Hey guys. Sorry it's been a very long time. By the time I noticed a couple reviews that said they'd like to see a Tribe story my summer laziness kicked in and now that I'm back in school it's a little crazy. But it's here now so yay. :D
I do not in anyway own anything from Lost Boys. No copyright infringement intended. (I mean hello it's FANfiction)
As Kris Emerson prepared some food she hovered around the door fearing that the people she was expecting would arrive and they would wind up stuck outside because she hadn't heard them. However it seemed she didn't need to worry about it because her ten-year-old daughter Lucia was watching out for them as well. She called, "They're here, they're here!" her shouting coming down the stairs.
Since Kris told Lucia that her cousins were coming over she was beyond excited, it had been years since the family had seen each other. It was hard for Kris and Michael to be together it brought back too many painful memories. Memories that were even more painful since he and Star passed away in a car accident.
On the verge of being broke and losing a place to live Chris and Nicole, Kris' nephew and niece, were in desperate need of somewhere to stay. The second Kris heard of their troubles, (which didn't take long because she had been keeping tabs on them ever since Michael and Star passed away) she immediately offered them to stay with her.
Opening the front door Kris and Lucia headed outside to see a small and rather dirty red car pull in front of the house. Two teenagers came out. While not the spitting image of their parents both Chris and Nicole had some similar qualities from them. Chris had his father's dark hair and Nicole her mother's curls.
"Chris, Nicole," Kris said as she went out to greet them. Happily she hugged both of them.
"Hey there little munchkin. Did you miss me?" Chris teased when Lucia came to hug him and Nicole.
"Yes I did Chris," she said.
"Oh so I wasn't missed then?" Nicole said.
"No, I missed you too Nicole."
"It's so nice to see you two again," Kris said. "I feel like it's been too long. I should have visited much more often before."
"Don't worry it's all right," Nicole assured her aunt.
"Thanks, but in my heart I don't think it will ever be. Enough about that though, lets get you situated. Where are your things? I'll help you take them in."
"Umm, we didn't take too much," Chris said.
"Well, okay then grab what you have and follow me. If you want to park your car inside I can open the garage door later."
"Thanks."
The siblings grabbed their bags out of the car and followed Kris into the house. When they got inside Lucia went to go play in the house somewhere. Since they had been there before they had a rough layout of the place. Kris' house was two stories high and rather luxurious and large with a beautiful pool and Jacuzzi in her backyard. Heading upstairs she showed Chris and Nicole their bedrooms.
"Thank you so much Aunt Kris," Chris thanked.
"Don't mention it. You guys are family. There is no way I would have just left you two on your own. Well, I'll be downstairs if you two need me. Oh I'm making lunch too so feel free to have some."
"Okay. Thanks Aunt Kris," Nicole said as Kris headed downstairs.
As she was preparing lunch thoughts of her lost family members flowed into her head. How did it happen in her life that she was left with nobody? Grandpa was the first to go with Lucy passing away a few years ago. Then there were her brothers. Michael had just recently passed away and Sam was practically dead anyways.
"Mom why are you crying?" Lucia asked.
Her daughter's words made Kris realize tears had been streaming down her face. "Oh nothing sweetie. I was just thinking about how it feels like everyone's gone."
"I'm still here," Lucia said giving her mom a big hug.
"Yes you are," Kris agreed now feeling silly for having forgotten her daughter. Then again Lucia couldn't always be around. When she becomes a teen she'd become independent and spend less and less time with her mother. 'Well I guess I better hang onto these moments while I still can then,' Kris thought. 'Besides even if she becomes more independent it doesn't mean she's going to leave me all of a sudden.'
Wanting to help, Lucia assisted with her mother in making lunch. However when they finished Chris and Nicole weren't around to eat it because they already left to explore the city so they ate the lunch themselves.
"Did you enjoy the city?" Kris asked when Chris and Nicole came back.
"Yeah, it's pretty nice," Nicole said. "Then Chris had to take us to some gross place."
"Gross place? Where'd you go?"
"I wanted to get a job making surfboards and the only place around here was on the outskirts of town for some guy named Frog."
The cup of tea Kris had been drinking out of slipped out of her hands and fell to the floor shattering on the ground.
"Oh Aunt Kris," Nicole exclaimed.
"Are you all right?" Chris asked.
"Umm, yeah I'm fine," Kris said. "Don't worry about the mess the nanny will clean it up. Chris, tell me more about this Frog person."
"Open up Edgar I know you're in there!" Kris yelled pounding on the door to the trailer that was located in the middle of nowhere. Chris had given what little information he could about the Frog place but the descriptions of the area was enough to tell her that it was Edgar. A sign that said 'You are not invited!' crosses on the door, the fact that the surfboard company was called The Frog Brothers. Finding it rather unlikely to be Alan, the most logical conclusion was that this was Edgar's place. In a rush she left the place and drove to the address Chris gave her before swiftly saying good-bye to her confused family members.
"Open up please," Kris breathed hopelessly. Putting her hand on the door she realized her wedding ring was still on her left ring finger. Even after getting divorced she still didn't take the ring off for a single day.
The door slid open and she swiftly put her hand behind her back. "Kris?" Edgar said shocked and happy to see her.
"You just so happen to be living on the outskirts of the city I'm living in?" Kris huffed.
"I'm sorry," he apologized.
Caught off guard she didn't know what to say. Letting out a sigh she said, "No, I'm sorry." Edgar had never been big on arguing with her before, why would now be any different.
"Can I come in? I'm not a vampire."
"I know. Yeah, you can come."
Stepping aside he allowed her in. "How did you know I was here?"
"Chris and Nicole are staying with me now. They told me about how they came here earlier today."
"Oh yeah. I was here when they came. Then that leaves one more question. Why are you here? Don't get me wrong I'm glad you're here, but Kris it's been ten years."
"I asked for a divorce Edgar. That never meant I stopped loving you."
"Could have fooled me."
"Edgar."
"If you still loved me then why'd you leave?"
"Look, for as long as I've known you I was always ready to go on every adventure you went on to slay vampires and when we got married I was even more ready. Then Lucia was born and I freaked. I started thinking about all the dangerous things that happened to me and how I didn't want her to have to live like that. I'm sorry for what I did, I just couldn't let her live a life filled with blood sucking monsters."
"We could have talked about it."
"Would you ever really stop vampire hunting?"
Unable to respond he didn't answer. "Ugh, what's wrong with me? Why did I come here? I should just go."
"Kris, wait," he pleaded.
"Sorry for bothering you." Becoming tear-stained she left leaving behind a broken-hearted Edgar.
Later that night as Kris lay asleep her thoughts continued to drift back to Edgar and how happy she had been to see him again. 'Even if it was amazing to see him, it's pointless,' she thought to herself. Then another side of her said, 'What do you mean pointless? You love him! That's the point!'
Tossing and turning in her bed noises outside in the hallway attracted her attention. Coming outside she saw Chris carrying a drunk Nicole into her room. Rolling her eyes she walked over to them. She knew they had gone to a party, but she had trusted that they wouldn't get wasted.
"Are you serious? I said don't drink too much and you come home drunk," Kris whispered aware that Lucia's bedroom wasn't too far away.
"I'm sorry," Chris apologized.
"Something is seriously wrong with me," Nicole whined as Chris took Nicole into her room. "Chris I'm sick."
"You're not sick you're just drunk." He sat Nicole down on her bed, as Kris stood by the door slightly frustrated with her niece. By tomorrow she'd probably get over it though.
Suddenly Nicole sprang up and grabbed Nick holding him up by his neck. "I'm sick," she said in a creepy voice.
Having been familiar with these situations before Kris didn't need to think twice to know she had a vampire problem on her hands. Quickly she ran into the room at Nicole prepared to attack her own niece if necessary. Someone beat her to it though, when somebody hit Nicole on the head with a surfboard knocking her out.
"Oh, no," Kris muttered when she saw that it was Edgar.
"Chris Emerson?" Edgar asked. "I'm Edgar Frog. Surfboard shaper and vampire hunter." Pulling out a stake he moved to stab Nicole with it.
"No!" Kris exclaimed darting over to him and putting his hand down. Glancing at a confused Chris she said, "Don't worry I'll handle this."
"Uncle Eddie?" Chris asked recognizing the man who was his uncle years ago.
"It's Edgar."
"What's going on?"
"Your sister's infected she's become one of the undead."
"Look," Kris said. "Lets just go downstairs and talk about this. Chris I suggest you go to your room."
"Right," Chris said leaving with Kris and Edgar following behind him. He went to his room while the other two headed, downstairs to the kitchen.
"Apparently the Emerson's can't avoid vampires no matter how hard they try," Kris said when they made it to the kitchen. "Why are you here? Don't you knock?"
"I wanted to talk to you, but then I smelled that vampire," Edgar started to explain.
"She's only half."
"For now."
"What do we do?"
"'We'? We aren't a 'we' anymore remember? This is my job."
"And that's my niece. Not to mention she's living under my roof, which makes more problems. When Michael went through this he almost killed Sam. Self-control is difficult."
There was a painful pause at the mention of Sam's name. Mentioning Michael was painful enough, but Sam was a completely different matter.
"So you want in?"
"Yes. I'm involved until Nicole is human again."
"All right."
"Would you like to see her?" she asked quietly.
Knowing who she meant he answered, "Yeah I would."
The two headed upstairs and quietly entered Lucia's room and gazed at her as she slept on her bed.
"She's so big now," Edgar whispered.
At that moment Kris realized she had deprived him ten years of his daughter's life. Uncontrollable tears formed from her eyes. How could she have done that to him? Why did she? With or without Edgar it seemed it was hereditary in the family to be attracted into vampire situations the fact that one half-vampire was sleeping only a few rooms away was proof of that.
"Kris, are you all right?" Edgar asked.
Too choked up on tears she couldn't answer and left the room. Silently he followed her out and gently closed the door behind him. As she walked away he caught up with her and lightly yet firmly held onto her. "Hey, hey," he said. "What's wrong? Kris tell me what's wrong."
"How can you even bear to look at me? I took your child away and abandoned you! I'm a terrible person! You should hate me! Why don't you hate me?"
"Calm down, it's okay. I could never hate you."
"No it's not okay. I shouldn't have," she paused. "I shouldn't have left you," she said so low he could barely hear her.
Unable to hold back anymore Edgar leaned in and kissed her. Maybe it wasn't right to kiss your ex-wife who you haven't talked to in ten years, but this wasn't just some ex-wife this was Kris. He had been in love with her since they were teenagers and nothing had changed that. The sight of her crying, the feeling of holding her in his arms, it all brought back an uncontrollable urge to be with her. As she kissed him back he felt the familiar warm and strong feeling that went throughout his entire body; something he had been without for a whole decade.
When their lips parted they didn't separate from each other, but stayed in an embrace with her head resting on his chest like they used to always do.
"So, umm. What now?" Kris asked. "We obviously still have feelings for each other."
"You thought differently?" he questioned.
"Well, I always knew that I'd love you, but I thought that you probably moved on after what I did."
"I could never do that. I will always love you."
"So do you want to be together then?"
"Yes. Do you?"
"Extremely."
They kissed once more but they were interrupted by a knock on the door. Kris went over to open it and saw a girl standing in the opening wearing nothing but a red bikini.
"Hi, umm I came to see Chris," the girl said. She had dark black hair and looked to be in her late teens, but both Kris and Edgar recognized her for what she was. "Can I come in?"
Suddenly she was stabbed in the heart by a wooden stake by Edgar. She screamed in pain as her eyes turned black and her nails grew disgustingly long. Then she slowly turned into a stone. A few seconds passed by as Kris and Edgar stared at her in surprise, this was a vampire death they hadn't seen anything remotely close to. With a powerful force it exploded causing rocks to fly in different directions.
"No you can't come in," Kris growled. Turning to Edgar she said, "I swear it's a family curse."