Winter

We turned around immediately and there he was standing, leaning against a tree casually with his smirk in place. “You’re late.” Niall was restraining himself, his hands were turned into fists and I was already stressing about him getting hurt, I mean if this would turn into a fight, it wouldn’t be a fair one, as James could use magic against us if he wanted.

“I wasn’t late but I just didn’t want you to see me yet.” His eyes turned to me and stopped when he saw Quinn. I wanted to shelter her from him but I had a feeling that if I did that, he was going to come closer and I really didn’t want that. “Why?”

“I don’t know but maybe I just wanted a dramatic entrance.”

“No I mean why did you want to see us?” Niall was going straight to the point and I was relieved he did that because I wanted to go home, this was giving me seriously the creeps, there was something off about this but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, I just couldn’t stop scanning our surroundings. “My dear Winter, you look nervous, why is that?” I turned my head back towards him and looked him in the eyes. “I’m not nervous but it’s cold and Quinn really should get inside again.”

“Are you feeling guilty?” He just changed the subject and with that he immediately had me cornered but I couldn’t show him my uneasiness. “I’m not sure what you’re talking about James but I do find it extremely annoying that you summoned us here after all that you have done.” I know I was pushing it and as his smile was growing I knew I was screwed. I tightened my arms around Quinn just a bit, I mean he wouldn’t harm her would he?

“Does your Niall know what you did?”

“I didn’t do anything, so stop playing around James and just tell us what you want.” His smile remained on his but his eyes turned angry and he didn’t waste time as he walked towards me, I was just in time with handing over Quinn to Niall before James was just inches away from me, if I moved my head we would be kissing.

I held my breath as he came even closer, if I wasn’t afraid before I was now, I could feel his towards me radiate from him. “You thought I wouldn’t harm you, if you brought Quinn with you, didn’t you?” I stayed quiet and he even chuckled at me, which made me fear him even more. “You were wrong Winter, the only reason you are still alive is because I can’t kill you but it doesn’t mean I can’t harm you and I will do this with much pleasure.” James must have done something to Niall so he couldn’t help me out but I couldn’t move my head as James was too close.

“Why can’t you kill me?” My voice sounded weird but this was probably because of the fear, I was shivering like crazy, the temperature had dropped and it could snow any minute now, I tried to look at Niall and Quinn but the moment I tried to look away from James he grabbed my chin in a deadly grip and forced me to look at him.

“We’re talking my sweet Winter, they are not important right now.”

“Then answer me, if we are talking.” I didn’t know where I got the strength to act with an attitude in front of him but the moment I stopped talking he hit me hard, my head snapped back, you could even hear my neck crack. “careful love.”

Tears were rolling over my face, the minute he grabbed my arm and dragged me away from Niall and Quinn, I knew what he was doing and I also knew that if I didn’t stop him I would never come back.

“James please don’t do this.” I mumbled, we were standing in the middle of the forest, I know that if we just took a few steps further, I would be too late because I recognized the place. “Just shut up.” He stopped and turned around, his blue eyes weren’t blue any longer and this scared me because they were pitch black, this usually didn’t mean anything good and I took a step back but the minute I did this, he did the exact same thing but only towards me. “This is all your fault Winter, you could have left and live happily with your precious Niall but no you had to meddle in things you do not understand.”

“I didn’t do something that bad James.”

“You really believe that don’t you?”

“I’m really sorry James but I thought it was for the best.”

“Does it look like it was for the best?” I shook my head because he looked awful not that I had a closer look, he looked tired and well his eyes, made me shiver “I don’t understand, what happened to you?”

“The moment you cast your spell with my lovely sister, it succeeded but you don’t get that you ripped away my soulmate and after all that I did to get her back, this affected me ten times worse.”

“How?”

“You see my eyes right?” I nodded as he came closer again, I wanted to hide somewhere but there wasn’t any room to go after I hit a tree with my back. “They turned black the moment my love was ripped away, you didn’t just take my soulmate away but with it also my soul. That’s the price I had to pay for using that amount of magic.” I still found this hard to believe I mean next he would be telling me he turned into a freaking vampire, I had to fight the urge to roll with my eyes because he would hit me for sure.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know that something like this could happen, I didn’t want to hurt you.” I was happy that my voice had it’s force back. “You did.”

“Okay let’s say I did but you had it coming as you dragged us to that place for your own benefits, look I shouldn’t have done that spell and I wouldn’t have done it if I had known this would happen but there is nothing I can do about it now.”

“I can hurt you.”

“If you wanted to hurt me you would’ve done that already, so just tell me what you want?”
“I want you.” He smiled at me and started to reach for my arm again but I wasn’t having it this time and I pushed him away. “You can’t have me James.”

“I can make you.” This is when I realized that he couldn’t because if he could he would have dragged me into the past already but here he was still talking to me. “I don’t think you can.” I even dared a small smile, which made him narrow his eyes. I pushed him back even further until we were in the border of this world and his world.

“I think that you aren’t as powerful as you think.” I stepped away from him but the minute I started to run, he appeared in front of me. "This is going to be fun." next thing I know I'm on the floor and my head is hurting like hell but the thing that scared me the most is that James sits on top of me mumbling something under his breath, I know I'm in trouble the minute the wood falls still.

"What are you doing?"

"Isn't it obvious, we're going home." I felt the same pressure on my lungs as the last time we were dragged into the past and I closed my eyes, just to make sure I wasn't dreaming, when I heard his voice.

"WINTER!!"

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