A Disclaimer: I don't own any True Blood characters, just the Ocs.
True Blood
A Mother's Unconditional Love
Chapter 24
The were's fangs sank deep into her shoulder once more, her vision blurred as she jerked her arm, that was steadily losing sensation of its existence, outward before the feeling of her arm was gone. The toxic mutant creature was substantial weight on her lungs, she felt as if she was being crushed beneath its form as it crumbled on top of her. The way it had her pinned, made it hard for her to move. The creatures foul stench strengthened her desire to remove the wolf like monstrosity from her body. She felt if she didn't get it off her body soon it would exterminate her with its mass. Her body felt weak as she desperately tried to shift the still warm corpse off of her form. With one final shove with everything she had she managed to roll the bulk of flesh, muscle, organs and meat off of her body. It was really rather difficult because her hand was still within the poor souls chest cavity. Taking in the first deep inhalation of air the room erupted in cheers. Rolling on her side, she remembered Gabriel lying motionless at the other end of the arena.
Gabriel?" she gasped, forcing herself up onto her, jellied legs. Her arm hung limp, she had very little sensation within it, but that didn't lessen the pain she felt in the parts of her arm and shoulder that she could feel.
When her legs gave way beneath her, she tried desperately to climb back onto her feet using her one good arm for support. When she finally managed to get back onto her feet, they felt so much like jello lead, she couldn't lift her feet to walk. She had to shuffle her feet across the dusty earth and collapse next to Gabriel who still remained entirely stationary. She shook him with her free hand, only then realizing she had the creature's heart still in her hand. Quickly sank her fangs into her own wrist, on her good arm, piercing the skin in hopes she didn't pass out before Gabriel got enough blood to heal. She pressed her wrist to his lips, hoping he would drink enough of her blood to heal. Suddenly, remembering the heart, she still had grasped in her palm. The cheers were drifting further and further away, while the edges of her vision blurred; starting to blacken just along its edges.
Her fangs extended once again on extinct as they plunged into the draining, heart of the creature. Adelaide drank the blood greedily as she felt her body slowly begin to heal. When Krystal appeared next to her, the arena's light's flickered and the sound of her mother's voice caught her attention.
"MOMMY!" Adelaide wept, as the tears streamed down her face as she propelled herself into her mother's embrace. The tears flowed even uncontrollably, down the flesh of her cheeks as her mother's arm wound protectively around her.
Pam held Adelaide so desperately to her, she felt as if her daughter would dissolve into nothingness if she should release her. She nor Eric could quite decide if they wanted to continue to hug their child or beat her within an inch of her vampire life. All idea's came to a screeching halt when the other lights in the arena flickered on. Pain seared relentlessly through Pam and Eric's flesh, however Adelaide was not affected. In one swift motion Eric had Adelaide in his arms, then he, Pam and Adelaide were out of the arena. Adelaide held her arms around her father's strong neck tightly, this was the first time in a long time Adelaide truly felt safe, as her mother's embrace still lingered as she lay cradled in her father's embrace.
Eric could feel his daughter's small frame trembling in his arms and yet he could feel the relief wash over himself and his progeny. Even if they were still both seething with wrath. Once they managed to exit the cave, thanks to maneuvering flying skills, Pam and Eric stopped briefly to try and calm their frantic daughter.
"It wasn't your fault." Eric said as soothingly as possible, even if his rage was slowly boiling over. Pam remained quiet, letting Eric deal with the franticness of their daughter while, she phoned Bill to tell him they were on their way back with Adelaide.
Realization crossed Adelaide's face, "He knows about them! The twins and Astrid. He knows about them!"
"What?" Pam and Eric said in alarm. "How did he find out about them?"
Adelaide's body trembled against Eric, who still had his arms wrapped tightly around her. Eric lifted her chin to force her to make eye contact with him.
"Do you know how they found out about you?" Eric said seriously locking eyes with his daughter as she tried to glance away. "Tell me Adelaide. I am going to kill them for putting my family in danger."
She only whimpered in response, as the tears once again rimmed her eyes. "You are already in a shit ton of trouble young lady." Pam snarled, "So you better fucking tell us."
Adelaide bit her lip, she didn't want to commit the betrayal, but what choice did she have now? Her plan to protect her family had failed and possibly even made it worse. She should have trusted her instincts and told her parents from the start, but she went with her loyalty instead. How could she of been so stupid? She thought she was protecting everyone, when in reality she had managed to put everyone in even more danger.
"I'm sorry!" she wept clinging to her father for comfort and protection, even if she could feel his anger radiating off of him in waves, "I should of told you. I'm so sorry. I thought I could protect everyone, and all I did was make it worse. I should of told you what happened the moment I found out, but I wanted to protect…"
Pam sighed as Eric looked at Pam, "It's not your job to protect anyone, Adelaide. That's the job of your daddy and I."
"You and daddy were so stressed out, I didn't want to make it worse by telling you the truth. I didn't want to get anyone in trouble." Her sobs broke her words as she sniffled.
"Whoever put you and the rest of my children's lives in danger," Eric began stroking her hair, "needs to be in trouble, Laide. Who told? You don't need to protect anyone anymore."
Adelaide took in a ragged, shallow breath, and looked between both of her parents, refusing to meet their gaze. "Astrid. It was Astrid…"
There you go everyone. I am so sorry it took so long to update! Since this semester started, I have been having a really hard time. I will try to get back to my frequent updates the best I can. Anyway, how do you feel about this chapter? Astrid had told? How are Pam and Eric going to deal with that? Will the Authority intervene after what happened in the arena?