Free Angered Seasons: Volume Four (I Will Survive) by Mireille Chester

Angered Seasons: Volume Four
    I Will Survive

    Mireille Chester

    Copyright © 2012 by Mireille Chester
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    I Will Survive

    The weather outside stayed in that ‘calm before the
storm’ state. With Max’s revelation, I’d sort of expected more
lighting and thunder.
    “I fucking remember…” Max sat on the couch and ran a
hand over his face. He frowned and turned his eyes toward the
ceiling. “You could have found a better way to get the memories
flowing, you jackass! You could have killed me!”
    I managed to hold in my scream as Time appeared
beside his son.
    “It was either I struck you down, or she did. Which
would you have preferred?”
    “How about next time you just shoot the lightning
bolt up her ass instead of mine!”
    Two pairs of silver eyes glared into each other.
    “She’s your mother.”
    Max stood. “She may have given birth to me, but she’s
not my mother. Just because we share DNA, does not make us family.
You are not my father. You’re the sperm donor. She wanted to kill
me and you banished me to another realm. I’m sure that puts you
right up there for the parents of the year award. Here’s a thought;
she’s your psycho wife. Stop her.”
    Time shook his head. “I can’t. We aren’t allowed to
interfere.”
    I scoffed. “Right. Yellow-eyed, sprite-possessed
vegetarians, fucked up weather, and the end of human kind… that’s
not interfering?”
    “I cannot break the rules simply because she
has.”
    “So it’s Max against Terra and Glade?” John groaned.
“Man, we’re fucked. No offence, Maxy.”
    Max shook his head, never taking his eyes off of his
father. “John’s right. I remember, but most of what I knew how to
do, I haven’t done for a very long time. I sure as shit won’t be up
to par fast enough to stop them.”
    “I’ve given you the tools you need to defeat the
pair. You just have to use them.”
    “Fuck!” Max growled out the curse as Time vanished
from the room.
    I inhaled deeply then let the breath out with a sigh
of relief as Maxy’s eyes bled back to green. “We’re good?”
    He nodded. “For now.” He noticed we were all looking
at him. “What?”
    I raised an eyebrow. “You said you remembered. Let’s
hear it.”
    “Right.” He sat on the arm of the couch and bit his
lip as he organized his thoughts. He looked so calm, so mature. It
was like watching a completely different Max. “It’s nothing very
helpful, really. I remember living in the other realm with them.
Terra, Time wasn’t lying, she’s beautiful. You look at her and your
heart hurts. It’s kinda like when you wake up real early when
you’re camping and you sit on the beach and everything is so calm
and quiet and just… so perfect it hurts.”
    He smiled softly and I could tell he wasn’t seeing us
anymore. “It doesn’t look much different than here. Nature is the
same. But there aren’t cities or concrete or anything that would
hurt her.” He frowned. “Her,” he repeated in a whisper. “I know why
she’s doing this. I know why she wanted to get rid of me.”
    He squeezed his eyes shut. “When a tree or an animal
or anything that she has created is destroyed, it hurts her. It
damages her. Every time I killed something there, she felt it. I
didn’t