The Grimm Reapers

Chapter Thirty- Four: Just a little longer.

*Ashton* 

I feel so empty, so dead inside. I have never felt like this, even when I found out that I was actually dead. Why do I feel like this? I can feel somethings, and I can see and hear, but I can't respond or acted on them. It feels like someone else is controlling my body, and I am stuck in a dark part of my mind, unable to do anything. I don't know what caused me to be like this, but I don't like this. I don't like not having control of my own body, and knowing that someone else does. 

"Good morning Ashton." I hear that voice again. It sounds so familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. A girl walks in and she is the one that was next to me when I opened my eyes. If like my body responds to the sound of her voice, I am on my knees in front of her. She lifts my chin up to face her, and I see her long brown hair flow in waves in front of her. She leans down and with her ruby red lips, she places a quick kiss on my lips. The feelings is wrong, I know it is, but my body wont let me push her away. "I see that you are doing better. Can you tell me your name?"

"Ashton, ma'am." I don't recognize the sound of my own voice. The one who speaks is not me, but the shell that I once called my body. I want to scream, and move on my own. But I am unable to, and that fact alone drives me further and further to that dark corner in my mind. I fear that soon I will be unable to leave, and my mind will forever be lost. The only think that has been keeping me going is a girl. I don't know who she is, but she is there in my memories. I always see two girls, one with long beautiful black hair and the most amazing green eyes. The other, with hair as blond and shiny as the sun itself, and eyes as blue as the oceans. But I know, somehow they are the same girl. I don't know why, but that girl keeps me fighting.

Soon the girl leaves and I am once again alone in this room. I don't mind, I prefer it better when she doesn't see me. Every time she comes to see me she does things to my body, so many test. I hate them, because I feel like I am forced back into my mind each time. I want to hate that girl, but I don't at the same time. It makes my head hurt, and I feel stuck. I just want to get out, please, someone, let me out.

*Lolita* 

"I just want to get out, please, someone, let me out." I swear that I can hear Ashton's voice, but I am not sure if that is really him that I am hearing. My eyes are closed, and I am focusing on all the information that is being pushed into my head. At times it becomes to much for me to handle, but I keep going. There is so much, so much that I can do, so much to learn. The ribbons are now completely covering my body, and I know that I am almost done. 

"Lolita." I recognize the voice of my aunt Alexandria, she and my uncle Alejandro are the once who come and check on me. I am unable to speak with the ribbons covering my mouth, so I move my head to let her know I can hear her. "Lolita you have just a few more hours until you are free. I know that you want to know how things are going back on earth, but you have been so patient. I just wanted to let you know you are almost done, and to make sure you are OK." I nod my head again, and I can tell she is no longer in here with me. I take another deep breath, and I focus once more on the information in my head. I hope I will be able to stop that energy, and get Ashton back from where ever he is in his mind.

*God*  

I have been watching over my children, and my granddaughter. I am so happy to have her here with me, it feels like I have my daughter Lilith back here with me. Lolita is the spiting image of her mother, but I can also see traces of her father.

"Alastor" His name feels me with so much pain and sadness. I hate that he had to be the one to become the angel of death, but someone had to be. Me and my brother needed someone to judge the souls with us, and help them on their journey to the after life. Before he meet Lilith, he focused only on his job. He was alone, and I could feel that. He was confused as to who and what he was, but I know that Lilith has changed him. Just like he has changed my daughter. I weep when I see the unfaithful and dishonest acts that my daughter has been doing with that human boy. I turn my head and pain and disappointment. But I know she does it to feel some form of love. Alastor is unable to give her the gentle care that she was born for, but she loves him to much to leave. Every time that human man leaves, she cries her tears of blood. She still cries, but having given up her wings, he body cries blood from the pain that it is in. I wonder if she knows that, or if she cries anyway just to feel like her old self again.

"Father." I turn and smile to my daughter Alexandria.

"Hello my dear, come in." She flouts towards me, the sight of her wings a comforting sight for me. "How is our little Lolita doing?"

"She is almost done. A few more hours and she will be free to leave and help save that young boy. How is he doing by the way? I know that the moment the ribbons release themselves from around her body, she will want to know how he is doing." I change the image to the one of the boy in the small dark room. He sits in the corner, and he never moves. I can still feel his mind trying to fight and take control, but he is not as strong as he once was. He is slowly slipping further and further into the darkness. The only thinking keeping him fighting is the memories of Lolita that I slip into his memories when that energy is far enough away for me to do it.

"The boy is fine, for now. He is still fighting, but he is getting weaker. The energy is getting stronger around both of them, and I fear that if we do not act soon, they may be to far gone for even Lolita to help. Blake is doing his job and making sure that none of the wondering souls have been affected from the energy and turned into evil spirits. The number of spirits has thankfully gone down, meaning my children have stopped being hurt, for now. Lilith has been better now that Lolita is back, she has left her 'friend' and erased any memory of them ever being together. Sadly, Lenore is UNreachable. She refuses to acknowledge me and focuses more on her darker side."

"But father that is not your fault. Blake and Lolita took more of Lilith's genetics, and Lenore is almost completely her faughter's. She is the Grim Reaper's daughter after all, just not as gentle as her sister." I see the smile on her face. My children did not care for Alastor at the beginning, and some are still getting used to him. But when they saw the love that he and Lilith have for each other, and how some of my earth children are not afraid of him, they actually wait for him, they see that he is not all bad. Lenore just focuses mostly on the darker aspect of the Grim Reaper.

"Go and get your siblings and your mother. We must set up and welcome Lolita once she is out. We have to make sure we go over everything with her, she will need a lot of help right now."

"Yes Father." She leaves, and I am once again left alone to watch over my children.

"Just a little longer, and all this madness will be put behind us." Just a little longer.