Warning: Spanking in this chapter...
For the Character Bailey and Bree picture Jodelle Ferland.
For the character of Marcus: Picture Either Robert Pattinson or a hot guy of your choosing.
As for Lestat picture Stuart Townsend...HE IS NOT the same Lestat from queen of the damned however I did steal the name from there. Though he's nothing like Lestat so its not the same as stealing the character cause its not the same character.
Chapter Two: The Queen arrives
Darkness all around. Except for the pit of fire on the alter. Bailey turns and see's what appears to be herself.
Bree smiles at Bailey "Long time no see."
Bailey frowned "Your the one their talking about...the Queen."
Bree smiled "You know the one thing I always loved about being twins? We switched places all the damn time. You know Lestat...he think's he was the first to be turned but he wasn't." she smiled.
"The Queen sired him..right?" Bailey asked
"Yes, but the queen sired me first." Bree said with pride.
"You? But your the queen." Bailey protested confused.
"No sweetie. I'm not. You are. You see that?" Bree pointed to the fire now "That's where we came from. That fire. We knew we could be so much more then the flames. And slowly the fire dimmed and then we were real. Well, you were at least. And then me. But I didn't survive the journey, I was weakened. Mortal. " Bree grinned now "You were furious...you hated mortals from the moment you knew that they could die, you hated them. You saw no point in their existence. And then all the small things, the animals, the insects. You saw no point in them either." Bree circled Bailey now "You were above them. So you made them food. And you turned on me. Or turned me. However you wanna look at it. Then you put me to sleep in the caves of dread as you called them. The ones that you didn't like. I'm in Iceland sleeping. I do nothing but dream of this place, Dream of you...only this time is different. Your really here this time. Aren't you?" Bree asked almost hopeful.
Bailey nodded "Yes, But I don't understand. Why would I do that if your my sister?"
Bree turned away saddened "I tried to kill you." she said ashamed then looked back at Bailey.
"So I put you to sleep for trying to kill me? I still don't get how I did it...I'm not bad. I'm good. I wouldn't do that." Bailey said.
"But you did, after you switched bodies with me that is." Bree smirked.
Bailey's eyes widened "Wait, what? "
"I was messing with you. Your the Queen alright. And what I said was true. But the Legend has it backwards. There's things it doesn't mention. Like the fact that there is two of us is more of a rumor. But its true. There is two of us. But You didn't put me to sleep. I didn't try to kill you. You tried to kill me. I was the one that attempted to put you to sleep but it backfired. Somehow we switched bodies and I was the one that went to sleep in your body while you remained awake in mine. But in my body you were weaker. And when they came after you to stop you the ones you sired took pity on you, they sent you to another time and turned you human to stop you. What they didn't know is that you weren't a huge threat anymore. Its clear that while in my body you've changed. You seem almost good. Its why I hesitate now.." Bree looked to the fire.
Bailey was fascinated by what she heard. She was the queen. She the evil one. And she had switched bodies with her sister when her sister tried to betray her. She still found it hard to believe.
"Hesitate?" Bailey asked
"We jump in there and we come out in our own bodies...we can do that. You'll wake in your body and I'll wake up in mine and we'll be in the same place. You'll be wherever you were but in your body and I'll be in the caves but in my body." Bree said.
"How do I know your not lying?" Bailey asked suspicious.
"You don't...you just have to trust that with you and me it's different. I never tried to hurt you. I only wanted to put you to sleep so you'd sleep for a while and give the human race a chance to flourish. I never wanted to hurt you Bailey. " Bree swore.
Bree held out her hand to Bailey. Bailey glanced at the fire, then at Bree. Well there was only one way to find out if her sister was lying or not. She took Bree's hand and then together they jumped into the fire and Bailey screamed. She screamed because it all came back to her.
Being trapped in the pit with the fire, being brought into the world with Bree, Bree sick and dying. Herself feeding from her sister when she saw her dying and weak. The evil that had once ruled her heart, the darkness inside of her aching to come out again. It was real. And she screamed because she didn't want it to be real.
Bailey opened her eyes as the others spoke. She turned to them "I know what happened. I remember everything."
Angelus looked to her as did Lestat.
Bailey stood and tilted her head "Lestat." she rushed to him and wrapped her arms around him then looked up at him "Have you missed me?"
Lestat tapped her nose playfully to placate her "Of course I did."
She frowned then and let go looking at him then turned to Angelus "you sired me..." she then remember the things that had happened recently since she'd been turned and glared "You HIT me."
Lestat put his arms around her fast "Now now, sweetness. We must mind our temper. Mustn't we?" he tried to calm her down.
"I believe your referring to when I spanked you?" Angelus asked curious. Was this the Queen he was speaking to?
Bailey suddenly blinked "Oh, yes...the child's punishment. I deserved it each time...never mind then. No harm done." she smiled now
"Um...Bailey? Are you still..you?" Toby asked.
Bailey looked at him "What are you?" she asked
Lestat again spoke to her in a gentle tone as Penn pulled Toby to his side "Sire, please mind your temper. He's a vampire like we are. "
Angelus raised a brow apparently a gentle tone got results when dealing with the queen.
"Yes, of course." she said then leisurely walked to the table and looked at Toby again "How old were you?" she asked.
"16." Penn answered for Toby and got glared at by Bailey
"I asked him. Not you. You will be silent until I speak to you." she commanded.
Her tone grated on Angelus's nerves "And you'll keep a respectful tone when speaking to me and mine." he warned.
She looked to him now then smirked "Is he yours Lestat?" she asked.
"Yes, my liege." Lestat confirmed
Bailey went over to Angelus who didn't look away or back down.
"The world has changed since you reigned." Lestat said.
"Then we shall change it back." Bailey said firmly still near Angelus.
She then offered her hand to Angelus who took it confused. "What?" he asked
She raised a brow "Drink." she said.
Angelus smirked "I did. The night I turned you."
"That wasn't the true me. I am more me now then I was before. Drink. My blood is powerful. It will heal you." she said.
Lestat objected to that "My queen, this isn't how we do things in this time.." he pulled her back from Angelus before he could bite her.
She looked to Lestat with a glare "You are beginning to annoy me."
"I do have a knack for that, don't I." he grinned.
She moved her finger telling him to come to her and he did. She slapped him. Hard. It shocked him and everyone else in the room.
Vampire queen or not Angelus wasn't gonna let her get away with throwing a tantrum like that.
Angelus grabbed her and slapped her behind hard twice. "What the hell is wrong with you?" he demanded.
Bailey was so shocked she didn't react.
Lestat however did. "Angelus! You can't do that."
Angelus glared at his sire "I will do what I want with MY childe. Vampire queen or not. I'll not have her thinking she'll get away with throwing that sort of fit. I stopped tolerating Tantrums after Drusilla died."
Lestat looked shocked then and turned his gaze to Bailey who was rubbing her butt and looking between them. Lestat felt like a fool. Truly he did. It had been so long, he had forgotten that Bree was the sister and that the queen was the one who's name was not well known. He remember it began with a B. He just had forgotten that it was Bailey. He'd only heard her called by name once a very very long time ago.
Bailey could hear her sister in her heart. She was awake. "Angelus you will take me to Iceland, to these caves..." she said finding a map and pointing to them.
"I will not." Angelus scowled.
Bailey frowned "What? Why?"
"Because I'm your sire, Not the other way around and you'd do well not to try and boss me around.." Angelus warned.
Bailey looked to Lestat "He's Irish isn't he?"
Lestat nodded "I found him on a street in galeway Ireland."
"Why does he keep saying no to me?" she asked.
No wasn't something she was used to hearing.
"Because times are different here...When you sire someone they become like your lover and your childe all in one." Lestat explained.
Bailey suddenly remembered when Angelus kissed her before she got her memory back.
"That explains why he kissed me..and why he spanks or swats me. It does not however explain why he thinks things are still the same." she said looking to Angelus now "I am not the same girl as before. You can't tell me no." she said arrogantly and suddenly Angelus knew where his sire got his better then everyone else attitude.
"Wanna bet?" Angelus dared her.
Lestat was instantly in the middle facing Angelus "Stop it. Angelus stop before she kills you. "
Spike who had stayed quiet chuckled a little then stated loud and clear "Let me see if I got this right...your how much bigger then she is? And yet your gonna let her walk all over you? Bloody hell. She's still just as small as she was before...only with a bigger ego it seems."
Bailey glared at him "You will be silent."
"Right...why don't you come over here and make me squirt." he laughed.
Bailey lunged "NAAH! " she screeched then gasped when he moved to get behind her and picked her up off her feet. She struggled and clawed at his hands and kicked the air but it did no see. "Well look at that...may not be the exact same Bailey, but the same methods are effective it seems." Spike grinned.
"Until you put her down...then she's going to rip you apart." Lestat said seriously.
Spike shook his head "Oh for crying out loud what is wrong with you? This is a child just like any other child. Yeah maybe she has hidden abilities buried deep in her noggin that she ain't used yet, but right this bloody second she only has as much power as you give her. Your fear in fact gives her power over you. Don't be afraid, and she can't hurt you."
"So then put her down and test that theory." Lestat smirked
Spike didn't let go though.
"Perhaps he has a brain after all." Lestat said more to Angelus.
Angelus didn't like this "So then how do you control her?"
"You don't." Lestat informed.
Suddenly Spike yelped as a kick landed on his shin. "Bloody hell!" He moved setting her down twisting her to the side til she was bent over, he trapped her there and started swatting her "You quit it right this second little bit! No kicking. No hitting! No." he said firmly continuing to land blazing swats on her behind til he realized what he was doing and suddenly stopped and released her.
She instantly backed up her hands going to her bottom "How dare you!" she shrieked then stepped back a few more steps "You don't do that again. Okay." she said as if she wasn't sure where she stood at that moment and she wasn't. No one had ever spanked her. Well before she got her memory back she'd been spanked but this was different. She was different now they couldn't just do that sorta thing to her!
Spike seemed unsure of how to react "hmm..then again maybe my William has a point." he said to Lestat then looked at Bailey "As for you? I don't care if your from another time, or another world, or if you just got your memory back and think your the queen. Frankly I don't care. You can be the queen and I'd still bust your ass if you cross me. I'm your sire and in this time, that means something." he glared.
Bailey was beginning to remember what it was like being a sire in her time as well. But she hadn't felt paternal really. She's never acted like a mother. She protected those that she sired...not because she cared, But because she could. Because it was in her power. She looked to Lestat then at Angelus and nodded "I...Understand Angelus. And...things were the same when I sired. Only most of those I sired were taller or bigger then I was and so the thought of punishment never crossed my mind." she said.
"I'm sure you would have needed it more then that did." Angelus commented
she smirked "I'm sure your right. Let me rephrase my earlier statement. My sister is awake. I need to go to her. She was sleeping in the cave's I pointed out."
Angelus thought about that and nodded "Alright..we'll send someone to get her. But we're staying where we are." he said firmly.
Bailey sat and winced then regained her composure smirking at him "Your the Sire."
Lestat was totally confused. Never before had he seen her in such a...good mood. In the old days she'd have ripped the heart from any being daring enough to even look crossly at her.
He pulled Angelus aside to chat as Bailey hummed "What do you think your doing? You can't get away with treating her like that. She's the queen."
"You know maybe that's the problem. Yeah she's a queen but she's also a child. You treat her like a queen and what do you get? Disrespect and arrogance at every turn...I treated her like a child and do you see what I got? Obedience."
"She could still turn on you faster then you realize. This could all turn very ugly very fast if she wanted it to." Lestat warned.
"Yeah that's another thing, she can't get mixed signals. If I come down on her your gonna have to as well. We have to have a united front and show her that she doesn't rule us." Angelus said.
"She may accept being scolded by you, but she won't accept the same from me. She never hurt those that she sired...but she did something else. Something much worse." Lestat said.
"What did she do?" Angelus asked curious.
"Her mate, He would deal with us. With some of us he dealt with in the same that I deal with you...other times he'd do what you do to her. It just depended on who did it and the crime..also many times it depended on her...what she would allow and what she wouldn't allow. " Lestat explained.
Angelus grimaced then frowned "Wait..where's her mate?"
Lestat suddenly was worried "He was said to have gone to sleep with her..but since it was her sister that slept and now that they are awake perhaps he is too."
"Who was her mate?" Angelus asked.
"She didn't sire her mate. I'm not sure how he became a vampire. Perhaps Bree..or maybe someone else that was sired by her or Bree sired him. All I know is that it didn't take long for them. It seemed only my second day as a vampire he was there. Julian never liked to be challenged...and from what I heard at night sometimes she wasn't as undisciplined as we have been led to believe. But Angelus, if they find each other you really won't get her back to the way she once was. She'll never be the girl you sired again. The girl you grew to love will be gone and in her place? A monster with the face of a child. She's the oldest lie this world can offer." Lestat said glancing to her again
"Lestat..." Bailey called to him.
He turned to look at her "Yes love?"
She looked up at him now "Are you under the false illusion that I for some reason have turned off my hearing?"
He blinked "Well..no my lady. Why do you ask?"
"So then why are you talking about me like I'm not here?" She asked instead of answering his question.
Lestat looked a bit embarrassed. "I apologize."
"Do not cross me again today." She advised in warning.
She could feel her lover awake as well and smiled "He is hungry..."
Lestat paled realizing that she sensed the king.
In the time he had reigned by her side he had become just as powerful due to drinking her blood at times. Lestat was of course more afraid of the Queen but the King was just as intimidating. Or at least anyone who had the displeasure of meeting them would feel the same.
"Who's she talking about?" Angelus asked.
Lestat sighed "Marcus."
Bailey smiled at Lestat "He's awake..and Bree's awake...I wonder who else will awaken now that I have returned to power." she said thoughtfully.
"Hopefully none." Lestat murmured to himself as Angelus curiously gazed between him and Bailey.
"Who does she mean? Who else is there?" Angelus asked.
"The first coven. The vampire council. The True Ancients. If they rise we will have a very real problem Angelus. Marcus awake is bad enough...but Bree and the council? That's a little too many ancients around for my taste." Lestat commented
Bailey stood up "You will be polite or you will be in trouble." she warned then huffed.
Angelus raised a brow wanting to correct her because of her tone but thought better of it. She was Lestat's sire. It was her right to do or say what she wished with him. However Angelus didn't have to like it. He did have to tolerate it though.
Lestat bowed his head "I apologize. Its only I'm concerned. You know he hates me and will destroy me."
Bailey sighed heavily going closer to Lestat and said "He will not touch you." she looked directly at him "I will make sure of that. You need not fear him. He will not go against my wishes."
"Who?" Angelus asked feeling lost because he wasn't aware of what was all going on yet.
Lestat glanced at Angelus "I speak of Marcus childe...Marcus never liked those of us that were sired by the queen. She lavished affection on us, he was jealous. He wanted all of her attention to himself. One night he tried to kill me when I showed up unexpected. " Lestat frowned suddenly looked to Bailey and cringed at the images of the memory. The images haunted him ever since. It wasn't what Marcus did to him that frightened him, no its what the Queen had done to Marcus. Or nearly done to him anyway.
"Well, go on. Finish it." Bailey sat down now remembering as well. She had been enraged when she realized that Marcus had been trying to drain Lestat dry. Draining a vampire could kill them if you did it right and knew what you were doing, Marcus knew because Bailey had shown him.
Angelus now was curious to hear what happened too. As were Spike, Penn and Toby who were all just fascinated the more they heard.
Lestat sat down now too and closed his eyes seeing it again "He attacked me. He was stronger then I was. He lunged at me and trapped me under him. Then he bit me and started to feed from me. I didn't know why he was doing it at the time. She came in soon after that and stood watching for a while...I remember feeling weak and hearing her voice. She told him to stop and that he was taking too much from me. I think we realized at the same time that that's exactly what he was trying to do. I remember how she stood there. I watched her. The look of rage that crossed her face, the blackness that filled her eyes, the power that vibrated through her body. The fear that ripped through mine as she lunged at him. She slammed him so hard against the wall that he went through it into the next room. She screamed. She was that enraged. I blacked out at some point. When I woke I felt blood leaking into my mouth. I drank and it burned like liquid fire. I knew instantly that it was her blood I was tasting. I felt her slight weight on me as I feed from her and felt my strength double. I blacked out again from exhaustion. When I woke I could hear the minions talking. From them I learned that she had locked Marcus away in a dark chamber and was refusing him blood. It went on for a long time. Weeks and weeks it seemed. She remained angry at him. And became insanely protective of me. It wasn't the first time a vampire tried to kill me. I guess you could say I've always been despised by our kind."
"Your wrong you know..." Bailey said looking at Lestat "It wasn't anything you did. Its that you were made by me. I was the first. It was me they heated, but they feared me and thought that using you and those I sired was a better way to get to me..that's why I tried not to become too attached. I defend what's mine. I love Marcus. But I'd kill him in a second if it would save you or one that I sired. Any true sire will understand that." she said looking to Angelus now.
Angelus raised a brow "What?"
"Your Drusilla, Darla was your mate, she dusted Drusilla. You should have dusted Darla in return. Better yet, you should have been there to protect her."
"I don't always make it in time...and apparently you don't either." Angelus leaned against the wall now.
She smiled "No, your right for the most part. But then again, I did make it in time to save him. He lived on to sire you didn't he."
Angelus grinned then too. Her sense of humor matched his own it seemed. He looked to his sire "Are you alright? "
Bailey looked to Lestat knowing what bugged him "He had never feared me. Not really. Not until that night. "
Angelus raised a brow "Your afraid of her because she saved you?"
Lestat scoffed and stood turning on Angelus "NO! Dammit. You weren't there. You didn't see it happen. Sire or not that's the night I saw her for what she really was. A monster. It took her mere seconds to take him down. He was bigger then me and she could have ripped him to shreds if she wanted to. She was so small and so quiet most of the time...its frightening to see a child become a deadly thing that fast...she was suppose to love him and she nearly killed him."
"He also never touched you again after that." Bailey stated calmly.
"No, and after hearing of what you did to your own mate over me no one else tried again either." Lestat said. "If you'll excuse me, I'll go send someone for your sister." he left the room then.
Bailey watched him go then took pulled a spiral out from where she saw it laying and took a pen and started scribbling on it. "Would you like to hear more stories?" she asked.
Angelus looked at the time "Not at the moment. We must rest now."
Bailey looked at him then remembered sleeping arrangements and nodded.
Angelus showed Penn, William and Toby where they would sleep and that Angelus would sleep with them that night but wasn't sure about Bailey yet. He knew things would change, but he nor anyone else could have guessed how much.
TBC...
Next time: More OC'S are introduced and Bailey goes on a killing spree with her evil lover and Angelus begins to wonder if Maybe his sire was right about the queen.
