Hey! So I know it's be forever since I updated, and well after I got my flashdrive back I went on vacation for like four days with my brother and didn't have my computer so couldn't UD then….and since I got back; I've been sick, to a funeral, super busy with summer work for my English class, and have gotten so ticked off I threw my flash drive at a wall and broke the end part off. SO therefore I had to rewrite the whole effing chapter…AGAIN! I hope you guys can forgive me.. :P I have a love/hate relationship with this chapter and I really don't know why, but I do. Also, .if you recognize some stuff it might be from my previous BAC fic because I am trying to use some of that stuff in this. But yeah, sorry for the long wait and sorry for the long AN… Hopefully I'll UD again soon (NO PROMISES! ;)…)
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, the songs, or anything else you recognize….but yeah some of this stuff is mine… but this is the last disclaimer I'm doing, it's just gonna count for the whole story.
The forest was so open, so freeing and peaceful. And that perhaps is why Vivian loved it so much. It gave her a chance to escape everything and just be. There were no other pack members, no one telling her what to and what not to do, and no one breathing down her neck about mating.
She was leaving for Vermont with Gabriel is two hours and she was scared to go. When she decided to leave with him it was a spur of the moment decision, but now that she had time to think about it she wasn't sure if it was the right one. She knew that she should go as she was the alpha female but she wasn't sure if she was ready just yet.
As she approached her house she saw that Gabriel's motorcycle, and Bucky's truck were parked out front. She loped into the back of her yard and changed quickly pulling on the clothes she had discarded there and going inside through the back door.
She then made her way through the house to find Esme, Rudy, Bucky and Gabe sitting in the living room talking quietly.
She tried to be as quiet as possible so that they wouldn't notice her but when she reached the entrance step it creaked and they all turned towards her.
"Shit," Vivian cursed quietly and tried to act normal. Gabriel stood up and walked towards her. He stopped right in front of her, towering over her.
"Vivian," he growled softly, "where the hell have you been? You've been gone for hours! Your scent just disappeared!"
Vivian tried to push her way around him but he wouldn't let her move. "I just went for a run! I needed to clear my head so that's what I did, get over it." Vivian's words had caught Gabriel by surprise so this time when she pushed him he moved giving her enough room to get past.
Esme sighed and called out to Gabriel, "Don't bother with the whole don't just run and disappear speech...it didn't work when she was five, it's not going to work now!"
Gabriel stifled a laugh as he turned back to Vivian, "We're leaving soon so go finish getting ready."
She nodded, "Give me a half hour." As she left the room she heard the conversation return, but softer now that they knew she was there and she didn't like that but if she stopped they'd know she was trying to eavesdrop.
Entering her room she opened the suitcase she had thrown her clothes in a grabbed a pair of black sweatpants, a white Black Veil Brides t-shirt, a black cami and her favorite matching black lace bra and panties set and she walked across the hall to the bathroom.
Vivian showered quickly and blow-dried her tawny hair, leaving it hang loosely around her shoulders. She walked back into her room and threw her dirty clothes in a plastic bag, which she shoved into a bag with her painting clothes.
After Vivian threw her last couple of things in her suitcase, she grabbed her purse off the bed and quickly applied just a touch of mascara to make her eyes pop since she had been running all night and looked so tired. Then Vivian grabbed her favorite hoodie off the floor and made her way downstairs.
Esme, Rudy, Bucky, and Gabe were still sitting in the living room but now instead of the serious conversation they appeared to be having earlier they were laughing and appeared to be having a good time.
"Why wasn't I invited?" Vivian asked as she reached the bottom step and pouted at them.
Rudy pointed at the other three in the room, "They didn't want you here. I for one was all for it!"
She grinned at him as she walked closer and sat down on the arm of his chair, "I knew there was a reason I liked you Uncle Rudy." Rudy laughed and wrapped his arm around his niece in a sort of hug, letting her know he was there for her always.
The four loup garou talked for a bit before Gabriel and Bucky left to finish packing the truck with everything they needed for the three of them, and Esme had disappeared to the kitchen giggling after receiving a phone call.
Rudy and Vivian sat there in mostly silence, occasionally saying something here and there out of random. Eventually Gabriel and Bucky came back inside, so now they were just waiting for Esme to come back so the two women could say there goodbyes.
"VIVIE!" She shouted and ran towards me picking me up and spinning her daughter around, "Are you sure you wanna go with Bucky and Gabe? I mean they could gang up on you." She said quietly in her ear. What in the hell has gotten into my mother, Vivian thought, She never acts this motherly.
After Esme set Vivian down, she noticed that Tomas had walked into the room. Esme smiled brilliantly at him, Vivian groaned. So that's what it is, she thought to herself.
"Alright Esme," Vivian said, "We have go. See you Monday. Love you." Vivian hugged her quickly before running out the door and jumping in the driver's side of the truck.
Bucky and Gabriel walked out of the house talking as Vivian watched them from in the truck. The two male loup garou shook hands before Bucky got on Gabriel's bike and drove away, speeding down the road.
As Gabriel made his way to the driver's side he saw Vivian in the seat and motioned for her to move over. She shook her head and quickly locked the door just as he reached for the handle.
He glared at her, "Vivian open the door." She just shook her head and smirked triumphantly. After a few minutes of him trying to get in she decided it would be fun to quickly lock and unlock the doors, seeing if he could get in. (A.N….I do this all the time and had to include it! It's so much freaking fun… ANYWAYS on with the story… :) ….)
The first few times he tried to open it but failed as Vivian was too fast, but finally he managed to open the door.
She cursed under her breath and glared at him as he pushed her over to the passenger side of the truck while he got in. After they got situated and started down the road Gabriel turned and looked at Vivian. She glared at him and he reached out to touch her arm but she yanked it away. She then put her headphones in and she faded into the background.
"Vivian wake up," Someone called. She felt someone shaking her and she opened her eyes blinking, she looked up into Gabriel's blue eyes.
She smiled, "Where are we?"
"We're almost at the Inn, we have about an hour left till we get there. I'm hungry, and I figured you would be to," Gabriel said as he got out of the truck.
Vivian sat up and threw her I-pod in her bag grabbing it and her hoodie before jumping out of the truck. She shivered when she got out and put the aforementioned hoodie on.
The two of them walked up to the little restaurant and sat down at a both in the corner, waiting for the waitress to come over and take their our order as they talked.
"So how many rooms did you say it has?" Vivian asked while she played with her napkin.
"Well the Inn has three floors total. The first floor has the kitchen, dining room, sitting room, lobby, two offices, a library, and a bathroom."
Vivian sighed, "That's a lot of painting we're going to have to do…and just for one floor. What about the other two?"
"The top two floors have the guest rooms, twelve on the second floor and ten on the third because it has to suites."
"Sounds good, we'll have to make a list of colors we want to do for the rooms and everything we're going to need before we go shopping."
Gabriel nodded, "Yeah that's a good idea. And I thought you said you were going to be horrible at being the alpha female?"
"I never said I was going to be bad at it, I just said I didn't want to do it." She grinned at him cheekily just as the waitress came over to take their order.
She was an older woman, probably in her mid-sixties, with dark brown hair streaked with gray pulled up on her head in a bun. "What can I get you kids today?" She asked them with a smile as she handed them both menus.
Vivian barely looked at her before she answered, "A cheeseburger medium rare with only pickles, cheese, and mayo…can I make that extra pickles? A large fry and a vanilla milkshake."
The waitress then looked to Gabriel, "I'll have a bacon cheeseburger rare, no ketchup a large fry, and a chocolate milkshake."
The waitress nodded, took their menus and walked away. "Really a chocolate milkshake and a bacon burger? That's disgusting."
"What's disgusting about it?"
Vivian rolled her eyes, "Well for one chocolate milkshakes are gross, and vanilla kick butt and bacon on cheeseburgers is disgusting!"
Gabriel laughed as the two of them continued to banter back and forth until they left the restaurant.
"Do you think we should go and get some stuff now so when we get there we can just start cleaning up so we don't have to come back out right away?" Vivian asked as they reached the truck.
"That's probably a good idea, look for a store or something so we can stop." Five minutes down the road they stopped at a Wal-Mart and got out.
Vivian grabbed a cart and started to push it fast before jumping on the bar thing at the bottom of the back and riding it.
Behind her Gabriel was laughing as he followed her through the store to the cleaning stuff. The two of them grabbed the stuff they would need (window cleaner, scrub buckets, mops and brooms, other cleaning sprays and air freshener) and then just walked around the store looking at random stuff.
"Gabriel I'll be back in five minutes!" Vivian said as she practically ran away from him after shoving the cart in his direction. She ran through the store to the electronic stuff hurridly trying to find what she was looking for. She spotted it and picked up two packs of them before she walked over to the regular toys.
She then proceeded to grab a few more things before going back to where she last saw Gabriel. When she found him she dropped everything into the cart among the cleaning stuff and food, which Gabriel had picked up since she left.
"I'm afraid," Gabriel said as he eyed the stuff she had put in the cart warily.
"Don't be such baby," She said as she slapped his arm playfully, "Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah let's get out of here."
The two loup garou were driving up a dirt road in the late afternoon as they talked over the quiet music that played through the cab of the truck.
"So you mean to say that you hate the color red?" Gabriel asked disbelievingly.
"Not all red, just bright red like fire truck red. Like tomato red, and maroon are fine but bright red is obnoxious.." When Vivian said that, Gabriel busted out laughing.
"You're crazy," He shook his head.
She shrugged just as they came to a stop. Wasting no time Vivian jumped out of the truck and looked at the Inn that was in front of them. It was old and worn, but when they fixed it up she could tell it would be gorgeous. They'd have to repaint the whole thing since the paint was peeling, redo the front porch, and possibly replace some of the windows but it would be worth it.
"It's gorgeous," Vivian whispered as she imagined what it would eventually look like.
"So you like it?" She looked up at Gabe who was standing beside her smiling.
"I love it!" She lunged at him wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly as he arms wrapped around her waist. The two hugged for a moment, relishing in the comfort of the first real contact they had since the night before.
When they pulled back they both had huge grins on their faces. "I'll show you around then we can get started on cleaning up." Vivian slipped her hand into Gabriel's as the two of them walked around the side of the Inn.
The first thing Vivian noticed was the cabins off to the back side of the Inn. Upon counting them she found there were thirteen, she laughed to herself at the odd amount. The cabins were in two lines six on each side with one, the farthest from the inn, at the head in the middle.
The next thing Vivian noticed was the pond on the opposite side of the cabins that had the little stream leading out of it and disappearing into the forest.
"The lone cabin is for us since we're the leaders."
Vivian looked up at Gabriel who had spoken. "How did you figure that one out?" She said playfully.
"Well you see I asked the last owner what an alpha was to do…" Gabriel teased back. Vivian was surprised at the playful child like manner he had when they were alone, and how nice he really was. After they finished walking around they made their way back to the truck.
"What should we clean first?" Gabriel asked as he got out one of the scrub buckets, and tons of rags and cleaners along with a mop, broom, and a vacuum(they brought that from homeee!).
"Why don't we start with our cabin, so then we have somewhere to sleep and when Bucky gets here he can always stay in our cabin while we clean the Inn?"
"Sounds good," Gabriel said as he began to walk back down the path to the cabin. Instead of Vivian following him she went to the truck and got out her bag, digging through it until she pulled out her iPod and portable iHome. (A.N… dang I'm doing tons of these in story an's but we need them, anyways I just wanted to say that most likely this stuff is gonna be the present time instead of 14 years ago cause that's when I was born so I don't know tons about what it was like then so yes! And while I'm here I would just like to point out that there is furniture in the cabins and the Inn, stuff like coffee tables and the beds and dressers and stuff like that that just needs cleaned and fixed. So, Here and now timeline and furniture. :)… )
She then followed the path that Gabriel had taken, to nearly run into him half way as she was too busy looking through the music on her iPod as she created a new playlist to clean to.
"I was looking for you," Gabriel said as explanation as to why he was there and asking where she had gone.
"I was just getting my iPod. Let's go start cleaning."
When they reached the cabin Vivian set the iPod on the coffee table and clicked shuffle on the playlist. The first song that came on was My Bloody Valentine by Good Charlotte. She started to sing along as they began to clean, starting with the living room and working their way back through.
"I'M DONE!" Vivian hollered as she walked across the hallway from the bedroom she had been cleaning to the one Gabriel was cleaning. He was still dusting the dresser, and still had to clean the floor. "You're seriously not done yet? I had the bigger room and I got done before you!"
He glared at her before turning back to his work, "You're a girl…you're used to cleaning I'm not."
She rolled her eyes as she got the vacuum and began to sweep the floor. Ten minutes later and the room was done, so that meant they had finished one cabin completely.
"So what color carpet do you want to get for these rooms?" Gabriel asked as he and Vivian sat on the couch, which was old and worn out and needed replaced, relaxing.
"I actually wouldn't mind hard wood," She shrugged, "But we have to take care of the Inn and the other cabins before we worry about remodeling this one."
"Good point. We should probably start planning color ideas and stuff…"
Vivian grabbed a notebook that was in one of the bags with cleaning stuff, Gabriel had clearly thought about doing this earlier as she also found a pen.
In her neat hand writing she began to write;
Inn Room Colors-
Dining Room:
"Okay so what were you thinking for the Dining Room?"
"Something sort of dark but not too dark."
Vivian nodded, "What about a blue green color?"
That was how the rest of the color picking went for the two of them as they suggested colors and argued over the best choice, and when they were all done the list looked like this-
Inn Room Colors-
Dining Room: Blue/Green
Lobby: Cobalt Silver
Office One: Maroon
Office Two: Navy Blue
Kitchen: Yellow
Sitting Room: Light green
Guest Rooms: Tan/ Brown
Guest Bathrooms: Cream and white
Library: Dark purple, with silver n/ black splatter designs
Downstairs Bathroom: Forest Green and Dark Brown
"Now that that's down why don't we go make food?" Vivian asked as she threw the paper down on the coffee table and stood up.
So I kinda thought this chapter sucked the more I wrote, but I wanted to get it finished and posted so this is what you get…And ideas, requests or anything for future chappies let me know in a review, PM me, or something! (: Review and tell me what you thought. Thanks.(:
