Dark Waters - Chapter 3A - Amnesia

Amanda woke up quickly, the memories from the day before flooding her consciousness as she got up and got dressed. As soon as she was dressed Amanda left her room and walked down the hallway, feeling the room numbers as she went. She found the room Hunter was in and knocked gently. She heard a grunt/growl sort of noise and thought that it was Hunter saying she could come in so she entered the room. At once she heard snores and realized he hadn’t welcomed her in but she stayed in because she could tell they weren’t human sort of snores. They were panther sort of snores.
Amanda moves through the room, trying not to bump into anything until she finds the bed and reaches out toward the middle of the bed. She feels soft fur under her hand and strokes gently. After a few moments of stroking she finds Hunter’s ears and scratches behind them until she hears soft sounds like purring.
After a bit Amanda gets on the bed and curls up next to Hunter’s sleeping panther form and closes her eyes while stroking his head and quickly falls back to sleep.

Hunter wakes up to the feel of someone stroking him softly and slowly and opens his eyes and moves his head around to see Amanda curled up next to him, sleeping. He stares at her, extremely surprised that she would be comfortable enough around his panther form to fall asleep. He switches into human form and reaches out with his hand to lay it against Amanda’s cheek. He sees Amanda smile and he smiles back, waiting for her to wake.
As soon as Amanda opens her eyes Hunter smiles widely and strokes her cheek with his thumb.
"Good morning, Amanda," Hunter chuckles. Amanda smiles sheepishly at him, her eyes sparkling as she looks toward where Hunter’s voice came from. Hunter feels a strange feeling flood through him, sort of a tingling pleasurable feeling that also made him feel sort of sick to his stomach. It passes quickly, even as Hunter leans forward and kisses Amanda.

Amanda’s eyes widen when she feels Hunter kissing her and she moves her hands to his face quickly, using her fingers to feel his expression of pure bliss even as she kisses him back. She feels Hunter’s hand go to her hair as he pulls her closer to him. Amanda pulls back, chuckling and feeling dizzy.
"Wow…" Amanda says, not quite sure what just happened. Hunter just chuckles at her before grinning,
"Come on. Lets get out of here. You need to get to your classes anyway," Hunter says, taking Amanda’s hand and leading her toward the door of the club. Jaclyn sees the two of them leave just as something goes off in her mind. As soon as she reaches the door to tell them not to leave she sees about five men jump down from the roof and attack Hunter.

Amanda watches in horror as five men jump down, seemingly from no where, and grab Hunter. She vaguely hears Hunter’s roars of protest before she suddenly notices that someone has stabbed her with a needle full of tranquilizer. She stares at it for a few moments before looking up to meet Hunter’s horror filled eyes as he’s tied up.
"Amanda!" Hunter yells, trying to reach for her, before Amanda collapses into the arms of Incendiera.

Amanda screamed as she awoke from a nightmare, sitting up in bed quickly screaming the name Hunter. She looked around the strange room she was in and frowned, not remembering how she got here. She couldn’t remember anything really… not much besides her name which she only knew because of the note she found next to her bed. It said that someone would be coming to get her from her room at 11:05 A.M. Quickly she looked at the clock and saw that is was 11:00 already.
Just as soon as Amanda had stood up, still fully dressed, a group of people carrying an assortment of knives and a few swords walked in. Upon seeing Amanda awake the men all knelt quickly before rising.
"Good morning mistress. We are here to take you to the council room. We were told that if you resist we are allowed to use force," the leader says as the group moves in a circle around her, at once protecting her and yet also making sure she can’t leave.
Amanda just assented to them taking her out of the room because she really had no idea where she was but she didn’t feel any hostility or danger from these people. After a few minutes she was led into a huge room with a raised semi circular area with small throne like chairs all around it and two large throne like chairs in the middle. Amanda swore there were hundreds of the chairs and the room was massive. She guessed they had to be underground to have this much space. Most of the chairs were filled within moments, only the two huge chairs and one of the smaller chairs was not filled. Men and women, young and old, all were seated in the chairs. There was a representative from every race of magical creature who could at least communicate with humans.

Incendiera walked up to Amanda and looked her over with a smile before turning to face the other Anciens, still smiling until a two hooded and cloaked figures with guards following behind walk into the room. They pull down their hoods, revealing a woman with gold and white hair, gold and white eyes, and slightly bronzed but still pale skin and a man with shoulder length seemingly black hair pulled back in a pony tail and black eyes. The man stands in a position that is slightly protective of the women yet also separating her from one of the males guards also with shoulder length hair but with every possible shade of natural hair color.
"Incendiera! You think to call a council meeting without inviting the leaders of Le Conseil?" The women with gold and white hair says, her voice deceptively gently but stern, like a silk cloth over steel.
"Mistress Illuminata and Master Noir… nice to see you could make it," Incendiera says, not sounding like she was happy at all.
"What is this about Incendiera?" Noir says, practically snarling and sounding quite hostile on the surface, not bothering to hide his anger. Illuminata puts a calming hand on Noir’s shoulder and instantly he calms.
"I have the girl Amanda here. She has amnesia from the tranquilizer I used. I brought her here for us all to decide what is to be done with her,"
"Very well, we will pass judgment on this situation and on any other cases you wish to pull up before we decide your punishment," Illuminata says, sitting on her throne and Noir sitting next to her in his. The guard with the multi-colored hair stood close behind Illuminata’s throne as well.

Incendiera takes a deep breath and begins talking again,
"This girl is Amanda Alexander, the daughter of a billionaire. She is also has the sixth sense and several other powers. Her mother was also not completely human," Incendiera says, causing Amanda to look at her with wide eyes as memories of her family come back to her. Also a few images of the man named Hunter from her dream came with the memories of her family and she couldn’t understand why.
"I believe we should extend an offer to miss Amanda to be a member of Le Conseil," Incendiera finishes quickly. A few of the council members murmur with each other and Noir seems to be snarling under his breath to Illuminata who just stares at Amanda like she can see into her head. Illuminata stands and spreads her arms wide before speaking in a loud and clear voice.
"We have heard Incendiera’s statement on this story and we, Le Conseil, will make a judgment. Who believes we should extend membership offers to this miss Amanda Alexander?" she asks, looking around the room as hands raise, clearly a majority.
"Amanda Alexander, would you be willing to join Le Conseil even though you have no memory of your past life?" Illuminata asks, watching Amanda carefully.
"Yes," Amanda says, bowing her head slightly. Incendiera turns and looks at Amanda, also catching sight of the rogue shape shifter the guards had just brought in.
"Now for the case of Mr. Hunter Panthera," Incendiera says, causing Amanda to swirl around and stare at a dark haired, dark haired man who looked exactly like the Hunter from her dream who was staring at her with a mixture of anger, loathing, despair, and rejected love in his eyes. In front of her eyes the man who, for one moment, had looked proud and strong seemed to weaken before her eyes. He even seemed like he could begin crying at any moment.
"Amanda…" Hunter murmurs, feeling dead inside as he sees Amanda looking at him without recognition.