True love never dies 18/?
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Summary: The story is about Camilla/Sofie. She has an opportunity to visit London after several years. She is there on an assignment and also to meet some new friends. However, destiny wants something more when she meets an old friend that causes her to have to confront the memory loss resulting from a surgery done a few years back. Not possessing any memory of the old friend or what sort of relationship they might have had, she only knows that she has seen him lately in films.
Previous Chapter; Intro-1, Chapter 2-3, Chapter 4-5, Chapter 6-7, Chapter 8-9, Chapter 10-11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17
*Chapter 18*
A/N Instead of that this would be a very short part I decided to let it be from several of the characters pov during about the same time which started in the previous part. Though first you have to follow Sofie outside Borderline.
I wanted to get as far away as I could. The last place I wanted to be right then was the Borderline. One moment everything seemed to be working out perfectly, then the next, when Dominic had pulled me away from Orlando, everything was shattered. Why hadn’t I told him just how things really were? I hated being scared of my own feelings and reactions.
The weekend wasn’t turning out to be the nice time I had hoped it would be. Everything had changed so fast, I cursed everything I’d been through, everything that had left me confused and acting in ways I was sure weren’t normal. I hated the holes that had appeared in my life. I wouldn’t wish anyone the fate of not being able to remember their past. It was a living hell and made so many things difficult to cope with.
My first reaction was not being able to understand how I had dared fall into Orlando’s embrace and kiss him as I did, especially in a crowded place, and especially as I was meant to be with someone else. I could still feel my heart pounding at the thought. It had felt so right at the time, and I knew that was where I wanted, and perhaps needed to be.
For every beat of my heart I could feel my headache increasing. Oh, please no, I didn’t need an attack here and now. The turns were coming too fast and I hadn’t completely recovered from yesterday.
I stumbled along the street. There were voices all around me, but they sounded miles away and I had no energy to spare to think about them. I started to chant, “get back to the hotel, get back to the hotel, get back to the hotel”, hoping against hope that would help to keep me in focus.
My sight became more blurred and I was becoming disorientated. I tripped. I managed to catch myself before I fell completely into the street. I crawled back to my feet again and continued on. I needed to get to the hotel. After managing to walk about another twenty steps, I tripped again. This happened a few more times, and each time left me feeling too weak to stay upright.
The pounding in my head was becoming so great that it shut out the sounds around me. I really needed to lie down, but I knew I was still a long way from the sanctuary of my hotel room. I got no help from passers by. They probably thought I was drunk … or stoned, so I continued on as best I could, getting as far away from the club as I could, and hopefully nearer my goal.
I tripped again, and this time there was a pair of hands trying to help me up on my feet. I pushed them away, and tied to move forward. I must have taken a sidestep when I felt the hands on me again. I showed them away from me, I didn’t want anyone touching me. No-one would ever be allowed to hold me… never again.
The owner of the hands seemed more and more determined to hold me and not let go. The more he tried, the angrier I became. I hated him for not taking the hint that I didn’t need, or want his help. I just wanted to get away. I wanted to scream, but the pain in my head was too bad for me to utter a sound. The fact that I had to fight this stranger off didn’t help matters. I suspected that the migraine attack would be my worst in a very long time. I tried to fight with all the strength I had left.
Somewhere in my haze I had already realised I was being held by a man. I wondered why he was so determined to help a stranger. Maybe he was with the police? I had lost sight of where I actually was and didn’t realise my attempts to get away from him had taken me into the main street I would later realise that his determination to help me actually saved my life.
In the end everything got too much for me, with the headache and the fighting. The last thing I remember before I passed out was the car horn and the screech of tires.
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Dominic’s pov
The show was almost over and Sofie still hadn’t got back from her little detour. I had enjoyed the kiss she had given me and was hoping for some more of the same. She looked really beautiful and although we had really only known each other for a few hours I was really coming to like her. It was a long time since any woman had been able to make me feel like this.
I looked around but couldn’t see her. I turned to her friend and said I was going to go and see if I could find her. She took look around as well and said she would help me look.
There were so many people in front of the stage it was difficult to get through them. I searched along the edge, but something told me she probably wouldn’t be there in the crowd. I made my way towards the bar instead. Although there were still quite a lot of people there, it wasn’t quite so crowded.
I couldn’t see her. I began to wish she was a bit taller so that she would stand out above the crowd. I tried to remember what she was wearing, I was never good at noticing women’s clothes. I thought she was in some sort of green top, but no-one seemed to be wearing green. I hoped that she wasn’t feeling ill and that was the cause of her being away for so long.
I looked around the edge of the dance floor again. It was then I noticed a couple kissing deeply, locked in a passionate embrace. Both looked familiar to me, the man more so. The woman had her back to me so all I could really see was her hair. It was long with small plaits in it. Her top was green… it was Sofie!
The guy eased up on the embrace and lifted her face to him enabling him to look into her eyes. I looked at him and realised it was Orlando. What the hell was he doing with my girl? What was she doing with him, hadn’t she just told me she didn’t know him?
Looking to my right I could see that her friend, Berlinda was also taking in the scene. A glance at her told me that she was as shocked and surprised as I was. Turning back towards the couple, I could see Kate standing behind them, annoyance etched on her face.
That did it for me. I rushed over towards them. I took Sofie by the waist and pushed her away from Orlando. I was about to throw a punch at him for daring to kiss my girl, but the fucking lad was too quick. He reacted really fast, ducking my swing before I made contact and catching hold of my wrist.
His eyes bore into mine and we were locked together for a minute. We were so busy glaring at each other that we didn’t notice that Sofie had run away.
There was an oppressive silence all around us. My anger began to fade slightly as I didn’t want to make a scene there. Orlando must have sensed the main treat from me had disappeared, so he loosened his grip on my arm.
Looking around at the people waiting to see if a fight was going to break out between us made me realise I had to bite down my jealous reaction. I looked round at Berlinda. She was in the same spot, but was looking off in another direction. My brain then registered the fact Sofie was nowhere in sight.
When my eyes returned to Orlando I could see he was less than happy. He slapped me across the head. He then took hold of me and shouted in my ear. “Do you have ANY idea what you’ve done?”
I had no idea what he meant so all I could do was stand there and shake my head.
“You probably scared Sophie away, and if she’s gone for good I’ll never forgive you.”
I finally got my speech back and asked, “How can you know Sofie, you weren’t with us when we met her yesterday?”
I watched him draw his eyebrows together in a frown as his anger began to fade. He looked around at the interested onlookers.
“Dominic, there are some things we need to discuss and work out, but this isn’t the right place. Let’s get out of here. NOW!”
He didn’t wait for me to respond, but turned in the direction of the door. I had to agree that the dance floor in the Borderline wasn’t the place to try to put things right. I was confused. I just couldn’t put everything that was happening together. How did he know Sofie? Why did he threaten never to forgive me -what was that about?
I couldn’t leave without somehow letting Billy know so I turned to see if he had seen anything from the stage. He was looking in my direction which told me he had probably witnessed everything. I held up my hand to let him know I would call him, and he nodded to let me know he understood.
I turned to talk to Berlinda, but all I saw was her back as she made her way through the crowd. A few steps behind her were Kate. There was nothing else for me to do but follow in the same direction.
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Berlinda’s pov
A/N This part I’ve had my beta to thank for, because it is actually she who written most of this after my request. I had the confident she would do a good work and it would fit in very well.
The evening was going very well. Our table gave us a great view of the stage. The band was better than I had expected, and Billy was such a tease, going out of his way to make eye contact and then winking at me each time he did.
Glancing over at Sofie and Dominic, I could see that she seemed to be very relaxed and was enjoying both the music and the company. She looked to be in a better mood than yesterday, and wasn’t fidgeting as much. I thought they looked so cute together as she leaned into him as he rested his arm across her shoulders. I wished she was able to let him into her life, if only she could come to a decision about the feelings she might still be holding for the old boyfriend she had spoken about.
I was really enjoying the music and wished it wasn’t soon to end when out of the corner of my eye I noticed Dominic was getting restless. He kept turning around in his seat, not paying attention to the band.
He turned to me and said Sofie still hadn’t returned to her seat. I felt a little guilty that I’d been enjoying the show, and Billy’s attention, so much that I hadn’t noticed she wasn’t there. He had such a worried look in his eyes that when he said he was going to look for her, I immediately offered to help.
We decided to split up. Billy noticed us from the stage and looked a little worried that we may not being enjoying ourselves. I gave him a smile and mouthed, “be right back,” at him. He relaxed and carried on singing.
I didn’t bother looking amongst the crowd by the stage. Sofie was even worse than I was about being too close to strangers so I knew she wouldn’t be there. I decided to check out the restroom, hoping she hadn’t started to feel ill. I hated to think that she was alone and scared somewhere.
There were only a couple of girls in there, giggling and discussing ways of attracting the attention of the band. I left them with their dreams. I skirted the bar and spotted Dominic on the other side of the room. He didn’t see me, he was staring towards the edge of the dance floor.
As I made my way towards him, I realised what he was looking at. A couple were standing there in a tight embrace, lips locked together in a sensual kiss. Funny… I didn’t figure Dominic as a perve.
I glanced again at the couple just as they broke their embrace. I thought I recognised the guy from somewhere, but when he placed his finger under the girls chin to raise her face, I forgot about him. I definitely recognised her... it was Sofie!
I stood there in a daze. I felt someone looking at me and knew it was Dominic. I must have looked as shocked as he did.
There was a blonde standing behind them, sparks of anger lighting up her eyes. I didn’t know who she was. I was just about to speak to Dominic when he moved.
He was so quick I couldn’t get to him. He rushed towards the couple grabbing Sofie around her waist and shoving her away. He then turned towards the man and took a swing at him. The man was quick, and managed to block the punch. I then realised who he was… Orlando Bloom!
Realising who she was with made it easier for me to link all the information together that Sofie had told me. The boyfriend she couldn’t really remember must be Orlando. It all made sense now why she was reluctant to talk about him. How confused and scared she must be feeling, and meeting Dominic couldn’t be helping the situation. To see Sofie wrapped in the arms of Orlando must mean she had another memory flash.
To see what was taking place couldn’t be easy for any one. It was also easy for everyone to make assumptions, especially as there were things that not everyone knew about the situation. I knew some of what was going on, and I was still confused.
I saw him slap Dom across the head and shout something at him, but then my attention returned to Sofie, she was running blindly through the crowd that gathered, and was heading for the exit.
I had to follow her, she was in such a state. I glanced towards the stage to See Billy watching what was going on. Our eyes met and he nodded as if to tell me to go ahead after Sofie. I blew him a kiss, knowing I would see him again, and turned to leave.
I saw that Orlando was leaving too, but stopped and turned as the blonde called his name. I gave him a look bordering in disgust as I passed him, on the way to find my friend.
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Orlando’s pov
When we got to the club, Billy and the band were already on the stage so we stood at the back and watched. The place was crowded, mostly with women. I wondered if it would have been so busy if Billy hadn’t become famous as a Hobbit, or as coxswain Bonden in Master and Commander.
As always, it was fun watching him perform. It reminded me of the times we had been jamming together and I couldn’t help but smile. I hoped we would be able to do that again sometime. It was sad we couldn’t meet up more often.
I thought it was about time to look for Dominic and his friends. Looking round carefully at the people I saw a girl slowly walking in my general direction. At first I thought she had recognised me and would make a sound to give my present away, but she seemed to be in a world of her own and hadn’t noticed me at all.
Her appearance had drawn my eyes to her. She was very beautiful. She was wearing a pair of dark trousers and a green sleeveless top. As I stared at her I realised that she was familiar. I looked at her hair and it reminded me of a style I saw yesterday. Could this really be Sophie?
She stopped at the edge of the dance floor, watching the crowd and the band. She had turned almost completely around and I saw the tattoo on her left upper arm. It was my Sophie! I thought it was wonderful that we were in the same place. I took it as a sign that the decision I’d made earlier was the right one.
For some time I stood and just looked at her, drinking in her beauty. Watching how relaxed she seemed, I wondered how it was she looked more like I remembered her looking years before. She was looking so different from yesterday. Then she had been so tense and jumpy when people did nothing more than pass her by. Nothing in her body language now showed any of that. She must really be enjoying the music to be so calm.
I slowly moved up to her. She never turned around, so I was able to stand behind her and inhale her aroma. I remembered her love of Shakespeare and that we had both watched and recited Much Ado About Nothing to each other many times. She had liked the little poem/song in it, reciting it often. The words came back to me.
Leaning forward so that I could whisper in her ear, “Sigh no more, lady sigh no more…”
After the first verse, I stopped to wait for a reaction. She just stood there. I wondered if she had forgotten it, if that had also vanished from her memory as my time with her had. I carried on to see if it would help.
“Into hey nonny, nonny…”
Seconds later her arms were around my neck and I thought I heard her say, “My love”. She nuzzled into my neck and hair. I was surprised at her reaction and it took a few seconds for me to respond, drawing her into a tight embrace. I didn’t want her to go as it had been such long time since I had held her like this. I’d missed her.
I couldn’t stop thinking that this all felt so perfect and right. It was her that I really loved, that I’d always loved. I had to see her eyes so I kept just one arm around her, using the fingers of my free hand to lift up her chin bringing her head up and tilting back slightly. Her eyes were closed, but they opened up to see why the warmth from my body had left her as I pulled away. Our eyes locked and there was a different light in hers. Thanks to the verse she seemed to have recovered some memory of us.
I was so happy that she was remembering. I kept hold of her chin and bent to kiss her as I had wanted from the moment I had found her again. Tentative at first, but then I gave in to the passion and as her mouth opened in invitation, I deepened the kiss. Without breaking it, we embraced again.
I forget where we were and it was just her and me at that moment. It was as if I was making a promise to never let her go again.
But reality crashed down on us as she was dragged away from me at the same moment I broke the kiss to give her air. Just in time I saw the fist that was about to hit me. Thanks to previous training, I was able to duck and block the blow.
No-one was going to get away with treating my girl like that, and my look shot daggers into the person. Noticing who it was made me even more furious. Dominic! How he, of all people, would dare to treat her like this? He was skating on very thin ice.
It seemed like everyone surrounding us was holding their breath to see what would happen next. I could feel Dominic slowly relax, most likely because he realised where we were. As the treat disappeared, I relaxed my grip on his wrist. I hoped he wouldn’t take that as an opportunity to strike out at me again.
I looked over to where I thought Sophie was standing, but she was gone. The anger rose up in me again. If that stupid ‘Hobbit’ had scared her away, I would make him suffer for the rest of his life.
Just as his eyes were back on me, I slapped him across the head. Before he had a chance to hit back, I grabbed his neck and shouted angrily in his ear, “Do you have ANY idea what you’ve done?”
A part of me was glad that he seemed not to know what I was talking about, and when he just shook his head I continued, “You probably scared Sophie away, and if she’s gone for good I’ll never forgive you.”
He got his speech back and wondered how I knew her as I hadn’t met her yesterday. That confused me and I wondered what he meant. There must be a few things I didn’t know. Looking round and seeing the audience we had made me squirm. I neither wanted or needed any of this to get out in the press.
“Dominic, there are some things we need to discuss and work out, but this isn’t the right place. Let’s get out of here. NOW!”
Having said that. I turned without waiting for his response and walked away towards the door. I was sure that he would follow, and I wanted to see where Sofie had gone. If the few things she had told me yesterday were right, I thought she would probably run away. I thought I’d seen a flash of terror in her eyes before I’d had concentrate on Dominic.
I was petrified that this might get her hurt or stop her from meeting me on Sunday. I didn’t want to lose her. I wasn’t strong enough to cope with that a second time.
What has made Dominic act like a betrayed boyfriend? How did he know my Sophie? I then remembered him mentioning something about him meeting a girl at the Globe and asking her out. Could that be her? With her love of Shakespeare and the Globe theatre had she taken the chance to see Romeo and Juliet last night?
Hearing Kate shouting my name I remembered that I hadn’t arrived alone. I waited for her. I was startled by a woman in a leather jacket giving me an accusing stare as she passed me. Who the hell was she?
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Billy’s pov
I kept looking out to see if Dominic had met up with the girls and taken them to the table we had reserved for our friends. They had certainly made an impression on us, and I thought it would be fun to get to know them again and learn a bit more about them, especially Berlinda. When I saw they had arrived, I had to go out and say hello to them.
As I watched them, I thought both girls looked beautiful, and they seemed to have the same taste in clothes. The biggest difference between them seemed to be the fact that Berlinda had many more tattoos. Sofie seemed to have one and I wasn’t sure if I had seen a similar before.
When we went out on stage, I kept glancing over to the table. Both girls looked like they were enjoying our music. My eyes were drawn to Berlinda and I couldn’t stop flirting with her. She had such wonderful smile. I also notice how relaxed Sofie looked, more so than the previous night. She was leaning into Dominic and he was sitting there with a very contented smile on his face.
Towards the end of our set, I noticed Dominic and Berlinda rising from their seats, and there was no sign of Sofie I began to worry about what was going on. Then I saw Berlinda smile at me and mouth, “be right back”. I relaxed and managed to concentrate on the song again.
I wasn’t singing on the next song we preformed, so I could keep an aye on where they might be going. I took a few steps to the side of the stage so I didn’t have the spotlight glaring into my eyes blinding me, and I looked out over the crowd. There were a lot more people in the club that I thought would have come, so it wasn’t so easy to keep an eye on them. Luckily, the stage was high enough for me to look out over the heads of the crowd on the dance floor area, and spot Dominic and Berlinda.
Right against the rear wall, I could see Orlando and Kate had arrived. They were late, but at least they were here. I wondered what had held them up. I thought something didn’t seem quite right between them. Had they had a fight?
My gaze didn’t linger on them for too long, and I soon spotted Sofie standing at the edge of the dance floor, watching us and the dancing people. I wasn’t the only one to have noticed her. From my vantage point on the stage I could see Orlando walking up to stand behind her, leaning in to whisper something in her ear.
I couldn’t seem to look away, and after a few more lines of our song had been played I noticed how Sofie turned around and threw her arms around his neck. Before I knew what was happening, they were locked in a deep kiss. So she did like the elf after all, but I was confused by the fact that Orlando seemed to know her, so she must be more than just a fan. Wait a moment… hadn’t Orlando talked about an old girlfriend who had a tattoo, and hadn’t he described something that looked just like the one Sofie had?
I couldn’t stay with that thought when I saw that I wasn’t the only one that had noticed them. I had a good view of how Dominic and Berlinda also witnessed the hugging and kissing. I knew this wouldn’t end well.
My bad feeling was soon confirmed. When Orlando and Sofie had been standing in an embrace for a few minutes, Dominic brutally pushed her away from Orlando. From where I was standing it looked like he tried to throw a punch, but he was blocked by Orlando. Neither of them saw Sofie run away.
I let out the breath I didn’t realise I was holding once I realised that they weren’t going to fight. I quickly glanced at the band, who were giving me strange looks. I’d been so caught up in the drama unfolding in front of me, I’d probably missed a sound cue.
I had to see what was happening down on the main floor, and was grateful that it didn’t look too serious. Orlando had a hold on Dominic and seemed to be shouting at him, then he pushed him away and headed for the door.
Some moments later, Dominic made eye contact with me and gestured that he would call me. I nodded back to him that I understood. I had seen Berlinda leave, probably trying to catch up with Sofie. I hoped that as soon as the set finished, I would be able to find out just what on earth was going on.
Chapter 19
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