The Run To Quinn

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Familiar nails dug into a familiar spot on my shoulder and I screamed as I sat up. I looked down and saw that I was chained to the ground. Blood dropped down my arm like lines of roses in a field.

She hummed a soft tune. It was the same tune she hummed the other day but this time I recognized it. From somewhere. It was a tune lost in time.

"I wish I could kill you. But if I want to stay important I need you alive. If you remember Peyton, your sister, come find me. It would be a pleasure to ruin your mother's castle of lies." She sounded so sure of herself I almost believed her.

"What lies?" I cried out.

"All of them," she appeared in front of me. Her hair was still curled. It looked like her hairspray was made from blood, like she bathed in red.

I tried to back up but my chain kept me pinned to the ground. I was in the spot Maggie was, surrounded by bushes of thorns and vines. Only, Maggie wasn't here. Nobody was here to break me free.

I was alone.

It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining a bright yellow and the grass was lush. Maybe that's why I was so terrified. Because the world was going on, acting as though I wasn't bleeding and screaming and dying.

"I won't hurt you, neither will he. None of us will. We need you!" She screamed.

A black wolf moved from one of the bushes, it's black fur was bloody and more skin like. His teeth were rotten and yellow, black smoke poured from him like he was a ghoul or a devil hound. A silver collar was wrapped around his neck.

I tried to run, I tried so hard, but my chain was holding me down.

"Please!" I screamed.

"You're okay! You're okay," Sebastián was holding my hands down to the side. When he saw that my eyes were open, he crushed me to his chest.

"Please don't do that again," he begged.

It wasn't like I tried to have nightmares. It wasn't like I wanted them, they just came. He must have saw the look in my eye, because Sebastián frowned.

"I didn't mean it that way, Quinn, I was just scared. You scared me," he slightly pulled me away from his chest so he could look at my eyes. "Vivanco, what's going on? What are you dreaming about?"

I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. I didn't tell him about the vampire girl from the last dream, maybe it was time to tell him now.

I recounted my dream exactly how it went, only adding in the details from the last dream about the vampire girl.

"Who's Peyton? Do you have a sister?" He asked.

"No," I replied. "I only have my older brother." I gulped as Sebastián rubbed his temples.

This was it. He was going to call me crazy and leave, just like the vampire said he would.

"I'm not sure what's going on, not that that's a new trait for me, but we'll figure it out— together." He held my two small hands between his larger ones. "That's what mates do, they help each other."