Mistaken Perceptions - 13

Diana's POV

Diana opened her eyes and the first thing she saw were Byron's dark brown eyes. He reached out to her and she screamed. 'What is happening to me?' she was up close and personal with Byron noticing his full lips, cleft chin, dark hair and eyebrows and light skin.
"Don't touch me! Don't come near me both of you need to stay the hell away from me," While yelling her eyes fell upon Kurtis, she wiped at the tears that streamed down her face. She scooted across the floor away from the both of them as they stood near the table. When she had half the room between them, she stood and stared down at her nails they felt full. She stared down at her blood and skin filled fingernails. She looked up at them showing her hands to them both.

"What did you do to me?"
"I didn't do anything but try and compel you but as you can see it didn't work." Said Byron.
"Diana we weren't trying to hurt you." Said Kurtis.
"You're lying I won't ever believe another word that comes out of your mouth." She placed her hands on her head and squeezed her eyes shut. It felt like the grand library with all of its immaculate mahogany bookshelves that housed thousands of books were closing in her.
"Are you alright?" Diana jumped when she felt his body beside her and the weight of his hand around her shoulders. She tried to throw him off but she couldn't.

"Don't touch me please!" she moved further away from him. She pressed her face into the carpeted floor and cried. After hysterically sobbing for about a minute, she got herself under control. After long moments, the room was quiet except for her sniffles. She looked up and both men were still in the room with her just silence and still like statues with no flaws waiting on her to say something. "I don't want this," she said her voice quivered heavily with freshly shed tears. "I don't want to know that there are people like you who kill like you do. People with eyes that turn black as night, teeth that sharpen and cut much like knives and that you have strength and speed like no human on earth. I just don't want to know these things." She spoke and shook her head at them while still crouched on the floor.

"If I could help you in any way I would." She scoffed at Kurtis' statement.
"Liar!" 'Why does it feel like I'm going crazy?'
"It's true." Byron commented.
"Why didn't you just kill me like all the other men in that room that knew your secret?" Kurtis removed his arm from around her shoulders and just stared at her. "Tell me why?" she yelled at him.
"Because I'm not the monster you think I am. I killed those men because they had plans to kill my kind and probably kill many innocent lives in the process. I didn't kill you because you are considered an innocent."
"But aren't you afraid of who I'd tell?" she watched the smirk form on his face.
"Who would really believe you? A journalist uncovers a secret blood thirst race living among humans. What a byline that would be! You would be fired and thrown into the loony bin before you could get the newspapers on the stands." She took a few steps back noticing that he was very close.

"And yet here I stand knowing what I know why don't you just kill me?"
"Because no matter how much you hate me and may not want to live while knowing people like me exist I can't kill you if wouldn't be right on any level."
"Who cares what's right any more you didn't hesitate to.... To kill those men. Why are you hesitating now when I am asking you to kill me?" He didn't answer. Byron spoke. She turned her attention to him as he began.
"I can take a stab at that one. You don't really want to die you just think you do. It's the easy way out so to speak to keep from dealing with the current situation to keep from dealing with your life right now. You're screaming, "Kill me Kill me I can't handle life as I know it anymore!" And I think you a coward for it." She looked up at Kurtis but he wasn't looking at her he had his focus on Byron. Diana turned her attention to Byron,

"I am not a coward!"
"Yes you are only a coward would beg on her knees to be killed because a patch of her life got to rough."
"You don't know me or anything about me how dare you. I," he interrupted her.
"That may be true but what I do know makes me think you to be a very weak person. I am considering taking you out because you seem to be going crazy instead of handling it like anything else thrown at you." Diana could feel her blood boiling with anger 'This son of a bitch has his nerve' she walked up to him and looked him in the eyes. He was taller but not by much she didn't care if he was seven feet he would not talk to her like that.

"What are you going to do beg me to take you from it all? No need I'd gladly do it to keep you from whining."
"Fuck you!" she reached up to hit him. He grabbed her arm and when his skin came into contact with hers she felt this surge of power ride up her hand and arm and settle into her chest. Instinctively, she fought his grip on her wrist surprising herself when she was suddenly free of him. Without much thought, she hit him hard and he ended up at her feet on the floor. The sensation that ran across her hand and up her arm as she came in contact with his face was a feeling she had never experienced. She stared down at him as he sat on the floor looking up at her in utter surprise.

"Where did that come from? Kurtis are you sure she's what you think she is because what I felt tells me something different." Diana looked down at her hands as Kurtis helped Byron from the floor she could feel their eyes on her as they stood inches away. Her hands and arms felt different stronger somehow and she could still feel that odd pressure in her chest. She looked up to both men.
"What just happened?"
Sorry for all the typos in the last installation I'm usually better at catching those but I was in such a hurry to get that next chapter out that I couldn't catch them. I just wanted to get that written down while it was still in my head. I'll do better I hope I didn't spoil it with my rushed typing. Enjoy this next one. Sorry for taking so long. Thanks for the comments!