Hey guys, so thank you sssssssoooo much for the amazing reviews, please, please keep them coming!
Ok I forgot to say in the last chapter all this is taking place just before Kirby shows up and will start spilling into the episode in a chapter or two!
Hope you enjoy it! X3 X x
The two men stare in bafflement at the girl and Hal scoffs "a wendigo? Wendigo's are extinct!"
"Obviously not considering you're talking to one." She shrugs in a bored manner
Tom looks between the two, Sunny trying to control her puffed eyes and Hal staring in amazement "um, what's a wendigo?"
"Savage creatures, known for their endless appetite and human cannibalism" he says while standing at attention, his eyes not wavering from the girl
Her head snaps up "Oi, vampire, back off with the hypocritical third degree yeah? I'm having a bad day."
Tom looks at her wide eyed and asks curiously "so you eat people, like a zombie?"
"No, not like a zombie and I haven't eaten a human in twenty-seven years, so…" she pulls a childish tongue to the vampire and slumps back into the chair
Hal raises a brow at her action and Tom looks to the girl, never to upset a lady he says "well that's good, the not eating people thing, Hal has that to don't you Hal?"
She looks to the vampire for conformation and he nods barely "since 1955."
Sunny's eyebrows meet her hairline and she sighs "impressive, never heard of a vamp being clean that long."
"Well I've never heard of a wendigo being clean ever so…" he offers a tight lipped compliment
She shrugs lightly and says "well most of us don't really care about anything besides, well… look thanks and everything but I best be off, need to find a B&B before it gets too late."
As she stands and picks up her bags, Tom helping her with one over her shoulder, examining her arms, she walks to the door and turns back, sending a smile to the men and then leaving them to close up. The drive home is littered with Tom talking about how the blonde had no right to hurt a lady, even if she was a wendigo!
They walk into the house and Annie is already on her feet with the money tin, the put it in as she asks "so how was the day for my breadwinners?"
"We met a wendigo." Tom chirps happily while picking Eve up from her basket
The ghost's face turns to puzzlement and she asks "what like off supernatural?"
"You should know better than to stereotype via television Annie." The vampire sighs, taking a seat on the couch
She takes a seat on the arm of the couch and asks in all seriousness "is this thing a threat?"
"She, not it, and her names Sunny" Tom quickly defends the girl
Hal just shakes his head "I don't believe so. Wendigo's are pretty feral; however this girl just seems to want what we do, which is of course a normal life."
The ghost lets out a breath of relief and nods "oh, well alright then, how did you meet her anyway?"
"She comes into the café all the time, didn't know what she was until today. She'd nice." Tom smiles then goes back to making baby eve giggle with stupid faces
This courses Annie to nod and she looks to the vampire curiously "so what is a Wendigo exactly?"
"It's said that they turn the same as a werewolf, a bite or a scratch, but that the victim doesn't just turn, their poisoned." He explains casually
The eyes of the two widen and Tom asks "Poisoned?"
Hal just nods, like their talking about Cash in the Attic "yes, you see a Wendigo's bite is venomous, the poison can travel the body for weeks and it shifts the organs, molds with the blood, hardens the bone and courses unimaginable pain, worse than any transformation…"
He stands fiddling with his lone domino, not looking to the horrified faces of his friends "my god." Annie exclaims
"That's not the worst of it… their hunger is meant to outweigh that of a hundred vampires, they feel it, crave human flesh before completing the transition, they can feel their bodies shutting down, they know their dying and all they want isn't a loved one or to see another sunrise, they just want to eat." He shrugs and a pensive look comes to his face
"But Sunny's boyfriend was human and she even said she hasn't killed in near thirty years. I have to say she looks good for her age!" Tom shines with his childlike ways
The vampire sighs with a shake of his head "their immortal, they can only be killed by chopping off their head or destroying their heart. This girl shouldn't even exist; Wendigo's were supposedly whipped out decades ago"
They all share a look and Tom shrugs "maybe she's just under the radar like."
"If her… 'Hunger' really is that bad and she hasn't gone back to chowing down on the neighbors, then she must have some intense control." Annie acknowledges with shocked wide eyes
"Or some really strong reasons, because in all my years it's unheard of, Wendigo's don't care about anything, nothing except quenching the famine they feel." Hal ponders curiously
Just then Tom stands, the infant in his arms "Well she's alright lady to me!"
Meanwhile across town Sunny walks into her room in a dingy B&B, towel drying her hair and limply sits on the bed, but as her clock chimes she freezes, 11:54 exactly. She stands mechanically and walks to the window; a small wooden box on the sill, the pink haired girl kneels down and lifts the lid, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata echoing against the paper thin walls. She closes her eyes and lets out a relieved breath, her hand raises and she takes a piece of tatted paper from inside, unfolding it and something falls into her hand, she clutches the object so tight in her hand, it bites into her palms and fingers as she brings her praying hands to her mouth and begins "me again… listen if you're up there I had a crap day and could really use some peace so if you could make it stop, just for a second… I didn't think so… well I met these two people today…"
Two weeks pass before they see Sunny again, Tom having kept an eye out, his head shooting for the door at the bell, but wasn't her, Hal told him to forget about her, but he said he was worried about her, the vampire knew that the boys gentle childlike kindness was going to get them all killed one day, but he couldn't fault him for it
He's putting the bins out when he smells it again, copper and embers, he round the corner curiously and finds the pink haired girl leaning against the far wall "Sunny?"
"Hiya." She beams over at him brightly, seeming to not have a care in the world
He takes a step closer and sees she's holding a bin bag "what's that?"
She looks at it innocently and shrugs "oh nothing, hey how have you been? Busy?"
He takes a step closer and his nose is assaulted by the disgusting smell, his hand coming to his mouth as he sees a sliver of blood on hers, realization hits him and he gasps "good lord."
Her brightness fades and she bites her lip "look I'm sorry I'm just so hungry!"
"Why didn't you just come inside and order something?" he wonders with a nauseated look on his face
Her shoulders fall and she snaps "because to place an order you kind of need money and that's a thing I'm running low on babe."
"Hal, it don't take this long to empty bins" the voice of the werewolf comes round and he smiles at the sight of the pink haired girl
"Sunny, hi!" he grins over at her, she smiles back
The vampire looks to his friend and says "she's been stealing the rotted meat from the rubbish."
"Ew, why? You're not eating that are you, you can get ill." He stares with a worried and grossed out expression
Hal looks back at her and just notices her dirty appearance "when you said your low on money… how low exactly?"
"Take low and translate it to zero." She says waving her hand slightly
The two men exchange a glance and Tom asks "but if you've got no money where you staying?"
She shrugs and answers "just some old house… look I'm fine, I'm sorry about the meat and I'll pay you back when I can I promise."
The two men exchange a glance and the vampire shakes his head at the boys expression "No, Tom."
"Come on Hal she's got nowhere to go, she needs our help! I saw her arms the other week she aint got no burns" the young werewolf says
Hal looks to her and then back "look, I sympathize but it's not just our home, we have to think of Eve, besides Annie would have our heads!"
Tom tilted his head and gives a new meaning to the term puppy eyes "Annie would kill us."
… a few hours later
"Welcome!" a bright smiling Ghost says while opening the door, finding her vampire, werewolf and a pink haired wendigo
Sunny smiles brightly as she's led inside "Hi, you must be Annie. Thanks for letting me stay; I promise I'll be out of your hair in no time"
She nods happily as the two men walk in behind her, Hal just standing there while Tom grabs her bags, picking them all up without any effort "we don't mind, do we guys?"
"Not at all, it'll be nice to have some girly company. Tom why don't you take those upstairs, I made up the side room." Annie smiles brightly, ever the hostess
Tom nods and leaves the room with a smile, his feet heavy against the stairs "would you like some tea?"
"Love some thanks, but I'd kind of like a shower first if that's ok?" Sunny asks casually, like she hasn't just entered the twilight zone
Annie nods in realization "of course you do the showers just upstairs on the left!"
The pale girl nods and goes to the stairs, but turns back to the two with a smile "thanks again…"
They watch as she heads up and the ghost smiles "she seems nice, not to sure what happened to her hair…"
"Or her fashion sense!" Hal finishes, leaning on the bar
She sends him a glare and they smile "she does have a bit of a thing for pink, but she seems lovely. I'm going to put some tea on."
The vampire pushes himself of the bar and looks to where the Wendigo was last seen "yes, just lovely." he says groans skeptically
Meanwhile Sunny lets out a contented sigh, rapping a towel around herself and walking out of the bathroom, she walks past a few room, peering inside to look for her stuff, on the third door she sees Tom in laying out some clothes on a bed, her stuff on the couch at the window, with dirty bedding in the corner "Hiya"
He turns at the sound of her voice but at seeing her in only a fluffy white towel turns his head "hey, sorry I was just giving you some stuff to wear, Annie's washing your clothes and wants me to take down the old bedding, hope that's ok?"
She smiles brightly and walks in, still not catching his gaze and she frowns in confusion "that real nice of use, Tom you ok?"
"Fine" he answers bluntly
She giggles and shrugs "then why won't you look at me?"
"McNair said you shouldn't look at women when they're in the nuddy, disrespectful." He explains in a childlike manner
She looks slightly stunned and nods "oh, well that's very sweet, McNair your mate?"
"Dad, he was killed by vampires." He says as she picks up the clothes from the bed, a man's white shirt and some sweat pants
"I'm sorry, I know what it's like to lose someone you love… but hey, he raised you right, you're a good person Tom, I'm sure he's very proud." She offers with a hand on his shoulder
He can't help as his snaps round to meet her diamond cut blue eyes "really?"
"Really…" she smiles at him; he seems to realize his mistake and looks away again
"Well, I'll just let you get changed then, see you downstairs." He says before shutting the door behind him
Sunny looks around the room as she changes, the walls are a dark dated floral pink, a white couch, white wardrobe and dresser, the double bed is next to the door, fresh rose patterned linen and she looks to the open window. She walks over to her bags, pulling out her wooden music box and places it dead center on the sill.
She lets out a contented sigh, now fully dressed, looking around the room and thinking 'I could like it here…' when suddenly the sound of a shrill shout, she darts from the room, racing down the stairs only to be left wide eyed at the sight before her, Hal feeding a small baby "what is that?"
