Here is my version of The Indigo Spell! Hoping to finish this before February 12 when the real version comes out but we'll see how it goes!
Please, please, please review! I really want opinions on this. :-)
THIS IS SET AFTER THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE INDIGO SPELL. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE READ BOTH OF THOSE CHAPTERS. You can read these by going to Richelle Mead's website and clicking the "Blog" link.
When our flight finally landed, the most overwhelming waves of both relief and disapointment rushed over me, as much as I tried to swallow down the latter feeling.
It was actually more difficult getting my bag out from the overhead bin than it was getting it up there, much to Adrian's ammusment of course. He stood there smirking, after innitially offering to help me ("Absolutely not, Adrian! I can do this myself!") and being refused he seemed to think that this was the funniest thing in the world.
I was growing more and more irritated, as were the people waiting behind me to get there bags, when Adrian decided that he would intervene anyway. He pushed he down into the seat he'd been leaning on, despite my many protests and with one smooth movement he pulled my bag down like it was the easiest thing in the world. Well, I thought, maybe it was when you were strong and ridiculously tall.
Moroi had the annoying tendancy to be very tall. They also had pretty much the perfect bodies, which annoyed me to no end seeing as it was something I, a human, could never seem to achieve no matter how hard I tried.
I crossed my arms in a show of annoyance as he carried both of our bags off the plane with that trademark Adrian smirk on his face.
I'd been told someone would meet us both at the airport but no one had told us who that somebody would be, so I didn't know who to be looking for as we entered the airport.
What I hadn't expected was the one and only Rose Hathaway standing outside the gate waiting for us. I soon noticed she wasn't alone, Sonya Karp stood beside her carrying what appeared to be coffee in her hand, probably because for them it was practically the middle of the night.
I moaned internally realizing Adrian and I would have to adjust to a vampire schedule of sleeping during daylight and being awake after dark. It was easier for Moroi because they didn't have to be in the sun as much. The part that made me groan was that we would have to adjust again in just a few days so we could be back on a daylight schedule with Eddie, Angeline and Jill for school; Amberwood for me and college art classes that I assumed Adrian was still taking.
I grabbed my bag back from Adrian and walked over to Sonya and Rose.
"Hello!" Sonya cried happily, pulling us both into a hug. The proximity to Adrian making me slightly uncomfotable, I pulled back, but smiled at her. "I'm so glad you guys are here, it's a shame Jill and the others couldn't come."
"Jill was very disapointed, I know she'd love to be here." I said. Jill had been crushed when we'd told her both Adrian and I were leaving and that she couldn't come. She'd seem to blame me partially, but she was sort of blaming everything on me lately. Jill had been more angry than Adrian even. Or at least he hid his anger better than she did. And he didn't do a very good job at all.
"Hi, Sydney. Adrian." Rose said. She didn't hug us like Sonya did, which made sense because she probably thought Adrian was still mad from when she had cheated on him with Dimitri. In reality, he wasn't mad anymore. He'd moved on, which was wonderful. The not-so-wonderful part was that he had moved on to me which of course couldn't happen.
"Hi, Rose." I said with a slight smile.
"Hey Little Dhampir." Adrian greeted her. Little Dhampir? Was that supposed to be a nickname? I realized then that none of Adrian's "nickname" were very original. Well, except for when he called Sonya and Dimitri Agent Scarlet and Agent Boring Borscht. At least those were a little creative.
"You're in a good mood." Rose noted.
"Well, being on a plane with Sage has been known to improve peoples moods." He said.
"Oh, yes. Watching me do my homework is the most exciting thing in the world." Well, it wasn't exactly homework. More like attack spells that would protect me from my crazy history's teachers evil witch sister. But still. "Especially since you couldn't even read over my shoulder, it was in a language you don't know."
"That's what makes it fun." He just seemed all too pleased that we weren't fighting anymore.
"Well as exciting as Sydney's homework is or isn't, we should get going." Sonya said, but she was glancing between us with a knowing look. Then I remembered... Sonya could see our auras. I wasn't the swearing type, but I almost started cussing then and there.
Sonya would see all our feelings just by looking at our auras. It was complicated enough with Jill knowing, it would be even worse if Sonya knew. I kind of wanted to step aside and tell her not to tell anyone about what she saw, but that seemed like it might make it worse.
And if I was being honest, I was terrified of what she could see in my aura. I knew what she would see in Adrian's already.
Love. Affection. Caring.
But what she was looking at in mine terrified me even more.
There's nothing there, of course not, I don't have any feelings for Adrian. Like I'd thought on the plane, it was impossible. I had no feelings for him other than friendly, and even that I shouldn't be feeling. The fact that I liked him, and Jill and Eddie and even Angeline frightened me. I should be disgusted by them, they should scare me. But I wasn't and they didn't.
But what Adrian thought I felt for him scared me the most. I couldn't possibly have feelings for a vampire because it would ruin everything. If they even knew we were friends they could send me to reeducation, let alone knowing the fact that we'd kissed.
I wasn't a good little alchemist. By choice or not, I had kissed a vampire. And that was bad. Really, really bad.
But it meant nothing, right? Nothing, because I didn't feel anything towards him.
So I don't know why it scared me so much, but it did.
What was Sonya seeing in my aura?
So, how do you guys like this so far? Should I continue? :-D Sorry the chapter was so short, just getting started. ^_^
