A/N: I posted this as a reply to Absentis Es Dies' Oneshot Challenge. If you want to enter too, see her profile here on ; if you want to post an entry that will be marked, register at http:// youngwritersonline. proboards. com (without the spaces) and post your entry in the 'February 2010' board. Anyhoos, this is set after a war/fight, and it contains two similes, two metaphors, an embedded clause and a homonym. Read it and weep, Madelyn!!!
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Anneliese Taylor sank into a chair near the glass doors, holding a tissue to the gash in her forehead, trying to ignore the sabbing pains her newest bite caused her. Edward, the Coven Leader, was leaned over her right wrist, a pair of tweezers in his had as he tried to pull the two pearly white fangs out of the wound. Elena sat down on the sofa next to Anna, while Jacob cleaned the cuts on her face, neck and forearm. She looked worse than Anna, violet blood trickling into the cream fabric of the upholstery like a water fountain.
"Jasper, sit down. Worrying won't bring Allyana back. The fact that the Old Ones and the Royals took her means that they're witing for a rise from us. We won't give them he satisfaction." Edward commanded. Jasper glared at his Leader, his eyes flashing red in anger.
"She could be dead for all you know. You've never loved anyone but yourself; you don't know what this feels like." he hissed, hands balling up into fists.
"Shut UP, Jasper. You're not the only one who's worried. Sit down or I'll make you." Alexa spat at him, storming into the room like a whirlwind; her usually red hair was dank and dimmed by the violet blood that had settled in it during the fight. "I've had a vision-" she began, but Anneliese interrupted her.
"Why are you lying? Still? It's you that got us into this mess. Sit down and be quiet while the GROWN UPS sort this out, Alexa." she said, while Alexa glared at her fiercly, before slamming down onto the chair that was furthest away from Anna and the others. Jasper sat down next to Elena, while Edward jiggled the first of two fangs from her wrist. His aqua eyes glittered, diamonds dimmed by sadness.
-FLASHBACK-
Anna's eyes glittered a pale, electric blue and she touched a soldier's hand with one finger, and he fell to the ground, already dead. She spotted Ally struggling, behing held from behind and being dragged away. Throwing out her right arm, Anneliese started towards her human friend, but the vampire nearest to her siezed it as an opportunity, sinking his teeth into Anna's wrist. She shouted, turning around, but Jacob threw a heavy boulder at the vampire, knocking his head clean off. Unfortunately, his fangs remained in Anna's wrist, and by the time she turned around again, Allyana was gone.
-END OF FLASHBACK-
"So. What do we do now?" Elena asked finally, wincing as her cuts closed themselves up.
"We wait, for a while, and then we sneak into Versailles. We talk... Persuasively to the Old Ones and the Royals, and we get Allyana back." said Edward simply, as though it was the easiest thing in the world.
Anna was sure that it wasn't that easy, but she kept her mouth shut. She looked down and saw that Edward had managed to get hte last fang out of her arm, and she watched her pale skin knit itself back together again, wondering if her life would ever do the same thing. Her eyes, black with thirst, glittered. Her sunshine hair fell around her face, hiding the pain, sadness and frustration that was showing clearly on her pretty features.
'One day,' she thought, 'I'll get away from this hell-hole of a life.'. And she would. She swore it.