...
...
so here's ch9 this is where things really begin because this ship had to get started somewhere so why not here?
...
...
Evelyn bit her lip as she waited for Danny outside her dorm it was early for her, earlier than usual. The sun was just setting but she was so nervous. She didn't want to be late even if they were meeting at her dorm this time around. After spilling about the plan Danny had held true to her promise to meet up every evening for Evelyn's patrols. It was exciting and nerve wreaking at the same time and Evelyn couldn't be happier. She was making progress even if it was just saying hello she was already exceed her own expectations. Speaking of expectations she saw Danny heading her way taking a deep unneeded breath she met the red head halfway.
"Hey Evelyn"
"Hi Danny"
"You ready?"
"Y-yeah" Evelyn smiled and they were off.
They walked around campus the same as always except Danny was walking with her instead of behind her. They were doing what they felt was their job they were able to check the borders as well as keep each other company. When her patrol was over Evelyn would spend time just walking with Danny attempting conversation because Evelyn was horrible with small talk and Danny was still getting used to having a vampire for a friend. Danny was so used to competing with Carmilla it was nice to have a vampire that wasn't trying to kill her every now and then.
They usually walked in silence when they weren't attempting small talk but when they walked through the forest trails they were happy with the silence. The forest was a place they both felt safer in because Danny hunted there and Evelyn was away from the prying eyes of the students and her siblings. They were fine with the solitude, maybe even craved it after spending hours among the sea of students it just gave them one more thing in common.
They were currently cycling through the everyday stuff and common topics which at the moment was her sister.
"So its good to see her? What am I saying of course it is" Danny shook her head at her own rambling.
"Yes it is good to see her but it's still a little weird to call her by her pseudonym, no matter where she is or what time she's always been Mircalla to me"
"That makes sense I guess" Danny frowned thinking about it. It would be confusing for a person to have so many other names which reminded her of something.
"I still don't see how you get Evie out of Evelyn"
"Well Evelyn isn't my real name just like my sisters name isn't really Carmilla" Evelyn explained it was something she was used to after hundreds of years living with the list of names.
"So what is it?"
"What's what?" Evelyn frowned
"Your real name"
"um…"
"Don't tell me you don't remember it" Danny would be surprised considering Vampires had nearly perfect memories.
"I do, I just… I don't like to associate with my human life because it.. it wasn't a good one so when I was "reborn" I asked for a new name and Mother gave me one, Evelyn, so I like to use that one instead"
"Oh" Danny felt saddened.
Her human life must have been terrible if she wanted a new identity entirely. They didn't know much about the blonde except from what Perry and Lafontaine had learned. Evelyn was a peasant in the south of France who was "reborn" somewhere around sixteen fifty-nine give or take because Evelyn was illiterate till then. It wasn't till nearly a year after her "death" that she met Carmilla for the first time aside from that she was tormented by her other siblings because of her lack of confidence and that made all of them a little more protective of the blonde.
"yeah but I was better off being a vampire because not long after I died there was a famine and most the people who didn't leave died I wouldn't have lived that much longer with how poor I was and I didn't have a trade so…" Evelyn was trying to find a positive side but death, famine, disease, and eventually war wasn't really a good thing.
"I uh.. I'm just gonna stop talking"
"That sounds pretty depressing but I guess you did have the best out" Danny could see why it was better as a vampire but still she valued being human more.
"so.. what about you?"
"hmm?"
"What about you Danny? I told you some stuff about me and you already know my sister sort of…."
"oh ok um let me see.. my life hasn't been that exciting or as long as yours but I have parents and siblings"
"Real descriptive there"
"Well I don't know how much to tell you, you know?"
Evelyn frowned but understood. "I get it evil vampires and stuff, you don't want anyone getting hurt"
"Yeah"
"Ok well what about your school before this? That's a safe topic right?"
"Yeah I guess I could tell you about the glories of high school"
"I never went to high school"
Danny stopped "wait you've never been to high school?"
"Any school really except college" Evelyn played with the zipper of her hoodie trying to keep eye contact "I was too poor as a human to afford it and in the beginning of my second life Mother taught me the basic's till Carmilla took me under her wing"
"Ok you were super lucky then because High school is hell"
"w-what?!"
"It's when your growing up and your still in that awkward stage where you haven't quite grown into your features, you wear braces, get picked on for some reason or another and people keep stealing your glasses" Danny's jaw clenched at that last one she was tall, awkward, and lanky in high school and hadn't found her niche quite yet so she was an easy target till she got contacts and found a love for sports and reading.
"I like your glasses" Evelyn bit her lip realizing she'd just said that out loud "um they-they suite you"
Danny didn't know how she felt about the compliment but Evelyn's blushing made her feel a little better. Evelyn's blushing is kinda cute- wait what? Shaking her head she caught up to the conversation.
"Uh thanks I guess"
"I have found that very few people wear them in this... modern age with contacts around but I like it when people wear their glasses, back in the day people who wore them always had a great wealth of knowledge or a love of reading and that's why they wore them because they spent late nights reading away and… I like that" Evelyn nodded more to herself but Danny got the gist glasses were a sign of knowledge, a passion for knowledge. So in a way Evelyn was saying she had knowledge and passion again a compliment that Danny didn't know how to handle.
"Cool" Danny felt lame for the awkward response but this was an awkward situation. Its only awkward if you make it awkward Danny reminded herself.
"yes it is kind of cool I guess"
"So what else have you noticed about this "modern time"?
Evelyn bit her lip "are you sure you want to know? I mean I don't want to offend you because it's your time and-"
"its fine I already know from your sister that our time is "nothing but uncultured heathens who claim to be intelligent as we slowly destroy the world" Danny rolled her eyes Carmilla could be so annoying sometimes, scratch that all the time.
"w-well I wouldn't put it that way, I mean yes there are some people in the world who I worry for but I know that the next generation always holds a new hope for the future I've seen it happen time and time again"
"It must get boring seeing history repeat itself"
"Not really"
"oh?"
"yes history repeats itself but it's... interesting to see the innovation, the drive for something better because if there is one thing I have learned from humans it's that they always seem determined about something be it politics, war, health, love anything, they all want something and will do whatever it takes to get it even if it ends badly"
"You're so different from your sister" Danny stared at the blonde realizing that although Evelyn and Carmilla were sisters in a sense they truly weren't.
"What?"
"You're so different from Carmilla it's just surprising I guess because your sister is so depressing and pessimistic and your just so… not" Danny ended lamely
Evelyn sighed trying to come up with a response.
"My sister has had her spirit broken and with the entire imprisonment her perspective on everything changed, she was trapped with nothing but her own thoughts and there is nothing worse than being trapped inside yourself by yourself but with me…"Evelyn paused thinking carefully about her next few words "with me, life was already hell so there was no way it could get any worse, it could only get better… do you understand?"
Danny mulled it over in her head nodding slowly.
"Yeah I get it"
"Good, good"
They walked in silence as their minds made enough noise to keep them occupied. Evelyn watched the people around them occasionally taking a deep breath to check for new scents but the blonde didn't seem to notice Danny's curious green eyes watching her.
Danny was starting to see that she couldn't just fall back on assumptions or her own stereotypes anymore. She needed to keep herself open minded with all this supernatural stuff as well as people. She had been thinking Evelyn was a spy, a killer, and a traitor but now that she was actually talking to her, learning real things about her she realized her mistake. She needed to lower the magnifying glass and let things go because Evelyn was in no way the girl she thought she was.
Yeah she was shy and lacked confidence but she was intelligent, loyal, and caring which was more than she could say about some people these days. The blonde was a good person or vampire, her life just had a lot of darker parts to it than they knew and Danny wanted to know more. It was like the door of knowledge had been unlocked and Danny couldn't help wanting to open it but only with Evelyn's ok would she even try. The blonde would run or shy away if you were too forward so she would have to take her time but for some reason Danny didn't mind.
Watching Evelyn she caught the blondes staring. Realizing she'd been caught Evelyn looked away a blush rising in her cheeks as her blonde hair fell in her face.
Nope Danny didn't mind at all.
...
...
so that was chapter 9 I wanted to show the beginning of their friendship as well as a little more incite on Evelyn's view and thoughts of the world because she isn't as old as Carmilla but she's seen and lived through enough to form her own opinions on things plus I wanted to show how they interact on their own with out a nosy Lafontaine or protective Carmilla.
~be sure to leave a review or PM me if you have questions~
...
...
