Chapter 4: Hell Sweet Hell
Before me, there will always be you. You are someone that is forever before me.
-Anonymous
Dante looked at the girl trying hard to appear strong. He could tell, her guard was up against him. Not that he blamed her. He needed to ease her mind. He took a deep breath and started,
"You lost your memories. This is why you can't remember me or anything about us. You and me, we go way back. We met, fell in love, got married and here we are. When you crossed over, you lost all memories and that's usually normal for mortals to lose their memories when they cross over."
"Mortals? Cross over what? How is that even possible?", Mia refuted. She knew she felt weird waking up. Her mind felt hollow and I guess deep down, she knew she was forgetting some piece of information. But this was explosive news to her.
"And what exactly do you mean, crossing over?", Mia questioned further.
"You are in Hell, sweetheart.", came a womanly voice from behind.
Mia turned around and she saw a gorgeous women, with voluminous fiery red hair that fell down to her waist. She was curvaceous, at all the right places. Mia was dumbstruck by how gorgeous she was. And all she was wearing was a black silk slip dress, yet as she walked past, all of her womanly grace was beautifully displaced.
"You ... You are really beautiful." Mia stumbled out.
The gorgeous woman chuckled upon hearing Mia. "Thank you and Hello darling, I am Victoria Clairemont, Dante's dearest cousin", the woman continued.
Mia stuttered remembering her words. "Wait... Hell?"
"Yes, Hell. When mortals cross over, they tend to lose their memories. I'm surprised you regained some of it, as you tend to remember Milo.", Victoria continued as she petted Milo who was sitting patiently besides Mia.
"So I crossed over to Hell?", Mia asked.
And shortly after, she started to laugh. "Ah - hahahahahahahahha"
"You guys are funny.", Mia continued, wiping tears from the sides of her eyes after laughing too hard. Mia clutched her stomach as it hurt when she laughed so hard.
"But you are in Hell, Sweetheart." Victoria interjected.
"Stop it." Mia replied. "Your joke is getting too out of hand."
"But I am not joking." Victoria pursued on.
"Am I dead?" Mia asked.
"NO," Victoria and Dante replied in unison.
"How did I cross over to hell then? Do I not need to die and be someone who have committed sins to be here?" Mia question further, perplexed by both Dante and Victoria.
"Isn't that how Hell usually works?", Mia probed further on.
"Well, you got married. And your side is next to my cousin"
"You guys really take me for a fool, don't you?", Mia questioned with annoyance rising in her voice.
"Hell, huh?"
"If that is true, then prove it." Mia challenged both Victoria and Dante.
"Oh honey, I don't think you want me to prove that you are really in Hell." Victoria chimed in before Dante would say anything, in a sweet melodious voice of hers.
"Then you guys must be lying. You guys are nothing more than liars. So what' really going on. And this time, it better be the truth.", Mia was starting to show her anger as her voice was high-pitched and it was louder than normal.
Victoria's arm was folded but as soon as Mia called her a liar, she too lost her temper. She strutted her way to Mia and put one of her hands on her shoulder and pressed it. As she did so, recanted some words which sounded a lot like gibberish to Mia. "fkhweiofwenkgjkjskjwefnkwhegjkrgwgm" and as Victoria did so, the air turned dark and cloudy, thunderstorm brewed but what threw Mia was Victoria's eyes. Her eyes which was a dark brown hue, had turned black. And it was not just her iris that turned black her whole eyes was pitch black.
Mia broke out in cold sweat at the right of it. A chill swept by Mia's spine and as she tried to make some noise, she felt her voice would not allow it. As she felt powerless to do anything and just as her knees was about to go out on her, Dante interjected.
"That is enough." And grabbed Victoria's wrist that was on Mia's shoulders and shoved it away.
As soon as he did so, the clouds stopped and Victoria's eye went back to her usual dark brown color.
"Wh.. wha... what was that? So . ... so ... so I really am in Hell? I .... I..... i .... lost my memories? I am married?", Mia was choking on the words.
And before she knew it, her world turned pitch black.
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As soon as Mia lost consciousness, Dante grabbed hold of her and carried her in his arms. He turned and darted a look to Victoria.
Victoria shrugged, "Well, you needed help explaining how she got there."
"I never asked you for help.", Dante muttered.
"The way you were explaining to her about what she was doing in Hell was really painful to watch dear cousin so I had no choice but to interpose.", Victoria gave the innocent, can't-blame-me look to Dante.
"Please refrain from doing that, ever again.", Dante firmly told Victoria.
Victoria's acquiescence was in form of a nod.
Dante turned his back to Victoria and started to walk away with Mia when he stopped with what Victoria had to say.
"When will you tell her Dante?", Victoria spoke after a bit of a silence.
"You know you can't hide her forever. She has every right to know. Plus he's looking for her too. He is going crazy looking for her. In due time, he will find her. She's not dead yet but she's not living either.", Victoria continued.
"She's home. She's safe with me. I will tell her when the time comes", Dante replied.
"Home sweet home, Mia. Or more like Hell sweet Hell. Your time is ticking Dante.", with those words Victoria left Dante with a Mia in his arms.
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