Isabella’s P.O.V.As soon as I leave the cell, I feel Mike follow me. I keep walking and he catches pace with me and asks, “Why didn’t you kill him Bella? He deserves death.”
I pause and turn towards him with a hard stare and reply, “You think I don’t know that.”
“I didn’t mean to offend you Chief” he answers with a bow.
“He will die and Ava will kill him herself” is all I say before resuming to walk towards the exit door. I reach the main shed door and make my way out of it. I hear him stammer a little. I turn and ask, “What is it Mike?” He starts crying while saying, “She fainted and hasn’t woken up yet. Even when she was awake, she didn’t say a word. How can you think of making her face him again?”
I place my hand on his arm in a comforting manner and reply, “She is much stronger than you. Trust me; I know what I’m doing.”
He responds with a nod and I inquire about his daughter’s whereabouts. “Where is she?”I ask.
“We moved her to the Hospital Wing” he replies.
“Okay. Let’s go” is my response before I start walking towards the pack house. We are almost at the door when he speaks again, “Its already 3.40 in the morning Bella. You should go and have some sleep. Don’t you have college tomorrow? You can see her tomorrow.”
I turn looking furious and shout, “You think I’ll be able to sleep without knowing about her condition.”
“I know you love her Bella. But…” I cut his stupid argument and say, “I promised myself that her culprit won’t see today’s sunrise Mike. And I plan to keep my promise. Now if you would excuse me, I have to go and meet my doppelganger.” I walk past the living room towards the Kitchen and enter the lift, pressing the button that says 4. Just as the door is about to close, Mike enters and the lift closes. It comes to a halt at the 4th floor and I make my way to Ava.
She is asleep on her hospital bed, while Jessica is sitting on the chair beside her, holding her hand with tears in her eyes. She sees me and comes rushing towards me and throws her arms around me and starts blabbering between her cries, “Look what he did to our Ava, Bella…” I run my hands on her back and she visible calms down. I pull her away to look at her face and say, “He got what he deserved Jess. Calm down.”
I move out of her arms and go towards Ava, placing my palm on her cheeks, so I can hear her thoughts. She has a lot of bruises on her arms and scratches that look infected with “Wolfsbane”. Mike and Jess snap their head towards me. That’s when I realize, I said it out loud. They come rushing towards her bed, standing opposite to me; they ask, “Are you sure? The doctors couldn’t recognize it.”
I nod and say, “That maybe because it is in a plant extract form; not in its usual artificially prepared chemical form.”
I place my hand on her head and slowly her bruises disappear, her skin returning to her usual color. Jess calms down looking at her recovered skin. I turn towards them and say, “She is braver than both of you. Wanna hear what she thinks?” They look at me with a puzzled expression. I extend my left palm towards them and say, “Hold on to my hand.”
They grab it within a blink of an eye and I start to focus on Ava’s thoughts.
“I am going to kill him. I am going to look him in the eye and then burn him alive. I just have to wait, till I gain little bit strength and once I wake up, I will tell the Warrior Princess what I want to do to him. She will listen to me, she always does. She says, she sees herself in me and that she wants me to be the next Warrior Princess. I will prove to everyone that I am not weak. That man did bad things to me and my body hurts. But Warrior Princess says that the soul can never be harmed or weakened and my soul is strong enough to kill him with my will power. I want to see him burn alive to death.”
I smile and move my palm from her face at the same time when I move my left palm back. Mike and Jess have a shocked expression on their faces. I know they never thought that their daughter is so eloquent. And somehow I’m proud of myself for believing in Ava and her strength. Looking at her once, I move my attention towards her parents and say, “I told you. She is stronger and braver than you both combined together. And I will give her what she wants.”
I place my palm on her heart and whisper, “Wake up Warrior Munchkin. It’s time to make the man pay for his deeds.” Her eyes flutter before opening and adjusting to the surrounding light. She looks around before they settle on me and she tries to get up. I pull her up and settle her in seated position. She winces a little, due to all the scratch marks. I move out of the room, get naked and shift into my wolf, before entering the room. When I enter the room, Mike and Jess bow their head down to me and watching them do it Ava does too. I move towards her and lift her head up with the help of my snout. My breath tickles her and she giggles.
I start to lick her arms where there are open wounds or scratch marks, removing the traces of Wolfsbane from them. Slowly her arms turn normal; the skin heals and closes up. She stares at her arms and then at me and back at her arms. She is shocked yet excited at this new knowledge that she learnt about me. I nod towards Jess and she walks towards Ava and me. I tilt my head towards her and mind link her to say, “Show me her open wounds.” Jess nods and starts showing wounds which were on various parts of her body including her legs, stomach and neck. Once I’m sure there aren’t any more open wounds and that she is ridden of all Wolfsbane from her system. I walk out, shift to my human self, get dressed and walk back in.
Ava has more than recovered and looks like her old self up to an extent.
Thanks Aurora, I thank my wolf.
No Biggie Sister. You know I’m a part of you right. Whoever is important to you, kind of is important to me too, she replies sarcastically.
This bitch never learns.
I can hear her snicker in my head at my comment. I walk towards Ava and ask, “How about some Revenge?”
“YES” is what she shouts before jumping from her bed in to my arms. I settle her on my waist; she was always a light-weight person for an 8 year old. Small, Light-weighted but strong headed and too determined for her age. I know she is in pain, but she has already dealt with her trauma and is indomitable about giving that Asshole a piece of her mind. I walk towards the lift with Ava in my arms, as Mike and Jess follow us. Once we enter the lift, I mind-link Mike to inform Daniel about our arrival and to cover up the inappropriate shit so that Ava doesn’t see something she is not supposed to.
Reaching the ground level, we exit the lift and walk out towards the living area. I stop mid way and tell Mike to run to Matt’s office and grab a pair of earmuffs that will work as noise cancellers. He runs upstairs and comes back within a few seconds, holding them in his palm. I see Matt, Caleb and Ryan look at me from the top floor, but I don’t look at them. I don’t want to see their scared stares; I can’t take it from them. Slowly make my way towards the shed door, with Mike in front and Jess behind me.
As soon as we enter the cell, I see the bastard life almost drained out of his eyes, pain evident on his face. I see a rag tied around his shaft region, it’s a thin cloth but enough to hide the required region. I see the table is cleared of everything else except for the items I asked for plus a box, I don’t know about. I open the box and see the leeches that were full and round after sucking David’s Blood off placed in it; Twelve in total. I ask Daniel if some are still attached to him, through mind link to which he replies with a yes.
David’s eyes move to Ava and her parents and he recoils, panic marked on his face. Ava moves down from my arms and stands in front of me. With her arms on her waist, she shouts, “MONSTER. I am going to kill you.” An amused smile crawls up her parents face when they see their daughter fight for herself. I look towards Mike and ask for the earmuffs. He places them on my palm and I bend down to Ava’s height and give it to her, “Come on Munchkin. It’s time to wear these.”
She doesn’t question me about it and wears it. Once I am sure about it that she can’t hear a word, I move my attention towards David and speak, “It’s time to free you from this miserable torture.” He looks relieved and speaks in a grateful manner, “Thank you PRINCESS. Thank you so much.”
He thinks I’m going to let him go.
Never in my wildest dream am I going to do that. I move towards him and say, “You did that horrible deed to her” pointing towards Ava “because she is Black. You are a sick, perverted man and leaving a man like you alive back on the streets means risking every Black life out there. Not just Black, risking every Female out there. And I’m not ready to take such a big risk for a disgusting man’s life.”
“You cannot change the system bitch. If not me than someone else, they will always be below us. Once a slave; Always a slave. Just like Indians are to British” he sneers.
“Then I will rip their head apart from their shoulder too. Whoever treats a human differently based on their caste, creed and color in front of me, will face the same end as you. I’ll make sure of it.”
I walk back to the table pick the large cans of Gasoline and pass it to Daniel and Mike, directing them to start with the last show of the day. Taking the small can from the table I move towards Ava and give it to her. She looks at me with a questioning look and I nod my head towards David. She looks at him again and sees Daniel and her Dad pouring it on him from his head. She slowly opens it and starts throwing it on him, but her being small causes the Gasoline to fall mostly on his crotch region; which if you ask me is the perfect place to be poured on. Once everyone is done with their cans, I pick Ava up and place her back on my waist holding her in place with one arm and go to pick the lighter from the table in my other hand.
I ask everyone to move out of the cell and they do. We all can hear David’s shouts and pleads to let him live, asking for forgiveness, mercy. Everyone else who is standing here knows, I am not the kind of person to forgive people for hideous crimes. I don’t forgive people for spying on us; he is a fool if he thinks I’m going to forgive him after he commits a crime as gruesome as Rape.
As everyone settles behind me outside the cell and Daniel locks the cell; I look at David one last time and say, “The girl you hurt is my niece, so you calling her Black and addressing her parents as Slaves offended me more than you can imagine. In your next life, try not to treat people like shit based on their choices, looks and preferences.”
I flick the lighter on and slowly give it to Ava. She holds on to it for a few seconds as I say my last sentence, “And by the way, I’m half INDIAN” and turn towards Ava to give her a nod to which she throws the flicked lighter inside and shouts, “GO TO HELL MONSTER.” The next thing we know, flames arise from the cell and engulfs David within. Ava starts jumping on my waist and Mike stares at her with shock. I know he is thinking about how Ava is taking it so lightly, the flames burning a man up, so much tranquilly.
I nod at him and say, “She burned up the Monster that existed in her life. It’s a good feeling for her and that’s why it’s not scaring her. It’s healing her. I told you she is my replica.”
He nods and gives me a small smile. I check the time, it’s already 5.30am.
Just before Sunrise.
I start walking towards the exit door and mind-link Daniel to get it cleaned up once the traces of David’s being are burned up and vanished from the cell. He nods and leaves with us. Once we are outside the shed door, I place Ava down, bend a little to remove the earmuffs and say, “How about you go home and get some sleep Munchkin? I’ll come and visit you after I come back from college. Is that okay?” she mumbles, “okay” ends it with a yawn.
I say my Goodbyes to Mike and Jess, kissing Ava on her cheek before walking up my way to my home.