A/N: HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I AM BACK.
I HAD WRITERS BLOCK BUT THATS OKAY CAUSE NOW I'VE WROTE A LOT.
well i'm going to stop talking in caps now.
Okay so basically i had writers block but then i wrote loads BUT then i had a bad accident at the weekend WHEN i was
going to put this story up. I won't go into it, but lets just say I'm gonna have a few scars and when i walk i have to walk like
a penguin for a while :P BUT this is good, cause it means i can write more!
BEWARE, there are a few bits in german but i've translated them for you, cause you know. She is German so there's
bound to be a bit thrown in at some point. And the title is german, it means Surprises.
Which you will now find out about ;) But anyway...
On with the story!
Chapter 8: Ueberraschungen.
Inna's POV
Well after humiliating more than three people on the bus and a rather eventful walk to the cemetery – the walk involving Harry, a squirrel, some screaming and enough tears to fill the pacific ocean – but we can leave that for another time- (preferably the Christmas party) we finally made it to the aforementioned Grave-yard.
"What are you gonna say when we actually get there?" Harry looked at me, rubbing his red hand distractedly. Trust me, you'll find out about this another time.
I paused. "Well that I'm now a vampire, I suppose." And then I carried on walking.
"Oh har-har. But how? They'll freak out and get all-"
I rolled my eyes. They couldn't see, obviously, I still have that thing over me to stop me from dying.
Well, dying, again.
Am I dead?
I know I'm technically a vampire now but I don't remember being bitten or anything… but maybe it makes you forget. I don't know. Think I should read up on the How-to books.
"Harry, if you're worried they'll freak out and rip you to pieces, then don't."
"Oh, cause they won't hurt me now that you're one of them?" Harry beamed at me, his bright eyes now 100 times brighter with hope and relief.
Wow that sounded gay.
No offence to Harry.
"No." I crushed his dreams in a second. I think I saw his little face drop into a wide-eyed grimace before continuing matter-of-factly. "Just, if they're gonna kill you, there's no point worrying about it. Not like you can stop them." I shrugged, staring straight ahead.
Harry let out a high-pitched squeek. I feel sorry for the dogs around here…
"But you could stop them though, couldn't you? So I'd be safe, right?" He gripped my arm really tightly with freshly manicured nails.
"I could." I nodded, jutting out my lower lip, even though he couldn't see me.
"Great!" he smiled and clapped his paws together.
"But I'm not gonna." I pouted a smile. You know the one, right? You know with your bottom lip out, like a pout, but then a sneaky smile creeps its way in and it's like a sarcastic but pissed off smile? Come on, it can't be just me who does it, can it? Yep I think so. Sorry, carry on.
Harry's face dropped and Tony cried with laughter. Though he could have been laughing at his Game Boy. He still hasn't given that thing up! Anyway. I don't know and I don't care. It fits in though, doesn't it?
I sighed and shook my head.
I'm surrounded by morons.
"Inna we're here!" Tony smiled. Wow, he actually looked up from that stupid game.
"Great(!)" Harry crossed his arms and smiled sarcastically. "I'm totally looking forward to DYING!" he dropped his arms, with his fists in balls and screamed in my face, very much reminding me of a seven year old child.
"Me, too." I breezed. I'm just doing this to piss him off. No reason apart from the fact it's really fun.
Anyway. We're here, yay!
I'm looking forward to this so much.
Not.
Harry's POV
I'm going to die I'm going to die I'm going to die I'm going to die.
Inna's POV
We tapped on the wall of the dull cavey thing. Not like it was going to help. It's a cave. They're vampires.
I don't think they care much for good manners.
No answer. No surprises there, then.
"Go in…" harry trembled.
"You go in!" I snarled.
"No, you!"
"!"
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!"
"go in!" I whispered through gritted teeth.
"you go in!" Harry snapped.
"I'LL GO IN." Tony sighed. "Outta the way, Ken." He pushed Harry out the way, shoving his GameBoy Advance in Harry's arms, eliciting an 'OOMPH' From him.
"Ken?" Harry questioned.
"Barbie's boyfriend." I sighed without missing a beat. I knew he was gonna ask that.
He didn't even know Scotland was a real country until two days ago.
And he lives here.
Anyway. Let me paint a picture of this scenario for you.
We're standing here. Me and Harry.
Me, covered in a scarf, and Harry…well. Harry shitting his pants.
Tony's gone in first, and I'm not going in until Harry has, because I know him.
And I know he'll run for it.
And not to be rude, but the boy would probably get lost trying to get home then die or something so I'd rather him just… not do that.
"Harry go in. I'm right behind you."
"no!"
Ugh. Cue the seven year old version of Harry again.
"FINE. I'll go in with you." I rolled my eyes. "Come on. Douchebag."
"What?" Harry's ears pricked up. Brilliant.
"What?" I said, acting innocent and shook my head. I learnt this trick from my friend back in Germany. She was jokes. I miss her.
I looked at harry as he looked at me questioningly. Questioningly. Is that even a word? Ah well.
"Hold my hand" Harry stuck out an arm, pouting.
Burrrr, why did he have to come here? Would it kill him to be left alone for five freaking seconds? As I looked up at his sorry little face, I had to sigh.
He may be a douche. But he's my douche.
"fine!" I grabbed his prettily manicured hand. "If it'll make you come in."
"I will I will! Just…don't let go. Please?"
I sighed through clenched teeth as we started walking. "I'll try not to, but it's really hard trying to keep a hold on your clammy hand! Sort it out!"
He actually looked hurt. Awwwwwwwwww I feel bad.
Then his expression changed to pissed off. Okay I don't feel bad anymore.
"Well I'm SORRY but I'm in fear of my life!" he sighed dramatically, with his free hand flying up to his face with such force I actually cringed. I thought he'd knock himself out or something. "Besides., like yours are any better!"
"Oh yeah? How'd you like this clammy hand round your ne-" I lifted my totally unmanicured hand and was just about to do something I would probably regret when-
"Ingrid?"
Shit.
I dropped my arm and looked over at the voice.
The voice that just so happened to be our ever present favourite douchebag.
No, not harry, silly!
Gregory.
Who was standing with his entire vampire family.
And Tony. Who just so happened to be showing a fascinated Rudolph a game on his GameBoy.
"Oh. Hi." I stuck an awkward grin on my face and I was gonna wave but Harry pulled my hand down. It was still clenched in his tight little fist. Stupid boy.
Gregory's eyes looked down at our arms together and made a questioning face.
I looked down too.
"Oh!" I pulled my hand away from a hurt looking Harry and shook my head. "He was scared." I jerked my head to the platinum blonde dude next to me and Gregory raised an eyebrow, smirked, and nodded.
Gah I hate him sometimes.
"So. Ingrid." Gregory started, but had to stop cause he was still laughing at my freaking name.
"Inna, please." I snarled back at him. Hey, I can be a douche now too. I'm dead, give me some credit.
"Fine. Inna. What brings you here? Tony tells us you have much important information to share?"
I want to punch his face.
"Yeah you could say that…" I bit my lip. Well this is it. "Harry, little help?"
I'm amazed Harry knew what I meant, and he started to un-wrap me.
Hahaha. Un-wrap. That's funny. Like a mummy..? Well ptsch. I think I'm funny!
"I'm sorry to be a bother, but do you really need all of the family awoken for this? You see, my husband is quite tired, as am I, and I'm sure the children need their sleep, also…?" Mrs Whatsherface said.
That reminds me, what is her surname? Or all of theirs, for that matter?
Hm. I'll remember to ask about that if I survive this unveiling…
We'd just un-wrapped my head when I heard a multitude of gasps.
Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.
"Mama, is that-"
"Oh my goodness!"
"How is this possible?"
"…Ingrid?"
I looked at the group of awe-struck vampires in front of me, and believe me, it was not the reaction I'd expected. Maybe I won't die after all...
"How are you here? What kind of magic is this?" The Angry Dad came towards me with his big pointy sharp white fangs glaring at me.
Okay maybe I will die after all…
"What? I don't even-" my face was completely screwed up, 'cause I had no freaking idea what his problem was. I think he of all people would know what kind of 'Magic' this shit is.
"Silence!" he roared like a freaking lion or something, much to Harry's dismay as he was trying to un-wrap the last bit of my little makeshift frock and it made him jump about eight foot in the air.
"What? I need your help, that's why I came here-" I stepped forward, trying to look really innocent, but it was kinda hard because you know. Vampire.
He grabbed my arm.
Then it went black.
We were on the cliff again.
Only this time, it wasn't me, except, it was me…But it was out-of-body, looking down.
I saw me, with…All of them!
we were just…standing there. Why were we standing there?
It was dark. There were more people, too, though I can't make-out who they were.
It looked like night, there was a moon… and it looked like an eclipse?
There was a huge necklace. A man was holding it up, it started to glow! And then-
"vampires!" That hobo guy came out of nowhere! Well, someone that looked like the hobo guy.
I looked up, my eyes looked wild.
The hobo hunter guy leapt at the man, and the necklace went flying.
"No!"
I ran and I grabbed it out of the air.
The family shouted at me.
Everything was in slow-motion.
They ran towards me. Everyone.
"You'll die, girl! Just give it to me!" Hobo ran towards me, his pudgy belly wobbling. " You won't be able to survive the fall! End it, now! Go to hell!" he shouted, loud, though I seemed unfazed.
I was close to the edge.
I had the necklace in my arms, tight.
"I might not survive, but they will!"
And with that, I fell back.
I gasped as I came out of that vision thing.
Harry and Tony had run to my side, and Rudolph and his sister and their mum was at Angry dads'. As for Doucheba- I mean Gregory, well, he was just floating (not literally!) In the middle, not knowing who to go to. Not that I care. I don't even really like the guy.
Anyway, I think I had an epiphany.
"Tony!" I whispered through my gritted teeth.
He replied with wide-eyes and his head bobbing forward. "yeah?"
I looked over at the vampire family. Gregory obviously realized where his loyalties lied and went over to them, and they were all talking in hushed tones, angry hushed tones, and looking over at us. Not a good sign.
"Is there something important about a big stone? Or necklace? Something like that..?"
Tony looked at me open mouthed as if to say, DUH.
"The stone of Attamon!" he tried to conceal his childish excitement that I didn't quite understand yet. He stopped jumping about like a rat on a telephone mast and hushed his voice. "That's what's gonna make them human again! They need to find it but they don't know where it could be-"
Oh my god! Yes! Yes! GEDDON!
"…God, Inna! Don't you listen to anything I say!" He stressed, waving his arms about like a loon. Ew, that sounds like something out of Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging. Cringe.
"Well I think I might know wh-"
My line was cut short by the booming voice of the Angry man we've all come to loathe.
"My daughter was right. You did bear a very close resemblance to someone we knew a very long time ago."
"What? Thanks, I gue-"
"However…"
WHAT IS IT WITH THIS GUY AND INTERRUPTING ME?
"… I never once did imagine that you would actually be her."
The rest of the famo just stood there like lemons, staring at me with their own expressions.
Lets go through them.
The mother, just looked at me serenely. But that wasn't a difference. I swear she's always high.
The kid, Rudolph, stood staring at me with the wide-eyed awe he probably got from Tony.
The cute little girl, I think her name's Anna, was looking at me like…well, like I'd stare if I saw Lady Gaga.
Well you get the point. Just someone famous. You know that look.
And…this one scares me. Gregory. He was standing there with his clenched fist to match his teeth- which really wasn't any different to normal- but this time he had the face of Angry Dad. And he was looking right at me.
"What do you mean I am her? I'm me!"
He looked at me with a biiiiiiiig look of impatience. The one my teachers give me when I ask them If California is a country. Not a good look, really.
"Imbecile!" He swung round his big cape trying to look menacing. Well in case he forgot, I'm dead now too, so I can be just as scary. Rawwwwwr. "I mean that you have the soul of another. A reincarnation, if you will. However you could have chose a better person to be reincarnated from…"
I think he just tried to make a funny.
Didn't work.
"What. Are. You. On. About?" Harry started to get aggy.
He waved his little bony arms about trying to accentuate (is that the right word? I'm not good at English.) his point.
Gregory actually moved this time. In his aggy-ness Harry moved forward too, so they were in a like face-to-face battle position.
"We're saying your friend here is a traitor!" he spat at me.
Well he's changed his tune.
"We're saying she's-" he used this word to point a pointy blue finger at me. Rude. "The reason that we're all still vampires!"
"Gregory…" his mum stepped forward, trying to grab him away but you know what? I'm not having it.
"No, let him finish! I wanna hear what bullshit he has to say!" I sprang forward, practically knocking poor old Harry out the way but he didn't seem to mind. I don't think he likes confrontation much. Messes up his hair.
"You really want to hear what I have to say!"
"Bring it on, crap for brains!"
"Fine!" He flew angrily at me and starting shouting in my face, all the while waving that stupid finger.
I'll give him a finger in a minute.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! You took the amulet! You went off the cliff!-"
"Gregory!" his mum still kept trying, bless her.
"NO! - IT'S YOUR FAULT, INGRID. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. WE'RE ALL LIVING DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!"
Suddenly everything came flashing back.
The cliff.
The family.
The amulet.
I remembered.
They weren't all dreams.
They were memories.
And I wasn't going down without a fight.
"You're living because of me! You wanted to go to hell? Did you! BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HE WAS GOING TO SEND YOU- SEND YOUR FAMILY- SEND ALL OF US! IF ANYTHING, I SAVED YOU!"
He scoffed. "SAVED US? YOU'VE CONDEMNED US!"
"Oh really?"
"Really! You know what? You deserve to be dead. And not the living kind."
And with that Gregory turned his back on me, and stormed out.
His father went after him and so did Rudolph.
Anna and her mum hovered on the spot for a minute, throwing a sympathetic look my way, before disappearing after the boys.
I was livid.
I remembered.
I knew where the amulet was.
I knew exactly where it was.
But they aren't getting it.
"Lets go, Tony. I have some re-decorating to do." I slowly turned around, eerily expressionless.
Harry looked at me as we were walking home, in the darkness.
Tony was grabbing my hand but I didn't grab back.
My hand just lay there, limp at my side.
Like a corpse.
Gregory's words did hurt.
I felt dead.
"Inna, I know you. What's doing you in?" he whispered, out of earshot of a frightened little Tony.
"The amulet. I know where it is." I spoke so hushed my lips barely moved past a murmur. My eyes started straight ahead. I didn't even want to look at anyone else. I couldn't bear the pain in my un-beating heart to see their disappointed faces, and know it was because of me.
Harry's ears pricked up anyway.
"Are you going to give it to them?"
"No. They don't want my help. They don't want me. Fuck them. I'll get it and get myself back to normal and then they can carry on themselves, I'm done with them."
I didn't know Tony could hear this conversation.
Not until he looked up at me.
There was the face I dreaded to see.
The face of a disappointed little boy.
"But then they'll be vampires forever!"
"I don't care, Tony." I couldn't look at him for more than a second.
I thought my heart would break.
"But-"
"Go to bed Tony. We're home."
I opened the door with my key Harry handed to me.
I turned round to him. "You staying tonight or what?"
He shifted uncomfortably.
"I don't think that it'd be a good idea to leave you on your own like this, so…Yeah. I'm staying."
Normally I'd say cool! And be really happy and hyper.
But I'm not normal.
I walked through the big oak door before Harry, and I think Tony took my advice and went to bed, 'cause I didn't see him anymore after that.
I was in such a daze I didn't realize my mum's car was on the drive.
"Harry go upstairs, turn the tv on, do whatever you like, I'm gonna lock up down here."
He nodded. "I'd better ring my mum and tell her I'm staying tonight anyway. See you in a bit." He gave my arm a squeeze but I hardly felt it.
I turned round to lock the door and I heard the happy, highly-accented voice of my dear mother.
She was on the phone to someone back home, and just hearing the language again made my shields come down for a moment. For a moment, I was back. Back before all of this happened, back with all our old friends. Back in Germany.
When we're alone we speak German. It's easier… More natural.
"OK, gut, ich dich auch. Ja, ja, ich will,ich will. Sie langweilige mich! Mund zu halten, mund zu halten, jetzt...haha, danke schoen. Ich liebe dich auch, guten nacht mein liebling!" Okay good, *I you too* (this can be said after someone says I love you, instead of saying I love you too, or ich liebe dich auch, you can say I, you too.) yes, yes, I will I will, you're boring me! Shut up shut up now! Haha! Thanks so much. Love you too, good night my love!
She sighed a happy sigh and looked up from her phone. "Ah, Sie sind wieder da!" Ah you're back!
then I saw her smile drop. "Bist du ok? Sind Sie krank?" Are you okay? Are you ill?
She came over to me and touched my skin with her hands. She shivered, i imagine i was cold. I was dead after all...
"Ja, mutter! Mir geht es gut! Ich habe eine Kopfschmerzen, das ist alle..." Yes mum! I'm fine! Ihave a headache, that's all.
"Nun, es ist eine Apotheke, die strasse hinunter..." There's a pharmacy down the road..
"Ok mama, ich gehe." okay mum, I will.
I tried my best to smile, and i walked upstairs "To grab my coat."
I really had no intention of going on a walk to the pharmacy to get tablets for a non-existent headache, I just wanted to curl up on my bed and die.
Well, die again.
I had to wait until mum was out the house before I could get the 'Amulet' anyway.
Then maybe we could go back to normal.
Maybe.
I trudged upstairs, and heard Harry on the phone. I know I shouldn't have, but I couldn't help myself from standing outside the door.
Even in a depressed state, I couldn't control my desire to delve into Hazza's personal life!
I pressed my ear to the door.
"Yeah I know mum! I've got to stay, I can't leave her…She's … very fragile mum… I can't do it to her. I DON'T CARE! SHE'S MY FRIEND! I don't care. I don't- mum! Listen to me! Fine then! I won't! bye."
Oh..
I didn't realize how much of an impact I've had on him.
On Tony, too.
I've just ruined everyone's life really, haven't I? and I'm so selfish I only just noticed.
Why am I so self-centred?
Why do I always do this?
Why am I still here?
I heard him sigh and I ripped my ear away from the door just as I heard the tell-tale snap! Of the mobile-phone snapping shut.
Maybe I will go for that walk afterall.
A/N: I KNOW i am taking liberties with this story, with the plot and such, but heyho, you seem to like it so far, right?
Wink wink nudge nudge.. At least its not a Mary-Sue with all the lovey doveyness in it between the main characters
and a *shiningly beautiful* OC. LMFAO. Anyway, i hope you liked this. Reviews would be nice..
OH one more thing, if you have a problem with the German please don't have a go at me. I speak
Relatively good German and my Bestest friend is in Germany being German-
and i didn't use a translator so if there's some bits wrong i'm very sorry, but
it's in English too so whatever.
SORRY THIS HAanyway... THANKYOU FOR READING ME.
