Heart Two Heart (20 page)

“Good Night then! Maybe we can get together
again in a few years if we can fit it into the schedule.”

I said loudly through my gritted teeth as I
turned my back on Ulric and slammed the front door shut. I didn’t
even bother to glance back to see if my words had any effect at all
on him. The dance was nothing like I’d hoped it would be. Ulric was
my eternal heart and he should have paid more attention to me and
made me feel special. Instead I spent the entire dance wondering if
something was wrong with me. He didn’t come within four feet of me
and managed not to touch me the entire night.

His face looked strained and even when I
tried to engage him in conversation he was distracted and answered
with single syllables. How could I have an eternal heart that
wasn’t even a little interested in me? I was probably the only
woman in the history that had a disinterested eternal heart. Why I
bet if we met now instead of when I was young he would have
rejected me. I wondered if he even liked girls at all.

I heard my mother coming down the stairs the
second I stepped into the house. I could see by the look on her
face that she already knew that I was angry. I wasn’t ready to
speak yet so I gave her my ‘not yet’ look and threw my cardigan on
the couch. Then I stomped over to my favorite recliner and flopped
down. I again looked at my mum this time indicating that I was
‘almost’ ready. I looked away and pulled the lever and kicked out
the legs before turning to look at my mum. She was still standing
next to me with a patient but very curious look on her face.

“I think my eternal heart is gay!” I blurted
out barely holding back my tears of frustration and
embarrassment

I would have expected many things from my mum
but I never expected her to start laughing hard enough that she
snorted. With each burst of laughter I found my face getting redder
and my emotions becoming more confused.

“What? What is so funny” I said

Why would my mum laugh at my pain? It was
terrible that I had an eternal heart that wasn’t going to be
interested in me as a female. I was going to spend my entire life
not knowing what it would feel like to be loved by a man. I know
that my heart is content just to have his around but I wanted so
much more than that. I wanted the kind of relationship my mum and
pop have. They share everything together. My parents still dote on
each other like there is no one more important in the world. Just
as my mum pulled herself together enough and I thought she was
going to answer me my pop came into the living room. The moment he
spotted my mum’s red face and her very wet cheeks he immediately
misunderstood and shouted

“What did the bastard do?”

I opened my mouth to tell my pop when my mum
turned into his arms and said with laughter still in her voice

“Apparently nothing. Taini told me she thinks
he’s gay.”

Then my pop looked at me before he too
started laughing causing my mother to have yet another fit of
laughter.

I watched her turn her back on me and slam
the front door. Part of me was relieved yet another part of me
wanted to kick the door open and pull her into my arms. Tonight had
been one of the most difficult nights I’ve ever lived though. In
fact, I was sure this was some type of premeditated torture for my
past discretions. God had a funny sense of humor and he wanted to
pay me back for my previous sins.

From the moment I stepped into the Chēchitl
house I knew I was in trouble. The second I laid eyes on her
tonight my heart went berserk, followed by my body and my emotions.
Every moment I spent in her company I’d to fight tooth and nail to
keep control of myself. When I bargained with them to allow me to
take her to the dance I’d to agree with her parents that I would
make sure tonight stayed very platonic. In fact, her father made it
clear that if I so much as kissed her on the cheek he would make
sure I didn’t see her again until she graduated from college.

For that reason, it had been a long grueling
night. Taini is an absolutely beautiful young woman and I treated
her like she was a leper. It was just that everything about her was
too appealing. If it wasn’t one thing it was another. First it was
her damn scent. It didn’t help that her pop pinned extra lilacs on
her. Didn’t he know that just increased her appeal? I had to try
not to breathe through my nose every time she came with five feet
of me.

Even from afar however she was driving me
insane. For the life of me I can’t understand how her father let
her out of the house in that dress. For gods sakes it showed off
way too much of her absolutely amazingly creamy skin. Every single
time I saw one of those horny young boys glance towards her breasts
I felt like ripping their heads off.

I couldn’t even have a decent conversation
with her since I was either fighting myself or fighting imaginary
foes. It was awful how she tried so hard to engage me in meaningful
conversation and I could do no more than grunt like a caveman. It
was clear my eternal heart has an amazing mind and a really quirky
sense of humor. I was sure after tonight she thought I was
incapable of intelligent conversation.

I took a deep breath and felt my shoulders
slump as I headed back towards my car. I turned over the engine and
was halfway down the street when I felt something hit the side of
the car. I slammed on the breaks and was shocked to see Taini
standing at my window. I pressed the button and watched as the
glass the separated us disappeared. Then she leaned in towards me
and said almost in a whisper

“I need to know why you commingled your
essence with mine if you’re gay. I deserve at least that much from
you.”

I knew what I was going to do was wrong. I
knew that when her father found out he would want my head on a
silver platter but I was done fighting. My heart, body and soul
wanted Taini more than I wanted anything in the world. I reached
out of the window with one intention… to prove to her there wasn’t
a gay bone in my body.

THE END

I saw several human males enter the
laboratory. They had Tasers in their hands and I knew they were
going to zap me, so I would be very complacent and they could use
drugs on me or run more of their vial and disgusting tests. I knew
this would be my best chance. I could not let them take me down. I
charged them the moment my cage door was opened. I felt several
Tasers attach to my side and send electrical shocks through me. If
I had been in a run of the mill human, I would have been stunned
and probably knocked out. But I was no human. I was a Jötnar; one
of the magical Vaettir. Most would call me a giant. I was five
hundred pounds plus of pure muscle and was completely unaffected by
their little puny Tasers. I tore into the body of the men left
nothing but bloody pieces of flesh scattered on the floor of the
lab.

This was my chance to end all of this once
and for all. I would not continue to hurt others, nor could I be a
lab rat any longer. I’d been caged, tested and brutalized for
nearly eighty years. It needed to end, even if that meant I needed
to die. I moved to the back of the laboratory and prepared myself
for death. I closed my eyes and tried not to see or feel the
carnage that I’d done to the human men. Then, before I could change
my mind, I opened my mouth and swallowed the carborane. Carborane
is a superacid and is a million times more powerful than even
concentrated sulphuric acid. It burned down my throat and into my
stomach reinforcing that I had very little time left. The pain was
much worse than what I thought it would be forcing silent tears to
drop from my eyes as I waited for death to take me
.

I was never as grateful as I was when I heard
the voice of my pop. I had no idea why he was in Mecca but I was
grateful as hell that he was. I was in real trouble. The life and
death kind. It didn’t matter that I was a Nagual or trained US
Marine. Without intervention from one of my own kind, I was a dead
duck.

While some believe I like all of Pau’s nagual
children are indestructible, I believe I could probably die just
like any other chupacabra. I mean honestly what is a nagual... Just
a chupacabra and skinwalker genetically combined. Why anyone would
think we are indestructible is just ridiculous. Of course, I
believe we have the same four major weaknesses of any
chupacabra.

The easiest way for an enemy to kill me would
be to simply sever my head from my shoulders. Now that might sound
easier than it actual is. The truth is chupacabra and nagual like
myself are very strong and I have mastered the art of fighting over
the years. If you want to remove my head from my shoulders you had
better take me by surprise and get it right the first time because
no other creature alive is stronger than a nagual and there are
very few my equal in battle.

The second way to kill me is to remove my
heart from my chest and completely destroy it. If even a tiny
little piece remains, a chupacabra or a nagual could completely
regenerate their heart. All it would take is a little help from a
shaman like Waylon.

The third way would be of course to burn my
body to ashes. That is the easiest and most effective way to kill a
chupacabra or a nagual. Trapping us long enough to burn our bodies
however is far easier said than done.

I was ripe for any of these things to happen
to me. I was in Mecca, dressed as an American soldier unconscious
in a public place. Anyone could cut off my head, remove my heart or
burn me to ashes. I was having an out of body experience and trying
to understand how I could return to my damaged body without my
totem animal guide. Worse, I knew it was my own stupidity that I
was in this predicament to begin with. I was taken by surprise
because the life force of my eternal heart finally called for me. I
became distracted when I realized he only reached out to me because
his life was in danger and he wanted to say goodbye.

In recent years, I started thinking that I
would never find my eternal heart. It was just my luck that I
waited a lifetime for my eternal heart and he finally decides to
call me in the middle of major battle. Here I was in enemy
territory, defending myself against fifty well-armed human
terrorists, when I felt my eternal heart suddenly calls to me. I
was so shocked that I got sloppy. I didn’t want to lose my eternal
heart even before I got to meet him. My body was twisted around and
I tried to keep the attackers at bay. I heard and felt him at the
same time, but from the position I was in I could not see him.

I so wanted to see him so bad that I turned
my head just a tiny bit. That's when the bastard got. They riddled
me with bullets. There were more than two dozen bullets lodged into
my body, including my heart, lungs and brain. The ones in my brain
are what knocked me out. I think I was out cold for a while because
when I came to, my eternal heart was gone and so were the
terrorists. I can only pray that my eternal heart is still alive
and waiting for me. My pop took me to the car and gently led me
into the back seat. I could see my body quickly repairing and my
pops partner Waylon started using his shaman skills to help guide
me back inside my body. Then moment I was safely back inside, I
opened my eyes. I watched pops face light with shock and joy.

I craned my neck and momentarily considered
telling Waylon and my pop about my eternal heart. Then fear set in
and I suddenly had the feeling if I said anything, it would be bad
luck. So when I opened my mouth, I said nothing of my Spirit
eternal heart but instead joked about the whole incident.

I sat in the seat and started moving around
my neck a little more and then I looked at Waylon and my pop and
thanked them for helping me in a bad situation. Waylon laughed but
pop seemed distraught, before I could question him however Waylon
started speaking.

“Fynlie, it isn’t an accident that we are
here. We tracked a Sjövættir named Amada Laurita here. She’s evil
and stole the body of Taini. We think she might have come here in
search of you. She’s looking for allies and probably thought she
could fool you into believing she’s the real Taini. We need to
capture her alive and bring Taini’s body back to the United States
with us. We are pretty sure she’s staying in the compound with the
rebels.”

It took just under an hour for them to fill
me in on all the details and for the three of us to come up with a
plan to sneak into the compound. Their only agenda was finding the
Sjövættir in Taini’s body. Mine was to see if I could find my
eternal heart. With that in mind, I followed my feelings directly
into the compound.

I knew the moment I stepped inside, he was
still there and he was alive. I couldn’t help but wonder how he was
he connected to this mess. Was he a terrorist too? Perhaps he was
scientist? I knew they were conducting some strange experiments in
the compound. Part of me really hoped he wasn’t one of the doctors.
Maybe he was just a lab hand, I could understand if he did what was
necessary to survive in this poor country.

It suddenly struck me odd, that the compound
appeared to be almost empty. I wasn’t sure, but it seemed to be
less crowded than when I was here the night before. I was even more
surprised when I suddenly realized I could smell the scent of my
eternal heart in the air. I was surprised and delighted that he
smelled like leafy trees on a windy autumn night. His smell
reminded me of the rain forest. I listened carefully and I could
still hear the beating of his heart slowly and calmly. Then I
realized that each beat was a little slower than the previous
beat.