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"Calm down, Ro," Darius told her soothingly as he felt her hands tighten into fists. "Be grateful Daniel did not have his way. If Calista's father were a mage it would have been death---probably for the both of us," he remarked. "Gareth has his reasons for this punishment. In the many years I have walked this earth, he is probably one of the most calculating I have known. Although, if I were to hazard a guest, his own woman will not be pleased with this arrangement."
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"I told you that you just should have killed him," Daniel hissed in Gareth's ear.
"And what good that have solved? A lady would just be without her love," Gareth remarked.
"But how could this help? Look at my daughter---the one that you claim to love! She is terrified of him and you are forcing her to befriend him while he is---that-that thing!" Daniel yelled.
Pulling Daniel off to the side, Gareth lowered his voice so only Daniel could hear his words. "Calista's spirit is divided right now. Her compassionate nature is warring with her fear---tossing her mind into chaos. On one hand, she wants Darius gone and yet she can never toss one in need so callously on the streets."
"Your point?" Daniel remarked.
"She needs to confront herself. Yes, things will be hard for awhile, but in the end, she will be better for it."
"So you are forcing Fate's hand?"
"I want Darius to see what he has done and who she is. I can lecture him and blast him until Armageddon descends upon us, but nothing will change. Yet from what I can read of him, he is a man of honor. If Calista can free him---he will be in her debt and there will be less of a chance of him hurting her again."
"You are gambling with much, Gareth."
"I know. But I see no other way," the mage responded softly.
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Ignoring Gareth and her father completely, Calista painfully rolled over on her side and curled herself into a ball as she stared at the opposite wall. She didn't care about the pain shooting from her body, the hurt and frustration in her heart was far worse. How could Gareth do this to her? She thought he loved her and now he was just willingly casting her into the fires of Hades without warning. She did not ask for any of this...nor could she see what could this would do. How could you, my protector, betray me like this? Calista thought to herself as she bit her lower lip, trying hard not to cry.

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Rosalina shook her head. "No, he doesn't realise." She said before turning to return to the home, in doing so she fell as pain shot up her leg from her ankle making her cry out. But she got up and limped into the house. "GARETH!" She had to know where he was.

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Gareth sighed as he heard Rosalina bellowing out his name, hardly in the mood to deal with her at the moment. Stepping out of the room, he folded his arms over his chest as he just stared at Rosalina. "Yes?" he remarked coolly.
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Calista did not move as she heard Rosalina calling out for Gareth. Instead she just remained as still as a statue, staring at the wall with listless blue eyes. Feeling the bed shift slightly, she knew that her father had come to sit at her side. "Why did he do this, Abba?" Calista asked him as she sniffled slightly.
"Because he has faith in you, faith in your strength."
"I am not strong, father," Calista remarked meekly.
"You are stronger than you think, my child. And perhaps it is time you prove it to yourself," Daniel remarked as he gently rubbed her back.
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Seeing Rosalina trip, Darius tried to rush to her aid but was still too injured from the lightning to be of much assistance. Don't do anything foolish, Ro Darius thought to himself. I fear now I may not be much protection for you.

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Rosalina went to gareth and felt for his face before hitting it as hard as she could. "Do you know what you've done?" She yelled. "Take the spell off now."

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Although her slap stung, Gareth betrayed no hint of pain, although his eyes darkened meaning that he was slowly losing control of his anger. "It cannot be done," he told her crisply and without any warmth or sympathy. "Your only hope now lies with Calista," he remarked simply before turning away. Pausing in mid-step then, he turned once more to face her. "And I would watch whom you hit, lady. For only a fool tests my patience and lives. Your lover was fool enough to do so on more than one occasion. Be grateful he is not yet dead."
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"This isn't fair," Calista whimpered. "Why does Gareth get to decide what I can and cannot do? I don't want to have anything to do with Darius and yet he is making me befriend him."
"He is not forcing you to do anything, my child. The decision to befriend him is yours and yours alone."
"But he is forcing me!" Calista cried in a raspy voice. "Do you not see it? If I don't help, I'll feel bad, but helping requires me to get to know the one person living that I fear now more than any other."
"Only you can decide what to do," Daniel told Calista soothingly.
"I don't want to have to decide anything," she whimpered back, trembling slightly as she did so.

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Rosalina started to tremble, she was furious but also something else. "You don't understand." she yelled at Gareth. "You've seen Darius, my father knows what he is. Someone will see him eventually, then word will get to my father. Then his men will come and take me back. Back to marry the man who ravished and beat me. Do want that?" Rosalina was almost screaming, tears start to flow from her eyes.

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"I have fought in many wars before you were born, lady" Gareth remarked impassively. "And have laid to rest scores of men in senseless combat. If your father's men dare to come, they will meet the same fate," he remarked simply, hardly concerned about her outburst. "I think I can hold my own against a single army."
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Calista said nothing more as her father continued to rub her back and she just stared out at nothingness, wondering what she was going to do.
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"Let it alone, Ro," Darius remarked as he limped back into the house before turning his eyes upon Gareth. "I sense you have a dark past," the mythical beast noted.
"How very perceptive," Gareth snorted, a hard look in his hazel-green eyes.

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Rosalina looked down. "Darius . . . once he knows I'm here he won't stop."

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"Ro, relax. It will be all right," Darius told her softly. "I promise you, it will work out," he added before falling silent. Turning from the couple, Gareth left them in a stony silence. Darius was just bringing out pieces of him that he had long since buried ever since he came to live in Andestea. Pieces of his heart that Calista had managed to lock away with her gentleness and love. Yet watching her being emotionally torn apart was allowing his darker nature to resurface once more---the nature that made him the most feared warrior to a tyrannical king.
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Starting to doze as her father continued to gently rub her back, Calista sank into a light sleep, a single tear rolling down her cheek betraying how much her spirit had been thrown into turmoil.

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rosalina heard Gareth leave. Once gone she collapsd to her knees. "I don't want to go back Dary." She whimpered.

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"You won't have to go back, Ro," Darius whispered to Rosalina as he nuzzled her with his muzzle, not really able to do much in his true form. "I won't let them take you back. I would forfeit my life before I let them take you," he added softly.
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Walking back into the bedroom, Gareth saw Calista curled up in a ball as she slept, a frown on her face.
"How is she?" Gareth asked as softly, although he knew it was a foolish thing to ask.
"She lies in torment," Daniel remarked quietly. "I pray that you know what you are doing," he added softly "And this doesn't destroy her."
"I hope you are right," Gareth remarked softly as he lightly caressed Calista's pale face with his fingers.

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Rosalina nodded and turned, wrapping her arms around him, she buried her face into his coat.

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"It will be all right, love," Darius told her softly. "We just have to hope that I did not scar the mage's woman so badly that she will recoil from the very thought of being in the same room as me," he added, Gareth's curse echoing in his ears.
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"Please...please don't ask this of me," Calista mumbled in her sleep at his light touch, as if she knew that the mage was there and her frown deepened even though she did not open her eyes.
Sighing softly, Gareth sat on the edge of the bed and just watched her sleep. "You will find the strength within to do what is right," Gareth whispered in her ear though she gave no indication that she had heard him.

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Rosalina nodded. "I won't forgive for this." she said. "Its not fair to force you into this body."

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Darius chuckled light at Rosalina's words. "Not forgiving someone is a strong statement, Ro. And unfortunately, we have already needed him many a time," Darius remarked with an annoyed sigh. Being indebted to a man you despised was one of the worst feelings in the world. "Besides, I am sure he would make the same argument over how I bullied Calista. He would tell me it wasn't fair to berate her and blame her as I did. Every man has a breaking point, love, and my clawing that woman was his, just as seeing Daniel going after you was mine. After I nearly caused her to bleed to death, you had to know that retribution would come," he remarked quietly.
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Moaning softly in her sleep, Calista began to toss and turn as taunts of promises broken and pledges left unfulfilled rose up from the wisps of the Netherworld. The voices enveloped her, surrounding her in a tendril of mocking laughter as their chorus of derision grew louder and louder.

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"But Darius." Rosalina murmered. "Calista won't trust you in this form. I never knew how to be afraid of you. How can the spell be broken if she is afraid of you, despite the way you act."

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