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Chapter 2- Run for Cover
LUCY POV
I walked into my house pushing the door open with a bang. I heard gasps and in takes of breath which I took to be a reaction to seeing me, every vampire inch of me. My eyes locked on him first and I felt something in me spark back to life but at the thought I instantly pushed it to the side ignoring it entirely. I looked around the room at everyone trying to hold the same scowl on my face but when I finally looked at her, at Solange I felt my face start to relax. Not even a meter or two away Solange and Nicholas stood from two of my kids, my eldest daughter Kendall and son Alexander. I heard Hunter and Kieran come in behind me and again everyone gasped. I looked at the brothers as I walked right down the middle of them towards my kids.
"LUCY!" I heard Logan say as I walked by him pausing to smile at him, Isabeau stood at his side and she smiled kindly as always, revealing her extra set of fangs in the process.
"Hey Logan." I said listening to my voice and making sure it didn't waver.
"Mum are we in trouble?" I turned to look at my baby girl Alice as she hopped up from where she'd been sitting and walked towards her brother and sister who I was now standing in front of, trying to block them from view. Which can be hard when you're 14 year old son is almost taller then you.
"Lucy, is that you?" I heard her voice and the hope and sadness laced inside her question.
"Yeah its me Sol, I take it you've met you're goddaughters then?" I asked noticing Hunter move to stand in front of her sons who were both several inches taller then her.
"Yeah we met, we've all been talking…" She trailed off half way through her sentence.
"Lucky would we all be able to sit down and talk please, Kendall already started explaining things." I watched Helena smile at Kendall and of course she had, my mother had always wished a child on me just like me so I could suffer like she had, well her wish came true. I nodded just as Helena started speaking again. "She's just like you were at 14, you were exactly the same and it seems her and Alice are the equivalent of what you and Solange were like."
I smiled at this remembering all the silly, stupid, dumb and dangerous situations I had gotten or we'd both gotten ourselves in and couldn't help but grin at Solange at the memory and was surprised to see Sol grinning right back at me.
"She's to much like me I think but she's like you to Helena, just like Ali is exactly like Solange." I said smiling at someone who had once been like my second mum.
"Luce do you think they should stay here for this talk or go out, Kendall has practice, Alice has her class the in an hour and the boys have practice?" Kieran said knowing his nieces and nephews schedules back to front.
"Mum we can stay, we deserve to be able to stay!" Nate said looking at his mother.
"No you're uncles right go get changed all of you!" Hunter said to them all and I watched as they all turned and started up the stair's. Nate and Kendall needing a bit of an extra push. A few minutes later Kendall came down in her cheerleading stuff, Alice in old pants and a singlet top that were covered in paint and clay and finally the boys cam down in trackies and t-shirts, a soccer ball balanced in Alex's hand. I watched him stop next to me and pull me into a hug, he pulled away before speaking.
"Mum are you sure you'll be alright I can drop the girls off and then Nate and Ryan and come back." He said looking at me with a worried look on his face. My 14 year old son worrying about his mother.
"No off you go, you have training and I'll be fine Kieran's here and Nate and Ryan before you both start you're mum will be fine. Off you all go enjoy and be back before dinner please." I said looking at my family, at my beautiful kids and nephews.
"Mum Kendall and I are going to take a separate car if that's okay so we don't have to wait around for the boys?" Alice said looking at me pleadingly.
"Yes sure Ali now off you go, have fun." I said, Alex gave me another hug followed by Ally and then Kendall who picked up two sets of car keys and tossed one at Ryan before walking out the door yelling goodbye one more time as she left.
"Bye Mum, love you." I heard as they ran to their cars. "SHIT!" I heard Kendall say before running back into the house and up the stairs apologizing the whole way about bad language before coming back down and running back out with two sets of mikes and song books. "Sorry mum bye again, oh and Ali and I have singing to for an hour today. BYE EVERYONE!" I watched and shook my head at my daughter, all over the place as usual and bubbly as ever.
"They sing?" Logan asked smiling at the thought.
"Yeah the girls do and the boys play guitar, and drums to. There into a bit of everything all of them and they do a lot of it together." I said looking at Hunter and Kieran smiling at the thought.
"Look I'll show you them I have a video on my computer." Hunter said before disappearing upstairs and she was back in a flash, her Mac book now in her hands. She turned it on and waited a few moments before clicking on a tab and I heard Kendall's voice fill the room first. She was singing the opening words to Emotionless by Good Charlotte, of all the songs for Hunter to pick.
(Kendall is Bold and Ali italic and all of them is normal)
Hey Dad,
I'm writing to you
Not to tell you that I still hate you
Just to ask you how you feel
And how we fell apart
How this fell apart
Are you happy out there in this great wide world?
Do you think about your sons?
Do you miss your little girl?
When you lay your head down,
How do you sleep at night?
Do you even wonder if we're alright?
If we're alright,
We're alright
It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried
You broke my mother's heart
You broke your children for life
Its not okay
But we're all right
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long lost memory of mine
I spent so many years learning how to survive
And I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive
The days I spent so cold, so hungry,
Were full of hate, I was so angry
The scars run deep inside this tattooed body
There's things I'll take to my grave
But I'm okay
I'm okay
It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried
You broke my mother's heart
You broke your children for life
It's not okay
But we're all right
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive
And I'm still alive
Sometimes I forgive
Yeah, and this time
I'll admit
That I miss you
Said I miss you
It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried
You broke my mother's heart
You broke your children for life
It's not okay
But we're all right
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
Those are just a long lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive
And sometimes I forgive,
And this time,
I'll admit,
That I miss you,
I miss you,
Hey Dad.
I felt my eyes start to water at hearing my girls, son and nephews singer that song and I remember there hadn't been a dry eye in the room when they'd performed it at a talent quest. I lifted my head and my eyes locked with Nicholas.
"There amazing, all of them the girls, Alex and Nate and Ryan. You've got some talented kids Lucky and Hunter." I looked over at Duncan who was smiling kindly at me, he was one of the quieter drake boys preferring to tinker with his bikes, a bit like Ryan.
"Thanks there good kids, a handful but there amazing and I wouldn't change a thing just to have them all over again." Hunter nodded in agreement with me. "So you wanted to talk and I know you all must have a million questions and no offence anyone but I've never seen you all hold back so much and you Quinn I've never seen you so quiet." I said looking now at Quinn who looked kind of sad but mamanged to crack a smile anyway. "So who's first pick you're target and shoot." I said smiling at them all and was amazing when it was Sebastian who spoke first.
"My question is who changed you guys and why did you change?" He said looking at Hunter, Kieran and I.
"Well you're aunt did actually it only make sense, how else were the girls meant to keep up with there vampire kids if they were still human and the thought of having you're kids see you guy or you not get to see them live, so the girls changed and I changed with them. Didn't want to be left behind or not be able to help Lucy and Hunter who are like my little sisters." Kieran said looking at Sebastian directly trying not to look at Sol, I'm pretty sure.
"Was Ali heading to an art class?" Solange said all at once and I couldn't help but smile and pat the stop of lounge beside me and I watched as she all but ran to me and sat down before pulling me into a huge hug. "I've missed you so much Lucky, I'm so sorry."
"Its okay Sol and I've missed you to, wished you could have been around while they were little." I said trying not to get to worked up before pulling back and smiling at her. "But yes she was, those were actually some of you're old clothes. She found them in you're shed one afternoon when she was 10 and just been waiting around, waiting for them to fit all these years." Hunter moved forward and walked over and pulled Solange into a hug before sitting down on my other side. "So who's next?" I said as I watched Helena creep forward till she was sitting down on the coffee table right in front of me.
"Oh Lucy sweetie I'm so sorry, we should never have left you girls and Kieran if only we'd known. You were like my other daughter Lucky and I left you behind." Helena said pulling me into a hug, her eyes were watering up and I'd only ever seen Helena cry and lose the plot a handful of times in my whole life.
"Its okay mum." I said smiling at her and watched her face light right up, I hadn't called anyone that in at least 10 years and especially to her.
"Oh Lucky come here, you to Hunter." She said as she pulled us both into a hug and I felt two more set of arms rap around us and I looked up to see Solange and Isabeau had joined in on our hug to, after a few moments we all pulled apart just before Helena started speaking again. "Do you have another song you could show us of my grandkids performing before we get into serious talking again please girls?" She said and Kieran nodded before sitting down at Hunter's Mac and starting to look through the songs again.
"Hey Luce how about A Thousand Years?" Kieran said smiling at me. I shook my head before agreeing and as my daughter started talking.
"Hello and good evening everyone my names Kendall and my sister Alice, my brother Lex and our cousins Nate and Ryan would like to perform a song for you all tonight. We wanted to do a song that we know means a lot to our mother's, especially our amazing mum. Thank you for everything you both do for us."
She finished speaking and I waited listening as the first cord of the music filled the lounge room, remembering how happy and sad this had made me, watching them sing this song of all songs. Thinking of him and me while they sung and now here he was a few meters away from me.
(Kendall is Bold and Ali italic and all of them is normal)
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave?
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone?
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this
As I heard the girls sing that verse I looked overHelena's shoulder at Nickolas he was looking at me and I could see tears welling up in his eyes, he remembered. He remembered our song.
One step closer
[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
I Couldn't help but smile at him as the song ended and Kieran closed the laptop.
"Wow there amazing and from what we saw before you got here they all seem to have amazing hearts and souls Lucy, there beautiful. Kendall is very fierce and fiery and strong. Her and Nate seem the most stuborn." Isabeau said a grin across her face.
"Well what couple you expect really have you met there fathers, Nicholas is as stubborn as Lucy so one of them was bound to be and from what I remember Nathaniel's dad aka Quinn is exactly the same." Hunter said looking at Quinn and smiled and easy smile at him.
"Lucy?" I heard his voice for the first time in 14 years and he was suddenly all I could see. "Can we go for a walk and stuff just for a few minutes?" He sounded like he expected me to say no but I nodded anyway before hopping up and slid open the beck door and walked out him right behind me.
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