( a collection of stories )

[jude gregory kite]

NAME : Prologue One
STATUS : Unfinished

She couldn't tell me I wasn't who I was. She couldn't tell me anything.

"You need to brush your hair."
"No, I don't,"
"Genavieve..."
"I'm not Genavieve."
"That's the name on your birth certificate,"
"That's my slave name."

She couldn't tell me that my name was Genevieve. She couldn't tell me anything.

"Genavieve, when will you realize.."
"I already know that i'm you're captive."
A sigh.

She couldn't tell me that I wasn't her little attempt at perfection. She couldn't tell me anything.

A few years earlier she would have pulled over and had a serious discussion with me. I wouldn't be surprised if she did just for old time's sake, but the lanky car drove on. What was so different about time progression? Endless days of nothingness. Endless days of trying to escape to where I belong. Far, far away from here. I had something nobody else had. I had magic on my side. True magic, and nobody could rob me of that. Not even her.

"Genavieve..."
"It's (i've yet to name her),"
"Genavieve, i'm done playing games. I know you're upset about the move, but I want to make it up to you."

I wanted to scoff at her with a snide comment, but I decided against it. I decided that I would no longer reply to my slave name. It was just another norm in the way I was made to live. I would no longer apply myself to these ways. I was sixteen years old, I no longer needed this woman's help. She couldn't tell me that I needed her help. She couldn't tell me anything.

"Genavieve, answer me,"
Silence.
"Genavieve, so help me.."

I could hear the frustration radiating from her slim figure. I had evaluated it over and over again on countless occasions. She wasn't my mother. She wasn't anybody. She was somebody who had taken me far away from where I was meant to be. She was a theif who had robbed me of destiny. Honestly, who did that? Obviously, she did.

"I'm not Genevieve. I'm not yours. I don't belong here."
"Well, of course you do,"

Her wide eyes darted about, faltering ever so slightly before she took an off-ramp towards where we were going. I didn't even know anymore. All I knew was that I didn't belong here. I belonged far, far away in some place wonderful. Anywhere but here.

We drove in silence. The black Impada sped along the high-way and my ice-blue eyes stared at the road ahead. I could see where this was going. I could see my future. I could crush this car any time I wanted. I could rip the trees out by their roots with a flick of my finger. I could jump off the tallest building in Manhattan and land with perfection below. I could kill the imprisoner next to me. I wasn't normal. She hadn't accepted that yet. Instead, she chose to take me to this place. This place that I knew nothing of. I didn't belong here. Even she knew that. She just didn't accept it that. She couldn't tell me, though. Shd couldn't tell me anything.

I belonged with him. Far, far, far away. She couldn't tell me that I didn't. She couldn't tell me anything.

[jude gregory kite]

NAME: idea one.
STATUS: unfinished.
NOTES: just an idea i had for a prologue some time back.

Bright, blinding lights surrounded me. A pool of elation swirled within me. A figured emmerged from the fog; the only imperfection of this wonderful place. When they continued to step forward, however, they were nothing but light. It was so bright, I couldn't tell who it was. I could only smell the sweetness of his breath. I knew it was him. The one i'd been waiting for. He who would protect me. He who would be by my side. Forever.

I began to mutter. Strange words that didn't make sense to me. All I could really recognized that came out of my flawless lips was a name. A single name that I would and could recognize anywhere. That name, that name. It didn't belong here. It belonged somewhere else, locked in the farthest cavities of her mind, harbored gently as to not be stirred from its settling place. The name was too unpure for this dreamland. The endless clouds, the perfect light. That name, it enraged her. Darkness began closing in. Darkness began to invade on this wonderland. She tried to scream, but sound had failed her. She tried to shun the name that didn't belong, but strength failed her. Her sense failed her. Her sight, her hearing, her breathing. It was gone, all gone, and she would be gone in this dark abyss. Forever.