Nathaniel

Eva's brows furrowed together as she forced her eyes open.

She looked around for a moment Wondering where she was and why she felt so much pain around her body.

She scented something like iodine which made her nose sting.

She could feel someone's gaze when she sat up on the bed holding her head which was banging. She felt a bandage around her forehead and her eyes flew open when she suddenly remembered what she was doing here and how.

She threw the covers across the bed and as she tried to stand She falls but someone catches her from behind. The arms were evidently muscular and curled around her slender waist.

She was prepared to lash out at the person but he covers her mouth his hand and whispers into her ear.

"Evy..calm down.. it's me Nat."

Eva sighed as his cool breath tickled the insides of her ear warming her cold body up.

Her eyes suddenly widened.

Nathaniel??!

"Nathaniel...what are you doing here"

He calmly places her on the bed to lie back down, noticing how weak she was. The clinic was dark and the only thing glowing there was the manna around his floating broom.

Manna: Magic

"I'm supposed to be asking you that question. I was waiting outside your hostel but when you didn't come I decided to come find you..but then I saw you sleeping" He sat on the bed with one leg touching the floor and smiled at her. "You were so cute I didn't want to wake you up"

She shyly looked down, blushing at his words.

"Someone must have seen you"

He seemed unbothered. "I used a camouflage spell. I just walked inside the building. Besides everyone was fast asleep"

When his gaze fell on her pale green skin and her bandaged forehead, she looked down playing with her fingers.

His hand touched her cheek to make her face him, her lips quivered under his touch.

"What happened to you" He asked looking very serious and worried.

She tried to look down but he didn't let her

She tells him about the training.

"Are they training you..or trying to kill you. Evy this is torture. Let me get you out of here. Please.."

Eva holds the hand on her cheek without realizing.

She looked into his eyes.

"N..no please don't. My mother wants this for me. She'll be crushed if she finds out I ran away from school.."

Nathaniel grits his teeth.

. "Evy look at you...you look like you'll die soon"

Eva smiled calmly and politely

"I won't die Nathaniel. I have something important to accomplish in life before I even think about dying. So please don't worry about me"

Surprising her, he takes her hand holding his and tenderly kisses the back of her palm.

Eva's pale face is flushed and her eyes widened as she felt those soft warm lips of his touch her skin.

He released her hand from his grip and drops it by her side tenderly.

Eva kept staring at his lips with a red face.

He stands up still looking at her ,smirking at how he had made her blush.

"I'll come to see you when I have the chance, okay?"

She nods smiling shyly.

"Okay" She whispers and he suddenly hops on his broom and waving his wand, he vanishes leaving her in the dark.

Eva sighed as she lay down to sleep but thinking about the kiss he planted on her hand, she couldn't help but smile while sleeping... forgetting she was scared of the dark...

Joann hit the floor with her face and felt her lips give way and soon her gums were bleeding.

Mona was at the door crying but she couldn't do anything..she dared not take a step.

Shirmona stood over her daughter watching as Joann fought for her life.

"Where is my granddaughter"

Joann coughed out blood and shut her eyes as she tried to crawl away from Shirmona but she kept dragging her back with the power from her wand.

"I told you... she's at school"

"Lies" She snarled and swinging her wand, she pushed Joann to the wall with a strong force that Joann saw stars when she slides to the floor.

"You tell me where she is right now or else...I asked all the maids about her whereabouts but they said she isn't at witch's prime. So where is she" She , stooped low and dragged Joann's hair up so that they were facing each other. "Tell me dear daughter....where is my Evy"

She uses her thumb to brush the trail of blood on Joann's face and licks it, closing her eyes for a moment to savour the taste and power.

Joann trembled but she couldn't do anything. Not if she wanted a death wish.

When she didn't talk, Shirmona turned to Mona.

"You!!! Lock her up in the deepest and darkest dungeon in the castle without food nor water until she's ready to talk" She stands up and glared at Joann resisting the urge to kill her because she knew the consequences of what would happen if she did that.

As Mona trembled, going over to the shredded and pale woman on the floor, the queen leaves the room.

She just had a feeling that wherever Eva was, she had to find out fast...