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Chapter 2
Home sweet Home
"Bo you sure you don't want her to come to my house?" Lauren asked concerned for her girlfriend.
"No its fine I don't want you hurt if she gets hungry or something. Plus I really wanna see her face when she smells me everywhere." Bo said smiling at me sleeping in the back seat of my car.
"c'mon Bo Bo im tired you can lurves you some Lauren tomorrow." Kenzi whined.
Rolling her eyes Bo passionately kissed the blonde goodbye wanting so badly to fulfil her hunger and strode over to the Porche happy to be driving it again. Shifting uneasily in the backseat I was suddenly awoken by the slam of the two doors. Grogily zipping the loose leather jacket I starred out the window while the rain pattered against the clear glass. Eyes fluttering closed I drifted back into a calm dreamless sleep.
"GET UP! GET UP!" Kenzi yelled shaking me awake as she unbuckled me from the car.
Jumping at her loud words I started to breathe heavily scared senseless till I realized it was just the goofy little kenzi being as annoying as ever.
"C'mon baby fae I gots a date with a bed."
"I can walk you know." I said pushing her arms away from my waist knowing that I was indeed too weak to walk by myself.
"not without help babe." She stated grabbing my arm helping me stand.
The house that we were walking over to looked like one of those abandoned places you see in horror movie or just a regular old crack shack. The red peeling paint and boarded up windows gave a good clue to how old and unkept it was. Kenzi struggled to keep me up as we walked into the living room were Bo was already making a bed on the couch for me with a thick comforter, and to tell you the truth it looked pretty comfortable.
"need anything before you go to sleep?" Bo asked handing over a cup of water that I had already asked for.
"maybe clothes, these are all gross from the black crap and blood." I said scratching the thick layer of dark liquid that had dried and caked on me.
"Kay I'll be right back." She said smiling wide.
Walking out of the room I followed Bo with my eyes, watched her take each step as she walked up the stairs even payed attention to the sway of her long hair. The instant she was out of sight I felt empty like something had been taken from me. And the feeling confused the hell out of me, I mean hadn't I just met this woman? hadn't I just been in a restaurant avoiding the two wonderful girls? Feeling eyes on me I turned my gaze seeing Kenzi in a faded blue love seat not five feet away staring intently.
"Sorry bout earlier im just really protective of my Bo she's like the only person ive got ya know?." she said in a sleepy voice twisting around a couple of strands of hair as she cradled her left knee.
"no, no I get it if I were in that situation I probably would have reacted the same way." I replied smiling
Hearing Bos nearing heartbeat I turned just in time to see her take the last step of the stairs carrying a pale pile of clothes. I got a caring crooked smile and a slight rise in her heartbeat, causing mine to do the same.
"these should fit you're not that much smaller than me." Bo said handing me a black v-neck and a pair of old striped pajamas.
I waited a second than unzipped the loose jacket laying it on the back of the couch, then pulled the shirt over my sore body wincing slightly as a fresh round of blood spilled from the wound. After that i slipped off my pants replacing them with the new ones which hung low on my hips causing another spike in the rhythm of Bos heart.
"well nighty night just yell if you need anything." she said taking the jacket laying a hot hand on my shoulder for a second then walked away right along with Kenzi who sluggishly rose from her perch yawning.
I lay there for god knows how long just listening to the steady beats of both the girls' hearts wondering exactly how long I had been able to hear this well. Being as tired as I was I closed my eyes trying hard to relax enough to calm my restless body. With everything that had happened in the last 24 hours my mind was going a million miles per hour. Racing between the years trying to remember my adoptive parents giving me the letter from my dead birth parents telling me that i wasn't exactly human. Remember how hurt id felt when I realized that they had lied to me for 15 years before finally getting the courage to tell me the truth. After that day they had bought my love relentlessly trying to get me to forgive them. Even though i had told them day after day that everything was forgiven they persisted with the many unneeded and often unwanted gifts.
"wake up, i need to check on your wounds." a voice said shaking me gently.
"mmmm go away I'm still sleeping." I said pulling the blanket over my face.
"If you get up I'll make coffee." Kenzi yelled from the kitchen in a taunting manner.
"I hate coffee, go away." I replied tossing a pillow in the direction Kenzi's voice came from.
"oww man I was just trying to be nice. How about a nice cookie? kids still like those right I mean I do so..."
"Okay that's just... I'm eighteen you moron and ju-just give me the coffee." I said sitting up with a aggravated expression.
"how do you feel?" Lauren said sitting on the coffee table in front of the couch.
"sore but not as weak as before."
"let me see your stomach." she said pointing
Letting out a quick breath I stood to lift the shirt revealing the large blood soaked piece of gauze.
"may I?" she said reaching over.
I nodded one sharp bob and held back the pained whimper tilting back my head biting my lip. Peeling it back showed that the stitched wound hadn't made much progress on the healing part and was still leaking blood in small increments.
"I need to clean and redress this..." Lauren said to me grabbing my hand dragging me over to a stool at the kitchen counter where her medical bag rested.
"order up." Kenzi said handing over the dull yellow coffee cup filled to the brim.
Taking a sip I sighed at the warmth that cascaded down into my empty stomach resenting the wet tobacco taste that coffee has always held.
"this may be a little easier on your part if you take off the shirt."
I handed over the cup to take the shirt off completely but stretching the muscles over my abdomen made a great deal of pain causing an unwanted whimper to escape my clenched jaw.
"man I think the girl has more muscles that wolf man." Kenzi said giving back the coffee.
seeing a new stream of blood drip from my overstretched wound Lauren hurried to wipe it away causing me to flinch away in return and tears to prick at the edges of my eyes.
"sorry." she replied a twisted expression filled with concern crossing her face. "this is about to get very painful." she said pulling out a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, gauze and medical tape. "ready?"
"ready as I'll ever be." I said quiet and nervous grabbing the edge of the wooden counter.
And oh my god i was not ready it felt like my skin was being singed off all the while my stomach fizzed and bubbled in reaction to the clear liquid. In the midst of the painful experience I heard and felt my fingers slowly forcing their way into the old wood.
"woah woah killer release the grip." Kenzi said trying to pry my hand away with little result.
"sorry guess I don't know my own strength." I said pulling my fingers from the long dents in the wood, staring intently at the fizzing gash. "i'll pay for a new one if you want, I have way more money that I know what t do with."
Giving a soft chuckle Bo shook her head refusing the wad of $100's I handed over. Seeing kenzi nearly drool over it I threw the money into her unexpecting hands, getting a reaction of amazement and a little dancing. "I can finally get a new sword.. and maybe a cross-bow..." she said sitting on the couch counting the perfectly straight bills.
"there all done, I will leave some extra here if it bleeds through or you shower which I guess isn't really needed." Lauren said putting the last piece of cremey white tape across the first defined muscle of my abs.
"not shower hello do you see whats crusted all over me?" I said picking off small flakes of black and red swirled in odd shapes that looked as though the colors were battling in an endless war against pain and relief.
"Yeah I guess you would shower to get that off but otherwise there's no need. You will never have a bad odor, you will never look dirty unless you were playing in the mud. and you will never lose the peasant smell you now have, you won't even get bad breath. winter mint forever." she said handing over the shirt Bo let me borrow.
"never thought id be saying this but im freaking awesome." I said slurping down the rest of my coffee feeling no relief in the dry hunger that now plagued me. "as uh 'fae' what am I gonna well feed off of?"
"why are you experiencing any discomfort?"
" a little but I just wanted to know for well later..." I said running my fingers along one of the multicoloured stripes on the pants resting loosely over my thin, muscled legs.
"your kind are mainly blood and chi eaters. But you need to tell me what your feeling. if it gets worse your hunger can get out of hand quickly."
I swallowed hard feeling the unease in the air as both Bo and Kenzi shifted there positions. Knowing very well that out of hand meant someone dead I swallowed hard reverting back to the stitching on my leg.
"how does is feel now?"
"I don't know... like a dry aching hunger?" I said keeping my line of sight pointed down.
"well you need to feed but we need to see which you will feed on and one requires fresh blood so... Anyone willing to donate?" Lauren said turning to Bo and Kenzi with raised eyebrows. Seeing no one reacting she smiled. "its the only way to make sure she won't kill anyone else."
"okay ill do it." Bo said pulling off the sleeves of her jacket.
With that my face dropped paling instantly, though the thought of drinking blood grossed me out it just seeing thinking of drinking the crap made me want to hurl. Just the thought of wanting to do it made me want to scream or rip my hair out... or both.
Taking a container from her bag Lauren handed Bo a sterilized knife and of corse the clear plastic cup.
"wait whats to say she won't go all crazy and attack bo. I mean she did say she smelt amazing didn't she? won't she taste even better?" Kenzi said walking over to where Lauren prepared to make a cut along the palm of Bo's hand.
Both Lauren and Bo looked at one another than at me with questioning eyes appearing to be reading my face.
"And won't she be bleeding still after? I mean that can't be safe for her." I added standing.
"I can heal after, on you. not to mention im strong enough to stop you if you go blood crazy." Bo said smiling happily at me.
"okay... but what if I don't drink blood I mean how would I feed otherwise?" I said intrigued to find out exactly how I feed.
With that said Lauren took the knife from Bo replacing the leather sheth then putting both it and the cup back into her bag.
"Okay I am super confused here weren't you just telling her to give Sky blood?" kenzi asked putting the thick wad into her jacket pocket.
"well yes but if she were truly a blood drinker she would have never denied the chance to get her hands on it, yet another instinct."
"oh thank god." I said sighing heavily. "for a second there I thought I was actually gonna have to drink that crap, I mean she smells good but not that good."
"okay so if she has to feed off chi doesn't she have to like lock lips or something all up in your space like that?" Kenzi said now sitting on the counter next to me enjoying a bowl of cereal.
"yes but unlike bo the type of chi she can eat is not limited to sexual, of course she can.. what im trying to say is it doesn't have to be a specific kind." Lauren said getting momentarily choked up. "so that means to feed you have to kiss someone and by someone I mean Bo seeing as she is the only fae here."
"wait, wait, wait I already said that I don't really roll that way soo-"
"oh grow up it's not gonna mean anything." Bo said pulling my face towards hers, a warm hand placed on either side of my face.
It's strange for some reason I always though kissing a girl would be much more awkward but I have to say it felt no different from kissing a guy, though now that I mention it her lips were really soft. And their softness and warmth intensified my hunger to a point of which I felt I was burning inside. So without thought I mimicked her actions roughly pulling her neck and face towards me getting more passionate with the kiss till opening my mouth revealing a white, particle dusted haze that resembled smoke quickly making its way into my mouth. With blue eyes challenging my own vivid red ones Bo pushed me away with a grunt putting her fingers to her lips.
"Tingley." Bo said with a smile lightly tapping her lips swaying slightly with pleasure.
"yes they have a sort of venom you can read about it in the book trick gave you but I have to go, lots of things I need to deal with." Lauren said in a rush as she walked out the door.
"How does it feel to be on the receiving end for once?" Kenzi said biting the spoon in her mouth as she swallowed the last bite of cereal.
"It was awesome, like a high almost. well until the end there it got a little painful." she said smiling wider.
"Man Kenzi you were so right she tasted so much better than she smells." I said taking in the full extent of what just happened. "but the thing is I so want more."
before my hand reached Bos jacket to pull her in Kenzi jumped from the counter and stood in between us waging her little finger.
"No more dessert until you've showered baby fae, and turn the glowey eye thing off its kinda creepy.."
"yeah, yeah your right just show me where the bathroom is and umm get me clothes. It's good to start without a total loss of control right?" I said contradicting the way I truly felt, the way that I wanted so much to feed again.
"Kay um well we kinda went to your house and told your parents about this whole thing. We said that you need to stay with us for a while and they were totally okay with it, oh and I snagged you some clothes. Did I ever mention that you have like the sweetest brands like ever? I mean just one pair of socks cost more than the outfit im wearing now." Kenzi said as she dragged me up the stairs grabbing a familiar deep purple bag on the way.
Standing in that humid shower melted everything away, It was like as the blood and well black crap washed away from my creamy white skin so did all the worry of this new life. Not to mention how far healed my cut was, the sutures fell out and all that remained way a light pink line across my skin that even in this moment continued to fade. I closed my eyes to imagine what my parents faces might have looked like when Kenzi and Bo showed up on their doorstep. Two beautiful women who look like they belong in a club instead of perfect house full of endless treasures. Yeah my parents really had a knack or as I call it an unhealthy obsession for anything that looked pretty or expensive. Hell they give me five thousand on my birthday each year, well since that faithful day with the letter. I am really gonna enjoy this new life - what the hell was that. I thought as I turned the water off drying myself as quickly as possible to go and discover what the noise was. It sounded like a stampede of elephants running around the house downstairs. Now dressed in record time I ran with limitless speed through Bo's bathroom and bedroom then flung myself down the stairs landing at the bottom to see five.. pigmen? what the hell was right. Bo and Kenzi were fighting off a bunch of big tusked greasy faced pig dudes that smelt of rotting garbage.
Letting out a deep throughly snarl, again surprized by it, all the grotesque creatures stoped what they were doing and started to walk over to me smiling wide with their almost green teeth. I filled the gap between us faster than expected with new sharpened teeth barred and ready to fight. I grabbed one of the foul smelling beasts and tossed him across a small gap into one of his ugly buddies with ease too afraid to bite into him, it just felt unsanitary. Both hearing and feeling a club race towards me I reached my hand back to catch the dark wood crushing it into a pile of splinters in my grasp. Ripping the lump of crumbling wood from the scarred little piggys hand growling in his face bearing my, dare I say it fangs. I then picked the smaller yet still just as bulky creature from the floor and with a force that could crash through a 3ft thick wall I slammed his face into the large support beam in the middle of the room. The last two were taken care of by Bo and Kenzi weilding their knives who in my oppinion looked as though they were just flailing around hoping for the best.
" holy hell thanks for the save, those oinkers could have killed us." Kenzi said with wide eyes and a thrumming heart. "hey skylar you can relax now threats gone, mission complete."
Shaking my head and letting out a low growl I got out of the defensive stance I was in finally realizing the pain in my jaw.
"Oh My God! shit shit shit." I said jumping from foot to foot trying hard not to panic at the new super sharp teeth that sent wave after wave of pain through me.
"wha-what, stop whats wrong. stop moving." Bo yelled as she chased my dancing body around the room.
Opening my mouth I showed the girls my now wolf-like razor-sharp teeth dripping with the paralytic venom Lauren was going on about. Bo laughed and went back over to the cup of wine she had been drinking while Kenzi ran over to me like an excited five-year old who just heard the ice creame man.
"this is awesome!" Kenzi said with a wide mouth and excited expression.
Pulling my lips up Kenzi examined my new teeth as though they were a necklace she was planning to steal.
"okay. Okay! enough. stop that before you paralyze yourself idiot." I said swatting away her tiny hands drawing in the teeth. "man I really hope they don't do that every time."
I smiled and began to walk over to Bo hoping she had some extra wine because the crap smelt unusually good, but I was stopped midway by Kenzi who grabbed the sleeve of my freshly washed jacket.
"dude what happened to your neck?" She said looking me in the eyes with a concerned expression.
swallowing hard I ran my fingers over the back of my neck feeling the warmth and wetness beneath my fingers I pulled them into my view seeing a mix of blood and a clear thick liquid that did not want to mix.
"what the hell is that?" I asked.
Setting her wine glass down after one last gulp Bo rose from her chair walking with a quickening pace over to where I now stood examining my fingers. Chills ran down my spine while she pulled the collar of my jacket down to give her own little inspection.
"It's not just a random cut whoever did this they had a reason for doing it." Bo said before reaching her phone dialing a number I didn't recognise.
"who you calling?" I asked already subconsciously knowing who it was.
"Lauren maybe she knows what the hell it is. But hey umm you have a good sense of smell right?" she said putting the phone to her ear. "well smell whatever the clear stuff is and see if you recognize it."
putting my fingers inches from my nose I took in a small breath causing my eyes to glow red for the slightest of moments, surprisingly I did recognize it though only partially.
"It smells really familiar kinda like my..." I said feeling suddenly dizzy and weak.
"uhh like what?" Kenzi half yelled.
"venom." Was all I got out before collapsing on the floor still able to see, hear, smell and feel.
"Bo hurry the love talk we got a problem here." Kenzi said as she shook my limp body.
"What happened here?" Dyson said as he stepped over the either dead or passed out men who lay unmoving around the livingroom.
"Don't know they just came and attacked, little help?" Kenzi said as she tried and failed to move me to the couch.
Leaning over the back of the couch Bo moved away the collar of my brown leather jacket to show Lauren the thick liquid leaching from my neck.
"do you know what this is, because I had skylark smell it she said it smelt like venom but im assuming not her own." Bo said removing her hand so the good doctor could take a swab of it.
"It might be. this stuff is all over the black market, they use it as a sedative If they run into trouble doing their dirty work." Dyson said as he leaned over to smell the remnants on my hand. "defiantly the a brand of venom but question is why they were targeting you guys." He said with wolf eyes diminishing as he stood scanning the room for unnoticed clues.
"Dyson would you please find the instrument they used to cause this wound. Its strait almost surgical so the blade should be thin and sharp." Lauren said prodding at the cut most likely not noticing me breathe harder from the pain. "she should come to in a few minutes her kind heal faster from this sort of thing, she actually can see and hear whats happening now."
walking over to the last man on the floor who I slammed against the pillar Dyson searched his body. Sifting through each of its pockets till finally checking its hands, opening its right hand Dyson found a small blade with what looked like a vile inserted into the handle.
"Found it. man this thing is strange." he said handing it over to the doctor.
"yes the vile which is now empty would hold it and these two slits on either side would deliver the venom immobilizing its victims, much like a scorpions stinger." Lauren said moving the short thin blade around to show everybody causing Bo to go all googly-eyed over her geekiness which she so loved.
"I'm guhhhnnuh kehll somebohdy" I said slurring my words as I started to regain feeling in m limbs.
"holy shit!" Kenzi screamed as I tried to sit up obviously still a bit wobbly.
"Woah woah just wait a second for its effects to completely wear off." Lauren said putting a restraining hand on my shoulder causing me to fall back onto the couch.
Squeezing my eyes shut I shook my head trying to get rid of the hangover feeling that loomed over me. I blinked my eyes a few times to test my once spinning eyesight and was surprized to see the scruffy faced cop starring with wolfen eyes into mine. I had to bite back the nearly overbearing instinct to lung at his with teeth barred.
"Get out of my face." I said pushing him away as I stood.
"ohh testy testy, I wanted to see how much restraint you have, which is quite a bit otherwise you may have just taken my head."
"yeah the letter my birth parents gave to my adoptive said to teach it to me as soon as I could walk, they figured if they couldn't be around might as well have someone else ensure that I not go crazy." I said as I reached Bo and Lauren.
"good people. What happened to them anyways?" Kenzi asked playing with an all too familiar bracelet around her tiny wrist.
"they were killed, all I was told is that the dark didn't like their rules to be ignored and that it all ended in a big ball of fire." I said looking down at Kenzis wrist. "ya know you should really think about what you steal, some things are more important than you may think. especially when it belongs to your dead parents that you will never get the chance meet." I said all this smiling into Kenzis surprized eyes.
"sorry its a bad habit, and it looked cool and expensive." she said handing over the intricately simple bracelet.
The old bracelet was a worn black leather strap about an inch and a half wide with a piece of tarnished silver attached to the front. The metal bore an engraved saying in some language I knew nothing about, around the edges were small designs that curled and twisted like fire. Near the top was a downward pointing triangle with a series of designs on the inside of it. I spent countless hours trying to figure out what it meant but came up with nothing, not even one word. But I guess that would have been too easy.
"my dad had it appraised before I got it, the historian said it was a quote 'priceless artifact and that it should be in a museum not in a dirty little girls hands.' Thats why they got me that cool little jewelry box you know the one with the lock and key?" I said leaning against the thick faded Pilar examining every inch of it.
"wait let me see that." Dyson said reaching his hand over.
Looking up into his eyes I thought about it for a second then handed it over seeing as he's been reasonably trustworthy. As he turned the small piece in his hands a look of realization came across his face.
"This is Greek, the language of your kind, I recognise the clan symbol from somewhere... but we'll have to check in with trick for the rest." He said handing it back over. "Meet me at the Dah, I'll call in some cleaners on the way over, but make it soon I don't want anyone attacking you." he said before walking out the door.
"does this mean we can get drunk or?..." Kenzi said as she put her jacket on.
"Hmm that depends." I said buckling the bracelet around my wrist smiling as everybody looked at me questioningly. "how well do you hold your liquor?"
"Ya know skylar I think we're gonna be best friends." Kenzi said putting an arm around my shoulders looking directly into my eyes smiling wider than I had been. "Dude Lauren was right your breath smells awesome."