The Nineth Encounter (Hue Incubation Series)
[Part 6] (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheCrypticCompendium/comments/1s6khns/the_violet_hue/)
He ripped it open and grabbed the first thing within reach without even thinking or caring for what it was. As long as he ate and had the energy to fight, as he stuffed his face with meat with feral action. Enjoying every God damn bit of it before realizing there was a soft childlike giggle echoing throughout the house somewhere. His body shot into an automatic sympathetic shock at it as he dropped the plate and grabbed a knife from on the counter and ripped it free from the holder. He turned with the knife bent inwards in a ready to strike position as he looked desperately from space to space.
"Come on motherfucker! SHOW YOURSELF" Haverson roared in a rage at having the too brief moment of peace interrupted by the bastard violet hue.
"Alright," the jubilant and euphoric voice said with an almost shrill anticipation.
The Violet Hue walked into the room from it's feet being planted on the ceiling with slender legs. That was all Haverson saw as an intense burn hit his eyes and he screamed in rage and pain and an underlining of pleasure at the bastard abomination once again blinding him with it's sight.
"God DAMN YOU," Haverson yelled as he backed up against the fridge and moved with his back against it and the counter as he drew his fists over his eyes as that same intense pain and pleasure feeling returned.
"Don't like how I look, Hal?"
It was speaking in Haley's voice now. And it was well enough to shock him with an invisible hook into his eyes that made him draw away his fists to dare look at it. He didn't know why he would disobey his survival instincts like that but he would find out later it was a failsafe the Hue abomination planted in his mind during the dream incubation.
He didn't slowly lower his fists. He fucking yanked them away with a soft grin at that loving voice and then regretted fucking do that. It was worse than he's seen it so far.
"Holy fucking Christ," Haverson murmured as he dared to keep looking at the thing on the ceiling above him.
It was Haley's but inverted to see him as he was. And she was frowning so deeply that the thought of a deep aching melancholia pierced into his head like a trauma that was welcomed because it was wearing the face of a loved one.
"Haaaaal," it wailed in an almost jubilant moan that was somehow filled with despair too.
Hearing it made Haverson's chest ache and his head spin in confusion at that abomination. He was starting to feel something feral and primal start to warp itself in his heart as it began to slowly layer itself around it. He stared like he had lost his mind at thing walking towards him on the ceiling. It had no arms but it felt like it was reaching towards him anyway in a way that was invading his mind. That precious cubic space of freedom he had-
He felt fingers sliding down his arm to his hand and Haverson jumped like he had broken out of a hypnosis. He turned immediately to see Veronica behind him pointing towards the hall towards the door with urgency. Her finger wagging as he looked at it and snapped to the hall in a sprint with life affirming energy as he ignored the Violet abomination wailing behind him. He didn't look back as he reached the front door and unlocked it before running to his car. Haverson gripped the Ford driver door and immediately remembered his keys. His God damned keys and his cobalt blue eyes snapped to the ignition and saw them still there. He silently thanked God for it and got in the Ford and slammed the door shut as he snapped in his buckle and turned on the ignition and didn't dare look in the doorway as he looked back out the rear window. It was clear and he stepped on the reverse and floored out of his driveway for what he hoped was the last time as he put the vehicle in drive and sped off on down the asphalt with rubber screeching.
And as he was heading to the town limits he felt a spark of an inferno start to ignite within his core, his heart, his soul and burning away the layering attempting it's assimilation. His eyes narrowed and his hands tightened on the wheel as he looked at people around town still going on as though nothing was happening. Even though the sky above them had been corrupted with needle like violet striations. And whatever had replaced the sun was artificial in it's purple haze. But that wasn't the worse of it. He didn't care about that. And as he looked from an all too clear face to another clear face he was remembering everything in one second passing by a other second with vivid clarity. How everything was before the abomination came into town and assimilated through the most vulnerable state that everyone needs to recover. Haverson remembered Haley and how the Hue had attempted to traumatize him and bastardize his love for her. Haverson remembered Veronica's fingers sliding down his arm to hold his hand and bringing him out of the attempted trauma hypnosis the abomination had tried to do.
Haverson looked for somewhere quiet and displaced from everyone's prying eyes and presence. He thought of the lake he and Veronica use to visit before as he looked at a billboard sign for water. And that's where he decided on as he looked without hurry to see Veronica in the passenger seat. She was there and in the flesh and without any worry and that was good enough for Haverson as he untightened his right hand and moved it to touch her fingers and felt warmth. He felt the inferno start to burn a little brighter as he wrapped his fingers around hers and tightened his hand into hers as she reciprocated with pulling his hand to her soft lips and kissing his injured hand. Kissing away the blood as she tightened her hold on what she craved at times. That loving touch. That sense of someone there. Someone who loved her with everything in his soul.
"I love you Vera," Haverson whispered in his course and gravel voice.
His pet name for her just Hal was to her.
"I love you too Hal,"
Her voice sent emotion rippling across his entire body as his eyes started to burn and his chest renewed a true loving warmth that the hue could never replicate. A loving warmth that didn't demand submission to assimilation. It was the kind of warmth that ignited a man's soul with a fire that built resilience and strength. A fire that would last long after his soul departed to the kingdom. A fire that Haley ignited again unknowingly at the time of their frist meeting.
Haverson gripped the wheel tight in a white knuckle grip with his left hand as he saw they were coming close to the lake.
Haverson saw there was no other cars there and he was glad because if there was he would have killed them as he opened his glove department and pulled out a 10mm glock and set it on his lap as he parked the car right by the lake.
He turned his head around to her and saw Haley there with a warmth that resonated exactly with how he felt with Vera. He relaxed his grip on the pistol and took her hand in his with a loving embrace.
"Did you see what it tried to do?" Haverson asked with a rougher edge underneath his gravel voice than usual.
"Yet it still couldn't do it," Haley's eyes drifted down towards their hands interlaced.
His cobalt eyes drifted down to follow suit and one corner of his mouth curved upwards like a soft but assertive smug smirk as he looked at the moment together. Haverson nodded with a triumph as he looked up towards those lively chestnut brown eyes crinkling with love.
Haverson felt his eyes start to burn again at that beautiful sight and emotion threatening to take him as he cupped her face and felt warmth. He felt an energy that transferred to him like revitalization as his chest burned, his spirit renewed, his strength restored. She leaned into his hand before leaning forward to meet his kiss.
He only pulled back to whisper against her lips.
"Not afraid of it,"
And her voice synced with his as they looked at each other with half lidded eyes. They looked from each other to their lips as they softly touched them and Haverson and Haley smiled at finally receiving the love they had not admitted too until the Hue had made them realize it in it's attempted assimilation of Haley. The denied attempt Haverson was beyond ecstatic to have cut off completely. Because even though he lost her physically it wasn't in vain. She would be here just like Vera. It was a chrysalis waiting to be born long before the abomination attempted it's own chrysalis.
They nuzzled each other with adoration but knowing they would see each other again as they both turned their heads slowly towards Vera standing outside by the hood with one hand on it and looking relaxed as she looked at the lake with a fond remembrance.
Haverson looked back at Haley nodding with a soft smile as she whispered.
"She needs you too Hal. Probably more than me. Don't worry Hal I'll still be here,"
Her soft sussuration like beach waves crashing against the shore more elegant now as she caressed his face lovingly. Before he kissed her one last time for now, letting his lips linger, before pulling back and letting go of her hand as he gripped the door and opened it. He pocketed the 10mm in his jeans as he closed the door and came up behind her and wrapped his strong arms tight around her waist. Her arm came up around his and she leaned back with a soft sigh of desire. Her head back against his shoulder as he kissed her neck and felt her beating artery race against his lips.
He reached up to cup her breast and felt her heart racing against his hand. Her hand came over his and squeezed his tight and locked her fingers with his. Haverson didn't dare break away from her as he whispered against her neck and her ear. It was love endeared to the point of almost rambling. His heart racing so eagerly and his mind lost in memories that he treasured so God damn much. So very much as he felt his entire body like it was on fire for her.
She let it happen, let him breathe, let the emotions run through him like another revitalization. Veronica whispered back fervently between the kisses as she grinded back against him. Veronica wanted him to feel how much he meant to her as she grinned with life.
He felt hands grace his back with a different touch. It broke through his mania but he wasn't feeling an intense rage at being interrupted. He know who it was as he turned to look at Haley's face and took it in his loving hands as he kissed her. She kissed back eagerly as she wrapped her arms tight around his neck.