I WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE YOU
Author's Note- The relationship between Nora and Mary Lou is such a sweet and loving one (even though they're both completely evil) but I wanted to explore this one a bit more so here goes. As always reviews are welcome as are suggestions for future stories. Enjoy!
CHAPTER ONE
1862
The Gemini coven. A home for witches all over the world.
Nora Hildegard was one of it's members but she had a secret that no one knew of...she was a Siphoner. The Gemini coven would look on it as though she were not a real witch being as she had to take others' powers in order to use them but Nora didn't care and it didn't bother her that this was how she found her way into The Gemini coven.
Her mother thought that she was special and for a long time, Nora and her mother had such a strong bond that they both believed no one and nothing could break it untill that one fateful night...
"Nora..?" Nora's mother's voice was unsteady and it shook just by uttering her name.
In front of the older, fair haired woman was a boy. He was about the age of eighteen and he was covered in blood from a large wound to his abdomen. A wound that Nora had inflicted.
"What have you done?"
Nora turned to look at her mother, her gulity green eyes pleading for the older woman to understand.
"He said he was going to hurt me...he is a warlock, mother. He has the ability to make wounds and inflictions appear just by thought alone...I used his power and turned it against him." She explained as she glanced back at the dead warlock.
Her mother's green eyes went from her daughter to the body behind the young witch.
Now she knew...she knew exactly what her daughter was.
"You are not a witch at all...you're a Siphoner."
Tears came to the young girl's eyes and she nodded her head slowly.
"I'm so sorry, mother." Nora sobbed as she walked towards her mother, arms open, ready to recieve the comfort she so desperately sought.
Her mother took a step back.
"Is there anything else you wish to tell me before I beat the truth from you?"
Nora swallowed the lump in her throat and once again, nodded her head slowly.
Her mother waited expectantly.
"I have different ideas about my future...and who I want to spend it with." She started awkwardly.
Her mother sighed.
"So you have been galavanting about with the local stable hand as well, have you? Nora, I have told you, he's as dumb as post and twice as ugly."
Nora closed her eyes as the tears fell.
"I do not have feelings for...men, mother."
The older woman frowned in confusion.
"I'm afraid I don't understand, Nora."
"The feelings that I should have for men...I have for women."
"No...no that's unheard of. Nora, your preference has always been men, you've always just said that you are waiting for the right one to come along."
"Oh mother, I only said that so that you would stop trying to make me court those ridiculous boys that father approved of!"
Nora's mother looked at her daughter as she took in everything that she'd just said.
"Leave."
Nora frowned.
"What?"
"I said leave, Nora. I do not want you to be a part of this family anymore."
"But...mother, I am a part of this family. I am your daughter!"
"Not anymore. Do you really think that I could ever raise a Siphoner and a young woman who cavorts with other women?"
"I haven't cavorted with anyone!" Nora shrieked.
"But you will! And it is unnatural and I will not stand for any of it, Nora!"
Nora found herself begging with her mother, something she never thought she would have to do.
"I thought as my mother, you were supposed to accept me, no matter what or who I am."
"Is that the little fairytale they tell you in your books? Then let me be clear, I do not want you here, I dispise the sight of you, I disown you, Nora. Now I suggest you leave this place because if any of us see you around here again, we will kill you."
Nora's eyes widened.
"Kill me?"
Her mother nodded.
"And we will not think twice about it."
Nora took a step back and then another, then another, until she was practically running away and into the dark forest behind her...
Nora was always rebellious and returned home to see if maybe her family's anger had subsided. It hadn't and the moment she walked through the door, they made good on their promise and tried to kill her. They chased her to a cliff's edge and tried to force her off it, knowing full well of the sharp rocks that poked out of the water below that would surely kill her. But before that could happen, before Nora was about to plunge to her death, a man appeared, later she would learn that his name was Malcom. He rescued her, killed her family and told her he could change her life for the better, she could own the power that she so freely took from others and use it as her very own. She would never have to fear anything, ever again, not even death. She readily agreed, tired of being hunted and mocked, so he took her to the Salvatore woman. Lilian Salvatore. Head of what would come to be known as The Heretics.
Nora was turned into a vampire that very night.
1880
Mary Louise hung upside down in her family's slaughterhouse.
"You think this will kill me?" She taunted.
Her father looked at her as he turned the hot poker in the fire.
"No but it will hurt like the devil. After all, that's what you are."
Mary Lou watched as her father kept the poker in the fire a little longer before walking up to his daughter and pressing the red hot metal into her side.
She screamed and thrashed within the confines of the chains.
"Maybe this will burn the evil away."
She did her best to lift her head and look at him, the man she called her father and sneered.
"So being a Siphoner makes me the embodiment of all evil, does it?"
Her father poked her again, causing a hiss to escape her pale lips.
"Something like that." He muttered as he watched his daughter fall into unconsciousness...
Mary woke up on the streets a few days later.
She was hungry, dirty and felt any fight she had die the instant she woke up.
She wandered the streets for a few weeks, always looking for food and a place to stay but no one would let her in. No one wanted anything to do with her at all.
She still continued to use her magic to serve her own needs and found that she sometimes had to beg just to get by, that was until she met Malcom.
Malcom told her that he could change her life if she met with a woman named Lilian Salvatore. She agreed willingly and that was night her life changed. That was the night, Mary louise, Siphoner and embarrassment to her family, became a vampire.
Author's Note- Sorry for the short chapter but I'm easing you in here, hehe. I know I'm a tease. Chapter 2 will be up shortly, promise. X