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Christabel
Lucy was lying on the couch, the Drakes where in an up roar. Someone was trying to kill Sol, again. Only this time nobody could figure out why. The note that tipped them off said: She will be dead by sunrise and there is nothing you can do. It is best to say your goodbyes now that way she will know she was loved. It is her choice that no one is to save her. That was it, so there is no way to even know if it is really Sol that this person is talking about.
"This is crazy," Duncan shouted making everyone else go quit, "I thought that people were on Sol's side. "
"Maybe this is just prank by some local kid. I mean no one saw anything, it could be anyone or nothing at all," said Hunter. That is when I saw the shadow heading toward Lucy. At first I thought it was nothing but one of the brothers. I noticed it seemed to tower over her, and a sword gleamed in its hand. I stood up and started to shout at Lucy to move, but it was too late the sword pierced the couch and came out in her abdomen. All the Drakes froze, and time seemed to freeze as Lucy sputtered and reached out her hand. Nickolas was the first to move; he took her hand and bowed down to kiss it.
"Move, Nickolas. There may still be time to save her without having to turn her," Geoffrey said. He grabbed his medical bag and went to the couch kneeling, most of the brothers stood frozen or watching me as though I would attack. I even guess that was a possibility seeing as I had only been a vampire for a year, but the thought of drinking blood still made me want to vomit. Nick stared at Geoffrey, who was wiping blood off of Lucy's abdomen, but it was Quinn who captured my attention. He had worked his way behind the couch and was staring at the sword as though it could bring about the end of the world. Geoffrey reached up to push the sword out of Lucy.
"Stop!" Quinn shouted. He had a look on his face I could not explain.
"If I do not remove this sword she will die." Geoffrey said.
"You do not understand what will happen if you remove that sword."
"And you do not understand what will happen if I don't."
"Just wait one minute then," Quinn walked back around the couch as he said this. He knelt next to Lucy and put his hand on her head. He looked as though he was having a conversation that none of us could hear. "Fine remove the sword, but know that what will happen to Lucy is out of our hands no matter what." Everyone was looking at Quinn so we all missed the sword being shoved out of her stomach, but the sound it made had us all looking back immediately. Lucy seemed to be crouched on the couch; she was clearly fighting something none of us could see. Quinn moved, and Lucy looked at him.
"Help me, please." She moaned. Quinn nodded as though this is what he had expected to happen. He moved toward her as he slowly took off his shirt. Lucy looked at him as though he were her biggest hero. Then lunged at him and locked her mouth onto his neck and bit down. Quinn seemed to fall to his knees moaning, weather in pleaser or pain I am not sure.
"What is going on? This cannot be happening," Hunter said and Nick seemed to agree with her. Helena walked into the room and did not even pause but motioned everyone into the kitchen.
"What happened," she stated calmly.
"Lucy got stabbed and when Uncle Geoffrey pushed the sword out of her she came off the couch crazed. Then she attacked Quinn. Is she trying to turn herself?" Nick stated quite fast as though it was all a bad dream.
"No, she is not trying to turn herself. After she was stabbed did Quinn try to warn you about something that would happen to her if you did take the sword out?" Helena asked as though she already knew the answer. Everyone nodded. "Well then there is nothing to do know, but explain to you what you have done... When the twins were turning a very powerful fairy cast a spell on Lucy. I thought at first the only thing that was happening was that Lucy was attracted to the pheromones of the turn, but then on their on the last night of the turn I caught her with her arms wrapped around her as though in pain looking between the two rooms. She looked at me and that is when Quinn opened his bed room door. Even though he should not have been able to get up he was there. I don't know what she would have done if he had not opened that door, but when he did their fate was sealed. The spell was to turn Lucy into a fairy. The spell worked, and Lucy fed for the first time on Quinn's blood."
"But that does not explain what is going on now!" Hunter raved.
"Yes, it does." Helena answered calmly, "About a year and a half ago the fairy court cut off Lucy, and turned her back into a human. I have no clue why, but Lucy and Quinn seemed to have forgotten about the fairy world. Any time I hinted about fairies being real they would look at me like I was crazy, but tonight something has changed."
"You think," I state calmly. "The thing I do not get is how you knew about fairies and how they kept it a secret."
"Well Christa, I know about fairies because Lucy has distant fairy relatives that I knew when I was human, and as for keeping it a secret I have no clue."
That is when Quinn walked in the room with a bag in his hand. "We are leaving." He uttered.
"What do you mean leaving?" Liam asked in a concerned voice.
"It is not safe here, and there are people that we must check on before it is too late," Quinn somberly state. It was as though he was talking about going to the store not leaving the house he had grown up in.
"No, Quinn stay, please," Hunter begged, but all Quinn did was turn around and walk out. I could not believe it he was completely dedicated to Hunter. He would never leave her… unless someone was going to die and he could stop it. I heard the front door close and knew they were gone. Hunter seemed to melt to the floor while everyone else stared at each other. That was when I noticed the note Quinn had dropped. I walked over and read it: "The walls have ears. We will be back, but they cannot know that. We will explain everything in three days when we return from saving the people we left the last time. We promise QD & LH" All I said was look here as soon as each person read it we knew that Quinn had been acting and that the farmhouse had been compromised and need to be swept for bugs and patrols doubled.
