Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-32036009-20190516201536/@comment-32883940-20200423012649

I show her my body. "See this" I show her the lash on my hips, "This was from last month. It never healed."

"Your embrace, which is the signature move for Lamias, I'm fucking terrified now. I'm don't feel the intimacy anymore. I'm scared for my life when you wrap around me, because I'm not sure what you will do."

"And most importantly, you don't even trust your husband. I'm just a punching bag for you and your insecurities. Then you try to make it up when I'm mad at you. Yesterday was the last straw! You wrapped around me till I passed out all because you dreamt of me cheating. I had to call in sick today."

"But that's not the real reason. We've known each other for 3 years, married for 2. If you're to get pregnant, can I trust you not to do the same to our daughters? I grew up in a household with beatings. I decided to stop the cycle of abuse. Now with you, it resumes again and want to harm our little ones. I'm no longer happy with you. Where is your monster instinct to love and treasure your husband? In fact all Mamono marriages are permanent but I'd rather die alone than raise a family with you."

My Lamia wife is shocked and speechless, I pack the last of my bags and leave the house. I blocked her number and went back to my parents house where she's not welcome anymore.

...

Weeks later.....

I hear on the news there was a failed suicide attempt by a Lamia that tried to throw herself off a Skyscraper. Oh My God! It's Delphine? On local TV she's bawling her eyes, "I chased away my husband because I hurt him too much! He hates me. He doesn't love me anyone. I didn't know until it was too late. I want him to be happy, once he's widowed without children, he can remarry."

I should be celebrating that she wants to be gone and finally give me my freedom but I can't. I don't know if it's the abuse but that was her face of genuine sorrow. She never showed that face when apologizing. So I unblock her number. I have large backlog of apologies.

I visit the local psych ward where she was institutionalized. She's a complete mess, broken, quivering, bawling her eyes.

"Please kill me, let me end my life, I can't live knowing I chased my man away! I want him to be happy." She doesn't even know that I'm here. I speak with the Mindflayer in charge.

"Yea, she's my wife. What she said is true, I have injuries caused by her and I left her. But to see her in such pain and go back to the scared little snake when we just me just shook me."

"I'm Dr. Flayer, and I think I can work with her, slowly ease her pain, sometimes our hearts aren't formed perfectly and you have the rare Mamono such as your wife. Normally we would put such Mamono to Death and let the man remarry but I have a solution that can help you both."

"I'm listening"

"We got a new techninque for a Mindflayer to influence Mamono. It may take weeks or months but with sufficient Demonic Mana, we could fix the harm done. With your permission can I look in her mind?"

I walk over to my wife.

"Honey, you must hate me. I'm so sorry but I said this many times before. Please tell them to let me die, I want to give you the life you need. You need to be loved unconditionally, your daughters raised with love, and no longer be abused. I shame my other Lamia, for you to be scared of our embrace. I know what needs to be done."

"Can Dr. Flayer look in your head?"

"What? No, it's nothing but pain. She'll see how much of a bad wife I was. You're supposed to be my most prized person. I'm supposed to treat you like treasure and I have hurt you."

"The Doctor thinks it can save our marraige."

"Yes, I consent. To anything, any pain, I'll do anything."

"All clear, Doctor. Tell us if you're going to make changes to her"

....

"This is concerning Anon, she was captured and treated as a pet to some slavers as a child. For her pain is love. It is ingrained in her head. When she was of age, A slaver tried to rape her, she killed the man and ran away."

"That's when I met her. She claimed she was orphaned looking for a place. I took her in. She never told me about this. She just told me it was life on the streets, and hopping to places. Told me the memories were too painful, so I never bothered."

"We should have got help a long time ago."

My wife wakes up. "I'm so sorry honey I hid it from you. I didn't want to put you under more pain. I tried to supress my nature but it just comes."

"How about this, we start treatment ASAP for your trauma and your monster heart and then we will talk about our relationship."

...

Dr. Flayer assured me she was very enthuastic about treatment every other day. She followed instructions daily. This went on for 6 months.

...

"Anon, while she did not forget what happened but the trauma won't be affecting her. Fixing the trauma has healed her heart. We sent her home."

I head back to our house, to knock on the door. She comes in for a hug but stops saying, "Welcome back. I understand you might be afraid of my embrace based on things I did to your before."

I hug her which she hugs me back with her arms. "This is just a trial run. That behavior comes back, I'm gone for good and no treatment will bring me back. But I know you've changed."

...

Weeks pass and we were able to be intimate again. It took 4 more weeks before I was comfortable with her wrapping around me. I didn't have the feeling of dread. It was a warm embrace of love. Eventually, we restarted our sex lives many weeks later. It took us another week to be comfortable with her wrapped around me while having sex.

She was following all her follow ups with Dr. Flayer and never laid an abusive finger on me again.

I eventually feel comfortable to wear my snakey wedding ring. "Where's the note, I want to throw it in the fireplace?"

"I'm keeping it as a reminder to make sure I don't lose my family again. Besides, I'm pregnant. I need to make sure our daughter never grows up to be like the old me."