Saving Larue

Melina came home from school that week with a little more of a purpose . She didn't overstay her welcome with amy as she knew that's exactly what would happen if she took it upon herself to make herself a permanent edition to Amy's group of bad girls . She always waiting for Amy to invite her as she knew she was still an outsider by the way the other girls tensed up around her . Jason avoided Melina and Kimberly started having some ph balance problems as the other girls would snicker about her smell. Melina knew from her sisters habits the smell of sex was on this girl of only age thirteen . Kimberly was acting more secluded as I started to make a note book of my friends, enemies ,and associates. Back then this was some would perceive as some colubine actions so if anyone saw you keeping a note or list with names they'd snitch on you. So I had to keep the notebook near by. But this was the only way I kept up with names as I was terrible with names and could recognize you and talk to you but forget your name in the translation. Jason was in the association category as he was doing some real sketch ass shit with Kimberly. Kimberly was not rich or didn't have the luxeries of a privileged life as she had seven brothers and sisters and she was the oldest. When Kimberly wasn't with Jason she was fun and forthcoming and now she barely could say a few words in between pleasentries in passing. I didn't know where she stood as she started to stay to herself more. But when the other girls snickered as middle school girls did saying she smelled like sex as she tried her best to ignore their rude comments. I stood behind her for some sense to protect her even though we hadn't really spoke in months since she got a boyfriend. " Damn I smell a slut!" Said one rude girl. " No that just a McNally. How many are there I lost track ." I heard another girl say. I gritted my teeth as I knew this was normal reputation banter I often heard about my name. " Someone needs to wash themselves smells like a cat died up in here." The other girl snickered a new girl that just arrived that wore the same pair of L.E.I. jeans a light blue that she was always pulling up as she jumped right into the popular crowd of another new girl named Ashleigh as I knew her as a friend of Dana's . She live in a double wide on cinder blocks down the road from me and she would show up to spend the night but make an excuse why she couldn't stay the night. But when Dana asked her she stay the entire night. Kimberly was the object of ridicule this time around as Ashleigh was for the sores on her mouth she got as they said she was doing some nasty things with her boyfriend. Then there was Brittany. A blonde girl who was nice to Melina when she first came back and they played basketball together but when she joined the cheerleading team she didn't have time to be nice to Melina. Because she had a boyfriend. Ashleigh and Brittany was always together . The girls snickered as I sat in class quiet knowing fighting them would be more trouble than it was worth. I didn't have anything to do with what my sisters did. We all had gym together where we would dress out in one room . On Fridays we had to write an essay on one of the sports illustrated people as a class. I came in as usual and would like to go to the bathroom stalls to change as I wasn't comfortable dressing in front of my class mates as I was well formed and I still was shy in an open dressing room. When I was a kid doing modeling shows I would hide behind a rack to dress and when I was a kid I would sleep with my clothes on for the next day of school to make it harder for my father to violate me. If he couldn't get past the pants he would lose interest. I still slept in my clothes till this day as a comfort a coping mechanism per say. I know how fucked up it had to be at age four thinking of ways to prevent shit that often happened but no one told her it wasn't normal until she was removed from their custody. I made my way back to the stalls as I had to pass Brittany and Ashleigh' s lockers to get there. Ashleigh was always nice as Brittany took it upon herself to be nasty. Ashleigh slammed her hand on her locker as she got in my face to stop me." And where are you going?" She said with a smile. " To the restroom . What is it to you?" Melina said as she clutched her clothes . " What do you do in there? Why can't you dress out here. What are you afraid of ? Are you a lesbian or something. Does girl bodies make you hot." She said as Melina narrowed her eyes as she said this. At this point it had gone too far as I didn't have to explain myself to her as she was just trying to punk me for popularity points. " Move. Ashleigh get the fuck out of my way." Melina said sternly. " Or what?" Ashleigh smiled as she laughed. " Do you really want to find out." Melina said glaring at her. Ashleigh had no reason to dislike Melina and she never said an bad word against her. But today she needed to be reminded who Melina was. " Hey ash just let her by." Said Brittany as I sighed with relief of having to back up my words. I really didn't want to fight I did enough of that in the system. " She probably needs to stuff her bra to make them look real anyway." Added Brittany as Melina shot her a look . Ashleigh hesitated for a minute as she dropped her hand. As Melina was passing she heard it." Stupid wetback bitch." A racial slur that was made towards Hispanics . Melina's wasn't even Hispanic she was polynesian. Melina ignored their ignorance. When she made it to the gym there was a crowd gathered up in a circle usually this happened when fights broke out and since girl gym was seperated from boys gym it was all girls. Melina was shoved in the circle as Brittany stood there as the crowd yelled we all heard what you called her. It was then I realized they meant me." Fuck her up , Melina. Don't let her call you that?"I didn't realize what the hell was going on as Brittany looked scared to be facing me. I didn't want to fight but I knew the crowd was unforgiving and wanted blood. It didn't even happen to them it was between the three girls but now it was an orcastrated fight. " Come on McNally mess up up. Make that cheerleader look pretty ." I heard another say. I was stuck in a fight as I didn't want to fight as Ashleigh tried to help as I was seeing this was going to be two on one now . The girls roared as I was cornered and you didn't know what a cornered animal did . So I prepared myself for a fight as I looked at the two girls as I side stepped Ashleigh and she fell into Brittany. I was just going to shift my weight around to avoid the fight all together until someone pushed Brittany into me and she buckled ." I didn't mean what I said I'm sorry." Said Brittany as I knew she didn't say it but Ashleigh as I recognized her voice. A skill I acquired from years of listening to voices in the system to determine there location so I could hide from the danger. Melina knew this crowd wouldn't let up until they saw what they came for . Ashleigh tried to charge but she was pulled back in the crowd as she couldn't help her friend . Melina knew what she had to do . She had to show them who Melina Mcnally was whether she wanted to or not. Just then the whistle blew and the coach broke it up. She took one look at Melina as assumed I was the instigator. " Mcnally my office now!" She demanded a muscular woman with tight cacky shorts and the name savage . Or the beast we called her. She gave me two Saturday of detention to repaint the locker room and polish the basketball court as Ashleigh and Brittany didn't even get punished . I didn't even start the fight and tried to get out of it but because I was a McNally I was automatically guilty of the crime. I showed up to the locker room as I repainted the locker room and floor as I didn't understand why I was being punished she was picking on me . But she wasn't going to get away with this. Ashleigh and Brittany was on my bad side now. I came home to a defending ringing sound as a huge mind splitting migraine hit me. I was so bad it made me almost incompasitated . I spent days like this missing two days of school as the sounds and and light triggered my migraine as I heard high pitch sounds screamed in my head that I would later determined it was a summoning from my own kind. My mother not knowing what to do as she took me to see what happened and they said I had an rip roaring ear infection. I knew that was not the problem as my head hurt not my ears. I went to the woods thinking the air would do me some good. Then I heard it again then it went silent ." They are coming." I heard in a pin drop whisper as not even the wind dared to blow at this instance . I saw a few faces I saw before . A few of the allies I had made in the group home when I was planning the coming out as their queen . There was peopleoving in and out of the woods as I saw cloaked figures passing by more then I've seen a hand full of them . I almost wished to see Larue my hunter I hadn't seen in months since my return home. Then the attack started as I saw movements here and there as it happened so fast as blood spread as I tried to fight off the attackers to realize they were not strong with their white and earth magick. I looked around at the hopeless onslaught of the children only three that came but they were running from not just hunters but then I saw a few older witches as they were also attacking me. I was confused I was their queen and they were attacking me. Larue came in and for a minute the hunter and the witch fought to protect the witches behind them as the elders were relentless in cutting down the hunters . Then Larue was the last one left . I realized they were going to kill him and I couldn't let that happen. He was my protector . He was my teacher. He was my friend and I just got him back. " Get him. " Yelled an older witch . I ran and stood in front of him as I was prepared for a fight. The choice was between him and the young witches I was protecting to help my cause. " No. He is not to be touched. I will vouch for him." I said as the gasp of air sucked in followed by a chuckle. " A witch protecting a hunter . Do you know how many of us he has killed. How many he will still kill." Protested the man as he shook his head. " I am your queen stand down." I tried to extend my sovereign power but it was still new and hardly effective. " You my queen. A child. A girl. Move girl I don't have time for your foolishness." Said the man as I flung my hand at him as it pushed him back as he stumbled. " No little one. Not like this." Hissed Larue my hunter. " I won't let them take you." I hissed as I could feel something primal build inside of me . Itching to get out as my eyes flickered green and I felt something breaking in me. I was building my rage as I felt something deep inside growl inside of me. " This is not the way. Your not supposed to hurt your own. Let them have me. I deserve much worse than they wish. I am as they say . I'm a killer. I am a hunter. This is what I do." He said trying to save her life . " No!" I yelled in defiance then it happened I heard the blade unseath the blade I gave back to him as I backed away clearing the swipe. " Larue what are you doing?" I yelled as he swung the blade at me again and I pushed him back with air. " I'm sorry this is the only way . Command me to end my life , Melina . Command me away." He said from gritted teeth as when Larue offered me his sword and his name he also offered me his free will. " Stop it. I won't ." I yelled. " Than you leave me no choice. You are still my mark witch queen ." He yelled as his eyes brimmed with wetness as he charged as I placed attack after attack as I didn't want to hurt him . But I wasn't going to let him harm me either. I cried as the water acted as a storm behind him as my heart was breaking at what he was doing right now. " Do it for your people your cause." I heard him say in my head as I knew he was provoking me to help me save face in front of the witches here. No I screamed as I released the energy and called his sword to me as he let go as I knew he did this for my sake . He kneeled before me as I put the blade to his neck as I closed my eyes I didn't want to do this . He was my friend. He was good. He wasn't bad. " Do it little one. It's either me or them. Don't betray your own that's how you become a hunter. You don't want my life. Let me see my family do it . Let me go home. Let me have peace in a lifetime of war. Please show me mercy, my queen. Give me an good death ." He said in my head as I shook my head . Melina my queen I was mistaken . You are our queen let me take the burden from you. Let me end this parasite of a hunter." Said the male witch that was against me earlier. " Don't let him . It has to be you. If you don't do it I will slaughter every last one of them until no one is left to do it but you." I heard the hunter whisper in my head . " Why!!!" I screamed as I opened my eyes looking at him. " Because this was how it was always supposed to end. I don't have the strength to kill you and I don't have the strength to protect you neither . Others will come make my sacrifice your burden. Defeat me or I will kill more. I will hunt more. I will do more . End it here kill me ." He said as I knew he was telling the truth as I closed my eyes and pulled back the sword knowing it was my burden to have. " Open your eyes when you end me. Like you did when I was still your enemy long ago. Give me glory not shame." I heard him say as I opened my eyes ,

As I remember the time in the woods when the roles were reversed as I bowed before him when I was tired of fighting tired of running. I understood in that moment it had to be me because we were bonded together.

He looked at the last moment as he smiled at me as the blade slid through his neck and he fell down. I feel to him breaking inside of me as I fell too my knees and screamed as thunder rolled and rain fell the wind picked up violently as I cried .

The others watched for a bit until all I was holding was the blade of the hunter who was my friend. Who I ended. " You showed him mercy." Spoke up the white witch in a soft voice. " Leave me ! Leave." I yelled as another crack of lighting hit a tree trunk . The pain in my soul swallowing me while as I killed the only thing keeping me alive. I remembered he used to tell me "the hardest lesson you will learn is to choose the greater good . The will of the one does not outweigh the will of the many. Some choices are made and others are made for them. Ultimate power is not rage and strength but it's mercy." Those words bounced in my head as I sat on the ground in a daze rocking myself to sooth what I was forced to do. None of them moved to console me or reach me as I knew he did it to save me. He knew I would die to save him and he also knew I was a greater player in my role than he would ever be to me. He knew I needed to do this to break the bond between us. Because I was no longer a defenseless broken child . I was a queen . His sacrifice was his last lesson to me.