Post by silent.lullaby on Jul 17, 2010 16:30:49 GMT -5
Dusk .::Chapter 17::. Venom
I shouted pleas, I begged, I’ll admit that. I switched tactics and asked about Scarlet, at least then while sitting in a cell I’d have some answers. Calum stayed completely silent though. Didn’t answer me, didn’t even acknowledge I’d asked a question. As we headed down in a back elevator felt more panic then I’d felt the entire day over the Tribunal. The elevator only had two buttons, one for the floor we were on, the fiftieth, and B, for basement.
He let me go once the doors had closed, after all, I had no where to go. I reached out with vampire speed for the emergency stop button but Calum grabbed my hand before it even got half way there and pushed my arm back with such force my back hit the elevator wall. I felt my teeth slash through my gums and I swallowed my own blood before my gums healed around them.
“Stop it,” Calum scoffed. “Just because you are a newborn, doesn’t mean you need to conduct yourself in such a manner. You can’t fight me, you know that, you can’t bite me, you wouldn’t even get close enough to try so you couldn’t even try to use my blood against me, and lets face it, you’d have to nearly drain me to out power me and I’d have you off of me long before that ever happened so put your fangs away and stop resisting.”
Newborn. Coming from him, it stung. He spoke to me the way my father might, or a teacher who was disappointed in my assignment and had high hopes to begin with. I wanted so badly not to care what Calum thought of me, but I felt my anger leave, replaced by a sadness, a fear. I felt my teeth recede and my gums heal over them.
“You could just tell me what they are going to do to Scarlet.”
“What happens to her, isn’t my concern. The Elders didn’t make their decision before we left, I know no more of her situation than you do. And you’re lucky you know, they didn’t stick you in there for longer. They could have, now be quiet.”
“I don’t even know why they bothered.” I replied despite his telling me politely to ‘shut up.’ “An hour isn’t going to let me cool off, or teach me a lesson. It’s just going to be an hour to get even more pissed off.”
I seen his jaw tighten and I wanted to ask why, but he looked above the door seen we were heading past the first floor and grabbed onto my upper arms. “Try and behave yourself.” He whispered before the B symbol came up and the doors opened.
“Another one for me?” The guard came forward, or I had to assume he was the guard despite his being dressed in a long tailed navy suit, white shirt under it and a dark blue tie. He looked to be in his late twenties, early thirties at latest, but I could hear two heartbeats coming from him and knew he could be any age, and with that, he could have far more power than his body would suggest. Though, admittedly, his form looked muscular through the suit. His hair was a dark brown, he had blue eyes ones that looked like choppy waters and just as cruel, thick eyebrows and lips curled into a smirk. “And just as pretty as the last. I do love it when pretty girls get themselves in trouble with the elders. I’m Maverick.”
“She’s Aerabella Williams. Surely her orders have come down by now?”
“Aerabella Lithe Williams, yup, one hour. Probably more.”
“Probably more?” I asked.
Maverick smiled, “yeah, seriously, talking about how it wasn’t punishment enough in the elevator. Not smart girly.”
“Cameras,” I whispered and now knew why Calum’s jaw had gone tense... and admittedly, why he’d told me to be quiet.
“Yeah, I’m sure once they see that footage you’ll be here longer. If they get around to it, sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t bother.” Maverick shrugged and grabbed my forearm and Calum let go. “You better get back to the Tribunal before they wonder if you’d run off with the accused,” Maverick said with a sneer.
“She’s a Covenant leader’s daughter.” Calum said, vampires said that sometimes when I’m around, ‘she’s the daughter of a covenant leader’ like I’m in some kind of power or I shouldn’t be hurt or upset because of who my father is.
“I know who every covenant leader is Calum,” Maverick responded sounding a little angered, “I’ve got a century on you so how about you do your job, and don’t try telling me how to do mine. Now get out of my zone.” Calum and Maverick glared at each other for a long moment before Calum looked away and left the room without another glance at me. “Pain in the ass that one,” Maverick muttered before walking me toward one of the cells when we both heard a beep. He looked down, and had to be the only person I knew now that had a pager of all things. He smiled. “Looks like you’re staying a while toots.”
“How long is a while?” I asked worriedly.
“Three days.”
“What!”
“I know your hearing is perfectly fine so I guess that was a rhetorical thing.”
He reached into his pockets and got out a set of keys and unlocked the dirty cell. Apparently they didn’t have to follow the same health and safety laws as humans. I noticed chains all over the walls, the floors, locks for ankle and wrist restrains. One looked large enough for ones neck. I swallowed hard.
“First time sweetheart?” Maverick asked in a way that nearly made me shudder. He slid the heavy metal door over and pulled me in with him. He grabbed one of the ankle restraints and placed it around my ankle it clicked into place. “Bet’cher wondering why I’m bothering with all this when you could just jerk your leg and pull the chain loose.”
“Kind of,” I admitted as he stood in front of me with a charming smile.
“It’s kind of a secret but...” he looked over his shoulder before coming close to my ear, “this is why...” he bit into my neck and I cried out.
“No!” I screamed, I thrashed, I hit him. I felt my blood leaving my body. I felt weaker, my knees begun to shake and eventually the only thing keeping me upright was Maverick. Then I felt the venom. Funny, the thing that can change vampires can also cause them so much pain. Instead of the feeling blood leaving, I felt the venom entering and taking it’s place in my blood stream. My body convulsed, not knowing what to do with this substance.
The blood vessels in my eyes broke, the colour drained from my eyes leaving them white and overly widened black pupils. Finally he let go of me dropping me to the floor with out another look he shut the gate with a slam. My body convulsed against the hard, cold stone floor until the lights in my head just... went out.