REVIVED: Vengeance of The Sun And Moon

Why Does He Weaken Me So?

    She sat there in the middle of her hotel room floor, legs crossed, trying to concentrate on balance and peace. She needed to be centered now more than ever. Not only for the sake of the Lycan Alpha, however.  

    Being beaten and bruised by a goddess made things a little harder but she still tried to manage it. She closed her eyes and started a chant to regain her strength when there was a rapid knock at her door.

    Frustrated, Aurora, grimaced, begrudgingly opened her eyes, and rolled them in irritation. She sat there for a little longer, listening to the knock.

    “Wonder who that could be.” She heard her counterpart rhetorically ask.

    Aurora shook her head, annoyance grasping at her while she stood from the floor and started for the door. “Three guesses who.” She muttered.

    She finally swung the door open just as the knock was about to start again. She caught the pale hand that was standing there. And somehow wasn’t surprised that it was him.  

    “Hey,” Godfrey greeted. He looked at his larger hand as it was still in Aurora’s grasp. “You know, Valentine, if you wanted to touch me all you had to do was ask.”

    A brow raised and not in the mood, Aurora rolled her eyes. “Funny, that you assume that I want to touch you when you are the one at my door.” she chuckled harshly, releasing his hand and then backing away-not to let him in but just to be as far away from him as she could be without removing her hand from the door handle. “Look, if you came here to further chastise me like the child that you and all of your Crescent pals think I am, save your energy. Your Alpha beat you to it.” She sarcastically pointed out.

    “I didn’t come here for that.” He started to walk in when Aurora moved in front of him to block his path.

    Aurora looked up at him. “I don’t remember inviting you in, mister Jefferson.” She said.

Godfrey didn’t back away when she moved in front of him. He liked being close to her. He smirked, inhaling the scent that danced around her. Still intoxicating, he thought to himself as he stared down at her.

    “You know…” He started to say as he inched closer to her. “You have a scent.”

    “Is that right?” Aurora couldn’t help but wonder what he was getting at with such a random point of the subject.

    “Yeah.” He replied. “All wolves and lycans do.” He scoffed. “It's repugnant.” He added. “Retracts vampires from wanting to be near them or even feed on them really.” He said.

    “Hm, interesting,” Aurora said, though her expression showed otherwise. “I take it, the same goes for vampires.” She said.

    “Why do you ask?” Godfrey replied. He took a step closer and bent down nearer to her level. “Do I repulse you?” He asked, his lips close to her ear. 

    She scoffed. No, unfortunately, he didn’t but she wouldn’t tell him that. So, instead, she just decided not to respond with a justifiable answer as far as the question was concerned. She pushed against his broad masculine chest causing him to unwillingly retract from her.

    “Back up, lover boy.” She said. “You’re in my personal space.” He did not seem to like how she was acting toward him. “I’m sure you didn’t come here to flirt.” Aurora bluntly stated. “Your girlfriend wouldn’t like that. Now, what do you want Godfrey Jefferson-White?” She finally walked away from the door, knowing that he wouldn’t go away even if she didn’t.

    Godfrey sighed. “I came to check on you.” He said. “Why else?”

    “I don’t know.” Aurora turned around. “Seems like you came here to do some toying around.” She walked away and brightened her dimmed lights knowing that she would not get any concentrations done while he was around. She grabbed one of her enchanted laced cigars and lit it.

    "Well, you're wrong," Godfrey clarified.

    “Is that right?” She asked, inhaling the cigar. If she couldn’t center herself through her normal routine, she’d try a quicker route with the cigar. “Well,” She sat on the bed and crossed her legs, touching her hand to a bruise on her rib that was still healing from the physical tussle that she had with Kazmiyah earlier. “As you can see, I’m fine.”

    Godfrey approached her and observed her bruises closer. He bent down to look closer at some of her wounds and then touched her hand where the bruise was on her abdomen. He wanted to lift her shirt to take a look but knew that she wouldn’t let him.

    “I’m fine.” Aurora attempted to insist with winced reassurance after he touched her, causing his attention to shift.

    Godfrey’s gaze traveled from Aurora's stomach up to her face, trying hard not to linger on her breast before he made a comment towards her smoking.

    “You know that’s not good for you.” He said.

    Aurora scoffed. “Oh, so you’re concerned about what’s good for me now?” She rolled her eyes.

    “Rora don’t-”

    “Don’t worry, I’m not poisoning myself with nicotine.” She hissed, pushing past him and standing up, almost causing him to fall. “Though, I doubt very much that it would prove fatal to me at this point.” She muttered.

    “Then what is it?” He asked.

    Aurora turned around and looked at him incredulously. “Why do you even care?” She asked. Where was this concern coming from all of a sudden? Aurora glared at Godfrey with derision. She couldn’t believe his audacity. “It keeps me centered, helps with blood cravings and it helps re-boost my power.” She answered snidely. “Something I would not have had to turn to had you not burst in when you did-”

    “What is your problem?” Godfrey confronted, walking upon her.

    “You! You! All of you are my problem!” Aurora angrily answered.

    “Excuse me?” Godfrey countered. “Who is...all of you?” He asked. “What did I do to you?”

    “I just want peace.” She scoffed, deciding that she didn’t even want to go there with him. She was tired of arguing. Aurora was tired of trying to defend herself.

    But Godfrey knew that it was more to it than that. “I know you do.” He replied with understanding. “But that’s not the main cause of your anger.”

    “Oh, is that right?” Aurora cut her eyes. “So you’re shrinking me now? You can read my mind? Is that it?” She looked into Godfrey’s eyes.

    “I...have a feeling.” Was the only response, Godfrey could offer Aurora. It was hard to explain, but he knew that Aurora was upset about something else. “So tell me.”

    She couldn’t believe him. How he was suddenly so sweet and understanding about her problems and how she was feeling.

    “It doesn’t even matter.” Aurora simply retorted. “So, you can leave now-” She started to walk past Godfrey again when he grabbed her arm and snatched her effortlessly toward him.

    “What is the matter with you, Aurora Valentine?”

    So, he really wants to go there, she thought to herself. She couldn’t believe his audacity. She tried to pull away from him but Godfrey was adamant. Aurora was in no mood to exert herself once again, so she begrudgingly stood there.

    “If he wants to go there, then let’s.” Sol, Aurora's beastly counterpart said in her mind.

    “So, let me get this straight.” Aurora started. “My feelings and emotions-and whatever else happens to me matter when you are not around Kazmiyah of the Goddess Moon?” She asked. Her expression feigned amusement, but if she were being honest amusement was not on the top of the list of her emotions.

    Godfrey let go of her and watched her curiously. “What are you talking about?”

    Aurora looked at him and shook her head. “You...don’t even realize you do it.” She smirked and looked away, taking another puff of her stick. “You know what." Aurora turned her attention to him again. “It doesn’t even matter-”

    “Yes it does, Aurora.” Godfrey countered, barely giving her a moment to finish her sentence. “And that ludicrous assumption that you made is furthest from the truth!” He exclaimed.

    “No, it’s not.” Aurora simply answered.

    "Yes, it is-”

    “No….” she cut him off this time tilting her head, frustration clear on her brow. “It’s not, Godfrey.” Her amethyst-colored eyes shifted out of the window as she started to hear the light pitter-patter of rain. She then looked at Godfrey Jefferson-White again. Since he just couldn’t believe it, she thought that she might as well lay it out for him. Maybe then, he’d understand why she just thought it best that he leave her alone.

    “Aurora, I-”

    “Godfrey, the first day that you saw her, she shoved me out of the way to embrace you like I was nothing. You let that happen. I wasn't...even...there anymore...as far as you were concerned.”

    “I thought she was dead, Aurora!” Godfrey defended himself. “What else was I supposed to do? I could barely even find the words to-to”

    “You’re right,” Aurora immediately agreed. “And after I found that out after I had a long talk with her, I understood that. Honestly, I had no right to even be upset about it.” She chuckled to herself, realizing how foolish she was for even having those feelings in the first place. “So, I let that go.” She said. “But...you know...you know what I just...I just couldn’t let go, Godfrey?” She asked.

    He shook his head, no. “What?” He inquired.

    “After that incident.” She finally replied after taking a moment to answer it. “After your little reunion with her.” She walked away from him and snuffed out the little cigar in her hand, hoping that the slight pain would be a distraction to the hurt that she was about to recall to him. “You allowed her to assume...that I was her enemy….you let her attack me.” Aurora's lips turned to a leer. She turned around. “Explain that? Why did you call me a child of the sun, knowing that she saw them as an enemy?” She asked.

    “Aurora, that was an innocent mistake-” He said.

    Aurora nodded and shrugged. She could see how it was but she found it hard to believe that Godfrey Jefferson-White would make one like that. The way she nodded her head in seeming agreeance, Godfrey seemed to think he was off the hook. “I don’t believe you.” She said, her smile and nod suddenly gone.

    “What?” Godfrey stepped up to her. “You really think I would intentionally cause you harm after what my father did to you?”

    Aurora shrugged. “I don’t know Godfrey.” She admitted.

    “You’re crazy!” Godfrey incredulously countered. “How-I've done nothing but try and help you since I’ve met you! Why would I-”

    “You only help me, when it doesn’t interfere with you and Kazmiyah,” Aurora corrected.

    Godfrey scoffed. “What?”

    “You talked down to me….like a child, today, Godfrey,” Aurora said. “All because you feared that I may have hurt your girlfriend’s feelings-”

    “She’s not my girlfriend-”

    “I didn’t ask.” Aurora cut him off.

    Godfrey groaned in irritation. How stubborn can a girl be? He thought to himself. “So, what-what are you saying? What? You’re jealous of Kazzy?” He asked. “Is that what this is?” He said. “You’re upset because I’m showing one of the most important people in my life some attention-that I’m protective of her? Is that your problem?” When Aurora didn’t say anything, he scoffed. “Wow.” He said. “You're the last woman I'd think would have this ridiculous attitude! It-it's not flattering...or attractive, Aurora." He insulted. "I thought you were different.” He shook his head. “I don’t owe you anything, Aurora-certainly not my loyalty. And despite what you think, all of my attention doesn’t belong to you. Especially, where Kazmiyah is concerned.”

    Aurora felt like the wind was knocked out of her at that moment. Just that quickly, she lost someone else that she thought she could trust. The thought of Godfrey’s betrayal cut her deeply-so deeply that she allowed the tears to stream her eyes.

    “You don’t understand.” She hoarsely said, gritting her teeth, upset with her own weakness. She looked at him. “I…I lost my brother.” Aurora told Godfrey. “I lost my...Godfrey-my life.” She tried to keep herself together. “I just-I’m trying to-to be strong for….” Her voice veered off. She took a deep breath and looked at him, shaking her head. In just one split second she decided that he did not deserve to see her weakness. She glowered at him. “I’m not jealous, Godfrey-not even mad.” Aurora clarified and shrugged. “Just disappointed. Disappointed that I thought I could trust you...that I-”

    “Why would you think you couldn’t trust me?” Godfrey retorted. “Because of those menial incidents? Are you really that crazy? That-that damaged?”

    “Sure,” Aurora returned without hesitation. If that’s what he wanted to think then that was what she’d allow him to think. Besides, if she were being honest with herself, Aurora knew that she really was that damaged.

    Godfrey rolled his eyes. “I’m not doing this with you, Aurora.” He said and walked out of the hotel slamming the door behind him.

    When he left, Aurora collapsed onto her bed, not even bothering to lock the door behind him. She just laid there and let the tears fall from her eyes.

    She wasn’t jealous of Godfrey-she wasn’t angry or upset with Kazmiyah even, and she hated that it came out that way. She was afraid-afraid that because of Kazmiyah, she’d no longer have him to lean on-to trust.

     Aurora needed a counterweight in her life to balance her being. Jeriko was always that for her-even in their dysfunctional sibling relationship. Now he was lost to her and she had to play savior to her niece and help her find the father that she’d only recently came to know.

    Godfrey promised her that he’d help her but...ever since Kazmiyah’s return, she’d barely even seen him around. Again, did she blame Kazmiyah? No, of course not. In fact, she completely understood why this was happening if Kazmiyah meant as much to Godfrey as he said. Still, though, it didn’t diminish her concerns for her own feeling of insecurity. Where Kazmiyah had a safety net yet again, Aurora was without one.

    “The only security that we’ll have is Jeriko,” Sol said in the back of her mind.

    With this taken into consideration, Aurora stood from the bed, deciding that more than ever, finding her brother was the answer to her problems.

    “Rora.” She heard someone say-the the voice that she thought had left her in the first place. She was suddenly inwardly kicking herself for not locking the door after he left.

    “You’ve said all you had to say.” She replied, daring not to look into his eyes. “I’m leaving as soon as I fix this situation with the Navarre Alpha-”

    “No, you’re not,” Godfrey said incredulously.

    “Why not?” She said. “Your Alpha doesn’t want me here-your dad tried to get me killed, and I have no one here to trust. So, there’s nothing else for me here.”

    “Why are you so upset about me caring so much for Kazmiyah?” Godfrey asked. “Are you really that jealous?”

    “I’m not jealous, Godfrey!” Aurora snapped, her impatience showing through the subtle tremble in the room and shattering of a glass cup sitting on the bar. “I’m alone!” She hissed. “I just need someone to trust-someone that I can depend on while I’m going through my own personal situation! And that’s not you!” She exclaimed. “And I-” She sighed. “I understand.” She scoffed, shaking her head as she realized how odd that sounded. “I understand why you need to be there for her, but that means you’re not going to be able to choose to help me when the time calls for it. So, I need to find someone who can.” She resigned. She dimmed the lights to her room. “I’m leaving when I finish helping the Navarre but I’m not taking my niece with me.” She turned around and looked at Godfrey. “She’s safe here and she belongs. I don’t want to do anything that could jeopardize that because of my….ways.” She said for lack of a better word.

    He watched the smirk on her face but saw the hurt that she was trying to hide behind that attractive grin of hers.

    “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to-” Aurora turned around and Godfrey was standing so close, she had to lean back so that there’d at least be an inch between them. “Godfrey, what-”

    He pulled her close to him and when she tried to pull away again, he tightened his hold. She hated that his touch somehow weakened her. Literally.

    “You know, “ He started. “Ironically enough,” His crimson red gaze down upon her, relishing the skin-to-skin contact that he had secretly been yearning for again from Aurora. “Ironically, you still smell as sweet to me as the day I met you.” He lowered himself to her neck, feeling the shiver that left Aurora at his nearness. “Tsubaki blossoms.” He whispered and kissed her neck.

    “God-Godfrey don’t do-don’t do that.” Aurora gasped.

    Godfrey pulled back and looked at Aurora, his eyes dilated with arousal. “You don’t like that?” He asked as he watched her Amethyst eyes seem to pulse with a glow. He was suddenly lost in the beauty of them. He had never seen such vulnerability in Aurora Valentine’s gaze. “You don’t like me being near?” He further pushed.

    Aurora tried to get her mind together-her thoughts. She hated that every single time Godfrey was near, he disarmed her. What upset her the worst was the fact that she just didn’t know how he was so capable of doing it.

    “I didn’t say that.” She said. “I just don’t think that now is an appropriate time to be-” Before she could finish her sentence, Godfrey rushed her lips with his own.

      His hand traveled past her breast, wrapping around her neck possessively but not too aggressively.    He had been waiting for what felt like an eternity to feel her lips against his and he was tired of waiting. Whether she liked it or not, he just needed a taste.

    Aurora was trying to push away from him, trying to get away from the enticing feeling of his lips against hers. But it was hard to do when she’d never had anyone make her feel this way before; when his hand wrapped around her neck causing slight pleasure, Aurora melted against his touch. When Godfrey forced his tongue into her mouth, she welcomed it. Against her own mental advice, Aurora welcomed the weakness that Godfrey caused within her; and she knew she would live to regret it.

    The passion had them both so far gone that Godfrey only acted on instinct when he lifted Aurora and pushed himself in between her legs, wrapping them around his waist. It was when he pressed against her harder that she felt the pain of her bruise that was still trying to heal. 

    When she hissed and held her side, Godfrey realized what he had done. “I’m sorry.” He said in a low husky voice. “I’ll be more gentle.” He promised as he lowered his head, his gaze steady on Aurora's as he gingerly placed a kiss on her bruise before coming back up to face her, his lips moving again for another round of passion.

    The pain that she had experienced brought Aurora back to her senses. Or at least made it easier to try and come back to her senses. “No,” Aurora gasped against his lips, trying to pull back. “No, no, no.” After every no, her lips were pulled back into his. “I said no, Frey” She pushed again.

    Godfrey retracted his lips from hers but barely enough to be considered an inch. “Why not?” He asked, his gaze mesmerized by her swollen lips now and counting the seconds before he could get back to them

    “You have to leave.” Aurora weakly insisted trying to shake away the arousal that she felt for him. She removed herself from his embrace and stood on the other side of the room.

    “I’m not leaving you, Aurora-”

    “Yes, yes you are.” She corrected. “I have to keep my strength up for tomorrow and you’re-”

    “Distracting you?” He grinned.

    “Yeah-” She started to say when she thought about something. She looked at him. “Is that why you’re here?” She asked. “To distract me from helping the Alpha?” She asked. “Kazmiyah’s mate?”

    Godfrey scoffed. “Do I care whether he dies? No. Do I think that Kazmiyah deserves better? Of course.” He added as he approached Aurora. “Am I so obsessed with the situation that I would come over here to distract you from having the appropriate amount of power to save him? Not at all.”

    “But you certainly are conniving enough.” She said. “Come over to ‘check on me'.” she air quoted. “If you get laid and weaken her in the process, potentially killing the Alpha, hey, win-win for you.” She pointed out.

    Godfrey sighed. “Do you really think that I’m that conniving, Aurora?” He asked, approaching her closer, his hand rising to caress the side of her face when she caught it.

    “You are your father’s son.” She replied. “Now leave.” She opened the door to her hotel room. “I have work to do.”

    Godfrey stepped outside of the door and then turned around to lean in. “We can finish this talk...after you cure the Alpha.” He said. “You know, as a show of good faith.”

    Aurora rolled her eyes. “No, we won’t.” She corrected Godfrey. “Because despite my extreme lapse in judgment a moment ago, I still don’t trust you, Godfrey Jefferson-White. And you have not changed my mind on that.” 

    "Aurora, don't-"

    "Godfrey, you think that I am a manipulative, boy crazy female that is prone to jealousy." Before he could defend his earlier insult, Aurora cut him off. "Just because you came back...doesn't mean that you still feel that way. And this..." She referred to her lapse in judgment and became even angrier with herself when she realized that the kiss that they had shared only seemed to back up Godfrey's insinuation that Aurora was some jealous girl with a crush. "I can't do this,"

    Godfrey closed his eyes in frustration as he too realized how the situation could have been misconstrued. "Rora, wait. It wasn't-"

     "Goodnight, Godfrey," Aurora said before she quickly slammed the door in his face.

    She turned around and leaned against the door, inwardly fighting herself for being so weak against Godfrey Jefferson-White.

    “Why didn’t you stop me?!” She hissed at her counterpart.

    “Why would I stop him?” Sol asked.

    “Why wouldn’t you?” Aurora snapped back. "That’s the question.”

    “The question is why did you need me to interfere?” She asked. Aurora didn’t have an answer. “And I think we both have a sneaking suspicion of why.”

    Aurora stood at the window of her hotel room and watched the rain pour down. “Actually, I don’t and that’s what frightens me.” She said looking out of the window at the silver-haired, ruby-eyed adonis that was walking down the street. He stopped and looked up at the window...at her. “If you know, Sol, then tell me," Aurora said with concern. She had never felt this way about anyone before. Azul stirred feelings of attraction of course but...he stirred nothing within Aurora compared to what Godfrey Jefferson-White was capable of making her feel. "Tell me why I feel this way about him.” She said.

    “Well, our circumstances are, I am quite sure, different from others of our kind. This is probably the reason why it isn't so clear to us as it would be others, but...I fear...that the vampire prince….may...be our mate.”

    Aurora watched him disappear into the night. “What?” She incredulously said. “No! That...that can’t be!" She said with shock riddled in her throat. "That's...that's impossible! I would have known! When I-when I was a vampire, I-" She exclaimed, unable to make it make sense. "Why didn't I catch it before I died? When I was a vampire?"

    "A child of the sun and moon...I imagine figuring out who our soulmate is, would be quite more taxing than any normal Inhuman being."

    She was right. Sol had made an escapable point. Still, it didn't mean that it was easy for Aurora to accept her implication.

    "Answer me this,"

    "What?"

    "When you were...vampire...solely vampire," Sol started. "Did you feel a pull? A connection to Godfrey?"

    She thought about the first time she'd met him, their first true encounter as well as when they were in that room alone together, and he calmed her down. 

    "Yes," She realized.

    "Then is it so impossible that we have finally found him? After all, seems he's had an effect on you for far longer than a few weeks," Sol pointed out.

    Aurora grimaced, throwing her head back in frustration as she thought about the idea of yet another thing weighing on her mind. The only thing she could think at this point. "This can't be happening,"