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The loneliness of yet another one of Bella's nighttime walks with Edward was almost painful. As I threw crumbs into the fire and wiped down the tables, I began to think how ironic it was that the girl who I had helped so much and almost befriended had ditched me for the very reason we got along: Edward. In fact, it was so ironic I quickly became angry. How dare she ditch me for him! After all that I have done. As quick as it had come, the anger was suddenly gone. That was strange, I thought, why am I being so irrational? The next thing I knew I was thinking about how much I wanted to just go back to Croy with my tail between my legs. At the thought of Croy I involuntarily licked my lips. What the heck! I took a deep breath and gripped the table as I tried to figure out what was going on and then it hit me: Kora. I had no sooner thought the thought when I heard her playful laugh behind me. I spun around to glare at her.
There she stood, six feet and all. Her wavy honey hair flowed down past her slender shoulders, turning gold as the light hit it. Her silky gown was cut just above the ankles, the new trend I had only noticed in the wealthier of women, but corresponding with the trend was the new safety corset, which she did not bare. Instead, beneath her rather low cut gown I could tell that Kora was wearing a regular corset to boost her chest. I knew this was for one reason: whatever the time period, men like boobs.
"Kora…" I breathed. She smiled ear to ear, her lightly browned skin not even wrinkling as she did so.
"Honestly, Millie, what else would it be? Unless you think like that all the time?" She cocked one thin eyebrow. I took a long steadying breath. As I closed my eyes I was once again I was lost in the beautiful thoughts of being in Croy's embrace. I pictured my self disrobing and moaned in pleasure. Realizing what was happening I forced myself to snap my eyes open and glower at Kora with the intensity of a million flames.
"People aren't toys, Kora," I growled. She was a little taken aback at first for few people can fight her powers. Still, she was quick to retort.
"That may be, Millie, but you aren't a person, now are you?" she giggled, a sound any man would find hypnotizing but I just found it disgusting.
"What do you want?" She immediately became serious.
"Bella hasn't been around very often, has she?"
"What do you mean?" Kora guffawed in response.
"What do I mean? What do I mean! Tell me, Millie, where is the girl this moment, hmm? Where?" I did my best to keep a straight face, thankful I did not have a pulse to race.
"She's out selling our products. We don't exactly have a Mercedes so, you know, it takes a while to get around."
"Oh, right, right," she meandered over to me, never looking at me but merely running her slender fingers over the smooth wood of the counters, even running a blade across her palm, knowing it would do nothing. "You know, Melinda, if you don't tell me what I need to know," her face finally snapped up and her eyes were menacing, "then I guess I'll just have to get it myself."
"Stay away from me, you bitch!" I ran to the other side of the room and into the other room. Through the door I could easily hear her even voice.
"I hardly need to touch you, Millie, you know that. Come now, be reasonable." The next the minute she was in the room, standing between me and the door. I did my best to avoid those vicious eyes but I knew it would do no good. Even without a direct connection, Kora still had power over me. Against my own will I lifted my head and gazed directly into her eyes, just before everything went black.
The next thing I knew I was walking out of that little room. Bella stood in the door way yelling into the night. My brain was slow and fuzzy so didn't register anything she said. She spun around to face me and game me a peculiar look.
"Oh, Melinda, you startled me!"
. A familiar voice came from the back of my mind, somewhere far away yet at the same time very close.
"You idiot, snap out of it!" I immediately obeyed, smiling widely. "Talk!"
"Sorry, Bells. I heard you talking and wondered what was going on. Everything okay?" The words just flowed out of me. I had no control. I wasn't even aware of it, but somewhere, farther away than the familiar voice was a little person, terrified. The worst part was that I couldn't even be afraid. I just heard. I just did. I died away as my body/mind became Kora's puppet.
"Oh, yeah, everything's fine. It's just so chilly!" She smiled. I didn't believe her or not believe her. I just accepted it and kept talking. The little person far away was no longer so afraid. It perked up its head and prayed that Bella just kept playing along until she was safe.
"So, you weren't talking to anyone?" more words flowing out. The only difference was that this time I heard the familiar voice saying it along with me.
"Talking? No. I mean, I was doing some crazy yelling at the weather thing. 'Damn you wind!'" Bella laughed, its forced tone going unnoticed, to me at least. The familiar voice seemed to be a little set off by something Bella had said. I felt my face relax, almost frown, ever so slightly. My head mechanically nodded in response.
"Okay. You are going to bed?" Bella nodded as if she was desperate to get away. "Kay, sweet dreams." I watched as she walked across the room and disappeared behind the door.
Suddenly the little person was no longer afraid. It was filled with glee that Bella was safe; glad that she was smart enough to get out of this whole ordeal. The familiar voice, on the other hand, was not so happy. It sighed in exasperation.
"Fine then, she wants to play games, time for a chance card. Go kill Cullen." As I prepared to walk forward, the little person seemed to grow a little as it yelled
"No!" I stopped. The familiar voice became terrified.
"W-What! Di-Did you just say something?" Trying to gain control, the familiar voice tried again. "G-Go kill Edward C-Cullen. Tr-track him down and destroy him." I did not even try moving. As the now huge, overwhelming person yelled once more, "no!" as did I.
"Now you listen hear…" Kora began desperately, but I would take no more.
"No!" With a pop I was totally in control once more and Kora was standing before me. "You listen to me! Get out of my house and tell Croy never to try that again. Are we clear?"
"H-How…How can you…"
"Are we clear?" I screamed. Kora flinched but stared me straight in the eye when she solemnly answered,
"Crystal," In a second she was gone, off to probably cry to Daddy Croy and comfort herself through doing exactly what she had forced me to imagine.
The next morning as I sat rubbing my temples at the kitchen table, a small round table in the corner closest to the fire, Bella walked out, fully dressed but rubbing the sleep form her eyes. She grabbed a roll and the butter dish and sat down in the seat across from my mine. As she buttered her bread she glanced up from me.
"I see your feeling better," she casually stated. I groaned.
"Thanks for noticing."
"What the heck happened last night?" I dropped my hands and stared at her as she chewed the tough was of bread.
"Kora," I sighed.
"Care to elaborate?" I chuckled quietly. Staring at the floor and crossing my arms I explained.
"I assume, you being engaged to one and all, you know about vampires having…gifts?" She nodded in a 'duh' fashion. "Good, good. Well, you see, Kora's is manipulation of the mind." I noticed how the room became unusually quiet even though there was no one talking before. Even still, Bella's pulse never quickened or skipped a beat. I listened to it beating steadily as I continued. "She gets in your mind and messes it up. Makes you think anything or, worse, do anything. You need to watch out for her. Honestly, the first couple years I knew her I was terrified of her." I laughed once, but immediately became grave, "As you should be. She's dangerous, Bells. She can totally mess you u…"
"I'll be fine," she replied, unfazed.
"You'll be what?" I looked at her for the first time, beginning to question her sanity, "Bella, I'm serious."
"I am aware that you are serious but I'll be fine. Trust me; I'm invincible when it comes to this stuff, literally. For some reason I'm all effed up in my head or something so that I can't be affected by any powers focusing on the mind."
"Seriously?" I asked, in shock. She nodded proudly.
"Yep. Jane couldn't affect me, Kora won't effect me. Heck, Edward couldn't read my mind, why should Kora be able to control it?"
"Wow." I blinked in disbelief then went back to my story. "So anyway, I think that back when she was human she had a knack for getting people to do stuff. You know the folks, they can say anything in such a way that you can't help but do it. They make you feel less about yourself if you don't, or something to that effect."
"So," Bella spoke slowly, sounding a little confused "She just made you ask who I was talking to and let you go? I find that a little hard to believe." I sighed and squeezed my eyes shut. I had really hoped to avoid this.
"She-She wanted me to kill Edward." I could hear as Bella's heartbeat did not accelerate, as one would expect, but decelerate, like at the thought of life without him, Bella's heart could will itself to stop. I wouldn't dare lift my head to see her face.
"Melinda you…"
"No. That's what broke me out of it. The real me just wouldn't allow myself to do it. I…I don't think regular people can break out of that, no mater what. Not even vampires."
"Well, then, what do you think it was?" I finally swung my head to look at her concerned expression.
"I think it was my power. I think it was the power I never really knew about." I became exhilarated at the thought, my expression lighting up. Bella crinkled her brow in a frown.
"Care to share what that is?"
"Bella, I can suck people's powers from them. Don't you get it? I can steal powers from vampires."
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