forum Marriage of Darkness

Started September 01, 2019 by Draco's like... snow, "It's cold and cruel to begin with, but it's somehow beautiful, and you miss it when it's not there. And if you hold it in your hands close enough and long enough, it changes. It melts.”

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She sighed ¨Maybe¨ she said.

Lysander nodded and kissed his wife's temple. ”Alright. Come on, baby girl.” he said to their daughter.

Laura-Beth looked up at both her parents, a little hopefully.

She handed Laura Beth to him

Lysander hadn't been expecting her to give Laura-Beth to him but held the little girl carefully. ”Are you coming?” he asked.

She nodded " yeah"

”Ok.” he nodded and started heading to their bedroom.

She followed crawling in bed

Lysander smiled at his wife and laid Laura-Beth in their bed beside her before kissing the little girl's forehead and joining the two in bed.

Laura-Beth fussed a little about being in bed again but felt safe between her parents.

Betty closed her eyes softly with a slight whimper Lysander couldn't exactly hold her because of the little girl

Laura-Beth heard the sound and held her mama's hand while Lysander reached an arm over their daughter and placed his hand on his wife's arm.

”Good night, my angels.” he whispered to both of them before sitting up a little and kissed Betty's forehead.

she nodded clenching her eyes shut

Lysander gently rubbed her arm and kept warm for her, hopefully as a reminder that he was still here.

She gently got up and grabbed blanket leving the room

”Where are you going?” Lysander asked softly.

´to the couch¨ she said

”Why?” he asked softly. It was almost getting to the point where they weren't sleeping together anymore.

Laura-Beth opened her eyes and looked at her mom. ”Mama?”

"because you need to stay here with our daughter and you can exactly hold me and I'm going to get nightmares I don't want to wake her up" she said

”Mama don't go.” Laura-Beth whimpered.

Lysander bit his lip briefly before nodding. ”Ok. I understand but what if I lay on my back and kept her on my chest?” he suggested. ”I could at least keep an arm around you then.”

She shook her head " no" she said

He furrowed his brow slightly. Apparently, neither of them wanted her to leave. ”One last suggestion. You hold her and I hold both of you.” he offered.

”Mama, stay.” Laura-Beth said, reaching for her.

" Ly…I don't want to be in here" she said

Lysander winced a little at her statement as though it physically hurt him to hear that. He glanced at their daughter who was still reaching for her mother and gently picked her. They couldn't talk about this right now, not in front of Laura-Beth but… ”I’ll see you in the morning then.” he said deceptively calm.

She nodded walking out to the living room she gently made herself a little resting place on the couch

Betty of woken up sometime during the night she looked over at the microwave clock to see it was 11 p.m. the nightmares were bad they were in her head telling her what to do she knew this would happen even if she stayed in the bedroom but she don't want to wake Laura Beth up so she decided to sleep on the couch the voices were too strong they were telling her what to do she swiftly got up from the couch leaving the house shutting the door behind her she walked over to the edge of the deck looking down into the water

Laura-Beth cried for a while when her mama left but Lysander did his best to calm her down. Holding her, staying warm, singing a little and walking around the room a couple of times. Eventually, he was able to get her to fall asleep and he stayed by her side the whole time. He considered himself lucky that he didn't really need too much sleep so he could stay up and watch her. He thought about closing his eyes for a little while when he heard the door close. After making sure Laura-Beth was still asleep and safe in bed, he headed down to investigate the sound.

Betty took one long breath and stepped into the water sinking to the bottom she forced herself to stay under

Lysander heard the splash and quickly headed to the lake. He hadn't seen Betty on the couch, which worried him a little. He took a steadying breath and surrounded his body with fire and dove in after whoever was in the water.

Betty's eyes were closed as water surrounded her

Staying on fire underwater was near impossible, so all that really happened was that the water around him became superheated and barely touched him. ”Landing” at the bottom, his eyes widened as he saw Betty. He quickly let the heat fade from his arms, grabbed her and flew out of the lake.

Betty's eyes were closed as she layed unconscious

He gently laid her down on the deck and used his ability to evaporate the water that stuck to him. ”Betty. Betty wake up.” he begged, gently shaking her shoulder.