Changed the title! It is now TFW You're About to be Eaten by Vampires. TFW means "That Feeling When" in case you didn't know. I didn't for the longest time... I might not keep it, but I just thought it was funny and loads better than Oops, Another Story. Plus it somewhat relates to Lucy's power.
Thank you for reviewing, my bff Nahannah and the guest named Marie! Honestly though, Marie, I just used Google translate for the French parts. XD
Part 3
Lucy shouted in fright when she saw the figure on the ground. This set her off-balance and her other foot slipped from its precarious perch, then the weight of her body dragged her down the rocky wall. She landed on her butt and hissed in pain. Her legs and hands were scratched up, and so was the front of her nightgown. She had to admire the quality of it, though. It didn't tear as much as it should have and it prevented her stomach from being scratched, too.
Lucy stood up on shaky, bleeding legs and turned around to find that it was Marcus standing there. He said nothing and just stared at her. That was more frightening to her than if he would have yelled. They both stood there for a few seconds, just staring at each-other, before something snapped inside Lucy. She took off running and tried to dart around him, but he easily intercepted her. Marcus darted over and stuck his arm out in front of her. She ran into it before she could stop. He then slammed her to his chest, knocking the air out of her. Lucy was certain that Marcus was going to crush her right then and there. She screwed her eyes shut and whimpered when she could breathe again.
"Just what were you trying to do?" Marcus murmured calmly after a few moments. She could feel the deep rumble of his voice in her back, which was pressed against his chest
Lucy hadn't really thought of that. She was trying to get away from them, but then what would she do? Hitchhike back to North America? It was more likely that she would end up getting raped and murdered before she even got to an airport. And how would she pay for a airline ticket back to Pennsylvania? How would she live without her mother if she did make it back there?
"I don't know know," Lucy admitted in a shaky voice, "I just wanted to go home."
"So you tried to escape… In your nightclothes?"
She hung her head in humiliation. It was better than trying it naked, like she almost did the night before.
Marcus just sighed and dragged her back inside, her back still tight against him. Lucy could barely breathe from his constricting strength. He walked with her to the big room where her mother, and the tour group, were slaughtered. It was free of bleeding bodies and the white marble was spotless. Aro was sitting in a large black chair on the dais, reading a big book. Behind his chair was a table covered in more books. Caius was stacking them up and a few other monster-people she didn't recognize were helping.
Caius growled when he saw Lucy in Marcus' arms. Aro looked up when he heard Caius' displeasure.
"Marcus!" Aro stood up immediately, in a panic, "She is bleeding, get her out of here!"
Marcus didn't leave, but stopped going further into the room. "She was trying to scale the garden wall."
Aro hissed at Marcus' disobedience. He rushed over with his monstrous speed and grabbed Marcus by the elbow.
"We'll take care of this in my office." He said very quickly, making it a little hard for Lucy to understand what he said. That could also have been from Marcus squeezing too hard, though.
A slight girl with long, wavy, dark brown hair appeared behind Aro and suggested, "Heidi would be the best to bandage her. She's the most controlled around human blood."
"Thank you, Renata." Aro thanked her, then called out, "Someone please send Heidi and some bandages to my office, please. And tell her to hold her breath."
Both Marcus and Aro flashed down the hall at great speed after Aro's request. This, combined with the lack of oxygen, had made Lucy extremely dizzy. When Marcus finally set Lucy down in the room that was presumably Aro's office, she about fell over. Aro caught her before she fell down.
"Tsk, Marcus, you were holding her much too tight." Aro huffed and gently lifted her to her feet as she gasped for breath.
Marcus just grumbled and left.
Aro didn't seem to care and simply addressed Lucy, "Oh, sweet thing. Here, let's sit you down. There we are." He sat her down in a plush armchair in front of a big antique desk.
Lucy was trembling from the cold touches from Aro and Marcus, her oxygen deficiency, and from anticipation. She anticipated a punishment from Aro for trying to escape. She did a bad thing, and now this monster-man was probably going to scream at her. The thought of him yelling terrified her. He had a wispy, surreal voice that was surely terrifying when he was angry enough to raise it.
Aro didn't yell, though. He just stood as far away from her as possible and tried not to look at her bleeding legs. Occasionally he would shoot her an apologetic glance and coo some comforting word to her.
When a knock came from the door, Aro opened it within the blink of an eye and showed Heidi inside. Lucy whimpered when she recognized her as the enchanting tour guide who led her mother to her death. It was nearly impossible for them to refuse Heidi's offer of a free trip to Greece. It probably would've been easier if they knew they were going to be slaughtered soon after arriving.
"You do realize I'm leaving in an hour," Heidi deadpanned as she stepped into the room, holding a first-aid kit, "and would you mind telling me why I was given-?"
Heidi froze when she saw the bleeding girl in the chair. Aro grabbed her bare arm to hold her back and hissed after a second or two.
"Caius didn't tell you to hold your breath?! He did not even alert you that I had a bleeding human?!" He snarled and Lucy recoiled into the chair, even though the anger wasn't directed at her. "He probably wants me to do away with her… Heidi, would you step outside to collect yourself and have a word with me?"
Heidi didn't take her blackened eyes off Lucy's bloody legs and nodded, swallowing thickly. They were out of the room a mere second after Heidi nodded. Lucy sat alone and in fear. She wondered how Aro knew about what Caius told Heidi. It was probably some weird monster thing. It might have to with skin contact. After all, Aro stopped when he grabbed her neck and somehow knew about her "power". Then, he grabbed Heidi's arm and suddenly knew what happened with Caius. She honestly agreed with Caius' motives, though. Why kill everyone but her? Lucy was sure that she was more of a burden than an asset.
The door swung open again and the two monsters walked inside. Heidi smiled kindly at Lucy and knelt down in front of her to begin bandaging. Aro stood stiffly beside Lucy, presumably holding his breath for whatever reason, and touched the skin of her bare arm in a comforting manner.
He noticed the hand-shaped bruises on her arm and murmured, "Oh my, did I do that?" Lucy fidgeted nervously when she remembered what she deduced about skin contact and these monsters. "Smart girl." Aro said to her quietly with a large grin.
Lucy just looked away, gulping and then wincing when Heidi applied some rubbing alcohol. She'd rather not think about what sort of personal things he might find in her mind. Instead of focusing on that, she observed Heidi's expression as she wiped gingerly at the drying blood. The disgruntled look she had starkly contrasted with the smile she'd given Lucy before.
"I apologize for having you do this. I do hope you understand; You're the most composed around blood." Aro sighed to Heidi.
"Yes. I do understand, sir." Heidi nodded, a blank expression replacing the disturbed one.
Lucy noted how pretty Heidi was. All of the monsters were pretty, but she was probably the most beautiful person Lucy had ever seen. Even her upset look was stunning. Lucy had pock marks all over her face and would die to have skin like hers… Okay, maybe not die, but she'd work really, really hard if meant she got to be gorgeous like Heidi.
Once her legs were with swathed in gauze, which Lucy felt was a tad unnecessary, Heidi stood up swiftly. She left the first-aid kit packed up on the floor. Aro nodded at her once, Heidi gave him a small bow, and she was gone. Once she was out of the room, Aro inhaled deeply. He coughed and scrunched up his nose at something. Lucy assumed it was the rubbing alcohol at first, but was proven wrong a moment later. Aro took one of her hands and flipped it over, revealing shallow scrapes.
"Surely, you could treat that yourself?" He asked in a strained voice, "I wouldn't want to disturb Heidi again. She's getting ready to… leave."
Lucy nodded unsurely. She grabbed the kit off of the floor and shakily began to treat her wounds. She'd cleaned her hands off and applied band-aids to the cuts when Aro stopped her.
"Ah-ah! We don't want anyone smelling the blood." He chided and started winding gauze around her hands.
Lucy was confused. The reason Heidi wrapped her up was so that no one could smell Lucy's blood…?
"Hm," Aro hummed in response to her confusion, "You have no real idea of what we are, do you?"
"You're monsters." Lucy responded without meaning to. She cringed when she realized what she said to him.
Aro wasn't angry, though. It apparently took a lot to do that to him. He simply smirked and said, "In a way."
It was silent for a moment, until Aro finished wrapping her hands.
"We do kill people, but we do so to survive. Our diet solely consists of human blood." He moved to the other side of the desk and brought back a fancy wooden chair. He placed it in front of Lucy's plush armchair and sat down across. Lucy wished that he would've sat down at the desk. Aro seemed much too close now. He seemed to enjoy being close to people, probably because he enjoyed reading their thoughts.
"Are you the only one who can, um, learn things by touching someone?" Lucy whispered. She hoped she didn't misread any signals, otherwise what she was asking made no sense and sounded stupid.
"Yes," Aro chirped, the solemn tone in voice gone, "I'm able to see any and all thoughts from an individual by way of skin contact. I am the only one with this gift. You see, some members of my kind are created with powers, gleaned and amplified from our human lives."
"You were once human?"
"Yes. Humans are transformed when they are bitten by us."
A small glimmer of hope flashed through her and Lucy sat up straight in her chair. "Could you bite my mom?!" She gasped excitedly.
Aro sighed and placed his hands on her shoulders. "No, I'm sorry. They must alive in order to turn them." He frowned.
Lucy's hope was extinguished as fast as it ignited. "Oh," She slumped back down into her chair, "Is that what you want to do to me?"
"Yes," He answered, "To have a gift as a human is rare, and it will be amplified as a vampire."
Lucy shuddered at "vampire". It was obvious now that that was what they were. There was so much for her to process that she didn't come to that conclusion earlier.
"Why? What's the point? Can't you just kill me?" Her voice was thick with oncoming tears.
"Oh, dear child." Aro sighed and cupped her cheeks, "I assure you that you are more special than you believe. You were taught to believe that you were average, but you aren't. These things you feel, they're accurate, aren't they? You and I both know this. You were born with a rare, beautiful, precognitive power that my coven has sought for many centuries."
"But why?" Lucy demanded shrilly and a little childishly.
She wanted to know why her power was so damn useful to him.
"Ah, that's what you mean. I should have seen that." Aro smiled.
Lucy sent him a glare, loudly thinking, "Get to the point."
"My coven is the most powerful one and we enforce the laws of our kind. Understand, our thirst for blood can be insatiable. So naturally, our kind needs to follow certain guidelines. Otherwise, humans would notice our existence. Vampires would turn humans en masse, causing unnecessary bloodshed in order to feed. Your power would lend a great benefit to us." He explained.
"Why not let that happen?" Lucy scowled, "Why not just give in to your "insatiable" thirst and slaughter every human you come across?"
Aro laughed, as if it was perfectly understandable, "Well, not completely insatiable, sweet girl. With age comes a certain level of control. And some of us would like to remain somewhat civilized. If humans knew of us, they could be dangerous."
Lucy scoffed at that. "How could humans pose a threat? Vampires are so much stronger than them. No human army could possibly stand against them." She wondered.
"Human civilization has advanced quite far. I'm quite sure some corrupt government wouldn't mind using nuclear weapons against us, despite the loss of human life." Aro assured.
Lucy was skeptical.
"Surely, you wouldn't want a nuclear war to arise? You wouldn't want innocents to be pointlessly slaughtered-?"
"Like my innocent mother was?!" Lucy shouted, her lips trembling as she held back tears.
"Believe me, dear one. We protect more lives than we destroy." Aro asserted gently.
Lucy wasn't upset about that anymore, though. "I miss my mama."
Lucy couldn't hold back her tears any longer and began sobbing. Unexpectedly, Aro reached out and pulled her onto his lap. She was shocked at his affection for a moment, but then she resumed crying.
"You haven't gotten to properly mourn her yet. I apologize." He murmured into the top of her head.
He caught a whiff of sweet blood beneath her scalp that made his mouth water, so he leaned his head back and tried not to think about the warm liquid rushing through her veins. Aro scolded himself to maintain control of his thirst. Perhaps pressing her delicate, pulsing body against his was not such a good idea. He was an affectionate man and did it purely out of habit. He would do the same for his sweet little Jane when she was upset.
Lucy soon ran out of breath and sat there hiccupping against Aro. Her stomach felt hollow and her head throbbed.
"Let's find Corin and see if she has your meal ready." Aro patted her back gently, trying to quell the hiccups.
Lucy just sniffed in response.
Aro pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the tears and snot from her face. He kept it pressed to her nose and requested, "Blow," but Lucy wasn't having any of that. He was not her father or a replacement of her mother. (Not yet, at least.) She swiped it from him and blew her nose herself.
Aro just laughed at her tiny show of defiance. Then he pulled her onto her feet and rushed her out the door to find Corin.
"Ur not the boss of me, Aro!" *blows own nose* Lucy is too cute. She recently turned 17 by the way. She's just kinda smol and maybe a lil chub. Her 17th birthday is actually how Heidi found her and her mother. They went on a trip to France to celebrate Lucy's birthday, where they met Heidi and were invited to a free trip to "Greece". That's why Lucy says Greece and not Italy. She still thinks she's in Greece, too. Aro should probably clear that up for her...
I see a lot of fics that have Heidi just walk outside and be like, "Hayyy, you wanna go on a tour of this sp00ky castle?" But that's not how it works. XD If that's how they did things, eventually someone would notice the weirdly beautiful and un-aging woman leading people into a building where they never came out of. That's mad sus.
In the Twilight wiki, it says, "Heidi's main responsibility in the Volturi is arranging elaborate ploys to bring human victims to Volterra. She might orchestrate a contest where the prize is an all-expenses-paid vacation to some random location, or a job position with an amazing salary. Most of the victims never hear the word Volterra, and don't even know they are being taken to Italy." So, as you can see, it makes perfect sense that Heidi took a bunch of unsuspecting people from France and told them they were going to Greece.
No, Lucy is not going to fall in love with Aro. Aro is just trying to be a paternal figure to her. Lucy was very dependent on her mother and Aro knows this, so he's trying to get Chelsea to move that devotion onto him. Will Lucy fall in love with someone else? You'll just have to stick around to find out. ;P
