change of heart

Sapphire got up in the middle of the night. She fell into the door frame. Something was wrong. When she made it to the bathroom her eyes were swirled with amber and blue. She was caught in the middle of an element battle within herself.

"Sapph..."

"What is happening to me? Why am I so weak? Shane it is time you start giving me answers." he looked at her, her skin was so dark, she had been pale only hours earlier.

"You are stuck at a crossroads. This time i can't help you." she mustered all the energy to slap him her hand flaming with fire when she did.

"This is all your fault!" she screamed holding onto the sink for support.

"You chose to love me." he said quietly.

"I did didn't I? Well this isn't fair! Take me to my mother! You owe me that much. I will accept both sides...I will be the middle man between our worlds." She was rambling, this was a good sigh.

"I can't take you now! Are you insane!? You could be killed!"

"I thought you were the one dying for me! Now take me! Now!" She put her fists on his chest.

"You are insane. No, I will take you when you can fight for yourself by my side." He turned from her and left her there while he went for a walk. Ashton met him not long after.

"She hit you." He laughed for a moment.

"Drop it Ashton! I am not in the mood for your schemes." Shane said as he kept walking.

"I have heard of men beating their women, but not the other way around."

"She slapped me, end of story, she had a right to." He said leaning against a building.

"What did you do?"

"I won't take her to see her mother until she is strong enough to fight. She will have to fight for her life there." They just stood there for a while in understanding silence. Shane flamed his hands in anger and pounded them into the wall causing singe marks. Ashton saw his brother through clear eyes for the first time in a long time.