Now There is One

A quicky story I wrote for Lucian, a character of mine. Um...yeah!

 "Why are you here, Lucian?" The therapist asks me.

I shrug and stare out the windows with dulled eyes and watch as two birds fly by the glass. Two brothers hatched recently from a nest, I like to think. Two. That number pains me so easily these days. Two, two, two. The word stabs me in my shattered heart and twists like a rusted blade.

"Two can easily be undone and quickly fade into one."

"Your father says you recently lost your brother. Do you want to talk about it?" The woman prods at the subject.

I slightly shake my head 'no' and watch the two little black birds land safely on a branch high up in the tree in the front of the building. I wish that was me and Ion. I want us to be together and I want to fly us high up into the clouds, far away from harm.

The two of us.

"Why did you come here today then?" She asks while pushing her wide rimmed glasses back up her nose. 

"I don't know. Eli wanted me to come here today." I mumble, hoping that would sate her need to speak to me further.

"Eli? You mean your father?" She c***s her head a little and her glasses fall down her nose again. Quickly she pushes them back up before they can drop off her face.

I sigh and sink deeper into the black leather seat across the desk from her. I keep my eyes fixated on the birds and then watch as they flap their black wings to lift them away from this world. 

The two of them together like brothers should be.

"Why don't you call him 'Dad'?" She asks me.

"I won't even give him that. A real dad wouldn't sacrifice any of his children as he did my brother." I whisper as I remembered how my father wrapped his arms around me and let Ion be taken away by that beastly animal that is still on the prowl in Los Angeles, searching for blood.

"You believe that your father gave Ion up to save you?" She writes something down and then looks back at me like she really can't believe Eli would do something like that.

"It wasn't to save me. It was so he could rid of his children one by one, giving us to that animal, enjoying the feeling of accomplishment with all of our deaths. I'm the last one now. Both my sisters are dead and now my brother." Tears began to brim over my eyes.

"You believe your father is killing all of you off?" She says stunned and sickened at the same time.

"I do believe that. Because while I watched my brother being torn apart by that wolf or whatever the hell it was, my father whispered to me, 'Two can easily be undone and quickly fade into one'."

Author's Note

Um...just enjoy!

Reviews

[Robert S. Samson]

I really like the quote "Two can easily be undone and quickly fade into one"

feel free to read my story. Thanks