Chapter 52

Javier sat on his couch, hands on his forehead  swaying his head when he suddenly felt it. He shut his eyes open and sat up with the hope of feeling it again but he did not. That heartbeat was too familiar and it could only belong to one person. He didn't want to make any assumption so he waited to see if he would feel it again. He closed his eyes and focused hard, hoping and praying to feel it again. The first time he felt it, it was too fast so he could not make out the exact location. He focused more and he finally felt it again

Now he was really sure that it was Hattie. He knew that heartbeat anywhere and it could only belong to one person, Hattie. 

He stood up as the heartbeat went more faster and louder. Now he was sure where it was coming from and where she was. It was already a week, mephistopheles was already fulfilling his promise. He had mixed feeling about the whole situation. He was happy that he could finally counter the powers that Andrew used in masking Hattie's connection with him. He also felt down because, now he would have to fulfil his own part of the deal and it scared him.

He braced himself as He vanished to the place that her heartbeat was the strongest

He appeared in a really dark space, squinting his eyes to enable him see through the thick darkness. That was one of the many abilities of a lashedta. The environment was quite unappealing as result of the spider web that hung from the ceiling down to the ground, brushing against his skin with every step he took. The smell coming from that place found a way of making his stomach churn, leaving a slightly disgusted look on his face.

He squinted his eyes, looking intently at the appalling place to find Hattie. His instincts could never lie to him so he had no doubts and was sure that Hattie was in the room

"Hattie" he whispered softly, hoping to get a reply, straining his ear to get something but he didn't.  Was his mind playing trick on him? He was sure that the heart beat came from this place so that means, Hattie was here except, his instincts where playing games with him.

"Hattie" he whispered, more louder this time 

"Javier?" He heard a raspy, weak voice. It held disbelief and he knew why she felt that way. It could only belong to hattie. It was coming not to far from him but he could not still make out where she was. He looked around and the hopefully he saw a stairs. He walked to where the stair was in anticipation of seeing Hattie. How much he had missed her.

The stair case stopped in room. Javier couldn't help but shot his nose as a result of the offensive smell coming from the room. This corner was in worse shape than the first

A chair sat in the middle of the room, faced back. With bits of strands of hair protruding at the top. That Brunette hair was definetly for Hattie. A bruised hand fell off from the chair as it tried to hold on to the chair handle for support 

"Javier?: Joy filled his Heart on hearing his name. He rushed to the chair. In the cause of going over to the chair, his legs brushed against something. It was soggy to extent of staining his legs with fluid. He moved backwards, the smell was almost unbearable, causing his stomach to growl in disgust. 

He looked closely and just as he had predicted, it was a dead body, who's was it? He could not make out who  the person was as a result of how deformed and decayed the face of the person looked. This was the reason the room smelt so awful. He even wondered how it was possible for Hattie to stay here. All Andrew's doing and he was going to make him pay for putting her 

"Javier" he could here his name again from the seat that stayed in the middle of the room. He ignored the dead body and rushed to Hattie. Disbelief overtook his reaction as a result of how sick and malnourished she looked. She looked so bad that Javier almost wept at her sight. She opened her eyes, waving her already weak arms in order to make contact with him. It was hard for her to see anything since the room was purely dark and she wasn't a lashedta like he was. And judging from how weak she looked, he could tell that the smell was already getting to her system.

He hunkered down to her level and cupped her chin in his hands accessing her deeply. He couldn't even speak, he was too shocked and angry at the outcome of the girl he loved. 

"It's me, Javier" he managed to say, suppressing the anger that he felt inwards

"You came" she said with a slight warming smile, still not opening her eyes. She winced as result of the injury on her lips and she immediately stopped smiling, breathing in and out rapidly to fight the pain.

"Of course I did" Javier said holding her arm, his hands brushed past her thigh and she screamed in pain. He looked at her  thigh and he could see the bandage that was wrapped around her leg but the bandage could not hide the blood that had already soaked up into it

"What happened to your leg?" he said shakily, not being able to control his anger 

"Andrew" that was the only word she could say as a result of how weak she felt. 

Javier looked at her from head to toe and his blood began to boil. His breathing became rapid and loud as he tried to suppress the anger he felt.  He was going to get Hattie home first before dealing with Andrew. When he meant dealing, he meant doing to Andrew every single thing he did to Hattie, Even worse

"Its all good but I promise you, I will bring you his head" Javier said plainly. His voice did not hold the amount of anger that he felt inside of him.

Javier held Hattie's hand, breaking the shackles that was wrapped around her hands, with his bare hand. He also did the same for her legs. The skin around her hand and leg that the shackle was placed, appeared sored and hattie reacted to the pain by shutting her eyes tightly. 

Javier held her hands, carefully, not to touch the sore part, in a bid to teleport her back to his house when he heard a voice from behind him

"Daddy came by?" he heard the voice and turned around to meet Andrew who had an annoying smirk on his right cheek

"I didn't think you were that powerful" Andrew said walking steathily towards Javier "or, is there something you aren't telling me" he said still approaching Javier. " the plan was to have her forever.  Do you always have to be a killer joy?" Andrew pouted then erupted in laughter

Javier couldn't hold his anger anymore as he rushed, speedily toward Andrew, flinging him to the wall. He didn't stop there, he wakes over to him and repeatedly punched him in the face.

Andrew finally found a chance to fight back. He flipped Javier over, hitting his head continuously on the wall at the same time punching

"Why! Why! Why do you have to always ruin everything" he screamed as he planned on taking Javier to hell that moment. 

Javier held him by the neck and jacked him up with full force, with his nails, piercing into the skin around his neck. He watched as andrew gasped and choked with his feet not touching the floor. Javier looked in satisfaction as he watched Andrew suffer. He deserved it, for Making Hattie go through alot. Javier dropped him to the floor. He was about to snap his neck when Andrew disappeared.

Javier groaned and punched the wall out of anger. He finally thought he was going to kill Andrew for good but that sly lashedta always did what he was know for best. Run

"Why don't you come out and fight me!" Javier shouted at top of his voice

"You can't hide forever, I will find you and I will kill you in the most painful way that you can ever imagine" Javier said and the last part came in as a deadly whisper and Javier meant every word he said 

Javier turned to look at Hattie that sat on the chair with her eyes barley opening. The sight of her made him angry still.  How bad he wanted to torture Andrew untill he finally drew in his last breath. How bad he wanted to wrap his hands around Andrew's neck, twisting his fingers deep into his skin until he finally gives up

Javier walked back to where Hattie stayed, he needed to get her to safety before thinking of way of end andrew. He reached for her arm and he teleported her out of there to his house. Going to the hospital will raise a lot of questions so he will have to arranged for a home doctor again.

He layed her on his bed and proceeded in removing her cloths. She held his hands with her weak hands in protest. 

"It's fine Hattie, it's fine" he assured her and resumed undressing her.  He placed her clothes on the floor and proceeded in bringing out a t-shirt  from his closet and wore her. 

He took a look at her and sighed

"Everything is going to be fine, I promise"

Hattie's POV

Hattie felt more weaker than usual. She could barely lift a finger and the pain that she felt all over was excruciating. The harsh smell that the room emitted as a result of the dead body was really making her weak.

"Hattie" she heard a whisper. Her mind was most definetly playing jokes on her. It sounded like Javier but she couldn't keep my hopes high. She was probably on the verge of death, that was why she had begun to hear voice. She brushed it off, it wasn't possible for Javier to come for her, he didn't have a heart so he couldn't care a bit about her

"Hattie" she heard it again and now she was sure that it was Javier. Now she was sure that it was Javier

"Javier" she managed to utter as a result of how weak she felt. She heard footsteps, coming up and she prayed in her heart that it should be Javier. What if it was Andrew playing tricks on her?. He was capable of doing that so she wouldn't be surprised

 "Hattie" She heard it from behind her but she was too weak to turn around. The joy she felt in her in her heart knew no bounds. He came for her. He really cared 

He stayed at her back for a while and Hattie wondered what he was doing. He probably have seen the dead body that was lying there. After some time, he made his way to her. It was dark so she couldn't make out his face but she knew it was him, his scent and his aura could never be mistaken. She waved her hands in the air in a bid to feel him and she did. She grabbed him by his hand and she couldn't help but smile. That was something she hadn't been able to do since she got here. It had always been misery and torment. This was the first time that joy crept into her darkened heart. She winced as a result of the pain the felt from her busted lips and she immediately stopped smiling

"You came?" She managed to say, despite how weak she felt. She was finally going to get out of this dungeon of hell, She was finally going to see the sun outside, she was finally going to feel the cool wind brush against her skin, this was the end and words couldn't explain how happy she felt