Ch.11
Pandora stopped at the opened window on Antonio's house, she entered the room carefully and started grabbing some decent clothes for the man waiting for her in her apartment. "How uncomfortable to be getting you your undergarment!" she complained as she realized she had almost filled the small luggage bag she had taken with her with clothes but not his underclothes. She opened each drawer until she found his neatly folded underwear, muscle shirts, and socks. Once that was done, she started searching for deodorant and perfume, she wanted him to smell like he always did; with that wonderful spice smell that made her want to melt in his hands. Her hand stopped at the edge of a frame of a photo, a photo which was composed of a man, a lady, and eight-year-old, and a nine-year-old. She picked up the photo and observed it closely. The eight year old was Antonio and that only meant that Ivan was the other boy, and the that adults were the parents. There was trace of happiness only coming from Antonio's sweet, beautiful face, the rest of them seemed gloom. Suddenly, Pandora was in the day the photo had being taken.
Everything had being great that day, the family picture had being taken, they had gone hunting to eat, Antonio had had his birthday presents and Ivan had not fought with him for once. His mother, Karla, and his father, Kyle, had taken Ivan with them to their room leaving Antonio playing with legos, but he had noticed something was wrong and his curiosity had had the best of him. Antonio followed his siblings to the room they were going, making sure they couldn't sense him or even notice him hiding by the edge of the door listening. At the edge of eight, Antonio was the most talented vampire and he had gifts his father recognized as evil and unnatural, he didn't know why, but he didn't looked at him the same way he looked at Ivan; proudly.
Once Kyle had started talking, Antonio noticed there was hatred in his voice, Pandora noticed how sad Antonio was turning, she wanted to take him away and not let him hear what she knew was coming. But she couldn't, she was just living one old memory of Antonio's past.
"I'll get rid of him!" Ivan had said looking at Antonio directly in the eye.
"Ivan!" Karla exclaimed horrified. "Antonio IS your brother!"
Pandora let go of the picture and controlled her heart eat. She could not believe what Ivan had said, why did he want to get rid of him? Just because he was more powerful and beautiful that he was? Pandora took deep breaths to calm herself then she went to the awaiting luggage bag resting on the bed and zipped it. She hanged it over her shoulder and jumped out the house from the window frame, once she was on solid ground, she threw the bag to the back of her car and started driving.
"Why wouldn't she come back?" Toni asked a little worried. Taniah and Andrew kept watching the clock as the day turned into night and they had no sign of Pandora since the coach had told them Pandora had decided to stay behind to finish some business. "What do you think the coach meant by 'she looked weird'?"
"I don't know," Gabe answered truly worried and desperate to know where his sister was and with who.
"Well, it's late and I have to get going," Taniah announced starting to walk to the door with Andrew by her side.
"That's it! I'm going to her apartment!" Gabe exclaimed desperate and frustrated. He stood up and walked to the door faster than Taniah and Andrew.
"We have to go, my mom will kill me if I get home late after curfew. If you find her, please call me," Taniah said and walked out of Alberto's apartment. Toni said good-bye to all of them and walked to where Alberto was seated; they now lived like a married couple under the same roof.
Meanwhile, Gabe jumped to his car and started driving toward Pandora's apartment. If she is not there, I'll call Kevin, he planned. Before leaving Heaven, Gabe had hear the oath of alliance of a teenager to Lucifer in order for him to give him back his life to find the one he loved. When Gabe heard the name of the person, his heart skipped a beat and then he decided to leave and find her first. As he got closer to her apartment, he stared to feel her presence. She here, I can feel it, he thought, But she's not alone.
Antonio was putting on a muscle shirt and Pandora was getting ready to feed him. "What took you so long?' Antonio asked from the door way to her room and getting her shirt all the way down. He walked to the kitchen where he found her cleaning her scared neck, and beautiful chest; he straightened up.
"Traffic," Pandora lied looking up at him to find him staring at her intensely. "And I couldn't find the right clothing."
"So, you are that type of girl, huh?" he asked her smiling kindly and sensually at the same time.
"No! I just thought you might want some decent clothes, which I guess you didn't," she defended her pride by signaling to the clothes he wore. He was dressed in black sport sweat pants, and a black muscle shirt, thing that made his muscles show off more and called out to her. She took her sweater off and said to him, "Are you ready?"
Antonio let out a small snort and eyed her fiercely, "The question is, are YOU ready?" She looked at him at the sound of his voice and nodded sure of herself, but inside of her, No! she thought. Her hands started to sweat as she saw how Antonio walked to her and heard his stomach growl even harder. "You know, you don't have to do this," he said to her when he noticed her starting to get nervous.
Pandora shook her head and said, "I want to help you." Antonio nodded and smiled. He grabbed her soft face between his hands and turned it to reveal her neck, his breathing started to get heavier by the second as he got closer to her and he could hear her heart pumping blood to her veins. His lips were centimeters away from her skin when he started sliding his hands from her neck to her arms, to her waist, to her hips, then they rested there. His heart started to beat faster as her hands touched his and then her legs surrounded his back. He embraced her back as he pierced her neck and the blood started flowing to his mouth.
Pandora's hand rested on his back as the other rested on his hair, and her lips touched his ear; suddenly, they were both surrounded by a purple light, but Antonio continued to drink.
Gabe saw the purple light coming faintly out from Pandora's apartment window, scared, he rushed up to her room. He ran angrily up the stairs when the elevator didn't come, and once he stood in front of the room, he sensed some one dangerous inside with his sister. He was welcomed by the pleasurable sighs the boy that drank her blood gave, and by the angelic dead look Pandora had. She had the boy secure to herself, she didn't want to let go of him, and that boy was absolutely fine with that. "No!" Gabe screamed as he noticed the boy was none other than Antonio. He grabbed the boy's hair and pulled him away from his sister, his rage, like it had happened to Pandora, made him reveal his wings; once Antonio was away from Pandora, she stopped glowing purple but Antonio continued to glow for another minute.
Gabe pushed Antonio to the wall making his head collapse with it and then he looked at him furiously as he told him, "You will not drink, not from PANDA!"
When Pandora hear her the only nick name she loved being called by her family, she knew Gabe had being lying to her all along. She came out of her daze and pulled him away from Antonio, her eyes filled with tears and her hands punching him hard on his chest. "Why didn't you tell me from the beginning you ARE MY BROTHER?" she asked him hysterically. "Gabriel," she whispered. Gabe eyed her with sorrow and he knew it would take a lot to make her believe in him again. "Get out of my house."
Gabe's eyes widened and he hid his wings, he grabbed her shoulders and pressed her hard against his chest. "I couldn't let Him know I had found you," he whispered in her ear. "I'm sorry!"
"Let WHO know?" she asked him getting away from him.
"Lucifer," said Gabe; Pandora's heart skipped a beat. Gabe took a small golden book out and handed it to her. "You have unspeakable powers, this book will teach you how to gain them and enforce them," he said in a hurry as a transporter hole appeared behind him and sucked him in. "I'm sorry, little sister," he managed to say before disappearing completely.
Pandora threw the book against the wall and she knelt to take a look mat Antonio's bleeding head. She put her hand on his head but the white light did not come. "Why isn't it coming?" she asked out loud. A golden glow caught her attention and she noticed it was Gabe's book. Maybe Gabe was for real, she thought and went to grab it. Quickly, she went through the book until she found what she was searching for. "Here it is! This is so easy," she said throwing the book against the wall again and softly placing her hand over Antonio's injured head, the she spoke the words, "Guéris!" Her body started glowing white, covering Antonio with it too, and soon he was healed.
"What was that?" Antonio asked bemused while touching his head and looking at chocolate eyes; his stomach growl.
"Finish up," she said and started to remove her hair from her neck. The deliciously-venomous smell of her blood pulled him in to her neck. He lounged at her, making her be under him while his lips fiercely destroyed her neck. But, as he drank he started to get flashed of something he couldn't quiet place.
Antonio got away from her and eyed her carefully. "Pack some things," he said starting to get up and helping her up too. "You have to get away from here."
"What? Why?" she asked him suspiciously as he still held her hand tightly. "What do you know?" Antonio shook her head and released her hand. "I have a place I can go to, what about you?"
Antonio took her face between his hands and looked at her in the eye. "I'm not going to let you go alone. I'm going with you." At Antonio's touch, Pandora's cheeks turned bright red and when they stared at each other, they could feel complete for once. He tried to see what would happen between them, what was about to happen, but he couldn't see anything. We're going to be a TOO weird couple, he thought with a smile, If that ever happens.
"It's time," Lucifer said to Michael, a strong, blue eyed, and tan skinned man. "Go to him, get everything he knows out of him and then, kill him." Michael nodded and walked out of Lucifer's throne room.
Michael walked into a chamber, Gabe was there, imprisoned by his own troop of angels. "My dear friend," Michael said to him while caressing his cheek. "I know how much you love her, and I feel the same. We are all family here, and I will rebel against Lucifer. I don't want to see Pandora die before my eyes."
Gabe's eyes were full with terror and sorrow, he had abandoned his sister with a crazy vampire, a vampire that was slowly going to kill her even more painfully than Lucifer.
"I don't want Lucifer to be our head Master," Michael said while lowering his sight as to not watch Gabe suffer in pain. "You will lose your wings but you will go back to Earth and you will tell her all you know, and teach her all you can!" Michael pointed his index finger to Gabe's chest, a red light shooting him on the chest. Once that was done, Gabe laid still on the ground and Michael picked him up in his arms. Brother, he thought and then they were both gone.
Meanwhile, a browned haired man arrived at the French airport, his eyes were set to find the one he loved and he could not afford to not find her. His pale green eyes looked at the horizon while he wondered about Rogelio. Is Rogelio still here?
Having called to Lucifer for his life back and now working for the own Devil, a transporter hole appeared as if it had read his mind.
A taxi cab stopped in front of him and the driver asked him, "Where to, boy?"
"Le Pavilion Jaures," the boy answered, his voice sounded softer and calmer now. The driver nodded as he loaded the car and started driving, the boy looked out the window and watched everything he had watched for the first ten years of his life. Everything was as he remembered, green, healthy, and beautiful even though is was getting closer to winter. Finally, after a thirty minute ride, the taxi cab arrived at the apartments and a purple Chrysler 300 caught the boy's attention the same way as he noticed the familiar aura coming out from the building. "Pandora!" he said out loud and walked away once he had paid the taxi man.
Antonio transported from place to pace while following Pandora, who was flying not too high from him, but then she couldn't hear her anymore. He waited for the sound of her rushing wings to come but they did not, instead, his brother blocked his path.
Ivan had a demonic smile on his face as he watched his brother and said, "I need to get rid of you now!" His eyes looked horrifyingly red at the little splendor of the moon. "Dan is still waiting for that," he added while he lounged to him in fighting mode; he turned into shadows and then Antonio's eyes turned ice blue and started to glow. The blue fire of his eyes making him able to see where his brother was moving to or what he was planning to do.
The weird feeling of knowing everything and seeing everything invaded Antonio's mind just as he blocked at punch coming from behind him from his brother. Ivan disappeared once more and Antonio kept still, hearing for the movement of his brother. He is behind me again, he told himself. Now in front. Ivan appeared in front of Antonio and sent a ball of red light to his brothers' chest, but Antonio was too much faster. He skipped the impact of the ball and grabbed his brother from behind and locked his hands behind his head.
The sound of Pandora's wings finally started to approached and as they did, an image of a small wooden hut appeared on his head. He was still holding Ivan, he pushed him away and as Ivan turned to watch him, he punched his stomach, and face, busting his lip and leaving his brother laying on the ground he went to the hut once and for all. "If dad's still alive, tell him to go to HELL!" he said and left.
He had just arrived when Pandora collapsed from high on his arms and the luggage bag on her hand slipped from her grip. "We made it!" she said sarcastically.
"Alive," Antonio joked and helped her enter the hut, this time he carried the luggage bag.
The little hut was beautiful to Antonio's eyes, and to Pandora, it was just as she remembered when the old lady had taken her in and taught her well. A king-size bed rested on the far left corner, it was covered with blue sheets and it had two fluffy pillows, right under the only window in the room, Pandora loved that. On the opposite wall from the bed, a brown love seat was on the opposite wall from the bed, in front of it a center table decorated the empty space and on the other side of the table, a complete brown sofa laid against the wall. The other side of the hut, had a small refrigerator, a small table and four small chairs.
Pandora walked to the door close to the bed and sarcastically she exclaimed, "Wonderful! We do have a bathroom!"
Antonio sat on the couch and faced the girl who was starting to unbutton her shirt to get in the bathroom and feel the warm water on her body. "I don't know how to cook, do you?" he asked but she was already in the room. He smiled at the thought of knowing she was with him and then he started seeing again. The inside of the room, the water rushing, the dirty clothes on the floor, and then… "Oh my…! I can see beyond!" he exclaimed as he heard Pandora undressing, then the water rush, and then her singing. "I just saw that happening!" He kept exclaiming and then his hands started shaking.
Pandora got out of the bathroom after fifteen minutes to find Antonio without a shirt and taking some clean clothes out of the luggage bag. She had forgotten about him being there, she quickly opened the door and locked in behind her and calmed her accelerated breathing. Once she was calmed, she peeked out of the room and cleared her throat to Antonio's attention, but he didn't hear her. "An… Antonio?" she called shyly. "Can you give my clothes please?" she added once he turned to see her, her face red and smooth. He grabbed the luggage bag and handed it to her.
Antonio was putting his shirt on when suddenly the hut went completely dark, he released a sigh and took his pants off. The door to the bathroom opened and Pandora started to feel the walls for direction, quickly he finished dressing and got ready for what he knew was about to happen. "Ouch!" he whispered as Pandora tripped and fell with him. His hands came up to her waist and once they were there, she started to glow blue.
"Ah, there we go. A little light," she smiled and looked at him in the eye. Her smile fainted as she started to hear a racing heart beat and then two, she noticed Antonio's heart beat was synchronized with hers'. "Ah, sorry."
Antonio continued to stare at her eyes ten he said, "I… need to go outside."
Pandora got off of him and watched him walk out into the dark night, "Welcome Darkness," she said in irony.
The browned haired boy laid on his new bed, the familiar scent of his beloved torment invading his every thought. "My love…. Pandora," he whispered welcoming in her scent. He got the room's phone out and dialed a number he had never used before but that Pandora had given him.
"Hi, cousin," Toni answered excitedly.
"You must be Toni. Hi, I'm Kevin."
"Ghost!" Toni screamed and hanged up.
"This was a bad idea. The whole coming Back to Paris idea was a bad idea," he told himself and laid down again.