CHAPTER SIX

THE END

Carmilla was sat at the table when Laura walked in at 7pm.

"Hey babe you OK?" Laura asked.

"Laura come sit down please we need to talk." came Carmilla's reply.

"Er OK, but first let me go freshen up because I really think I stink of the office today."

"Sure, this agony won't get any easier no matter how long it takes to be said!"Carmilla said in her usual sarcastic tone.

"Carm, I will be 10 minutes don't get all melodramatic on me now." Laura laughed.

Carmilla nodded.

'You won't be saying that once I have told you everything my love.' Carmilla thought to herself.

Suddenly her cell phone went off. It was a text from Danny.

I hate you so much right now! Please do not tell Laura. I know what your doing I remembered from our argument. If you are going to hurt her then do so in a different way. We will need each other once this is all over and done with and if you tell her about us then she will have no-one because if you remember LaF fell out with Laura because of you so all she will have is me. Dx

Carmilla knew that Danny was right but she wasn't going to tell her that she pressed the delete button and the message was gone.

Carmilla was torn as to how she could hurt Laura even though she didn't want to. It was going to be the hardest thing she would have to do, even harder than letting her first love Ell go. Picking up her phone again she looked to make sure Laura wasn't in the vicinity and called LaF.

"LaF it's Carmilla, listen we need to meet up as soon as possible please, I really need your help because it is really important." she said into the answer phone.

"What's really important?" Laura asked as she walked into the lounge area.

"Just you Laura."

"Will you please stop calling me Laura Carm, you only call me that when something serious is about to go down..."

"Laura I have to tell you something, you may not like it but I need to tell you." Carmilla started.

"Just tell me Babe your scaring me."

Carmilla was working on her feet now trying to think of what to say that would hurt Laura.

"Laura, I need to tell you this, I have started feeding again. Its my biology its in my blood, I have to kill to feed. I'm not killing the sick or the dangerous either like we agreed. I started killing random people the other week it started. I can't stop..."

Laura stood as white as a host as Carmilla continued telling her about her killing spree.

"Stop, Stop telling me this I do not want to know this. You broke our promise! How am I ever meant to trust you again?"

"I'm sorry Laura but you knew what I was when we got together you can't act all high and mighty now. Especially since you let me feed off you so many times!" Carmilla replied starting to raise her voice.

"That was different I thought that you were dying and I didn't want you to die because I love you, I love you so much I thought I could forgive you anything but I just can't forgive you this. I WANT YOU OUT!" she screamed at Carmilla.

"I'm so sorry Laura, but I am the way that I am." Carmilla said as she started walking to the door.

"I SAID GET OUT!" Laura screamed again.

Carmilla put her head down and left, she felt worse than terrible at having to do this but she knew it had to be done if she wanted Laura to stay alive. Carmilla made a point of slamming the front door as she left, it was like an act of defiance but in all honesty it was her trying to get her own hurt out.

Walking down the stairs it hit Carmilla that she had nowhere she could go. She knew that Danny wouldn't let her in after earlier today, and well LaF didn't let anyone into her home it was like a shrine to Perry and as LaF had said she wanted it to be exactly as she left it.

The only other option she had was Kirsch. It wasn't an option that she liked but it was the only one she had. Within minutes she was at the end of his block. Slowing down she took out her cell and dialled his number. It went straight to answer phone.

"Brody, I will be at yours in the next few minutes make sure the door is open for me."

Carmilla put the cell back into her pocket and made her way to the apartment block that kirsch lived in.

The front door was open, that was the usual with the amount of drunk that lived in this neighbourhood. As Carmilla walked up the 8 flights of stairs she started to get a bad feeling about coming here. It was quiet, but too quiet. Every time she had been here before there had been music playing or people shouting. Now there was just silence except the odd car or truck going past.

As Carmilla reached Kirsch's door she noticed that it was ajar. 'Maybe he is home and just in bed' she thought.

The scene that confronted Carmilla shocked her. It was a bomb site. It was like someone had tried to destroy literally everything in the room.

"BRODY! BRODY!" Carmilla shouted. She knew that there would be no answer but she had to try something, he may have been hiding or something. Carmilla walked further into the room when a voice spoke to her.

"There was a massive fight here about a week ago. Kirsch hasn't been seen since, his family came the other day and took a few things but he hasn't been back at all not even for clothes. Makes me think he did a bunk. He was behind on his rent and just lost his job at the local school. Things were not looking good for him." A young man of about 25 spoke.

"Did you know who it was that came round the night of the fight?" Carmilla asked.

"No but I remember there being a woman in the group of people that came round. She was as tall as an Amazon with red hair to match. I was blown away at how she looked you don't see many woman that look like that around here in the slums."

'What the hell was Danny doing round here beating up on Kirsch?' thought Carmilla.

"Thanks, I have to go." Carmilla said to the young man "|Er can you give me a call if he turns up again?" She asked as she handed the boy a card with her cell number.

"Sure I will." The boy smiled back at her.

Carmilla quickly made her way downstairs and out of the rough neighbourhood she was in and pulled out her cell. Dialling Danny's number.

"What do you want?" Danny spat down the phone.

"What the fuck did you do to Brody that made you smash his place up and now he is missing?" Carmilla shouted down the phone.

"What are you talking about?" Danny asked confused. "I haven't seen Kirsch in nearly a year as you know. Also why would I want to beat up my daughters Godfather?"

Carmilla shut of her cell and put it back in her pocket. 'What the hell?' she thought.

Nothing was making any sense and she now had nowhere to go. Looking around and seeing no-one around she transformed into the big cat she was and ran as fast as she could. She would stop when she knew where she had got to. If she was going to be running to where she thought she was then it was going to be a long long night.

8 hours later Carmilla recognised her surroundings, she was back at Silas. She transformed back into her human form. She made her way to the Lustwig theatre and made her way down into the caves below. Before she had left with Laura she had sealed the pit that her mother had been trapped in, she had to make sure that the seal was still intact.

As she got closer to the pit she could feel something had shifted and looking around her she noticed shadows moving. Moving to the edge of the pit she picked up a small rock and threw it in. instead of being thrown out by the seal it continued to drop.

'Oh God maman is out' She thought and hen she felt a sudden rush of air as the shadows started to move in around her.

Quickly transforming once again Carmilla ran out of the building and continued away from the campus.

"What the fuck just happened?" She said to herself. It was starting to get light, she knew in cat form she could survive the day but she was exhausted and she needed to eat and sleep. Turning back into human form again Carmilla made her way to the local hospital. She went to the ICU and found the sickest patient here, someone she knew would not survive. Cloaking herself in the shadows she fed. She drank as much as she could manage, as she finished she whispered to the patient "I'm sorry, Rest In Peace." It was something she had done for the past 10 years and it seemed to help ease the pain in the person she had fed on.

Checking her wallet Carmilla then went to a hotel paid for a room for the day and then slept, it was a deep yet uneasy sleep. She dreamt of Laura, how much Laura would be hurting, she also dreamt of Kirsch and what had happened to him. Carmilla also dreamy of her mother, or was it Danny, no it was herself, at the sight of her mother transforming into everyone including herself she woke up with a start.

As soon as she was awake her cell started to ring. Looking at the screen she saw Laura's name flash across it. She didn't want to answer but she just couldn't help herself.

"Where are you? I have been trying to get hold of you all night? Something amazing has happened Lola is back! Carm did you hear me? I said Lola is back!"

"Its not Lola" was all that Carmilla could say. "My mother is alive and I think she has killed Kirsch and Lola. Laura please don't trust anyone even me, I think my mother can make herself to look like anyone she wants. I had a dream about it last night. You know as well as I do that I don't dream unless its like a vision."

"Carm please stop talking in riddles. Come home and we can talk more." Laura begged.

"Laura, I can't, please don't ask me!"Carmilla said. She wanted nothing more to go home and be with her Laura but until she could finish this once and for all she couldn't. So she put the phone down on Laura and swiftly started crying, she had never really shown emotion before. Being with Laura had made her appreciate that it was OK to be happy, sad, angry hell even be herself, but she could never let the tears fall no mater how she was feeling it just never happened until now, until she was faced with the possibility of losing Laura.

Carmilla got up and got herself showered and dressed then made her way back home.