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Regina paced the floor as she awaited Alejandro's return, she should not have let him go alone to the Connecticut court, but he had insisted that everything would be fine. She was so exausted from keeping his nightmares at bay that she did not argue the point.
Now she wished she had, she hated not knowing what was going on.
She heard the car pull up outside and rushed to the door, JB and Shea were just bringing Alejandro up the steps, and he did not look....well.
A moment of perfect understanding passed between Regina and Carlos. Carlos swept Alejandro up in his arms and started back for the bedroom, while Regina reassured JB and Shea that everything would be fine, and that they would take good care of him.
After they left, she followed Carlos back to the bedroom, where he was just settling Alejandro into bed. "He's been muttering the Act of Contrition..over and over" Carlos said as he raised worried eyes to Regina. "Something happened tonight that was just too much, merda I should have been there!!" Regina replied, then sat down in the chair next to the bed and took one of Alejandro's cold hands in hers. "O my God,
I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins..." Alejandro's litany was enough to break a harder heart than Regina's.
She deftly slipped into his mind, the scene she saw there, were almost identical to the ones his nightly daymares were of...The cross beating down on him, whips, alternating images of the Mother Superior and his sire Alexandra. He was young in his dreams, only a child, but what had been done to him was monstrous. She drew herself back into his present. There was a difference this time, a merchant kept alternating with the mother superior, he was holding something, dirt maybe? that he offered to Alejandro, as soon as he did that, the Mother Superior would come back, and the cross would swing down. ~~Enough of this amante~~ she wrapped herself around his trembling child form in his mind, as she gathered him into her arms in the world without. She blocked the blows, the merchant, the Mother Superior and Alexandra, and comforted him the best she could
~~You are safe here amante, no one can hurt you...you are safe, and you are loved~~ She sang to him then, both in and out of his mind a song of love...of peace...of happy childhoods and families regained, and as her voice filled the room and his mind he finally relaxed against her and settled into true sleep, a sleep that she would ensure was safe from any but the sweetest of dreams.
Now she wished she had, she hated not knowing what was going on.
She heard the car pull up outside and rushed to the door, JB and Shea were just bringing Alejandro up the steps, and he did not look....well.
A moment of perfect understanding passed between Regina and Carlos. Carlos swept Alejandro up in his arms and started back for the bedroom, while Regina reassured JB and Shea that everything would be fine, and that they would take good care of him.
After they left, she followed Carlos back to the bedroom, where he was just settling Alejandro into bed. "He's been muttering the Act of Contrition..over and over" Carlos said as he raised worried eyes to Regina. "Something happened tonight that was just too much, merda I should have been there!!" Regina replied, then sat down in the chair next to the bed and took one of Alejandro's cold hands in hers. "O my God,
I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins..." Alejandro's litany was enough to break a harder heart than Regina's.
She deftly slipped into his mind, the scene she saw there, were almost identical to the ones his nightly daymares were of...The cross beating down on him, whips, alternating images of the Mother Superior and his sire Alexandra. He was young in his dreams, only a child, but what had been done to him was monstrous. She drew herself back into his present. There was a difference this time, a merchant kept alternating with the mother superior, he was holding something, dirt maybe? that he offered to Alejandro, as soon as he did that, the Mother Superior would come back, and the cross would swing down. ~~Enough of this amante~~ she wrapped herself around his trembling child form in his mind, as she gathered him into her arms in the world without. She blocked the blows, the merchant, the Mother Superior and Alexandra, and comforted him the best she could
~~You are safe here amante, no one can hurt you...you are safe, and you are loved~~ She sang to him then, both in and out of his mind a song of love...of peace...of happy childhoods and families regained, and as her voice filled the room and his mind he finally relaxed against her and settled into true sleep, a sleep that she would ensure was safe from any but the sweetest of dreams.