A Wave Of Desire

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Makai

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I swear, it was like Brittney's entire face crumbled in as she was about to start coming apart at the seams next. She was losing control and she wasn't used to this sort of thing happening to her.

"I..I..I want my mommy." Brittney cried as she looked into the mirror with horror filled eyes. "Let me see my mommy." She was sobbing like a baby as she pulled helplessly on Dr. Malachi's arm.

"No, your time for mercy is over, Brittney. Your little reign of terror has come to an end. And you will be treated like the adult that you are. You may have the attitude of a spoiled two year old, but you are a grown ass fucking adult. You need to act like a grown up now, bitch. You made your bed, now it's time to lie in it."

"What the fuck does all of that even mean?" Brittney, still crying, snapped at Dr. Malachi as he spoke to her.

"It means that you need to reap what you sow." He answered her in the same anger filled voice that he had been using since he grabbed her.

"You are not making any sense at all. What are you, fucking stupid or something?" I didn't know whether I should think that Brittney was brave or stupid for the way that she was talking to Dr. Malachi. Actually, I did know. She was just plain stupid and there was no other way to put it.

"Damn, you're a fucking idiot." I could see the way that the doctor rolled his eyes at her in response to the way that she was answering him. "You fucked up, you broke the laws several times, now you will be punished. Only this is a grown up's world with grown up punishments. You're not going to get your phone taken away or the car keys locked in the safe. You're not going to be grounded or have to miss the school dance or cancel a date. No, none of that baby ass shit. This is the part of life where you either do as you're fucking told by those that are stronger than you and outrank you or you fucking die. I am done. I am over it. You make your decision in the count of three or I will make it for you."

"Wait!" She tried to plead with him almost immediately.

"One." Dr. Malachi wasn't joking around, he just started counting.

"This is bullshit." She still wasn't giving up.

"Two." Neither was the doctor.

"Stop this."

"Three."

"OK! OK! OK!" Brittney literally screamed when the doctor said three. There were tears streaming down her cheeks as she did whatever she needed to stay alive.

And I saw that it wasn't just a lie. The doctor had already started to flex his arm and move the scalpel to her throat. He was going to kill her. He was going to follow through with that threat. And I think that Brittney felt that and knew that she was literally on the verge of death.

"I..I will sing. I will take off the spell." She was sobbing almost constantly now. All of her anger was gone and there was nothing but a stupid little girl left in its place.

"Good. Do it now." Dr. Malachi didn't let go of her at all. He just pulled her along with him as he walked over to Justin.

Justin, like the rest of us, just sat there frozen during this whole thing. He was looking like this whole thing was way too much for him to handle. I felt bad for him, I truly did. He was literally the most innocent in this whole ordeal. He had done nothing to deserve this, but he was the one that was suffering the most. 

"U..u..uhm, B..B..Brittney?" He was stuttering just like she had. He was scared, mostly of Dr. Malachi, but he was still trying to figure out what was going on. "W..w..what are you d..d..doing?" 

"I..I..I am g..go..going to h..h..help you, Justin." I saw a very timid and meek smile appear on Brittney's face, this was something that she had never shown to me, and most likely not to Ocean either. This was the most different that I had ever seen her look in all the short amount of time that I had known her.

"I..I don't need help, B..Brittney." Justin was eyeing Dr. Malachi with suspicious eyes. I think he was wondering what would happen to him for refusing the so called help.

"No, Justin, you do. I did something to you that I shouldn't have. And I need to undo it now." I could tell that Brittney's voice was getting stronger. At least she wasn't stuttering anymore. It just sounded stupid when she did it. Not like my Ocean. When he stuttered it was sweet and cute.

"W..What did you do to me? I..I don't remember anything." Dammit, Justin needed to stop stuttering too. They were both ruining stuttering for me. Nah, that wasn't possible. I would still think Ocean was so adorable when he was nervous.

"Am I allowed to tell him?" Brittney actually asked for permission from Dr. Malachi before she told him what she had done.

"Yeah. Go ahead. He will forget it soon enough anyway." I watched Justin's eyes go wide again. He hadn't understood what that meant and was very understandably scared.

"Justin, I put a spell on you. I wanted you to kill someone."

"Oh God! D..d..did I actually do it? Did I kill someone?" That was odd. Justin didn't seem to have a problem with learning about magic, just about him being told to kill someone.

"No. You didn't. The person is still alive. And I need to keep it that way." Wow, a humbled Brittney. I never thought this would ever happen. If this wasn't such a compromising position for Dr. Malachi, I would take a video so that I could have proof. Oh, and you know, if there wasn't all this talk about magic and all that.

"That's good, I guess." Justin laughed. "Maybe that just proves that magic isn't real."

"No, it is. And now I am going to break your spell."

We were all waiting with bated breath. It was like trying to hurry someone along in a suspense movie. You knew where it was going but doing and saying something wouldn't help the other person. So, we were all stuck just watching on. At least I was able to grab a hold of Ocean's hand and squeeze that while we watched. That was a little more comforting than doing nothing.

Brittney took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She was preparing herself mentally for what she was about to do.

"I've never done this part before, Justin. So, please, bear with me as I try to figure it out." A sheepish smile appeared on her face before she closed her eyes. "♫ I am sorry Justin, I did something wrong, yet now I want you to be free. So, with this song, I want you to forget about the request from me. I release you, my friend, you don't need to kill. The spell is going to end, and you once again have free will."

Justin's eyes had gone a little crooked and glazed over. The song was horrible, but the voice was magical. That was all that mattered, I guess. It was the power in the voice that made them obey the words. And since the singing obviously worked, we no longer had to deal with Brittney ever again.

At that moment, Dad took her out of the room and to another one that was just down the hall. He and Dr. Malachi would be taking Brittney back to the prison soon, but I guess she was going to be here until after the surgery was done and over with.

While my dad had taken Brittney out of the room, Dr. Malachi had set down his scalpel and pulled out a syringe.

"It's time for you to go to sleep, Justin. You have a surgery coming up soon, you need to sleep for that."

Ocean and I watched on as Justin slumped back onto the bed that he was in. He was unconscious but still alive.

"Come on, you two." Mom called out to me. "We will wait for the surgery to be over. We will sit with Justin's parents and provide a united front. After that, we will all go home and get some rest. I think that we all deserve that, don't we?"

"When will Justin be going into surgery?" Ocean looked over his shoulder at Dr. Malachi and asked him the question.

"I am taking him there now. They are waiting on us as we speak. That was why I wanted to make things move a little fast." He was truly a very efficient person. Scarily efficient, and just plain scary sometimes. "Don't worry, Ocean. Your friend will be just fine."

"Y..yes. OK." I pulled him from the room then, I just wanted to sit down and forget about a few things myself. Like everything that had happened today. That would be a good place to start with the memory loss. I could deal with just that if I had to. As long as I never forgot my Ocean, then I would be fine. As long as I would always have him with me, now and forever. That is all that mattered to me.

I literally dropped into the chair in the waiting room that we had been in before. When Ocean sat next to me, I pulled him against me and rested my head against him. He did what he was supposed to and settled against me.

That was when I remembered that Justin's parents were here as well. They had been in here, waiting for us almost the entire time that we had been gone.

And now, of course, I was wondering if they were judging me at all. I wondered if they thought that Ocean and I were disgusting or whatever. When I cracked my eyes open a little and looked at them, I saw that they both had slight smiles on their faces. That was confusing. What was that all about.

"You make a cute couple." Justin's mom said in an embarrassed tone of voice.

"Yeah, just like my brother and his partner. It's kind of endearing."

Oh, well, that was nice to know. At least they didn't think that I was some sort of monster or freak or whatever. Ocean and I could cuddle more and not have to worry right now. Honestly, I wouldn't have stopped snuggling with him even if they did find it disgusting. I would have just kicked them out of here and waited for Dr.. Malachi without them.