***THIS GOES BACK TO WHEN TRINITY DISAPPEARED INTO THE DARK FAE REALM***
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Reece
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I had been sitting in a chair and watching over the battle. I was only seated because Dietrich and Trevor insisted on it. They were apparently worried that I was spending too much time watching over Trinity during her times on the battlefield. Could they blame me, though? She was my wife, my mate, and my Queen. I needed to protect her.
I did my best to make sure that she never left my sight. I followed her with my eyes, like I was watching a very messed up tennis match and she was the ball. And this time, while she was on the field, she was bouncing all over the place.
I knew what she was doing. I knew why she was all over the place. She was trying to find the bitch that had started all of this. Every single time that she even glimpsed someone that even remotely looked like Solanum, my Little Bunny was running to see if they were who she was after.
And when they turned out to not be the one that she was there to kill I saw the frustration and anger rise in my Little Bunny's eyes. She still killed them of course, they were the enemy, and this was a war so that was to be expected. But the problem was that my Little Bunny was upset about not seeing the person she was looking for.
I was only able to stay somewhat calm during all of this because my Little Bunny had her guards there with her. They were travelling with her while she looked for the psychopath that we needed to find to end this whole mess. They may not have been able to stick right by her side since they were fighting off enemies along the way, but they weren't letting her out of their sight so that was something that I could be happy about.
Well, that is until my Little Bunny saw something that made her start running right into the belly of the beast. She glimpsed someone near the crack in the boulder that must have looked just like Solanum. I could see the person but not their physical appearance so I couldn't tell if it was her or not.
The person that she had seen and was chasing after was sending more of those monsters out onto the battlefield. Even if it wasn't Solanum, killing that bitch would be beneficial for us. We didn't need someone sending more of those things out to hinder us.
I watched for a moment as my Little Bunny hesitated when running after that person. Had she seen something that surprised her? Was that really Solanum? Could that psychotic hag finally have shown her face? I honestly thought that might have been the case.
The guards were giving chase now as well. Following their charge and Queen as she ran into the fray. I nearly had a heart attack when Trinity was almost hit by an enemy attack. She was focusing too much on her target that was running back into the dark Fae realm and didn't notice the attack coming at her. Thank the Goddess that Vincent was right there to protect her.
Vincent might have stopped the attack but there was something else that was starting to worry me. My Little Bunny was heading straight for the opening and her guards weren't following her.
"Trinity?!" I called out her name, scared of what was happening.
'Reece?' I heard Vincent's voice in my head, he was sending me a message telepathically.
'WHY DIDN'T YOU FOLLOW HER?!' I screamed back at him through that connection just as my wife disappeared into that crack.
I was already up and out of my chair, running after my Little Bunny before Vincent responded to my question.
'She ordered us to stay behind and continue fighting.'
'I don't care! You should have gone after her.' I felt like my heart had both stopped and was beating so fast that it was going to fly right out of my chest at the same time. Why would she do this? Why would she go off to fight alone? DAMMIT! I'm going to kill her for this.
'Reece, you know that we couldn't follow her after she made it an order. I wanted to go. I didn't want to stay here.'
"GRRRRRAAAAHHHH!!!!" I roared in frustration as I ran to where the guards were. My mind was singularly focused on following my stubborn and obviously suicidal mate in through that barrier. "I'M GOING TO PUNISH HER FOR THIS! I SWEAR TO THE GODDESS THAT I WILL!" I roared and didn't care who heard me say it.
The moment that I got to where my Little Bunny disappeared inside that boulder I leapt in after her. I didn't care about the battle anymore, I just needed to catch up to and find my mate. And then I would turn her over my fucking knee and beat her ass for disappearing on me like this. AGAIN! Because this was definitely not the first time that she disappeared on me in the middle of a battle. That reckless little idiot!
I was falling, but it was slow. Too slow. This was fucking pissing me off. I needed to move faster. I had to find my mate and make sure that she was OK, that she wasn't hurt.
After what felt like forever, I made it to the bottom and stopped falling. I didn't land like I had been falling either, it was like the magic had set me down gently. Stupid magic. It moved too slowly.
In front of me, at the bottom of that tunnel I fell through, there was a foggy barrier. It looked odd but I didn't care. If my Little Bunny wasn't right here, then she was on the other side of this barrier. That meant that I needed to get onto that side as well.
I ran forward, hoping to pass through whatever this barrier was as quickly as possible. I ran face first into that hazy fog and promptly bounced off and flew backward into the tunnel.
The moment that I flew back into the tunnel I was sucked back up and out through the barrier. This time, the magic didn't make me move slowly. It rocketed me out so fast that I flew out of the broken boulder and landed on my ass amid the fighting.
"WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL!" I roared in anger and rage at the magic that had just rejected me out of there.
"Reece? What happened?" Vincent asked me, running up to my side and helping me to my feet.
"I..I..I can't go after her." I felt the rage turn to sadness inside of me. What was I going to do?
"What do you mean you can't go after her?" Shane was there now.
"The barrier threw me out. It rejected me. I can't follow her in there."
"OH, SHIT!" Shane seemed to understand the gravity of the situation then.
"What are we going to do?" Shawn asked, standing next to his brother.
"I don't like this.." David added.
