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…Chapter 4.…...
Falling onto the ground Icis pants trying to stand but her body can't take anymore and it's too cold and wet for her to think about running. Curling against the burning cave Icis pulls herself up and struggles to stand on her own two legs but manages to move into a large mass of bushes and collapse.
The mayor had waited outside near the entrance wondering if it was wise to light the inside of the cave on fire and worrying for Icis. "Sir, she should have came out by now." A man says quietly receiving a strict glare, "This is Icis we're talking about." "But she's injured, shot by your bullet, bit by a werewolf...Exhausted from trying to save Claire and escape. She could be dead by now."
"What will her parents say?" D asks monotonely, "Icis has no parents she lives on her own alone...she dislikes being around others." The mayor rushes to the other side of the tunnel searching for another escape but finds none. "There's a hole over here." A voice yells and the mayor runs to them then begins searching for Icis not seeing her anywhere inside the fire or around the tunnel.
"Maybe she found a way out and ran for it." "Human as she is her energy was not enough to get her far." D informs in his cool manner being looked at by the mayor. "Can't you find her dhampir?" The mayor asks worried. "Too much rain." A soft groan sounds and all turn to the woods D the first to move toward the sound.
Icis had sat up gripping her leg and groaned unwillingly covering her mouth but scrambles to try and escape only to be blocked. Falling onto her knees Icis just sits waiting silently feeling others surround her, "Icis Jade! You scared all of us to death!" Icis remains silent looking up to the dark man who had actually kept up with her.
"What is he?" Icis demands annoyed. "D? He's a dhampir." A confused towns person says quietly, "Why annoyed someone can actually keep up with you now?" The mayor teases but Icis just deflates holding her shoulder silently. "Come, you'll catch a cold out here." The mayor says wrapping an arm around Icis's waist and helping her up seeing her bloodied pant leg. "You reopened your wounds." "They were healing pretty well I thought it would be okay." "My wife will tend to you."
Icis wakes up in the middle of the night after collapsing in one of the mayor's guest bedroom sitting up stiffly to look about. D was put in the room across from her in case she tried to get away, why they wanted her she doesn't know but she feels too exhausted to fight anymore. Standing Icis walks to her bathroom running some water in the sink and rubbing across her heated forehead and cheeks.
Hearing her door open Icis remains deathly still curious of who would enter her room without knocking first. "Oh my..." The mayor's wife says about to rush back out and tell all that she escaped when Icis walks from the bathroom looking to her curiously. "Oh, I thought you might have slipped out the window. "Not with so severe of injuries." Icis says dully then sits on her bed.
The mayor's wife places her hand on Icis's forehead and her brow wrinkles worried, "You have a fever, I'll be back with some soup and a wet cloth for you okay?" She says smiling warmly receiving a nod from Icis. "I always wanted a daughter...I tried to ask Henry to persuade you into living with us...but I guess you like living alone." "Why would you want me as a daughter? I'm just dangerous to be around and a burden." "Not at all, see I can't have children of my own and I have always wanted a child."
The woman smiles loneliness in her eyes and walks from the room giving Icis a sad smile before leaving. Icis stands suddenly startling the woman when she wraps her arms around the woman's waist hugging the woman softly. "You should be able to have children, you'd be a wonderful mother..." Icis admits softly getting a appreciative squeeze from the woman.
The woman wipes tears from her eyes but smiles sweetly, "I'll bring you your soup." "Thank you." Icis says then leans against the door frame watching the woman leave. Icis's eyes darken when thoughts of where or who her parents could be arise sending agony and hatred through her blood pumping directly into her heart. The door across the hall opens and Icis meets eyes with the dhampir his eyes not much different from hers, his being empty and lonely instead of hatred and anger.
"Oh, D, are you hungry also?" Mrs. Bragshaw asks happily. "No ma'am, thank you." D says his eyes still connected with Icis's but she growls and turns hers away distastefully. "Now Icis he was the one who found you aren't you thankful?" "Immensely." Icis says then retreats to her temporary room leaving Mrs. Bragshaw to look to D confused, "Did you do something to upset her?" "Kept her from escaping." "Ah, that's why."
Mrs. Bragshaw walks into Icis's room smiling weakly, "Shouldn't you go apologize to D?" "What for, he came after me I did nothing to him." "But you were so rude..." "And?" "Icis he's like you in a way...alone and surrounded by dangerous things...he's a very polite and sweet person he was only worried for your well-being." "...Do I have to?" "No, but it would be nice."
Knocking hesitantly Icis waits as the door opens and keeps her eyes on the floor, "I apologize for being disrespectful and saying things before knowing what I meant." Icis says softly waiting but catches the sound of a nod and nods once quickly and walks back to her room closing the door leaning against it weakly.
Mrs. Bragshaw stands outside smiling triumphantly, "She's still learning how to be human I suppose." she sighs getting curious eyes from D, "Oh, not like that I simply meant she doesn't understand how to act." she assures quickly. "Icis is human...I suppose." "What of the girls origin?" "No one knows. She's an orphan that a traveler found surrounded by dead humans and vampires, "For all we know she could be an unawakened vampire." D's face remains void of emotion and feeling, "She is human isn't she?"
"Yes, she has no vampiric aura." "Good." "How do you-" "Hyaaa!" The door busts open and Icis comes flying out slamming the door shut the door being pulled at, "Icis what is it?" "Go!" Icis snaps at Mrs. Bragshaw frantically and the frightened woman runs for her husband as Icis struggles to hold the door shut. "Step aside." "But he'll get out." "I will handle him." Icis hesitates but launches away from the door letting it fly open.
Icis yelps crawling away when the vampire stands over her fighting with D but grips her ankle yanking her to him but he gets chopped in half falling at her side blood sprayed all over her. Gasping and wiping the blood from her face Icis gets helped to her feet by her arm being looked over then embraced by Mrs. Bragshaw protectively. "Are you okay?" Icis nods numbly still trying to get every drop of blood off her skin desperately, "D saved me."
"Thank you D." Mrs. Bragshaw says thankfully but the mayor steps between his wife and Icis his brow creased with thought and guilt "D there is one more thing I want you to do for me." The mayor says sounding pressured or reluctant, "I want you to escort Icis to Southern Pascal. There is a home there, they will be waiting for her." "Home?" Icis asks her eyes denaturizing, "If you want me to leave I will but I'm not going to be sent to one of those places again!"
Icis glares at the mayor but he just turns to look at D receiving a nod in reply making Icis's chest heave then she just gives up. "Come dear at least have a shower before you go." Mrs. Bragshaw says her eyes moist from tears. When Icis steps into the shower she hears the fighting begin, "Henry that girl is no danger to us!" "She brought a vampire into our home, she never gets hurt its always the ones around her! I will not have my wife get mutilated because of a child!" "What if I want her?' "No!"
Icis sinks to the floor of the shower holding the necklace at her chest tighter tears leaking down her cheeks but steps from the shower dressing quickly leaving the shower running. Silently gliding over the floor Icis grabs her gun and her small bag of extra clothes and other necessities and makes for the window. Icis was about to jump out when her arm is gripped stopping her instantly but when she turns she deflates letting D pull her back into the room.
"Why do you always want to run?" Icis's eyes fill with pain, "That's all I can do, they think they know what's best but they don't. I don't want to be in a cage and examined and tested because I'm different...Running is all I can do, I've done it so often it just comes naturally." Icis looks up to D her eyes dark and broken, "You should understand being something they don't understand and they want to solve it...you get to be free and go where you please, I get hunted down and carried back."
"What makes you so different?" Icis looks up at D blankly, "Nothing just what they think is different like being an orphan since birth and surviving, being found in a field of dead humans and vampires...having quicker reflexes and more developed intelligence...I don't know." D sees the confusion in the girls eyes and releases her arm seeing her eyes look up to him confused. "You wish to leave?" Icis nods hopefully, "You stay and we leave tomorrow but I will drop you off at a town on the way to my next occupation." Icis's eyes widen fractionally but she looks away thinking quickly, "But won't the home contact the mayor?" "You ran away."
D hears Icis's heart accelerate and she tosses her arms around him hugging him thankfully, "I truly am sorry for what I had said and the way I acted toward you, D." Icis says then releases him and puts her bag and gun away letting D leave knowing she will not try to escape tonight, "D..." Icis calls being looked at curiously, "The reason so many things attack me...it's because I have something very useful to them." "This thing being?" D wonders a bit interested.
Icis pulls the rosary from under her shirt showing the old dragon wrapped around a cross and many other elaborate designs but what gets his attention was the vampire and werewolf at either side of the dragon." What does it do?" "For me or for a vampire or werewolf?" "Both." "It protects me, but it would give an immortal the ability to absorb power or certain abilities from any enemy they may strike down."
"Well I'd better go to sleep...goodnight D." "Why did you tell me this?" "I thought you might want to know why I am always attacked." Icis says her eyes as hollowed as his but she gives a weak smile as she turns her back on him sitting on the window bench staring out at the moon longing to be free of all these people. "Icis." Turning startled Icis looks to D blankly the moon shining off of her eyes illuminating them. "You are human." "And?" "Why does your heart feel so cold and corrupted?" "...That I do not know."
"Sleep, tomorrow we will be leaving early." Icis nods looking back out the window absently, "See you in the morning." "Until then." D says a bit curious of this new human he has come across. Icis sits there for a while then crawls into her bed falling asleep slowly.
D on the other hand lays in his bed kept awake by questions rushing through his head, 'Why would a human being control such an amazing gift?' 'I think she is capable of the gift' 'Yes but why a human?' 'Maybe she is not a human...' 'Would that necklace be able to hide her aura?' 'If she was a vampire she is under an immense amount of control around all of these humans.' 'Maybe she does not know what she is yet' 'Take the necklace off while she sleeps and find out'
D walks through the darkness slipping into Icis's room looking at the stoic expression on her face even in sleep. Drifting to Icis's side D carefully reaches for the chain but senses Icis waking and her eyes flutter open reeling away. Icis struggles pulling at D's hand over her mouth frantically but D lowers closer to Icis and her eyes meet his and she stills hesitantly. D grips the chain around Icis's neck and begins pulling making her wrench like mad trying to get away, "I only want to observe something." D assures to the panicking girl.
Icis shakes her head her eyes becoming darker than before as she uses her legs to push at D and her nails scratch at his hands and arms. D growls feeling Icis go still her eyes wide again but as he pulls she remains still letting him pull it from her neck slowly. "Did my growl frighten you?" D asks a bit sorry but Icis shakes her head her eyes returning to normal again. "May I release you without you screaming or fighting?" Icis nods and D removes his hand from her mouth.
D's palm feels strange with how Icis's lips felt against them, was she biting him or something or wearing lip gloss? Icis sits up and looks at D waiting for something to happen but grows confused when he just watches her. "What are you waiting for?" Icis asks her eyes boring into his. "Wanted to observe your actions." "Well I fought you until I was told not to." "By?" "The necklace." "It speaks to you?" Icis smirks, "No, the soul in the necklace does."
"The soul..." "A vampire trapped in a cross, interesting, no? Valerina helps protect me but recently she has become...upset with me." "For what reason?" "I do not know, she said I was becoming weak and not rising to full potential so we stopped talking." "How long have you two been talking?" "I have had the necklace since I was a infant." D looks at Icis searching for any differences and spies a small tattoo on the nape of her neck.
Icis sees where D's eyes wandered and covers the tattoo with her hair not wanting things to arise from this point. "What is on your neck." "It's a cross." "May I?" Icis pulls her hair from her neck again and reveals the mark to D boredly, "The old widow from the orphanage had a priest put this on my neck for some kind of protection..." "The orphanage was attacked by a vampire correct?" Icis nods, "That was the first of the attacks since seven years ago...they attack non-stop then stop for a while then repeat it all over."
D sits beside Icis but looks to her when she scoots away slightly but his eyes find hers when he senses a small amount of vampiric aura drifting from her." How?" D asks seeing Icis's eyes race to his instantly, "How what?" Icis asks confused. "The aura." "...I was born that way I do not know how maybe my mother was bit while she was pregnant but I am human. No urges or desires for blood." "Icis...did you think that you are being attacked because the immortals fear you could become stronger than them?" "I don't see how; I'm a human."
"That can gain abilities from vampires and werewolves." Icis just shrugs not much caring but looks to D seriously, "Maybe you should keep the necklace." "Why?" Icis seems to grow darker with the question, "I told you of how a vampire or werewolf kills someone they can take their abilities right?" Icis asks getting a court nod, "If a vampire kills a human while wearing the necklace they may be able to walk about during the day disguised as one."
D looks at Icis scrutinizing her for a while then stands putting the necklace back around her neck seeing her eyes become less tormented and lonely and her lips less pale, "You and I may be one of the same." "Nope, I've never had a drop of blood in my life." Icis says crossing her arms over her chest not about to even let him ponder on the possibility.
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