Summary: Aro, the unofficial king of vampires has discovered a very important secret…. Before he became a vampire he sired a child. Having found the last of his line, an orphaned teenage girl, living in a rented room in new York City he has decided to take and active interest in her life. Will this wide eyed girl turn the royal guard on its ear?
Chapter 1: Princess??
Tessa opened her sleepy eyes and blinked repeatedly trying to make the large cloaked figures standing in her room to return to her dream. When the nightmarish creatures refused to dissolve back into her overactive imagination she decided she must still be sleeping and threw her legs over the side of her tiny twin bed. Padding barefoot up to the leader she looked up into his strangely, beautifully, pale face and smiled.
"sup dude?" she asked. Having had dreams like this her hole life she had no fear, the dream would soon change as she willed herself into a flowery meadow. But the dream didn't change, the ashen people remained standing in her dreary room.
"it is time to go princess, your ancestor would like and audience with you." she actually laughed in the face of Demetri.
"yeah ok!" she mocked. "the orphan's dead ancestor wants to talk, that makes perfect sense. When the hell am I goanna wake up? Don't I have work in the morning?" she began rambling to her self as she shuffled around in one of the draws of her desk.
"what are you going on abut? What are you looking for?" Demetri demanded.
"a pencil." she continued. "your not the first of my nightmares to pull this. do you know how often my dreams try to kidnap me?" having found her prize she stumbled back over to her bed tripping over discarded cloths. "ok old girl time to get up." she told herself and jabbed the sharpened pencil into the palm of her hand. A drop of crimson blood welled to the surface. The commotion that followed was more frightening than anything Tessa had ever witnessed awake or asleep.
Demetri threw himself forward over her body pinning her to the bed. The four other shrouded figures broke in to a brawl like nothing else. Teeth flashed in the dim moonlight as they bit each other, the sound was like metal crashing against stone, or nails on a black board amplified a hundred times over. Blood poured from the gaping wounds on their necks and arms as they regained control of themselves. Tessa's small body was shaking with fear when Demetri finally let her up.
"never do that again." he warned. Members of the now overwhelmingly freighting group filed out the open window. "are you hurt?" he demanded taking her hand in his and turning it over to check for any additional damage.
"only a broken spine and some bruises. What the hell?" she reclaimed her hand and pushed at him. "back off freak o!" Demetri looked stunned.
"do you know your not dreaming now?" he gently prodded.
"yeah I know but I just can't wrap my mind around it. My dreams have never come to life before."
"more like a night mare eh?" he scoffed. She nodded in agreement and started gathering cloths off the floor.
"can I have a moment please?" she asked, her voice was meek and unsure, she felt week and docile. He nodded and he too slipped out her window. As Tessa readied herself for the wild night ahead of her it crossed her mind that she should probably call her boss and let her know she wouldn't be coming in, but that was just a passing thought. She threw on the old beat up jeans she had been wearing earlier that day and a dark blue hoody, might as well try to fit in with the cloaked guys as best she could.
When her head popped out the window Demetri was taken a little bit by surprised, he had been prepared to have Alec subdue her before carrying her off to Aro.
"where are we going any way?" she asked. Demetri couldn't wrap his head around this girl. He had woken her from her sleep, frightened her into self mutilation, forced her to bare witness to a vampire frenzy, shanghaied her from her bed, and was now dragging her down the street to meet with some one who by all rights should be dead; and yet she seemed chipper and eager.
"to the Hilton hotel." he answered in his usual offhand way. This girl was shaking his whole world.
"Hilton huh? So you guys got a lot of money. You know I never cared for the Hilton my self, woulda went to the Drake if I were you." she babbled. "that hole family is really messed up. Look at the daughter, spoiled and dumber than a box of rocks."
"what are you going on about?" Demetri shouted. Her constant stream of unintelligible chatter was making him uneasy as if she was trying to lull him into a false sense of security. He would feel better when he was once more in the prescience of his liege.
"just trying to brake the ice. You Don't talk much do you?"
"no I don't." he admitted tough he wasn't exactly sure why he felt the need to divulge that to her. She gave a little smile like she knew how he felt, like she could get him to tell more if she wanted. "you talk to much." he told her.
"when you live alone your hole life you learn to keep your self company. I talk to myself all the time, I just babble on and on."
"I figured that." the troop of hooded figured rounded the corner, the towering and very imposing building that was the Hilton loomed over all the other buildings.
"now I see why you picked it." she said blankly. "you guys seemed like the kind who like to intimidate." he gave a little chuckle. "so tell me again why you have abducted me?"
"your grate grandfather thrice removed would like a word with you about the state of living he has found you in. he thinks rather highly of himself and wonders why a direct descendant of his is content living in squalor." Tessa blinked up at him, appalled.
"I happen to like my room thank you very much. It isn't always so messy. Any way, who says I'm content? I have plans for my future; I got to tell you none of them include joining a gang that walks around in cloaks and hijacking young girls." she stopped in front of the door he was now holding open for her.
"we meant no offense to you. just that some one of your station, a female of royal decent, should not be working at a pizza restaurant, or living in a rented room, or be wearing the same cloths more than once, at all ! never mind more than two days in a row!" trying to her best to look like she was wiping her nose Tessa took a sniff of her hoody. It didn't smell, sure there was a mustard stain on the sleeve but who could begrudge her that? Every one wiped their face on their sleeve at least once in their lives.
"what do you mean royal? I was dumped on the orphanage door step no more than a week old, and have been on my own ever since. Rich people keep their kids, thank you!" she walked through the open door and continued to the elevator though she had no idea what button to push. The Demetri and the others were close behind her. Demetri pushed the up button and the other four took the stairs.
"never the less princess, you will never be alone now."