LadyR: Hey everyone! Here is chapter two! I hope you like it!
Raziya: -Is sitting in corner pouting cutely and pretending to be hurt, mumbling something about Jack not caring anymore- Jerkwad can keep sleeping on the couch
Hero: Here we go...
LadyR: -Sweatdrops- Oh Lord it begins again...
Jack: Aw for Christ sake! Do you wanna not do- Awww someone just make it stop! -Looks off in another direction-
Nines: Aww is Jack goin' soft?
Jack: Shut it Rodriguez or that pretty boy jaw'll be your next hat!
Raziya: -Stares at Jack until he can feel eyes boring into the back of his skull-
Jack: Aww for the love of..JUST GET ON WITH THE FUCKING FIC!
LadyR: Okay...moving along, I don't own Bloodlines or it's characters so enjoy the show!
Hero: -Eyes Jack for yelling at Rosalinn- Watch it...
Jack: I AM AN IT AIN'T GOING FAST ENOUGH!
LadyR: SHUT UP!
All:...O.O
Act Two
Raziya awoke to hear the phone ringing and as usual Jack was dead to the world. She snickered as the pun popped into her head and she climbed over Jack, intentionally sitting on his chest wearing nothing but her undergarments. Jack opened an eye and looked up.
" ...the fuck are you doing?" he asked and looking at a clock he growled.
"You know I never get up before eight pm, short shot." He groaned and went to roll over and she grabbed the phone, her hips still firmly planted on his abdomen.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" She asked with a smart alec look in her face.
"It looks like you're stopping me from my sleep..." He said yawning. "Get off..."
"That's what I'm trying to do! And you didn't seem to have a problem with me being up here last night..."
If Jack was human, poor guy would have blushed. Instead he lay his hands on her legs and let her straddle him. Not as if anyone else could see.
Raziya held the phone up to her ear.
"City morgue you stab 'em we slab 'em, Raziya Rodriguez here..." She said cheerfully.
Rosa's voice came on the phone.
"They have arrived, the harbingers of the coming long winter. Soon the dead will make their voices heard as they scream into the early hours of the morning. The night will cover the city of angels from one moon to the next."
"Do you ever have good news?" She said as she dragged her nails down Jack's chest in emphasis of her frustrations, causing him to grunt his reaction.
"Oh before I forget, where are my niece and nephew? Abigail and Dakota?"
" You need only look to the stars. Walk to where the dead lie but are not heard."
Click. Dead air.
"God damn thin blood never gives me time to speak!" She said as she crossed her arms and pouted exponetially. She looked down to see a look on Jack's face she had never seen before. All the while she had been moving on top of him, leaving the poor man hot and bothered. She tilted her head and her red hair fell at such an angle, Jack could take no more. He grabbed her wrists and pushed her onto her back.
"Right, half pint, you asked for it!" He said as he caught her lips in a deep and roughly passionate kiss.
She widened her eyes and blushed softly and once he let her breath she nibbled his lower lip and bit it, then looked up and grinned.
"I ought to wake you up like this every night." She purred into his ear, continuing the actions that had been started that morning.
Hours later everyone was back at the Last Round, everyone looking decently rested, save Rosalinn and Hero. They got picked up by Nines and ended up passing out in the car. They walked in as everyone was settling in their usual spots. Nines shook his head.
"Obviously those two got no sleep last morning." Said Damsel.
"Neither did I..." Muttered Skelter, causing Raziya to snicker and Jack to start laughing.
"Aww did Nines's and Damsel's bed spread tango wake you up Skelter?"
He shot her a look that could kill and she shut up, whimpering and hiding behind Jack.
Raziya piped up first and explained what had happened on her phone call with Rosa.
"Was she possible talking about Hollywood?" asked Hero softly, still waking up. Rosalinn was silent as she was still dozing in Hero's arms.
Raziya nodded.
"That's what I figured." She said. Suddenly the phone Nines had used to call his contacts for information rang. It was Mitnik. He would have asked for Raziya or Rosalinn but he hadn't the time.
"This an Anarch?" he asked simply.
"Yes." Said Nines. "Who is this?" He asked.
"Mitnik here. You guys need to check out the Luckee Star Motel. I saw some of the people who fitted the description your man Hero gave me and they looked to have something with them."
Nines nodded.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
"Yes. I would also suggest you pay a visit to Romero. He might know something as I saw beings I didn't recognize as familiar coming out of the cemetary. Romero may have seen something."
With that the line went dead and Nines hung up.
"They're in Hollywood as we speak. We need to move now."
Rosalinn woke with a start, her eyes wide.
"Hollywood! We need to go! I need my kids!" She begged the group.
"Alright this time we are all going. Raziya, you and your sister stick with Jack, Hero, go with Skelter, and Damsel is with me. Let's go."
He locked the bar behind everyone and they got in the cars and made a dash for Hollywood.
When they got there everyone parked their cars. Jack, Raziya, Rosalinn and Hero decided to head to Issac's store to ask if Issac had caught wind of anything there, and Damsel, Nines and Skelter were headed to the cemetary. Rosalinn shivered. She hated that place anyhow. She rubbed her eyes and waited outside with Hero to get air while Raziya and Jack went in to talk to Issac. Hero leaned her into him and kissed her forehead.
"Starting to wake up love?" He asked looking down at her concerned. She nodded silently and looked towards the water around the back of the shop. She felt him hold her through her thoughts and she looked up to see his face overcome with pain. She placed a hand on his cheek and kissed him.
"I miss them..." she said, saddened by his expression. He held her tighter and nodded. As they both looked to the water, out walked Raziya and Jack.
"Issac said he had this ominous feeling walking by the cemetary going home each night so he also suggested we look there, but Nines and the others have it covered, so let's head to the hotel."
Said Raziya. Hero nodded and took Rosalinn's hand as they walked. They were all silent and Jack looked behind him at the two distressed kindred. He frowned and looked back ahead. Raziya noticed his look and smiled. Finally he was showing a little concern. She loved him the way he was, an asshole. but it was nice to see him care, too. The arrived at the hotel in a few minutes time and stopped to talk to Hatter. He pointed them to the room they wanted after Raziya did her seduction bit. Jack snarled out of a slight bit of jealousy mixed with posession. She put her hand on his and gripped it a bit to let him know it was for the good of their investigation. After she was done they walked into a room above the office and over a little. They were prepared to fight, and fight they did. Raziya, Hero and Rosalinn pulled out their katanas and Jack turned on his potence. He slashed some gangrel apart as they opened the door and Raziya slashed some gangrels throat with her heels. In the process, to Jacks horror, one of the gangrel frenzied and slashed her back wide open. She fell with a thud and looked up, as Jack kicked the gangrel in the back of the neck, breaking it instantly. Having watched her sister fall, Rosalinn was driven by anger. She grabbed a gangrel by the neck and decapitated it in one fell swoop. She put away the katana and started using her claws. An odd red light started to shine from her as her pupils dialated, letting any kindred within the premises know she was going to frenzy. She tore several other gangrel apart before reaching the back room. Nothing. He anger swelled and she started to frenzy, which was dangerous. Hero was about to stop her but Raziya held him back weakly.
"Trust me, she'll kill you. Let Jack do it." She said as Rosalinn ran down the walkway to another room. more gangrel. Before Jack knew it, all the kindred in that room were dead, too.
"Shit, she's just letting the fucking fur really fly..." He thought as he chased her, shocked at seeing the softer vampiress so angry. Suddenly he heard a screech and a gangrel ran out, holding both babes in it's teeth by their shirts. Rosalinn halted and growled angrily, her eyes flashing red and her heart rate rising. It snarled at her, drool hanging from it's animalistic jaws. Then it turned around and enetered another room, the third one occupied by them. As she raced in after it and explosion blew the room apart. She was thrown down, mid-frenzy. Her eyes widened and her pupils shrank in fear and desparation. Hero covered his eyes and stood in front of Raziya as glass bits flew everywhere. Jack raced and shifted Rosalinn in front of him as his back faced the explosion. He gritted his teeth as she clawed at him to get away and into the firey room to save her kids. She screamed shrilly watching the room burn.
Damsel turned as an explosion came from behind them. Nines, herself and Skelter had found Romero tied up in the back of his house and he had been explaining the gangrel were in and out of the cemetary for some unknown reason when the explosion shattered their conversation.
"That came from the motel and I smell astrolite..." Said Nines heading for the exit.
"Let's go." Romero eyed Damsel as she left and slapped her ass.
"YOU FUCKING PIG KINE! WANT ME TO TIE YOU UP AGAIN?!"
Romero backed up and hid from her and Skelter dragged her out after Nines.
"No time, Damsel. Let's go." They ran in through the back way of the hotel and saw the latter room burning. they ran up the stairs, narrowly avoiding the flames licking at them and saw Jack holding a still frenzying Rosalinn down and Hero holding Raziya on his lap, tears running down his cheeks at his mate's distress and his kids death. Skelter heard crying and ran into the room and as he did so, more gangrel appeared and ran out past him. They were headed for Rosalinn and the others, sensing their weakness. Rosalinn escaped Jacks grasp and started tearing them apart, One caught her leg and dragged her down, and another caught her throat and tore into it. Skelter grabbed the babies, still alive from under the dead burning gangrel and ran out with them. Hero looked up and rushed to him. He grabbed the kids and looked at him.
"Where's Rosalinn?" He asked frantically. Jack came up, holding the girl by her wrists, her arms crossed over her and his front against her back. It took all of Jacks energy to hold her down.
"Someone come and fucking help me hold her down! She's going to tear me apart here!"
They helped load Rosalinn into Jack's car and Skelter and Nines held her down, with Raziya in the front by Jack. Hero took Nines' car and Damsel took Skelter's car, happily so as she was still muttering about the sexist kine Romero. Hero sighed heavy hearted as he put the kids in the back in seatbelts and slid into the drivers seat. He saw Jacks car ahead of him as they drove and looked as he saw Rosalinn, as gashed as she was, still frenzying as Skelter and Nines struggling to hold her down and back to the seat by her arms and shoulders. Jack sped up and they were downtown within minutes. Raziya called Bertram in for a favour and asked for his ghoul, Knox, to bring up some blueblood packs from Vandal for Rosalinn as not only had she not fed in ages, she had been anxious lately as well which caused her to frenzy in the first place. They arrived at Nines' haven in downtown and they sat with Rosalinn on the couch, Hero at her back, Nines and Skelter still holding her down at either side. Jack took Raziya into Nines room to clean up her back and Damsel sat off to the side. A knock sounded on the door and Nines, still straining to keep the vampire girl at bay, called for them to open the door. It was Knox, thank God. He held out three blueblood packs and Nines handed him one hundred and fifty bucks for his trouble.He took one look at Rosalinn and grinned wide eyed.
"Whoa! I don't think I could do that! That's awesome!" He decided to get a bit closer. "Dude...how do her eyes glow like that?" He looked at Raziya through the open door and gaped at her gash.
"Oh man that looks like it hurt!" She perked up and turned around, swiftly punching him in the nuts.
"Oh man that looks like it hurt!" She repeated, a bestial growl escaping her lips that no one had heard from her in quite some time. She heard sudden silence and looked out panicked for a spilt second. Rosalinn had downed all three blueblood packs and was staring ahead to nothing, her eyes glassy. Nines got up and Hero replaced him, pulling her to him.
"I think she'll be okay now..." He said softly. She eventually closed her eyes and fell into a frenzy-induced semi coma. Nines looked at the two and the sleeping kids on Damsel's bed and nodded.
"You lot had better stay here for the night." He said to Hero and Rosalinn. Hero nodded.
"Good idea. I suppose the kids can sleep on the floor..." he started and with that, Damsel got up and disappeared, coming back in the room with a package.
"Eh...Rosalinn said she might have me babysit some time...so...I got this..." She said. It was a small playpen that could fit both kids. Hero grinned.
"Thanks Damsel..." he said and went to set it up and put the kids to bed.
"Yeah yeah whatever"
"Oh dear God..." Said Skelter.
"That means I have a room on either side of me with noisy people."
"Relax, Skelter, Rosalinn and I are down and out for tonight. You won't hear thing from us."
Damsel grinned.
"I make no promises."
Raziya cracked up.
"That's my line..." She said irritatedly.
"Mine now, half-breed.." she muttered.
Raziya smirked and got up unsteadily with Jack's arm around her waist. She smiled.
"Okay we're off..." she said. She was wasted of energy. Jack walked out of the apartment with her and swooped her up, careful to grab her under her wound. She winced and her breath hissed as her wound was brushed. He grunted his apologies and once they reached the car he slid her gently into the passenger seat. She put her seatbelt on, wondering why he had picked her up. Was he...oh wow...god forbid he was worried.
"I think he is..." She thought to herself. They headed home and as they parked he turned to her and grinned slightly.
"Good work half pint."
He got out and picked her up out of the car and brought her upstairs. She slid out of his arms once in the door and headed upstairs. Jack settled on the couch, thinking she may want her privacy tonight. She settled into a t-shirt, careful as she pulled it over her bandages, and came back downstairs To Jacks surprise she pressed her lips to the very corner of his mouth and curled into him, falling asleep before he had a chance to react. He looked down at the girl curiously. He shook his head and held her as her breathing deepened. Soon sleep overcame him and as he dozed, his fingers stroked Raziya's soft red hair protectively.
Back at Nine's place, Hero was laying Rosalinn on Damsels bed and Damsel walked in with a bowl of hot water and a cloth.
"There. Clean the girl up." She said, looking Rosalinn over. There was a gash across her throat and blood had escaped her lips so it was on her mouth and chin, and she had a smaller gash on her leg. Another gash had crept across her abdomen, but it wasn't deep, just lengthy. Damsel left the room and closed the door behind her. She headed to Nines bedroom, padding through the silent living area and past Skelter's door, where he was already snoring away. She crept into the room and shut the door, then slid into bed. She heard Nines shift and she moved into him. he slid his arms around her and rested his chin on her head.
"I'm glad for those two..." He said quietly. She nodded and yawned.
"I suppose we should leave Skelter alone huh?" She asked.
Nines chuckled and nodded.
"Yeah, for tonight. he did a good thing by saving those kids. They may be kine, but they are still blood. After all that's my niece in the other room." Damsel nodded, already half asleep. Nines head was racked with images of Rosalinn and Hero in his mind. He had never seen her so angry before, nor had he seen Hero so stricken with anguish. And holy shit, Raziya went and got hurt. He sighed and finally slipped into sleep, hoping that something like this wouldn't have to happen again.
In the other room, Hero was bathing Rosalinn's wounds and taking the blood-stained clothes from her body. He wished she would open her eyes. He wished she would jump up the way she always did and kiss him and tell him how much she loved him. But not in her condition. He slid into bed once she was clean and bandaged. She looked so peaceful now. Even in death she was so beautifully patient. He sighed sadly and leaned into her neck, kissing it. He felt moisture and looked at her face. It was wrought with tears, but her expression hadn't changed. He looked on horrified as the tears continued to flow.
"Rosalinn..." he breathed, placing his hand on hers. Suddenly her eyes flew open and flashed red for a moment and he panicked. Was she going to frenzy again? No...no she wasn't. She gazed ahead and then to the playpen. She tumbled out of bed, crying out in pain. She held her throat and looked in the playpen to see both her babies, safe and sound. She fell to her knees, gripping the edge of the playpen, crying softly. He got out of bed and pulled her to him fiercely. He wanted her pain to end. He looked down and saw she had reduced her sobs to silent tears, so he lifted her back into bed. Then when he crawled in beside her, she clung to him wordlessly. she was trembling.
"I t-thought they were gone...I thought finding them was a dream...All I saw was that gangrel...and the kids in his t-teeth..." she whispered, choking up again. Her throat killed her and she coughed a bit. He placed his fingers upon her lips and kissed them.
"We are fine now, the kids are back and we are at Nines' for the night. nothing can get us or them, okay?" he said looking into her eyes and brushing away her sweat and tears.
She gazed up and nodded silently, nuzzling back into him. She yawned and coughed again and when she fell back to sleep in his arms he sighed in relief. She was okay now. Now he could relax. His body drifted away and sleep took him as well. All was right again. For now...
End of Act Two
LadyR: Okay before everyone cuts me off I wanna say-
Raziya: I have clean socks on.
LadyR: -Rolls eyes- As I was saying-
Skelter: Heh...heh heh heh...Jack's whipped...
LadyR: Oh for Christ's sake...as I was about to-
Jack: NO I'M NOT!
LadyR: For crying out loud I wanna say-
Damsel: Yes you are!
LadyR: God DAMN it...-Veins pop out in irritation-
Nines: Hang on a second...SHUT UP! As you were saying?
All: ...
LadyR: Thanks Nines! As I was saying-
Hero: I love you?
LadyR: -Sighs and sweatdrops- I love you too, now everyone please read and review! It means alot to me! Thanks! And please, constructive critiscism is welcome but not flaming.