Post by silent.lullaby on Sept 15, 2010 19:37:58 GMT -5
Dusk .::Chapter 24::. Unnerving
Aerabella had already drank two blood bags and still kind of looked at Calum like he was food. It unnerved him to say the least, still she managed to walk now with out tripping over her own feet and stood still in the elevator.
“Are you alright?” He asked.
She looked over at him, not turning her head- he noted- just her eyes looked over, her lips curving up into a bit of a smirk. She said nothing, her eyes went forward again and her mouth returned to a straight unreadable line. The lookover was sexy, she’d blinked slow, just once, her eyelashes fanning and the smirk spoke of sex. None of which sounded like his Aerabella. A pit formed in Calum’s stomach.
“Did he... Maverick, do anything to you?”
He caught her flinch at Maverick’s name, but her face returned to a passive nothingness. The elevator doors opened and he seen Michael and Vivian on the other side. In a split second Vivian had Aerabella in her arms, and was leading her out, she looked over to Calum with sad eyes, and her husband flashed over to flank Aerabella’s other side, together the three of them walked out.
Calum had a very bad feeling.
***
“Oi, Faust?”
“Yeah?”
“Would I die if I jumped?” Marlowe asked with morbid curiosity as she looked over the edge of the mine, she obviously had no problems with vertigo.
Faust came up behind her, grabbed her around the waist pushing her out, she screamed but he pulled her quickly into his rock hard chest. “Probably not,” he said nuzzling into her neck, “but why risk it?”
“The fall would be beautiful.”
“Take up skydiving then,” he replied.
“Maybe I will,” she responded turning in his arms to kiss his lips. When she pulled away she stared up at him, “I feel bad, you know. Being out here, having fun while my best friend is in the... basement,” she whispered the last word like it would doom her to the same fate if anyone was to hear.
“It can’t be that bad.”
“It is,” she spoke, her tone absolute. Her father had gone in once, came out completely different. It worried her that a little thing like Aerabella would be in there. “I worry about Scarlet too, but not as much,” Marlowe entrusted him. “She’s an elder’s granddaughter, what will they really do?”
“They’ll probably want to prove a point,” Faust responded nuzzling the little firecracker’s neck. “A month sentence, for her age... Scarlet won’t come back the same.” He felt Marlowe’s little frame shudder. “Come on, lets go,” he grabbed her hand and they started the trek back to the car.
***
Tobias lit the cigarette, it wasn’t like cancer was going to get him, or that his lungs or throat would stop working. He breathed in deeply holding the smoke for a minute before letting it out. He worried about his sister, so much so that he’d skipped his last two classes and sat on the front deck.
Vampires didn’t come back the same after being in the basement.
He seen a head of dark hair blowing in the wind coming forward, and when the figure lifted her head from the ground, he seen it was Angelique. She ran toward him, at human pace, surely to her dismay, when she finally got to the yard she stopped and stared at him a moment. “You’re here too.”
“They’re bringing her home today.”
“I wonder what state she will be in.” Angelique responded. “I was planning on keeping to my studies at school, but me and some of the other’s from St Vik’s got to talking, and...” she started breathing heavily, and he knew it wasn’t from exertion. Standing Tobias closed the distance between him and his youngest sister, hugged her close as she cried.
***
Before they had even made it to the car, Vivian knew there was something different about her Aerabella. She was quiet, but not in that shy, thoughtful way- that was Aerabella to the T. No, she was quiet in the creepy way, eyes overly widened always moving, lips parted, teeth out. That wasn’t Aerabella at all.
“How are you feeling?” Vivian asked, she’d oped to sit in the back with her daughter on the way home.
Aerabella looked over, her eyes flicking over to her mother. “Fine,” she replied curtly. Anyone else might not have noticed, but Vivian did. This was her daughter, and her voice... no, her tone was wrong. So wrong, this being looked like her daughter, sounded like her daughter, but...
Vivian cast a panicked glance to her husband who caught it in the rear-view mirror. She knew he heard it too. “Baby, you’re going to really be okay now, we’ll get you home, get you fed and well rested, you’ll be good as new.”
Aerabella smiled, it was a wicked looking gesture. “Really, I’m fine.” Vivian swallowed hard, the tone was all wrong, the expression was all wrong.
They were coming up to their home when Michael sighed and Vivian caught sight of their other two children standing on the lawn. “Your siblings are here,” Michael tried making the best out of a bad situation. “They’ve missed you terribly.”
“I’m sure,” Aerabella replied curtly. As the car pulled into the driveway, she unbuckled and stepped out.
“Aries!” Angelique ran toward and tackled her sister into a hug. “Oh thank the heavens!”
Aerabella’s hands gripped her sister’s arms with such force Angelique whimpered and let go. “Don’t touch me,” she whispered darkly, as she walked toward the house she cast a glare at her brother who made no effort to move.
***
Wolfgang knew he was desperate to talk to someone and eventually that need overrode his pride. He drove over to the Williams’ and knocked at the door. Sure he might have to hear about this Calum fellow, but he had to tell Aerabella about the twins, probably should let Michael know about this Rogue anyways. Vampires and werewolves weren’t enemies, they often helped each other out when one or the other went rogue.
He tapped his foot waiting, he knew they must be there, all three vehicles- Vivian’s, Michael’s, and Tobias’s were all sitting pretty in the driveway. He knocked again and rang the doorbell, but had a feeling something was wrong. Vampires weren’t hard of hearing. They weren’t slow either.
Leaning forward, he peered in the window... and then broke in the door.