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"Such a long way back
From this place that we are at."
Stranger By Hillary Duff
"You better keep an eye on your boy
So lock 'em up tight."
Wikk'ed Little Girls By Esthro
Partially Recovered Repository Document
Diary of Unknown Blue Blood
It was like watching silent death unfold and me powerless to stop it. The cries of the crowd around make it all even worse. I can see his face but I doubt he sees much beyond the nameless faces in the crowd. No blue blood could have foreseen the Revolution, or the bloodshed that would follow in its wake.
He mounts the platform with such courage, not fearing death, praying that some of his blood will be spared. He's always had this much courage the first time I met him after the war I knew he would last and now, now I get to watch from a whole new perspective. For he is no longer mine to hold.
I can't have him, it's not my job to love, I am here to guide and that is all. Yet I feel my heart dying as I watch this charade proceed. I can't watch, but I won't allow myself to leave either. This is my punishment.
Schuyler was speechless on the phone, she had been prepared for seeing Jack for being in the same room but hearing his voice on her daughter's phone was not something she ever wanted to experience. She snapped the phone shut and shoved it back into her purse. "She's coming up, as is Mr. Force."
"Here," Ara said brightly opening the door to the inner sanctum. "Sorry I'm late." She tiptoed nervously into the center of the room. Jack slunk into the room and took his usual seat next to Mimi at the table. Schuyler smiled at Ara, she was nervous, or maybe just anxious to get the whole thing over with.
"Ms. Van Allen so glad that you could join us." Lawrence started with a disapproving edge to his voice. Ara blushed slightly she had not meant to be late. "I am sure that you know why you are here?"
"Velox test."
"Good I believe Mimi it is your turn to select the item in question," Lawrence indicated. Mimi looked positively happy. She full lips spread into a smile as she carefully replaced her pencil on the table.
"Ms. Van Allen is it?"
"Well it's Ara actually but you can call me that. Sure." Ara shrugged shifting her weight. She had a slight problem with babbling when she was nervous.
"I would love for you to retrieve the presentation sword at the Met for me." Ara grimaced the Met was a little troublesome especially since it was in the middle of the day and she would therefore have to worry about the crowds.
"Love to." Ara sped off back down the stairs and across New York the Met. She searched the place in milliseconds searching the place for her item. She slipped past the sensors and raced back across the city and back to the bank. She arrived back in the Clave's meeting chambers with time to spar. "This it?"
"Thank-you now return it." Ara rolled her eyes she had expected this. She retraced her steps and replaced the item before it could be missed. She returned to the room slightly winded, she was beginning to feel a need for blood. The down side to having your mother be only part Blue Blood is that you get her need to feed often too.
"Very well Ara," Lawrence said with just a hint of amusement and pride. "Now can you tell me have you had any memories of your former lives?"
"Sure I've got all my memories."
"Impossible," Came Mr. Force's abrupt response. "Memories do not return in full until after your twenty first birthday."
"I assure you I have them all. I am quite young in terms of blue blood years. Only seven lives have I walked this earth," Ara replied coolly. Schuyler felt a few eyes flick toward her, Ara was her daughter after all. Schuyler knew exactly what was going on, it had been the only thing that she had ever demanded from her daughter the truth and nothing more.
"I can vouch for her comments," Schuyler responded. "I know her history and it is in fact only seven other lives."
"Then tell us," Mimi said, "what are these lives you claim to remember and who exactly are you?"
"My only response to that Azrael is that if you have to ask you'll never know." Ara smiled sweetly it was her usual response to questions about her past.
"Thank-you Ara," Lawrence broke in before Mimi could sink her claws into the girl. "that's all we'll see you in a month for your next test." He dismissed the girl who gave the Clave one more smile and walked out the door.
For the second time that day Ara ran into someone. It was becoming a bad habit.
"Sorry," she muttered pushing past the figure without looking at them.
"Just watch it next time, don't want another wipe out." A boy sneered. The insult made Ara pause and turn to face the boy. He was tall, blond, and looked a whole lot like the man she had rammed into earlier.
"Why don't you watch it, after all you're the boy shouldn't you be looking out for me?" She snapped, this whole city was going to have her going crazy before the end of the week.
"Cam."
"No thanks to whatever that is."
"My name."
"Ara." She shifted her Sephora bag to her other hand and waited for him to continue. He just smiled at her and walked toward the large Junior Committee meeting area. Ara rolled her eyes, stupid boy and walked toward the stairs screw the meeting.
"Aren't you coming?" He asked turning back toward her.
"Don't feel like it."
"What are you doing later?" he asked curiously, Ara saw the interest spark in his eyes.
"Why don't you text me and find out?" She picked his mind and was already sending him a message before he could respond.
Mimi Force-Caron had never been more insulted or angered in her entire life. The only time that even came close was the time she had caught Jack with her. But that had been remedied easy enough. She drummed her pristinely polished nails on her desk. She had stopped off at the office after the meeting to check on the closing stock prices of FNN. The news was not good. She crumpled the paper and tossed it into the bin. Schuyler would not ruin her life, that was not the woman's job. She caused death and Jack caused destruction yet they could not take down one girl and her business.
More than business though was the appearance of Schuyler's Daughter, Ara. Who did that child think she was? Mimi had spent the better part of the meeting after Ara's test mentally going through her memories searching for the girl. But there was hardly a whiff of her, the only reference was a young blue blood who had been at Salem and had muttered that exact phrase "if you have to ask you'll never know." to Abbadon. That phrase had infuriated Mimi then and it still managed to boil her blood now.
Her heels beat a quick rhythm on the marble floors of the entrance way as Mimi made her way back to her waiting town car. She was going to put a stop to all of this, that girl was going to tell her exactly what she wanted to know.
"Did you bring the report?" Jack asked in the car.
"No," Mimi replied tersely. A few moments passed in silence before she breached the subject that was pulling at her mind. "So Schuyler's back."
"It's nothing Mimi, I made my choice." Mimi probed his mind gently why wouldn't he let her in? They shared everything, typically they were one in the same after all.
Stay out Mimi, came his gentle response as she pushed further.
We share everything, why not share this too.
Mimi some things are private. And with that Mimi was rudely removed from his mind. Mimi spent the rest of the time in the car coming up with ways of getting around Jack. She had dealt with this years ago and she would deal with it again.
It had been the day before graduation from college and Mimi was waiting in the apartment that she and Jack shared at school. He was out late, as usual, it seemed to be something that he did lately. Projects he liked to call them, though recently she had found out they were more than "projects." She was seated at the table in the kitchen waiting, Mimi checked her cell phone again it was twelve twenty two where was this boy? She heard the click of the lock signaling her twin's return.
"Mimi I didn't expect you to be up so late." Jack dumped a bag on the floor and collapsed into a chair. He reached for the plate of food Mimi had sitting in front of her, but she moved faster and knocked it off the table.
"Oops," she said innocently the plate crashed to the floor.
"Something wrong Mimi?" Jack asked standing up and walking to the fridge.
"Well I would love to know where you were for the last oh I dunno three hours?"
"I went out with some friends."
"Where?"
"Luke's we had a few drinks."
"And was sex included in this party?"
"Not that I recall but if I get the memo I'll get back to you."
"Stop the charade Jack I know you weren't at Luke's, you see I called him and asked. I want to know what you were doing at Schuyler's because I am sure that included everything so I will ask you one more time Jack. Where were you?"
Jack sighed and closed the door to the refrigerator. "I was with Schuyler."
"Really." But it was more of a statement than a question.
"Mimi I was going to—"
"Tell me, right, of course you were and let's pretend for a millisecond that I would actually believe you were just visiting and not what is it? Oh yes doing the girl I cannot stand."
"Mimi—"
"Do not 'Mimi' me." The blond replied advancing on her twin. "I will not be hushed like some child. I want to know why."
"I just needed…I think I love her."
"You think?" Mimi was only inches away from Jack. She ran her hands up the lapels of his jacket. "You think that you love someone else?" She pouted there was nothing else that Jack loved more. Jack leaned his head back against the refrigerator. "Are you going to tell me?" When he did not reply Mimi gripped his lapels harder and threw Jack into the wall. He took the blow without so much as blinking. "Think it over Jack."She dusted off her hands and left the room. The wall would be fixed tomorrow, and hopefully Jack would be as well.
Mimi dropped her bag in the front hall way of their apartment. She stared at her reflection in the mirror yes she was still beautiful as always. Jack came up behind her an placed a hand on her shoulder. There was no way that he was going to leave her, Jack belonged to with her.
"Mom, Dad, nice to see you both." Cam said from the top of the stairs.
"Darling," Mimi cooed. "How was your meeting?"
"It was fine."
A/N: Alright chapter two! woot woot! Anyway I hope you enjoyed it all and I'll even give you a hint a to what is in store next chapter. Ever wonder what happened to Dylan and Bliss we may see them in the next chapter. Anyway leave a review and tell me what you think!
Zander1996: Thanks for the review.
Kilroywashere: Well I can't tell you exactly what is going to happen between Jack and Sky it'll be interesting for sure. Hope you enjoyed Mimi in this chapter.
Dark Melody: Thanks for the review, yeah it may or may not end up with Sky and Jack. Thanks for the review
The Silver Bullet: Thanks for the review. I don't know if people would technically call this a Jack/Sky fic and as for Ara well it'll all hit the fan in the next couple chapters.