Adrienne's POV Ch. 25:
"Someone could be after us and she puts her nose in all my business!" I vented. "As if I can't be trusted! Why is using my magic evil, but spying on other people's future innocent?" I yelled. Edward smiled.
"Why are you laughing?" I asked him.
"It's just Alice being Alice; you can't take her too seriously. She wants to tell everyone how to dress and live, but that's just Alice caring too much." He told me, and I knew he was right. I loved my sister, but she drove me crazy sometimes.
"But she let him get away. What if he comes after one of us?" I told him.
"We could always leave?" he told me.
"How passive aggressive of us." I smiled. "We just got here. Esme really loves this house." I told him and he nodded.
"Why don't we find him?" he told me, I stared at him shocked. "Come on, let's go find a werewolf." He smiled his crooked smile and we jumped out the window into the forest. Alice and Jasper were long gone, probably just getting to the house. I went to where I had seen him last and looked around. Maybe he dropped something and I could use it to find him. He appeared to be waiting for me and Edward looked at him and pulled me to his side.
"Not so smart to come back." I told him. He shrugged and put his hands up.
"No weapons." He told me. "I just want to talk." He said and I stepped in front of Edward. "I didn't know you were who I was looking for when I defended myself." He said and smiled.
"Why are you looking for me?" I asked him. I looked at Edward as he listened to what was in his mind.
"I'm hoping you can help me. I assume you know about werewolves." He said.
"Some." I told him. He smiled at me.
"Well to clear up some things, we have no control when we turn. It happens every full moon whether we like it or not."
"I'm trying to figure out what you want from me? Don't werewolves hate vampires?" I asked him and Edward squeezed my shoulder.
"I just want to have more control over this. I was told that you could help me." I looked at him shocked and looked up to see Edward nodding.
"Who told you I would help you?" I asked him and he looked away and then back at me.
"Look I came from across the country to find you, can you help me or not?" he said rudely. I scoffed, but Edward took my hand.
"Hear him out." He said. He had seen something in his mind. I nodded. I watched the man, he was more vulnerable.
"I'm listening." I told him. He took a step forward.
"I met a witch back in Arizona, I was looking for someone who could stop my curse or at least help me control it. She sent me to another witch in New York. Lucy told me that she didn't have the power to do what I wanted, but she thought she knew who could. She tracked you down and told me where you could be, but she wasn't sure. Do you know how many people are around this damn mountain?" He told me.
"I don't know anyone named Lucy." I answered. He took off his backpack and started digging through it.
"She said you might say that, so she sent me proof." He pulled out a bundle wrapped in burlap. He handed it to me and Edwards smile made me slightly excited to see what it could be. I took it off the burlap and gasped. It was my own grimoire, which I had left behind in my time with Johan and Sherry.
"Lucy Bennet." I said and he nodded. I opened the book and flipped through old pages. New spells had been added and it was thicker. "I'm not sure how I'm supposed to help you." To that note he pulled out a box and showed it to me.
"I've met a lot of witches and some think that this can be used like a daylight ring only to help me not turn." He told me.
"What am I missing?" I said to him. "What are you not telling me?" I asked him sensing something off. "Why do you want this?"
"Why don't I want to turn into a monster every full moon?" He asked me. "Look I'm at my wits end with this. I don't want to be this way anymore. Can you help me or not? Just tell me so I can be on my way." He told me.
"That werewolf mouth is going to get you in trouble." I told him and he smirked.
"Wouldn't be the first time." He said.
"I think you'd find Adrienne to be more willing to help if you are just honest with her." Edward said.
"Why don't you tell her about Emma?" He told him. The wolf flexed and his jaw tightened.
"How do you know about her?" He asked through his teeth.
"Edwards a mind reader." I explained. "And he's right. Why should I help a stranger if you can't even be honest about your intentions?" I said. He looked at us angrily then he sighed and looked away.
"Emma was my girlfriend. She was with me when I first turned. I attacked her without knowing what I was doing." That's horrible I thought. "I didn't know my folks. I didn't know about the curse until it was too late. If I'm ever going to try to have a normal life again, then u have to break this curse." He told me. I took a step forward and he stared at me.
"I get it." I told him. "I don't know if I can help you, but I'll try." I told him. Edward left to tell the rest of our family what had happened and the wolf named Abel and I talked. "I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. It really is a curse." I told him. I saw the stone he had in the box and flipped through my grimoire. It was a kyanite stone. I remembered seeing this in a different book and I stopped cold. I had seen it in Niklaus' mother's grimoire.
"So you see any witchy stuff that can help me?" He asked me as we sat down.
"You're really impatient." I told him.
"Don't mean to rush, but I am on a deadline. Next full moons just three days out." He told me. I stared at Abel and he stared back. "You know you're not what I imagined a super powerful hybrid vampire witch to look like." He told me.
"Yeah, what did you expect?" I asked him.
"I don't know some old wise woman with gray hair." He laughed.
"Sorry to disappoint." I laughed to. "Look I have an idea on how to get my hands on the right spell, but it's a long shot." He shrugged.
"It doesn't hurt to try." He told me. I closed the book and I closed my eyes. I thought about Kol. I hadn't tried to reach him since the last time I saw him.
"Kol." I whispered.
"You called." His voice came from right beside me.
"Kol." I smiled. Abel looked around and past Kol.
"Who are you talking to?" Abel asked me.
"You don't see him?" I asked. "He's an old friend who I'm hoping can help." Kol looked at me and then at Abel.
"Are you sure you can trust him?" Kol asked me.
"I think so." I told him. "Question is can you help me?" I asked him.
"I know what spell you're looking for, but it's pretty strong stuff." He said. "Are you sure you have the magic?" He asked.
"All I can do is try. Show me." I told him.
"Place your hand over his heart." He told me. When I reached for Abel he pulled back.
"He's showing me the spell." I told him. After debating with himself he leaned forward.
"Good now repeat after me. invocabo sanguinis. spiritus invoco."
"invocabo sanguinis. spiritus invoco." I repeated.
"manifestat hoc anulum. producat in sua potestate" He told me.
"manifestat hoc anulum. producat in sua potestate." I said.
"Take the stone and repeat it again." I placed my hand over the heavy stone and repeated it.
"invocabo sanguinis. spiritus invoco. manifestat hoc anulum. producat in sua potestate." I chanted until my voice was in whispers and I heard the spirits assist me. The wind picked up around me and Abel flinched away and clutched his heart. I felt weak and on the brink of fainting.
"What are you doing to me?" He yelled. I turned to Kol panicked.
"Give him the stone." He said. I did as he asked and when his skin touched it his body stopped twitching in pain. I leaned back against the tree. "You'll have to forge a ring from that piece but it should work. His curse has been placed into the stone. When the full moon comes it will absorb it, but leave him with all the benefits." I smiled weakly up at Kol and looked back at Abel.
"We'll have to wait for the full moon to be sure, but I think it worked." I told him in a whisper. I felt drained. "We'll have to make a ring from that stone." I told him. He walked over to me and crouched in front of me. My eyes blurred and I felt light headed.
"Hey are you alright?" He asked me. His figure started to blur.
"Adrienne!" Kol called out.
"Which way is your house?" Abel asked me, but I couldn't answer. My body slipped and I slipped into the darkness. The nothing swirled around me again. When my eyes opened I awoke in my room. It felt like dejavue. Edward sat with me. He flipped through the pages of my grimoire.
"What happened?" I asked him. He looked at me and smiled. I sat up and looked around.
"Too much magic, too fast? Or maybe too strong a spell and you haven't practiced in a while, I'm not actually sure, but Carlisle checked you out and says you just needed to rest." He explained.
"It was pretty strong." I looked around for Kol, and realize that when I passed out he must have been sent back. "Thank you." I said out loud to him, in case he ever watched me.
"How do you feel?" He asked me.
"I'm okay, still tired if you can believe that. How long was I out?" I asked him.
"About ten hours." He told me.
"What?!" I jumped out of the bed and walked to the door when I heard Alice.
"That is an antique." She said loudly.
"It's just a table calm down tiny." I heard Abel's voice and turned back towards Edward. He laughed.
"What is he doing here?" I whispered.
"He refused to leave until you wake up." He laughed. "Alice is ready to throw him out." I couldn't find it amusing, I ran downstairs and looked at them both. Alice ran to me.
"Thank God you're alright. Didn't I tell you using magic was dangerous? But does anyone listen to me? No." She hugged me. I smiled at her shyly.
"I'm alright Alice, I promise." I told her. I stared at Abel and he looked at me with a small smile.
"How're you doing?" He asked me as I walked over to him.
"I'm okay." I told him. He smiled. "So I guess we'll see if this was all for nothing." I told him and he nodded.
"I guess we will." He told me. On the next full moon, Edward, Jasper, Alice and I waited with Abel in a secluded area off the mountain side. We waited for the moon to reach its apex and when nothing happened Abel hugged me.
"Thank you." He told me. Everyone was happy for Abel. In the days that he'd spent with our family they had heard what had happened to Emma and felt for the man who had no choice in the matter. I turned to Alice as we left the mountain side and headed to the house.
"See not all magic is bad. Look what I was able to do for him." I whispered. She rolled her eyes but laughed.
"I think you're really strong, but anything can happen. Just be careful." she told me seriously and I nodded. Alice was a pain in my side, but it was true that she loved us all very strongly. We had depended on her for a while. Abel and I stayed up admiring the moon. We sat on the extended wrap around porch and talked.
"What's next for you? Are you heading home?" I asked him.
"No, there's nothing there for me anymore." He told me. "I guess I find a new place and start over." He said. I nodded. We did that often.
"I'd like to find a place that we can stay at for more than a few years." I admitted.
"Why don't you?" He asked me.
"My family and I can only stay in a place as long as no one suspects what we are." I explained. "When people start asking questions, we leave." I told him.
"And you ever go to places with bleak weather?" He laughed. "Sounds horrible." He continued laughing.
"I'll find something at least that's sunny. Maybe by the water." He told me.
"I have a place like that." I explained to him. "In Florida, right on the water." I told him. He stared at me not moving.
"If you have a place like that, why do you like here?" he asked me astounded.
"My family can't exactly enjoy the sun, like I do." I told him.
"What are you so afraid of?" I looked at him shocked.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"I can see it. You're like trapped inside yourself. You try to keep yourself in check, but sometimes I see it slip, I just don't get what you could be so afraid of." He told me. What the hell? Who did he think he was?
"I'm not afraid of anything. If I seem too much in control, it's because I know what it's like to be completely out of control." I told him strongly. "You feel bad about killing the person you loved most?" He nodded. "I've killed hundreds, if not a thousand people, just because I felt like it." I told him. He stared at me.
"And you're afraid that you're going to be that person again?" He assumed. I stood up and crossed my arms over my chest.
"You don't know me Abel. Don't act like you do." he smiled at me and it made me more angry.
"Calm down. Why are you throwing a fit? We're just talking. Come on sit down." He waited for me. I rolled my eyes and sat down farther away, in case temptation to hit him became too much to control.
"All I'm saying is you don't seem to belong here. You're the odd man out and I think you're playing it safe." He said.
"Better safe than sorry." I muttered.
"I think you underestimate yourself. I mean for God's sake you are a vampire witch!" He told me. "That's bad ass." I couldn't help but smile. "I owe you a lot for what you've done for me. If you ever decide to leave this place and go at it on your own, you can call me and I'll help you deal." He told me. "I think I'll head to Florida." He smiled.
Abel left the following night, but I couldn't help but think about what he had said. I knew I was different and guarded, but it was necessary. It didn't help that Alice continued to doubt me with her visions. She was now obsessed with me jumping off the deep end and hunting people. Edward tried to help me as much as he could, but I slowly realized that I was everyone's full time job. They treated me as a child, only I never realized it before I spoke with Abel. He'd arrived in Florida a month ago and started working in a bar right on the beach. The full moon came and went and the ring still worked. He called to thank me.
"So how are things going up there?" He asked me.
"The same. There is a dance." I laughed and he sighed.
"That sounds miserable." He told me. "You should come visit me." He told me. "It's weird not to know anyone yet." He explained.
"Maybe. I'll let you know." I heard someone call him. "You have to go?" I asked him.
"Yeah, but think about it. I think you'd have fun here." He told me. "Talk to you soon." He hung up and I walked inside. The others were lounging about reading or doing other things to entertain themselves. Edward played his piano softly.
"How is Abel?" Alice asked absent mindedly.
"He's good. He actually wants me to come visit him in Florida." I told her. Her head snapped up.
"Is that such a good idea?" She said.
"Why not?" I asked her.
"I mean, you barely know him Adrienne." She told him.
"What am I missing Alice?" I said. She looked at me and then at Edward. He spun around and looked at me.
"Maybe you should just keep it close to home." He told me looking depressed and walking away.
"Hey, seriously?" I asked him, but he didn't stop. "Rose?" I asked her. Rosalie told me everything I needed to know when she looked at Alice. Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie started moving away from me.
"This came for you while you were out today." She told me. I looked at the crate and read the postage on it. It was from New Orleans and the hand writing was oddly familiar.
"What's this?" I asked her, taking the box from her hands.
"Maybe you shouldn't open it. I can't see it Adrienne, it could be a trap." She told me.
"A trap for what? No one knows I'm here or let alone alive." I told her.
"Exactly. Someone could have found out." She told me. I ignored her and pulled the lid off and found many things. All of my old things. Small spelled boxes that kept everyone out but me. I found amulets and piles of ingredients for hexes and spells. I smiled and pulled the small note folded in the middle. It read;
'For all of our old times and some of your new ones, I hope we meet again.-K' I smiled, Kol was alive. I didn't know how that was possible, but he was. I tried to think about how that was, but my heart galloped from excitement. Kol was alive and he'd sent me a part of my old life. I pulled out rings and gifts that Nik had given me.
"What is it?" Alice and Esme came closer to me.
"A little part of my old life. It's alright it's not a trick; it's from an old friend. He won't tell anyone I'm alive." I explained. They looked at each other and then me, but I didn't care, I was too happy to have the reminders back.