a tall European man’s voice with a slight lisp in
it. ”Not again, your questions are growing so tiresome,” she
responded in a cold and defiant voice. “Why oh why, did you save
that dirty human in the States? I did that was it and it is over!”
“It was a risky gamble you took that could have exposed us to the
humans. How could you do it for a human that you had never met and
certainly was not even your familiar?” Drakus said with a
commanding voice. “Why are you so troubled by this? I am not your
woman and this is not your coven!” The doors bursted open and there
stood Adela the leader of their coven. She glared at Drakus and
headed toward Galechka placing her hand on her shoulder and
whispered to Galechka “Is he ever going to understand that you are
not interest?” Galechka just laughed at the comment. ”Drakus, this
is my coven and I am the only one that can question anyone about
anything pertaining to this coven. Do you understand this?” Adela
said with a voice that was oddly beautiful but had a smoky sound to
it that was full of power. “But, but she placed us all in danger,
Adela.” He said in a more emasculated voice. As the two women
walked went to another room to talk alone.

Adela was close upon two thousand years and
was one of the strongest still alive. She herself being one of the
few ancients left had acquired a lot of strength through the years.
You see a vampire gets stronger and gains other abilities the
longer they are alive. There are only three other ancients left on
Earth besides the ghost stories of a shadow group that the ancients
are afraid of and do not mention.

“My dear I must also ask: what
compelled you to do such an act?” Adela asked as she poured herself
a tall glass of wine in her favorite goblet.”
Galechka, I am waiting for your answer and my reasons are not
to cut you down or judge you. My dear girl I am hopeful that your
action was a sign of hope.” “What do you mean? I do not understand
what you mean by a sign of hope.” Galechka looked puzzled at this
line of questioning from the woman that turned her only a few years
ago. Galechka was one of the youngest, but a bit stronger than a
normal vampress of her years. “My dear there are things that you do
not know about the true history of vampires that I am banned from
speaking of,” Adela said while motioning for Galechka to take a
goblet of wine herself “I chose you, because I could feel something
unusual about you. As a human you had were different from others
and as a vampress you are also different. I believe you will be a
great asset to our coven and maybe someday lead it.” “That is nice
of you, but I think you over estimate me, Adela. How could me
saving one human be a sign?” Adela patted the open cushion on the
sofa, motioning for Galechka to take a seat beside her. Gazing into
the fire Adela begun “There used to be another race that was very
rare born out of the humans, it was born to belong to one vampress.
You see it was always a male that belonged to a female vampire and
no other way. We called them Guardians, because to the female the
belonged to they would give their lives to protect. After the
Guardian meets his vampress, he starts to gain strength very
rapidly; so rapidly that it made the ancients nervous.” Adela
turning towards Galechka placing her hand on her lap” What I tell
you next can never leave this room. If it did it could cause the
end of us both, do you understand me dear?” Galechka replied back
“What you tell me stays with me forever.” “That is good, because
this is forbidden knowledge that is punished by pain of death to
whoever speaks of it. I was the last to have a Guardian and watched
him lose his life trying to save my own. The ones that we mustn’t
speak of, I believe were at the root of the order of his death. I
need to ask you a few questions. Answer as honestly as you can, I
know it is difficult to explain something’s.” “Yes of course I will
my mistress.” Adela drew in a nervous breath that was not usual for
her before asking “Why did you vanish from us and go to the
States?” Galechka sat for a moment without moving before replying”
I have no idea at all. One morning, I had awoken and felt a need to
go to that very spot. Strangely, it was as if I was on auto pilot
like something or someone else was controlling me. I knew where to
be and almost knew what was needed before hand. I had never seen
him before that night.” “Has anything else happened since this
moment?” Adela asked with full attention on Galechka. “I have
dreams that seem like I am seeing his life. I can feel his pain
sometimes, but they are only dreams.” Adela did not seem socked or
surprised by this news. “Tell no one of these feelings and dreams.
We could be witnessing something that I have been praying for.
Galechka, we are having a lot of pressure from the other coven
headed by the other ancients. I believe, they are each becoming
more and more hungry for power and I am a lot younger than them. If
I had to face one to protect my coven I would not last long. If
your little human shows up do not be surprised.” “What do you mean?
He has no idea where I am, who I am or even my name.” Adela smiled
and said we will see.

As the sun crept into John’s room from the
morning son, John sat up feeling different than usual. John was now
dreaming of this beautiful woman that seems to have saved his life
in his dreams. Who is she? Could she be real? All John knew was he
felt like a new man and was ready for his morning run. After
stretching, he went into the bathroom and did all the usual morning
routines except when it came time to take his pills. He took them
in hand and just looked at them before placing them back into the
bottle. He sighed and headed for the door and began to jog as soon
as he hit the street. He was up to running six miles a day and did
not feel a need for his pills, but felt an urge to leave this
town.

As John entered into the building that
hosted his support group he paused and made up his mind, that today
was the last day he would be in town. He walked up to Tom since he
was a half hour early and said” Tom, we need to talk.” “Well than,
speak.” Today, is my last day in town, I have decided to leave town
and clear my head.” Tom looked shocked and surprised with this
sudden out coming. “What about group? Do you feel like you can
afford to back slide and not see any more growth?” Tom questioned.”
I feel the group is not helping me as much as me moving on. Do you
think it is healthy for us to just sit here day after day and not
experience any new chapters in life?” Tom looked angry it perplexed
him how people just leave group and think they can get better
without a professional. ”Oh, I am sorry I thought I was the one
with the training and education in helping people through their
problems and not you.” “Come on Tom; don’t put your ego into this.
I need a change of scenery for a while. Anyways, I am leaving
tonight on the first plane.” “Great just run away from all your
problems and see how things go.” John snickered and shook his head
before leaving. Clearly, Tom needed some couch time himself to get
over his overly inflated head.