A/N: Late update due to lazy editing..my bad. Ready for some kel/pol people? :p
"You don't remember anything right Chels?"
"Nothing.. kel" I grinned and stroked the puncture mark on her shoulder
"And this?"
"Client did it" she said dreamily while her blue eyes drifted around the room. I patted her cheek satisfied and stood up.
"Good girl"
I pulled my uniform back on and bent down to the mirror, fixing my makeup and licking any excess blood off my lips before tracing over them with my crimson lipstick. Chelsea came back to herself around the same time I slipped my heels on. She looked around confused before looking down at herself half naked on the sofa. I smirked at my reflection before turning back to her.
"'Bout time you woke up, can't plan a bloody new girl stunt on my own can I?" She blinked at me.
"Where are my clothes?" I rolled my eyes.
"How should I know? I'm surprised you realise you're not wearing any to be honest"
Chelsea smiled and shrugged, standing up to admire herself in the long mirror while I sighed at her vanity. My eyes zeroed in on the bruising on her shoulder around the cut my nails had made and I pointed it out.
"How'd you do that Chels?" She looked down at it and shrugged carelessly while I breathed with relief.
"Some client bit me"
"Hope you charged him extra for it" I said twisting polly's tie around my left hand, not needing it now the cut on my wrist was fully healed. Chelsea laughed and nodded.
"What were you saying about a new girl?"
"Miss Fritton's niece has joined the school. I need you and the others to help settle her in.." She grinned and nodded, standing up to bustle past me.
"Lets go!" I snagged her elbow and pulled her back.
"Maybe with clothes on Chels?" She looked down at herself and pouted.
"Fine" I chuckled and watched her walk back to her dressing room.
"I'll meet you upstairs" I called after her, smiling when she called back an agreement and started to sing to herself.
That's something I admired about Chelsea. She'd taken on the business idea i'd set up decades ago with open arms, happily doing the job that had ruined my life centuries ago. I was bitter about it all, only ever using it all as a way of survival. And here she was so bright and optimistic, just doing it because she thought that's what all the pretty girls did. It made me wonder if humanity really was just simple yet beautiful underneath. I was still pondering this as I walked alone upstairs.
Eleanor used to say she could see the innocence of the world underneath all the hate of the bad doers. In the gentle laughter of a child, the smile of a lover, the love of a mother for her children and the sweat of a father as he worked to build his family's future. I wasn't as observant. I could only see the anger of people, the broken honesty in them. The opportunity in all of them to snap and screw you over. I guess I had no more reason to trust anymore.
"Crap! Eleanor!" I'd completely forgotten her in my 'meeting' with Chelsea. The blood lust had thrown her out right of my head in my rush to bite something other than that new Fritton girl. She'd be furious with me for leaving her locked up so long. Especially if she knew carnaby had left hours ago.
I ran up the stairs, switching to a normal pace anytime a student passed me. I was up three floors in minutes, pretending to pant from the exertion my body didn't feel anymore when I rushed up into the twins' line of vision. I approached them and bent down a little, rubbing a non existent stitch from my side while they watched me with matching smiles
"'Right kel?" They said. I laughed breathlessly and nodded, standing up straight with a sigh
"Yeah, thanks girls. She been alright?"
"Nine escape attempts" Tara sighed picking up her chair. I raised an eyebrow
"She's been quiet for a while now though" her twin added frowning at the door
"Only nine? Something must be up..." They shrugged and went on their way, stopping to hug my waist before slipping into the dorm. I frowned at my door before unlocking it, bracing myself for anything she might throw at me in her moody state.
"El?" I spotted her immediately, laid out on my bed hugging one of my pillows to her chest while she slept. I felt a warm buzz spread through me and I smiled down at her as I silently shut and locked the door.
I slipped my shoes off and put my keys down on my dresser, slowly approaching the bed with silent steps so I wouldn't wake her. She was laid with her back to the door with enough space on the bed for me to slip in beside her. Something she always did no matter where we slept. It made me smile, because it meant she'd always make room for me in her life. I gently eased myself down onto the mattress and slipped my arm under her head, sighing contently when she rolled over and nuzzled into my side. I held her close and closed my eyes, fingers playing with the silky strands of her hair while her left hand rested over my heart by her head.
"What did he want?" She mumbled, still half asleep
"Shh. Don't worry about that now. Go to sleep"
"Mother.."
"Eleanor just do as I say for once" She huffed against my throat and pulled herself up to look at me
"You'd tell me if something bad was happening, wouldn't you?" I hesitated before nodding
"Clara.."
"Eleanor please shut up, nothing bad's happened. Something good in fact" She frowned, "Miss Fritton's only gone and enrolled her niece here"
"Carnaby has a daughter?" Her eyes grew wider when I nodded, "Do you not realise what he's done?!"
"Wait calm down love.."
"He'll use her as a spy Clara! Think about it, he can't roam around here on his own but she can" she stared down at me while I thought it over. She had a point. We could hide from him but her? Eleanor's hands tightened on me and she took in a deep breath, smelling the air around us
"You've already met her.." she guessed before sniffing again, "And you've fed today...mother?!"
"I was hungry! You can't expect me to starve myself!"
"Who?!" She demanded throwing my hands off her.
I looked away, annoyed our little sweet moment was turning to ash under her glare. She gave me a waiting look and I kept my eyes down, not wanting to meet the disappointment in hers.
"Chelsea, but its okay! I didn't do it anywhere noticeable and it's a tiny mark. Nobody will notice" I hoped so anyway.
"That's not the point! You promised when you changed polly, no more biting!"
"Will you have me starve to death?!"
" You're already dead! You preach about keeping our secret but here you are going around biting whomever you wish like a common fairytale succubi! You're a hypocrite!" I felt the anger flood through me and I raised my hand to her. She flinched and I dropped it in disgust. I've never hit her before. I never would.
"El I'm sorry" I pulled her into me and hugged her tightly, "I didn't mean that. I know what I am and you're right, I'm a hypocrite. I just don't have the same strength as you. I'm weak alright? Do not begrudge me my brief respites from this nightmarish life when I cannot handle myself as well as you"
She held me tight too and I felt her tears drip softly down my neck. I kissed her head and swallowed down my guilt. I hated seeing her cry. Worse I hated feeling those tears. They fell onto my skin and reminded me bitterly of how often I let her down, of how terrible I was.
"I'm sorry mum.."
"Shh it's okay love" She relaxed back into me and sighed, letting the sound of my gentle singing calm her anger and guide her back to sleep.
We must have been there for hours, her sleeping softly on my chest while I kept her held nice and tight beside me, thinking about how I'd saved her and how I had to keep her safe from them. About how lucky I was to have her when I very nearly lost her, twice.
"Interrupting something?" I looked back at the door and smiled at polly
"How'd you get in here?" I whispered looking down at Eleanor asleep. Polly stepped into the room and held some keys up
"El gave them to me. She was worried you might need help one day so she gave me a spare"
My eyes grazed down my daughter's serene sleeping face. Why did she have to be so protective over me? I wasn't the one who needed looking after. Polly sat down on the edge of the bed and smiled down at us
"You have no idea how cute that looks" I rolled my eyes and kicked her
"Did you want something?" I asked kicking her again when she stared off into space. She flicked her eyes back to me and shrugged
"Thought you'd like to see new girl to her bed..." She trailed off when I looked at her unamused, "Oh not like that Kel for Christ sake! Why does your head always have to be filled with that?"
I laughed and Eleanor stirred, snapping up ready to attack. Polly dodged her punch and I gently grasped her wrist
"Cool it love, it's just Polly"
"Polly?! Why the hell are you creeping about in here in the dark?!" Polly and I both laughed and I sat up hugging her to my side again
"It's good to see your reflexes are still good" the geek grumbled flicking her collar straight. I carried on laughing and Eleanor slapped my wrist
"Ignore her" I whispered kissing her cheek once before kicking Polly off the bed so I could climb off it.
Polly was watching me closely while I straightened up and swapped my shirt for a shortsleeved one. I waited until I'd done up the third to last button before turning on her with an impatient sigh
"What?"
"Still feeling.." She glanced down at Eleanor, "off?"
"If you're asking whether she's hungry it's probably a no" Eleanor snapped jumping off the bed to stand threateningly next to the geek.
I stood back and watched them square off. Polly had a good few feet on El but that had nothing on Eleanor's murderous glare. Polly raised her hand and I almost jumped in to stop her hitting my daughter. She surprised us both by stroking El's cheek with a smile
"You are just like Kelly" she said looking back at me with a smirk. I raised an eyebrow at her and stepped up to them
"I should bloody well hope so, she's only been hanging around me for 200 years now"
Eleanor slapped Polly's hand down and shoved her back a step, a solid glare smacking us both in the face as she opened the door
"I am nothing like my mother. I am not so easily misguided like her"
"Eleanor!" She ignored my shouts for her to come back and stormed off. Polly shut the door behind her and smirked at me
"She gets her temper from you"
"Shut up polly"
"What did she mean by you being misguided?"
"I might have gone off the rails a little earlier..." Her smirk widened
"So that's where Chelsea got that bite from eh?" I grimaced and wiped a hand over my mouth with a short nod. She laughed and sat back on the bed, leaning back on her hands as she tipped her face back. I swallowed the ache in my mouth while my eyes grazed down her pale throat and kicked her foot
"What did you say about the new girl?" She shrugged
"She's been chatting with her aunt for most of the day so she hasn't seen the dorm yet. Apparently her tour guide, the head girl, walked out on her during introductions.."
"I can't be around her Pol" she sat up with an intense frown
"Why?"
"You know how Taylor is around you?" She nodded with a bitter smile
"Don't remind me. What of it?"
"New girl is like that for me"
"You found a singer?" I frowned, a what?
"Say again?" She rolled her eyes and stood up to smack my head
"A singer. Someone whose blood is especially appealing?"
"Polly how on earth do you know that?!" In all my two hundred and twenty one years of life, and unlife, I'd never once heard that term being associated with our world. How the heck did she come across it if I hadn't?
"I don't but Twilight makes an interesting read when you're immortal like us," I rolled my eyes and groaned. Of all the rubbish vampire novels out there she had to choose the crappiest one to read
"Remind me to kill Andrea for lending it to you" She laughed
"Noted. So what are you going to do about annabelle?" I shivered a little just hearing her name. I ignored the way my mouth really started to ache then and shrugged. I had no idea.
"Kel you can't pretend like its nothing"
"Why not? You do. Most of the time"
"Haven't you ever had this problem before?" I had. But I'd never had to worry about anyone else then. It was just me looking out for myself. I nodded at her and she blinked surprised
"And how did you handle it then?" She asked narrowing her eyes with an intense look. Like she expected me to say the horrible truth but half hoped I'd tell her I'd found a way to ignore the tempting pull of a singer's blood. I sighed and sat down beside her
"You already know how Polly. I didn't have any restraint back then. If someone looked nice they were dead before I had a chance to think about the consequence" she looked away disappointed and I took her hand
"I'm sorry, I really am but no matter what you do Taylor is always going to smell as great as she would taste"
"Is that why you showed me how to change? Because my blood was too much to be around?" I smiled at her, hiding the guilt.
"Partly. Mostly it was because I knew you'd make a brilliant addition to my family"
"So I was a singer?" I nodded. She had no idea how perfectly delicious she used to smell. And that had nothing against the taste of her. She was lucky Eleanor had walked in when she did really, she'd be a cold corpse six feet under otherwise.
"You were and now you're not. Time to move on"
I stepped around her and walked across the room to the door, thinking bitterly about how hard this was about to be. Why the hell did I have to be head girl?! It's like the world was just begging me to mess up again
"So I take it you don't need me tonight anymore?" I stopped by the door and smirked to myself before looking over my shoulder at her, her half disappointed voice rolling over me in little waves
"Let's not be hasty" was all I said before walking out into the corridor in time to catch a whiff of the new girl. She'd just walked into the dorm by the freshness of it.
Polly stepped up behind me when i paused and nudged me forward out of my room. She frowned at my reluctance to move before smiling
"You can't avoid her," she inhaled and sighed, "hmm she does smell nice"
I looked back at her with a frown, a weird slither of protectiveness coming over me while I squeezed polly's wrist threateningly
"Don't you dare" She grinned and pulled her hand free.
"Or what?"
"Don't forget who made you polly. I can destroy you just as easily" Her smile dropped and she stared at me, completely stunned by my threat.
"I was joking kel. She doesn't smell half as good as that bloody chav in there" I looked away from her brooding and sighed. She had a point though, I couldn't avoid annabelle. I sighed with a smile when my hearing pinpointed a commotion inside the dorm.
"Speaking of bloody chavs..." Taylor's voice rang out to us as she threatened somebody.
We both sighed, Polly more than me, probably annoyed with herself for being drawn to the girl, and made to go into the dorm. I swung my arm up and stared her down.
"No funny business" She nodded earnestly at me and pointed down the hall.
"I've got to go check some cameras anyway" I could hear the truth in her voice, spliced horribly with the eager strain to avoid Taylor. I couldn't blame her.
"Catch you later" I muttered walking off into the dorm, mentally preparing myself for it.
Annabelle was stood in front of an angry Taylor, looking down perplexed at the chav as she threatened her with slaps. I held back a little to watch them. New girl was holding her own alright against the other girl, not fighting back like she ought to for a Fritton but not backing down either. Which was just annoying Taylor more.
"Going to intervene at any point in the coming future kel?" I looked down at celia reading her book beside her hammock and shrugged.
"Just seeing where it takes us first" I mumbled, eyes fixed on Annabelle's neck while her heart started to pump a little faster with her uncertainty of the situation. Celia let out an amused sighed and flicked a page of her book.
"Waiting for gain ends only in pain" I blinked and frowned down at her. That was one of Eleanor's lines.
"So I've heard" Three thousand nine hundred and seventy three times in my immortal life. It's like she had it on tape for me for whenever I took a wrong step.
"You might wanna do something there head girl" She pointed across the room at the two girls, not needed to even look up from her book to know it was hitting a dangerous pre fisticuffs level.
I nodded. Taylor did look pretty pissed. I lazily walked over and past them, slowing down a tad to tug Annabelle's shirt.
"Leave it out Taylor, go paint your nails" I left them standing there, Taylor fuming and annabelle shocked I'd touched her, even if it was only a little brushing of skin.
I smirked a little when her footsteps followed me down the dorm, her heart racing confusingly in her chest. I was having a pretty hard time keeping myself in check. That simple light innocent touch shouldn't have happened. I should have told Taylor to back off and leave it at that. Instead I'd touched her warm skin, felt her pulse, breathed her in. It was only thinking about how disappointed Eleanor would be, and how I'd probably have to kill the entire dorm for witnessing, that prevented me from turning back and biting her. I could understand polly's struggle now. I'd forgotten how bad this was for us, having something so tempting walk around like a delicious treat you craved more than anything. If only this was the eighteenth century again it'd take no time to lure her away and kill her. Modern times called for modern techniques though. Something I was trying my damned hardest not to think too much into.
"It's Kelly right?" I turned back to her and nodded.
"Got a good memory on you"
"Are you always sarcastic?" She asked snobbishly. I crossed my arms over my chest and gave her a thoughtful smile.
"Only to the pretty girls" she blushed and I swallowed against the hungry ache in my throat before turning away.
"Right then newbie, if you manage to handle a week here you'll need to know what's what. Here we have the chavs , you've already met their head princess Taylor"
"Shu'up Kelly!" I rolled my eyes at her and pointed back at Celia as she shared another anecdote with the scowling chav.
"Ecos, our own little green warriors" Celia looked up at us and made the peace sign as a way of greeting.
"Hi" Annabelle said timidly, shyly waving back. I smiled and winked down at the Eco before turning round to the geeks as they typed away at their computers.
Polly had managed to slip in at some point and was talking a younger girl through stock market rules. My fond smile faltered slightly when i noticed polly's eyes staring at the girl's throat. i sighed.
"Got an account problem? Talk to the geeks" i said it loudly to catch polly's attention. She snapped out of her daze and looked back at us. i threw her a meaningful look before turning annabelle around to the totties.
I smiled proudly at the older girls, all busy chatting away seductively on their phones to happy paying clients. I had to hand it to them they really were brilliant coming up with the chatline. It was a much more safer method for this line of work than what I'd been doing all my life. At least here they only had to occasionally sleep with someone, and it was always by their choice. Something I'd never had the freedom to have. It was mostly teasing phone calls. Ingenious really.
Chelsea was half dressed again, model like body on full display for everyone to see while she went about her clique business, one hand fiddling with her blonde locks, the other brushing the bluetooth headset in her ear as she giggled coyly down the line at her client. Annabelle looked simply stunned. I had to smile, too innocent.
"Posh Totties" I told annabelle, waving in at them as we passed, "all claimed to have slept with one of the royal family"
I barely noticed her look of surprise with that nugget of information. I was much too busy watching Chelsea study the new girl, eyes grazing over her body with a calculative smile she gave all the newbies. It was her search for a potential totty. She caught my eyes and smiled, nodding back at annabelle. I shrugged. If they wanted her in their tribe that was their decision. Personally I couldn't see her even fitting in with the geeks. She either lacked a personality or she was hiding it. Chelsea turned around to talk to one of the other Totties and my eyes landed on the bite mark on her shoulder.
"What about them? Are they asleep already?" I ran my tongue out over my teeth, licking the ache down while I pulled my eyes away from Chelsea's skin to the dark sleeping area across the room annabelle was pointing at. We walked past a few girls draped entirely in black, huddled in a circle chanting something quietly between themselves. Annabelle frowned before looking away.
"Goths?" Andrea cut in before I could quickly correct her.
"We're not goths we're Emo"
I rolled my eyes and steered annabelle away before she could question it out with the girl. She looked completely lost when she asked me what an emo was. I sighed, where the hell did this one come from?!
"Emo-tionally unstable?" I left it at that and walked towards my favourite group.
"First years. Borchester's answer to the Sopranos" I announced proudly waving in at the twins glaring menacingly back. She didn't look all that interested. More fool her. She should be extremely weary of the twins and their girls. Explosive only just began covering the things their minds could come up with.
"Here's you" I told her pointing at the lone bed beside the first year crib. She eyed it warily before sitting down on the mattress, looking around with timid darting eyes.
I was taking the moment to look her over, taking in that brilliant figure again before settling my eyes on her tempting throat, catching the soft bump of her pulse nudging the skin covering her main artery there. She was pretty nervous, and uncertain. But you didn't need to look at her to know that. I could hear it in her heart beat, read it in her body language. Hell I could even smell it radiating out of her. She was that wound up I bet even polly could sense it from down the dorm.
I could feel myself staring and forced my eyes off her, crossing my arms over when my hands started to shake a little from the effort of staying put. I looked back at the other girls, smiling a little at all their smirking evaluations of the new girl before settling my eyes on polly. She must've read the hunger building behind my gaze because she left her girls and started to make her way over.
"What're they betting on?" I frowned at the question. Polly was pointing next to me at newbie and I snapped my attention back to annabelle, following her question over to the first year bookies. I kept my face blank when I turned back to her.
"How long you'll last"
She stared up at me, trying to measure the dead truth in my voice while it rained back at her in a dead icy tone. She probably thought I was being sarcastic again, maybe even a little playful. I was dead serious though. A trinian girl never places a bet unless she's dead certain on the outcome, and that board screamed it all. One glance at it had me holding back a laugh. One day seemed like the popular choice tonight. Maybe I should place my own wager. I think she had it in her to at least go two days, maybe three. That mental Fritton blood was in there somewhere.
"Kel you're staring at her neck again, and if you don't move you're going to be part of their prank" I blinked at pollys whisper and looked up above the bed at the bucket balanced over Fritton's head.
I inched back a little, so fast nobody would have noticed even if they were watching me, and looked down at the first years with the pull string waiting for my permission. I smiled at them and they grinned wickedly back and yanked on the rope. The dorm erupted into laughter at her yelp as the green goo splashed over her head and shoulders. She glared up at me and I tried to hide my own laughter behind my hand, glad the sludge had managed to cover her scent. Maybe I could get the girls to come up with some sort of permanent perfume that could do that. It was worth a try. Not like polly wouldn't be up to trying it.
"You knew they were going to do that!" I raised my eyebrows at her , laughing again when the pillow came down and smacked her in the face.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just here to show your arse around school. If you walk into a bucket of crap how am I to blame?" She frowned at me as I spoke and I realised a little too late that my intonation was all over the place. I pulled myself into focusing and shrugged at her,
"Maybe you should be more careful"
"Maybe you should warn people you're in charge of a school of lunatics!"
The dorm fell silent, all eyes on me as I took a dangerous step forward, catching small hints of her scent drift towards me with her anger. I bent down to her, looking over her shoulder at the wall because I knew I'd do something stupid if I looked at her skin. I took a deep breath and felt her tremble a little, already aware of the danger she'd just walked into.
"You've got quite the temper on you. You might be Miss Fritton's niece but don't think that'll stop me, or them, from beating some sense into you for it"
"Mother!" I ignored Eleanor's silent whisper and polly's snigger and carried on
"I think you should go wash that stuff off chicken, before you start to stink up the place " i said that bit louder and the girls sniggered around us.
Annabelle stood up and shoved past me, looking down at our hands when they brushed. Eleanor was saying something but I couldn't hear anything besides that heartbeat as it took up another refreshed frantic pace under my touch. She started to walk again just as I started leaned in. Annabelle quickly rushed out of the dorm and I very nearly followed her. I stared down at the space of air she'd just abandoned, thinking longingly of that pulse and that neck and that blood.
"Okay girls prank number two, chop chop!"
Polly's hand touched my back, a friendly enough gesture the others would be suspicious of. But for me it was a warning. She stretched up to my ear with a small sigh
"I think fresh air would help here" she flinched a little when my head snapped around to her and I gave her a questioning smile. She rolled her eyes
"You were about to do it kel. C'mon. Sooner we get you away from her scent the better"
I let her guide me down to the geek area, the safest spot in the room by far. Geeks were okay but all that stressing over tests and experiments turned their blood a strange flavour I didn't have an appetite for. Polly was the only exception really. Since her I hadn't touched a geek, going instead for the more few discreet victims, like the totty and especially the emo's, which i think relieved polly more than anything.
Eleanor drifted over after polly had sat me down in her desk chair, a look of outright anger burning in her blue eyes. I sighed and leant back in the chair, eyes closed as I braced myself for it.
"What were you thinking?!" she hissed as soon as she reached polly's desk. I smiled.
"Hello Kelly, how are you Kelly? My, what a wonderful day it's been.."
"Oh shut up and grow up!" I laughed at her.
"Chill out El. It was a bit of harmless fun"
"Harmless fun?! Do you realise what you were doing? The entire dorm was watching Kelly!" I shrugged, completely uncaring. I could hear her breathing deeply to herself, angry as hell with me. I couldn't help but smile some more.
"So I had a tiny lapse in control, so what? You make it sound like I murdered her on the spot"
"You might as well have done for all the good it's done us" I opened my eyes and looked up at her with a smile. She was far too argumentative. Another thing she'd inherited from me.
"Sweetheart please go away and take your paranoia with you. You're pulling a damper on my mood"
She opened her mouth to retaliate but was thrown down when polly announced the next trick was ready. I flashed Eleanor a smirk and stood up. She swatted my hand away when I patted her shoulder and stormed out of the dorm, unwilling as ever to take part in the girls' welcoming pranks.
"Right girls we're live on YouTube"
I walked up behind polly at the main computer and crossed my arms over my chest, smiling when I recognised the old shower gag. I squeezed polly's shoulder and saw her smile reflect in the computer screen before she tapped a command into the keypad and sat back waiting. The other girls rushed to get a good spot and sat down with eager grins.
"Time to see what she's made of" I said running a hand over my mouth as the CCTV feed snapped into action
"Are we talking her as in personality or her as in a dinner choice mother?" I ignored Eleanor. I wasn't sure where she was but she had to be close if she was keeping tabs on me. I cut my eyes up at the ceiling when i heard the tinkling of glass and smirked. Definitely on the roof.
I didn't answer her. Instead I focused on the screen with her question rolling around in my head.
The prank was brilliant. The girls really outdone themselves this time. Annabelle had surprised us all. She'd braved the cold corridors and ran stark naked for the dorm. I couldn't help but stare at the screen when she knocked herself out on the door. I was wrong about her body. It wasn't just beautiful. It was hypnotic, tantalising, angelic. It worried me how biting her was the lesser of my concerns when it came to thoughts of her skin. I didn't want to just bite her, I wanted to consume her entirely.
I met polly's amused smile in the computer screen and she flicked the feed off. The girls groaned disappointed before wandering off chatting happily about the new girl and all the other pranks they had lined up for her. I stayed behind polly, staring at the black screen while my throat burned. I wanted to bite something and I wanted it now. My ears picked up bits of the other girls' conversations and I licked my lips at the thought of biting one of them.
"Kel?" Polly had turned around in her seat and was looking up at me concerned, hand rising to touch my wrist. She jumped when I grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the room
"We need to get out of here" I told her leading her down the stairs towards the old classrooms nobody used anymore.
"What about Fritton?" I could feel my eyes burn with want and I could barely breathe against the ache in my throat when she said her name.
"She's not likely to be going anywhere anytime soon" I tugged polly down another set of stairs towards the old cellar only us vampires were old enough to remember. Polly sighed behind me, annoyed I was taking us this far away from the others. Really you'd think she'd be happy I was being over cautious for once.
"Kel I honestly don't think.." I span around and pulled her into me, kissing her madly as I walked backwards into the same old dusty room I'd led her down when I'd first bitten her. I felt her tremble a little. Whether from the drop in temperature or the bittersweet memory that echoed in these walls I didn't know. Her grip tightened on me a little and she let out a sharp gasp.
"Kel.." I looked down at her, reading the discomfort in her eyes while they took in our surroundings. They settled on the table in the corner and she was trembling a little under my hands.
"Pol" She was breathing heavy and I gently shook her, "Pol look at me" She did and I smiled at her, softly stroking her cheek.
"It's okay. Calm down love" She took a few uneven breaths and looked back into the corner. I tilted her face back to me, catching her attention fully.
"No looking back right?" It was our safety net. If things went wrong, which was quite often where I was concerned, we'd tell each other to keep our eyes forward, to not look back at our mistakes and regret them. It bound us together and kept us going. Polly calmed down and nodded.
"Right" she still looked worn and fragile. Something I hated seeing in either of my girls. They should be vibrant and youthful, full to the brim with strength and courage. Yet they continued to cling to their weak humanity.
I sighed and pulled her over to an old desk, forcing her to sit down beside me facing the corner of the room where I'd sank my teeth into her and dragged her to within an inch of her life.
"Do you regret following me that day?" I asked, genuinely interested to know what was running through her head right now. Polly took my hand and squeezed my fingers with a brave smile
"Of course not. I got you and Eleanor out of it" her eyes flicked to the corner again, "it just scares me how long ago it was. Looking over there hurts"
I winced when she said that because it was my fault it hurt, and i pulled her against me. She let me tuck her up against my chest and run a soothing hand down her back. She sighed and leant across my chest to rest her head against my right shoulder, showing me the bite mark again. I stared down at it wishing I could remove it from her skin, wishing I could turn back time and stop myself from biting her. Because all I'd done was steal away her bright future and given her a dark daily struggle for existence in exchange. She was such a smart kid she could have done anything, be a scientist, become an astronaut. Hell she could have been ruling the world right now if only I'd had the willpower to stay away from her in the first place. It made me sick knowing I'd taken that from her.
Polly cut over my thoughts with another heavy breath
"Do you regret doing it?" I closed my eyes and bent down to her neck, softly kissing the teeth prints
"Sometimes"
"You do have a heart then" I laughed and playfully nipped her ear
"only once in a blue moon. You'll find it's very much dead the rest of the time"
"Now that I can believe" she muttered and I laughed again. I bent back down to her neck, brushing my mouth over it while she leant closer into me with a content sigh.
"kel?"
"Hmm?"
"You don't just want to bite her do you?" My arms tightened around her and that old burn caught fire in my mouth again.
"Hmm"
"That's not an answer" I smiled and kissed her scar again before moving back to look down at her
"You're too smart polly" she laughed and brushed her own mouth across my collarbone
"So I've heard" I was watching her smile up at me, slowly tracing her mouth up when a thought came to me
"Taylor.." She froze and groaned into my throat
"Please don't"
"You fancy her don't you?" She hid her face into my neck and I laughed. Poor little polly.
"Shut up Kelly" she pleaded smacking my shoulder. I trapped her hand against my skin and bent down to her ear
"Make me" I whispered, letting my voice drop right down into the sexy tone I'd perfected over a century ago. It brought out just the reaction I'd been searching for. Polly's eyes slipped up to mine while her right hand tiptoed up my arm
"Is that a challenge jones?" I shook my head and threw her a smirk before bending down to her mouth
"invitation" I kissed her, letting everything that had made me rush down here creep back to the surface under her mouth. I really loved the way that geek kissed. It was perfect and precise, right down to the last detail, unsurprising considering who it was. Polly's hands came up to my neck while mine dropped to her waist as I twisted around to face her completely.
"I think I'd like to RSVP that invite" she gasped while my lips pressed down into her throat.
"Yeah? What's your answer?" My hand was slipping down again, creeping up her left thigh and slipping underneath her skirt. I didn't bother waiting for permission, that was beneath me, instead I went straight for the answer. She gasped again under my touch and pressed her nails into the back of my neck
"yes! Bloody yes!" I laughed when she twisted around to climb up onto my lap, and wrapped an arm around her back. I met her urgent kiss with my own hungry one and smiled while her hands tangled through my hair and pulled me closer. Polly arched back when my mouth moved down over her chin and throat to her chest, completely forgetting I was the only thing holding her up. She yelped and I laughed as she fell backward off my legs and pulled me off the table with her. We landed on the cold hard floor and laughed together before getting back to work.
I could taste blood, feel it working through my veins as I bit into polly's shoulder while I pushed her higher. I always loved sleeping with her. Everything was so raw and wild yet so calm and measured at the same time. All the beauty of the vicious vampire mixed in with the serenity of the genius geek. She was just beautiful, inside and out. A rarity in a place as crazy as this. Even as a human she'd been a fantastic lay. I had a feeling it had something to do with all those books she read. Even geeks needed some sort of sexual outlet.
She gasped and groaned, squeezed and pushed, pulling herself and me higher on that wave she was surfing while I tagged along for the ride. Her voice grew louder the harder I pressed until she was screaming out beneath me. She could have pushed me over and taken top, it wasn't like she didn't have the strength now, but polly stayed down, too busy enjoying it all to get rough. But that didn't stop me trying to get her to play.
I scratched and bit her skin, trying to pull every arch of her lithe body into fighting back. Apparently even that wasn't enough to make her react. So I tried a different approach and rolled us, forcing her to take the lead. She looked down at me and groaned, annoyed I'd stopped when she was getting so high.
"Kel.." She was whimpering a little and I grinned as I leant up to her. My hands skimmed up the back of her thighs and gently eased her into sitting over my waist while my mouth brushed hers, smearing her lips with the leftover blood on mine. I laughed quietly against her mouth and let her lick the blood off our lips before raising a hand to cup her face
"Humour me" I told her dropping a new kiss on her lips while she shivered delicately under my voice.
