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Old Wounds

Published: May 11, 2017

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Everything in my vision was swimming.

And not in the literal meaning. Though, there have been a few times throughout my years that I have played around with magic. Which ended up either making a room flood, or making everything in a room float whily nily. However, this wasn't one of those times.
This was one of the extremely, and I mean Extremely, rare times that the room swimming, was a side effect of something happening to me.
Currently, it was the fault of the open wounds on both my arm, and chest. Both wounds were old, or at least they were before my time with Gloria caused them to resurface. I'm not entirely sure how long had passed since I got back. Nor did I know how long it had been since Ariel had run out to grab something. All I knew, was that she had been gone abnormally long, and my sense of time was completely off. Everything just sort of melted into one big painful memory.

Hiding. Hiding the wounds, hiding the fact I hadn't actually fallen asleep with Ariel since I got back, hiding when I did fall asleep.

A whole bunch of hiding, and it didn't get any easier. You try hiding when you suddenly wake up in your office, holding back any movement or noise, because you fear the pain you just relived would become all too noticeable if you did.

Now, don't get the wrong idea. I don't Like lying and hiding things from Ariel, it's just one of those times I have to. Well.. Honestly, it's a Want to situation. If I'm honest with myself, the reason I haven't told Ariel is because I'm being selfish. If I acknowledge that, there is indeed a problem, then I can no longer ignore it. Not that I have the choice to ignore it anymore. Anyway, it's because I'm selfish. I couldn't stand the idea of making Ariel worry, again not much of a choice now, and honestly just wanted to go back to just being with her. Those weeks I spent away from her, were part of the series of worst days of my long life. In such a short time, I had become dependent on her. Which I'm going to admit, but will deny to my last breath, scared me. In just a few months I had fell in love, and I had fallen fast and hard.
Back to my selfish reasons, I had kept everything secret, and I can't say I'm surprised that it came back to bite me the way it did. When I first got back, it was easy to play off everything on just being tired from being imprisoned, but after a while that wore off. I began have to get up before Ariel, and after carefully slipping out of bed without waking her, walk into the bathroom. It became a habit. Slip out of bed, walk into bathroom, fix it so the dark circles under my eyes were gone, and double check the spells that kept the wounds hidden at all times.

The lack of sleeping at night meant I fell asleep during the day. Most of the times I was able to manage to time it, so I was in my office, and Ariel wasn't around, went I crashed. Which was another thing that scared me. Normally, Elementals at my age shouldn't need sleep. It used to be a time where my mind could calm, now it had become a necessity. I almost wonder if there were any other side effects of being trapped, or maybe it was the amount of energy I used to break out. Not to mention the blow my mind received when I killed Gloria, though that one I could bear a thousand times if it meant I got to keep that evil thing out of my life.

Back to the present

Now to tell the story of how my secrets came back to haunt me.

I woke up not in my office, but in the bedroom. Which meant that Ariel hadn't joined me. I took a second to look around the room, and get rid of the faint trail of blood dripping down my chest and arm, before carefully getting out of bed. As soon as my feet touched the ground I knew it was going to be a hard day. The floor seemed to rush up to meet me, only being stopped by me hastily grabbed the bed post. I needed to find Ariel, but wasn't in any condition to walk very far. The pulsing in my head lead me to concluded that any attempt to reach for her mind, would be met with a pounding headache. As if the searing pain in my arm wasn't enough. Slowly, I managed to reach the door, using various different furniture to support me well I went. I also managed to reach for the doorknob, before everything went swimming again. I fell against the wall, barely missing the door, and slowly sank to the floor. As much as I needed to find Ariel, I also needed to figure out what had caused the sudden burst of side effects. It wouldn't do me any good if the first thing I did when I did find Ariel, was faint. Another thing I shouldn't do, yet have done a few times since getting back.

Time passed and the room didn't stopped moving. Shadows mixed with light, sudden burst of even worse spinning would come and go, and I could no longer tell if I had been there for an hour, or a week.

Now, I'm still sitting on the floor, I still have no clue how long has passed, nor do I know exactly when the spells keeping my appearance hidden faded, but they did. So I'm left trapped in a swimming world, with no surface in sight.

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So I've been planning this out in my head for a while, then I shall this fairygirl157.deviantart.com/ar… and realized it would be perfect.

I didn't know that Ariel had been taken, so it made sense for Donavon to have a reason as well. His being, that ever since he got back, two of his old scars reopened, he's started actually needing sleep, but whenever he does fall asleep, he's plagued by memories dressed as nightmares, and he's been hiding it all from Ariel. Who knows what will happen when Ariel returns, or if he'll have regained his mask by the time she does (Hopefully I will soon)

Ariel doesn't belong to me, she is a character of Princess-Icicles

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